943 - The Tehran Offensive feat. Séamus Malekafzali (6/16/25)
Seamus joins us to discuss last week’s “preemptive” Israeli strike on Iran, the damage done to Iranian command and infrastructure, Iran’s retaliation, America’s potential involvement. We also look at Trump’s big birthday Parade, one of the most pathetic & hilarious spectacles of American Military prowess any of us have ever seen.
Read Séamus on the attacks in the Intercept: https://theintercept.com/staff/seamus-malekafzali/
Read Séamus go long on the Axes of Resistance for Parapraxis: https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/axes-of-resistance
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Comments (111)
I mean, I think the honest "endgame" for Israel at this point is Arab holocaust wherever and whenever possible
Muslim holocaust. Iranians (mostly) aren’t even Arabs. Luminaries such as the Saudi royal family excepted of course.
didnt borko predict all of this?
He did look suspiciously like the Shah of Iran. (BTW, incredibly niche and B A S E D reference pull there)
Joke’s on Israel. Everyone knows that 80% of the generals at the beginning of a war suck shit. They just saved Iran months of getting those guys out of the way. At least a couple of those dead guys were Iranian Luigi Cardona.
Now they just need to get rid of the governments top leadership which is holding back on the nuke.
looks like those scumbag russians wont even lift a finger… serves them right
i hope they bring back the shah of iran… phil leotardo… whatever happened there?
he was gay mohammad pahlavi?
Take me back to 2009- the days of evangelizing Party Down to all my friends
I think the thing I’m looking forward to most about WW3 is Felix nerding out over Iranian F-14 Tomcats absolutely fucking up F-35s
Nvm, I guess the last 2 they still had operating were just destroyed by the IOF. Thank you Tomcats. We will always have Top Gun to remember you by. 🫡
Felix has had Baku, Azerbaijan on his mind for the last couple of months
Who doesn’t? It’s the New York of west Asia.
does seamus know he could read a phonebook and i would listen and blink quickly at him? i hope he will learn by this comment.
came in wondering if it’s world war III, left thinking now might be a good time to rewatch party down
On what Felix said on SEAD ops. I follow the Russo-Ukrainian war a lot being Russian and thats what the VVS strategy has been. Saturating AFU AD with Gerans or old Soviet era ballistic missiles. Then when they are overloaded or out of countermeasures lighting them up with the Gucci shit they have. Like what Seamus said I think is a misread, the US already has pretty much given up in Ukraine on providing AD support, obv the Israelis come before Ukraine in getting them but if in a single night the AFU or IDF shoot a years worth of American AD production then their is only so much that can be given. American manufacturing of the munitions becomes the key bottleneck then. If the Iranians can keep suppresing SEAD then eventually Iran in theory coukd attack with much less interference only worrying about whats shot down by fighter jets as they come in.
at the same time that's also the plot of Red Storm Rising [Tom Clancy; 1986]
Hope you NYC brothers are out ranking tonight and have just a little hope left in you to maybe see the dawn of a new political possibility.
Voted yesterday. Go Zohran!
Thank you for the ABBA drop in such dark times
Dude Seamus is right the Pyongyang parades. Mauzer style are fucking tight tight tight. Those North Korean warfighters got tight elbows and their index finger is glued to the brow. Keeping it 400 sheeeeesh don’t get me started on the snow camo
ten years from now: “whats a gaza?”
"the University of Judea acknoledges that this event takes place on occupied Palestinian land. Thank you for your understanding"
Is anyone else having trouble getting this on their RSS feed?
Yeah, just not appearing and couldn't even directly load it into PocketCasts.
Yeah I really do miss the USSR
FUCK WHYD THEY HAVE TO DO THAY TO HER
happy ramadan to you… i was just notified my oenis is actually not huge
The thing that burns me about the Trump birthday failure parade is that it's exactly lame enough that I should have been interested in it. Like, if I was president them yes, I would order the Smithsonian to get a bunch of Shermans back into working condition so I can nerd out about them to anyone in earshot. Granted I also would've ordered them to refurb some of those lozenge looking tanks from WWI and maybe a Tiger to make them race for my amusement but still.
Will, Felix, I know you don't have Israeli friends but your Israeli listenr will absolutely want the US to come and save us from Netanyahu and the council of rabbis💥
Tf
It is shocking to hear that Iran won’t be able to effectively fight back considering how much Felix sold me on their military being top tier badasses
yea hes a simp for iran… this isnt elden ring or some other bullshit game nobody likes
Absolutely deranged take that you need a nuke to be sovereign. The entirety of Latin America doing the joker laugh
which is why they get couped every 15 seconds by the cia
A coordinated Mosie!
I literally don’t understand how Felix can be a bajillionaire from this podcast and still can’t get a good microphone
he's dabbing on us folks, this Jewish podcaster is dabbing on us
A 101st airborne guy died
I know, I saw Band of Brothers
really that parade should've just been the dweebs who operate drones and Erik Prince. all that other stuff is outdated.
Why would you think the ayatolah is above ground lol.
We did an antiwar Veterans protest in DC Friday night, I mean 70-87 year old veterans in 90 degree heat. Crazy they survived and one of these Marines wiped to marching training. RIP to the person, they deserved better than fading to black with the Village people blaring over parade field speakers.
JOPLIN MENTIONED
Joplin grey wolf strong
“This parade event has been brought to you byyyyyyyy Financial Fraud and CTEeee!”
What’s old is new again
Intercept link is broken too, it's just Greenwald talking about Charlie Hebdo in 2015
Problem?
What's Hebrew for Lebensraum
Eretz Yisrael
Israeli society and the shameless media complicity since October 7 has really painted the virulent reaction to holocaust revisionists of the late 20th century in a different light….
That military parade was the surest sign yet of the American Century of Humiliation, which is good because its a prerequisite for the Chinese Century
China needs to intervene, do a lend lease program for Iran, or else it’s going into the paper tiger category
yo parapaxis link is broke
Just take the 'Subscribe' out from the end of the URL
I’m too depressed to listen to this
I recommend the guys podcast, very light and funny
My phone is blowing up guys. Literally blowing up, I keep buying new phones and they keep blowing up.
Stop buying phones at the Mossad kiosk
Apparently a lot of Jewish Arabs are being killed. Which would seem to indicate that Israel has deliberately placed much of their weaponry in those Arab Jewish communities. Very noble country. Israel has placed a blockade on images of the damage to military assets. Presumably Iran would like to widdle the defenses down to allow for constant low cost barages being successful. Haven't heard from Houthis since the attack on the airport. If the US gets involved, China or Russia would presumably like to do the same thing the US is doing in Ukraine. There are good empires and there are great empires. China in my opinion is not a great empire. Great empires don't just meet the moments, they create them. From what I've seen, China hasn't done either. Of course, if the US moves out of the China Sea and it takes Taiwan, then maybe they have a chance at becoming one a the greats. People say oh they're behind the scenes, oh they're bein sneaky. GREAT empires make sure to let you know they're on the stage. In this new generation there are no great empires as such. Perhaps there never will be again.
Interesting 👌
Tie me to a missile and fire it at Tel Aviv. I am ready.
This to the tune of fly me to the moon
(Southern man of leisure voice) how comes it I ain’t never heard some Ayatollah fatwa against nuclear weapons?
Thinking back to a tweet I saw election night 2016 when it was apparent Trump was going to win: “invading Iran rip my mentions”
israeli drones flying over tehran with total impunity… this shit is so over. they will kill the ayatolah, every one of his replacements and eventually will get US to blow up the mountain bases.
You seem delusional. No politic here! No politic here!
when i read they killed salami… i decided to make a nice sandwich in his honor
Yelling for your mom to bring you a sandwich does not constitute “making”
Will im begging you to swallow the spit in your mouth, totally ridiculous to be talking about such a serious issue with a huge wad of mucous rolling around your throat the whole time. I'm literally gonna unsubscribe unless you swallow it. Please please please
Shut up you insignificant whore.
You all realize israel has won right? Not saying it's a good thing but it is what is. Yemen, China, who ever isn't coming to help
Russia and China have both explicitly condemned Israel as a direct act of aggression, and provided Iran survives domestically (I.e doesn't collapse) both will almost certainly be helping. Israel has 0 chance to win unless the US gets involved directly.
To Felix point about the backbone of fascism in the past to now. My great grandfather was 18 years old in 1914 he fought in the Austrian army in the isonzo battle bayonet charges. After the war he was convinced there had to have been a conspiracy, bc we were winning and sacrificed so much. He was one of those guys. Fell in 1945 in Hungary, after surviving Stalingrad.
Having had a chance to meet the USMC in Downtown LA this Saturday I can tell you this military is ready to lose another Middle East war. Compared to LASD and the DHS goons the Marines were scrawny and too skittish to stand up to more than 30 minutes of angry liberal abuse before being redeployed. Can't march, can't guard a prison. Embarrassing all around.
Thank you, Dry Boys, for staying on the beat.
No kings but Short Kings
Regarding the soldier who died for Trumps parade; since the internet is broken/unusable it was difficult to find but it seems the 101st Airborne Division posted to socials initially that it was in preparation for the parade then subsequently I presume several people were demoted and beaten with their keyboards followed by a retraction of the initial statement and issuing a correction to say it was just during a totally normal, routine training mission not related to the birthday parade. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/army-pilot-killed-in-helicopter-training-accident-in-kentucky-identified/ar-AA1GGh00
Felix did not address downing F35s.
Maybe because that didn't happen
Felix thank you for the Joplin shoutout. You should come visit, it sucks ass.
Seamus: long-time fan, you guest on every podcast i listen to, please unblock me
tyvm
The project for a new American century has been outsourced
No kings day was packed in EAST TENNESSEE, folks.
Nothing is going to deter Israel until China gets involved. By then we’ll be pot committed
Tragedy.
Chris, the link to the axes of resistance article is broken.
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/axes-of-resistance
can anyone confirm us planes on the way to the middle east right now?
Yeah, my cousin is being deployed
shit yes, I was really hoping Séamus would be on for this one
Obviously the least of things happening at the moment but the Big Beautiful Birthday parade really was pathetic. They weren’t even marching! They were just wandering down the street. Very lackluster. The numerous commercials also very low class. You don’t see Chinese military parades sponsored by Weibo
Another Chapo joke come true, can we finally come to terms with the fact that Trump is gay? I mean throwing one of the gayest public events on the list, a parade, during the gayest month of the year, pride month.... the tell was when he stood alone saluting the baton twirler of the army band.
Where’s my slop— oh wait
Felix begins speaking at 2 minutes and 54 seconds today
Early slop for WW3
Fill up yer bathtubs y'all
I've been waiting days for this to hear Felix tell me what to think about what's going on and incorporate it into my personality.
This is WW4, real ones know about subcommandante Marcos
Preemptive first comment
SECOND!!!
Very antisemitic episode
A mark of quality
The perfect guest
FIRST!!!
Nothing Happens people in shambles
N*** Tel Aviv
N***** Tel Aviv