Ash Reshteh

from the river to the sea

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

They bombed my grandma's neighborhood in Tehran. Her place sustained damages but she's fine. My uncle asked her to go and live with him while bombs are being dropped. Her response was: "it's not safe anywhere; if I'm going to die, I'd rather die in my own home."

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

For the “boom boom Tel Aviv” idiots:

The biggest mistake people make when looking at war is assuming the objective is to hit the enemy’s capital as quickly as possible. That’s political theater, not military strategy.

If you look at the strike map, Iran isn’t behaving like a country trying to maximize headlines but like a military attempting to shape the battlespace.

The targets are not random or insignificant. Iran is dismantling the entire American military ecosystem in the region:

Early warning radar sites.
Air defense systems.
Aviation facilities and hangars.
Logistics hubs.
Fuel and ammunition storage.
Forward operating bases.
CENTCOM support infrastructure.
Bases supporting operations in Syria and Iraq.
Naval and maritime surveillance assets.
Intelligence collection and communications nodes.

Look at jordan as an example. Most people couldn’t point to Tower 22 or Muwaffaq Salti Air Base on a map, yet they’re arguably more important militarily than firing a few missiles at downtown Tel Aviv.

Tower 22 supports operations at Al-Tanf. Muwaffaq Salti hosts American aircraft and coalition operations. Erbil supports intelligence and special operations. Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Kuwait is a massive logistics and staging area. Qatar hosts the forward headquarters of CENTCOM and the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East. These are the eyes, ears, and connective tissue of American power projection in the region.

From a military perspective, you don’t begin by punching the strongest part of your opponent. You isolate him.

There are several principles of warfare being applied here:

1. Suppression of enemy support infrastructure.
2. Degradation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
3. Attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories.
4. Disruption of logistics and sustainment.
5. Political pressure on host nations.
6. Shaping the operational environment before attempting anything larger.

The United States does not fight Middle Eastern wars from Washington or even from aircraft carriers alone. It fights them from an interconnected network of bases stretching from Jordan to Qatar to Kuwait to Bahrain. If that network becomes degraded, every sortie, every intelligence feed, every resupply mission, and every interceptor launch becomes more difficult and more expensive.

People screaming “just bomb Tel Aviv” fundamentally misunderstand what modern warfare looks like. Destroying a radar site that enables coalition air operations can be militarily more valuable than causing superficial damage to a symbolic target.

There’s another aspect people are missing: INTERCEPTOR ECONOMICS.

Every Patriot interceptor fired costs millions of dollars. Air defense inventories are finite. Sustained operational tempo places enormous strain on maintenance crews, missile stockpiles, and logistics chains. If an adversary can force you to defend a dozen locations simultaneously, you’ve already begun winning the resource allocation battle.

Historically, successful military campaigns begin with degrading command-and-control, communications, air defenses, and logistics before moving to decisive operations.

Whether one agrees with Iran politically is irrelevant to the military analysis. What we’re witnessing is not random retaliation, it is a deliberate campaign aimed at systematically degrading the regional architecture that allows the United States and its allies to project military power across the Middle East.

Wars are won by destroying capabilities, not by chasing viral videos of missiles landing in capital cities and gay techno songs. The boring targets on a map are often the most important ones

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@DD_Geopolitics @EffingtonIii damn i didn't you streamed

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

good morning

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@OunkaOnX the audacity of this guy "we need to have the last hit and then leave, even though we started it"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.

[The General @1776General_]

The Chinese.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Yes, Mossadegh refused to let the UK control and steal 100% of Iran’s oil. Then he also refused to let the UK control and steal only 50% of Iran’s oil.
Then he was removed by the CIA.

Or which part of Iran’s long history are you referring to?

Iran has been the centerpiece for imperialist meddling, plundering, oppression, and tyranny for centuries until it decided it's enough.
Once in 1953, unsuccessfully.
Then again in 1979, successfully.

From a completely objective perspective, Iran’s leadership does not have a single reason to believe that the West is in any way, shape, or form interested in improving the lives of the Iranian people if it is not forced to.

And for the first time in centuries, Iran has the means to make sure of exactly that.

[Theophan the Recluse Fan @LowStudies]

@Telegraph

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

IRGC to the United States:

[Taggart Little @tag36l]

@RepThomasMassie @alexbruesewitz The ccp interference

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

My reading of the British situation is Starmer was replaced by Burhnam because they need a new face to lead Britain into war with Iran, and that's going to be one of his first decisions: committing soldiers, planes and ships to the war. It was all agreed between Charles and Trump

[Adam @adamemedia1]

Man I really hate how much China is influencing our elections…

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@IanCarrollShow time to learn how to shoot a 12 gauge

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

by interesting i mean i found your post thought provoking. i've tried using Bale, couldn't register. My uncle got me an iranian esim and it seemed i couldn't register it outside iran at all. i actually use WeChat for talking to my chinese friends, registration was straightforward. the registration friction in Bale make it fundamentally different than wechat. i'm wondering whether this is by design or a bug. should iranians outside iran be able to register for and use Bale?

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@Naila_Ayad hello!

[Naila Ayad🇵🇸 @Naila_Ayad]

Never forget, never forgive.

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@ME_Observer_ dissolved?

[Ash Reshteh @Ash_Reshteh_]

@aga1nsta11oddz I mean maybe things are actually different now? Gas dollar idea makes sense, the blockade being a huge pain in the ass is true. He hasn't changed sides, he's expressing how he sees it. He'll be back to cheerleading for Hezbollah if the tides turn again IMO

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

Just a hint at what is what and who is who:

UNGA resolution on Global Counter-TERRORISM Strategy was adopted by overwhelming majority on 1 July 2026.
Only 3 voted against:
Israel, US, Argentina.

UNGA resolution on declaring the transatlantic SLAVE TRADE as a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY was adopted on 25 March 2026.
Only 3 voted against:
Israel, US, Argentina.

UNGA resolution on countering TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS was adopted on 18 December 2025.
Only 3 voted against:
Israel, US, Argentina.

UNGA resolution on TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS was adopted on 18 December 2025.
Only 3 voted against:
Israel, US, Argentina.

Aren't they revealing?