🇮🇷 Iran says it shot something down over East Azerbaijan and won't say what it was
The Army Air Defense Force is calling it an unidentified UAV, downed hours ago over the northwest of the country.
The airframe is doing the talking. Elevon tail design narrows the field to two aircraft: the American RQ-170 Sentinel and the Israeli IAI Harop.
The Sentinel is the likelier of the two. It's a stealth reconnaissance drone, and only 20 to 30 were ever built, which makes losing one an expensive and very visible problem for Washington.
The Harop can't be ruled out. Azerbaijan has let Israeli drones operate through its territory before, and the geography fits. It's an attack drone though, which would make this a strike rather than a look.
Iran has held an RQ-170 before. They put the one they captured in 2011 on television for weeks.
Source: @TabzLIVE / Writer: Daniyal
Russia appears to be isolating Odesa before a major offensive. Moscow refuses another call for a ceasefire in place from EU powers.
NATO’s plan was always to use the proxy war in Ukraine to weaken Russia and its economy, it has actually weakened NATO and the European economies.
🚨 BREAKING: Expert Michael Stephens warns the Houthi blockade will devastate the global economy.
Shutting off Saudi Arabia's main export route cripples a top oil supplier.
He confirms this will cause massive inflation in Western economies.
Trump's cheap oil dream is dead.
BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇮🇱Israel is about to enter the war with Iran
Israeli military has raised its state of alert to its highest level, as the likelihood of escalation with Iran has increased significantly," - Israeli Channel 12.
🚨BREAKING: Iran Allegedly Targeted Israel’s Embassy In Bahrain
Local reports suggest a direct hit. Israeli Channel 14 has reported that the embassy was targeted.
Still awaiting further details on the extent of the damage.
BREAKING: It is being reported that the IRGC Aerospace Force has targeted a hotel in Manama, Bahrain, where a number of U.S. Navy personnel and commanders who had reportedly relocated from the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters had been staying. The hotel is reportedly on fire following the strike.
No official confirmation has yet been issued regarding the target, casualties, or the extent of the damage.
BREAKING:
Multiple US B-1 bombers have taken off from the UK and are heading toward the Middle East.
Trump says the US will strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, believed to house thousands of advanced centrifuges and around 440 kg of highly enriched uranium.
Iran continues to punish Gulf states for hosting American military.
The video shows oil infrastructure destruction in Dubai.
Dubai is helping people leave the country on planes at a rate of 48 planes per hour.
Iran's IRGC says it has completely destroyed Amazon's central data hub in Bahrain with several cruise missiles and warns more are coming, per Fars News.
The attack marks a new phase: Iran is now targeting U.S. tech infrastructure. The IRGC has warned 18 American tech companies — including Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, and Google — that they are legitimate targets. AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain have already been hit before, disrupting banking and critical systems that rely on Amazon's cloud.
Data centers are now strategic targets. Iran argues these companies support U.S. military and intelligence operations. By striking Amazon, Tehran is signaling that American tech firms operating in the region are no longer off-limits. The war has expanded into the digital domain.
🇦🇷Argentina Coach accuses Messi
"Messi promised to take the World Cup final personal.
He made me instruct all my players to leave him to score so he can win the Super Ballon d'Or.
He told his teammates not to play our attacking style so he counter against Spain and score 3 goals to jump over Mbappe in WC goals.
My whole anger in all of these is that Messi didn't even get 1 shot on target in 120 minutes. I regret ever listening to Messi instead of doing my job".
🚨🇺🇦Apocalyptic scenes as Kyiv burns after Russia's latest strikes.
Russia's massive ballistic missile offensive has now entered its second week, while NATO air defense has failed to stop the attacks.
Russia now has complete dominance both on the ground and in the air.
According to my analysis of current events in the Gulf, titanic changes in power are about to happen.
* Kuwait will be taken over by Shia Muslims in southern Iraq with help from Iranian Quds forces.
* in northern Iraq, Iranian backed militias will overthrow the Iraqi government and attack the Kurds.
* Turkish military may attack the Kurds and take parts of Syria.
* Hezbollah will expel the IDF from Southern Lebanon and they will seize settlements in in Northern Israel, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
* Hamas will take over Gaza and Southern Israel.
* Iran will destroy the financial, economic, commercial, government, and technological sectors in Israel. It will become a failed state with a collection of settlements and citizens who can’t afford to leave.
* The House of Saud will fall. Saudi Arabia imports 90 percent of food and is wholly dependent on desalination plants for water. With the blockade they have about 3 weeks of food. When Iran takes out their power & water plants the rich including MBS will flee.
* Ansar Allah will overthrow the Saudi backed Yemeni government.
* The Shia majority population of Bahrain will take over. Once the bridge connecting Saudi Arabia to Bahrain is completely destroyed they can’t stop them.
* Iran has systematically destroyed all the possible forward operating bases used by American military bases in the region. Leaving only one, Ben Gurion in Israel.
* I think the large build up of American troops and assets is not for offensive purposes but rather to DEFEND ISRAEL.
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