'Israel' and Iran, in that order, have been trading blows for four days. After getting their leadership decapitated on day one (June 12), Iran grew 10 more heads and they're spitting a hundred rockets each. Here's one day of fighting, sourced almost exclusively from the @FotrosResistancee on Telegram. He's just a young Iranian dude trying to get through his exams while also reporting. I find him reliable, and most of it is direct sources and video.

The Order Of Battle

The broad battle lines are that 'Israel' is attacking from within Iran and Iran is attacking via missiles. The broad order of battle is that 'Israel' bombs during the day and Iran bombs at night.

'Israeli' Terrorism

I use the term terrorism here somewhat agnostically. 'Israel' is doing car bombings, street assassinations, and sabotage, what else do you call it? Terrorism is a weapon of the weak, which tells you a lot about 'Israel's' position. 'Israel' cannot just bomb Iran like Gaza, Iran has good enough air defenses. So they've resorted to terrorism from within.

 

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Yesterday, 'Israeli' cells within Iran assassinated intelligence leaders Mohammad Kazemi, Hassan Mohaqqeq, and Mohsen Bagheri, according to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. 'Israel' also has drones hidden inside cities, deploying from the roofs of houses, according to Senior IRGC general Mohsen Rezaei. Rezaei said:

Most of yesterday's and today's attacks were carried out using micro drones installed in various ways on the roofs of some houses and were remotely activated.

Most of these drones were smuggled a couple of months ago.

Israel is afraid of flying its F-35s inside Iran, so it's forced to launch missiles from above Iraq. They have been able to penetrate inside Iranian skies on the western borders for a very brief amount of time before leaving it again.

There have been street chases in Tehran, bombs to defuse, vehicles to check, houses to search, it's a public security mess. The White Empire (America, 'Israel', same thing) accuses Iran of sponsoring terrorism, but WTF is this? Every accusation is a confession.

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"Iran has arrested a MOSSAD team in Fashafoyeh— 23 drones, launchers, controllers, and a carrier vehicle were discovered. In 2 separate operations, two MOSSAD agents were identified and arrested by the Rey County Special Police Command.• More than 200kg of explosives and equipment, including 23 drones, launchers, guidance devices, and controllers, along with a Nissan car, were discovered and seized from these individuals." @FotrosResistancee (Telegram)

The strategy here is to get Iranians to rise up and overthrow the government, installing Shah Pavlova or ISIS, they don't really care, the more chaos the better. This strategy isn't working and never works. These terrorist cells have taken 'Israel' months to prepare and supply and they're getting their cover blown in days. This terrorist campaign is dangerous, but wars are not won this way. Iranians are pissed but going about their business, including large gatherings like Eid Ghadir.

'Israel' Conventional Strikes

'Israel' still has conventional strike capability. They hit Mashhad International Airport. They hit “Tehran's Narmak residential neighborhood last night and a 3-story building in the neighborhood was destroyed,” and “A carpet distribution center in Isfahan was attacked by Israel today. Isfahan [is a] “home appliances city.” It’s a center for washing machines, dishwashers, etc.” They also hit “Shahran oil depot and a fuel tank in southern Tehran” and “a Defense Ministry building in Tehran.” This is not an exhaustive list, but it's not exhausting Iranian air defenses yet.

The problem is that 'Israel' can't just fly over and drop dumb bombs like in Gaza or Lebanon. Iran is A) far and has B) functional air defenses. 'Israel' mostly has to sit outside of Iranian airspace and lob missiles, which is not really their operational model. Their model is being DoorDash for American bombs.

Fotros reports that three F-35s have been shot down but I haven't seen this confirmed. Any time they fly out, they are risking their 42 F-35s, which are their most stealthy planes. Yemen almost shot down F-35s, they're not that stealthy, and their reliability and availability is awful. For each hour of flight time the planes require tens of hours of maintenance and Iran is like three hours away.

'Israel' still hitting with missiles and drones, but the scenes over Tehran are nothing like Tel Aviv. Fotros is in Tehran and says, “Israel keeps claiming they have air superiority and have free will to fly above Iran — but that’s not true. In Tehran, there were no sound of jets. I asked friends in Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashad and Ardebil and they confirmed to me that they did not hear any jets.”

Here's a time-lapse of Tehran for over an hour, see for yourself.

Now let's turn to 'Israel', which is getting turned over.

Iran's Missiles

Iran effectively has no air force. They have adopted a completely different model which is almost all missile/drone based, and they have a lot of those. As you can see, Iran is able to completely overwhelm 'Israeli' missile defenses.

The Military Balance, 2014

'Israel' has (officially) 19 air defence batteries, let's say 25 since America has been stripping other parts of their empire. Let's also say each battery can fire 20 missiles in short order (being very generous here) and ignore the fact that these batteries don't all target the same type of missile. Also, assume that to shoot down one incoming missile, you need two going up. That gives us 500 air defense missiles, enabling them to shoot down 250 Iranian missiles.

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The coordinates of 68 locations that form “the majority of Israel's Air Defense locations (1 THAAD, several Arrow+David's Slings and 55+ Iron Dome sites).” Open-source INTs have this, Iranian intelligence has this knowledge most certainly.

It doesn't matter the quality of the air defenses, quantity is its own quality. Knowing this, Iran is unloading their cheap, old missiles first and getting a two-for-one deal on 'Israel's' expensive stuff. 'Israel' is already worn out and Iran hasn't even started unloading the good shit. America and Europe (see why I call it one White Empire?) have had to cover them, but they don't have infinite quantities of this stuff either. However, you do the napkin math, it isn't good for 'Israel'. You don't have to take my word for it, just look.

In terms of targets, Iran hit the Weizmann Institute, a scientific establishment where they devise elaborate ways to torture, surveil, and kill Palestinians.

"Weizmann Institute, Israel's most prominent scientific center affiliated with the IDF, was completely destroyed in yesterday's Iranian missile attack on Rehovot"

Below is from earlier days footage, but Tel Aviv is finally getting a taste of its own medicine. Few (reported 250 injuries and 6 deaths) casualties because 'Israelis' have shelters and because Iran has started warning of targets well in advance. But for settlers, this is deeply unsettling.

Reports were that Netanyahu's plane was in Greece and he'd fled, but he seems to have popped up to see the “impact site of the missile strike in Bat Yam.”

Settlers in the conscript colony have had to spend every night going back and forth to shelters. And now Netanyahu has locked them in. Planes are allowed to come in, but the same planes must fly back empty. Nobody leaves ('Israeli' source The Marker via Haaretz). As Rorschach said in The Watchmen, however, “I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me.”

Iran has told (via their Armed Forces Spokesman) the colonizer to leave, but they can't because they're being kept as human shields. As the spokesman said,

We warn "israelis" to stay away from vital areas. Do not allow the criminal regime to use you as human shields. Zionist settlers must leave the occupied territories, as they will not be habitable soon. We possess a comprehensive target list within the zionist entity, and we will target vital points. We targeted military headquarters, decision-making centers, and the residences of zionist leaders and scholars. A strategic mistake will be met with a crushing and devastating response that will make the enemy regret his actions.

'Israel's' Defence Council meets under a literal hospital and they've locked their people in. Every accusation is a confession.

The ‘safe place’ Europeans deported Jews is obviously anything but, they were just turned into a conscript colony near the oil, which can burn for all the White Empire cares, really. America continues to benefit from arms sales and their own oil sales the more fucked up this gets, so 'Israel' continues to get a long leash to bite people, including its own people.

Anyways, back to our regularly nightly programming now, here's Haifa (where 'Israel's' oil is) being hit,

and a direct hit on Tel Aviv,

And this is what impact looks like,

and Lebanon,

Even within the White Empire, nobody is on 'Israel's' side, after all the bombing they've done and are still doing to Palestine, nobody is on the occupation's side, except politicians paid to be, who immediately get yelled at by their constituents.

The big risk, of course, (and why Iran didn't do this sooner) is that 'Israel' has nukes and is obviously just dying to use them. 'Israel' has done every other sort of evil gleefully, there's no red lines here. Iran has to excise 'Israel' without getting nuked, which is a very delicate operation. But 'Israel' has made this an existential issue for Iran and brought the battle upon itself. Now it is well and truly joined, and this is just day four of many. Godspeed to the Resistance. God-damn 'Israel' and the White Empire entirely.

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These are some sources to follow the Iran-'Israel' War. These are my sources, I'm not saying they're the best ones, but you can use them as a starting point to assemble your own. As you must have noticed from the genocide, all mainstream news sources are corrupt or complicit and cannot be relied upon. Even Al-Jazeera (in Qatar) is right next to a US military base, both metaphorically and literally. You have to roll your own.

Before we get started, however, note that if you live or want to travel within the White Empire (America, Europe, collaborators, what's the difference) this is dangerousinformation. Simply having this information makes you look like a terrorists to terrorists, who are scared of the truth above all. They can simply steal and copy your phone and no amount of ‘security’ can protect you, they just force you to unlock it. Also note that France did this with the entire Telegram platform, when they abducted its founder Pavel Durov. So don't do this if you're risk-averse, and do not travel with the phone or devices you do it on.

With that in mind, here's how I follow the Iran-'Israeli' war, which is the same as I've been following the general Palestinian Liberation War for, sadly, years now.

Telegram

Telegram is a messaging platform. It's not encrypted, it's not ‘built for security’, which is a meaningless concept when you're under arrest in an airport (you're always under arrest in an airport, they just let most people out). For whatever reason the Resistance and all sorts of non-imperial people (and assorted unsavory types) use Telegram. It's a good news resource, but you have to mute everything because it's a lot.

You can download Telegram as an app, or use the web version. What you can follow on the apps is censored based on where you are, but the web is relatively not. Accounts to follow are:

• Resistance News Network (RNN): @PalestineResist/@RNN_Backup
  RNN is the best overall source, effectively CNN except not evil. They cover it Iran War coincidentally, as they've been covering the Palestinian War all along.
• Fotros Resistance (AryJeay): @FotrosResistancee
  Fotros is a source (literally a person) in Iran. They sometimes take breaks for exams, or because their screen time is too high. Fotros might get a bit ahead of the news sometimes (they report that three F-35s have been downed, for example), but they give you a sense (and sources) from inside Iran. This is actually my first source for this particular war. Ary is on Twitter as well.
• Middle East Spectator: @Middle_East_Spectator
  I actually don't follow MES, though I forget why not. They're actually the biggest out of all of these. They cover Middle East news in general, but not from a western perspective. For the Iran War they share a lot of video and sources from within 'Israel' itself.

These accounts are all, to some degree, meta accounts, they themselves have a lot of (most Telegram) sources that they select from and share. I spent a lot of time and energy years ago collecting and winnowing down these sources but they're not exhaustive, you can use them as a starting point to roll your own.

Also, again, please consider Telegram compromised and compromising, especially if you're using it on your phone. Basically, if you're going through White Empire, travel with a (blank) white phone. If your risk tolerance is low then basically just don't follow these people, or me really.

Twitter

Twitter (or X) is a relatively uncensored platform from within White Empire. I attribute this not so much to beneficence of Elon Musk as much as his neglect, they fired much of the 'content moderation' team and that work basically just doesn't happen. Here are some accounts to follow:

• Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran's Supreme Leader is a great philosopher and a great leader, they're lucky to have him. This is his official account and has very candid comments (mostly from speeches and official comms) and verified information. Note that there are no official Iran military accounts, those are fakes and unreliable.
• Yayha Saree: Yahya Saree is the military spokesman of Yemen and a bonafide hero. You have to hit translate on a lot of stuff, but they started doing the press releases in English.
• Ahmed Hassan: Like AryJeay, Ahmed is a dude in Yemen, I feel like I know him but I don't. Honestly, this is somewhat random, but I consider him an honest and informed source.
• Omar Hamad: In the same way, Omar is someone I know in Gaza. Or at least I feel like I know him. He's a great writer and a poet.
• Alon Mizrahi: Alon is a former 'Israeli' who suitable hates 'Israel' and is a good source especially on their mindset.
• Unity of Fields: Unity of Fields is a militant organization within the White Empire which is recommended by the fact that it's mostly banned there.

These accounts are not exhaustive or particularly curated, they're just who I follow. You can start there, or follow me (@indica).

Websites

On the web, you can follow the Iranian press agency (presstv.ir), or Al Mayadeen, which is like a less compromat Al Jazeera. For video and most purposes Al Jazeera is fine and certainly better than any western sources, but Qatar is still occupied, has its own pre-occupations, and is not free.

Starting Points

As mentioned, these are all starting points. Each source has its own sources and you can look around from there. Also, as a final warning, if you're deep within the White Empire or travelling, this is all effectively illegal information, in the sense that they are lawless states that don't care and which can deport, disappear, or make your life miserable and do, somewhat randomly. So caveat emptor with this information, and beware the emperor.