The strikes by Iran on US assets appear to be well planned and accurately targeted.
Fast moving ballastic missiles appear to my eyes to be hitting radar's and other CRITICAL air defense equipment.
Secondary waves of SLOW & CHEAP Iranian drones then immediately exploited these openings.
Additional footage from Bahrain's US Navy installation show this strategy clearly at work hitting AD radome.
Early this morning the US has been claiming "no American casualties" and that just sounds like utter bullshit after seeing this footage. Key to keep in mind is that many of these videos were filmed and uploaded by US personel. In some clips you can CLEARLY hear their disbelief & terror as missiles made it through air defense systems unstopped.
UPDATE - Yes it was bullshit 3 US troops KIA several others injured and Trump says to expect more KIAs
Attached: 1 image In case you missed it the US military confirmed the deaths of three American soldiers. Several other imperial troops suffered injuries. The US didn't say when or where the casualties happened which would really help understand where the Iraninan's claimed battle damage assessment is over stating things. Right now Iran is claiming the far more US troops (60-200) are dead or injured. The Iranians claim that they struck a US war ship among other things. So we'll see what shakes out in a few days
The strategic situation is also much more complex at this moment than many American's likely understand.
There's a LOT of Russian and Chinese military assets already in the area due to joint exercises they recently did in partnership with Iran.
They are not likely to kinetically interact with the US or Israel but are likely providing the exact same type of ISR feeds to Iran that the US fed Ukraine during the initial Russian attacks on Kyiv.
Iran is kinda OP right now.
Literally just TWO days ago China was publicly flexing their ISR capability. On the 26th they published maps and photos of where the US's most valuable fighter jets were stationed.
The US flew hundreds of flights over the last week to move these fighter jets and their support crews into theater.
It's clear China has the ability to track US assets in near realtime and likely published these maps as a deterrent.
So I've been digging through the OSINT on the brewing US conflict on Iran for basically the last month and another aspect I've been keenly watching is the sale of Chinese made anti-ship missiles to Iran.
Having high quality missiles used to be unique to the US, but now EVERYONE has missiles.
And the problem is that missiles are a massive existential threat to US carrier groups.
So you gotta ask yourself...
If Iran (alone) can do THIS to a key strategic US Navy installation within ONE hour of US aggression. A base with world class air defense.... what fucking chance in hell do aircraft carriers have to stay in this fight for the long haul?
So lets all listen carefully to how the US media spins this, because if Iran can keep this up the US is gonna have a couple fewer military installations in short order.
Now of course ballistic and hypersonic missiles aren't everything, Iran's strategy still contains a TON of small missile attack boats designed to swarm US carriers.
The small boats have a mix of cheap multi-launch missile systems as well as high end anti-ship guided missiles(some can go 1000km!!).
They ALSO include anti-aircraft missiles so the can lay in wiat to interdict US aircraft on their way to Iran.
They have thousands of these water craft.
Iran has fired missiles towards several countries who host American military bases.
They generals state that they are currently using their oldest missiles for the initial response strikes and that their campaign will intensify and increase in quality as they begin pulling out their new technology.
This map is already a bit out of date I believe. From videos online it seems Israel's Haifa & Tel Aviv likely suffered direct strikes.
An aspect that the map above either was out of date for or willfully doesn't count is the reality that missile interceptors FREQUENTLY fail and will fall & deteonate on the civilians they were supposedly deployed to protect.
In Qatar an interceptor failed and didn't self destruct either. Civilians were forced to run for their lives.
The US media almost NEVER reports on this aspect of missile defense systems.
War harms civilians. Iran's response included strikes on targets clearly of strategic value but that will be condemned due to the presence of civilians.
One example is that Dubia's hotel district appears to have been hit be an Iranian drone.
Several angles show the drone striking near the Burj Khalifa(one such video below).
Other videos show damage to Kuwait Airport.
I think these strikes were designed to economically cripple anyone whose supporting or enabling the US and Israel.
It's also not just some tragedy. Its a DIRECT message to stop targetting the civilian leadership of the Iranian government.
The US KNEW targeting the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian would mean a "total war" response.
So Iran is willing to strike Dubai. A target valued by the world's top capitalist.
Trump literally just tried to KILL the civilian leadership of a foreign nation with NO congressional approval at all!
For the US, by its own rules, this entire operation was illegal from this first missile fired.
So while I call it like I see it, "Iran hit civilians", its hard as fuck to think that justifies ANYTHING America and Israel is doing right now.
I think the US and Israel should leave Iran the fuck alone and stop fucking around.
So I pray that the US military has the exact same take as this sailor whose video is going viral this morning.
"Oh fuck we gotta get outta here"
So its now night time in Bahrain and the Iranian drones are NOT letting up.
It's going to take time to review these more carefully.
A thing to know about the US Navy in Bahrain is that they don't have on base housing.
This means basically the most hated military target in one of the most critical locations disperses it's military force among the civilian populace ON purpose to make them hard to target without harming civilians.
I suspect we're seeing Iran taking that gamble.
The Iranian missile strikes are ALSO unrelenting in Bahrain tonight.
They have continued to hit the US military base with missiles.
There's growing chatter of a full blown US air defense failure in multiple countries right now. Again, going to take time to understand as an OSINT nerd but this seems like US AD is overwhelmed.
They may still be making a lot of intercepts when you understand the volume of fire coming from Iran ...
And that's the rub.
If this is an air war, the US is "supposed" to dominate.
Earlier in the day US missiles were seen pounding Iran's mountain missile bases and various storage facilities.
The fact Iran's making strikes tonight means there's NO meaningful impact to Iran's offensive capabilities.
Again, it's likely some AD is still working in and near Bahrain and we're only seeing the 10% or whatever rate of missiles and drones that make it through.
Iran's still operating as normal I think
Qatar is also suffering notable air defense failures.
This video is VERY interesting. In it we see an Iranian ballistical missile just plain out maneuvering TWO missile intercepters and scoring a direct hit on a US base. Likely further degrading their air defense capabilities.
That last interceptor in-particular was just late as fuck. This looked like a severe speed over-match or something.
Iran is UNRELENTING tonight.
What's that buzz?
Oh just ANOTHER $30k Iranian drone striking the US Navy HQ in Bahrain unopposed.
I see my Black friends waking up to the Iran news rn.
Pretty much universal take at the moment.
On a social level... I can't help but notice the videos filmed by english speaking westerners are clearly upset seeing US bases hit. They're running and crying for cover.
Meanwhile, I don't speak Arabic or Persian(maybe someone can help us out), but I can't help but notice the Bahrain videos posted by non-english speakers are far more calm, not taking cover, don't seem frantic.
I could be mistaken but they kinda seem to be cheering in some. Kinda feel like not everybody's sad about this.
Nah, I'm not imagining it lmao.
The Bahrain locals are cheering everytime the US base is hit tonight.
And from the absolute torrent of strikes I'm seeing tonight I think they all gonna loose their voices tonight 😅
US looking cooked in Bahrain.
Iran's strikes in the last 12 hours targeted at least:
🇧🇭#Bahrain
• Al-Juffair Base
• U.S. Fifth Fleet Command Center
🇶🇦#Qatar
• Al-Udeid Air Base
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates #UAE
• Al-Dhafra Air Base
• Jebel Ali Port
• Fujairah Air Base
🇸🇦#SaudiArabia:
• Prince Sultan Air Base in Riyadh
• Tabuk Base
• Khamis Mushait Base
• A western base in Jeddah
🇯🇴#Jordan:
• Muwaffaq Salti Air Base
🇮🇶#Iraq:
• U.S. base in Erbil
🇰🇼#Kuwait:
• Arifjan Camp
• Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base
• Mubarak Air Base
A second angle filmed by US troops has emerged showing the strike on the base in Qatar which houses CENTCOM.
#Bahrain continues to have reports of drone strikes. There's currently so many angles of missiles and drones mid-flight that I'm struggling to de-duplicate them to determine which are verifiable new strikes.
Some of the first locations hit in Bahrain could be seen burning through the night with little to no fire first responders active due to the continued risk of follow on strikes.
The locals laugh about that apartment building burning down. Looks like a total loss.
Tel Aviv was not spared.
Zionist occupying Palestine report that there's been a wave of Iranian missiles roughly every thirty minutes over night.
There's now several different reports of Iranian missiles hitting targets on the ground in Tel Aviv, again demonstrating a massive speed overmatch versus existing air defense systems.
On the ground footage in Tel Aviv shows extensive collateral damage to city blocks.
Much like the Bahrain apartment building, it's too early to know if there was a military target in the area.
To my eyes both sides Iran & Israel have previously and currently been acting on targeting intelligence that revealed high value military targets in civilian areas. It took a lot of time for public OSINT to catch up. I think we're seeing some of that rn
I'll be interested to see what's still standing on US bases in the next two days.
The last time Israel attacked Iran it cost around $1 billion dollars to defend Israel from Iran's $80M missile response.
I think we might be watching a couple BILLION in US assets going up in smoke tonight.
The radar systems in Bahrain alone, which Iran likely damaged/destroyed, are worth $1B. The US likely fired nearly $1B of missile interceptors as well over night.
Breaking news from Dubai, the international airport is being evacuated rn after terminal 3 was directly struck by Iranian retaliatory fire.
At least four international tourist were visibly injured.
Two videos show international tourists with serious but likely non life threatening cuts and light wounds.
Meanwhile Dubai's luxary Burj Al Arab hotel was seen on fire due to a drone strike.
Hotel's that were hit at the start of the night (see earlier post below) are getting hit AGAIN in the middle of the night now.
As far as I can see Iran is hitting many key military and economic targets repeatedly tonight.
These strikes seem designed to underscore the fact that the US air defense is NOT stopping Iran. Nothing is safe now.
This is a game the US & Israel never should have started.
There's rumours circulating that Trump was gifted the Fairmont Palm Hotel which has been repeatedly hit.
But that's incorrect, Trump was gifted a different property (also nearby).
You know, the fact we have to clarify WHICH bribe hotel our shithead president was gifted at a time like this really should be all anyone needs to understand how evil the US is right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Hotel_and_Tower_(Dubai)
Jebel Ali Port, which is immediately next to Palm Jameria where the hotels were hit, also suffered significant damage due to drones.
The Jebel Ali Port is a major port call for US Navy vessels and it appears to have suffered significant damage at some of the births.
Strikes continue to rain down on Jordan throughout the night which large volleys of Iranian missiles being shotdown by air defense systems.
Despire very active air defense several direct strikes on US bases are circulating on social media.
Tel Aviv appears to have suffered several direct hits. I've seen increasing unconfirmed chatter of Naval vessels and oil rigs north of Israel reportedly being struck as well.
Iran's volleys continue to hit each country every hour or so.
A lot of these videos tonight appear to becoming directly from US service members. The OSINT community is really kinda amazed, America the TikTok troops at the moment.
This signals to me that things are getting more real than anyone, or at least any average grunt expected.
Throughout the last 40years working at one of these logistical bases was a fairly safe job for US service members compared to vets who found themselves wandering around Iraq & Afghanistan on foot and convoy.
What's that buzzing?
Earlier in the thread I was having trouble telling the new Bahrain 5th fleet strikes from the earlier ones.
But now its very easy... you see the videos now have the buildings from earlier ALREADY in flames.
Several new angles show these follow on attacks clearly.
Per usual, the locals are pretty stoked to see the US military running for cover.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was interviewed on NBC news and says "We were not the one's who attacked the Americans" when questioned about their relentlessness drone and missile response.
We still don't know whether Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is alive or dead.
Trump and Israel of course claim he is dead.
Iran has insisted that he's alive.
On Face The Nation this morning Oman's the lead mediator involved in the US / Iran negotiations cried foul.
Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi says that Iran gave Trump everything he wanted on the topic of nuclear enrichment.
Iran agreed to “zero enriched uranium stockpiling.”
But that Trump without warning or reason just launched an attempted decapitation attack at the countries leadership with in hours of this key compromise from Iran.
Professor Dr. Foad Izadi, who works at the University of Tehran, was interviewed by multiple journalists and says regime is an unrealistic goal for the Americans to pursue.
In Dr. Izadi's analysis he says the way that America struck the country AFTER Iran engaged in good faith negotiations sends a message to the next generation of Iranian leaders. He says it doesn't matter what the next leader's politics are, this gurantees Iran will remain anti-American.
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DOD consultants basically concluding the same thing I have throughout this thread:
1. Iran IS successfully pealing back the most long range US & Israeli airdefence layers
2. Iran likely plans to deploy even larger missile drone swarm after fully disabling/depleting US air defense.
3. The US has not done nearly enough damage thus far to decapitate Iran
And finally this leaves a big question mark about the current US position, "is this all just a 'shaping; operation?"
BREAKING: Iran confirms the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Early death toll information indicates that thousands of people in the gulf region have already been injured as part of this conflict.
A few hundred people have died.
The death toll from the killing of religious and political leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is already outpacing the map in my previous post.
In Karachi, Pakistan US soldiers and local cops killed six protesters demonstrating at the US Consulate there.
Iran's Foreign Minister says the killing of religious figure like Khamenei will galvinize millions all around the world to oppose America.
Imo murdering more grieving civilians is certainly a move
Upon hearing the news millions of Iranians marched as we slept in the west.
They demanded "Death to America" and "Vengence"
As news of the Ayatollah's death spread thousands march in Iraq and attempted to breach the Baghdad "green" zone.
From Karachi to Baghdad the people on the street are making it clear, the US should not have assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Three hours ago Trump demanded Iran not to retaliate further.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/01/nx-s1-5731333/iran-us-israel-strikes
Wait, what's that buzzing?
Drone and missile strikes continued into dawn and have NOT stopped well into the morning.
Video below is from a US base in Qatar on day 2 after suffer fresh missile strikes from Iran.
BREAKING - Iran fires new cluster ballistic missile at Jerusalem.
It's now night time in West Asia and the illegal assassination started by Israel has resulted in Iran continuing to bomb Israel (and other US collaborators) well into the night.
Iran has unveiled a new multi-attack missile which was seen separating into dozens of sub-munitions above the sky's of Jerusalem tonight.
Iran's response is relentless.
Strategic targets all over Israel appear to be getting absolutely ROCKED by the never ending stream of never before seen Iranian cluster missiles.
The US and Israel never should have started this.
My OSINT feeds are absolutely flooded with videos taken by Zionist in Jerusalem who are in utter shock and disbelief at the air defense failures tonight.
The Iron Dome appears to be making a lot of intercepts but with new cluster munitions in the mix its hard to believe this is sustainable for the occupation.
The idea of creating a missile that would break up into a multiple two the smaller missiles to overwhelm many air defense system is a basic strategy.
I remember a scientist critiquing Star Wars program by pointing out that you can take out a network of satellites by ejecting sand into the right orbit.
A defense system can either defend against a targeted attack or a broad spectrum attack, but you can’t build one to handle both
#Netanyahu is hiding in Germany
His kids are safe in Florida
The coward started this killing 🤬
#Isreal
@nullagent for our understanding: Is the relentlessness as relentless as Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians? Or more relentless? Or less relentless?
..or as relentless as the Iranian regime’s violations against their own people?
..or as relentless as the racism and violations of the US Regime’s violations against their own people?
..or as relentless as the spinelessness of, say, the german government in all of the above?
A lot of relentlessness going around these days
@nullagent I really wish I had the artistic skill to draw Trump dressed like a South Park cop, beating hell out of a guy named Iran and screaming "STOP RESISTING! STOP DISRESPECTING MY AUTHORITAH!"
(Better still if Hillary, W, Biden, W, etc were in the background with their knees on the necks of or emptying clips into Libya, Syria, Iraq, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.)
I wonder if the anger is going to solely be contained to believers of that particular sect of Islam, because I can imagine a great many more people being outraged that a man of the cloth, however flawed you can say anything of him.
Son will see it as a general assault on Islam specifically Shia Islam.
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