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.
In Tel Aviv an Iranian hypersonic missile was filmed striking targets in the city.
Wait for it, it's extremely FAST. These missiles iron dome has no chance at all to stop.
Only the THAAD has a real chance at stopping these fast moving bombs but its got a $1B price tag with a pretty flaky track record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense
There appears to have been a mass shooting in Austin last night by an individual who at least based off of their clothing choices may have been motivated by the war with Iran and the death of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The man who killed two and wounded 14 also had photos of Iranian leaders in his home, a source said.
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 Iranians today released videos of them successfully shooting down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
There's been several videos posted by Iranian civilians of multiple aircraft being shot down around the country.
There continues to be evidence that Iran still has functional anti-air systems and that the US does not have air superiority in the county.
Iran's defenders have not been able to stop every air stike.
Its night time in Iran right now and the US a few hours ago bombed Gandhi Hospital in Tehran sending hundreds of patients, doctors and families scrambling to evacuate loved ones.
Iranians were seen moving infants in incubators to safety.
My current belief is that the Israeli + American attackers were attempting to silence the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) service which is about a 5 minute walk from the hospital.
IRIB was previously bombed by Israel last year killing editor in chief Nima Rajabpour of Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN)
Around the same time as the media station + hospital being bombed Iranian's report loosing TV service momentarily and seeing zionist+MAGA propaganda video take over the air waves.
Fucking Israeli genocider Benjamin Netanyahu and American Prez Trump had videos roll on Iranian airwaves.
It's unclear right now if this channel take over was directly related to the bombing but demonstrates that significant but distant psyops under way.
I went through and translated the Israeli butcher of Gaza's remarks.
So anyways, if they'll bomb a hospital to silence Iranian's telling their side we'll still listen to what Tehran has to say.
Dr Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi in India tonight is one of five spokespeople for Ayatollah Khamenei.
He describes how Ayatollah Khamenei was warned to move to shelter outside of the city, to basements and other shelters that were not open to the public.
He was determined to wait out the US 1st wave just like everyone else.
Religious officials declared Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei a Martyr, some of the ceremony was posted online.
Visitors to the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad Iran seen fainting and crying as news spread of his Khamenei's official martyrdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Reza_shrine
#Mashhad #Iran #ImamReza #Shia #Khamenei #KhameneiAssassination #Martyr
By morning time in Iran countless Iranian leaders and elders went to pay their respects to Martyr Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Millions mourned throughout the day. In Yemen alone millions marched. Today the carried a flag for Yemen, Palestine and now Iran.
They shouted chats showing solidarity with the Iranians.
The Israeli's and Americans really better pray that Yemen doesn't join the fight and close Bab al-Mandab Strait.
If the prospect of Yemen possibly joining the war weren't bad enough today it's now confirmed in an official statement that Hezbollah is joining the fight to avenge Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Ali al-Husseini Khamenei.
Hezbollah says this is a warning and that they will hit specific military targets in Haifa.
https://moqawama.org.lb/essaydetails.php?eid=42478&cid=541
#hezbollah #Iran #Israel #KhameneiAssassination #Khamenei #Haifa
Around the time of this statement being posted armed groups were seen firing missiles towards Israel from Lebanon.
It took sometime to get confirmation that these videos were infact of Hezbollah fighters.
The situation in Iraq near the "green" zone continues to get more dangerous.
It's the second night of demonstrations and protesters have reportedly been seen shooting randomly towards security forces with small arms.
Security forces responded with a volley of fire, it's not currently clear if or how many demonstrators were injured.
Update - Additional angles appear to show that this was tear gas and flash bangs.
Earlier in the night Iraqi's in Baghdad filmed security forces rolling tanks near the Green Zone.
The US has the world biggest embassy in the zone and it's described as "overlooking the Tigris River". It's not clear the number of US troops in the area but due to the embassy they are some there.
The US still has a few thousand military advisers so the US might be in command of some of the elements.
Aside from the active clashes and missile strikes the propaganda is in full swing.
Iraqi Resistance groups who have been pounding US troops stationed at installations in Erbil Iraq all weekend showed off glimpses their underground base where their store their drones and ballistic missiles.
The video shows their perspective, as they fired missiles this weekend.
Images of Iconic recently martyr leaders line the caves walls.
Not to be out done, Iran published a high quality look at I think just one small section of their underground drone base.
After a tour of the drone storage area Iran stiteches in clips of the drones taking off this weekend.
Iran has shown a TON of these underground bases before. The frequently contain whole ballastic missile systems, boats and fighter jets which literally taxi through the cave before rolling to a runway.
Now most of these videos from Iran and aligned groups are a response IMO to the US's now 30yr approach to showing off their most successful strikes.
I think this particular US military video is interesting.
It shows likely an MQ-9 drone ($16M), probably firing a hellfire missile ($100k) at a fucking F4-Phantom ($3M)
And I want draw our attention back to a certain MQ-9 shotdown over Iran imo the value proposition of this video is not looking good.
It's not just the progressives and left against the Iran war.
The far right shit heads Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have come out swing against Trump and war with Iran.
Carlson says the only reason we're having this war is that Israel feels this is their LAST chance for a war while there is essentially bipartisan support.
Carlson has read the room and says the tide is turning on Israel, that even being pro-Zionist among US conservatives is waning.
Nick Fuentes on the other hand rails against Trump for not just focusing on ICE raids and tariffs.
Urges: "Don't vote! or Vote Democrat in Nov"
To him Iran is a distraction from the antiimmigrant project and isolationist platform.
He's upset Trump can't find a way to harass migrants and apply tariffs WITHIN the law.
He's upset that Trump will likely have all of his current programs ended by court action.
And lastly he recognizes that Israel is a shitty county to prop up.
More to the point, Fuentes says he can see a viable life as a Democrat if the Trump administration can't be separated from the Republicans.
Which IMO that's a VERY apt assessment on Nick's par, the Dems are effectively just better Republicans.
The Dems STILL are not all aligned on eliminating ICE and many of them probably are OK with tariffs so long as it's not Trump suggesting it.
Nick's literally already sounds like a "we can reform ICE"-democrat ffs.
Oh and I almost forgot, Nick Feuntes is PISSED about the Trump administration burying the Epstein Files.
This sentiment, that Trump is doing everything he can to hide the Epstein files, was echoed by Iranian professor Dr. Izadi last night as well.
I'm starting to here Iranian talking heads refer to the Zionists and Trump administration as the "Epstein Class" meanwhile I'm hearing Americans call this conflict the "Epstein War"
Attached: 1 video 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. #FoadIzadi #Iran
The sun is just rising on Monday morning and the skys are already buzzing with Iranian drones heading towards their targets.
This video is from Kuwait this morning.
Same story above Erbil Iraq this morning too.
Iranian made drones were also seen buzzing early Monday morning across Iraq, on the hunt for revenge against the US and Israel.
The going debate in OSINT spaces seems to be around just how many drones and missiles does Iran have versus the US's intercetpors and replacement parts for early warning radars?
So far its sounds like the US+Israel has weeks of missile interceptors but Iran has MONTHS worth of missiles and drones.
So if some sort of ceasefire is not reached these drone strikes day and night all over the region could become routine.
Developing story in Kuwait, an American F-15 pilot reportedly crash landed and locals could be heard in videos discussing calling an ambulance.
It's unclear if the aircraft was shotdown or suffered some sort of fault.
Video showed the American F15 in a flat spin and apparently on fire moments before crashing into the ground.
Again its unknown if or how the jet sustained damange.
To my eyes it does seem damaged but its hard to know if it was returning from a mission and limping home or was it damaged by an Iranian drone during a shoot down mission?
There have been reports from the Russia / Ukraine conflict of long range drones being equipped with rear facing air-to-air missiles.
This F15 crash in Kuwait is sounding increasingly like a US "friendly" fire incident.
Iran is back to bombing the US base in Bahrain... it's been on fire now for going on three days.
Incase you missed it, an Amazon AWS datacenter in the UAE is still partially offline right now due to suffering a drone strike early on Sunday the first.
Back to that friendly fire incident in Kuwait, now I'm reading into this a little bit but I'm noticing OSINT folks talking about the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar which housed the CAOC - Combined Air Operations Center.
Due to the continuous stream of Iranian drones in missiles hitting the base US veterans are speculating that the center is out of commission.
That could be a HUGE problem for US air operations as this was a clearing house of data from 20 country's airspace.
BREAKING - There's video coming out of Turkey showing smoke rising over the American run Incirlik Air Base.
This marks I believe the furthest extent yet of Iranian missile / drone attacks targeting American military bases.
This comes hot on the heals of news that a British airbase in Cyprus was also directly struck by an Iranian drone over the weekend.
Earlier in the night before RAF Akrotiri was struck British PM Keir Starmer said the Brits would support the Americans by opening bases for their use.
And right on schedule Iran immediately added the Brits to the target list.
#Cyprus #Iran #RAFAkrotiri #Britain #KeirStarmer #KhameneiAssassination
@nullagent As a principle, I believe violence is a disease and you can't fight a disease by spreading it.
But in extreme cases, you do have to remove diseased tissue to save the patient (human civilization as we know it 💥🍄). 😔
Other parts of me are conflicted, or feel otherwise… but part of me feels a sad relief that Iran is calling client states of the United Empire of Profit on the carpet, for being willing allies who enable the UEP. And it sounds like locals feel the same.
@nullagent He looks BEAT after ejecting! The g-force of ejecting from a modern fighter jet is so high it typically causes a temporary 1 inch reduction in height by compression of spinal discs. The risk of being really fucked up may be as high as one in four.
Some have ejected over and over again (e.g test pilots) with never a serious injury but the problem is this: Any body part that is not exactly in the right position when you hit that 18 g's is getting fucked up. That can include your spine, with a 20-30% chance of some kind of fracture.
Still safer than the shit fighter pilots had to do in WWII: Pull back the canopy or in some planes jettison it. Get out of the seat harness without accidently undoing your parachute harness, you were sitting on the chute. If at high altitude, switch your oxygen from the plane to your jump bottle. Now partially stand up in the cockpit, but roll over the side like you are going SCUBA diving. You MUST go over the side or the tail will hit you! Spins can pin you in the cockpit with g-force, and if you are stuck in a high speed dive you are going too fast to get out. If the plane is on fire, YOU MAY BE TOO, and possibly your parachute as well.
In WWII, flying was one of the most dangerous jobs there was! In a fighter you had nothing but aluminum between you and incoming bullets from some directions, plus in some plane you had damned gas tank sitting right behind the engine and in front of your face, hidden by the dashboard. If a cannon shell ignited it, you got burned alive. Bulletproof windshields and eventially self-sealing gas tanks helped, but at the same time machine guns were being replaced with cannon firing explosive shells, so gas tanks still burned and blew up.
One estimate said a new pilot in the Battle of Britain (1940) had a fucking two week life expectancy, and a 1 in 5 chance of seeing the end of the war. When I think of the risks I must take today to fight the current crop of Nazis, I think of the WWII pilots, and suddenly it doesn't seem so bad.
@nullagent @blogdiva The American dictator does not like suckers and losers who crash their fantastically expensive war planes.
GOP sends thoughts and prayers for keeping those victims in the #EpsteinClass safe from any consequences of their child trafficking rapist actions.
Yep. Though Russia has local production rights to Iranian drones now. So not likely to factor in to Iran's existing stockpile tho the money is probably helpful.
Imo... had the US stayed in the Obama Iran Deal you'd probably would not see Iran taking money from Russia.
But we crushed their economy to the point that I'm not sure Iran is working with their current partners out of an abundance of choice.
@nullagent Fact is, Shaheds are cheap to make, US drones are not. That's the reason the US has itself put their own copy of the Shahed into production.
Ironic that the US, once infamous for drone warfare, has itself found itself at war with a global leader of drone production, the kind of leader whose products both the US and Russia too copy.
@emily_rugburn @nullagent In our ancestor the Roman Empire, there was an expression: "nolens volens", aka "not wanting / wanting".
I used to think it just meant someone was indecisive, but considering all the other parallels… I wonder if it was used to refer to people like Carlson, Dems, etc who claim to be for/against X while actually working against/for X.
@emily_rugburn @nullagent Maybe, but I'm wondering if it might've been more akin to how we see "two-faced".
(Those words would've had a more positive connotation back then, with the god of doorways/beginnings Janus looking into the past and the future.)
@emily_rugburn @nullagent Hey now, that's not nice. Think of the poor little innocent weasels whose feelings you're hurting with that comparison! 😉
(With apologies if I'm overdoing something my mom always said, and I've long used as a coping mechanism for times like these… "Sometimes if you can't laugh you'll cry.)
@NosirrahSec @emily_rugburn @nullagent Indeed. I'd honestly feel bad with even comparing the robber🎩 👑 barons running this horror show, and their political puppets, to vultures.
(Vultures are actually pretty amazing critters in terms of what their livers can detoxify, and fill a vital role in keeping horrible diseases from spreading. They actually have a useful place in the circle of life.)
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