nullagentThe 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"
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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
Throughout Sunday Gulf States warned Iran not to do more strikes in their territories or they would join the war against them.
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
France ALSO said they'd support the US stop Iran's retalitory strikes and what do you know a few hours after that statement the French base Camp de la Paix in the UAE was seen burning. And continued to burn for much of Sunday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_de_la_Paix
#UAE #France #CampdelaPaix #Iran #KhameneiAssassination #EpsteinWar
Just hearing that a massive Saudi Aramco refinery facility in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia has just been struck by Iranian attacks and has been evacuated of all workers.
Monday show's NO signs of deescalation in West Asia.
UPDATE - Iran claims this attack was NOT them, this could be an attempt by a 3rd party to drag Saudi Arabia into the conflict.
#Aramco #RasTanura #saudiarabia #Iran #KhameneiAssassination #US #Oil
In a curious development it seems a total of at least THREE US F15 pilots were seen being helped away from wreckage in Kuwait.
It's looking increasingly likely that more than one US fighter jet was downed by friendly fire in this incident.
Holyshit, yea... there's been more friendly fire incidents for sure in Kuwait.
During the US's conflicts with Yemen in the past two years there's also been a significant number of friendly fire situations.
In those earlier situations Yemen fired and launched missiles and drones which flew back towards airbases right along side F15's as they were heading home.
I wonder if that type of "follow home" situation might be at play here?
Something seems very off today.
Ok just noticed a statement from an official Kuwaiti military account on Twitter acknowledged the friendly fire incident stating "several" planes were accidentally shot down.
Not sure if the "several" is a translation artifact or the actual intent of the speaker? If it were just the two F15s I'd hope they'd just say "two".
Guess we'll have to wait to hear more details on this as it develops.
In an update from the US military's CENTCOM they confirm a total of THREE F15 friendly fire incidents and SIX crew members ejecting safely.
Unconfirmed footage is also circulating of one of the six pilots possibly being assaulted by Kuwaiti's on the ground.
I have not been able to verify that clip so not posting for now.
One thing is for sure... its becoming clear that despite the US' allies in the region the
Gonna touch grass today I'll try and get caught up on updates before I sign off.
This weekend has been pretty crazy, I'd say more than any conflict I've observed this one has an absurd amount of gen-AI disinformation circulating.
There's also a TON of combat footage from previous Iran/Israel entanglements plus completely unrelated conflict zones being passed off as new.
It takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to filter out the noise and try to share the most accurate realtime info I can.
This type of reporting also comes with a pretty big mental health toll as there's a continuous stream of content depicting civilian injuries & deaths on all sides which I typically do not post.
So anyways hold your loved ones close this week and value the joy you can find, it feels more fleeting than ever.
Around the time that I signed off yesterday, Iran's capitol Tehran was undergoing intense Israeli & US bombing campaigns which landed in civilian neighborhoods.
The early death toll from that day stands around 500 dead Iranians, with many more missing and possibly dead.
Iranian's were reportedly seen beginning to dig expansive graveyards to process the flow of dead civilians caused by the previous few days of conflict.
Also around the time Tehran was bombed, Lebanon was also seeing intense Israeli bombing directly on civilians.
It turns out that Israel was attempting to kill Hezbollah's leaders after their relatively small attack on an Israeli base after Khamenei's assassination.
In response Israel level whole civilian city blocks.
Israel appears to be opening up a ground invasion Lebanon...
A couple of commercial shipping vessels have been struck, likely by Iran, sailing near their coasts.
Iran appears to be very serious about their blockade on the Strait of Hormuz
Iran's blockade is currently only allowing Chinese or Russian vessels through.
Everyone else is not allowed to pass.
#Iran #straitofhormuz #KhameneiAssassination #Oil #Economics
As the days wear on we're starting to get clear satellite images of US bases.
Here's Bahrain's US base. It show's Iran was very effective at completely destroy early warning radar dishes as well as multiple support facilities near by.
In Al-Salem, Kuwait the story was much the same, with satellite images showing active fires that have been burning for days.
CW: Pakistani cop shoots towards protesters.
It's important to note that this conflict and especially the news of Khamenei's assassination have sparked significant protests are MANY American embassies in the region.
And in turn, local police have turned up to put down the protests and this has resulted in dozens of dead civilians who have died at the hands of local cops.
In one such incident from Pakistan local cops and US marines killed & injured protesters.
In Bahrain, protesters were seen throwing molotovs at local cops while Iran continued to bomb US bases over head.
Partner's of Bahrain have been trying to move more troops in to put down protests and guard smoldering US bases but Iran also crashed drones into key bridges needed to cross into the territory.
Will be interesting to see if those new forces are welcomed as warmly...
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