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Iran making some big claims and saber rattling.

Iran's foreign minister: We call on Israelis to heed evacuation orders

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08:21 CDT

In a post on X, the foreign minister said Iran's armed forces "eliminated" an Israeli military target and also caused damage to the nearby hospital.

He goes on to say Iran calls on Israelis to "heed our evacuation orders before strikes and to avoid proximity to military and intelligence sites."

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https://x.com/araghchi/status/1935684685666963780

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13 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Holy fuck, I've never seen that site before and...holy fuck.

 

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Good catch up summation with some human interests aspects. A few details on hospital and nuclear sites. And of course sabre rattling.

Israel-Iran: Netanyahu vows revenge after Iranian missile damages hospital

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TEL AVIV/DUBAI, June 19 (Reuters) - Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital overnight, as the week-old air war escalated with no sign yet of an off-ramp.

Following the strike that damaged the Soroka medical centre in Israel's southern city of Beersheba, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran's "tyrants" would pay the "full price".

Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military had been instructed to intensify strikes on strategic-related targets in Tehran in order to eliminate the threat to Israel and destabilise the "Ayatollah regime".

Netanyahu has said that Israel's military attacks could result in the toppling of Iran's leaders, and Israel would do whatever was necessary to remove the "existential threat" posed by Tehran.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, speaking to reporters outside the damaged hospital, said "regime change" in Tehran was not a goal the security cabinet had set "for the time being".

U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has kept the world guessing about whether Israel's superpower ally would join it in airstrikes.

Israel said on Thursday it had struck Iran's Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. It initially said it had also hit Bushehr, site of Iran's only functioning nuclear power plant, but a spokesperson later said it was a mistake to have said this.

The potential consequences of an attack on the plant - contaminating the air and water - have long been a concern in the Gulf states.

The head of Russia's nuclear energy corporation warned on Thursday that an Israeli attack on Bushehr could lead to a "Chornobyl-style catastrophe", referring to the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, when a reactor exploded at Chornobyl in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.

Trump has veered from proposing a swift diplomatic end to the war to suggesting the United States might join it. On Wednesday, he said nobody knew what he would do. A day earlier he mused on social media about killing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, then demanded Iran's unconditional surrender.

A week of Israeli air and missile strikes against its major rival has wiped out the top echelon of Iran's military command, damaged its nuclear capabilities and killed hundreds of people, while Iranian retaliatory strikes have killed at least two dozen civilians in Israel.

STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Iran has been weighing its options in responding to its biggest security challenge since the 1979 revolution.

Closing down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of daily global oil consumption passes, is one of the moves Iran could take, a member of the Iranian Parliament National Security Committee Presidium Behnam Saeedi told the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Iran has in the past threatened to close the strait to traffic in retaliation for Western pressure, and shipping sources said on Wednesday that commercial ships were avoiding Iran's waters nearby.

Oil prices rose after Israel and Iran continued to exchange missile attacks overnight and Trump's stance on the conflict kept investors on edge.

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Tehran, Iran

Earlier, the Israeli military said it targeted the Khondab nuclear site near Iran's central city Arak overnight, including a partially-built heavy-water research reactor. Heavy-water reactors produce plutonium, which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of an atom bomb.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said it had information that the heavy-water research reactor had been hit, but did not contain radioactive material. It had no information that a separate plant there which makes heavy water had been hit.

Israel, which has the most advanced military in the Middle East, has been fighting on several fronts since the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas triggered the Gaza war. It has severely weakened Iran's regional allies, Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon's Hezbollah, and bombed Yemen's Houthis.

The extent of the damage inside Iran from the week-old bombing campaign has become far more difficult to assess in recent days, with the authorities apparently seeking to prevent panic by limiting information.

Iran has stopped giving updates on the death toll, and state media have ceased showing widespread images of destruction. The internet has been almost completely shut down. The public has been banned from filming, with the authorities citing a risk of espionage.

Arash, 33, a government employee in Tehran, said a building next to his home in Tehran’s Shahrak-e Gharb neighbourhood had been destroyed in the strikes.

"I saw at least three dead children and two women in that building. Is this how Netanyahu plans to ‘liberate’ Iranians? Stay away from our country," he told Reuters by telephone.

Israel has issued evacuation orders for whole sections of Tehran, a city of 10 million. Thousands of residents have fled, jamming the highways out.

Samira, 11, had moved in with her grandparents in the northwestern city of Urmia, her family having fled Tehran when a shopping centre near their house was struck. She said she hasn’t been able to sleep at night.

"I’m afraid Israel will hit our home and my mom will die. I’m too scared. I just want to go home,” she said by phone.

Inside Israel, Iran's retaliatory missile strikes over the past week have been the first time in decades of shadow war that a significant number of Iranian projectiles have pierced defences and killed Israelis in their homes.

The director general of the Israeli hospital that was damaged in Beersheba, Shlomi Kodesh, told reporters at the site that a missile strike had destroyed several wards and wounded 40 people, mostly staff and patients.

Speaking to reporters at the hospital site, Netanyahu said he had issued instructions that "no one is immune" from Israeli attacks.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they were targeting Israeli military and intelligence headquarters located near the hospital. An Israeli military official denied there were military targets nearby and said the attack on a hospital was deliberate.

Missiles also hit a residential building in Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv.

"It's very scary," said Yaniv, 34, who lives nearby. He said he heard a deafening explosion when the missile hit, shaking his apartment tower.

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19 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Iran making some big claims and saber rattling.

Iran's foreign minister: We call on Israelis to heed evacuation orders

10 minutes ago

08:21 CDT

In a post on X, the foreign minister said Iran's armed forces "eliminated" an Israeli military target and also caused damage to the nearby hospital.

He goes on to say Iran calls on Israelis to "heed our evacuation orders before strikes and to avoid proximity to military and intelligence sites."

Screenshot_20250619_082858_Reuters.thumb.jpg.ad50af0005ee34c30d2ab804ec885e3e.jpg

https://x.com/araghchi/status/1935684685666963780

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21 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Holy fuck, I've never seen that site before and...holy fuck.

 

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DailyWire+ is the streaming home of The Daily Wire, Jordan Peterson, Movies, PragerU, and Bentkey. We’re one of America’s fastest-growing media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. We’re building the future you want to see.

The Daily Wire does not claim to be without bias. We’re opinionated, we’re noisy, and we’re having a good time.

Conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, The Daily Wire was meant to be something unique in the right-of-center media landscape — a truly for-profit business with an emphasis on distribution and marketing.

In partnership with Caleb Robinson, the team launched The Daily Wire in 2015 with an initial investment of $4.7M by Farris Wilks. In month fourteen the company became cash flow positive and has since driven exponential growth.

Welcome to the party, pal! I've been frustrated for years over the quality of """news""" sources that tend to get posted and propogated in the Daily Texan. Thank fuck pronghorn's contract ended and he's leaving us alone

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1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Now we know the real reason for Israel's attack. His son was tired of that woman. 

 

Bibi may be a lot of things, and one of those things is that he knows how to bend a narcissist to do his bidding.

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57 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Bibi may be a lot of things, and one of those things is that he knows how to bend a narcissist to do his bidding.

Copious reasons to dislike/despise/hate him, but he handles his narrative, tactics, and PR game way better than some.

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8 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Copious reasons to dislike/despise/hate him, but he handles his narrative, tactics, and PR game way better than some.

I think it has more to do with his knowledge of the audience. Tons of people in the west still think that any criticisms of actions of the State of Israel are antisemetic while a ton of other people have some really strange religious views on why Israel must be "supported" at all costs. It has let him get away with almost everything. It's starting to wear thin but it still remains true that in the US no political candidate can win a national election if they are too critical of Israel and even modest criticisms were an issue in the last election.

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4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I think it has more to do with his knowledge of the audience. Tons of people in the west still think that any criticisms of actions of the State of Israel are antisemetic while a ton of other people have some really strange religious views on why Israel must be "supported" at all costs. It has let him get away with almost everything. It's starting to wear thin but it still remains true that in the US no political candidate can win a national election if they are too critical of Israel and even modest criticisms were an issue in the last election.

I can't stand either of them, but I watched the Tucker Carlson/Ted Cruz interview and it is absolutely astonishing what Tucker is able to goad Cruz into admitting with regard to not only Israel, but Iran as well. He would be such an incredible journalist if he wasn't such a piece of shit.

The Independent has a fantastic summary here: 

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-ted-cruz-interview-highlights-b2773012.html

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3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

I can't stand either of them, but I watched the Tucker Carlson/Ted Cruz interview and it is absolutely astonishing what Tucker is able to goad Cruz into admitting with regard to not only Israel, but Iran as well. He would be such an incredible journalist if he wasn't such a piece of shit.

The Independent has a fantastic summary here: 

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-ted-cruz-interview-highlights-b2773012.html

And also, if he weren't an obvious Russian shill.

But I agree it would be amazing if he used his talents for good instead of evil so much of the time.

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32 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

He would be such an incredible journalist if he wasn't such a piece of shit.

I think this just shows how low the bar has gotten in the US. These are basic questions that any journalist should be asking. Take a look at what's standard in the UK for a taste of what we're missing.

I chalk this up more to Ted letting his guard down because he went in expecting culture war softballs.

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3 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I think this just shows how low the bar has gotten in the US. These are basic questions that any journalist should be asking. Take a look at what's standard in the UK for a taste of what we're missing.

I chalk this up more to Ted letting his guard down because he went in expecting culture war softballs.

The questions are basic but the adversarial tone should be the standard as well. Journalists aren't your fucking friend they're supposed to get the truth out of you. For whatever reason, US journalists have become too afraid to be adversarial most of the time.

Probably because conservative politicians are cowards that behave like DT posters when challenged on anything.

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Just now, chainsaw said:

Iran's on the 1 yard line? If that were true why would Tulsi and everyone else in the global intelligence community have hidden that fact?

I think the problem is they aren't allowed on the field. 

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23 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

The latest:

 

Do we not have spies or intel anymore? They've been "on the verge" of this shit since the fucking '90s. We haven't done anything because we know they aren't close. If they were George W. would have turned the place to glass instead of fucking around with Saddam. This shit ain't hard to figure out. Bibi wants to stay out of jail, that's literally all that is going on right now, period.

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14 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Do we not have spies or intel anymore?

Anymore? Our intel has been missing countries developing nuclear weapons since the late 90’s (e.g., Pakistan and North Korea).  I’m sure we have better spies in many countries than Israel, but not in one that Israel considers to be its existential threat like Iran. The Mossad knew where dozens of high ranking officials would be on the first night of the war and had been running a workshop manufacturing drones in Tehran for years. I do trust their intelligence on Iranian capabilities more than our assessment. 

 

25 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Bibi wants to stay out of jail, that's literally all that is going on right now, period.

This is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:

At the Fordow plant, located near the city of Qom, the Iranians have enough centrifuges (including IR-6s, their more advanced type) and uranium hexafluoride gas to produce several nuclear weapons. They could probably produce enough weapon-grade (90 percent) enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon within five to six days.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-united-states-may-destroy-the-fordow-enrichment-plant-it-wont-make-the-iranian-nuclear-threat-go-away/#post-heading

Note that the article is not a pro-Israeli slant, it says bombing Fordow probably isn’t enough, laments the breaking of the JCPOA, but still says the danger is there.

It’s easy to blame Bibi, he’s made a lot of enemies. But it’s also worth noting that the entire military and political structure of Israel seems to believe the threat assessment as well. This is chief opposition leader Yair Lapid:

 

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I think there’s plenty of room for ambiguity and skepticism on this but “I can’t believe Tulsi might lie to us all” is a bonkers take. 

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2 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

 I do trust their intelligence on Iranian capabilities more than our assessment. 

While that is undoubtedly true, they are not going to share anything publicly, or with the US, that doesn't serve their purpose of bending American action to their will.  They will lie to our faces if it serves their interests.  They know that no US politician can really oppose them, and they certainly don't care if American interests are harmed or American lives are lost.  I certainly don't think that Iran having nuclear weapons is in America's best interests, but trusting Israel to share intelligence, or take any action that doesn't directly serve their interests, is not a wise path to take.

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I think there’s plenty of room for ambiguity and skepticism on this but “I can’t believe Tulsi might lie to us all” is a bonkers take. 

Agreed, but on the other side of the coin, not recognizing a decades old "we have to do war cuz WMD" playbook is also pretty bonkers.

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1 hour ago, Duane Moore said:

The latest:

1 hour ago, Duane Moore said:

Watch this space. Dan is extremely plugged in on the Israeli side and has contacts within the administration (even though he’s more of a Bushie).

Told you all - as I said, if we are evacuating Americans out of Israel, if multiple Republican Senators extremely loyal to Trump are making the rounds with the talking heads to sell us on war, and if Fox News is selling its viewers on war, we are going to war.

 

8 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

At ease. WW3 won’t start for another 2 weeks. 

So it's starting tomorrow?  Makes sense, it's a Friday.

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14 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

At ease. WW3 won’t start for another 2 weeks. 

 

Ol "Two Weeks" Trump. His default answeer.

Putin also had two weeks to agree to a ceasefire....three weeks ago. 

This has to be about the 20th time he's announced a two week self imposed deadline to announce a plan or decision. I think we're 0 for 20 so far on actually meeting those deadlines.

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5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

So it's starting tomorrow?  Makes sense, it's a Friday

 

Just now, TornACL said:

Ol "Two Weeks" Trump. His default answeer.

Putin also had two weeks to agree to a ceasefire....three weeks ago. 

This has to be about the 20th time he's announced a two week self imposed deadline to announce a plan or decision. I think we're 0 for 20 so far on actually meeting those deadlines.

Two weeks from tomorrow is July 4. Because it’s Trump, that may not be a coincidence. 

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2 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Ol "Two Weeks" Trump. His default answeer.

Putin also had two weeks to agree to a ceasefire....three weeks ago. 

This has to be about the 20th time he's announced a two week self imposed deadline to announce a plan or decision. I think we're 0 for 20 so far on actually meeting those deadlines.

He works better when he gives himself 90 days, like he did with TikTok.

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21 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

At ease. WW3 won’t start for another 2 weeks. 

 

“We’ll see what happens”

Aside from “tremendous”, that is the phrase he uses that grates on me the most. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s literally just a space filler. No shit?  Time will continue on and events will unfold?

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4 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

 

Two weeks from tomorrow is July 4. Because it’s Trump, that may not be a coincidence. 

Do you actually think that Trump could compute the date that is two weeks from now?

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4th of July announcement. 

If there is a ceasefire, he takes 100% of the credit. 

If we go in, he takes all the credit for the hard decision and blames his team for not getting it done. 

Meanwhile we will have plenty of conflict/bombing videos from Twitter (fuck X) and Bluesky to keep us entertained. It is the offseason you ungrateful bastages. 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I think there’s plenty of room for ambiguity and skepticism on this but “I can’t believe Tulsi might lie to us all” is a bonkers take. 

Except it's not just Tulsi.

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Interesting "Analyst" take from John Sawyers ala Reuters:

Spoiler

17 minutes ago

13:43 CDT

JOHN SAWERS, SENIOR ADVISOR AT CHATHAM HOUSE AND FORMER HEAD OF BRITAIN'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE:

 

“I hesitate about saying what goes on inside Donald Trump’s head – we simply don’t know what calculation he’s making. It looks as though he has ordered everyone to be ready for this strike when he gives the say-so. I think he’s probably quite enjoying being the centre of this story and the whole personal, political aspect of this."

 

“This is what he likes, he loves the whole world to be watching - but we need to separate the comments that Trump makes in order to excite the media and to attract attention from the actions and decisions of the US system of which he is the Commander-in-Chief."

 

“I think the Americans should frankly get on with it and get it over with. So that there’s a chance that: a) it reduces the chance of the Iranians shipping out more and more kit from Fordow and other sites to places where they can store it safely - and they’ll certainly have those options, I think. And secondly, it gives the chance to say to the Israelis – look we’ve not destroyed everything that we know of on the nuclear side, stop going for regime change, it’s just going to create total chaos inside Iran if you do that.” 

I agree with Sawyer and his reasoning that sooner is better than later if the narrative/concern is the nuclear threat. 

I don’t think the Israelis would stop, but understand his logic. 

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43 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Do you actually think that Trump could compute the date that is two weeks from now?

Good grift requires maths bro. No better way to get the MAGA base back in line than bombing on the 4th of July. Don't like it? Why do you hate Murica?

I'm adding some flavor for levity and appeasement certain subset of posters, but sadly... the logic tracks.

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So Trump is giving them 2 weeks to get all of their stuff out of the target, while they “negotiate” with him?  Then they tell him to fuck off, he bombs out an empty shell, claims victory, and they build out at another location and are back operating in a couple of months time?

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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So Trump is giving them 2 weeks to get all of their stuff out of the target, while they “negotiate” with him?  Then they tell him to fuck off, he bombs out an empty shell, claims victory, and they build out at another location and are back operating in a couple of months time?

With Putin's help Iran should be able to pull off a new secret underground facility in about 3 years.

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He wanted to feel strong after the dear leader parade was a bust. He doesn't feel like there's enough support from his base, which is the only reason I think he didn't act on his impulse to use the military in order to feel strong. He's got a lot of Huckabees in his ear, though. I think deep down he's afraid because he knows a fox news weekend host absolutely cannot handle actual responsibility.

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Yeah yeah TACO is very funny but for the sake of our troops and the safety of Americans abroad let's not mock Trump if he makes a good decision after "very strongly looking into" a horrible decision.

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