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Confirmed Israel attacked Iran

💠Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced that the Israeli government has carried out a preemptive strike against Iran "to eliminate threats against the State of Israel."

Katz declared a special state of emergency across the country and warned that missile and drone attacks against Israel and its civilian population are expected soon.

Instructions from the Home Front Command must be followed, and people should remain in protected locations.

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[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 hour ago
[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 hours ago
[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 hours ago

Nice to get some numbers. Hope the strikes can happen without warning soon!

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

It will be ~~ugly~~ uglier from now on.

FTFY

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

🇧🇭🇺🇸🇮🇷| Targeted assassination of American officers from the US Navy 5th fleet HQ inside a building (likely hotel) in Bahrain.

4 days ago, the WP had reported that Iran is targeting Pentagon personnel in hotels.

I geolocated it and it’s the Fontana Infinity rental appartments in Manama Bahrain.

Coords: 26.2239850, 50.6104212

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19259

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

How do they figure out in which room they're hosted?

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 29 minutes ago

How many Shia work at hotels?

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 hours ago

Same way the CIA figures out locations and information which is through local tips or on the ground agents.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

All it takes is one person out of thousands, and a pair of binoculars or a telescope. Hell, I saw posts on Reddit of someone tracking a business in the US by flying a drone around and got footage of dudes on Wallstreet doing coke at 2am half way up a skyscraper. Lol.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s war of attrition is beginning to show effect

Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are thinking about possibly pulling away (force majeure) from US investments after heavy damages from Iranian attacks.

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19256

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

And then we have this war connected with the popping of the AI bubble.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

John Elmer over at EI says the attacks on hotels were preceded by a statement from the IRGC.

"The flight of cowardly US soldiers from regional bases, their taking refuge in hotels in host countries and their criminal army's use of civilian facilities in the Persian Gulf countries as cover do not escape the intelligence monitoring of the IRGC."

[–] AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

🇮🇷🇦🇿: Iran Denies Launching Drone toward Azerbaijan

"In a statement released on Thursday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said that the Islamic Republic of Iran, while respecting the sovereignty of all countries, particularly Muslim and neighboring states, denies the launch of any drone by its military forces toward the Republic of Azerbaijan.

It added that such actions by the fake Zionist regime have precedents aimed at disrupting relations among the Muslim countries through various means."

"The statement noted that, based on the investigations conducted, the move has been carried out by the Israeli regime in an attempt to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Two civilians were reportedly injured after drones struck Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on March 5, the Republic of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement."

"It said one drone struck the terminal building of Nakhchivan International Airport, while another landed near a school in the village of Shakarabad.

Iran’s ambassador to Baku, Mojtaba Damirchilou, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan after the incident, where a formal note of protest was presented."

Source: https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/03/05/3532264/iran-denies-launching-drone-toward-azerbaijan

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: A New York Times investigation reveals it was the U.S. that struck Minab Girls Elementary School, killing 175 pupils—not Israel like previously assumed

Also, check the passive voice of this horrendous piece from NYT. They dance around the fact that the US killed those children.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Take this with a grain of salt. I would not put it past the NYT to run interference for the Zionist entity. "Israel" already have a severe image crisis with the younger generation in the US and a lot of the western media's role is to do damage control in that regard.

If they say it was the US, a) people are more likely to forgive the actions of their own government than those of a foreign government, and b) it can be blamed on the Trump administration and turned into a partisan thing.

This could be strategic narrative management the same way throwing Ukraine under the bus for the Nordstream bombing to divert blame away from the US worked in Europe, because Europeans are more primed to sympathize with and forgive Ukraine for attacking them than the US.

Just like maintaining the US's image in Europe matters more to the European ruling class, it is more important to the US ruling class to protect the image of the Zionist entity than that of the Trump administration.

In any case, the distinction is largely illusory anyway, because the Zionist entity is an extension of the US empire and serves to advance the imperialist agenda in the region, while at the same time much of the US policy in the region serves to advance the goals and agenda of Zionism. A US attack on Iran is a Zionist attack and vice versa.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 hours ago

I've been hearing reports that it was a double tap.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

U.S. And Israel consider reducing attack frequency amid declining weapon stocks to sustain longer military operations, per i24

https://xcancel.com/unusual_whales/status/2029636311892803733

[–] senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The link appears to broken, comrade

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

Looks like that source deleted the tweet 😭 Anyway, it should look like this:

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 hours ago
[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Iran says new wave of 'True Promise 4' operation has begun, state media report

18 minutes ago 11:09 NZDT Enas Alashray Reuters

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the operation involves a combined missile and drone attack targeting sites in central Tel Aviv, according to state media.

The Guards said the assault included the launch of Kheibar missiles as part of the latest phase of the operation against Israel.

Kheibar is a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,240 miles)

[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 hours ago

I should add that Hegseth is having another bravado-filled press conference to convince the idiots that it's going well. 90% reduction in missile launches from Iran they'll say, without acknowledging what else hides under the mountains 😂

Maybe after a week we'll see drones flying into bases inside the U.S.

Wouldn't it be sweet if Trump backed off, only to be attacked within the U.S. itself? 🥷

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 8 hours ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷| Better satellite imagery of the AN/TPY-2 radar that was struck at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base by Iranian missiles/drones, in Jordan.

This also shows that the satellite images published by Iran were all accurate.

Credit: CNN report.

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19255

[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 9 hours ago

The target at the Ali Al Salem airbase were aircrafts, several.

As you can see from the explosions in the footage, they are going up in big flames.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19253

No actual footage of aircraft but big if true.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 9 hours ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼| NASA satellite confirmed what I had reported a little while ago, showing several fires at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, caused by Iranian missile or drone strikes.

This is from the attack of 1h ago.

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19250

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — CENTCOM edits their post from denying that 'a jet has crashed' to denying it has 'been shot down'.

[–] nathanboleshevik@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 9 hours ago

The ‘NOT TRUE’ is what sells it

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 hours ago

BREAKING: Impact near Ben Guiron airport, Tel Aviv

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19243

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 10 hours ago

According to Iraqi channels, an American fighter jet was intercepted above Iraq by Iranian air defenses and footage was released showing a pilot having ejected.

Now Iraqi people & police are on the hunt to find the pilot.

@FotrosResistancee

Videos in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19227

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Patriots are running low. Estimated that 1600 Patriot missiles have been used so far by US, Israel and Gulf states to repel Iranian strikes, with an annual production of 600 per year.

The Iran war has triggered a shortage of missiles for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, Handelsblatt quotes military sources as saying.

It said the Persian Gulf countries alone spent about 800 missiles in the early days of the conflict. The US and Israel spent "at least" the same number. Handelsblatt says that stocks of missiles for Patriot are a top secret, while the Americans emphasize they have enough ammunition. However, the paper says experts are increasingly doubtful about this.

On top of the Persian Gulf states, Ukraine also needs missiles for Patriots, but their production capacity is limited. Lockheed Martin has tripled their output over the past three years, but this is only 600 missiles per year. In January, it promised to increase the capacity to 2,000 rockets a year from 2026.

The production of missiles for Germany will only start at the end of the year with deliveries scheduled for the beginning of 2027.

https://tass.com/world/2097275

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[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

❗️BREAKING: Iran has published actual footage of the IRGC downing an American F-15 with air defenses in Iran.

This is likely the F-15 shot down southwest of Iran, on Wednesday.

@FotrosResistancee

Video link in -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19226

[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I hope they find the pilot(s) quickly!

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

🇺🇸 The US is currently unprepared for attrition warfare and didn't learn its lessons from the Ukraine theater. - Former US General Petraeus

➡️ He calls for adapting industrial scales for mass production of cheap weapons platforms. That's unlikely to happen without a major restructuring of the military industrial complex - something that didn't happen in the past 80 years.

Disclaimer: the article is very lib but it exposes a big weakness for the US

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/iran-drone-missiles-middle-east-united-states-israel-war/

[–] nathanboleshevik@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 hours ago

Beautiful sight to see the consequences of the contradictions of capital unfold before our eyes.

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 11 hours ago (3 children)
[–] shreditdude0@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 hours ago

US forces cowardly retreat According to an IRGC statement released Wednesday, “the operational planning and coordination among Iranian armed forces in targeting across different fronts has changed the war’s equation,” stressing that Iran’s military capabilities were beyond the estimates of the United States and "Israel."

The IRGC also asserted that “Iranian armed forces are closely monitoring the cowardly retreat of US soldiers from their bases and their taking refuge in hotels in host countries.”

It added that “the Iranian armed forces are observing the U.S. military’s use of civilian facilities in host countries,” warning that “the Revolutionary Guard is lying in wait for the invading U.S. soldiers and will not let them escape.”

I recall seeing comrades here say that the IRGC wasn't actively trying to cause US military personnel casualties and that the 6 who were KIA were likely the only ones to perish. I can't find any reason to believe that this is true. Especially after all that Iran has suffered this past week, the martyring of their Supreme Leader, military brass and civilian leadership and during Ramadan, the events in January that led to the killing of 3000+ civilians, the 12-Day War last year, economic sanctions, sabotage & infiltration ops by enemy intelligence, the Stuxnet cyber attack that set back their nuclear development program under Obama, and so on. Many of us westerners have been conditioned to "forget" about these sort of things by all of the flood of information via social media campaigns. This is something they could not possibly forget, because this is something that has affected them in a real, material way. They're truly out for justice against the imperialists.

[–] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 hours ago

Let's fucking go!

[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 9 hours ago
[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 hours ago (3 children)
[–] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 10 hours ago

Lmfao aren't they losing? This is like getting QB advice from someone who gets sacked all the time 💀

[–] shreditdude0@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 hours ago

After all the groveling he did on national television followed by all the insults, but nah, they're my homies, I will fight for you o7 lmao indeed

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 hours ago

Orders are not request lmao

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 12 hours ago

The US base in Kuwait suffered immense damage from Iranian attacks, however we saw little to no videos from the actual attacks.

Had it not been for the satellite imagery, not even our souls would’ve known about the success rate of Iranian attacks.

Just because we haven’t seen videos from impacts on Israeli targets, doesn’t mean they don’t exist, keep that in mind.

@FotrosResistancee

Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19218

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

NBC News reporter: Are Russia and China actively assisting you in this war?

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: They have always supported us.

Reporter: Does that mean "yes"?

Araghchi: I'm not going to reveal details in the middle of a war.

Video link -> https://xcancel.com/vick55top/status/2029623358246023200#m

[–] DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

Ah, so much for the China and Russia are betraying Iran narrative.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 13 hours ago

🔴Saudi Arabian editor of "Independent Arabic": Not all attacks on the Gulf countries are from Iran, and some of them may be a kind of "false flag" operation to attribute to Iran

@sarbazane_g (https://t.me/sarbazane_g)

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