Official Israel Vs. Iran 2025 thread: First post updates! US/Israel attacks set Iran back months at best. Ceasefire in effect. Everybody wins(?)

[ReasonableMatic]

That's the thing, if you were truly going to commit to this, you needed to be ten toes in from the jump.

Easier to spin a lie when everyone who could say otherwise is dead or dying. Instead, Israel and the United States got their card pulled

 

[Afro]

The American mainstream media wants this war.

6 min ago

Analysis: Strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility would likely cause limited radiation leak, experts say​

From CNN's Jennifer Hansler
If Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility were damaged or destroyed in a strike by the US, it would likely lead to a limited radiation leak in the immediate area, but it would not pose the same catastrophic consequences as bombing a nuclear reactor, experts told CNN.

Kelsey Davenport, the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, said that if bombs were able to penetrate Fordow, it would likely lead to “some limited radiation from the uranium enriched and stored at the facility,” but “it’s unlikely to cause significant, widespread environmental health contamination.”

She explained that attacking a site where uranium hexafluoride gas — the material fed into the facility’s centrifuges — is stored “is going to create chemical toxicities” and “low level alpha radiation,” which would likely be localized to the site.

Davenport said that it would likely be “manageable if people are wearing the right protective equipment.”

 

[Mister Terrific]

Also the hospital was used to treat wounded soldiers from Gaza and a technical research building for the IDF right next door. Still a war crime but definitely not something Israel hasn’t done themselves.

 

[Afro]

8m ago
(14:35 GMT)

Trump posts cryptic Iran message​

The US president has pushed back on a Wall Street Journal report claiming he privately approved attack plans for Iran but delayed a final go-ahead in hopes Iran would abandon its nuclear program.
Writing on his Truth Social social media platform, Trump said: “The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!”
As of yesterday, Trump said he was still unsure about authorising a strike.
“We’ll see what happens. I’ve been asked about it by everybody, but I haven’t made a decision,” he told reporters.

 

[Afro]

3m ago
(14:40 GMT)

Netanyahu claims Israel ‘accurately hit’ nuclear, missile targets​

The Israeli PM has posted a video of himself outside Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, which suffered damage from an Iranian missile attack today.
In it, he claims the Israeli military “accurately hit nuclear targets and missile targets, and they [Iran] hit a hospital, where people can’t even get up and run away”.
“That’s the whole difference in a democracy that acts according to the law to save itself from these murderers and against these murderers who want to destroy each and every one of us”.
Israel has regularly attacked hospitals in its war on Gaza, with officials in the besieged enclave stating that Israel has bombed and burned at least 36 hospitals across the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023.

 

[rightfultoefinger]

He needs to be arrested.

That’s the reason he’s doing this in the first place. He has a corruption trial.

 

[Afro]

2 min ago

Witkoff expected to attend meeting between Rubio and British foreign secretary​

From CNN's Jennifer Hansler

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Sec. of State Marco Rubio attend an event in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in February.
Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

US special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to attend the meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the White House Thursday afternoon, a source familiar told CNN.

The meeting, which was originally scheduled for last week, comes amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and as President Donald Trump mulls US military involvement.

Lammy is expected to travel from the US to Geneva for a meeting Friday between the Iranian foreign minister and British, French, German and EU foreign ministers. As of Thursday morning, Witkoff was not expected to attend that meeting.

 

[Afro]

3 min ago

Iran's foreign minister calls on Israelis to avoid "proximity to military and intelligence sites"​

From CNN’s Mostafa Salem

A view of the destruction at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, on Thursday.
Tsafrir Abayov/Anadolu via Getty Images

Iran’s foreign minister asked Israelis to avoid being near “military and intelligence sites” as his country continues to carry out strikes.

Abbas Araghchi said on X that Iran’s military “accurately” eliminated an Israeli command, control and intelligence headquarters, “and another vital target,” but he did not identify the location.

He said the “blast wave” caused “superficial damage” to the nearby Soroka Medical Center, which he claims was treating Israeli soldiers injured in Gaza.

Israel says Iran directly targeted the hospital, while Iran says it was targeting the command center near the medical center.

“Hundreds of innocent Iranians have been murdered in cold blood since Israel launched its illegal war against the Iranian people last week,” Araghchi said.

“Our powerful Armed Forces will continue to pummel the criminals who target our people until they cease and pay for their criminal aggression against our nation,” he added.

The Iranian foreign minister is set to travel to Geneva in Switzerland to meet European counterparts for talks tomorrow. A diplomat told CNN the talks were exploratory, to “feel the room” as to what could be achieved.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Goat poster]

Iran still hitting targets

Iron Dome for some splaining to do

Iron dome was never built to sustain attacks from a country like Iran.

This ain't those little Hamas or Hezbollah rockets.

Israel has never engaged an enemy that could strike back like this and now they are crying about hospitals and asking the US for help.

 

[Afro]

Damn, Germany.

Fell off hard. SMH.

1m ago
(14:50 GMT)

German chancellor urges moderation in call with Netanyahu: Report​

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Netanyahu for more moderation in Israel’s campaign against Iran, a German government source told the Reuters news agency.
Merz voiced Germany’s support for Israel’s attacks on Iran but stressed the importance of seeking diplomatic solutions to the conflict, the source said.

 

[Mister Terrific]

This, Gaza and Ukraine will be case studies on the effectiveness of AI disinformation during war.

Have they found the F-35 wreckage and the captured pilot yet?

 

[Afro]

I see where @Sccit gets it from now.
The psychopathy and apathy for humanity is legendary

 

[Afro]

3m ago
(15:00 GMT)

IRGC announces wave 15 of attacks on Israel​

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says via the country’s state media that “a new round of combined missile-drone attacks against military targets and industrial centers related to the military industry in the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv has begun”.
It said drone operations continue with more than 100 types of combat and suicide drones launched against military targets, especially air defence systems in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Its message ends with a warning that it will intensify missile attacks against military and military industrial targets in Israel.

 

[Afro]

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