https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/10742

Chinese anti-drone laser platform spotted at the big prayer service in Tehran.

Must be a new acquisition. Maybe there will be more weapons deals with China in the future?

Saudi Arabia also operates this system, so I guess another possibility is that they provided it as a goodwill gesture ("please don't blow up our oil").

More details on the US troop deployment to the Middle East.

The US is sending a few thousand more troops to the Middle East to boost security - AP News, 30 September 2024

The U.S. is sending a “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday. The announcement follows word that Israel has already launched limited raids across the border into Lebanon.

The additional forces would raise the total number of troops in the region to as many as 43,000...

The additional personnel includes squadrons of F-15E, F-16, and F-22 fighter jets and A-10 attack aircraft, and the personnel needed to support them. The jets were supposed to rotate in and replace the squadrons already there. Instead, both the existing and new squadrons will remain in place to double the airpower on hand.

Looking at that force, which will obviously be supplemented by EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare (EW) aircraft from aircraft carriers in the region, it is a very diverse force capable of carrying out a first strike on any country in the region and bypassing their air defences, or being capable of supporting strikes, close air support with air superiority being secured, or intercepting ballistic missile attacks.

The F-15E Strike Eagle is a two seat, twin engine multirole jet very capable at air interdiction missions. This was the type of jet that shot down quite a few Iranian drones during the Iranian retaliation earlier this year. It can carry out air to air and air to ground missions.

The F-16 is a single seat, single engine multirole aircraft capable of air to air and air to ground missions. It is a jet that also has a variant and squadrons trained exclusively for "wild weasel" tactics, which involve baiting air defences and shooting anti radiation missiles at their location.

The F-22 is a twin engine, single seat stealth fighter jet, designed for air superiority, but is also capable of limited air to ground missions. Should be able to fly over the entire region without having to worry about being detected or shot down, gives the option for a stealth first strike on any country.

The A-10 is a ground attack aircraft designed exclusively for Close Air Support (CAS) missions. It is very venerable to enemy air defences and even MANPADS, requires complete air superiority to be used. But it is good at that role, designed around it's 30mm Gatling gun.

🚨Islamic Resistance in Iraq:

"We notice intense activity in the Iraqi airspace by the Americans and Israelis, and this indicates the possibility of an Israeli aggression being carried out inside Iraq. Accordingly, the Hezbollah Brigades renew their warning: Its response will not be limited to the entity only, but will include all aspects of the American presence..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITUJzdWfA3k 👀

i'm back from the dentist and they say i have no decay! that's great and all, but are we gonna ignore the giant decaying tumor in the mouth of palestine that is the zionist entity? i think not.

just now

The Israeli military on Friday told the residents of over 20 more southern towns in Lebanon to evacuate immediately, spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X.

an hour ago

An Israeli strike has hit near the Masnaa border crossing, cutting off a road** hundreds of thousands** have used to flee in recent days, Reuters reports.

The crossing, between Syria and** Lebanon**, is now closed due to the strike, the Lebanese transport minister said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-live-updates/104430472

reporting is when uncritically publishing media releases from the police and military with no comment or thought

also the australian govt is now discussing expelling the Iranian ambassador because of a tweet about Hezbollah, very cool, i love a good will they, or wont they

Iranian tankers are leaving their berths en masse
I doubt they have crazy inside information, it's just that it looks likely enough to not risk the tankers being in port. Could be something imminent though

Their days really are numbered:
https://xcancel.com/revolutionaryem/status/1841636074486911443

Ziоnist ambulance: We are heading to the “Bat Yam” area to treat those who were injured during the stampede while fleeing to shelters in “Tel Aviv”

Shit we crossed the 1k mark strap in and hold on to your butts.

From El Mayadeen, on the damage caused by Iranian missiles:

According to the AP news agency [linked here], satellite images of a hangar at a major Israeli military air base appear to reveal a significant hole in the roof after a heavy barrage of Iranian missiles on Tuesday night.

The images of Nevatim airbase in southern "Israel" reportedly show roof damage in a row of buildings close to the main runway, with large debris scattered around, AP reports.

Nevatim houses some of "Israel’"s most advanced aircraft, including the US-made F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters. However, it is unclear from the satellite images if any aircraft were inside the hangar at the time of the strike, according to AP.

"A significant hole in the roof"

Lebanon foreign minister says Nasrallah himself agreed to a ceasefire shortly before Israel bombed him

https://tankie.tube/w/nj8cgUb2RtcnXy3nyLa7Hn

Hamas claims responsibility for deadly Israel shooting attack

The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jaffa, near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, that left seven people dead and many others wounded.

“The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades takes responsibility for the heroic Jaffa operation carried out by the fighters from the [occupied West Bank] city of Hebron,” the group said in a statement on Wednesday.

 Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades named the attackers as Mohammed Misk and Ahmed al-Haimoni, who managed to “infiltrate into our occupied lands”.

The attack came moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel late on Tuesday, sending people into bomb shelters across the country.

Israeli media have identified three of the dead people as Israelis and one as Georgian. The others were Greek and Moldovan, their governments said. The identity of the seventh victim has not been released

Unlimited on the invaders

Wow, can't believe Commie Kamala seeded the clouds to make the hurricanes worse and also gave all the FEMA money to the illegals so now they can't provide enough emergency relief to North Carolina, boy is it swell being able to make up fairy tales so as not to confront the realities of climate change and imperialism. We also need to stop giving Ukraine all our money...oh wait, Israel needs $400 billion to blow up a school? By all means, I'm okay with that!

this clip is incredible

Is Harris really ‘the lesser of the two evils’ to the equally repulsive Trump? Genocide must come with a political price. DO NOT VOTE HARRIS.

@SALHACHIMI explains on @thinking_muslim

A moving section.

https://xcancel.com/jalalayn/status/1841415417018868209

the full video

Why US Muslims are Abandoning Harris with Sami Hamdi | The Thinking Muslim

The PA has gone mask off.

Telegram link CW Blood

In a traitorous assassination attempt, the treacherous “Palestinian Authority” targeted a car in #Tubas with gunfire and abducted the wounded Tubas Brigade fighter who was in the vehicle.

Security Forces of the PA began firing indiscriminately at people gathered around the Martyr’s Mosque.

According to local reports, fierce armed clashes have erupted between the resistance fighters of Tubas and the Security Forces

Over 1,000,000 Lebanese have been displaced from the south, with at least one AMA-funded school now having to be repurposed as a refugee shelter one week before opening as a school otherwise. AMA personell have also come just meters from being hit by airstrikes.

Sources: Africa Muslims Agency (AMA) Instagram, Salaamedia Live

Zionists in South Africa have literally lodged complaints that "Jewish students and faculty do not claim to feel unsafe as Jews in South Africa's universities". They of course also take it real personal when the SAJFP hosts their "Shabbos against genocide" and continues to be very active politically. - Africa4Palestine, SAJFP

Actual complaint by the way. Likely the people who call themselves "openly Zionist" got reprimanded by various universities in South Africa, namely UCT, for making thinly-veiled bomb threats or chanting Islamophobic slurs.

The SAJR, SAZF and SAJBD also have praised the "israeli" targeted destruction of South African humanitarian missions in Gaza, specifically the ones led by Gift of the Givers

The Saudis realized their oil refineries are completely toast if they continue to do nothing:
https://twitter.com/SinaToossi/status/1841893818976608575?mx=1

in light of today's events i'd like to remind everyone that nothing ever happens and russia is never going to invade ukraine

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling! the US Take Action?

Michael Hudson had a normal one today. Even Richard Wolff was like wtf.

Also a lot of interesting anecdotes of Hudson (who apparently still live in the 1970s) during his time at the Hudson Institute (no relation, named after Hudson River) dealing with the neocons.

Judge for yourself if these are banger quotes or the deranged ramblings of a madman:

• “The United States doesn’t want to see a ceasefire, it wants to use Israel as a catapult; everything that happened today was planned out just 50 years back in 1973-74. I sat in meetings with the head of Mossad who then became Netanyahu’s chief military advisor. The whole strategy was worked out essentially by the Defense Department by the neoliberals and [Henry] “Scoop” Jackson - the ultra-right wing neocon who sponsored them all.”
• “The starting point for all US strategy since the 1970s was that Democracies no longer can field a domestic army with a military draft. America is not in a position able to field enough of an army to invade a country.”
• “That means today’s tactics are limited to bombing, not occupying countries. Neither the Israeli army or any other army are really able to invade and try to take over a country the way armies did during WWII.”
• “The US wars haven’t scaled back because it has a fallback position - it was going to rely on foreign troops to do the fighting as proxies instead of itself. The first example was to create the Wahhabi Jihadi fighters in Afghanistan and Jimmy Carter mobilized them against the secular Afghan interests. Carter justified this by saying, yes they’re Muslims, but after all we all believe in God, so the answer to the secular state of Afghanistan was Wahhabi fanaticism”
• “The US realized that in order for a country to fight to the last Afghan, the last Israeli, the last Ukrainian, you really need a country whose spirit is one of hatred.”
• “Herman Kahn’s (model for Dr. Strangelove) greatest achievement was to convince the US empire builders that the key to achieving their control of the Middle East was to rely on Israeli as their Foreign Legion.”
• “The US realized then that the only kind of full scale war that a Democracy can afford is an Atomic War, but that only works against adversaries who can’t retaliate. The result of today’s military alliances means that any attempt to use nuclear weapons is going to risk full scale nuclear war. What is left for the US? There is only one form of non-Atomic war that Democracies can afford, and that’s Terrorism. You should look at Ukraine and Israel as the Terrorist alternative to Atomic War.”
• “The whole idea of Ukraine and Israel is to bomb civilians, not military targets. It’s a fight to destroy the population under an Ideology of Genocide - that is absolutely central and not an accident.”
• “Zionism has been Christianized and has accepted the hatred of the Other”
• “There cannot be peace in Asia or in Ukraine, because then the status quo would remain and the US would not be able to take over these countries as satellites; peace would mean dependent countries gaining independence”
• “Many neocons at the Hudson Institute, 50 years ago, were Trotskyists or their fathers were Trotskyists and they have picked up Trotsky’s idea of Permanent Revolution; but instead of the Permanent Revolution spreading from the Soviet Union, the neocons believe the Permanent Revolution is the American Empire itself spreading to the entire world.”
• “Who wants to live in a world where we can’t control? Who wants to live in a world where we can’t siphon off their economic surplus for ourselves? That’s the kind of mentality we’re dealing with.”

Good morning to everyone especially the resistance fighters who yeeted at least 4 fascist soldiers in an ambush.

Gaza: returning the hostages

Lebanon: returning the northern settlers to their homes

How about you just return the land you freaks

My recap of events for today (October 1st, 2024) on the Palestine/Lebanon front.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched Operation True Promise II in response to the martyrdom of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyah, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan. Around 200 missiles (including some Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles) struck many targets: three Zionist military bases near Tel Aviv (including the Tel Nof air base); an offshore gas platform near Ashkelon; air and radar bases; and Zionist intelligence bases used to organize assassinations. Some reports say that the strikes destroyed up to twenty F-35 fighter planes at the Zionists’ southern Nevatim air base. Tel Aviv’s propagandists are frantically denying the strikes’ severity.

Lebanese Hezbollah forces conducted Fadi-4 rocket strikes on the Zionists’ Military Intelligence Directorate's Unit 8200 signal intelligence division at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv. In addition, the resistance also struck the northern Zionist settlements of Safed and Dovev; and Zionist troop concentrations near Metula and Avivim.

Little has been said about last night’s Zionist invasion attempt on southern Lebanon. In fact, reports are coming in that the Zionist military never actually crossed the border. However, border clashes occurred near the northern Zionist settlement of Shtula and the southern Lebanese settlements of Adaisseh and Kfar Kila.

Breaking: The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner

Surprising tbh, shame the EU did fuck all to avoid this. Could have given Assange asylum if they truly believed that he was a political prisoner

If you want to watch the live Jill Stein / Abandon Harris rally in Dearborn here the linky.

Zionazis put explosives in food cans and killed 3 kids thinking they were recieving food.

First confirmation from Hezbollah that they have been fighting Israeli troops that entered Lebanon

Big march for the October 7th anniversary in Tokyo today (made more sense to do it on a weekend) turnout was slightly lower because of the rain, but more than expected still. Ran into a few raging zionists out on their vacations, but mostly positive responses (or just apathetic ones ig).

Happy october 7th, death to israel and western imperealism!

Every South African White politician from the Apartheid era looks like the most evil dude you can imagine

Is it still to early to say:

SOMEONE GET THE IRAN APOLOGY FORM. MERCURY WAS IN RETROGRADE!!!!

Netanyahu trembles during announcement

https://tankie.tube/w/b11XwwX98cMt2zkQ7YzRBZ

Reports coming out showing hundreds of civilians in liberated Ugledar. This city has been under constant siege and attack for over 2 years and basically looks like a pile of rubble from the air. Why the fuck did Ukraine not forcibly evacuate the population in the 2 years of fighting? Like what the fuck

Kill the zionist entity

More than 100 people missing after Nigeria boat carrying 300 sinks

VIA Friends of Bernie Text.

Bernie is going to be in Grand Rapids, MI on Sunday 3/6 at 11am with to bullshit people in Michigan about .

My response - I have no appetite for genocide enablers. I will be voting Green Party this year.

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SADR news 🇪🇭

EU Court ruling: Morocco has no sovereignty over Western Sahara and EU-Morocco Agreements involving the Territory are invalid

Presidency of the Republic (Press Release): Historic victory for the Sahrawi people, the EU Court of Justice confirms the illegality of the EU-Morocco agreements and definitively rejects the appeals of the Council and the Commission.

Tel Aviv getting hit with Yemeni drones:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1841635711520248301:

#BREAKING | Israeli media reports that a drone was intercepted over Herzilya, while four others launched from #Yemen exploded at low altitude around Tel Aviv.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard: Any “Israeli” military response to this operation will be met with stronger and more destructive attacks.