Dramatic escalation by Israel

Section 14 of South Pars gas field (jointly owned by Qatar) has been attacked by drones.

The Jam refinery is on fire according to video footage.

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Xi Jinping official(?) commentary account on X wrote:

Israel must stop.

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Israel have targeted the Phase 14 section of the South Pars natural gas facilities with drone-like MAVs. (Source)

Israel closes all its embassies around the world. All consular services are suspended and Israel urges its citizens to “seek help from local authorities.”

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Three vehicles carrying drones were seen inside Iraq on the Iran-Iraq border. No images or videos are provided. (Source)

Israel shuts global embassies after attack on Iran - Reuters

COPENHAGEN/LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Israel is shutting its embassies around the world and has urged citizens to stay alert and not display Jewish or Israeli symbols in public places, statements posted on embassy websites said on Friday after Israel launched large-scale attacks on Iran.

The statements said Israel would not be providing consular services and urged citizens to cooperate with local security services if faced with hostile activity.

No timeframe was given for how long the embassies would be closed. A person picking up the phone at the embassy in Berlin gave no further details, and Israel's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

Israelis abroad were encouraged to fill out a form to update the foreign ministry on their location. This was also done after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel to coordinate the return of reservists and organise rescue flights.

"In light of recent developments, Israeli missions around the world will be closed and consular services will not be provided," the statement said.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, said Germany was stepping up protection of Jewish and Israeli sites.

The area around the Israeli embassy in Berlin was largely quiet and empty except for some police and police cars.

Visible security was increased outside the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, with a police van and car parked near the building, a Reuters witness said.

Earlier, Israel said it had attacked nuclear facilities and missile factories in Iran and had killed a swathe of military commanders in what could be a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Iran had brought the attack on itself by resisting U.S. demands in talks to restrict its nuclear programme, and urged it to make a deal, "with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal".

⚡️🚨 Fars News Agency citing local sources:

Drone attack led to fire outbreak in gas facilities at Kangan Port

Middle East Observer

Venezuela and Uruguay confirmed the reopening of their consular services in Caracas and Montevideo.

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This is good news, now that the Left (Broad Front is mostly Democratic Socialist with Social Democrat and Socialism in The 21th Century factions) is in power again they are reestablishing relations with Venezuela.

(Unconfirmed) Israel directly targeted an ambulance killing two people in Western Azarbaijan province. (Source)

Judging by the timeline of the True Promise 2 and yesterday's first missile salvo, we should see Iranian missiles airborne in around 1.5-2 hours.

فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ ۚ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمَىٰ ۚ وَلِيُبْلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَاءً حَسَنًا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

Surat Al Anfal, 17

I wonder what kind of economic shock happens if Israel goes into a full fledged war with Iran. 1970s all over again? I kinda want nothing ever happens gang to win because it'll be a disaster for the global south but I also kinda want to see something happen.

It's time to see what happens when war happens in a country in which a big portion of the population has dual citizenship or can easily just move to another country where a war isn't happening.

Been camping the last day so had no signal. Seems like the situation has stabilised in Iran's favour? No major strikes since they got their air defenses back online, and seems like they've got a lot of options on thettable. Accurate read or no?

Poems by Parnia Abbasi, a 23-year-old Iranian poet killed by Israel today

The Extinguished Star

I wept for the both

for you

and for me

you blow at

the stars, my tears

in your world

the freedom of light

in mine

The chase of shadows

you and I will come to an end

somewhere

the most beautiful poem in the world

falls quiet

you begin

somewhere

to cry the

murmur of life

but I will end

I burn

I’ll be that extinguished star

In your sky

like smoke

checked what the Polish osint guy I follow was saying yesterday, before Iran's response

• About the US 'not knowing' about the the Israeli attack.. while it was happening there were a few US Boeing E-3 Sentry (command center) planes in the air that took off from US bases in the Persian Gulf, US military bases in the region were at Defcon 5, diplomatic families in the region were evacuated 2 days before, a large attack like that wouldn't be possible without US intel about Iranian anti-air and radar.

• Israel is using Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian air space to refuel its F-15s, F-16s, F-35s.

• Some ideas for Iranian responses... Strait of Hormuz blockade, attacks on tanker ships, attacks on Israeli nuclear sites like the Dimona reactor.

• Iran supplies hydrocarbons to China and in the short term Russia can't replace that much, so attacking Iran can also be seen as an indirect US attempt to slow down the Chinese economy.

⚡️ 🔴US Secretary of Defens:

We are transferring some of our defenses from Ukraine to the Middle East region

Middle East Observer

How badly damaged are Iranian air defenses now?

Vietnam has been admitted to BRICS. BRICS site

the leadership sitting on an aluminum viewing stand in the middle of a thunderstorm.