US airbase at Al-Udeid in Qatar is hit by Iranian missiles. US military bases in Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait go on high alert. US leader Trump is taken to the Situation Room in Washington. Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates close their airspace

Government of Qatar: "The attack on the Al Udeid airbase is a flagrant violation of Qatar's sovereignty and its airspace. Qatar reserves the right to respond directly, in a manner proportionate to the nature and gravity of the attack, and in accordance with international law."

Government of Iran: "Our operations are free of any threat to brother Qatar and his people. The attack is a response in accordance with international law and the right to self-defense. Our message to the White House and its allies is clear: Iran will not let any attack go unanswered."

Iran's Defense Minister: “We are determined to punish the aggressor, we reject peace imposed by force and we consider Washington a source of crisis and instability in the region.”

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Dnepropetrovsk. They report that they have attacked one of the factories, as well as the railways through which the Ukrainian Armed Forces group is supplied

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-curbs-injunctions-blocked-trumps-birthright-citizenship-rcna199742

In a 6-3 vote, the court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.

From the outset, Israel’s aims were unmistakable:

1. torpedo U.S.-Iran diplomacy;
2. drag Washington into conflict;
3. take out Iran’s nuclear and missile programs;
4. trigger regime change.

If the ceasefire Trump just announced holds—and is paired with serious U.S.-Iran diplomacy—it would mark a strategic defeat for Israel in launching this war.

Netanyahu took his shot. A desperate Hail Mary. And none of it has worked up until now.

Fordow was evacuated. The site may very well be intact.

And in any case, Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and advanced centrifuges are now hidden, with a stronger covert breakout ability than ever.

The Iranian public has rallied in defense of the country and against foreign aggression.

If the government channels this unity into a new social contract, it could be transformative. If not, the old polarization may return.

Meanwhile, Iran has hit Israel hard over these 12 days: Tel Aviv, Haifa, the north, south, and other cities have seen major destruction. Military and intelligence sites damaged. Energy and research infrastructure hit.

Israel’s vaunted air defenses failed the test. Its reliance on the U.S. has never been clearer.

Netanyahu saw the costs of a war of attrition and blinked.

But for Iran, can any ceasefire be trusted?

Unless it’s tied to credible U.S. diplomacy—not maximalist demands—and unless Israel halts covert attacks and assassinations and continued airstrikes (a la Lebanon and Syria), this truce will likely collapse.

Trump helped create this mess by enabling Netanyahu.

If he truly wants to stop the region from being “destroyed,” as he just said, he’ll have to restrain Netanyahu and force a ceasefire in Gaza too.

Lasting peace is impossible until Netanyahu and his war-first approach is gone for good.

some kind of trade deal signed between china/usa, according to bloomberg:

Russia Expects Israeli Threats Against Ayatollah Khamenei to Be Empty Words - Telesur English

Please be true, posted 2 min ago (lmao the humiliation)

“An informed source told Fars News: The ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump is completely false and was put forward with the aim of diverting public opinion from the recent humiliation of the United States in attacking its bases in the region.

🔸Noting that no official or unofficial proposal for a ceasefire has been received from Iran, this source emphasized: In response to this media atmosphere, the Islamic Republic of Iran will show the Zionist regime the falsehood of this claim in practice and on the ground in the coming hours.”

https://t.me/farsna/379101

I missed the boat, but I can't help but still respond to this comment by @[email protected] from the previous news mega:

he's an english literature graduate who decided to create a "new kind of history", based on asimov's psychohistory, after teaching a shallow as fuck course of "the entirety of human history" (lmao.) to some school age teenagers

People who understand neither history, nor psychology, nor mathematics, nor Asimov. SMDH.

(This actually semi includes Azimov himself, recursively, but that's okay because he was writing sci-fi and knew he was writing sci-fi.)

The Cradle - Suicide bomber open fire and blew themselves up inside Mar Elias, a Greek Orthodox Church, in Damascus

Israel launched this campaign against Iran with the goal of regime change and destroying Iran's nuclear program, and it has failed at both objectives. The ceasefire gives Iran time to sort out its internal security issues and intelligence failures and time to build up its air defense network. IMO Iran won here.

NSFW/L death

Pissreal blows up Palestinian carrying bag of flour.

Man I fucking hate how the US is such a fucking lame ass declining empire with a dumbass president and still has enough power to fuck millions of people over.

I think that, except for a miracle, the Palestinian people are done for. A slow genocide in front of the world, going unstopped.

My only hope is that "Israel" collapses into civil war first but even that is not a guarantee of Palestinian survival.

Only "Positive" of an Iranian ceasefire is that the focus will switch back to Palestine, for whatever little that's worth.

Comrades, I hate to say it but

Did trump just play 5D chess?

A bunker buster strike to appease the Israelis that didn’t bust any bunkers and an arranged counter strike that didn’t strike nothing and no war in the Middle East but the Israel lobby can’t complain?

If the above is true, and I don’t know right know if I believe it is, then this is a masterpiece of stringing thread through eyes of needles.

I watched Brian Berletic’s latest on Iran yesterday, I check in about once a month these days because he repeats the same things a lot. One thing he’s been talking about for a decade and which I haven’t seen mentioned here is the 2009 Brookings Institution analysis paper Which Path to Persia?, a pdf of which which can be downloaded for free from their website here

Brian goes over it in his videos on the subject, but it is definitely worth a look because it really does lay out the exact strategy the US has been following since 2009. Here's a link to his latest video that starts when he dives into the paper

here's a link to his 2012 article on this paper

Some quotes Brian touches on:

The most important point Brian drives home is this: Iran is one domino on the way towards China, and nothing is stopping the US from continuing down this path. Any talk of negotiations, not wanting war or escalation, etc is running cover for the next phase of US led, authorized, and planned escalation towards maintaining global hegemony.

Video that explains how Trump shitposts so fast

https://xcancel.com/Trump_Fact_News/status/1937494733409948046

I wondered what sort of shit I could find if I googled Trump "wartime president". I found this right away.

It was a flinty performance on the night he became a wartime president, although it came with flashes of vulnerability.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/06/22/donald-trump-speech-iran-attack/