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21 hours ago

Michael Tracey
@mtracey
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Steve Witkoff and Miriam Adelson embrace at last night's United Hatzalah of Israel gala, at which Witkoff declared a "nuclear Iran" an existential threat, and repeated his "no enrichment" ultimatum. Witkoff is supposed to be leading the next (final?) round negotiations on Sunday

World War Now:
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The United States has informed Israel that it will not participate in an attack on Iran – Axios

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Axios says the chances of success from a solo Israeli strike on Iran are 'limited'

This is because Israel doesn't have the B-2 or B-52 bombers needed to carry the massive bunker busters (MOABs) that would be able to destroy Iran's nuclear sites, meaning Israel will have to carry out multiple strikes on the same location.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Explosions heard & seen in Tehran (Iranian Capital)

Less than 5 minutes ago…

🚨🇮🇱🚀🇮🇷 BREAKING: Israel has struck Iran. Video shows dozens of plumes rising after heavy airstrikes against the Iranian capital city of Tehran

It has happened 🔮

🇮🇱🪖📣 Israeli senior officials say they are preparing for “days of battle” 🇮🇷

#URGENT

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🇮🇷❗️ — The homes of top Iranian political and military officials were targeted in Israeli strikes against Tehran, a senior Israeli political official told Pro-Opposition media Iran International, adding that the targets are not civilians.

https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/1933319604534730759?t=U7IXMWLlPDmkoCRJeN_qzQ&s=19

So the globalists have given their Israeli puppets the order to strike Iran. Have they given their Iranian puppets the order to retaliate? https://x.com/BradMiller1010/status/1933319061598834897

BREAKING: US stock market futures fall sharply after loud explosions are heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran.

Sirens are also now sounding across Israel. https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1933313883059691964

World War Now:
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israeli jets did NOT enter Tehran's airspace. The projectiles were launched from western Iran, along the Iran-Iraq border.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Initial reports- the Chief of Staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces was assassinated tonight in Tehran.

Disclose.tv:
JUST IN - Israel launches second wave of strikes on Iran.

@disclosetv

JUST IN - Iran reports IRGC headquarters in Tehran has been hit by Israel - Reuters

@disclosetv

JUST IN - Iranian state media confirms Revolutionary Guards chief Salami killed in Israeli strike — Reuters

@disclosetv

All the zio shills trying to exonerate trump. No this is on you and he is complicit.

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Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11
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Israel launches attack on Iran in defiance of Trump urgings https://x.com/Know_More_News/status/1933328502440538579

https://x.com/DPFanAccount/status/1933330790768685251

BREAKING: Israeli officials claim there is a "very high chance" that the entire Iranian general staff and several senior Iranian nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes tonight, per CNN.

BREAKING: Israel military says their operation is in coordination with the United States, contradicting Marco Rubio's claims that the U.S. is not involved. https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1933343654438973753

Tariffs weren’t enough to crash stocks, saving bonds.

Maybe war is. https://x.com/leadlagreport/status/1933322609992585485

If America hesitates to fight for Israel, I guarantee there will be a “terrorist attack” on US soil and ((they)) will say Iran did it. This is their playbook everytime. https://x.com/leonardaisfunE/status/1933333642769731858

We literally have THOUSANDS of AMERICAN troops in the region and not a single one of these scumbags has called for anyone to pray for them.

FUCK ALL OF THESE TRAITORS.

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Senator Katie Boyd Britt

@SenKatieBritt
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Please join me in praying for Israel. https://x.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1933338747132915772

Today the Knesset was supposed to vote for dissolving Netanyahu’s government; what a coincidence! https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1933322737574965450

BREAKING: Iran will reportedly declare war on Israel and retaliate "soon," per CNN

BREAKING NEWS
Reports coming out of Iran are that the first wave of attacks on the Iranian capital Tehran from Israel was launched from the territory of azerbaijan to catch Iran off guard https://x.com/Sea2Sea1Way/status/1933332984683507999 say what?

I suspect that John Bolton has already consulted with his doctor after his erection has lasted longer than four hours. https://x.com/macroaggressio3/status/1933342503618429334

I’m calling it now: a major false flag is incoming, designed to drag the U.S. into another war that benefits everyone but you.

Don’t fall for it! https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1933340153990308065

JP Morgan warns oil could spike to $130 if Iran conflict escalates, driving U.S. inflation back up to 5%.

We voted for mass deportations and world peace.

We are getting amnesty and world war 3.

If you don’t believe in Jewish power m, you don’t believe in reality. https://x.com/Uncommonsince76/status/1933328210483118373

With the smoke clearing the impact of the attack seems to have been modest in real terms, with only a few fires and secondaries caught on film and most of them small.

An Israeli attempt to decapitate the Iranian military leadership also appears to have largely failed, with only one reasonably confirmed senior casualty at this time - GEN Salami, commander of the IRGC since 2019. I've seen a report that he was quite ill and thus remained in his home unlike the rest of the Iranian senior leadership. Recall that Khamenei was taken to a secure location some time ago, so it's not like the Iranians didn't have warning or were complacent about getting into shelter.

Two or three people connected to the Iranian nuclear program also seem to have been assassinated, but in real terms this isn't going to affect a program that is already largely - if not entirely - complete. The Iranians don't need a lot of theory work at this point to develop a bomb if they don't already have one.

The most likely course of events over the next few days, I believe is for the Iranians to launch another large-scale missile raid on Israel and the parties to go back to staring angrily at each other.

Of note when evaluating reporting - nobody in Iran or Israel knows what an "arrival" actually sounds like. A lot of reports of explosions around various critical sites are likely sonic booms given the IRIAF is tearing holes in the sky looking for intruders at the moment. Similarly air defense missile launches were misreported as ballistics earlier tonight. Also recall that missile flares can be visible for hundreds of kilometers on clear nights in the Middle East, leading to single "packages" of missiles being reported as numerous separate strikes because people have little ability to judge the distance of lights in the sky. https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1933351655090663851

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Although I’m not an expert on the Middle East, it wasn’t particularly difficult to sense that something was about to happen.

Iran is a Middle Eastern version of Russia, which means that it is rotten from the inside. As a result, its actions are expected to be limited and weak. https://x.com/nikola_mikovic/status/1933414853345005574

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Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
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Israel can just now attack anywhere in Iran at will.

No apparent Iranian response at all.

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Financelot
@FinanceLancelot
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