Tehran has been bombed; University Street, home to a Military Intelligence base, has been struck.
Today is 9/11 in the Muslim calendar: the 11th of Ramadan, the 9th and holiest month.
US Marine guards at the American Consulate in Karachi opened fire on Shia protesters attempting to storm the compound, killing at least 12. Pakistani police and paramilitary Rangers were also present. The Sindh chief minister has ordered a probe into the deaths.
Shia communities in Kargil are mourning the death of their leader.
Imam Khamenei was not just a leader for Iran but seemingly for Muslims around the world. The Muslims of Kashmir took to the streets upon hearing news of Seyyed Khamenei’s martyrdom.
US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran
Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran Saturday morning, according to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and two US officials.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-attack-02-28-26-hnk-intl
Trump speech on Truth Social
Funnily does not mention Israel
Mentions Europe
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116147082884192486
The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshipers read the a specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor.
The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land.
The Torah/Bible advocates Genocide (1 Samuel 15:3)
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.ββ
Netanyahu advocated this passage against Palestinians too
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/articleshow/104802548.cms
Oh yes it is Purim and Norouz etc
No regime
Sanctions lifted
No nukes
No Hezbollah
No Hamas
No Houthis
A free & prosperous Iran –
I donβt believe in external regime change but the die is cast . Alea iacta est
UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi apparently hit.
Jordan too apparently.
Al Jazeera seems to have better coverage than even CNN
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/28/live-israel-launches-attacks-on-iran-multiple-explosions-heard-in-tehran
even Indian channels are more spicy.
even Indian channels are more spicy
Hopefully Iran realizes this is an existential war.
Either Iran loses badly and cannot recover for decades.
Or Iran has to decapitate Israel so that they will be hobbled for at least a decade. At the same time make other Mid East think twice about hosting US bases
More, later on consequences for US to have serious damage including loss of life.
I think this is going to be a military quagmire for the US.
Iran has already retaliated against various Gulf states.
The Islamic Republic will not go down without a fight. Nor should it. No self-respecting country can allow its territorial integrity to be violated.
I don’t think they are currently interested in a full scale ground invasion. They will carry out aerial bombardment hoping the Iranian government collapses ..
Iran’s retaliation against Gulf states has been a lot more severe than expected.
The Iranian government is not going to collapse. The Islamic Republic is a lot stronger than people think it is .
This was a completely unnecessary action taken by the US.
Khameini dead; turning the entire Iranian leadership into martyrs?
Ayatolah ji believed in his cause and died for it. RESPECT!
I feel like even if the Supreme Leader is “decapitated”, they can always pick a new one.
The entire system will not collapse.
Regime change is a lot harder than it seems. Iran is not Venezuela.
XTM another source says
NBC Interview with Iran Foreign Minister
Says all High Ranking officials are fine
https://web.facebook.com/reel/1561030865191934
CNN being cautious
Donald Trump said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a massive
US and Israeli attack, which the president said would continue with heavy bombing throughout the week.
Iran has claimed its leaders are βsafe and sound.β
From MoonOfAlabama
Iranβs leadership had moved to safe places and was not affected by the strikes. A missile destroyed the house of the former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has no role in the current government, and killed three of his guards. Several missiles, says Iran, have hit an elementary school in Minab, south Iran, and killed up to 60 children.
he is dead
My opinion Still not confirmed
Al Jazzera: 1:30 GMT
Iranian media affiliated with the IRGC and several top Iranian officials have all denied news reports of the supreme leaderβs death, calling them fake news.
It is important to note that there is a process in the Iranian constitution in the case of the death of the Supreme Leader.
Yes thatβs incomplete
Love you Kabir. Your thoughts on military strategy are what makes this forum so magnetic for me π
Oran will retaliate via Balochistan.
@XTM: Unnecessary and anti-Pakistan.
There is no need to bring Pakistan up on a thread about a very serious regional crisis.
I did a partial edit
I wonder what attacks on Dubai/Abu Dhabi does to Investor confidence. Will it continue to be a Financial Center
Or will Finance move to Singapore or Hong Komg
Various Claims going around
βAs a result of missile strikes on American bases, at least 200 US military personnel were killed and injured,β the Tasnim news agency reported Saturday, citing a statement by the IRGC.
https://www.rt.com/news/633217-iran-strikes-hundreds-american-soldiers/
The Iranian Red Crescent Society has said 201 people were killed in Iran in US-Israeli attacks. A spokesperson has told Mehr News Agency that the strikes have hit 24 of Iranβs provinces, injuring 747 people.
Between 17 and 20 female basketball players have been killed in a strike on a gymnasium in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd, the local governor has said, as cited by the Student News Network (SNN).
28 Feb, 2026 07:21
https://www.rt.com/news/633161-israel-iran-new-strikes/
MoonOfAlabama is German called Bernard. Generally well informed.
So far the exchange of strikes has run along its predictable course.
The U.S. and Israel launched stand-off cruise-missiles against political and military targets in Iran. The compound of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Defense, the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, the Parchin military complex were hit. Iranβs leadership had moved to safe places and was not affected by the strikes. A missile destroyed the house of the former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has no role in the current government, and killed three of his guards. Several missiles, says Iran, have hit an elementary school in Minab, south Iran, and killed up to 60 children.
Iran responded by attacking U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates with hundreds of drones and shorter range missiles. A long range U.S. radar in Qatar was hit as were U.S. Navy fuel depots in Bahrain. Several salvos of tens of medium range missiles were fired against U.S positions in Jordan as well as against Israel.
These first salvos with older, less accurate missiles are intended to draw out U.S. air-defenses and to entice them to expend their limited missiles supplies. There have been reports of several explosions in various places in the Middle East but it is too early to assess if these are the consequences of falling debris or real intended results.
The exchange of missile strikes is expected to continue over several days. the U.S. will try to eliminate Iranian missile launchers and production facilities. Iran will try to exhaust U.S. missile defenses to then launch its more precise and effective missiles against Israel and major U.S. (naval) targets. Iran already claims to have hit a U.S. supply ship.
But Iranβs main instrument in this war will be its control over the transport of 20% of the worldβs oil supplies.
It has just announced (15:30 UTC Β· Feb 28) the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By Monday fuel prices will (are expected) have gone through the roof.
From Oil Price
Murban Crude (Abu Dhabi) has jumped 4%
WTI and Brent crude have jumped approx 3% (24 hr delay in Prices)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-iran-a-war-of-aggressions-which-aims-that-can-not-be-achieved.html
Am Yisrael Chai π
NBC Interview with Iran Foreign Minister
Says all High Ranking officials are fine
https://web.facebook.com/reel/1561030865191934
Lots of photos in this Link
Unconfirmed videos: Are the Iranians trying to hit Burj Khalifa in Dubai?
https://www.brownpundits.com/2026/02/28/open-thread-israel-strikes-iran/#comments
XTM rejoicing death
Khameini dead; turning the entire Iranian leadership into martyrs?
I do want the regime changed but not in this manner; I hold the sanctity of life very high
You wanted US and Israel to do “regime change”
Please, Dont shed crocodile tears as to how it was done.
Confirmed Ayatollah dead
Iranian state media confirms the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US and Israelβs ongoing attacks on the country.
Iranian state media say Khameneiβs daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/28/live-israel-launches-attacks-on-iran-multiple-explosions-heard-in-tehran
That’s absolutely tragic. Especially the killings of the family members.
The Islamic Republic should just pick a new Supreme Leader.
They have layers of 4 apparently
I don’t think the Supreme Leader’s death is going to make anything better. This will just incentivize Iran to retaliate harder.
Stunned Dubai tourists watched retaliatory Iranian missile strikes get intercepted over a beach club. Videos shared on social media captured vacationers basking in the sun before noticing white clouds of smoke expanding across the sky after air defense systems collided with the missiles.
https://web.facebook.com/reel/864446716554123
Light stuff
Father and little daughter surfing
Note the the little girl has no safety flotation devices
https://web.facebook.com/reel/936371188916959
Some people wanted this
M,rtyrdom of 36 #female #students in the southern #Iranian province of #Hormozgan
https://web.facebook.com/reel/2791054904573027
“Ayatollah Khamenei’s assassination: A new chapter for Iran, a region at a crossroads”
By Baqir Sajjad Syed
https://www.dawn.com/news/1976910/ayatollah-khameneis-assassination-a-new-chapter-for-iran-a-region-at-a-crossroads
According to The Hindu Protests have broken out in Kashmir after the Supreme Leader’s assassination.
It is in Karachi that US marines have shot down Shias.
Pakistan – no country for Shias.
Where do you get “US Marines” from? This is misinformation (deliberate or otherwise).
It is Pakistani law enforcement that has dealt with threats to the US Consulate.
The Government of Pakistan is in a very difficult position. Obviously as an Islamic Republic (and the country with the second highest population of Shias in the world) people are very upset about the Supreme Leader’s assassination. Yet, GoP cannot allow the US Embassy or consulates to be attacked. No one is allowed to get near Islamabad’s red zone. That has always been a red line.
You complain about BB being ‘Pakistan fixated’, but on an Iran thread, your comments are spotlighting a ‘protest in Kashmir’ with zero fatalities, while a similar protest in Karachi where 9 protestors are dead, in your country of residence, and there’s silence from you.
Pot, Kettle…
I have repeatedly asked you to not respond to me.
This is not productive. Any neutral party would recognize that BB has a pattern of anti-Pakistan trolling. But of course, you and he are on the same team.
Feel free to talk to yourself.
I don’t disagree that BB gets suckered by your provocative comments into trolling. And I don’t think 2 wrongs make a right.
But you’re both trolling. He’s just more overt about it. And both of you are violating the pledge.
Ah yes! It’s my fault and poor BB is compelled to troll.
You are not a neutral party. You and him are both “team India”.
Please do not interact with me.
Iβm too distracted with whatβs going on in Iran to be actively moderating
Understandable.
I’ve asked RNJ to please desist from interacting with me.
I think this is best going forward.
“Absolutely Not”. You do not get to push your skewed agenda unchallenged.
My “skewed agenda”?
Your agenda is equally “skewed”. Look in a mirror sometime.
If you have any complaints about me, take them up with the admin. Do not address me.
If you want to play this game with me, I can pay you back in spades. I don’t concede ground to bullies.
sometimes I have a name, sometimes I’m admin π
I’m simply asking RNJ to not respond to me.
He’s free to complain about me to you if he deems it necessary.
This is an eminently reasonable request. I don’t want to get into a back and forth with someone who has been hostile to Pakistan and to me personally.
Glenn Greenwald on the death of Children in Iran
Greenwald is Jewish
I used to read his articles in Salon around 2007
US marines kill Pakistani Shias in Pakistani soil.
Let’s see what steps Pakistan takes.
@Kabir – Pakistanis cannot even protest in their own country without being killed by foreigners?
Let’s see Pakistan show its “sovereignty”.
Your obsession with Pakistan is very problematic. This thread is about Iran
@XTM: Please stop BB from derailing this thread about an important global crisis with his anti-Pakistan rhetoric.
The death of the Supreme Leader is a tragedy for Shias everywhere.
@XTM: This is relevant to the discussion
You put sovereignty in quotes. You are attempting to derail the thread by triggering Pakistanis.
This is not on.
I donβt think Khaemeini is to be mourned tbh
He was the spiritual leader of Shias everywhere. This is a very big deal for Muslims.
Please don’t forget Pakistan has the second highest population of Shias in the world.
He is the Supreme Leader of Iran; not the highest clergy in Shiβism
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is widely considered the highest-ranking and most influential spiritual authority (Marja’) for Twelver Shia Muslims worldwide, based in Najaf, Iraq. As the dean of the Hawza in Najaf, his influence spans across Iraq and globally, representing a traditional, non-political approach to leadership compared to the Iranian model.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
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He was beloved by Shias everywhere.
That’s just a fact.
Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.
Today the number may be zero.
Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloydβs of London picked up the phone.
War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage.
The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iranβs operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades.
None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloydβs syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai.
Sri Lankan Blogger
https://substack.com/@shanakaanslemperera/note/c-221239579
Looks like Trump and Netanyahu have made a serious strategic mistake.
Thinking that killing the Ayatollah and Iran senior leadership would make Iran capitulate.
Looks like that is not happening.
In fact Iran seem to to have turned up the attacks.
Also says they still have not started using the heavy artillery.
So looks like at least another 10 days of pummeling.
The big question is which is going to run short of ammunition
Netanyahu not making statements is very telling?
Indian commemorator on Irans Strategy
No idea who he is, saw on FB
https://web.facebook.com/reel/1430162665222866
Section 144 has been imposed in Sindh for one month. This means all protests are banned.
Pakistan cannot allow any threats to the US Embassy or consulates. This is absolutely not on.
Kabir you canβt just go on supporting the Pakistani government come what may. Then you are just crying wolf.
I have a right to be patriotic just as the Indians here have a right to be patriotic.
Yes but there is some interrogation
I don’t see any “interrogation”.
I see partisan defenses of India–which apparently don’t bother you.
I see partisan defenses of Indiaβwhich apparently donβt bother you.
More on the reasons later.
Short Answer: Israeli Jews are looking to find new places to settle. India being one.
there is no need to get animated on this. I prefaced that my attention was occupied elsewhere
Admin Note: Stop now
Stopping, stoppingβ¦
Al the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men are not going to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
That is Israel and the Mid East will not be the same again for a long time.
Civil War in Iran I think.
Many Mossad embedded in Iranian Security Forces,
I would guess Iranians belonging to a cult
Civil war?
When the war is over, maybe civil war in Iran.
Anyway there is not going to be much left in Iran, specially Tehran.
Plenty killed including about 200 girls in a school.
Your hero the carpetbagger wannabe Monarch
https://web.facebook.com/reel/949821250940320
Iran is the only Sovereign Country in Mid East that does not have US Bases and US Troops.
Iranian and Iranian Descent Traitors would like a Dictator installed in Iran. They would call the Dictator a Shah of Iran, a Monarch. The Pahlavi Dynasty were Dictators and Puppets of the US. Allowed the US and UK to control and sell the Oil. Just like what happened to Venezuela after Maduro was captured by the US
persians being master traders will make a deal. but if they act like ‘ muslim’ and ‘shia’ they will be drowned.
they have had two ceasefires in the past, which have been broken against them.
but if they act like β muslimβ and βshiaβ they will be drowned.
That seems very Islamophobic
Definitely Islamophobic. Also specifically anti-Shia.
i) american planes are falling in kuwait. who is hitting them? were these being flown by americans?
ii) india and china will be seeing closely as to how the drama in strait of hormuz pans out. there will be lessons for strait of malacca.
iii) it is not sure if sunnis are also protesting in india and else where?!!
Bahrain, Pakistan | I donβt think itβs sectarian per se?
Good point on Strait of Malacca
based on hegseth’s speech, looks like ‘murica does not have the stomach to continue this too long. however israel will be allowed to continue for some more time.
The Straits do need to reopen. What was the point of this exercise except to make Khaemeini a martyr?
The “point of this exercise” was regime change in Iran. Which I don’t think is going to happen.
The assassination of the head of state of a sovereign nation sets a very dangerous precedent. What’s to stop anyone from taking out Bibi Netanyahu?
presumably his security and the fact that Mossad isn’t a leaky ship?
It’s all about who has the power and can get away with it.
It’s very dangerous to get rid of all international law.
edited to avoid hyperbole
The point was that now surely all countries are entitled to remove leaders they don’t like.
Either international law exists or it doesn’t.
well presumably it doesn’t in the Trumpian era?
So if it doesn’t than every single country has the right to take out any leaders that they don’t like.
It’s just a matter of who can get away with it.
That seems the case right?
From many accounts including below, Khameni was not in hiding in some underground bunker.
Khamenei had cojones and was ready to be a martyr. It seems to have rallied the country around the regime.
Like I said sometime back Khameni’s replacement could be more hardline. i.e. Be willing to get a Nuclear Bomb.
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Before the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on Saturday morning and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the CIA assessed that if the Iranian leader were killed, his rule would likely be replaced by “hardline” figures from Iranβs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters has reported.
The New York Times reported that the CIA had been tracking Khamenei for months and knew that he would be at his compound in Tehran meeting senior Iranian officials on Saturday morning, where he was hit by a joint US-Israeli strike.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-khamenei-replacement-will-likely-be-more-hardline
well obviously Khamenei was sincere in his beliefs; that’s why he’s Supreme Leader
Hardly a month since sbarrkum was waxing eloquent about how Iranians have disabled GPS and denied Israelis and Americans the ability to precision bomb Iran. I guess Doland personally decided to prove to sbarrkum personally that’s not how things work.
This is uncalled for and a low-signal comment.
The constant bullying of me and sbarrkum on this forum is getting very tiresome.
Obviously most commenters here are Indian nationalists and thus inherently opposed to Pakistani and Sri Lankan nationalists. But there is no need for personal trolling.
what was offensive about this comment. Kabir you are overstepping.
This was an excellent comment by Naam de guerre.
Because you disagree with something, it doesn’t make it low signal. It doesn’t work that way.
Do you really not see that this comment was personally targeting sbarrkum? This is bullying.
I’m not going to stand for anyone personally targeting me in that way. I know my worth and I do not tolerate disrespect. In real life, people who disrespect me very quickly learn never to do that again.
It’s not about “disagreeing”. That’s fine. But personal disrespect is not on.
this feels histrionic tbh
The comment unnecessarily singled out sbarrkum.
There is a larger pattern of people here being anti sbarrkum and anti me because we are not Indian nationalists.
Sbarrkum can defend himself. But I will certainly not tolerate disrespect towards me.
that’s fine; I think the Blog is pretty well balanced. I gave sbarrkum Author privileges even though he is the only one of the four who refused to “pledge.”
So I think the Blog is very well-balanced, no need to cry wolf constantly imho
I don’t think it’s “crying wolf” to note that there is a pattern of bullying and personal disrespect that I have experienced.
I do not and will never put up with people getting personal with me.
Yes and we actively deal with that?
Kabir,
No sweat by me. The Americans and Israeli have made bigger intelligence mistakes than little me. i.e expecting the Iran regime to collapse with murder of Khamenei.
Israel, US and the Gulf are paying a huge price for that mistake.
I am twiddling my thumbs waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing (maybe longer than Trumps months, or shorter if the US runs out of missiles)
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According to an unconfirmed report from Israelβs Ynet, after killing Khamenei, President Trump sought a ceasefire, but the idea was rejected by Iran.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-khamenei-replacement-will-likely-be-more-hardline
yes I don’t understand the strategy
Hardly a month since sbarrkum was waxing eloquent about how Iranians have disabled GPS and denied Israelis and Americans
No sweat we all make mistakes. eg the Americans and Israelis with far better Intelligence thought the Iranian Govt would collapse by taking out the Ayatollah
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Now lets see how the Gulf states are going to fare with oil shipments as the Strait of Hormuz is blocked.
Sri Lanka is already have fuel shortages (hoarding).
Maybe we will see USD 100/barrel oil. And its only 4 days into the war.
exact; this is putting incredible pressure on the world rn
No sweat we all make mistakes.
Couldn’t agree more but it wasn’t an honest mistake, now was it? You were hostile to my simple request of explaining your statement.
I chose a slightly acerbic tone this time for a reason though. Your previous comments that I alluded to did not exhibit good faith. You strongly implied expert level knowledge without having a clue what you were talking about and to compound the problem, you chose to do it in the most boorish manner possible.
I have no interest in scoring brownie points here – just wanted to hold a mirror to your own bigotry against India and Indians. It may have been a little more acceptable if you were at least right.
You took an extremely nasty tone with Sbarrkum. “Slightly acerbic” is quite an understatement.
We all have our own biases. But the default “bias” on this forum is pro-India. The reason Sbarrkum and I are bullied and attacked is because we refuse to be pro-India.
This is getting extremely tiresome now.
Are you Indosaurus under a new name?
and denied Israelis and Americans the ability to precision bomb Iran
So by your logic the Israel and Americans were able to use GPS and precision bomb a girls school and kill about 200 girls.
I guess you are GLAD little Muslim girls were killed by your American and Israeli heroes. We saw how servile Modi was to the Israelis
to hold a mirror to your own bigotry against India and Indians.
What I see is Bigotry of India and Indians towards Muslims
An ad hominem attack isn’t the slam dunk response you think it is. I guess your English comprehension isn’t quite up to scratch – read again what I wrote, I am fully against any kinetic aggression against Iran.
please both sides (NDG & Sbarr); calm it down now.
“I guess your English comprehension isn’t quite up to scratch”– Let’s not go down that road again. This should apply to everyone–including me.
In general, people should be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
This is…….ironic. π
More like aspirational.
Look in a mirror. Perhaps introspect.
I’m only hostile to you because you have repeatedly been hostile to me.
I do not put up with disrespect.
disabled GPS and denied Israelis and Americans the ability to precision bomb Iran
I forgot to add, Precision Bombed a girls school and killed some 200 in a girls school. Well done US and Israel.
this was extremely terrible and tragic.
Bad intelligence and capability denial are two very different things. I wanted to call out your understanding (lack thereof) of how precision guidance and GPS works.
The Israelis either had bad intelligence or it was an equipment failure because so far they have largely limited their attacks to military and regime assets.
Before you or Kabir come at me for being anti-Muslim, Zionist etc. (notwithstanding my personal dislike of the Islamic regime in Iran in, I whole heartedly condemn this attack on Iran. Two wrongs do not make a right. I hope this illegal aggression is accounted for but unfortunately we know that’s not how this world works.
failure because so far they have largely limited their attacks to military and regime assets.
One of the first attacks were on the MUSLIM girls school that killed around 200.
Even the Murder of Ali Khameni was not some wonder of intelligence. He was in his home, not in a bunker and was in his prayers.
Now Ali Khamenis is a martyr and the country has rallied around his death. And the whole Gulf and Israel is in flames.
Long Read (Author Yves Smith is Jewish and former Financial Analyst on Wall Street).
Two things that really stood out
a) Another potentially complicating factor for Riyadh is that Saudi oil workers are Shia. What if there is a fatwa and the Shia are told not to turn up at work? Or alternatively, they go passive aggressive and make the repairs slowly and badly? *
b) Getting confirmation from Bahrain that every building in the US Navy 5th fleet (near Manama) has been destroyed.
This is the single most significant defeat for the United States in its entire history.
Almost all the oil in Mid East is in Shia Territory, even in Saudi, Bahrain is Shia majority ruled by Sunni (like Iraq was, until the US eliminated and handed it to the Shia. I have map and article somewhere, will post when I find it
Time for my afternoon Nap
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-widens-as-iran-attacks-saudi-oil-infrastructure-israel-and-hezbollah-exchange-strikes.html
u’ve got me digging up from my old archives.
apparently shias are demonstrating in most big cities of india. not sure if sunnys are also involved. apart from iranian issue, it appears that shias are doing this in numbers to be counted and as a show of strength to the sunnys.
Think itβs not just Shias who are upset?
Iran hitting AWS data centre in Dubai is a new to warfare.
In a wargame few years ago, pak strategists had targeted Bangaluru’s IT hub.
Now that India is getting large datacenters, these are sure to be targets.
but that’s deep in India..
“Playing with Iranian blood, using Kurds as boots–for what?”
By Ezgi Basaran
https://www.angleanchorvoice.co.uk/p/playing-with-iranian-blood-using