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Man that guy got no support base in Iran. He's sitting with those same Zios who are killing Iranians.
I would not even compare him to Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

At least she does not hold press conferences and give interviews in an enemy state.

And she has the balls to come back to the motherland and engage with the local population.

You guys may have your politics and reservations about the family.

But give them that much credit.

In the UK they stay quiet and keep to themselves.
 
Had India had dominant Ch****as, India would have been an another Pakistan and not the fastest growing economy. Do not draw false excellence.

Economic growth has nothing to do with how chtya a large section of the population is. They could still be good at what they do. Be hardworking. And eventually size and momentum does the rest. That does not make them any less of chtyas in real life. It just makes them technically proficient hardworking chtyas.
 
Dunia ki markets crash ho jaani aen, saari

Iran tel ki bikri band kar sakta hai, but that'll be very last resort

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Trump bikau aadmi nikla, yahuddon ke tattay chatne ka expert only

looking more and more hopeless for our planet every day

sabki maa chud gai hai, wait karo ab aaram se for your unwanted step brother

I'd glass this entire rock if I could, this 3rd rock from sun.. humanity failed

wait karo, burn your karmas for another million? years when our fusss sun goes supernova.. it might not even go supernova.. aiveen neutron type spinning mass of energy ban jayega. fuss.

para high ho jata iss dunia ki soch ke, kasam se bc
 

Iran fires missiles toward US military bases in Qatar and Iraq

REUTERS
Published :
Jun 23, 2025 23:30
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 23:58

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Iran's military said on Monday it had carried out a "devastating and powerful" missile attack on the Al Udeid US airbase in Qatar, after explosions were heard across the Qatari capital following Tehran's threat to retaliate for US airstrikes.

Iran had issued threats to retaliate against the United States after US bombers dropped 30,000-pound bunker-busters on Iranian underground nuclear sites at the weekend, joining Israel's air war against Tehran, and President Donald Trump mooted the possibility of the Iranian government being toppled.

Qatar's defence minister, quoted by Al Jazeera TV, said its air defences had intercepted missiles directed at the Al Udeid airbase, the largest US military installation in the Middle East, situated across the Gulf from Iran.

Qatari authorities said there were no casualties in the attack, which it condemned and said it reserved the right to respond.

The attack came shortly after a Western diplomat told Reuters there had been a credible threat to a US military base in the Gulf state following the US airstrikes on Iran.

In addition, the US Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq had activated its air defence system out of concern of a potential attack, military sources told Reuters.

The White House and the Defence Department are closely monitoring potential threats to the Al Udeid airbase, a senior White House official said in Washington on Monday.

Shortly before, Qatar, a small, wealthy Gulf Arab state, announced it had closed its air space temporarily to ensure the safety of residents and visitors. That followed an advisory from the US embassy in Qatar to Americans to shelter in place, out of what it said was "an abundance of caution".

Two US officials said Washington had assessed that Iran could carry out attacks targeting American forces in the Middle East soon, although the US was still seeking a diplomatic resolution that would see Tehran forgo any reprisal.

Earlier on Monday, Israel bombed a jail for political prisoners in Tehran in a potent demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim squarely at the pillars of Iran's ruling system.

Despite Iran's threats to challenge oil shipments from the Gulf, oil prices largely held steady LCOc1, suggesting traders doubted the Islamic Republic would follow through on any action that would disrupt global supplies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as Tehran sought backing from one of its last major power friends for its next steps.​
 

Iran issues warning to 'gambler' Trump: We will end this war

REUTERS
Published :
Jun 23, 2025 15:41
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 15:41

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People attend a protest against the U.S attack on nuclear sites, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran, Iran, June 22, 2025. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iran said on Monday that the U.S. attack on its nuclear sites expanded the range of legitimate targets for its armed forces and called U.S. President Donald Trump a "gambler" for joining Israel's military campaign against the Islamic Republic.

Since Trump joined Israel's campaign by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday morning, Iran has repeatedly threatened to retaliate.

But while it has continued to fire missiles at Israel, it has yet to take action against the United States itself, either by firing at U.S. bases or by targeting the 20% of global oil shipments that pass near its coast at the mouth of the Gulf.

"Mr Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it," Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters, said on Monday in English at the end of a recorded video statement.

Iran and Israel traded another wave of air and missile strikes on Monday as the world braced for Tehran's response.

Trump's administration has repeatedly said that its aim is solely to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, not to open a wider war.

But in a social media post on Sunday, Trump openly spoke of toppling the hardline clerical rulers who have been Washington's principal foes in the Middle East since Iran's 1979 revolution.

"It’s not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change,' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!" he wrote.

Experts surveying commercial satellite imagery said it appeared that the U.S. attack had severely damaged the site of Iran's Fordow nuclear plant, built inside a mountain, and possibly destroyed it and the uranium-enriching centrifuges it housed, although there was no independent confirmation.

Trump called the strike a "Bullseye!!!".

"Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran," he wrote. "The biggest damage took place far below ground level."

MORE ISRAELI STRIKES

Israel's airstrikes on Iran have met little resistance from Iranian defences since Israel launched its surprise attack on June 13, killing many of Iran's top commanders.

The Israeli military said on Monday that about 20 jets had conducted a wave of strikes against military targets in western Iran and Tehran overnight. ⁠In Kermanshah, in western Iran, missile and radar infrastructure was targeted, and in Tehran a surface-to-air missile launcher was struck, it said.

Iranian news agencies reported air defences had been activated in central Tehran districts, and Israeli air strikes had hit Parchin, the location of a military complex southeast of the capital.

Iran says more than 400 people have been killed in the Israeli attacks, mostly civilians, but has released few images of the damage since the initial days of the bombing. Tehran, a city of 10 million people, has largely emptied, with residents fleeing to the countryside to escape attacks.

Iran's retaliatory missile strikes on Israel have killed 24 people, all civilians, and injured hundreds, the first time a significant number of Iranian missiles have ever penetrated Israeli defences.

The Israeli military said a missile launched from Iran in the early hours of Monday had been intercepted by Israeli defences. Air raid sirens blared overnight in Tel Aviv and other parts of central Israel.

LIMITED RETALIATION

Beyond those missiles, Iran's ability to retaliate is far more limited than a few months ago, since Israel inflicted defeat on Iran's most feared regional proxy force, Hezbollah in Lebanon, whose downfall was swiftly followed by that of Iran's most powerful client ruler, Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Iran's most effective threat to hurt the West would probably be to restrict global oil flows from the Gulf. Oil prices spiked on Monday at their highest since January. But they have not yet shot up to crisis levels, indicating that traders see a path out of the conflict that avoids serious disruption.

Brent crude futures were down 0.5% to $76.64 a barrel as of 0830 GMT, after briefly jumping above $80 at the opening.

Iran's parliament has approved a move to close the Strait of Hormuz that leads into the Gulf, which would require approval from the Supreme National Security Council, a body led by an appointee of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Attempting to strangle the strait could send global oil prices skyrocketing, derail the world economy and invite conflict with the U.S. Navy's massive Fifth Fleet that patrols the Gulf from its base in Bahrain.

"It's economic suicide for them if they do it. And we retain options to deal with that," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

As Tehran weighed its options, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday. The Kremlin has a strategic partnership with Iran, but also close links with Israel.

Speaking in Istanbul on Sunday, Araqchi said his country would consider all possible responses and there would be no return to diplomacy until it had retaliated. TASS news agency later quoted him as saying Iran and Russia were coordinating their positions.
 

Israeli strikes on Iran may have violated international law, UN mission says

REUTERS
Published :
JUN 23, 2025 21:19
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 21:19

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Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2025. Photo : Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/ Files

A fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations said on Monday that some of Israel's strikes on Iran may have broken international humanitarian law, citing the killing of civilians in an apartment block and three aid workers in the capital Tehran.

"Among those killed in Tehran were dozens of residents of an apartment complex and three humanitarian workers from the Iranian Red Cross, while damaged sites included a clinic for children with autism and a hospital in Kermanshah," the investigative body said in a statement to journalists.

"This, and the reported lack of effective advance warning by Israel, which may affect the population’s ability to reach safety, raise serious concerns in relation to the principles of proportionality, distinction, and precaution under international humanitarian law."​
 

Succession plans for Iran's Khamenei hit top gear

REUTERS
Published :
Jun 23, 2025 20:58
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 20:58

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo

The clock's ticking for senior clerics seeking a successor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A three-man committee from a top clerical body, appointed by Khamenei himself two years ago to identify his replacement, has accelerated its planning in recent days since Israel attacked Iran and threatened to assassinate the veteran leader, five insiders with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

Khamenei, 86, is being regularly briefed on the talks, according to the Iranian sources who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive matters. He has gone into hiding with his family and is being guarded by the Vali-ye Amr special forces unit of the Revolutionary Guards, a top security official said.

The ruling establishment will immediately seek to name a successor to Khamenei if he is killed, to signal stability and continuity, according to the sources who acknowledged that predicting Iran's subsequent political trajectory was difficult.

A new leader will still be chosen for his devotion to the revolutionary precepts of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, according to one insider, who is close to Khamenei's office and privy to succession discussions.

At the same time, the top echelon of power is also considering which candidate might present a more moderate face to ward off foreign attacks and internal revolts, the person said.

Two frontrunners have emerged in the succession discussions, the five insiders said: Khamenei's 56-year-old son Mojtaba, long seen as a continuity choice, and a new contender, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the father of the Islamic revolution.

Khomeini, a close ally of the reformist faction that favours the easing of social and political restrictions, nonetheless commands respect among senior clerics and the Revolutionary Guards because of his lineage, the sources added.

"I once again humbly express that this small and insignificant servant of the Iranian people stands ready to proudly be present on any front or scene you deem necessary," the 53-year-old said in a public message of support to the supreme leader on Saturday, hours before the U.S. bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.

Khomeini has come into the frame as a serious candidate this month amid the conflict with Israel and America because he could represent a more conciliatory choice internationally and domestically than Mojtaba Khamenei, the five people said.

By contrast, Khamenei hews closely to his father's hardline policies, according to the insiders who cautioned that nothing had been determined, candidates could change and the supreme leader would have the final say.

However, with the military conflict continuing, it remains unclear whether any new leader could be chosen easily or installed securely or if he could assume the level of authority enjoyed by Khamenei, they added.

Israeli strikes have also killed several of Iran's top Revolutionary Guards commanders, potentially complicating a handover of power as the elite military force has long played a central role in enforcing the supreme leader's rule.

Khamenei's office and the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body from which the succession committee was drawn, were not available to comment.

TRUMP: KHAMENEI IS EASY TARGET

Planning for an eventual handover was already in the works because of Khamenei's age and the longstanding health concerns of a leader who has dominated all aspects of Iranian politics for decades, the sources said.

The urgency of the task was underlined in September when Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a close ally of Khamenei's, and the planning accelerated significantly this month following the Israeli attacks on nuclear sites, which were followed by the American attacks at the weekend.

"We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding," U.S. President Trump warned on social media last week, calling for Tehran's unconditional surrender. "He is an easy target."

Khamenei hasn't publicly expressed any preference for his successor. The sources said he had repeatedly opposed the idea of his son taking over, in succession discussions in the past, concerned about any suggestion of Iran returning to the kind of hereditary rule that ended with the ousting of the shah in 1979.

The role of Supreme Leader was created after the revolution and then enshrined in the constitution, giving a top cleric ultimate authority in guiding the elected president and parliament.

Officially, the leader is named by the Assembly of Experts, made up of 88 senior clerics who are chosen through a national election in which a hardline watchdog body aligned with Khamenei must approve all the candidates.

"Whether the Islamic Republic survives or not, it will be a very different one, because the context in which it has existed has fundamentally changed," said London-based Iranian political analyst Hossein Rassam, adding that Hassan Khomeini could fit the bill for a leader to take Iran in a new direction.

"The regime has to opt for someone who'll facilitate slow transition."

Hassan Khomeini's close links to the reformist faction of Iranian politics, which pursued an ultimately unsuccessful policy of opening Iran to the outside world in the 1990s, saw hardline officials bar him from running as a member of senior clerical body the Assembly of Experts in 2016.

The succession planners are aware that Khomeini is likely to be more palatable to the Iranian population than a hardliner, the five insiders said. Last year, he warned of a "crisis of rising popular dissatisfaction" among Iranians due to poverty and deprivation.

By contrast, Mojtaba Khamenei's views echo those of his father on every major topic from cracking down on opponents to taking a hardline with foreign foes, the sources said - qualities they saw as hazardous with Iran under attack.

A mid-ranking cleric who teaches theology at a religious seminary in the city Qom, the centre of Iranian religious life, Mojtaba has never held a formal position the Islamic Republic, though exercises influence behind the scenes as the gatekeeper to his father, according to Iran watchers.

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Mojtaba in 2019, saying he represented the Supreme Leader in "an official capacity despite never being elected or appointed to a government position" aside from working his father's office.

OTHER CANDIDATES FALL AWAY

Several of the candidates long seen as possible successors to Khamenei have already died.

Former presidents Hashemi Rafsanjani passed away in 2017, former judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi died of natural causes in 2018 and former President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in 2024. Another senior cleric Sadegh Amoli Larijani, has been sidelined.

Others, such as the Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, are still in contention but have fallen behind Mojtaba Khamenei and Hassan Khomeini, the five sources said.

Beyond the most likely candidates, it's also possible that a less prominent cleric could be chosen as a pawn of Revolutionary Guards, said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group think-tank.

"It is possible that they would put forward a candidate that no one has ever heard of and would not really hold the same levers of power that Ayatollah Khamenei has held now for more than 30 years," he said.

The supreme leader's voice is powerful.

After the death of the Islamic Republic's founder Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei was publicly hailed as his predecessor's choice. Although he had already served as president, Khamenei was only a mid-ranking cleric and was initially dismissed by influential clerics as weak and an unlikely successor to his charismatic predecessor.

However, he steadily tightened his grip to become Iran's unquestioned decision-maker, relying on the Revolutionary Guards as he outmanoeuvred rivals and crushed bouts of popular unrest.
 

EU finds ‘indications’ Israel is breaching key agreement with its actions in Gaza

REUTERS
Published :
Jun 23, 2025 21:34
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 21:34

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People attend a protest in support of Palestinians outside a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, June 23, 2025. Photo : AP/Virginia Mayo

The European Union says there are ″indications″ that Israel’s actions in Gaza are violating human rights obligations in the agreement governing its ties with the EU, according to its findings seen by The Associated Press.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas presented the review to foreign ministers of the 27-member bloc in Brussels on Monday, leading at least one country to openly propose suspending the agreement.

“There are indications that Israel would be in breach of its human rights obligations under Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement,” according to the review by the EU’s diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service.

Suspending ties would require a unanimous decision, which is likely impossible to obtain from countries like Austria, Germany and Hungary that tend to back Israel.

Other actions — such as ending visa-free travel to Europe for Israelis, sanctioning Israeli settlers in the West Bank or halting academic partnerships — could be pushed if a “qualified majority” — 15 of the 27 nations representing at least 65 per cent of the population of the EU — agree.

Countries like the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain have been vocal in their support for the Palestinians in Gaza as Israel battles Hamas.

“When all the focus is on Iran and the escalation regarding Iran, we should not forget about Gaza,” said Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp, who led the charge for the review.

Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 251 hostages. About 56,000 Palestinians have since been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, and little relatively aid has entered since Israel ended the latest ceasefire in March.

Outrage over Israel’s actions in Gaza has grown in Europe as images of suffering Palestinians have driven protests in London, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid and Amsterdam.

Spain has canceled arms deals with Israel and called for an arms embargo.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno on Monday called for suspending the EU-Israel agreement.

“The time for words and declarations is behind. We had enough time,” he told the meeting. “And at the same time, Palestinians in Gaza have no more time to lose. Every day, babies, women, men are being killed. This is the time for action.”

Manuel Albares also called for an embargo on EU countries selling weapons to Israel and for the widening of individual sanctions on anyone undermining the proposed two-state solution.

“Europe must show courage,” he told journalists.​
 

Iran's Crown Prince offers to lead a 'democratic transition'

REUTERS
Published :
Jun 23, 2025 18:01
Updated :
Jun 23, 2025 18:01

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Reza Pahlavi in Paris, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has been speaking in Paris.

Iran's last shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled in 1979 as the revolution took hold and died in Egypt in 1980.

His son, Reza Pahlavi, was heir to the Peacock Throne when the dynasty was ousted.

Now based in the United States, he has called for regime change through non-violent civil disobedience and a referendum on a new government.

"I am here today to submit myself to my compatriots, to lead them down this road of peace and democratic transition. I do not seek political power, but rather to help our great nation navigate through this critical hour towards stability, freedom and justice," he said.

"To those of you who are loyal to the Iranian nation and not the Islamic Republic, there is a future for you in a democratic Iran. If you join the people now. The choice is yours to make."​
 

Where is Iran’s uranium? Questions abound after US strikes

AFP Vienna
Published: 23 Jun 2025, 22: 27

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This handout satellite picture taken on June 20 provided by Maxar Technologies on 22 June 2025, shows an overview of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom AFP

After President Donald Trump bragged US strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, officials cautioned it was still too soon to assess the impact on the country’s nuclear programme.

Many questions remain after Sunday’s strikes, especially about the whereabouts of Iran’s sensitive stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent -a short step from the 90 per cent required for a nuclear weapon.

Where is Iran’s enriched uranium?

The US attacks, carried out by B-2 stealth bombers, targeted three Iranian nuclear sites: Isfahan and Iran’s main enrichment plants in Fordo and Natanz.

While significant damage has been reported, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced concern about Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium.

Tehran has an estimated 408.6 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to 60 per cent, according to the UN nuclear watchdog, whose inspectors last saw that stockpile on June 10.

That material, if further refined, would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs.

IAEA head Rafael Grossi on Monday demanded access to Iran’s nuclear sites, saying the agency needs to “account for” the uranium stockpile.

Concerns about the fate of the sensitive stockpile have loomed large. On June 13, the day Israel began its Iran offensive, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to the IAEA, announcing the implementation of “special measures to protect nuclear equipment and material”.

Days before the US attacked, satellite imagery showed vehicles near Fordo’s entrance.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had “interesting intelligence” on the matter, declining to elaborate.

Israel announced Monday it had carried out strikes to block access routes to Fordo.

“It will be difficult if not impossible to track down all of Iran’s 60 per cent enriched uranium, stored in small canisters that are easily transportable by car,” Kelsey Davenport, an expert with the Arms Control Association, told AFP.

“They (Iranians) no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium, and that was really the goal there,” US Vice President JD Vance told ABC News.

He added the Trump administration would deal with the uranium “in the coming weeks”.

Can Iran still make a nuclear bomb?

Analysts have been treading carefully when addressing this issue.

Before the attacks, Iran had about 22,000 centrifuges -the machines used to enrich uranium. Many of them were damaged when Natanz was hit, the IAEA head said.

Grossi also said “very significant damage” is expected to have occurred at Fordo, “given the explosive payload utilised and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges”.

Experts however say that it is unclear how many centrifuges Iran has, with some of them believed to be stored at unknown locations.

With “60 per cent enriched uranium and a few hundred advanced centrifuges, Iran still has the capability to weaponise, and now there is more political impetus to dash for a bomb”, said Davenport.

What are the proliferation risks?

Before the conflict, the IAEA said it had “no indication” of the existence of a “systematic programme” in Iran to produce a nuclear weapon. But without access to nuclear sites, the agency no longer has oversight.

Grossi warned Monday that the “global non-proliferation regime that has underpinned international security... could crumble and fall”, urging parties to return to diplomacy.

Iran ratified the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) in 1970, committing it to declare its nuclear material to the IAEA. But it has recently begun preparing the grounds for a possible withdrawal from the treaty, accusing the agency of acting as a “partner” in Israel’s “war of aggression”.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, said Monday the “unlawful act of aggression” by the United States had “delivered a fundamental and irreparable blow” to the non-proliferation regime.

“I do think there is a major risk that Iran withdraws from the NPT and expels inspectors, or simply does not provide them with access to key sites,” said Eric Brewer of the US research institute Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

He added that Iran could also “over time, build (a) covert” programme like North Korea, which withdrew from the NPT in 2003 and went on to become a nuclear-armed power.​
 
Out of 14 older Ghader missiles launched by Iran, 6 have totally demolished their targets just like in Tel Aviv/ Haifa/ Ashdod/ Ashkelon.

Gypsy people runnin round helter skelter felt the guttural thudds from the earth when the vibrations reached em.

6 solid impacts!

Now what 6 places has Iraans fukkin destroyed in AL-Gutter?

Iraan coulda launched a hundred.......but dis is symbolic only......just to scare da gypsy no?

@Vsdoc ...........luggta hae k ye ab rozana karna parray ga.......US involves itself.......Iraans goin go after dem colludz gypsy now no?.......

eeeejy peeeejy trade off........
 

Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar in retaliation for strikes
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 23 June, 2025, 23:32

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A general view of the Al-Udeid US military air base, south of Doha, on October 23, 2002. | AFP photo

Iran announced it had launched missiles at a major US base in Qatar on Monday in retaliation for American strikes on key nuclear facilities, with explosions ringing out in Doha and projectiles seen streaking overhead.

Qatar, which lies 190 kilometres (120 miles) south of Iran and is home to the largest US military facility in the Middle East, said its ‘air defences successfully intercepted a missile attack targeting Al Udeid Air Base’.

Iran’s National Security Council confirmed having targeted the base ‘in response to the US aggressive and insolent action against Iran’s nuclear sites and facilities’.

In its statement, the council said the number of missiles used ‘was the same as the number of bombs that the US had used’, in a signal that it had calibrated its response to be directly proportional.

After more than a week of Israeli strikes on nuclear and military targets across Iran, the United States joined its ally’s campaign on Sunday, carrying out attacks on three key Iranian nuclear facilities, including on an underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo using massive bunker-busting bombs.

With international concern mounting that Israel’s campaign in Iran could lead to regional spillover – concern that only intensified after the US strikes – French President Emmanuel Macron said after the Iranian retaliation that ‘the spiral of chaos must end’.

Iran’s security council maintained that its ‘action does not pose any threat to our friendly and brotherly country, Qatar’.

But Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said his country ‘reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportional to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression’.

Its much larger neighbour Saudi Arabia, historically a rival of Iran, condemned Tehran’s attack ‘in the strongest terms’, and offered ‘all its capabilities to support the sisterly State of Qatar in any measures it takes’.

AFP reporters heard blasts in central Doha and in Lusail, north of the capital, on Monday evening, and saw projectiles moving across the night sky.

A US defence official said Al Udeid was ‘attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran’, adding there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Ansari said the base had been evacuated as a precaution ahead of time.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said six missiles had hit the base, according to state media.

Iranian official press agency IRNA had reported that missiles were also launched at a US base in Iraq, though the National Security Council made no mention of Iraq in its statement.

Iraqi security and military sources told AFP that Iran had not attacked US bases there ‘so far’.

Earlier in the day Qatar had announced the temporary closure of its airspace in light of ‘developments in the region’, while foreign embassies there including that of the United States had warned their citizens to shelter in place.

Neighbouring Bahrain and Kuwait also temporarily halted air traffic in the wake of the missile attack.

President Donald Trump boasted that Sunday’s strikes had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to assess the impact on Iran’s atomic programme.

Tehran strikes

Just as Iran was announcing the new attacks, blasts were heard in the north of Tehran, according to an AFP journalist, who reported yellow flashes typical of Iranian air defences in the sky over the capital shortly before 9:00 pm (1730 GMT).

Earlier in the day Israel reported carrying out what it said were its most powerful strikes yet on Tehran.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military hit sites in Tehran including Evin prison, which Katz said ‘holds political prisoners and regime opponents’, as well as command centres for the domestic Basij paramilitary and the Revolutionary Guards.

Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel also struck Fordo on Monday ‘in order to obstruct access routes’ to the site.

Israel’s national electricity company reported ‘damage near a strategic infrastructure facility’ in the south that disrupted the power supply, without naming the location or specifying the cause.

The country’s military censorship rules bar the publication of some details about damage in Israel.

Iranian media, meanwhile, said Israel’s strikes hit a power supply system in Tehran, triggering temporary outages.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people, Iran’s health ministry has said. Iran’s attacks on Israel have killed 24 people, according to official figures.

China urged both Iran and Israel to prevent the conflict from spilling over, warning of potential economic fallout.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on China to help deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

Trump floats ‘regime change’

After the Pentagon stressed the goal of US intervention was not to topple the Iranian government, Trump openly toyed with the idea.

‘If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???’ Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

His press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Trump was ‘still interested and engaging in’ diplomacy.

She suggested, however, that Iranians could overthrow their government if it did not agree to a diplomatic solution.

Top US general Dan Caine has said early assessments indicated the US strikes caused ‘extremely severe damage’ at all three nuclear sites.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that it had not been possible to assess the underground damage at Fordo.

‘Armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place,’ he added.

Iran has consistently denied seeking an atomic bomb, and Grossi has said there was no evidence to suggest it was doing so despite the Islamic republic being the only non-nuclear armed state to enrich uranium to 60 per cent.​
 

Asian countries most vulnerable to Strait of Hormuz blockade
Agence France-Presse . Tokyo 23 June, 2025, 22:50

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Around 84 per cent of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz is destined for Asia, leaving the economies of China, India, South Korea and others vulnerable should Iran blockade the crucial trading route over US strikes on its nuclear sites.

Around 14.2 million barrels of crude oil and 5.9 million barrels of other petroleum products pass through the strait per day—representing around 20 per cent of global production in the first quarter, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

And crude oil from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Iran almost exclusively passes through the corridor.

More than half of the oil imported by East Asia passes through the Strait of Hormuz, experts estimate.

China is one of the largest buyers, importing 5.4 million barrels of crude oil a day through Hormuz in the first quarter this year, according to the EIA.

Saudi Arabia is China’s second-largest supplier of crude oil, accounting for 15 per cent of its total oil imports -- 1.6 million barrels a day.

China also buys more than 90 per cent of Iran’s oil exports, according to the analysis firm Kpler.

It imported 1.3 million barrels of Iranian crude oil a day in April, down from a five-month high in March.

India is highly dependent on the Strait of Hormuz, importing 2.1 million barrels of crude a day through the corridor in the first quarter, EIA data shows.

Around 53 per cent of India’s imported oil in early 2025 came from Middle Eastern suppliers, particularly Iraq and Saudi Arabia, local media reported.

Wary of an escalating conflict in the Middle East, New Delhi has increased its imports of Russian oil over the past three years.

‘We have been closely monitoring the evolving geopolitical situation in the Middle East since the past two weeks,’ India’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday.

‘We have diversified our supplies in the past few years and a large volume of our supplies do not come through the Strait of Hormuz now,’ he wrote on X, adding ‘We will take all necessary steps to ensure stability of supplies of fuel to our citizens.’

Around 68 per cent of South Korea’s crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz -- 1.7 million barrels a day this year, according to the EIA.

South Korea is particularly dependent on its main supplier Saudi Arabia, which last year accounted for a third of its oil imports.

Seoul’s trade and energy ministry said there have been ‘no disruptions so far in South Korea’s crude oil and LNG imports’ but ‘given the possibility of a supply crisis’, officials were ‘planning for potential disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz’.

‘The government and industry stakeholders have prepared for emergencies by maintaining a strategic petroleum reserve equivalent to about 200 days of supply,’ the ministry said in a statement.

Japan imports 1.6 million barrels of crude oil a day through the Strait of Hormuz, the EIA says.

Japanese customs data showed 95 per cent of crude oil imports last year came from the Middle East.

The country’s energy freight companies are readying for a potential blockade of the strait.

‘We’re currently taking measures to shorten as much as possible the time spent by our vessels in the Gulf,’ shipping giant Mitsui OSK told AFP.

Around 2 million barrels of crude oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day in the first quarter were destined for other parts of Asia—particularly Thailand and the Philippines—as well as Europe (0.5 million barrels) and the United States (0.4 million barrels).

Asian countries could diversify their oil suppliers, but it is difficult to replace the large volumes coming from the Middle East.

In the short term, ‘elevated global oil inventories, OPEC+’s available spare capacity, and US shale production all could provide some buffer’, experts at MUFG Bank said.

‘However, a full closure of the Hormuz Strait would still impact on the accessibility of a major part of this spare production capacity concentrated in the Persian Gulf,’ they said.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have infrastructure to bypass the strait, potentially mitigating disruptions, but their transit capacity remains very limited—around 2.6 million barrels a day.

And the Goreh-Jask pipeline built by Iran to export via the Gulf of Oman, which has been inactive since last year, has a maximum capacity of only 300,000 barrels per day, according to the EIA.​
 

Israel, Iran continue missile attacks
Israel targets Iran Guards, Tehran prison, Iran vows ‘firm action’ after US strikes

Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 23 June, 2025, 23:57

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Members of Israeli security forces stand in a cordoned off area at the impact site of an Iranian rocket near the southern city of Ashdod on Monday. | AFP photo

Israel struck Tehran and Iran fired missiles on Monday, as the war between the long-time foes raged for its 11th day after the United States sent bombers to attack the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites.

Israel hit Revolutionary Guard sites and Evin prison in Tehran, in what it said were its most powerful strikes yet on the Iranian capital.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel and vowed retaliation against the United States after American strikes on the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites a day earlier.

Loud explosions rocked Tehran, where Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said the military hit sites with ‘unprecedented force’, adding to speculation that it is seeking to topple Iran’s clerical leadership.

The targets included Evin prison, which Katz said ‘holds political prisoners and regime opponents’, as well as command centres for the domestic Basij paramilitary and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel also struck Fordo, a key nuclear enrichment facility buried deep in the mountains south of Tehran.

The military said it had struck Fordo on Monday ‘in order to obstruct access routes’ to the site, which Israel’s ally the United States hit the previous day with massive bunker buster bombs.

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi vowed that the country would take ‘firm action’ in response to US strikes on key nuclear sites.

‘This crime and desecration will not go unanswered,’ said Mousavi in a video statement published on state TV, adding that ‘we will take firm action against the American mistake’.

President Donald Trump boasted that Sunday’s US strikes on three key sites had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to assess the impact on Iran’s atomic programme, which Israel and some Western states consider an unacceptable threat.

Sirens sounded across Israel on Monday and AFP journalists reported blasts over Jerusalem and people fleeing to shelters in Tel Aviv.

Iranian media said Israel’s strikes hit a power supply system in Tehran, triggering temporary outages.

In Israel, the national electricity company reported ‘damage near a strategic infrastructure facility’ in the south that disrupted the power supply, without naming the location or specifying the cause.

Israel’s military censorship rules bar the publication of some details about damage in Israel.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people, Iran’s health ministry has said. Iran’s attacks on Israel have killed 24 people, according to official figures.

After the US strikes, global markets reacted nervously, with oil prices jumping more than four per cent early Monday but dipping later in the day.

China urged both Iran and Israel to prevent the conflict from spilling over, warning of potential economic fallout.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio called on China to help deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said closing the strategic strait would be ‘extremely dangerous’.

With Iran threatening US bases in the region, the State Department issued a worldwide alert cautioning Americans abroad.

In Bahrain, home to a major US naval base, the US embassy said it had ‘temporarily shifted a portion of its employees to local telework’, citing ‘heightened regional tensions’.

Meanwhile, international oil firms including BP and Total evacuated some of their foreign staff from southern Iraq, the state-owned Basra Oil Company said.

After the Pentagon stressed the goal of US intervention was not to topple the Iranian government, Trump openly toyed with the idea.

‘If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???’ Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

His press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Trump was ‘still interested and engaging in’ diplomacy.

She suggested, however, that Iranians could overthrow their government if it did not agree to a diplomatic solution.

At a Pentagon press briefing, top US general Dan Caine said ‘initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage’.

Speaking ahead of a NATO summit this week, the alliance’s chief Mark Rutte said Tehran should not be allowed a nuclear weapon, calling it his ‘greatest fear’, while German chancellor Friedrich Merz said ‘there is no reason to criticise what America did’.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that craters were visible at the Fordo facility, but it had not been possible to assess the underground damage.

‘Armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place,’ he added.

Iran has consistently denied seeking an atomic bomb, and Grossi has said there was no evidence to suggest it was doing so despite the Islamic republic being the only non-nuclear armed state to enrich uranium to 60 per cent.

The IAEA said on Monday that Tehran had informed it of ‘special measures to protect nuclear material’ when the Israeli campaign began.

The UN agency also said it was seeking access to Iranian nuclear sites to ‘account for’ stockpiles of highly enriched uranium.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who met with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday, had accused the United States and Israel of deciding to ‘blow up’ nuclear diplomacy with their attacks.​
 

Trump says Israel and Iran agree to 'total ceasefire'

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US President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation, accompanied by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the White House in Washington, DC, US June 21, 2025, following US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. File photo: Reuters

US President Donald Trump said that a "complete and total" ceasefire between Israel and Iran will go into force with a view to ending the 12-day conflict between the two nations, moments after both sides threatened new attacks.

While an Iranian official confirmed that Tehran had agreed to a ceasefire, there was no immediate comment yet from Israel.

A senior White House official said Israel had agreed so long as Iran does not launch further attacks and that Trump brokered the deal in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump appeared to suggest that Israel and Iran would have some time to complete any missions that are underway, at which point the ceasefire would begin in a staged process.

"On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR'," he wrote on his Truth Social site.

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani secured Tehran's agreement during a call with Iranian officials, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday.

Trump told Qatar's emir that Israel had agreed to the ceasefire, according to the official.

Neither Iran's UN mission nor the Israeli embassy in Washington immediately responded to separate requests for comment from Reuters.

Hours earlier, three Israeli officials had signaled Israel was looking to wrap up its campaign in Iran soon and had passed the message on to the United States.

Netanyahu had told government ministers whose discussions ended early on Tuesday not to speak publicly, Israel's Channel 12 television reported.

S&P 500 futures rose 0.4% late on Monday, suggesting traders expect the US stock market to open with gains on Tuesday.

US crude futures fell in early Asian trading hours on Tuesday to their lowest level in more than a week after Trump said a ceasefire had been agreed, relieving worries of supply disruption in the region.

END TO THE FIGHTING?

There did not appear to be calm yet in the region.

The Israeli military issued two evacuation warnings in less than two hours to residents of areas in the Iranian capital Tehran, one late on Monday and one early on Tuesday.

Israeli Army radio reported early on Tuesday that alarms were activated in the southern Golan Heights area due to fears of hostile aircraft intrusion.

Earlier on Monday, Trump said he would encourage Israel to proceed towards peace after dismissing Iran's attack on an American air base that caused no injuries and thanking Tehran for the early notice of the strikes.

Iran's attack came after US bombers dropped 30,000-pound bunker-busters on Iranian underground nuclear facilities at the weekend, joining Israel's air war against Iran in a conflict that has entered its 12th day.

Much of Tehran's population of 10 million has fled after days of bombing.

The Trump administration maintains that its aim was solely to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, not to open a wider war.

But in a social media post on Sunday, Trump spoke of toppling the hardline clerical rulers who have been Washington's principal foes in the Middle East since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Israel, however, had made clear that its strikes on Evin prison - a notorious jail for housing political prisoners - and other targets in Tehran were intended to hit the Iranian ruling apparatus broadly, and its ability to sustain power.​
 
The west uses ghareeb dalit log for hollywood theatrics like we see hendu-pak all about top gun n titanic and Star wars and get easily brainwashed......Dalit colludzz converts are complacent in dis attack on Iran........So now Iraans should fukkin cut off their energy no?

@Vsdoc ........converts need to be targeted ASAP.......Aaaj muzlim, kal Christy-X-Tian, parson ghar waapsi?

I'm getting tired doc.......Iran ko in ko foran maar daalna chahiye......cuz deez bitches good fo nutthin no?

I'm on da zoro/ parsi/ irani forums and dis da tact being discussed right now......

This is just an evil fifth column minions of Rome in da way of resurrectin da Sassanid millat.......

In ka koi bharossa nahi bhai.......anything goes doc.......something needs to be done here.
 
@Vsdoc .........Bhai.......pretty fukkin evident now, Iraans come out of all this massive attack largely unscathed.......Kuchh nahi kar saka west using Israel in 2025, just like using saddam hussain against Iran in 1980 no?

Its a total fail.....the whole regime change. denuking and disarming Iran nonsense.

Iranis laughing out hard now.......on how stupid da west is......

In iranio ka to kuchh nahi bigarr saka west......

Hamara kya banay ga doc?.......We are in so much trouble no? Wes fukking bankrupt no?

Pakistan in serious trouble no?
 
India Part 2 looks like.
Iran got the last volley out.......demolished an entire mohalla of where Knesset members lived in Bir Sheba........19 harami maar daalay/ 100 zakhmi........50 houses/ buildings damaged.......

A beautiful attack.......

I asked 'Legend' bhai on jc k Pakistan karsakta hae ye? jo Iran daily kar ra hae?........many days ago.......

so far no response. 🤣

Bichara Pakistan bohot kamzor hae.......they know it doc, but don't wanna admit it....and I don't wanna shove my chhichhi down their throats either out of common courtesy......:ROFLMAO:

In ko pata hae k they are utterly powerless!
 
They will pause. Nothing to lose for now. They will start back up at the slightest pretext, for which they are readying the munitions.

They haven't shot off the most advanced hypersonic missiles (which was supposed to be 3rd/4th stage). They stopped at 2nd stage.

Just watch.
This war cannot be over, unless Iran destroys Zion! Iranians are very angry, there's been a lot of damage here n there.....

There will be a coup d'etat if Iran agrees to a pause.

Iran cannot forgive this now.
 

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