Iran News and Discussions

[Tanaji]

The Iranians are gaming that if they last out a month more, Trump will declare victory, pack up and go home. The biggest losers will be:

GCC - They can’t trust Uncle with security any more. Although on surface nothing will change, expect some more countries to join the SA-Pak coalition, if only for the so called nuclear fig leaf. Although how much that helps is another question…
Ukraine : There will be nothing left to give to Pakraine anymore - neither weapons nor funds, except what European may spare. It is already a rump state, will become even more so.

Iran will redouble its efforts to go nuclear, with Israel periodically bombing or covert action to prevent the same.

[bala]

Iran India Relations / Iran's Point of View in This War

Lt. Gen P R Shankar (retd) has many points on Iran and India relations. Of course Iran's Leadership Shias have not exactly been friendly and have sided with Pak in many issues. However the people of Iran are more in tune with India. Many in Govt have reached out to India and cooperated on things like crude oil sale, India could pay in terms of the rupee. Their foreign minister was in India recently and had cordial talks with the Indian govt. India had decided to shield their ship in India and treat their sailors with good hospitality.

[V_Raman]

GCC - has been shown for that they are - the are a bunch of pu..es who cannot do anything with the 100s of billions they spent on their military - defensive weaponry on the cheap by the thousands is the need of the hour for such countries - huge opportunity for India IMO - we might even setup manufacturing units in some GCC countries for Akash etc. as we cannot scale for all the demand!

[A_Gupta]

How can India have good relations with Iran, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has made so many anti-India remarks with respect to Kashmir?

Well, how can India have good relations with Israel?
As The Hindustan Times reported two years ago:

"Analysis of India's voting patterns on Israel-Palestine issues at the United Nations
While the India-Israel relationship has gone from strength to strength, India’s support of UN resolutions critical of Israel has remained largely unchanged"

https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis ... opilot.com

or see this answer to a question in the Rajya Sabha:
https://www.mea.gov.in/rajya-sabha.htm? ... E+CONFLICT

The pattern continued into 2025.

IMO, there are symbolic issues and there are issues of substance. Talking Ummah with Pakistan is largely symbolic (though not preventing Hamas from joining terrorist conferences in Pakistan is an issue of substance). Chabahar Port is an issue of substance. UN General Assembly resolutions have little practical effect and are largely symbolic.

IMO, in international relations, if the issues of substance outweigh the issues of symbolism, then perhaps the relations can be good.

[chetak]

I think we should disabuse ourselves of the notion that any gulf country will have influence over IM - regardless of their type of govt - those days are gone! Same goes for Pak/Bdesh!!

V_Raman ji,

The realization that the new India under Modi ji is in a position to retaliate economically has replaced their misplaced sectarian generosity with caution.

the meddling has now been reduced to some poisonous, private, mullah controlled, jihadi businessmen supported, gulf, paki, britshit, EU, and US based NGOs who may still persist until some one notices and breaks their heads

India's abilities to track terror funding is better than very many "so called" developed countries

many goras coming to India bring in U$D9999 cash and hand it over to padres in India, likewise for the jihadis

[uddu]

Ex-RAW chief backs India’s calibrated approach on West Asia crisis
https://defence.in/threads/ex-raw-chief ... sis.17083/
Date:6-3-2026

Former Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Vikram Sood on Friday said India is adopting a prudent and balanced approach to the evolving crisis in West Asia, noting that regional conflicts can only be resolved by the countries directly involved.

Speaking to IANS, Sood said external powers should avoid interfering unnecessarily in regional issues.

“I think we are playing a very smart game here. We cannot solve the issues of West Asia — only the people of the region can do that themselves. There is no point in interfering,” he said.

[g.sarkar]

Many unconfirmed reports suggest that Esmail Qaani, head of Iran's Quds Force, was arrested and possibly executed for being an Israeli spy.
Qaani earned the reputation of being “the man with nine lives” for repeatedly surviving and escaping many assassination attempts that killed top leaders around him.
Tehran has not confirmed the reports.
Gautam

[Mukesh.Kumar]

X-Post from West Asian thread. It's starting again.

It's started up again in Dubai. Marina rocked by explosion with direct hit on residential tower.

[A_Gupta]

Associated Press reports:

Iran’s president apologizes for strikes on neighbors even as missiles and drones target their cities
https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel- ... 4e7cbf5373

[bala]

Another update and recap of the Iran war

Iran War Day 7 Update: US Strategy, Pakistan Crisis, China Challenge • Lt Gen Ravi Shankar (R)

The Iran war enters Day 7 and the battlefield, diplomacy, and regional politics are shifting rapidly.

The United States and Israel claim to have destroyed large parts of Iran’s missile infrastructure, drastically reducing the number of missiles Iran can launch.

At the same time, the conflict is spilling into Pakistan, where protests erupted after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, with crowds even attacking the US Consulate in Karachi, forcing authorities to deploy troops and impose curfews.

Meanwhile, China has stayed unusually quiet, condemning the strikes diplomatically while avoiding direct involvement and calling for negotiations instead of escalation.

[bala]

The above has the US jokers wanting India to take Russian oil since all producing nations cannot store it. India is the only nation (well china too but that is another issue) that can take oil in volume and refine it. If India does not take the oil, price per barrel will shoot up to $200.

Pak has a petrol problem right now, 3 day supply only and dwindling. China says that they won't help Iran. However China's main oil supply is Iran and they care about the oil not Iran. China has used Iran to finger others in the middle east including US. All of this is in shatters. China is desperate to get access to US markets otherwise their rise is questionable.

[drnayar]

Associated Press reports:

Iran’s president apologizes for strikes on neighbors even as missiles and drones target their cities
https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel- ... 4e7cbf5373

so whos running the show !

[pravula]

IRGC, iirc, does not report to Iranian president, but to the “supreme leader” of Iran.

[Kati]

^^^
It is a calculated smart move by Eyeraan by extending an olive branch to Gee-See-See nations after torching many of their vital installations. There was a report that one of the araap nation’s head called Eyeraan directly to de escalate with respect to Gee-See-See nations. Also, going by the readers’ online comments it appears that araap Abdul’s are supporting Eyeraan wholeheartedly since they are hitting the aamriki’s 51st state directly. . . . So, it is going to be seen as a war between Abdul vs. Abraham. On top of it, this is the month of Ramadan. OM picked a wrong time for his adventure.

[drnayar]

^^^
It is a calculated smart move by Eyeraan by extending an olive branch to Gee-See-See nations after torching many of their vital installations. There was a report that one of the araap nation’s head called Eyeraan directly to de escalate with respect to Gee-See-See nations. Also, going by the readers’ online comments it appears that araap Abdul’s are supporting Eyeraan wholeheartedly since they are hitting the aamriki’s 51st state directly. . . . So, it is going to be seen as a war between Abdul vs. Abraham. On top of it, this is the month of Ramadan. OM picked a wrong time for his adventure.

if they blow themselves up in Ramadan its fast track to 72 virgins and paradise

[uddu]

B-2 Spirit Strikes Iran's Underground Ballistic Missiles: What Happens Next?
The skies over Iran are finally quiet—but don’t let the silence fool you.
Although The US has achieved near-total air superiority, but the war is just entering its most dangerous stage.

Phase One was about clearing the skies.

While Phase Two It’s about Targeting Iran’s strategic ballistic missiles underground.

These are high-tech labyrinths bored deep into solid mountain rock, shielded by hundreds of feet of earth and reinforced concrete.

If you drop a standard bomb here? It won't even leave a scratch.
But here is the problem: Iran is still not out of the fight.

If the US owns the sky, why not just send in standard fighters?

Because while Iran’s main network is shattered, isolated surface-to-air batteries—like the S-300—are still hiding in the shadows.

For an F-15E Strike Eagle—the legendary 'bomb truck' of the Air Force—one lucky radar lock from a rogue missile is a death sentence.

And in a high-stakes conflict, losing a crew and a multi-million-dollar jet to a surviving battery is a risk the Pentagon simply won't take.


Largest Tunnels of Iran Have Been Collapsed! 300,000 Iranian Troops STRANDED Helplessly!
Iran's greatest strategic advantage just became its ultimate graveyard! For 40 years, Tehran built massive, 90-meter-deep "Missile Cities" into the mountains, preparing for a long war of attrition. But on February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched "Operation Epic Fury" and "Operation Roaring Lion," turning those very tunnels into death traps. By deploying a rare, simultaneous fleet of B-2, B-1, and B-52 bombers armed with 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker busters, coalition forces collapsed the tunnel entrances.

Now, with 86% of their missile capacity neutralized, an estimated 300,000 Iranian military personnel—nearly a third of the entire armed forces—are trapped underground with no air defense, no chain of command, and no way out.

In this video, we analyze the devastating air campaign and the fatal flaw of Iran's underground doctrine:

THE FATAL FLAW: Why burying ballistic missiles made them fixed targets that were easily destroyed the moment they surfaced to fire.

THE STRATEGIC TRIO: How the US uniquely deployed B-2 Stealth, B-1 Supersonic, and B-52 Heavy bombers in a single, synchronized wave.

THE DAMAGE MAP: Satellite evidence showing the total destruction of key bases in Isfahan, Kermanshah, and the Natanz nuclear facility.

BURIED ALIVE: The terrifying reality of 300,000 troops trapped without fuel, medical evacuation, or communication.

This diagram illustrates the sheer kinetic power of the bunker-buster munitions used by B-2 bombers, demonstrating exactly how the tunnel entrances were permanently

[uddu]

Iran's Largest Oil Depot Goes Up In Flames After Israeli Jet Lock In Tehran From East, West & South

[bala]

World Map is Going to Change Soon - Iran vs America-Israel | India's Big Role | Pak - Afg Crisis

In Hindi and angrez with Sanjay Dixit, Maj. Gen Rajiv Narayanan (retd) and Lt. Gen P R Shankar (retd).



// some notes from the YT: the 3 nations benefitting are going to be US, Russia and India. The former two are energy producers and India is the refiner of oil. BTW Russia has not offered Cheen any oil. The War is putting enormous pressure on the Cheens who import Iran oil. Refined oil from India is going to the Euros. The Cheens may have to beg India for some refined products, shortly. The UAE etc are airlifting food supplies and fresh fruits/veges from India.
// Pak are facing an existential problem - no fuel, no food, no water. They are being hammered by Afghanistan and Baluchis, the only safe border is the eastern border with India.
// BTW there is approx 460 kg of 60% or more enriched uranium in Iran and no one knows where this is hiding.

[uddu]

Mullah forgot to add a zero behind 300 and multiply by 2. Only from the time of Mullah Occupation of Persia, he will accept the relationship.

https://x.com/MeghUpdates/status/2029655022225809603
@MeghUpdates
"Our relations with India are still strong. Our ties go back over 300 years, before many of the countries in the world today even existed. That relationship is not damaged easily”

- Ayatollah Dr Abdolmajeed Hakimelahi, Representative of Iran's Supreme Leader in India

[uddu]

Spot the Mossad Agint
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/2030047739506028662
@DrEliDavid
Last year, the regime's president met with all IRGC generals. Since then, all of them are dead, except one.

[uddu]

https://x.com/OfficeOfDGP/status/2030347218415464522
@OfficeOfDGP
Congress is suffering from foot in mouth disease


During Dr. S Jaishankar's discussion with the Iranians, this must have been discussed. This avoided the need for Indian Navy to be deployed in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Closed Exclusively For US, Israel, Western Allies — What It Means For India
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/midd ... -153762772

The Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that the Strait of Hormuz was exclusively closed for the United States, Israel, Europe, and their Western Allies. The development has come after Iran announced the closure of the Hormuz, a key passage for oil and gas tankers, in the wake of the US and Israel joint attack on its territory. The strikes, which first took place on Saturday, February 28, killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards informed that it took action in line with international law and relevant resolutions, adding that they reserves the right to regulate passage through the Hormuz during wartime.

[uddu]

Iran–US–Israel War: Why India, Russia, and the US Are the Biggest Gainers | Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan
Iran–US–Israel War: Why India, Russia, and the US Are the Biggest Gainers | Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan

In this analysis, Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan (Retd) breaks down the Iran–US–Israel War: Iran had accepted most US demands, disrupting 30-50% of Chinese oil imports and delivering a massive blow to Beijing. While China and Pakistan emerge as the biggest losers, Pakistan faces irrelevance. Russia, India, and the US are laughing all the way to the bank!

India stands to make a killing on energy rerouting. Ukraine war? Suddenly irrelevant. No boots on the ground for the US. Iran has been mining Bitcoin for years to evade sanctions, and China shares weapon tech with Tehran.

[uddu]

Shabbat Shalom from the IAF pilots above Iran

[KL Dubey]

How can India have good relations with Iran, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has made so many anti-India remarks with respect to Kashmir?

Bharat is playing a long-term game. We know the mullahs will not be there forever (and current events indicate they may be out of luck sooner than expected). Also the Iran people have mostly left the moon.

[bala]

Iran War - The Oil Play, China, Pakistan and Et Al / Lt Gen PR Shankar

No one is paying attention to the Oil play by the US Deep State. IMEC is important since these producing nations cannot store the oil for a later date of shipping. Strait of Hormuz is wherein most ships are required to pass through while carrying crude oil. Shutting down oil extraction is fraught with additional problems, since restart cannot guarantee oil pumping again. Petrol, ATF, fertilizer and much more are at stake. Qatar also produces helium.

China is at the receiving end of any blockade in Strait of Hormuz. Pak's free oil is kaput and their supply of petrol, kerosene is down to almost zero.



// a good tutorial on implication of Oil hold up in the gulf. Lots of industries down stream are massively affected.

[bala]

Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new Supreme Leader of Iran.

[drnayar]

Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new Supreme Leader of Iran.

Only qn being for how long

[Sachin]

Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new Supreme Leader of Iran.

Only qn being for how long

Iran state TV suggests Mojtaba Khamenei injured in ongoing war . Though Israelis may not be convinced.

[Mukesh.Kumar]

LPG Shortage already starting to bite. The government is prioritizing domestic supply over commercial cylinders. And it seems that commercial extablishments are already warning of shutdowns-Bengaluru Hotels Association warns of shutdown from March 10 over LPG supply disruption

[A_Gupta]

Seventeen different reasons the US has given for attacking Iran:
https://popular.info/p/9-days-in-the-mo ... c-question

[Lisa]

Iran names Khamenei's son Mojtaba as new Supreme Leader of Iran.

To the best of my knowledge, he is not even an Ayatollah.

[A_Gupta]

Preliminary reports are that Trump has declared victory, and that the war is over.

[S_Madhukar]

Preliminary reports are that Trump has declared victory, and that the war is over.

I will wait a bit… he makes such statements to profit off market chaos.. you just need 1-2 smoking tankers to whipsaw the market

[rkirankr]

How can India have good relations with Iran, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has made so many anti-India remarks with respect to Kashmir?

Bharat is playing a long-term game. We know the mullahs will not be there forever (and current events indicate they may be out of luck sooner than expected). Also the Iran people have mostly left the moon.

Most anti India after Pakistan is USA.

[Amber G.]

Preliminary reports are that Trump has declared victory, and that the war is over.

Watched Trump and the press conference.. he looked *really* defeated and all (even some of his supporters were calling him incredibly split, and the "sad" or "subdued" alongside the more aggressive critiques like surrendering and unhinged...)

[ricky_v]

Speech by khamenei jr

>To the Iranian people, this is my first address to you as new Supreme Leader, but this is also an address not only to the people of the beloved nation, but to the world. It is also an address to the people in America.

>As the world knows, the United States and the Zionist entity, under the flag of diplomacy engaged in a perfidious surprise attack against our leadership. As many of you know, not only was the former leader, my father, killed, but so were my own wife and son, and many other family members. Iran has avoided war again and again in this region of the world, but in spite of countless false truces and deceitful ceasefire agreements, the Zionist American power repeated continues its aggression after each period of rearmament, without ceasing. Every law of international conduct and global cooperation is subverted by this power, which exists as a world government unto itself, no longer considering even the pretense of sovereignty of other nations as it pursues its wicked aims. Among other crimes, this regime, in failing to easily achieve its aims through attacks on political or military targets, is known for terror campaigns against civilian populations to pressure nations to bend to its lawless will. This is has been known from the days of Dresden and Hiroshima, to attacks on weddings and hospitals in Afghanistan, and bombing desalination plants, civilian infrastructure and attacks on children in schools in Iran today.

>Out of the absolute need to defend ourselves and protect the safety of our people, Iran has been compelled to attack American offensive military capabilities distributed throughout the region, hiding in civilian quarters and behind the banner of sovereignty of Arab nations who foolishly believe they can exist in a context of international law, while permitting a snake to use their lands as a platform to engage in naked war crimes

This one's good

>Regardless of the broader unfolding circumstances, in which Iran truly hopes for peace and cooperation with its neighbors, and with the world, the core issue which threatens the very safety and existence of Iran and the Iranian people must be brought into the spotlight of world attention.

>Recently a member of our government proposed that it is important to, "Kill the idea of Dubai." I wish to clarify this sentiment. We do not will ill on the people or territory of the United Arab Emirates. Rather, at a spiritual level, the idea of Dubai represents the same poison and treachery which causes bombs to fall on the heads of innocents, neighborhoods to be leveled in the name of territorial theft, great wars to be fought over resources as millions of young men die, and loss of entire generations of young to nihilistic morals that destroy cultures and families.

>Embedded in the "Idea of Dubai" is the notion that with enough money and power, anyone can rise above morality. However, it was the great Jewish king Munbaz of Assyria who said, "Store not the treasure which rusts, but instead store up the treasure which awaits in heaven." If we as humanity allow the obscenity of wealth to displace us from spiritual paths of greater meaning, to disconnect us from the love of our neighbors and families, the we already live in hell.

>We can see the direct consequences of this hell not only in the hidden culture of Dubai, but in the depraved excesses associated with Jeffrey Epstein. We see the torment and pain caused to innocent children, and the carelessness with which the class of wealthy men and women treated them. We see how this same class through lies and schemes create wars and technologies to divide and devastate the world. How the integrity of great nations like America can be completely undermined. This is the tragedy of the idea of Dubai.

>This is the same idea which, like its colonialist predecessors, spreads radical ideology at gunpoint all around the world. Which undermines relations between men and women and predates on children. Which speaks of social justice, while also affirming the murder and mutilation of children, both in satanic medical experimentation, and under the rubble of bombed out neighborhoods. Which speaks of discovery and science, but only uses the tools of engineered viruses and AI surveillance to build systems that will put the human race in a virtual cage unfit even for a low beast.

>It is not just the idea of Dubai, a poison in the heart of the homeland of Muslims, but it is the idea of global wealth. It is the idea of imperialism and nihilism. It is steadfast project of ideological Zionism.

>Under Zionism, those who are deemed outside the seed of Zion are treated as non-human. This is a direct rebellion against Allah the Creator. They blaspheme Him and claim He is for them alone. As a result, they attack and destroy all faith, all morality, all spirituality they can find outside of their own kind, if they even possess it in truth themselves. Their obsessive and relentless project is to tear down all other societies, to rob all of our heavenly wealth as if to hoard it for themselves. It is for this reason they create nihilistic culture that abuse children, make a mockery of women through sheer depravity, and attack any strong or meaningful culture outside of that which they can monetize and control.

>Therefore, the war cannot end until the Zionist power whose criminal and money networks, centered on the thieves' hideout built within the occupied territories, is thoroughly dismantled. Liberating the occupied territories is only the beginning.

>I speak now directly to the American people. Many of you, I know, are wise enough to at least see the folly of this war. Many of you, regardless of how you feel about my nation, are deeply uncomfortable with the crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza and are skeptical of the control of the Epstein class over your politicians. Most of you, we know, voted against conflicts such as this one. It is with sincere regret that I find my country in a position where we must clash swords with your sons and daughters, but it is your fool, Trump, who attacked us without cause or justification, and it is now our sacred obligation to defend ourselves, for me, to ensure the safety of my people from Trump's bombs. I am therefore sorry for what is to come.

>I speak now with a specific group of Americans. Some have called you the "lost generation". Most, but not all of you, are descended in some way from the founding members of your society. While America is a very young civilization, still, it has had many great accomplishments and you are connected to its very roots, even as they wither away.

>I regret that there is a generation of American men who began their life with a moral attitude, as noble Christians, who believed in freedom and democracy, in non-intervention, in free association. Men of morals who would have led families with loving direction. Men with great talent who could have continued to glorify God in peacefully exploring the stars.

>I have always been impressed by this aspect of America. Although I am a man of faith, I am inspired by my father, who was in my view a man so great of faith, I can barely comprehend it. He believed that exploring the creation of Allah, trying to understand it, unravel the beautiful mysteries left for us to find, becoming more closely acquainted with it, was glorifying Allah. To him, planting a tree was an act of revolution. The peaceful and scientific exploration of the heavens, as the Americans once accomplished, was truly a revolutionary act of faith. That generation of men much more faithful to God than those today.

>It is men like this who have been scorned by the Zionist culture in America. Men who have been severed from their own civilization. Men who are rejected by institutions. Zionist control has dominated and poisoned America, through the Epstein class, through men with names such as Lutnick, Bessent, Silverstein, Thiel, Ellison, Musk, Fink, Madoff and so forth. These have scorned the founding stock of American civilization, locked them out of institutions, out of careers, refused to develop them. These men reach middle age without families, without women to love and care for.

>As for the women, the failure of American father, due to Zionist corruption, to protect and care for daughters is a crime of historical proportions. Women who are separated from the care of fathers, sent into vipers' dens at "co-educational" dormitories. Satanic dens where vulnerable young women have no hope of resisting the peer pressure to engage in consuming mind-altering drugs, of participating culture of sexual licentiousness, of compelled immorality as they seek to conform to the sexualized culture forced upon them by older initiated women, like a cycle of abuse and degradation, a system so depraved it surely must be by design. These women in very great numbers grow up with broken psychology, dependent on medications and drug abuse, unable to form family bonds or connections with men who would love them. Trapped in a cycle of pain and suffering, seeking salvation through wealth, through fashion in the form of expensive clothing, but utterly unable to find simple, meaningful love and family.

>Together, the men and women of America's lost generation have suffered the effects of America's own "Idea of Dubai", and as a result, America is only capable of producing leadership on the narcissistic, incompetent, self-defeating level of men such as Trump and his many sycophants such as the lamentable clown, Pete Hegseth. There is a reason why America's most loyal Zionist puppets seem like they draw from the gutters of American character.

>The good men and women of America's lost generation remain spiritually neglected, isolated, atomized, chased away from power and influence, underdeveloped and in many cases nearly or completely unemployed. The nation once led by "Boy Scouts" has scorned its Boy Scouts, destroyed that institution itself, but also chased the mentality of the Boy Scout to its underground.

>To these lost American "Boy Scouts". To the lonely and abandoned women struggling for peace and self-acceptance, even though my nation is at war with America, and even though American bombs destroyed most of my family, even so, I hear you, and I see you. Even from this far away. The world still remembers when "Boy Scouts" led America, and we are deeply regretful that men such as Trump, the men of "Vegas" and "Wall Street" have seized control thanks to Zionist influence.

>Who knows, maybe if this founding stock would have been nurtured, they could have been the force and the voice in American institutions wise enough, and strong enough to develop the military systems capable of keeping America strong. Ironically, I believe they would be far less likely to ever use them. Alas, due to the neglect of the "Boy Scout", a neglect that has scorned an entire generation with high home prices and unaffordable health care, instead building weapons of war costing many trillions of dollars, all for Zionist control, the American military as been left with outdate, ineffectual weapons that are already failing at a strategic level.

>It is therefore my hope that, after Iran has secured our existence and peace, after we have cooperatively rebuilt peaceful economic cooperation in the Gulf and throughout Asia, that someday in the future, Iran and America can be friends again. I hope, that with the defeat of the Zionist entity, the age of the "Boy Scout" the age of the moral America, be he Christian, Muslim or otherwise, can return. Men who do their duty to God and their Country, not to the Zionist entity, the so-called State of "Israel".

>When that day comes, in spite of all our history and current conflict, I sincerely hope Iran and America can work together for a better world, with all the nations of Earth. That a renewed world, made great through freedom from the "Idea of Dubai", together with a renewed America free from the poison of Zionism can finally, and truthfully,
Make America Great Again

>This is the destiny I pray for when I ask Allah the wise and powerful to shape the world to come.

[bala]

Iran War Day 11: US HELIOS Laser Flips Drone Warfare — $20K vs 50¢

The Iran war has entered a new technological phase. Reports suggest the United States has deployed the HELIOS directed-energy laser system aboard Navy destroyers to counter Iranian drone swarms.

Iran's strategy relied on cheap Shahed drones costing around $20,000, forcing adversaries to fire Patriot and THAAD interceptors worth millions of dollars. But HELIOS may flip that equation completely.

This laser weapon fires using electricity instead of missiles, potentially allowing U.S. ships to destroy drones at extremely low cost while maintaining an almost unlimited magazine.

The HELIOS system has already demonstrated the ability to destroy drones in U.S. Navy tests, marking a major step toward operational directed-energy defense.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/w ... 260310.htm
Why Regime Change Hasn't Happened In Iran
'Without ground troops the US will not be able to oust the Iranian Islamic regime.'
'Political change does not happen just by using bombs or planes.'
SYED FIRDAUS ASHRAF, March 10, 2026
When Israeli and American warplanes began pounding Iranian targets on February 28, many in Western capitals believed the strike that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would trigger the collapse of the Islamic Republic from within.
For decades, Israel and Iran had fought a shadow war through covert operations, cyberattacks, assassinations and proxy conflicts across the Middle East.
That long-running covert rivalry escalated dramatically when the United States joined Israeli strikes on Iranian military and strategic infrastructure, turning what had largely been an indirect confrontation into open warfare.
The killing of the 86-year-old Khamenei was widely seen as a decapitation strike intended to paralyse Iran's political system and possibly trigger mass protests against the clerical regime, particularly after years of anti-government mobilisation including the anti-hijab movement.
Yet, more than a week into the war, the expected political collapse in Tehran has not materialised.
Instead, Iran moved swiftly to stabilise its leadership structure, elevating Mojtaba Khamenei to supreme leader status and relying on the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to maintain internal cohesion.
Despite sustained air attacks and the pressure of economic disruption, the Islamic Republic has shown little sign of capitulating.
Tehran has instead attempted to widen the battlefield by threatening American interests and energy infrastructure across the Gulf while relying on its large arsenal of missiles and drones to sustain a prolonged confrontation.
Why did the anticipated collapse of the Iranian system not take place? Did Western governments misread the strength of dissent inside Iran? And how long can Tehran hold out against the combined military pressure of Israel and the United States?
In this interview with Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff, Kabir Taneja, Executive Director for Middle East Studies at the Observer Research Foundation, explains why Iran appears far more resilient than many expected and why the current conflict could evolve into a prolonged regional crisis rather than a swift regime-changing war.
We are more than a week into the war and Iran seems to be in no mood to surrender. Did anyone expect that after Ayatollah Khamenei's death Iran will be able to withstand the might of US-Israel air attacks?
Decapitation is something that has been utilised against Iran for a long period of time.
A lot of the conflict that we are seeing right now in conventional format has been happening between Iran and Israel in a clandestine form for decades.
The preparation that Iran had for this kind of eventuality has always been there.
Having said that, it is a huge blow for a system like Iran to lose their spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei, but also, Khamenei was 86 years old and his succession plan was already in place for the past couple of years. He was quite ill too.
.......
Gautam

[Lisa]

Speech by khamenei jr

Ji, do you have a link to the source? Thank you.

[SRajesh]

OMG he's talking of JE and children and Paedophiles!! The new Spiritual Leader
Yet the same doesnt apply to momeen's
They can consumate marriage with a 9 yr old
Talk about chef's irony!!