West Asia News and Discussions

[uddu]

Two things that will make the ground war to happen. One if this attack. Second is the attack on American Occupied Mauritius Territory. The longer range missiles are a threat to the U.S supremacy in the region. The longer Iran survives, they will reach U.S mainland as well like the North Koreans and they will use it too.

[uddu]

UAE and other Arab states just signed a $16.5 billion dollar defense deal with the U.S
https://x.com/i/status/2035332917480873989
@AirPowerAsia
BREAKING: Amid the ongoing Middle East war, India & UAE are close to finalising a defence deal for BrahMos missiles & Akash air defence system. The agreement may be concluded soon

....... (Sources)

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2035519762562998385
@Chopsyturvey
Trump Gives Iran 48 Hours to Open Strait, Threatens Power Plants

[uddu]

https://x.com/AirPowerAsia/status/20353 ... rPowerAsia
U.S. & Israeli Forces have targeted an underground missile manufacturing facility at an IRGC base in Iran’s Khuzestan province.

Major blow to Islamic regime as over 100 partially manufactured long-range missiles destroyed & the facility has been rendered non-functional

[uddu]

180 missiles are needed to break the shield
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2035158251361251705
@AdameMedia
Iran’s operation is on another level:

~180 ballistic missiles travelled more than 1,000 miles to direct hit Nevatim & Tel Nof airbases housing Israel’s elite F-35 fleet, plus Mossad HQ in Tel Aviv. The size, range, & precision of this operation make it one for the history books.

[uddu]

https://x.com/AirPowerAsia/status/2035332097209221229
@AirPowerAsia
Two more LPG tankers are transiting the Strait of Hormuz under Indian Navy protection, after they enter Arabian Sea amid rising tensions

[uddu]

Prachand getting the ATGM's. Hope it also gets the VSHORADS integrated onto it to take out drones like Shaheed and cruise missiles. Just like the A-10 Apache combo is hunting both ground based launchers, boats and is also able to hunt drones, A Tejas+Prachand for both ground support and drone hunting need to be looked at. Tactics developed.
Helicopter vs Shahed Drone Ends in Disaster | Drone Nears Dubai
A UAE Apache helicopter was lost after engaging an Iranian drone, with both pilots killed. In a separate incident, additional footage shows a helicopter intercepting and shooting down a drone near Dubai.


***Gun Footage*** Apache Helicopters Destroy Incoming Drones
Onboard footage shows United Arab Emirates AH-64D Apache attack helicopters engaging and shooting down incoming Iranian attack drones. The video appears to show Apache crews using the helicopter’s 30mm cannon to intercept and destroy UAVs during defensive operations.

[A_Gupta]

Question to Trump: Thank you. Uh you were talking about Iran a couple times today and what they did after Epic Fury began. You said they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation?

Trump: Nobody. Nobody. No, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit.

Above was March 17th.
Below is Feb 19th.

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Iran told U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday that Tehran will consider bases, facilities and assets of the "hostile force" in the region as legitimate targets if it faces military aggression.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 026-02-19/

[uddu]

Swede complaining about their own hire.
https://x.com/KanchanGupta/status/2035973943086272525
@KanchanGupta
Ashok Swain is a habitual offender and purveyor of all things fake. Uppsala University
@UU_Peace
in Sweden has hired him for spreading anti-Hindu, anti-Semitic hate, pro-Jihadist, pro-terrorist propaganda.
The Government of Sweden is aware of it and complicit. So is @X

https://x.com/VerminusM/status/2035874417985691828
@VerminusM
This person is an "academic" in Sweden. He is spreading obviously fake AI videos of attacks on Tel Aviv. Can someone contact the institution he's working in and let them know the kind of person they employ? Or is this level of ignorance and stupidity the academic standard today?

[uddu]

Both sides claiming victory.
https://x.com/i/status/2036053523457315176
@sidhant
Iran's Press TV, quoting sources, says no direct or indirect contact with Trump.

[uddu]

Oman is the Next Dufai

[ricky_v]

What a scam! What an absolute farce of a war!! This is just manipulation of the market, 5 day wait, yes just after Friday end. All his announcements come in the weekend play.
In a just world, trump and any of his cronies who have used done this manipulation and made quick millions, playing hail mary with the world's balls ought to be hanging from the street lights near to their highest court of authority, but Americans being the dikless wonders that they are would rather stay mute and fellate their guns.

It's one thing if the us and Israelis want to bugger each other in their recreation time, but you are playing with the entire global economy and the dependents on said economy that covers just about everybody. This is a legitimate case for no taxation without representation; regardless whatever retard the thumb sucking muttemericans vote in, the entire world suffers. This dependency has to be cut off and this ought to be highest priority, otherwise make it so that every country has a say in the election of the fuktard in chief.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/column/neit ... 260323.htm
Neither Israel Nor Iran Wants A Quick End To The War
T T Ram Mohan, March 23, 2026
Everybody is asking about the war in Iran: How long will it last? Equally important is the question: How will it end?
We don't have definitive answers yet. What we do know is that the answers the United States and Israel had when they initiated the conflict two weeks ago have turned out to be patently incorrect.
President Donald Trump has not got the quick, decisive victory he wanted. The Iranian government has not imploded following the killing of its supreme leader and around 40 senior leaders.
The people of Iran have not risen in revolt. The Iranian leadership is in no mood to give Mr Trump the 'unconditional surrender' he has demanded.
Even on the strictly military dimension, the war has not turned out as the US and Israel had expected. On March 7, a week into the war, Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesperson, made an astonishing statement.
Ms Leavitt told reporters that the US was 'on track to achieve air superiority and control over Iran's airspace.'
The statement was astonishing because we had all been led to believe much earlier that Iranian air defences had been wiped out.
That American and Israeli aircraft were dropping missiles and bombs at will from the skies over Iran.
Two days before Ms Leavitt made her statement, Israel's Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir had announced that 80 per cent of Iran's air defences had been destroyed and Israel had achieved 'almost complete air superiority over Iran'.
Larry Johnson, a former Marine officer whose blog on military matters is widely followed, provides an insight into what's going on.
He says that the US and Israeli planes are flying close to Iran's western border and delivering missiles with a range of anywhere between 370 km and 980 km.
That is not quite the same as having dominance of Iran's skies. It is one reason why the war is stretching out longer than thought.
It is hard to tell how long the war will go on because we lack clarity about America's objectives. President Trump and his colleagues have cited different objectives at different times.
Eliminating Iran's nuclear weapons (already 'obliterated' last June). Crippling Iran's ballistic missile capability.
Ending Iran's support for proxies in West Asia. Liberating the people of Iran from a theocratic regime.
Regime change, which could mean a set of leaders (even if theocratic) that are kinder to the US and Israel.
Any combination of these objectives will take longer than the four to six weeks that most analysts have been talking about.
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Gautam

[bala]

Saudi, UAE, Qatar & Lebanon expel Iranian envoys-War widening? • Sree Iyer
PGurus 24 Mar, 2026

As the Iran War enters Day 25, the conflict is taking a sharp diplomatic turn with major regional consequences.

In an unprecedented move, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Lebanon have declared Iranian envoys persona non grata, ordering them to leave immediately. This coordinated action signals a serious escalation—not just militarily, but diplomatically—against Iran.

Is this the prelude to a broader regional alignment against Iran?