"The scenes of devastation — to schools, a desalination plant, passenger aircraft and historic landmarks such as Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and Golestan Palace — have shocked many Iranians.“If they wanted to assassinate the supreme leader, why are they waging full-scale war?” asked one woman."
it's worth thinking about this as a kind of Nazi ideology: a belief that the country's military failures are a result of insufficient brutality rather than poor political decision-making
ISIS like barbarism
Just now from MOI, they’ve been great throughout this crisis but they really need better English speakers on staff for translating their messages and alerts. Note the word “handling” in the second pic when the correct phrase in English is “taking” and and it’s right there in the Arabic too ”أخذ”
Remember when everyone was so angry about the Taliban destroying ancient monuments?
I would like to point out that Golestan, and many of these other sites that are being destroyed, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Part of the beautiful history of ALL HUMANITY. We are literally destroying our own human cultural heritage.
What’s next? Persepolis? The gorgeous mosques and shrines of Isfahan?
A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year.
IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this.
www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...
I’m still a bit stunned by the operational tempo of today’s attacks and fully expecting one more before the night is through. Meanwhile, tonight’s topical movie rewatch is the Coen brothers Burn After Reading
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.
It was missiles according to MOD. They must have been intercepted far away because I didn’t hear anything booms nor did my friends here
And the all clear. I didn’t hear anything so it must have been drones. They’re using Apache attack helicopters to take them out
And again. 3 times today
Update 😢 bsky.app/profile/barr...
I fucked up the alt text there sorry but it’s a good article and you should read it
Welp Qumra is cancelled for me 😭
Further to that point: this morning’s attack seemed like it was only a few missiles (just a few booms) whereas the one shortly after noon sounded like it was a lot more (very many boom boom booms)
When my three year old son is sat on the loo doing a poo, he pulls a face that looks just like Michael Gove and it haunts me.
Two missile attacks within about four hours of each other is an alarming uptick in tempo, even though there’s been an apparent decrease in the number of missiles per attack.
Fails to mention that slumping or collapsing Gulf states economies could fuel another global financial crisis, as asset values and economic viability plunge with the war. Any heavily Gulf-invested western banks or funds could fall over, with big domino effects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All clear
Very many big booms
Wow! So soon?
Qumra is going online. I’m glad they didn’t cancel it but this really feels so much like Covid all over again
I recommend @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social's much more thoughtful exploration of this idea:
bsky.app/profile/grav...
the tankers yearn for the mines
CENTCOM, 2026:
You can ask Americans to make sacrifices but you have to convince them why it's necessary, and crucially, you have to do it before the sacrifices are required.
The Trump administration's instinct is to promise everything will be pure upside until it's not and only then scold Americans to be stoic.
