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❗️Israeli settlers launch coordinated 24-hour rampage across occupied West Bank

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❗️Iranian police officer killed in terrorist attack in Sistan and Baluchestan

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❗️Israeli War Minister Israel Katz on Channel 14 this morning:

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VIDEO | Hezbollah publishes a video displaying images of eliminated Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, with a caption in Hebrew: "If you are going to withdraw anyway, why be the last to die?"

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Hezbollah has destroyed another Israeli tank attempting to advance near Ali Taher hill

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇱🇧 NEW: An Israeli armored convoy was ambushed by Hezbollah, two tanks are burning

The Israeli advance to capture Ali Taher hill has failed again.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah has started mounting HEAT warheads on their FPV drones

In the above image, an FPV drone caught in Israeli anti-drone netting can be seen with a HEAT warhead belonging to the ‘MILAN’ anti-tank guided missile.

One of these was likely responsible for destroying the tank of Lt. Col. Ben Simhon, commander of the IDF’s 52nd Battalion, 401st Armored Brigade, in Kfar Tebnit last night.

The MILAN (Missile d’Infantrie Léger Antichar) is a French-German ATGM that has been extensively used in the Syrian Civil War and also by the Lebanese Army, which explains how Hezbollah likely procured it.

It is a somewhat old fashioned ATGM, developed back in the 1960s, and is therefore being used as a drone attachment instead of more high end shells like Iranian-made Almas or Russian Kornets.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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🇮🇱🇱🇧| At the heart of the Ali al-Taher hill, overlooking Nabatieh in Lebanon, there is a one-kilometer tunnel containing a command center and warehouses of strategic weapons.

Since the start of the ceasefire, Israel has made several night attempts to occupy this base, none of which have been successful.

The tank that was struck last night by Lebanese Hezbollah forces, resulting in the deaths of 4 IDF terrorists, was about 300 meters from the entrance to this base.

It seems this is the same well-known Imad-4 underground facility.

Capturing and destroying this base is undoubtedly one of the achievements that Netanyahu is seeking in Lebanon.

@FotrosResistancee

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has exported $1.6 Billion worth of oil in the past four days

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This all happened about 6 hrs ago

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Following intense Iranian pressure, the U.S. has forced Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah starting at 16:00 PM (taking effect in 3 minutes) – Reuters

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The ceasefire is now in effect.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Israel bombs Nabatieh

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Israeli officials to Channel 12:

‘A ceasefire being in effect does not prevent us from continuing operations’

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Israeli Channel 12:

‘A ceasefire does not mean ceasing fire. It means not escalating the attacks.’

@Middle_East_Spectator

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I'd be laughing at this circus if my blood wasn't boiling.

🇮🇷| Iranian Army Soldier affirms they are in control of the Strait of Hormoz, not the gentlemen in suits and ties in Tehran or Washington.

He says: “Behind me is the Strait of Hormoz: The closest point to the mouth of the strait. This is our Persian Gulf. We are still here, in 55 degree humid heat, standing with our flesh, blood, and soul, far from our wives and children, and we will never abandon this place.”

He bravely says: “We are the ones who decide who passes through here, not the suit-wearers in Tehran sitting under air conditioners, and not those in Washington. We are here, and we say who goes and who comes.”

He says they will not let the blood of fallen comrades be wasted, urges people to stay in the streets, and promises that as long as the people don’t give up, they won’t abandon the Strait either.

“We have stood here until the last drop of our blood. As long as every one of us, the boys of the IRGC and the Army, are here, no one has the right to pass through. We will not make ourselves indebted to the blood of the boys and girls of Minab, and we will not allow their blood to be trampled.

People, stay in the field. Stay in the streets. We are here. If you do not abandon the streets, we will not abandon this place either. Rest assured.

By God, we are not regretful. By God, none of us is upset that we have been standing here for 100 days now. I am saying this: with our flesh and soul, with our blood, and as long as there is blood in our veins, we will stand here.

And we will firmly defend this Gulf and the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, by the permission of Lady Fatimah Zahra, and by the permission of my leader, Imam Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei.

The traitors to the homeland should know: we are here as long as there is life in our bodies.”

@FotrosResistancee

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The deaths in Lebanon bloody the hands of the reformists. Such cowardly wretched technocrats should be reserved no sympathy. They've by all means lost the mandate of leadership in the eyes of the people, and their continued presence in the revolutionary government of Iran only acts to dilute its potential.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸| Iran’s MFA has strongly condemned Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, which led to the deaths of many, and said the U.S. is directly responsible.

He warned about the serious and immediate consequences.

The statement says ending the war in Lebanon is part of Clause 1 of the MoU, and warns Iran will take whatever measures are needed to protect itself and its allies.

@FotrosResistancee

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🇮🇷| Iranian MP, Malek Shariati, told Raja News:

Along with the SNSC’s finalizing the proposal for the 14-clause MoU, a 6-point text was also sent by Pezeshkian to the Leader.

This 6-clause text concerns Iran’s planned counter measures, proportionate and corresponding actions to possible US breaches of its commitments & MoU implementation.

Since the leader’s message (yesterday) also refers to the necessity of counter measures (during non-compliant) being fulfilled, it’s necessary that the memorandum’s annexes also be published.

@FotrosResistancee

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🇱🇧🇮🇱| These beautiful faces were killed by Israel in Lebanon today.

The brutal attacks in southern Lebanon have led to 35 martyrs and more than 60 wounded since dawn today.

The gentlemen from the negotiating team, this is a clear violation of the MoU...

@FotrosResistancee

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More than a 100 Israeli airstrikes today and its still ongoing

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🇱🇧🇮🇱| Casualties in South Lebanon have increased to 47 martyrs & 97 wounded, since the ‘israeli’ aggression until this afternoon.

Family of Mohamed and his wife Sahad and their 3 princess daughters... Israel killed this family this morning in the town of Haruf.

@FotrosResistancee

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Maag Bar Amerika, Maag Bar Israel

—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The IDF announces that 4 Israeli soldiers were killed last night, including a Lieutenant Colonel, while trying to advance towards Nabatieh in Kfar Tebnit and Ali Taher Hill sectors

Their vehicles got hit by Hezbollah ATGMs, an IED, and a combined arms ambush from elevated positions.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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this was reported before but I'm reposting it for the replies to this comment

[2026-06-19] @political_aya__@twitter.com: Statement Issued by the Islamic Resistance Operations Room

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful {Those who are fought against are permitted [to fight] for they have been wronged, & Allah is indeed able to help them prevail}

Refuting the "israeli" enemy’s claims that Hezbollah violated the ceasefire, the Islamic Resistance affirms that the enemy has never adhered to any ceasefire agreement since November 27, 2024, through April 16, 2026, and up to the outcomes of the recent Iranian-American understanding, whose first provision explicitly called for ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Rather, the "israeli" enemy has persisted in its continuous violations of the ceasefire, committing massacres and destroying residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. It has also continued its ground aggressions through attempts to advance into and seize villages and areas it had been unable to reach before the agreement. "israeli" disregard for the ceasefire reached the point where the enemy army’s Chief of Staff, the criminal Eyal Zamir, stated two weeks ago that “there is no ceasefire in Lebanon,” before the army’s spokesman reiterated yesterday that the occupation forces would continue their operations in Southern Lebanon.

As is its habit, the enemy, seeking to compensate for its inability to confront the Resistance Mujahideen and to conceal its failures and losses on the battlefield, resorts to committing massacres against civilians and targeting peaceful villages, as occurred today following the valiant Mujahideen’s confrontation against the enemy's attempt to advance toward Ali al-Taher Hill last night.

The Islamic Resistance will remain vigilant against any aggression. Its Mujahideen, with courage and in the spirit of Karbala and Imam Hussein, defend their land and their people, inflicting severe blows upon the enemy army, causing dozens of officers and soldiers to be killed and wounded, and dealing devastating damage to its vehicles. The days, the nights, and the battlefield will bear witness between them and us.

{And victory comes only from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise.}

Friday, June 19, 2026

4 Muharram 1448 AH

#Ashura_Operations

Flurry of messages asking why Netanyahu is doing this all singlehandedly

The kind of shit they're seeing I guess

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency:

‘The Iranian delegation’s meeting with the U.S. in Geneva is postponed, until there is a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Until that time, Iran will not unilaterally implement its committments of the MoU—until the U.S. does the same.’

@Middle_East_Spectator

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: If Israel does not implement an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and stop its advances along all sectors, Iran will consider withdrawing from the Memorandum of Understanding

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❗️Hezbollah tank ambush eliminates Israeli armored battalion commander and three occupation soldiers in southern Lebanon

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[2026-06-18] @soil_owner@twitter.com: It's pretty clear there are four and a half TRULY sovereign countries i.e they have nukes, a capable conventional military, control of the information space, and some level of resource security:

1. The US

2. China

3. Russia

4. The DPRK

4.5) Iran (no nukes, yet)

[2026-06-18] @thereisnobeth@twitter.com: crazy how you don't actually have sovereignty unless you have nukes

I think it's crazy to say that Iran's not sovereign by this random metric w it's level of deterrence: the strait, all the missile cities, & the potential of making a thermonuclear within weeks if they need to. No Vietnam is slander, as always.

I hope it's fine to go a bit regional with it now that everyone is tuned in and giving their wrap-up of the war. You see a lot of people who cheered on Free Syria protestors now presenting themselves as experts on Palestine & Iran. Let's hope they have good intentions but are misguided. 🙂 Surely they will respond to good faith criticisms. Oh and yes this is the royal saudi (who would never do anything like this or fund any large-scale terrorist movements that do this regularly and upload videos of it) newspaper. You're not subscribed, my acquaintances?

[2026-06-18] Asharq Al-Awsat – Dutch Court Jails ‘Assad Torturer’ for 26 Years for Torture, Rape

[2026-06-17] @roqchams@twitter.com: The highway from Beirut to Jabal Amel (south Lebanon) has once again transformed into a massive wave of return, as southerners head back to reclaim their land, piece by piece.

Passing through devastated towns in Tyre and Nabatieh, this journey home proves that for the people of south Lebanon, the physical act of return is an explicit declaration that ownership of south Lebanon remains absolute, non-negotiable, and entirely unbending to Israeli aggression.

My latest report from south Lebanon.

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I better not have to do a CW in The War Room. Let's consider this prompt seriously.

[2026-06-18] @Em21brave@twitter.com: How will you continue your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him?

Not because he had lost hope in life, but because he could hear his daughters’ final breaths beneath the debris. Their tiny hands were holding his in the darkness, as if pleading with him one last time. He was the father who had always been their safe refuge, yet this time he was powerless to pull them from the dust and shattered concrete.

Only his head was visible above the wreckage. He looked into the eyes of the rescuers, his own eyes exhausted by fear and helplessness, and said: “Leave me… my daughters are here… I do not want to come out alone.”

What heart can bear such a scene? What language can describe the agony of a father who realizes he is losing his daughters one by one, while still holding their hands until they grow cold, unable to offer rescue or even one final embrace?

How will your day go on after knowing this story? How will you sit at your table in peace, or laugh at something trivial, knowing that somewhere there was a father whose last wish was not to survive alone?

And the question that continues to haunt the human conscience remains:

How much pain must the world witness before it finally hears the cry of a single father there?

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Okay, after restraining my immediate impulse to ram my head into the wall, I have my answer: I will defend a former imperialist interrogator on a communist website. Whew. That was difficult.

Mad I didn't see this, maybe you haven't. Man was a genius gdi

[2026-06-18] @adnanahusain@twitter.com: Incredible insight which only comes from disciplined preparation and intense struggle with humility and belief in a higher purpose.

[2026-04-29] @AryJeayBackup@twitter.com: Never seen before speech my Martyr Qassem Soleimani, months before his assassination, on May 2019.

He had predicted the 2026 Ramadan war between Iran-US and talked about using the Strait of Hormoz as leverage.

AryJeay fully translated his speech (text):

"Against this scale and magnitude, this gathering [of enemies]…. ? Can we emerge victorious in this war?

Is this not one of those same crises in the heart of every deviation where God ordains a great victory for the Revolution? The world is different, it is larger and uncontrollable. No one can say, 'I control the world.'

If they [the enemy] wants to confront our oil sales, well, that will cause an increase in oil prices. Secondly, every incident that occurs, every pressure reflected upon us, results in pressure upon others.

We have 1,600-1,700 kilometers of coastline. The supertankers carrying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the UAE must, by necessity, pass by these islands.

Imagine a person sitting here; you are passing food right in front of him—how easy it is to seize that food.

When our officials said, 'If our oil is not sold, no one else’s oil will be sold either,' this was not a bluff. This is doable, it is possible.

“Closing the Strait of Hormuz...” regarding the statement made in Hamedan, you must realize that in the very places where you imagine we are not, we are at the closest point to you.

It’s impossible that there was ever a day where we didn't think about this. Don't think [otherwise], our most important enemies—how could it be possible that we haven't thought about it? We have certainly provided the appropriate mechanisms.

All these forces they have brought into the Persian Gulf… and for what? These tall buildings that show their grandeur on television, these high-rises in the UAE and many other places… they are made of glass.

One can start a war, but they know if this war breaks out... Iran has established a garrison facing every one of their garrisons and possesses power.

They know, and they declare it themselves: The asymmetric power of the Islamic Republic is incomparable to other powers.

In fact, before they even entered this line, we were ready for war. We are ready to defend this nation at these very levels, with dignity and power.

If you stand against our religion, we will stand against your entire world with all our might. What is our religion? Our religion is the ‘Islamic’ Republic. Islam which within it is the republic, an embodied religion.

This was proved in the Islamic world—when things shifted in Egypt. This awareness exists well within the Islamic world: Any incident surrounding the Islamic Republic affects the entire Islamic world: for Sunni Islam, for Shiite Islam, and for political Islam.

Right here beside us, in the west and south of our country, America entered one place with more than 50,000 soldiers and another with more than a thousand.

When they entered, even the US reserve forces entered the Persian Gulf scene, the result was what that foolish man [Trump] when he said and showed: They came Iraq with the airplane lights off, in the middle of the desert, and in the dark tent [referring to Trump’s unannounced 2018 visit to Ein Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq], they didn't dare turn on a light.

They guided the POTUS with the light of a mobile phone, they took him and his wife there while keeping the news completely secret. When he reached the US, he showed the dark tent.

Right now, the signs of the enemy's defeat are completely visible. These signs are not few. To the extent that the enemy suffers from terror and anxiety… that level of enemy terror and anxiety is unimaginable to us.

We, with certainty in God and trust in God... in our calculations, we cannot live a life without God in every calculation. We have nothing else. Our power is faith in God. Our power is depending on God's victory. We live by this belief.”

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[2026-06-15] @solzhenidiot@twitter.com: 'A combination of stupidity and blackmail, I think, are the only way we can explain how this war came about.'

Like saying in broad daylight, 400 years after Kepler, 'A great big god driving a chariot of fire across heaven, I think, is the only way we can explain the sun.'

[2026-06-15] @GUnderground_TV@twitter.com: Prof. Steve Keen: ‘Israeli EPSTEIN BLACKMAIL and Trump’s STUPIDITY are the reasons for the war on Iran.’

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‘Netanyahu deserves peak blame, because this is a war that he talked Trump into. And there have been 30 years of prime ministers, of presidents before Trump who heard that same pitch and turned it down.

Now, Trump, who claims to be the great negotiator, fell for that pitch, whether that’s because it’s dirt that Mossad and Netanyahu have on Trump. And of course, we know he’s in the Epstein files more than virtually anybody else.

Whether it’s the blackmail that led to it happening or his own sense of grandiosity, believing that he could start a war and end it in a few days, it’s hard to say, but I think both factors are there.

I’m almost certain blackmail is involved in the decisions of top political leaders, including Trump. And it’s almost certain that his stupidity, his ridiculous belief that he can end wars after starting them in the first place and get a Nobel Peace Prize for it, is also a factor.

A combination of stupidity and blackmail, I think, are the only way we can explain how this war came about.’

—@ProfSteveKeen discusses the economic damage from the US-Israeli war on Iran on the latest episode of Going Underground

Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

(no thanks chief I am good on the video thanks for the offer)

[2] On what will this bourgeois nincompoop blame the next war? This is only 300th or 400th illegal American war of terrorism in as many years. Maybe next year's will be caused by the president's dyspepsia or a meteor passing through Capricorn.

[3] This man is actually much stupider than the ancients who at least noticed that the traverse of the sun was something that happened on a regular basis and couldn't have a one-off aberration as cause.

[4]

[2026-06-17] @JohnTeufelNYC@twitter.com: Said this before but "hate Trump, love war on Iran" is a position held by like 2% of the US population but 99% of the people who appear on MSNBC

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Let it be known: Israel will not protect you 😳

[2026-06-18] @MujammaHaraket@twitter.com: Update on the Collaborator File

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Field reports, including a new publication by the Hebrew-language “Israel Hadashot” platform, indicate violent armed clashes that broke out today east of Rafah between collaborator militia members. The clashes erupted as a result of internal disputes among members of these groups, which rapidly escalated from verbal altercations to the use of machine guns and saw direct clashes, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries among their ranks. Given the gravity of the situation and its direct impact on field coordination, the occupation’s army forces were compelled to militarily intervene to break up the clashes, and imposed a security cordon around the area to bring the situation under control and reassert authority over its members.

Shortly thereafter, the resistance’s “Rad’a” security forces published an image accompanied by text reading “Let it be known, Israel will not protect you.” Simultaneously, news circulated concerning the supposedly “accidental death” of the brother of collaborator militia leader Ghassan al-Dahini (with fellow agent Husam al-Astal expressing his condolences on social media).

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Shehab News Agency. “Collaborator ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Dahini Killed Under Mysterious Circumstances East of Rafah.” 18 June 2026. Accessed 18 June 2026. shehabnews.com/post/158723/مقتل-العميل-عبد-العزيز-الدهيني-في-ظروف-غامضة-شرق-رفح/amp.

Palestinian Press Network. “Spy ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Dahini Killed in Alleged Accidental Incident.” 18 June 2026. Accessed 18 June 2026. palps.net/?p=19036.

⭕️ Multiple reports from southern Lebanon indicate that Hezbollah launched several heavy rocket barrages on Thursday targeting Israeli occupation forces advancing near Kfar Tebnit and Ali al-Taher.

According to local sources, Israeli occupation forces reportedly moved from Arnoun toward the Tabaja station area in large numbers, while another force advanced from the Zaffata area toward the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit.

The advancing troops were met with successive volleys of rockets and guided missiles aimed at troop concentrations and areas of incursion.

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🇱🇧🇱🇧 Israel continues to launch raids on Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

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