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91·6 hours agoIt says the attacks came after (“followed”) stalled negotiations. They did.
Almost the entire article is direct quotes.
Iran confirms:
Iranian state media announced early on Sunday that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed. “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return,” the news agency said. He died after U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran on Saturday.
Edit: Also a whole bunch of his family.
The deaths of the daughter, son-in-law and grandson of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, were confirmed, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency on Sunday morning in Iran. One of his daughters-in-law was also killed, the news agency said.
You’re completely right. But if Russia’s able to prop up a failing, increasingly repressive regime in Iran for years, it will be such a nightmare for Iranians. Malevolent fucks.
The deaths of the daughter, son-in-law and grandson of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, were confirmed, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency on Sunday morning in Iran. One of his daughters-in-law was also killed, the news agency said.
Russia caused and prolonged a lot of suffering in Syria.
Israel’s military spokesman said Israeli forces had killed several top Iranian defense officials this morning. They included Iran’s defense minister, Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh; the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour; and a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Shamkhani. The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, said nothing about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A central goal of the first joint wave of strikes in Iran was to hit as many leaders as possible, according to three Israeli security officials familiar with the operations.
The officials said that, similar to the previous strikes in June last year, planners took into account that they would manage to achieve at least some degree of surprise. They calculated that if they wanted to kill senior Iranian officials, they had to try and hit them in the first round of strikes. Afterward, it is highly likely that more precautions would be taken to protect the leadership.
Videos verified by The New York Times show strikes in an area of Tehran that houses the presidential palace and Iran’s National Security Council, among other important government buildings. Another video shows a strike near Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
Iran’s state television announces that Iran’s armed forces were getting ready to retaliate against Israel.
The Israeli military said it had detected ballistic missiles launched from Iran at the country — the first wave of Iranian retaliation in response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks earlier today.
True, but this feels different.
In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump has told the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms, saying “You will be treated fairly with total immunity or you will face certain death.”
Trump has accused Iran of developing long range missiles that threaten the US and others.
He said the US will “raze their missile industry to the ground” and “annihilate their navy”.
The websites of several Iranian news agencies are down, including the official state media outlet IRNA, which said it was hacked.
Mobile phone services have been cut in Iran after Israeli attack, according to a report from Associated Press.
A Tehran resident and local journalist, said landlines in Tehran were down and only mobile phones had sporadic reception.
President Trump confirms the U.S. military has begun “major combat operations” in Iran. He posted an eight-minute-long video on Truth Social.
Reports are emerging that the US is involved in Israel’s strikes on Iran’s capital.
Associated Press reported that a US official and a person familiar with the operation said the US is participating in the Israeli strikes. They spoke on condition of anonymity, AP said.
Reuters has also cited an unnamed Israeli defence official as saying the Israeli operation in Iran was coordinated with the US.
The Guardian has been unable to confirm this.
11·3 days agoHey now, the 90s had a thing or two to say about rich dicks and sellouts…
The lines are pretty frozen at this point but the issue isn’t that Russia doesn’t want to negotiate. They are suing for peace but they’re negotiating in bad faith and then inventing crises to derail the process they’re pretending to participate in.
Had this one in the hopper to read all week and just finally got around to it. What an incredible read. Thanks for sharing it, HellsBelle.
Whatever else you can say about Biden, the effort to bring attention to this and herd European cats was really historic in a way that I think few will probably ever appreciate. It’s also so wild that the closer anyone was to the center of conflict, the less likely they were to believe war could happen. And to such a degree that one group is planning meetings while the other is evacuating from Kyiv.
The entire piece is such a fascinating read.
Wow that’s incredible news! Congrats! So glad you’re back 🎉
I just realized this post is a dupe so I’m going to delete it in a bit. It seems like you put a lot of thought and effort into this comment. Thought you might want to move it to the other post before I nuke this.
If only. Unfortunately, there’s a legal process to leave but no process to expel.
I’m not saying they were negotiating in good faith. Personally, I don’t think they were. But they’re still called ‘negotiations’ because they were taking to each other. That talking preceded the attacks. There have been articles for days about the talks not going anywhere.