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The US has only destroyed about a third of Iran’s missile and drone arsenal after a month of its war against Iran which aimed to degrade the country’s ballistic missile capabilities, according to a report by Reuters. About a third of Tehran’s missiles have been destroyed, and another third was likely to be damaged or buried in underground tunnels and bunkers, the report suggested. A similar assessment was made about the country’s drone arsenal. The report, based on five people familiar with US intelligence, suggests that while most of Iran’s missiles are immediately inaccessible, the country still has a sizeable...

A man was killed and several others were wounded by an Iranian ballistic missile fired at central Israel late Friday, the sixth attack that Iran launched on the country throughout the day. The missile carried a cluster bomb warhead, spreading bomblets over a wide area. A bomblet impact in Tel Aviv killed a 52-year-old security guard who was not in a bomb shelter at the time. The victim was named as Vyacheslav Vidmant. Vidmant was employed by the Tel Aviv municipality to secure residential buildings that had been evacuated in the same location after a deadly Iranian attack on the...

It’s a good thing that the Biden administration corruptly shut down the Trump administration’s attempt to stop Communist China from spying on us, manipulating us and robbing us blind to avoid offending anyone… like Beijing. “We have heard concerns from the civil rights community that the “China Initiative” fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias. To many, that narrative suggests that the Justice Department treats people from China or of Chinese descent differently. The rise in anti-Asian hate crime and hate incidents only heightens these concerns.” Goodbye China Initiative and U.S. National Security. At least 154 Chinese scientists who worked...

A new US Congress study published last week on the THAAD ballistic missile interception system shed worrying light on the inventory of interceptors available to the US in the near future. The document says, "There is concern that the rate of use of THAAD interceptors during Operation Epic Fury has further reduced the limited stock of interceptors." Despite the problematic reputation that the THAAD system has acquired for itself over the past few years, during which it was deployed in the Middle East, Congress claims that the interception rate of the US system reaches about 90% of all Iranian ballistic...

After an Iranian missile destroyed residential buildings in Dimona and Arad, wounding over 100 people, Israel’s Bedouin community rushed to local Facebook groups to offer their homes, food, and messages of solidarity. Sager Abu Srehan, a father of six and a vice principal at the Amal Reut School living in the small Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, was one of the first to extend his hand to those impacted by the Iranian attacks. Srehan, who proudly shared that his three daughters and three sons grew up to become doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and chefs in Israel, told The Jerusalem Post on...

Iran launched a fresh wave of missiles at Israel Tuesday – only a day after President Trump said Washington and Tehran were having “constructive conversations” to end the conflict. Six people were injured following a strike in Tel Aviv and one munition, which damaged buildings and cars in the Israel city, contained 100 kilograms of explosives, the Times of Israel reported. Three buildings were significantly damaged by the Iranian warhead, according to Home Front Command official Col. Miki David. David said the projectile appeared smaller than conventional warheads fired by Iran. Iran also fired missiles on northern and southern Israel...

Iran has launched missiles at Israel after it ominously warned Donald Trump that it has 'special plans' for him and the US's allies in the Gulf, following the American president's threat to attack the nation's power plants. A source told the state-run Fars News Agency: 'Tonight, special events are planned for Tel Aviv and some regional allies of the US and Israel that will completely remove the hope of negotiations from the minds of the aggressors.' Iran appears to have made good on the threat, firing missiles at Eilat area in southern Israel, as well as the cities of Dimona...

An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a joint US-UK military base in the Chagos Islands has been condemned as 'reckless' by Britain's defence chiefs. Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles targeting Diego Garcia in what is thought to be the first strike ever made against the base.

The Islamic Republic of Iran significantly escalated its war effort against the U.S. with its launch of two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Friday toward Diego Garcia, a key U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean. The targeting of Diego Garcia, roughly 2,500 miles from Iran, means Tehran’s missile capabilities appear to have exceeded previously acknowledged limits. In the period leading up to Operation Epic Fury Feb. 28, Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed, "We intentionally kept the range of our missiles below 2,000 kilometers so we don’t have that capability. And we don’t want to do that because we do...

Alternate headline: Iran Lied. Again. That may not qualify as breaking news, since the Iranian regime has lied about practically all of its threats to the region and beyond. The theocratic-military junta has lied for 47 years about its sponsorship of terrorism, and they lied over and over again about their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Those lies got exposed over and over again, and yet leaders in Europe and the US kept insisting that the regime could become a trustworthy partner in non-proliferation talks. Iran just exposed another lie, one that should rattle Europe. The IRGC launched a missile attack...

Dancing, singing popular song based on Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's saying: "The world is a narrow bridge, and the main thing is to have no fear."

Iran was “unsuccessful” in targeting the joint UK-US Indian Ocean military base at Diego Garcia, a UK official source confirmed on Saturday, a day after the Wall Street Journal reported Tehran fired two ballistic missiles at the base but failed to hit it. The Iranian attack on the Diego Garcia air base — located about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Iran — indicated Tehran has in its stockpile missiles that can travel much further than it had previously acknowledged. Missiles of that range would put most of Western Europe in range of Iran’s missile arsenal. Iran has until now said...

Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia but did not hit the US-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing multiple US officials. One of the missiles failed in flight, while a US warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other, although it could not be determined if the interception succeeded, the newspaper says. The Journal does not specify when the missiles were fired.

Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar’s liquefied natural ⁠gas export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe ​and Asia, QatarEnergy’s CEO told ​Reuters on Thursday. Saad ​al-Kaabi said two of Qatar’s 14 LNG trains and one of its two gas-to-liquids (GTL) facilities were damaged in the unprecedented strikes. The repairs will sideline 12.8 ⁠million tons ‌per year of LNG for three to ⁠five years, he said. “I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that Qatar would be - Qatar and the region - in such an attack, especially...

The US military dropped 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs on underground Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, according to authorities. The massive attack announced by US Central Command came as the war with Iran had staunched the flow of shipping through the vital Persian Gulf waterway. “Hours ago, US forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz,” the regional command said on X around 7 p.m. EST. “The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait,” CENTCOM...

On Tuesday's "The Record with Greta Van Susteren," U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff detailed Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's lack of willingness to negotiate over the country's nuclear program. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes. Transcript linked below video.

Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the IRGC emergency headquarters, delivered a message aimed at demoralizing Israelis in broken Hebrew. Video of Zolfaghari"Your political and military leaders, as well as your Prime Minister, are only using you as a human shield," he declared. "They are part of a triad of officials, defense companies, and media outlets who are pursuing financial gain," he continued. ..... Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters in Iran, addressed Israel in Hebrew on Saturday evening.

Day 8 👇 Iran Missile launches during the first 8 days of conflict: 🚀 Ballistic Missiles: 🔴 Day 1 — 350 🔴 Day 2 — 175 🔴 Day 3 — 120 🔴 Day 4 — 50 🔴 Day 5 — 40 🔴 Day 6 — 32 🔴 Day 7 — 28 🔴 Day 8 — 15 🛸 Drone Swarms 🟢 Day 1 — 294 🟢 Day 2 — 541 🟢 Day 3 — 200 🟢 Day 4 — 85 🟢 Day 5 — 45 🟢 Day 6 — 38 🟢 Day 7 — 30 🟢 Day 8 — 12

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reward came from heaven. Israel used a powerful ballistic missile that flew to the edge of space before plummeting to Earth and blasting Iran’s unsuspecting supreme leader and dozens of his top henchmen last Saturday. The Blue Sparrow, a missile that can fly for 1,240 miles and leaves the Earth’s atmosphere before crashing down, was used by Israel during Operation Epic Fury, killing Khamenei and his cohorts. So intense was the impact that debris was found in western Iraq, according to Israeli sources. The surprise attack came together last week after Israeli officials deliberately gave the impression...

Israel’s military said it continued strikes in central Tehran, targeting infrastructure linked to Iran’s ballistic missile system. In a statement, the military said it hit storage facilities for missiles both above and below ground. One of the targets in Tehran was an underground site used by Iranian authorities to store ballistic missiles, it said. The military also said it destroyed storage centers for missiles intended to target aircraft.