Israel strikes Iran (Update: US Bombs Iran at #848)

If the bombing was a big nothing burger, ask yourself why Iran is seemingly trying to get access to the underground portion of the facility through the holes made by the U.S. bombs rather than just clearing the sand out of the entrance tunnels and going in that way?

Suspect that what you’re really seeing there is an Iranian effort to actually gain enough access to drop cameras down and do their own damage/contamination assessment.

 

He’s not revealing classified information

 

Ezekiel 23:20

 

Deuteronomy 25:11-12

 

I appreciate that, but to me, the disclosure of information that was missing, or unavailable, from the security briefing is itself actionable intelligence. It seems to me that if you receive information in a classified briefing, you keep your mouth shut about the contents of those meetings when speaking to the public.

 

What you learn after being in the IC for a bit is that a lot of things that the IC classify are still available in the public through open source. So sometimes when you are giving a classified brief, there are things the IC considers classified but the Congress person could have also read it on Twitter. Like if the US IC knows the location of certain Ukrainian forces along the front but there are OSINT accounts that are tracking that info as well through AFU operations that they put on social media.

The other thing that happens with these briefs to Congress is that the brief has to be sanitized to prevent members from knowing where the intel came from, which removes a lot of details from them.

 

That’s not how things work. What your saying that if there a classified brief and they serve donuts that you can’t reveal that?

 

Not sure I believe this but it would make sense why the judges in the Bibi trial agreed to pause it for a bit.

 

No. I was not saying that. But now I have a sudden craving for donuts. So thanks for that.

 

Interesting that the VOA ended up rehiring Farsi speaking broadcasters that it fired and may very well fire again. Apparently the geniuses in this Administration didn't realize that broadcasting accurate news through the Voice of American could be an effective tool in undermining support for the regime.
Voice of America Recalls Staff for Iranian Language News Service From Leave

Voice of America brings back 75 staffers amid Iran-Israel conflict

Voice of America told about 75 employees to come back to work immediately Friday amid escalating military action between Iran and Israel.

Most of the staffers restored from months-long administrative leave were from the Persian news division of the government-funded broadcaster.

The decision by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent agency, came after the Trump administration pledged to reduce VOA to its “statutory minimum,” after it laid off more than 500 personal services contractors in May, and after USAGM senior adviser Kari Lake sent Congress a plan to terminate most of the 800 remaining employees. Lake did not respond to a request for comment Friday.​

 

Iran will no longer work with the IAEA.

 

Israel strikes military target in Tehran …

 

Very enlightening podcast with Bibi's head of strategy.

RON DERMER, Minister of Strategic Affairs - Part 1

 

Wait, what? Israel is bombing Muslims in Damascus to protect Muslims in southern Syria?

 

Iran’s nuclear program intact …

 

Druze do not consider themselves Muslims. Neither do Muslims consider them to be Muslims. Israel is letting the new government know that they will not allow them to start conducting military operations against the Druze in an area that is within Israel's Area of Influence. This new government is still made up of remnants of ISIS affiliates and Israel is likely making it very clear what their red lines are when it comes to this new governments actions.

 

Not sure what this means but throwing it out there for the info. Apparently Fordow destroyed resulting in two year setback and the other two sites just a matter of months.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...an-nuclear-sites-nbc-news-reports-2025-07-17/


If this is true I don’t think it’s sustainable to bomb Iran on a two-year cycle.

 

It is if the Chinese Air Defenses are as good as the Russian ones.