Three straight hours of missile fire raining down on Israel. At the same time, the Pentagon quietly confirms something it almost never admits: 141 American soldiers in the Persian Gulf wounded, many critically, and nine already dead.
This comes just hours after Donald Trump went on television telling the world the war was basically over.
Tehran's answer the very next dawn? The heaviest missile barrage of the entire war.
Not just any missiles either... the Khorramshahr, carrying a one-ton warhead.
For thirteen days the narrative coming out of Tel Aviv and Washington was the same: Iran is running out of missiles.
The Israeli war minister bragged about the largest air bombardment in Israel's history.
Marco Rubio stood in front of cameras practically announcing Iran's surrender.
Well… here's what that "surrender" looks like:
Cluster warheads spreading submunitions over ten kilometers, ripping settlers out of their sleep and driving them into bomb shelters before sunrise.
Now think about the math here.
A country whose air defense systems date back decades…
going head-to-head with the most technologically advanced military machine in the Middle East, backed by the largest military empire in human history: the United States.
A country that just lost its long-time leader.
A country whose top nuclear scientists have been assassinated.
A country facing a coalition that thought it could erase it within days.
And yet after thirteen days of nonstop war… Iran is still firing. Still standing. Still unveiling weapons even American intelligence apparently didn't know existed.
Trump's minions said Iran's missiles were finished. Missiles keep falling.
They said the missile cities were destroyed. The skies keep lighting up.
They said the regime would collapse after assassinating Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei. Instead Iran doubles the missiles barrage, from thirty minutes to three continuous hours. To the point where even Washington is now clearly hiding the true scale of its casualties. Because if history teaches us anything, it's that the U.S. military only tells the public what it absolutely has to.
And Israeli war media?
As always, the losses around strategic sites simply disappear from the narrative.
But what fascinating is not the weapons. It's the psychology of resistance.
The moment when every global power tells you the wave is too strong and you should bow your head… and instead you rise from the rubble exactly where everyone thought you had already fallen.
That's what Iran is doing right now.
Every collaborate voice in the world said surrender equals survival. Lay down your weapons.
You cannot fight THAAD or Patriots or Tomahawks or F-35s.
And yet here we are.
A country under siege telling the entire geopolitical order something very simple:
If you wage total war on us, the entire region will burn with us.
Oil routes, shipping lanes and energy security... none of it remains safe.
That is what a civilization thousands of years old looks like when it refuses to kneel.
You see, Iran is not a state born from colonial blueprints like its neighbours.
It is a civilization that turned decades of sanctions into scientific infrastructure and built a deterrence network capable of striking in every direction.
And because of that, the so-called "New Middle East" project has hit a brick wall.
And the model Washington sells to the region? It only survives through fear.
The "only democracy in the middle east" (where you get a 5 years sentence if you film any destruction due to Iranian or Hezbollah rockets) that once bragged it could win every war alone had to bring America in just to face Iran.
And in doing so, it may have accidentally handed Tehran the most powerful narrative it has ever had:
We stood alone against the combined assault of the most powerful empire on Earth… and we did not collapse. On the contrary, look at our enemy suffer.
Iran is making history!
In today's report from the Russian Federation of the continuation of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had losses of 2,125 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade, and 36th Marine Brigade near Glubokoye, Lipsy, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, one MLRS launcher, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 44th, 67th, 115th mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 103rd, 110th territorial defence brigades, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Rozovka, Nadiya, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's...
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army aviation and artillery strikes conduct reconnaissance-search actions to locate and eliminate the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory to the south of Alekseyevskoye, Safonovka, and Sheptukhovka.
▫️Attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd, 61st, and 115th mechanised brigades, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade toward Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and more than 30 Ukrainian troops.
▫️Aviation and artillery strikes along with actions of defending troops inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware clusters near Borki, Fanaseyevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost, and to the south of Kurilovka.
▫️One U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher was destroyed by a missile strike near Bezdrik (Sumy ...
The banner of the unit was captured in battle by the Rifle Battalion of the 1st Guards Slavic Brigade.
Also, the Storm unit of the 1st Slavyanskaya captured the next object “Cheburashka”, and the 2nd battalion captured the next dacha area (in front of the Khimik microdistrict).
In addition, Russian fighters today cut the road from Lastochkino to Avdeevsky coke plant.
In accordance with the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, all the Groups of Forces deployed in the special military operation zone have been strictly observing the state of ceasefire from 16:00 of 11 April to 00:00 of 12 April remaining in previously taken positions.
▫️ Despite the announced Easter ceasefire, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to strike by unmanned aerial vehicles and conduct artillery fire against the positions of Russian troops as well as civilian facilities in the border areas of Belgorod and Kursk regions and the Republic of Crimea.
▫️ In total, there were 6,558 ceasefire violations.
▫️Russian units repelled three AFU attacks from the area of Pokrovskoye towards the direction of Gai and Otradnoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).
▫️ Five enemy attempts to advance towards positions of Russian troops near Kondratovka, Novaya Sech (two times), Varachino in Sumy region, and Kaleniki (Donetsk People's Republic) have also been thwarted.
▫️ An adversary unmanned ...
In accordance with the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, all the Groups of Forces deployed in the special military operation zone have been strictly observing the state of ceasefire since 16:00 of 11 April remaining in previously taken positions.
▫️ At night, despite the announcement of the regime of the Easter ceasefire, formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine three times attacked positions of the Russian troops from the area of Pokrovskoye in the direction of Gay (twice) and Otradnoye in Dnepropetrovsk region. All attacks have been repelled.
▫️ In addition, four enemy attempts to advance to the positions of Russian troops near Kondratovka, Novaya Sech (twice) in Sumy region, and Kaleniki in the Donetsk People's Republic have been thwarted.
▫️ In total, 1,971 violations of the AFU ceasefire regime were recorded between 16:00 of 11 April and 8:00 of 12 April.
▫️ Ukrainian units launched two fixed-wing UAVs on the territory of Kursk and Belgorod regions. As a ...
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade close to Miropolye, Novodmitrovka, and Khoten (Sumy region).
In Kharkov region, units of two mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade have been hit close to Staritsa, Pokalyanoye, Volchanskiye Khutora, Veterinarnoye, Zybino, and Zemlyanka (Kharkov region).
▪️The enemy lost more than 180 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, and four electronic warfare stations. One ammunition and two materiel depots were eliminated.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Strikes were delivered at formations of two mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade near Chervony Oskol, Shiykovka, ...
