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.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an airmobile brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades close to Ochkino, Novodmitrovka, Miropolye, Peschanoye, Pokrovka, and Yastrebshchina in Sumy region.
In Kharkov region, units of two heavy mechanised brigades, two mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, a national guard brigade, a territorial defence brigade, and a detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine were hit close to Veseloye, Pokalyanoye, Staritsa, Nesternoye, Ternovaya, Ambarnoye, Malaya Danilovka, and Posredneye in Kharkov region.
▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, 17 motor vehicles, three electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot, and six materiel and fuel depots.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Russian troops hit ...
Ukrainians loses 1,165 soldiers.
Over the past 24 hours, in return to terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of Russia have carried out a group strike with long-range, air- and ground-launched high-precision weapons as well as with unmanned aerial vehicles against the facilities of the Ukrainian defence and energy industries used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The goals of the strike were achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
The Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defence brigades close to Bachevsk, Novaya Sech, and Khrapovshchina (Sumy region).
In Kharkov region, units of a mechanised brigade and a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade have been hit near Aleksandrovka, Kazachya Lopan, Izbitskoye, and...
From 8.0 to 20.0 yesterday, the Ministry of Defense reported on 68 downed enemy drones. At night, it reported on the work of air defense over the Tula, Rostov, and Kursk regions. In Taganrog - one person died, four were injured. During the missile strike on Taganrog, civilian infrastructure was damaged. From Togliatti (970 km from the border) in the Samara region, the media reported about a strike on a residential area and the approach of enemy drones to the industrial zone ("Togliattikauchuk" and "KuybyshevAzot" ).
▪️In the Azov Sea, as a result of an attack, a commercial ship was damaged and a fire broke out (already localized). The dry cargo ship under a foreign flag was located a few kilometers from the coastline.
▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday at lunchtime counted over 500 "Geranis" and a couple of dozen missiles used for a massive strike on the enemy's rear areas.
▪️ On the Sumy direction, the Northern Group of Forces is engaged in protracted battles on previous positions. The enemy ...
