Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main sports hall in Lamerd, a city near the Persian coast, when a missile slammed into the building at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Additional strikes hit two nearby residential areas and a hall adjacent to a school, as the U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on the first day of what President Donald Trump declared as a regime change war. According to local officials cited in Iranian state media, the strikes on Lamerd killed at least 18 civilians and wounded scores more.
“Within seconds of the missile strike, the windows shattered into thousands of fragments. Sports equipment, balls, tables, and barriers flew through the air. Black smoke filled the space. The smell of gunpowder made breathing almost impossible. The screaming began immediately, layered with the sound of debris collapsing and concrete falling from the ceiling,” Mohammed Saed Khorshedy, a 29-year-old worker at the gym who witnessed the attack.
The bombing of the sports hall in Lamerd came hours after a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, another small city on the Persian Gulf, further east near the Strait of Hormuz, that, according to the state-run IRNA news agency, killed 165 people, many of them schoolgirls. Neither the U.S. nor Israel claimed that strike. The Israeli military said it was not aware of strikes in the area of Minab; CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” reports. Another strike hit an adjacent IRGC naval base and the USS Abraham Lincoln is stationed nearby.
The governor of Lamerd said
“The United States and the Zionist regime fired missiles at the sports hall while female students were playing inside,” according to the Fars news agency.
As of Sunday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent and state-linked media have reported preliminary casualty figures of over 200 people killed and more than 740 injured across Iran. Iran launched retaliatory strikes across nine countries in the region: Israel, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with a total of 18 killed.
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi condemns the targeted killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, calling it a despicable act by So-called democratic powers.
She says such actions against a sovereign nation must be strongly denounced.
May these fucking Portlandians all be taken out in the woods, heads chopped off, and fed to slugs.
Hundreds of Iranian-Americans met at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Sunday to celebrate this weekend’s military strikes against the Iranian government, which they say has been the source of brutal repression for decades.
For weeks, the group of Iranian Americans of Portland has gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square to dance, sing, and ask for the federal government’s help in toppling the Iranian government headed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly 40 years.
They got their wish Saturday morning, when the U.S. and Israel fired missiles into Iran, killing Khamenei and many other senior Iranian officials.
And for Iranians protesting in Portland, it was a party atmosphere.
These people are so human stain, man, this is what AmeriKKKa is to these fascists.
Mir Dehdasht, an administrative officer at Azad university whose 15-year-old daughter Rabab Dehdasht was training at the sports hall, was at home when a neighbor knocked on his door to tell him the facility had been attacked.
“I ran immediately toward the place, and when I arrived, I found burning cars and rubble scattered everywhere,” Dehdasht told Drop Site. “The injured were bleeding heavily, some had lost consciousness on the ground, others were screaming without stopping. Their voices were deafening.”
He continued:
“Blood and dust covered everything, and the rubble blocked quick access to the building. Rescue teams were working with extreme care to bring out the injured athletes and the bodies of the victims. The screaming filled everything,” he said. “Robab did not survive the force of the explosion, while others survived but with life-threatening injuries. I felt complete helplessness.”
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, of the University of Tehran, noted that the people of Iran are united in the aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli murder of Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and that: “For Iranians, this is a war of survival. For Americans, this is a war of choice.”
“Miriam and Sheldon would come into the office. They’d call me, he’d call me. I think they had more trips to the White House than anybody else I can think of … she loves Israel. But she loves it, and they would come in, and her husband was a very aggressive man, but I loved him. He was a very aggressive, very supportive of me. And, he’d call up, ‘Can I come over and see you?’ I’d say, ‘Sheldon, I’m the President of the United States, it doesn’t work that way.’ He’d come in”.
Trump similarly boasted on the campaign trail in 2024 that,
“Miriam and Sheldon would come into the White House probably almost more than anybody outside of people that work there. And they were always after — and as soon as I’d give them something — always for Israel. As soon as I’d give them something, they’d want something else”, and last year boasted , “Sheldon was an amazing guy, and he’d come up to the office, and there was nobody more aggressive than Sheldon. he’d always say 10 minutes, it turned out to be about an hour-and-a-half, and what he did is he fought for Israel. He just wanted to take care of Israel”.
He boasted that Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were “responsible for so much” during his fist term including when he “terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal”, the deal negotiated in 2015 that limited Iran’s nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, which Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to stop by giving a speech in front of the U.S. congress urging them to block the deal.
In 2017, after Trump “opted not to push for steps that could undo the nuclear agreement,” he added a line in his speech saying he “could still cancel the deal ‘at any time.’” Politico reported that, “The line was added to Trump’s speech after (John) Bolton, … reached the president by phone on Thursday afternoon from Las Vegas, where Bolton was visiting with Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. Bolton urged Trump to include a line in his remarks noting that he reserved the right to scrap the agreement entirely”.
Bolton, an Iran hawk who later became Trump’s national security adviser in 2018, was also deeply connected to the Adelsons.
There were wild celebrations in bunkers across Tel Aviv—and even a Florida congressional office—as exciting news updates rolled in. The European colonisers stopped cowering for a moment as they heard the death toll of Iranian schoolgirls had risen to 148. Most of the victims were aged 7 to 12—a lucky few were pulled screaming from the rubble, but many more remain buried beneath.
“This is why we’re winning, baby!” one settler boasted on Larry Ellison’s TikTok. “They haven’t touched a single one of our schoolgirls. Fucking losers!”
Israel’s latest success came after a precision-guided missile struck a high-value military target: the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab. US Rep. Randy Fine set off seismometers as he jumped with joy, shrieking “Bombs away!”
Dirty fucking AmeriKKKans: Anousha Sedighi, a professor at Portland State University, said while she understands those concerns of further U.S. military involvement in the region, she would like other protesters to understand the experiences of Iranian people.
“We know you’re tired of the U.S. getting involved in other countries,” Sedighi said. “But there is nothing like the lived experience of a people. I hope you never know the sheer desperation of a people praying to be bombed only to be free.”
This is what these cunts in Portland LOVE: The Department of Education hung a banner of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk outside its headquarters as the country prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday.
New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once
These are the Jews’ playground: Zuckerberg, Brin, Page, Kushner, Dell, Altman, Ackman, Karp, Fink, Schwartzman, et al.
Dozens of data centers abruptly dropped off the power grid in recent Virginia incidents, forcing operators to take emergency action
U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence teams are on high alert and law enforcement in major cities have bolstered security in the wake of this weekend’s strikes on Iran.
Done, done, gone when we support Iran:
I am half Romanian half French but first of all I’m an Orthodox Christian.
I stand with Iran against the Great Satan. Iran is a mostly muslim nation but a brave nation fighting a honourable war. God sees us all, because we ALL are His children, each will be judged and heard. Rhéa Maria
America: Oil futures surged in the first trades since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran over the weekend.
US crude rose about $5 a barrel, or 8%, to around $72 as futures trading opened Sunday evening. Brent crude, the international benchmark, initially rocketed more than 12% higher to about $82 a barrel but fell just below $80 a few minutes into trading. Brent settled at just over $73 a barrel on Friday.
Meanwhile, stock futures fell. Futures for the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Dow were all down about 1%. But futures for Exxon, Chevron and many other oil companies rose about 2% each. Defense stocks, like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, were up marginally.
Fucking VP of Venezuela.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Venezuela issued a statement Saturday condemning and deeply regretting that a “military route” was chosen through attacks against Iran, triggering a dangerous and unpredictable escalation. However, the communiqué surprisingly questioned Iran’s right to self-defense, drawing strong criticisms from the country’s Chavista base.
Venezuelan authorities described the military response by Iran against targets in various countries as “undue and condemnable,” questioning the right to self-defense, despite the fact that the Iranian response targeted US military assets throughout West Asia, not civilian installations.
Orinoco Tribune attempted to find the statement on Foreign Minister Yván Gil’s Instagram, Telegram, and Foreign accounts, but failed to do so as the previously uploaded posts appear to have been deleted. A digital screenshot of the document, however, was posted by Telesur English’s X account.
“The reports and images of attacks on civilian facilities within Iranian territory, which led to the innocent civilian casualties of young girls and other underage students at a primary school, caused deep dismay,” the communiqué reads. This is in reference to the joint Israeli-US missile strike on an all-girls school in Minab, Iran, killing more than 100 students.
The document concludes by reiterating “unwavering commitment to peace, peaceful settlement of disputes, and respect for sovereignty and international law,” meanwhile, urging the international community to return to negotiations.
According to analysts, the tone of the statement contradicts the strategic relationship built between Venezuela and Iran since the founding of the Bolivarian Revolution. Some suggest this may hint at Zionist influence within the Venezuelan government following the January 3 US military bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. Many Venezuelans, however, made a distinction between Chavismo and the current government, arguing that Chavismo represents a movement larger than the current authorities.
María Corina Machado will return to Venezuela within a few weeks, she announced Sunday, as the Venezuelan opposition leader seeks a role in her country’s democratic transition.
Machado made her first public appearance in nearly a year in December, emerging from hiding to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She later presented President Donald Trump with the prize during a meeting at the White House in January as a token of her appreciation for his support, despite the Nobel committee saying the prize could not be transferred.
MAGA MAGA MAGA: The Yale School of Management gathering reported 66% of executives surveyed plan to cut jobs or freeze hiring this year, with only one-third expected to hire at all. So, what’s driving this hiring freeze, and what does it mean for new graduates looking for entry-level positions?
This image, taken 35 years ago, shows Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader—two prominent symbols of resistance against colonialism, two great martyrs.
RICHARD MEDHURST, back, even though the law is still after him!
Ali Khamenei built his life resisting empire. As a young revolutionary, he was arrested multiple times and tortured by the Shah’s US-backed SAVAK police. He survived an assassination attempt, and spent the Iran-Iraq War on the front, fighting a then US-armed Saddam Hussein.
Under his leadership Iran became the backbone of resistance to Western dominance in West Asia. He was one of the most consistent global advocates & material supporters of the resistance in Palestine, crucially framing it not as a sectarian struggle, but as the epicenter of resistance against occupation and settler-colonialism. He extended solidarity to anti-apartheid movements in South Africa, liberation struggles in Latin America, and any nation fighting to break from the orbit of imperial control.
He championed an economics which pursued both the expansion of national wealth and the administration of social justice through a “Resistance Economy” designed to achieve self-sufficiency & break free from Western capitalist domination.
Those who wish to criticize him from the western secular left ought recognize that Khamenei’s authority was rooted in a lifetime of Islamic revolutionary scholarship, producing a vast theological corpus. Aside from his role as a state leader, he was above all a Marja Al-Taqlid (source of emulation), a high position of leadership in the Jafari/12er school of Shia Islam, and served hundreds of millions of followers. His conservative social positions were not arbitrary edicts, but rather deeply consistent with the mainstream interpretations and beliefs of his Shia tradition.
To frame Khamenei as anything but a hero in the history of anti-imperialist struggle is to do the enemy’s work.
Versus:
[A picture of Lindsey Graham with his secret gay boyfriend has just leaked online.]
Find them ALL:
A guy who dodged a war (with a fake injury) just started a war (from his country club) that he promised he’d never start (that his family will never have to fight) while wearing a golf hat. This guy is a greasy orange stain on our country.
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Chris Hedges
Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up our political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, we will violate the U.N. charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat.
This is not our war. This is part of Israel’s demented vision of Greater Israel, of dominating the Middle East. But Israel needs our military, our taxpayer dollars, our weapons to do it. And we have handed them the keys to our formidable arsenal.
The architects of the war with Iran, which the administration feels no need to justify to the American public or the international community, admit it will not be quick.
Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS News on Saturday that the goal is not only to curb Iran’s nuclear program, but “dismantle their terror support network.”
“To do all that is going to take longer than the strikes on their nuclear program last summer,” Cotton said. “We’re probably looking at weeks, not days, of joint efforts by the United States, Israel and our Arab partners, who have also been attacked this morning.”
Israel’s lackeys in the political class, along with their courtiers in the media, including former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employee Wolf Blitzer, as well as academia, are shining examples of Israel’s transparent and often illegal meddling in the American political system. Forget Russia. Forget China. No foreign government comes close to exerting Israel’s influence.
Democratic Party leaders are not opposed to attacking Iran — they are opposed to attacking Iran without being consulted. Two dozen Democrats lept to their feet and applauded every time Trump threatened Iran, or lauded Israel, in his State of the Union address. The Biden administration and Democratic Party leadership made no effort to reinstate Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement. It focused instead on sustaining the genocide in Gaza. It cheered Israel’s decapitation of Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Kamala Harris in her feckless and tone deaf presidential campaign promised to continue funding the genocide, which alienated many voters, and labeled Iran our most dangerous enemy.
Endless war is a bipartisan project.
The flagrant interference by Israel in the American political system is documented in the Al-Jazeera four-part series “The Lobby,” which Israel and its supporters blocked from being broadcast. Pirated copies can be watched on the website Electronic Intifada. In the documentary, the leaders of the Israel lobby are captured on a reporter’s hidden camera explaining how, backed by the intelligence services in Israel, they discredit and silence American critics and use huge cash donations to control the American electoral process and political system.
Israel’s death grip on our political system is also documented in “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
“If you wander off the reservation and become critical of Israel, you not only will not get money, AIPAC will go to great lengths to find someone who will run against you,” Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, says in the documentary. “And they support that person very generously. The end result is you’re likely to lose your seat in Congress.”
Israel flies hundreds of members of Congress, often with their families, to Israel for lavish junkets at seaside resorts. These Congress members run up individual bills that frequently exceed $20,000. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 attempted to restrict lobbyists from offering paid trips lasting more than one day to members of Congress. But AIPAC, which has never been forced to register as a foreign agent, used its clout to insert a clause in the act to exclude so-called educational trips organized by charities that do not hire lobbyists. The AIPAC-affiliated charity utilized to navigate this loophole is called the American Israel Education Foundation.
The investment by Israel is worth it. The United States Congress in 2016 authorized a $38 billion per year defense aid package from 2019-2028 for Israel. We squandered $ 4 to $ 6 trillion on the futile wars Israel and its lobby pushed for in the Middle East. Congress has, as well, authorized $ 21.7 billion in military aid to Israel to sustain the genocide.
God knows the cost of this war, but it will likely be in the billions of dollars.
We are back to where we were in 2003 with a war whose utopian goal is regime-change. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.
The same fatuous lies have been dredged up to justify this war, with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff telling Fox News that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb.
This has been Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel lobby’s mantra for three decades.
I’m not sure how we are supposed to swallow this after Trump announced last July, following U.S. air strikes, that “All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service…”
One lie supersedes the next.
Once again, we promise to bomb a country to liberate it, with Trump saying all he wants is “freedom for the people” of Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound was bombed and, according to Israeli officials, he has been killed. Iran insists he remains alive.
The Israeli prime minister, like Trump, is calling on the Iranians to seize the “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to “take to the streets en masse, to complete the task of overthrowing the regime that is making your lives miserable.”
“This is your time to join forces to overthrow the regime, to secure your future,” Netanyahu said.
That every other attempt at regime-change in the Middle East resulted in disaster eludes them. This time, they promise, it will work.
We may not have assembled a ground force, as Bush did in 2003 for the Iraq war, but once you open the Pandora’s box of war, war controls you. You don’t control it.
American troops will likely be killed as Iran targets U.S. bases in the region. The Iranian navy has announced it is shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil chokepoint that facilitates the passage of 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. This will potentially double or triple the price of oil and devastate the global economy. Oil installations along with U.S. ships and military bases in the region will be hit.
Iran has already fired missiles at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, Al-Salem airbase in Kuwait, Al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and U.S. bases in Jordan. Explosions have been reported in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Thousands of innocents will die. Israel hit an elementary girls’ school on Saturday in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 108.
The steady losses, and a huge spike in oil prices, will compound the frustrations of Trump and his Israeli allies. These frustrations, like those during the two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, will ignite a protracted regional war.
Iran, under sustained attack, could eventually fragment and splinter, sending millions of refugees over its border and igniting the chaos we engineered in Libya. But Israel, whose goal is to degrade the military capabilities of its neighbors, will get what it wants.
We will be left with the mess.
Fucking Christians:
Listen to these fucking media cunts trying to take on Michael.
Paul Haeder, Author 