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BREAKING: Iran's Supreme National Security council says it has "destroyed the US air base in Al-Udeid, Qatar"

Iran in their usual manner have started dropping their propaganda tweets, videos and pictures on Twitter about how they destroyed US military bases tonight

https://x.com/brightbar97089/status/1937202825890758915

Iran: We fired a missile for every bomb the Americans dropped Iran:

Iran are the biggest clowns in the middle east

https://x.com/AustinS99075689/status/1937198400039989648

Jetline:
Imagine a shit hole country without a deterrent air defense wants to fight US? Hahaha, those stubborn sect will end their country prematurely.

They gonna learn, the hard way , they still thought it's Joe Biden that is the President

chiagozien:
Wrong move if you ask me.









Can they handle Israel and US?

Very wrong move

They are about to fight Israel,US,UK and NATO are the same time
They and their terrorist backed groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen don't have the capacity to withstand the fire power that will be thrown at them in the coming days.
Israel will finally go ahead the eliminate the Ayatollah since they have his bunker location but have been waiting for the war to escalate before they make that move

Iran has just launched missiles across the middle east targeting US military bases

Also Iran is coordinating joint missiles launched by it terrorist backed groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen.

President Donald Trump has already assembled a security council meeting where he will formally declare the United States is officially going to War

Already over 200 US warplanes, naval carriers and battle ships alongside those of the UK and several NATO countries are currently positioned across the middle east in anticipation of the United States joining the war Israel against Iran and Iranian backed terrorist groups in Iraq, Lebanon,Yemen, Syria and Palestine.

The Iranian planned missile attacks on US bases have already begun

Trump has vowed regime change is now inevitable in Iran

More NATO countries are moving their military assets to the middle east to join the war

Let the game begin.



MI

Russians should be ashamed of their military

We have said it countless times, Russia doesn't stand any chance against NATO if war breaks out today
Russia has to go back to the drawing board to modernsize it's entire military, they can not keep relying on the past glory of the old Soviet Union/USSR

Comparison** of **Iran vs. Ukraine** in terms of land size, military strength, army, navy, air force, military equipment, and capabilities—with **bolded subtitles** and updated insights:

**🌍 [b]Land Size**
Iran is significantly larger than Ukraine in terms of land area. Iran spans approximately **1.65 million square kilometers**, making it the **17th largest country in the world**. In contrast, Ukraine covers about **603,000 square kilometers**, ranking it around **45th globally**. This difference gives Iran greater geographical depth and strategic buffer zones, especially relevant in defense scenarios and regional influence.[/b]

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**🪖 Military Strength & Personnel**
Iran has an estimated **active military force of 610,000 personnel**, supplemented by an additional **200,000 paramilitary forces** under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij militias. Its **military budget** stands at around **\$25 billion**. Ukraine, especially since the 2022 Russian invasion, has massively scaled up its forces, now boasting over **500,000+ active personnel** and nearly **400,000 reserves**. Its defense budget has ballooned to nearly **\$45–50 billion**, largely due to foreign military aid from NATO countries, the EU, and the United States.

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**🛡️ Army**
Iran maintains a large but aging ground force, with over **4,000 main battle tanks**, mostly older models like the T-72, Zulfiqar (domestic), and some modified U.S. models from pre-revolution days. It also possesses over **6,500 artillery systems** and **2,000+ multiple rocket launchers (MLRS)**. Ukraine’s army is smaller in size but more technologically advanced due to Western support. It has received **modern tanks like the Leopard 2, Challenger 2, and Abrams M1**, in addition to its Soviet-era T-64s and T-72s. Its artillery strength is enhanced by **advanced Western systems** like **HIMARS, Caesar, Krab**, and **M777 howitzers**.

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**🚢 Navy**
Iran has a relatively sizable naval presence, especially in the Persian Gulf, with **around 190 naval vessels**, including **3 frigates**, **3 corvettes**, and **numerous fast-attack craft and mini-submarines** used for asymmetric warfare. Iran’s **IRGC Navy** specializes in swarm tactics and mine warfare. Conversely, Ukraine’s navy has been severely diminished since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Most of its ships, including its flagship frigate *Hetman Sahaidachny*, have been scuttled or destroyed. Today, Ukraine relies mainly on **coastal defenses, naval drones, and Western-donated patrol boats**.

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**✈️ Air Force**
Iran’s air force has a fleet of around **350 aircraft**, consisting of outdated U.S. F-4 Phantoms, Russian MiG-29s, Su-24s, and domestically modified jets. Its fleet suffers from aging systems, but Iran compensates with a growing **missile and drone arsenal**. Ukraine’s air force was heavily hit in the early days of the 2022 war, but it retains an operational fleet of **MiG-29s, Su-27s, and Su-25s**, and is expected to receive **F-16s from NATO allies**. Ukraine has superior **air defense systems**, including **S-300, NASAMS, IRIS-T, and Patriot batteries**, which have been pivotal in defending against Russian missile strikes.

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**🚀 Missile and Drone Arsenal**
Iran is one of the most **advanced missile powers in the Middle East**, possessing **ballistic missiles** with ranges up to **2,000 km** such as the Shahab-3 and Sejjil, along with **cruise missiles** and a robust domestic drone program. Notably, Iran produces the **Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 kamikaze drones**, widely used by Russia in Ukraine. Ukraine, while lacking long-range ballistic capabilities, has developed **tactical missile systems** and **receives cruise missiles and long-range drones** from allies (e.g., UK Storm Shadow, U.S. ATACMS). Ukraine also uses **Bayraktar TB2 drones**, which were effective early in the conflict.

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**🧠 Military Capabilities & Doctrine**
Iran emphasizes **asymmetric warfare**, deterrence through missile threats, and influence via **regional proxy forces** in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon. It prepares for war with superior forces using guerrilla-style naval tactics, ballistic missiles, and cyber operations. Ukraine, on the other hand, has embraced **conventional warfare doctrines**, integrating **NATO standards**, training, and battlefield intelligence. Its capabilities have significantly matured through its ongoing war with Russia, giving it unparalleled experience in **combined arms warfare, urban combat**, and **logistics under pressure**.

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**🤝 Foreign Alliances and Support**
Iran remains largely isolated internationally, with informal or strategic ties to Russia, China, North Korea, and some regional actors. It manufactures much of its equipment domestically due to sanctions. Ukraine, by contrast, is deeply embedded in **NATO’s strategic orbit**, receiving extensive military, financial, and intelligence support from the **U.S., U.K., EU**, and **other NATO allies**. This access to modern battlefield technology and real-time intelligence has been critical to Ukraine's resilience and tactical innovation.

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**🔚 Conclusion**
Iran is a regional power with **large manpower, missile dominance, and asymmetric strategies** aimed at deterring foreign intervention. However, its equipment is largely outdated. Ukraine, while smaller and more reliant on allies, has rapidly transformed into a **battle-hardened, modern military force**, showcasing effective integration of Western arms, battlefield adaptability, and resilience under extreme pressure. If both were to engage in a conventional war (hypothetically), **Ukraine would likely dominate in high-tech warfare and defensive operations**, while **Iran could pose a significant missile and drone-based threat**.

Iran a country 3 times bigger in size than Ukraine, and has far more military capabilities in terms of Missiles, warships, battle tanks and soldiers that Ukraine but yet Israel has taken control of Iranian airspace with 48 hours that allows Israeli warplanes to stroll and stay in Iranian airspace for more than 5 hours , which Russia is still struggling to achieve in Ukraine for the past 3 years

Power mismatch in Israel-Iran war shows importance of air superiority

The IDF's achievement in the sky over Iran, including over its capital, allows its warplanes to drop bombs from within Iranian airspace instead of relying on expensive long-range missiles.


What Israel did in Iran in 48 hours, Russia failed to do over 3.5 years in Ukraine,.
Aerial superiority is key, experts agree; but the overall culture, sophisticated training and innovation of the Israeli Air Force, combined with its integration into intelligence and cyber capabilities, ensured its success


An important American publication tried on Sunday to explain how Israel was able to gain air superiority over Iran within 48 hours while Russia was unable to do the same in Ukraine after 3.5 years of war.
The IDF's achievement in the sky over Iran, including over its capital, allows its warplanes to drop bombs from within Iranian airspace instead of relying on expensive long-range missiles.
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"On Sunday, Israel was exploiting its advantage, saying it had taken out dozens of surface-to-air missiles in western Iran and killed the intelligence chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with his deputy," The Wall Street Journal wrote.
Military experts interviewed by the paper explained that air superiority is key. No side was able to achieve it in the Russia-Ukraine war and the result was stagnation and a war of attrition, one expert said.

The paper explained that the initial strike was carried out using the U.S.-made IDF Air Force's F-35 stealth bombers that were enhanced with Israeli modifications. "Now that most of Iran's air defenses have been suppressed, older warplanes such as F-15 and F-16 are joining the fight. Israel has also started dropping short-range JDAM and Spice guided bombs, which are cheaper and much more abundant than missiles, to devastating effect."
The analysts who spoke to the Journal agreed that Israel learned from the Russian mistakes and the Ukrainian successes, but said that the Israeli Air Force had better attack capabilities than the Russians to begin with, and Ukraine had been able to defend its airspace better than Iran had been.
“Iran never relied on air defenses alone to ward off attacks like this. The idea was always to use deterrence,” said Fabian Hinz, a military expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"Iran’s air defenses were a much easier target set than Ukraine’s air defenses in almost every respect,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and an expert on Russian and Ukrainian militaries. “The asymmetry in qualitative capability between Israel’s air force and Russia is also vast and can be easily observed.”
Edward Stringer, a retired British air marshal, attributed the IDF's success to "the overall culture, sophisticated training and innovation of the Israeli air force, combined with its integration into intelligence and cyber capabilities."




An important American publication tried on Sunday to explain how Israel was able to gain air superiority over Iran within 48 hours while Russia was unable to do the same in Ukraine after 3.5 years of war.
The IDF's achievement in the sky over Iran, including over its capital, allows its warplanes to drop bombs from within Iranian airspace instead of relying on expensive long-range missiles.

According to the WSJ report, both Iran and Ukraine had old and ill-equipped air forces, but the Iranians also failed in ensuring their aerial defenses. This was a fatal strategic miscalculation, the publication said. Iran opted to rely on its arsenal of surface-to-surface missiles and on its regional proxies.
But Hezbollah in Lebanon was badly defeated by Israel last year and after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Israel destroyed Syrian air defenses, clearing a path for its aircraft to reach Iran.
The Wall Street Journal's comparison of the two conflicts showed that Ukraine's Soviet-era S-300 and Buk System outperformed Iran's mishmash of S-300, Chinese batteries and locally made air-defense systems.

Ukraine, thanks to a 2022 warning from American intelligence that Russia was planning an invasion, spread its mobile anti-aircraft batteries across the country and kept some hidden. They survived the Russian attack, forcing the Russians to rely on cruise and ballistic missiles to attack targets deep in Ukrainian territory.
Iran had been taken by complete surprise, despite public threats.
“Basically, what Israel did with Iran is what Russia wanted to do with Ukraine, geopolitical analyst Michael Horowitz said. "They thought they could pull off some cloak-and-dagger thing, and infiltrate and decapitate the Ukrainian regime but it turned out that the Ukrainian society has a resilience and cannot be so easily penetrated—whereas when it comes to Iran, the regime is so unpopular that it’s easy to find people there who will agree to work with Israel.”


https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-takes-control-of-irans-skiesa-feat-that-still-eludes-russia-in-ukraine-846ccb95

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1avsuaqge

Russia's Track Record Raises Questions About Reliability as an Ally

Despite multiple defense agreements with Iran, Russia has once again demonstrated its inconsistency as a dependable ally, notably remaining on the sidelines during the current Israeli airstrikes targeting Iran.

This pattern of inaction is not new. In the past, Russia distanced itself from allies under fire—failing to support Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War and the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Similarly, Russia withheld support for Muammar Gaddafi during NATO’s intervention in Libya, which ultimately led to his ousting. Most recently, Moscow took no significant action to shield Bashar al-Assad when Israeli air raids struck Syrian territory, despite their alliance.

These repeated instances highlight a growing perception of Russia as an unreliable strategic partner in times of critical military need.

As the direct conflict between Israel and Iran stretches into its fourth day, members of the Russian establishment are coming to the realization that it could destroy the country’s closest ally in the Middle East — the second to fall in less than a year

When Israel began bombarding Iran’s nuclear facilities early Friday and killing its commanders, some in the Moscow elite initially saw it as an opportunity for Russia.

“Only a summit between Russia and the U.S., between Putin and Trump, can keep the world from catastrophe,” said influential Moscow tycoon Konstantin Malofeyev, suggesting that Russia could use its long-standing relationship with Iran to bring it to the table for a nuclear deal in return for the United States withdrawing its support for Ukraine.

[b][/b]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/russia-watches-israel-iran-crisis-with-few-tools-to-intervene
https://www.dw.com/en/why-russia-hesitates-to-help-iran-in-conflict-with-israel/a-72941338

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/16/russia-iran-israel-attack-unease/

Trump has just summoned a National security council meeting, to formally announce the United States is going to War

BREAKING: Fox News reports that Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room when he arrives in Washington DC

⚡️BREAKING

Israeli Channel 14: Trump is expected to sign a presidential order in the coming hours to join the war.

https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1934761127386431993

https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1934761030514577874

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1934758594089525300

Zonefree:
Online warriors have led Iran to their destruction.

It must Rain in Iran.

Same way they cheered Hezoballah

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that Iran “has asked us to convey a message to Israel”, and that “we will do so”, amid an escalating conflict between the two countries which saw missile strikes which were visible to the naked eye across Cyprus overnight.

Speaking to journalists, he said he will hold a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Sunday and pointed out that Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos has requested that the European Union’s foreign affairs council convene in light of the ongoing developments.

“The telephone communications will continue. Let me remind you that we were asked by Iran to convey some messages to Israel, so, today, I will speak with [Netanyahu]. That was scheduled for last night, but due to the chaotic situation, it could not happen,” he said.

He added that he is also due to speak with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen later in the day.

Our goal is to end this situation, which does not lead to any result, and does not lead to the resolution of any differences,” he said.

In addition, he said he had asked European Council President Antonio Costa to “address the issue” at the forthcoming G7 summit, which is set to take place in Canada’s Alberta province, while also criticising the European Union’s response so far.

I want to say it publicly. I also expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the EU was slow to react. We saw a joint statement which came out yesterday after the phone call with [Costa], there were one or two states which disagreed with the wording,” he said.

“It is not possible for the EU to claim a geopolitical role, to see all these developments and not to have at the least, at the absolute minimum, a convening of its council of foreign ministers. So, we have requested this from the EU … and I believe that one will be held.”

Then asked whether he is exerting pressure on countries such as the United Kingdom with the aim of persuading them not to get involved in the conflict, he said that “it is not a matter of exerting pressure or inciting anyone”.

“We have a role in the region. What characterises the Republic of Cyprus? The Republic of Cyprus is characterised by the fact that it speaks to all the countries in the region. We have been asked to convey a message. We will do so. This is why the telephone conversation with [Netanyahu] will take place,” he said.

He then touched on the matter of the British bases in Cyprus and reiterated the words of the UK’s permanent representative at the United Nations Barbara Woodward on Saturday.

“As far as the British bases are concerned, the British have publicly stated more than once that the British bases have not been used,” he said, before returning to his own role and that of his government in developments.

“The role of the Republic of Cyprus in the region, I want to reiterate, as well as our characteristic, is that we will talk to everyone and to the best of our ability … we try to convey messages, to create the conditions so that this difficult state of affairs can be ended,” he said.


https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/06/15/iran-asked-us-to-convey-a-message-to-israel-and-we-will


https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/15/cyprus-says-asked-by-iran-to-convey-some-messages-to-israel-

https://english.aawsat.com/world/5154558-cyprus-says-it-has-been-asked-iran-convey-some-messages-israel