Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[Musings]

36 US Senators just voted to stop arms sales to Israel. All Democrats and the Democratic strength in the Senate is close to 50. Do the math. During the recent Gaza war, around 19 voted for similar Resolution in the US Senate. All Democrats.
Israel does not 'totally' own the US and it is time people start paying attention to the US politics and vote intelligently.

I feel the tide is turning. Met an American last night. Vigorously against the war - why should we suffer medically and live in poor conditions and all our money go to Israel. No he said - enough is enough.
Netanyahu has burnt their patience...........

 

[Meengla]

So, the Chinese government has not yet agreed to a visit by Trump to Beijing. This matter remains subject to change!

A Pakistani analyst today saying China wants America to wrap up the Iran war before going to China. Otherwise, the American President is capable of waging this war and going to China at the same time. The analyst said the Xi-Trump meeting will be about long term global geopolitics of carving out the world into 'spheres'.

 

[Persian Gulf]

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This is longer than previous estimates which said 2 weeks

 

[Flotilla]

A Pakistani analyst today saying China wants America to wrap up the Iran war before going to China. Otherwise, the American President is capable of waging this war and going to China at the same time. The analyst said the Xi-Trump meeting will be about long term global geopolitics of carving out the world into 'spheres'.

Good. I don't like the idea of being under two poles but whatever required to finish this war is good.

Putin must be jealous.

I just beg China to include any kind of arrangement over Palestine and Lebanon and even Syria. Even if those places are under the influence of EU and Turkey among others, China can pressure and fill the EU's void.

Anyway I don't expect too much. All this came because Trump's wanted to isolate China's energy routes. So don't trust the Greeks when they bring presents.

 

[Yasser76]

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This is longer than previous estimates which said 2 weeks

Yeah, at some point Iran simply will not have enough storage space for unexported oil right?

 

[Yasser76]

Well, if a picture can speak a thousand words, what can a video do?

First ever time Qataris have giving fighter escort....and they used Rafales!

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[Ali_Baba]

36 US Senators just voted to stop arms sales to Israel. All Democrats and the Democratic strength in the Senate is close to 50. Do the math. During the recent Gaza war, around 19 voted for similar Resolution in the US Senate. All Democrats.
Israel does not 'totally' own the US and it is time people start paying attention to the US politics and vote intelligently.

The tide is slowly turning against Israel, though not enough to make a material difference yet. The younger people, have no time for Israel, and eventually that will be reflected in the politics of the USA but that is a 2 decade journey for that change. This is why Israel wants to establish all the facts it can, while it has leverage to do so.

 

[Olympus81]

There are signals that a US Iran may be reached soon and officials from both countries will be arriving in Islamabad.

It would be interesting to see our neighbors reaction to this.

Iran should sign this deal and keep working to improve its defensive and offensive capabilities.

 

[Meengla]

The tide is slowly turning against Israel, though not enough to make a material difference yet. The younger people, have no time for Israel, and eventually that will be reflected in the politics of the USA but that is a 2 decade journey for that change. This is why Israel wants to establish all the facts it can, while it has leverage to do so.

Right.
While the Israeli lobbies funds both the Democrats and the Republicans, which is smart strategy, in the 2024 elections, the Jewish American support for the Democrats was the least in decades and the Israeli population itself was very pro Trump. Trump is Netanyahu's best and possibly the last hope. I don't see people like Lindsey Graham ever elected to be POTUS.
In the Gaza war thread, I had many times predicted that Trump would prove to be even worse than Biden when it came to the Middle East and facts bear that. Biden was personally a Zionist and even said so but he represented a political party which was already alienating from Israel and now is significantly more alienated both on the street and on the Congressional level.
BTW, notice how little the labels of 'anti-Semitism' is being used in America now? Just before the Gaza war, most people here lived in fear of losing jobs or being 'cancelled' if they said anything against Israel.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Israeli rabbi Yisrael Ariel:

"We will conquer Iraq, Turkey... we will get to Iran, too. We will impose the 7 Noahide Laws on all of these places.

"This is a task of the Messiah—to bring the entire world to the 7 Laws. It is not a matter for court hearings; it is something to carry out through war!"

"From now on, there is no more Christianity, no more Islam; the mosques and the Christian spires come down."

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[LeonBlack08]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-sanctioned-chinese-tanker-passes-strait-hormuz-despite-us-blockade-data-shows-2026-04-14/

 

[Meengla]

Pakistan's retired Airforce official Khalid Chisti, who is generally a reputable analyst, though he likes to disclose secrets too much, recently said the downing of the US F-15s and the hit to the F-35 was done by Iran using some Chinese technology. He has analyzed the data--probably from Chinese sources--and is writing a paper/book on that technology. Interesting. Maybe that's preventing the Trump carpet bombing of Iran.

 

[Aziqbal]

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This is longer than previous estimates which said 2 weeks

Iran can last 2 years

World can’t even last 2 weeks

This is like the ballistic missile vs interceptor ratios

Iran once again has the upper hand

 

[Ibbi32]

Well, if a picture can speak a thousand words, what can a video do?

First ever time Qataris have giving fighter escort....and they used Rafales!

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If they cant be used to protect qatar from Isrealis then they can atleast be used as target practice for dragons and to escort us

 

[Flotilla]

The tide is slowly turning against Israel, though not enough to make a material difference yet. The younger people, have no time for Israel, and eventually that will be reflected in the politics of the USA but that is a 2 decade journey for that change. This is why Israel wants to establish all the facts it can, while it has leverage to do so.

I hope you're wrong, Mr Ali Baba, 20 years and no one Palestinian will live in Palestine. I am worry that Israel knows that and are pushing gas to finish ASAP.