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2025-06-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

At least 23 wounded by Iranian missile in Haifa Friday afternoon, woman dies of heart attack in Karmiel; Friday morning an Iranian missile hit Beersheba for 2nd day, wounding 7 after the IAF did its thing over Iran overnight

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [187 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Not prominently mentioned are the economic costs to Israel of their recent activity. Those include:
* Maersk stopping port calls at Haifa
* Primary refinery no longer in operation
* Reserve troops not in the workforce
* Tourism shut down (and residents restricted from leaving - although boat trips to Cyprus are suddently quite popular)

That's in addition to ongoing costs to fund the direct strikes. Just as they are running through their ADA stocks, they are rapidly increasing the cycles on their aircraft (pushing A/B/C/D checks) closer and accruing incremental fatigue to their EW systems.

So the bottom line is it's a slugfest. Can Israel continue to absorb the current level of damage longer than Iran? Keeping in mind the Israeli's have a limited goal of regime change in Iran whilst the Iranians have the goal of survival as a nation (different thresholds of pain acceptable).

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-06-21 08:30|| 2025-06-21 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 whilst the Iranians have the goal of

…eradicating the Jewish Entity. At least that’s why they started this round of fighting, just like they planned, financed, and trained the last several premature eruptions from Gaza. But they never planned on feeling any real pain for it, being as they knew themselves to be The Favoured of Allah. Possibly they don’t think that anymore.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-21 10:53|| 2025-06-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Not prominently mentioned

Cogent points. Some of that was in this article, or one of the others today, but I trimmed it because there’s an awful lot of text there. Thank you for covering my lack, Clem+Elmish4239. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-21 11:00|| 2025-06-21 11:00|| Front Page Top

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