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2026-07-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-10 2026-07-10 01:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [2878 views ] Top
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1 good target

Posted by Chris 2026-07-10 01:39|| 2026-07-10 01:39|| Front Page Top

2 1 good target
Posted by: Chris 2026-07-10 01:39

Chris,

Nah, not really. Anybody can can target a crowd.

Artistry is when you drop Mk84 2000 pounders within sight of the crowd. Focuses the mind very sharply, it does.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2026-07-10 06:54|| 2026-07-10 06:54|| Front Page Top

3 I heard Max Blumenthal attended the funeral. Whatevah.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-07-10 08:13|| 2026-07-10 08:13|| Front Page Top

4 If this X poster can be believed, things are much worse for the IRGC then is being reported by the MSM. Comment reformatted and minor changes in grammar were made.

https://x.com/Mosolchi/status/2059802503147913732

"After 3 months of internet outage I connected from inside Iran And I have only one message for the world: Don't believe the lies of the Western Ayatollah-loving medias The Islamic Republic is not winning the war and has suffered a heavy defeat Militarily, we witnessed the destruction of IRGC centers in cities every day Economically, prices in Iran have exploded and we can no longer even afford to buy chicken and eggs.
The regime has been controlling the streets with armed terrorists for more than three months in order not to fall.
They cut off the internet for three months so that you wouldn't hear these words Even if you hate Donald Trump, you have to accept that the decisive winner of this war is America.

Posted by Chantry 2026-07-10 09:29|| 2026-07-10 09:29|| Front Page Top

5 DooDahMan:

I've just visited the largest funeral in history, where millions mourned Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader who was assassinated by the US-Israeli coalition along with members of his family

It is practically impossible to understand what this scene is like, or what it… pic.twitter.com/37Hzc0NFN8
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 5, 2026

There was also a tweet posted the other day of the four Americans participating in the funeral.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-10 11:55|| 2026-07-10 11:55|| Front Page Top

6 It is practically impossible to understand

I don't care. Can you comprehend that?

Posted by Bobby 2026-07-10 13:35|| 2026-07-10 13:35|| Front Page Top

7 I think it is nice that all those people showed up to see the ex-Ayatollah off on his journey to Hell.

Posted by SteveS 2026-07-10 15:37|| 2026-07-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

8 Interesting tidbit I just picked up - The Ayatollah's body was hauled between funeral locations in a refrigerated truck with the logo of Kesko on it (one of the largest hypermarket chains in Finland). You'd think they'd at least paint over it - or maybe Kesko can use that to build their brand in the middle east.

Posted by Dopey Photch2701 2026-07-10 15:52|| 2026-07-10 15:52|| Front Page Top

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 16:07|| 2026-07-10 16:07|| Front Page Top

10 Helsinki Times - K Group-branded truck appears in Khamenei funeral procession

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 16:12|| 2026-07-10 16:12|| Front Page Top

11 Thanks, TW. Who were the other four? Lemme guess: Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Judge Napolitano, and Ray McGovern. Pepe Escobar gets honorable mention/guess. (I won't look up who really attended, but I suspect most catch my drift.)

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-07-10 16:54|| 2026-07-10 16:54|| Front Page Top

12 /\ Scott Ritter....Whahahahahah, gasp, whahahahaha.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 17:51|| 2026-07-10 17:51|| Front Page Top

13 ^11,12

Calla Welsh (recent radical, current hometown Beirut) was there

Jason Hickle (official in the USA communist party, currently hometown somewhere in Russia) was there

Christopher Helali (also in USA Communist party and also now HQed in Russia) was there.

All three gave interviews with various intl media orgs.

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-07-10 18:14|| 2026-07-10 18:14|| Front Page Top

14 All the information we have on the four can be seen at the bottom of this post from yesterday.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-10 19:42|| 2026-07-10 19:42|| Front Page Top

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