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2025-06-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian - Israeli War News roundup for June 24th, 2025: Both Iran and Israel claim the win, but Iran arrested 700 for spying for Israel, hanged 3 more

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [299 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 All your surviving nuclear "scientists" are Mossad agents. It's easy to verify: anyone who masters differentiation (invented by Itzhak Newton) must be a Mossad agent!!!

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-25 03:27|| 2025-06-25 03:27|| Front Page Top

#2 You're devious Grom! :)

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-06-25 05:14|| 2025-06-25 05:14|| Front Page Top

#3 ^😎

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-25 05:34|| 2025-06-25 05:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "Your Immensity. the Zionists are bombing again! What shall we do??"

"Round up the usual suspects."

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-06-25 08:12|| 2025-06-25 08:12|| Front Page Top

Posted by Gleng Whaick2262 2025-06-25 08:12|| 2025-06-25 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Playing the devil's advocate:

Iran was badly mauled in symmetrical war but this ceasefire could play to their strength: asymmetrical war.

Their proxy regimes and terrorists could attack Western interests while Iran proper is protected by the US guaranteed ceasefire, as Iran will deny any involvement.

This has been their successful way of war for decades, now made increasingly effective by none other than the US.

UNLESS such attacks by proxy regimes and terrorists were proscribed by the ceasefire. Are they?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-06-25 08:18|| 2025-06-25 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Doesn't matter, Elmer. We can whack 'em whenever we damn well please...and they better chill out or else we will.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-06-25 10:47|| 2025-06-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 ^How long does it take to educate and mature a 'rocket scientist'? Unlike the easily replaced cannon fodder these are hard to replace personnel. It is one theory why the IDF went for larger warheads on their Sidewinder missile clones: Arab fighter pilots are much, much harder to replace than jet aircraft.

Posted by magpie 2025-06-25 11:17|| 2025-06-25 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 @7 The capability has been demonstrated. I'm in doubt about the intent.

Will the Trump administration ignore asymmetrical aggression to preserve the ceasefire and placate the woke right? I don't know and I hope not.

This is basically a scenario akin to a horror movie trope.

The Terminator has just been blown up, Reece survived largely unscathed and the audience wonders when the Terminator torso will emerge from the rubble crawling towards our heroes with the intent to kill.

Will they push the button and terminate the m*****f*****, effecting Terminator regime collapse?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-06-25 11:25|| 2025-06-25 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Like I said, they better chill out.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-06-25 12:14|| 2025-06-25 12:14|| Front Page Top

#11 "We can whack em..."

What we can and what we do are two different things. Iran blew up our barracks in Lebanon and we could have whacked them, but did we? Iranian VIEDs were maiming our troops in Iraq and we could have whacked them but didnt. So I do not enjoy the same faith that we would whack them.

I'll leave this thought here. The same intelligence community that said Iran was not seeking nukes and enrichment, are the same intel community saying that the bombings were so successful that we should just stop and gloat. Pardon me if I have low trust with them and the narrative.

Posted by mossomo 2025-06-25 13:06|| 2025-06-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#12 For those who think the Iranian Sleep Cell threads are dubious-ICE arrest from three days ago in rural Alabama-IRGC sniper-Biden let this guy in, YJCMTSU!
https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1937669818632818752

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-06-25 14:37|| 2025-06-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Actually asymmetrical retaliation would be anticipated. I’m sure Sun Tzu wrote something about tricking your enemy into revealing themselves.

Posted by Jefe101 2025-06-25 22:43|| 2025-06-25 22:43|| Front Page Top

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