[FoxNews] The new authority was granted by Congress pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act
The Trump administration on Wednesday, for the first time, used a new authority to require U.S. financial institutions to cut ties with three Mexico-based banks for laundering money on behalf of cartels.
The Treasury Department identified cartels that have "exploited Mexico-based financial institutions to move money," which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said enables the "vicious fentanyl supply chain that has poisoned countless Americans."
"Through the first use of a new powerful authority granted by Congress, Treasury will effectively require U.S. financial institutions to sever ties with 3 Mexico-based financial institutions for laundering money on behalf of cartels," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued orders identifying three Mexico-based banks—CIBanco S.A., Institution de Banca Multiple (CIBanco), Intercam Banco S.A., Institución de Banca Multiple (Intercam), and Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V. (Vector)—as being of "primary money laundering concern in connection with illicit opioid trafficking.
The orders also prohibit certain transmittals of funds involving CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector.
The orders are the first actions by FinCEN pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act. That act provides the Treasury Department with additional authorities to target money laundering associated with the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, including by cartels.
FinCEN said CIBanco and Intercam are commercial banks with more than $7 and $4 billion in total assets, respectively. Vector is a brokerage firm managing nearly $11 billion in assets.
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[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud M., 35, was allegedly a Raqqa-area operative for the terror group until 2016; authorities say he stabbed four people outside Bar in Bielefeld in May as part of ‘holy war’
A Syrian migrant accused of stabbing four people outside a bar in the German city of Bielefeld was a member of the Islamic State group, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The suspect, identified as Mahmoud M.,
… more fully Mahmoud Mhemed, he attacked with a bunch of knives, a homemade spear, and gasoline, which suggest nefarious intent…
35, is accused of randomly attacking customers with knives at the bar in Bielefeld in the early hours of May 18, leaving four people seriously injured.
He then allegedly fled the scene but was arrested and detained the next day, around 170 kilometers (105 miles) away, on suspicion of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.
The case was then handed over to federal prosecutors after evidence suggested the attack might have been motivated by Islamist beliefs.
On Wednesday, prosecutors issued a new arrest warrant for Mahmoud M. that also accused him of membership in a terrorist organization.
“Mahmoud M. follows an Islamist-jihadist ideology,” the federal prosecutors said.
He allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria before December 2014, working as a watchman and border guard in the Raqqa area until early 2016.
Mahmoud M. wanted to “kill as many randomly selected people in Germany as possible in the name of a global ‘holy war,'” the prosecutors said.
Islamist extremists have committed several attacks in Germany in recent years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.
More recently, Islamist motives are suspected in several of a string of deadly attacks blamed on migrants ahead of Germany’s elections in February.
Last month, a Syrian man suspected of belonging to IS went on trial over the murder of three people in a stabbing spree at a street festival in the western city of Solingen.
An alleged IS sympathizer from Afghanistan is also on trial on charges of killing a policeman and wounding five others in a knife attack at an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim last year.
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[Regnum] The US administration intends to restrict access to classified information to the US Congress in the wake of a data leak that showed that the US military's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities was not as successful as White House chief Donald Trump claimed. This was reported on June 25 by the Axios portal.
"The leak of the Defense Intelligence Agency's preliminary 'Battle Damage Assessment' has angered the president and top U.S. officials, who said it was incomplete and intended to undermine Trump's claims that Iran's nuclear facilities had been 'destroyed,' " the article explains. "purported to show". It was a low-confidence report not verified with other agencies. A political hack job
The "estimate" in question was posted to CAPNET, a system used to send classified information to Congress, on the evening of June 23. The following day, CNN and The New York Times published the data from the material. Trump was outraged by the publication.
The FBI is investigating the circumstances of the leak of classified information. At the same time, they are working on how to tighten control over information in order to prevent such leaks in the future.
It is noted that Trump has been suspicious of the intelligence community since his first presidency, and the situation played into the hands of his suspicion.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that US President Trump's triumph at the NATO summit in The Hague was disrupted by the leak of a US intelligence report that the damage done to Iran's nuclear program was insignificant.
On June 24, American media, citing a report by the Pentagon Intelligence Agency, stated that the US Air Force bomber strikes on three sites Washington links to Iran's nuclear program had not destroyed them. It was noted that the main components of the alleged Iranian nuclear program had been preserved and the US attacks had only delayed its development by several months.
The White House denied these statements, and the US President's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, called the leak of this kind of information treason, calling for an investigation into the fact.
Trump himself said on June 25 that CNN and the New York Times were trying to discredit the US military strikes on Iran with such statements. According to him, Iran's alleged nuclear facilities were completely destroyed.
The restoration of Iran's nuclear facilities after US airstrikes will take many years; they will have to be built from scratch. This statement was made by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on the social network X.
"If Iran decides to rebuild the lost sites, they will have to build all three from scratch, which will take years," Gabbard wrote.
She added that the nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan, according to updated US intelligence estimates, have been completely destroyed.
As Gabbard explained, media reports about the partial nature of the destruction are based on “leaks of classified information with a low level of reliability.” According to her, the press thus attempted to discredit the decisions of US President Donald Trump and the actions of the US military.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that US President Trump demanded that the American television channel CNN fire journalist Natasha Bertrand “like a dog” when she stated in her coverage of national security issues that the US Air Force did not destroy nuclear program facilities during its strikes on Iran.
Adding this from yesterday’s discussion in order to get it into the searchable record — hat tip to the team of NoMoreBS and Bobby:
Days ago, we were all looking at the pictures of Al Fordow to ascertain how badly the site was damaged following the B-2 strike using MOPs (gbu-57s).
The strike was clever-- first six went went through the air shafts as evidenced by the before and after the ventilation shaft…
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"purported to show". It was a low-confidence report not verified with other agencies. A political hack job
Being of a suspicious nature, I cannot help but wonder if this was a setup, given how quickly it was refuted by sat photos. We have seen the low-level leaker play with characters like 'Flounder' often enough that the media are primed to take the bait. "Oh, look! Orange Man bad! And incompetent and... oopsie!.
Or the intel community could be infested with disloyal crap weasels. I figure the odds be 50-50.
[IsraelTimes] Beating Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary, ‘globalize the intifada’ advocate who’d arrest Netanyahu says he’ll work to ‘understand the perspectives’ of those he disagrees with
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,
…the red diaper baby of ethnic Indian immigrant academics (Columbia U, natch) parrots all the usual anti-Jew/Israel shibboleths — BDS, Israel in Gaza = genocide — while insisting he is also a Shiite Moslem, suggesting an important Iran connection…
after winning a stunning upset in the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary on Tuesday night, vowed to adhere to his views on foreign affairs, while grappling with other perspectives.
Mamdani is a longtime anti-Israel activist who alarmed many Jewish New Yorkers with his rhetoric and policy promises during the caustic campaign for the mayoral primary. His leading opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, had leaned into the Jewish vote and his pro-Israel bona fides throughout the campaign. The winner of the Democratic party primary typically wins the general election for mayor.
“There are millions of New Yorkers who have strong feelings about what happens overseas. I am one of them, and I will not abandon my beliefs or my commitments grounded in a demand for equality,” Mamdani said at a raucous victory party in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City after Cuomo conceded.
“You have my word to reach further to understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree and to wrestle with those disagreements,” he said.
Mamdani did not explicitly mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but has said that the plight of the Palestinians is central to his identity and the reason he got into politics. He is a longtime anti-Israel activist who set up his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College in the 2010s and, as a state assemblyman, introduced a widely-criticized bill to strip the nonprofit status of organizations with any links to Israeli settlements and identified as an anti-Zionist. The day after the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, Mamdani focused his criticism on Israel.
During the campaign, Mamdani refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state; defended the phrase “globalize the intifada”; vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he would have no legal authority to do so as mayor; and repeatedly accused Israel of genocide.
[IsraelTimes] In numbers released ahead of ceasefire announcement, Tax Authority official predicts claims will likely reach NIS 5 billion as Israel picks up pieces from powerful missile strikes
The cost of property damages from Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel over the past 12 days is estimated to be around double the sum of claims stemming from the October 7 attack and all 615 days since, the head of the Tax Authority’s compensation department said Monday.
The likely NIS 5 billion ($1.47 billion) price tag calculated by Amir Dahan underlined the destructive power of the few Iranian missiles to make it through Israel’s air defense shield, carrying massive warheads that reduced whole apartment buildings to rubble and sent out blast waves that shattered windows and caused other damage over a wide area.
"These are figures we have never seen for direct property damage," Dahan told the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday.
According to Dahan, damage claims resulting from ballistic missile attacks from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had already reached NIS 4.5 billion ($1.32 billion) as of Monday and were expected to climb by another NIS 500 million. By comparison, Israeli property owners had incurred some NIS 2.5 billion ($735 million) in damage resulting from the October 7 attack and since, including months of heavy fighting in the north.
Some 40,000 property claims over the war have already been filed, a figure that Dahan predicted would likely reach 50,000 or more, including claims from factories still assessing the extent of damage. It was not clear if the forecast was based on a longer timeline for the war, which appeared to end abruptly Tuesday morning following a US-brokered ceasefire.
Despite the higher cost, the number was less than the 70,000 claims filed for damages between October 7, 2023, and June 12, 2025, including by those harmed by attacks from Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Hezbollah in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to Israeli figures, Iran fired over 550 ballistic missiles at Israel during the war, though only 31 ballistic missile impacts were reported in populated areas. A single drone also hit a home in Beit She’an, out of around 1,000 launched by Tehran. Shrapnel from missiles and interceptors also caused scattered damage.
Direct hits from Iran on the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa were particularly destructive, Dahan said, without providing specific values.
Of 38,700 claims filed before the rocket barrage Tuesday morning, which destroyed a building in Beersheba and killed four people, some 31,000 claims were made for damage to buildings, 3,700 for vehicle damage, and 4,000 for other property, including furniture and appliances, according to the Tax Authority.
These included some 25,000 claims made in Tel Aviv, 10,800 in Ashkelon, 2,600 in Haifa and Acre, and 94 in Jerusalem, among other districts, according to incomplete Tax Authority data.
For those evacuated from homes damaged by rockets, about 11,000 people have been placed in hotels, and an estimated 4,000 have gone to live with friends and relatives, according to the Federation of Local Authorities.
Owners of properties rendered unusable due to damage from the war will not be liable for property taxes, the Interior Ministry ruled last week.
Israel’s funds for property reparations stood at NIS 9 billion ($2.64 billion) before the start of Israel’s preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13, Dahan said. It currently has claims on the table of NIS 6 billion ($1.76 billion) from the Iran attack, including NIS 1.5 billion ($440 million) in outstanding claims from October 7 and ensuing fighting.
The Tax Authority has 130 teams of appraisers charged with visiting every site filing a claim, ideally on the day the claim is filed, Dahan said. A new computerized system will allow claimants to upload photos of their damages to receive up to NIS 30,000 ($8,815) within 72 hours, he noted.
Regarding damages to the contents of a home, Israeli law provides that owners can be compensated up to a certain value for different objects. For example, families can be compensated up to NIS 25,187 ($7,400) for damaged furniture and up to NIS 30,914 ($9,084) for electronics and appliances. The Tax Authority offers insurance for higher payouts, at a premium of 0.3 percent of the additional value.
While only 600 Israelis had signed up for this additional coverage before the war, more than 50,000 have joined since the beginning of the Rising Lion operation, according to a report in the Hebrew daily Calcalist.
COMPENSATION FOR BUSINESSES
Economic damage from the war has extended far beyond missile damage, with businesses and schools closed due to restrictions on gatherings.
On Monday, Israel’s Finance Ministry revealed a plan to compensate those affected financially, including grants for businesses and furloughed workers.
Businesses bringing in less than NIS 300,000 ($86,000) a year will be eligible for a fixed business continuity grant "depending on the level of damage to the business," while businesses earning NIS 300,000 to NIS 400 million will be eligible for the reimbursement of 7%-22% of their expenses, "depending on the rate of damage to business turnover, as well as a refund of 75% of salary expenses in relation to the level of damage."
Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 300,000 to NIS 100 million ($28 million) will have compensation capped at NIS 600,000 ($172,000).
Employees placed on unpaid leave due to the cessation of economic activity during the war will receive payments from the National Insurance Institute and will not be forced to use any of their accrued vacation days.
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Today I'm going to meet a tech who'll give me a proposal for fixing my son's apartment - damaged in Iranian strike on Ramat Aviv. Then I'm going to submit it (in my son's name) to tax authority. Wish me luck.
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[Regnum] The US Air Force strike on the Iranian city of Fordow destroyed critical infrastructure, causing the uranium enrichment facility to be out of action. This was reported on June 25 by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the National Atomic Energy Commission.
"The devastating US attack on the Fordow facility destroyed key infrastructure and disabled the enrichment complex," the statement said.
The office added that, in their opinion, the US military strikes on Iranian targets, coupled with Israeli strikes, have set back Tehran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 22, American B-2 bombers attacked the Iranian cities of Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow. According to US President Donald Trump, the strikes allegedly hit Iranian nuclear facilities. At the same time, on June 25, American intelligence denied the words of the head of the White House about the destruction of the main components of the Iranian nuclear program.
In addition, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi noted on June 18 that there was no evidence that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons. The Iranian Foreign Ministry, in turn, called Washington's attack criminal, and the attacked facilities were peaceful and under IAEA control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also condemned the American aggression and called the US attack unfounded, noting that there is no justification for it. He also said that Russia is working to help the Iranian people.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man Esmail Baghaei on Wednesday confirmed the country’s nuclear facilities had been "badly damaged" in American strikes over the weekend, amid clashing evaluations on the extent of the success of operations against Tehran’s nuclear program.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Baghaei refused to go into detail but conceded the Sunday strikes by American B-2 bombers using bunker-buster bombs had been significant.
"Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure," he said.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Wednesday that there is a chance much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved by Tehran soon after the first strikes, and thus survived the attacks.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... reportedly informed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency on June 13, the first day of Israeli strikes, that it would take "special measures" to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.
"They did not get into details as to what that meant but clearly that was the implicit meaning of that, so we can imagine that this material is there," Grossi told a presser with members of the Austrian government.
Conclusive findings may take months, if they are obtained at all, a source told the US network.
Israel and Iran entered open conflict on June 13 when Israel launched a wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites and ballistic missile program. Israel said the campaign was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its declared plan to destroy the Jewish state. On June 22, the US struck key Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan.
Iranian officials say more than 600 people were killed in the strikes, a figure that does not differentiate between civilians and members of Iran’s armed forces.
Iran retaliated for Israel’s attacks by launching over 550 ballistic missiles and around 1,000 drones at Israel. Iran’s missile attacks killed 28 people and maimed thousands in Israel, according to health officials. Missiles hit apartment buildings, two universities and a hospital, causing heavy damage. Iran also fired at a US base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... after the American strikes, with no injuries reported.
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Hopefully, right now, IMI is working on a bunker buster that's a fraction of size of American ones.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said on Wednesday that the ceasefire that ended 12 days of war between ally Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was going "very well", while leaked U.S. intelligence cast doubt on the damage caused by U.S. strikes to Tehran's nuclear program.
Here are the latest developments on the the second day of the ceasefire:
- 'DECADES' OF DAMAGE -
Trump insisted on Wednesday that U.S. strikes resulted in the "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear capabilities, setting the country's atomic program back by "decades".
"They're not going to be building bombs for a long time," said Trump, who added that the ceasefire since Tuesday was going "very well".
U.S. media earlier cited people familiar with a preliminary U.S. intelligence report as saying that weekend strikes did not fully eliminate Iran's centrifuges or stockpile of enriched uranium.
The U.S. bombardments sealed off entrances to some facilities without destroying underground buildings, setting Iran's nuclear program back by several months, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency report.
- 'SIGNIFICANT HIT' -
The Israeli military said it had delivered a "significant hit" to Iran's nuclear program, but added that it was "still early to assess the results of the operation".
"I believe we have delivered a significant hit to the nuclear program, and I can also say that we have delayed it by several years," military front man Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised presser.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed a "historic victory" in the 12-day conflict and vowed to thwart "any attempt" by Iran to rebuild its nuclear program.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday the Islamic republic will continue to "assert its legitimate rights" to the peaceful use of atomic power.
- STATE FUNERALS -
Iran will hold state funerals on Saturday for senior military commanders and top scientists killed during the war.
Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guards chief killed by Israel on the war's first day on June 13, will be laid to rest in central Iran on Thursday.
According to the Iranian health ministry, Israeli strikes during the war killed at least 610 civilians.
Iran's attacks on Israel killed 28 people, according to official Israeli figures.
- 'TERROR' DESIGNATION -
Israel's defense minister on Wednesday designated Iran's central bank a "terror organization."
"Part of Israel's broader campaign against Iran", the move aims "to target the heart of the Iranian regime's terror financing system, which funds, arms and directs terror throughout the Middle East", said a statement from Minister Israel Katz's office.
- IRAN MPS ON IAEA -
Iranian politicians voted Wednesday in favor of suspending cooperation with the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ' nuclear watchdog.
"The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, which refused to even marginally condemn the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, put its international credibility up for auction," Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to state TV.
The decision still requires the approval of the Guardian Council, a body empowered to vet legislation.
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[AnNahar] Iran said Tuesday it had begun efforts to rebuild residential areas and public infrastructure damaged in Israeli strikes over 12 days.
"We witnessed attacks on residential areas, as well as on scientific centres, research institutes, healthcare facilities and civilians... therefore we are facing a major task ahead in terms of reconstruction," government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani told state TV, adding that the authorities have begun to assess the extent of the damage.
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[IsraelTimes] ‘We may sign an agreement, I don’t know,’ Trump tells NATO conference, claiming US and Israel destroyed Iran’s nuclear program and ‘I don’t care if I have an agreement or not’
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[IsraelTimes] Activists say the now-weakened regime in Tehran has put paramilitary police on guard for internal unrest; ‘We are being extremely cautious right now’
Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensifying an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said.
Within days of Israel’s Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints, the officials and activists said.
Some in Israel and exiled opposition groups had hoped the military campaign, which targeted Revolutionary Guards and internal security forces as well as nuclear sites, would spark a mass uprising and the overthrow of the Islamic Theocratic RepublicWhile Rooters has spoken to numerous Iranians angry at the government for policies they believed had led to the Israeli attack, there has been no sign yet of any significant protests against the authorities.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... one senior Iranian security official and two other bigwigs briefed on internal security issues said the authorities were focused on the threat of possible internal unrest, particularly in Kurdish areas.
Revolutionary Guard and Basij paramilitary units were put on alert and internal security was now the primary focus, said the security bigshot.
The official said authorities were worried about Israeli agents, ethnic separatists, and the People’s Mujahideen Organization, an exiled opposition group that has previously staged attacks inside Iran.
Activists within the country are lying low.
"We are being extremely cautious right now because there’s a real concern the regime might use this situation as a pretext," said a rights activist in Tehran who was incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during mass protests in 2022.
Iranian rights group HRNA said on Monday it had recorded arrests of 705 people on political or security charges since the start of the war.
Many of those arrested have been accused of spying for Israel, HRNA said. Iranian state media reported three were executed on Tuesday in Urmia, near the Ottoman Turkish border, and the Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw said they were all Kurdish.
Iran’s Foreign and Interior Ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
CHECKPOINTS AND SEARCHES
One of the officials briefed on security said troops had been deployed to the borders of Pakistain, Iraq and Azerbaijan to stop infiltration by what the official called terrorists. The other official briefed on security acknowledged that hundreds had been arrested.
Iran’s mostly Sunni Moslem Kurdish and Baluch minorities have long been a source of opposition to the Islamic Theocratic Republic, chafing against rule from the Persian-speaking, Shi’ite government in Tehran.
The three main Iranian Kurdish separatist factions based in Iraqi Kurdistan said some of their activists and fighters had been arrested and described widespread military and security movements by Iranian authorities.
Ribaz Khalili from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) said Revolutionary Guards units had deployed in schools in Iran’s Kurdish provinces within three days of Israel’s strikes beginning and gone house-to-house for suspects and arms.
The Guards had taken protective measures too, evacuating an industrial zone near their barracks and closing major roads for their own use in bringing reinforcements to Kermanshah and Sanandaj, two major cities in the Kurdish region.
A cadre from the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), who gave her nom de guerre of Fatma Ahmed, said the party had counted more than 500 opposition members being detained in Kurdish provinces since the airstrikes began.
Ahmed and an official from the Kurdish Komala party, who spoke on condition of anonymity, both described checkpoints being set up across Kurdish areas with physical searches of people as well as checks of their phones and documents.
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[REGNUM] “Israel has suffered very badly, especially in the last couple of days… from [Iranian] ballistic missiles,” US President Donald Trump admitted on June 25 during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the alliance summit.
At the same time, as TASS reports, Trump praised Israel, which “performed magnificently” during the armed conflict, which the US president has already dubbed the “twelve-day war.”
Earlier, on June 24, Trump said that the governments of Iran and Israel had approved the US-proposed plan for a peaceful resolution of the conflict, agreeing to a ceasefire. If the "twelve-day war" really did end, it ended without a clear winner. Both sides managed to declare their military victory, achieved thanks to the courage of their armed forces and the use of the most modern military developments.
And although the conflict has not yet revealed a clear winner,
..an opinion, to be sure. Not realistic, but he did think it with his very own brain, so there’s that…
it is already possible to draw some conclusions about who was better prepared for war and who inflicted greater damage on the enemy. Moreover, neither Iran nor Israel have fully exhausted their capabilities for escalating the conflict.
Outlining the goals of the operation against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the targets of the attacks would be facilities related to its nuclear and missile programs. A number of Arabic-language media outlets believe that the Israeli army command planned to knock out the command staff of the Iranian Armed Forces with one blow, thus depriving the enemy of the opportunity to respond.
If this is indeed the case, then the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters made a strategic miscalculation. About 20 hours after the war began, Iran launched its first powerful strike on central Israel, including Tel Aviv.
The parties to the conflict differ in their estimates of the number of missiles fired at Israel, but approximately 400-500 launches are being discussed (21 waves of attack with 15-20 missiles in each). The number of missiles "missed" by the Israeli missile defense system is estimated at approximately 15-20% of the total.
I thought it was 5%. Maybe it went up in the last day or two…
The first wave of the attack used Shahab-3 ballistic missiles (translated from Farsi as "Meteor-3"), which have a range of up to 1,200-1,300 km. The missile itself was sent into serial production back in the mid-2000s and is not a new product.
In essence, at the first stage of the conflict, Iran sought to exhaust the stockpiles of Israeli missile defense missiles in order to then use more powerful missiles. And they partially succeeded. Later, a new modification of the Shahab-3 with a cluster warhead was used. Its warhead opens at an altitude of several kilometers above the target, throwing five to ten small submunitions that strike within a radius of 500-800 meters.
The use of such missiles has become a major challenge for Israel, since the David's Sling missile defense system is designed to destroy unitary warheads, while the Iron Dome system is not designed to destroy this type of munitions and specializes in destroying rockets.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DESTROY THE TERRACOTTA WITH THE ARROW
Before the conflict, Israeli media were extremely skeptical about the Iranian missile program. It was assumed that most Iranian missiles were outdated, had extremely low accuracy, and would be easily destroyed by layered missile defense forces. However, Iran was able to demonstrate a number of new developments, the emergence of which significantly changes the balance of power in the Middle East. First of all, we are talking about the Sajil-2 (Terracotta-2) class ballistic missiles.
Unlike traditional liquid-fuel rockets, which require preliminary refueling, Sajil-2 runs on solid fuel, which allows it to be kept in a state of constant combat readiness. The first single launch took place on the fifth day of the conflict. Residents of a number of countries witnessed a strange phenomenon - a luminous "path" in the night sky. According to experts, this trace appeared as a result of atmospheric vapor compression, which occurred when the second stage engines were activated in the near-stratospheric space. The spiral trace that appeared in the sky indicated the successful separation of the stages.
Unlike the Shahabs, the Sajil-2 has a greater range of up to 2,500 km and carries a 500 kg warhead. Outside the Earth's atmosphere, the missile becomes inaccessible to most air defense/missile defense systems. At the same time, at the final stage, it develops hypersonic speed, which leaves the Israeli Hetz (Arrow) systems, which specialize in hitting ballistic targets, only 60-90 seconds to respond.
One of the missiles of this class hit the headquarters of the C4I unit (IDF General Staff Communications and Computer Systems Directorate) in the city of Be'er Sheva. Local residents filmed the moment of "arrival", in which the sound wave that appeared after the explosion is clearly visible.
ACES UP THE SLEEVE
A number of experts believe that in the final stage of the conflict, Iran began to use up to three or four missiles of different types in one salvo. The first was to "overload" the Israeli missile defense system, while the second carried out a pinpoint strike. Such tactics were tested when striking Israeli army bases on the Golan Heights.
The first wave of the attack involved the launch of short- and medium-range Zulfiqar and Dezful high-speed missiles, which attracted missile defense fire. The most advanced Heibar Sheqan missiles, which Iran first introduced in 2022, were then used against military targets.
The missile with a 550 kg warhead was specially designed to counter the layered missile defense system. The triconical shape of the Heybar Shekan body is designed to provide minimal resistance when leaving the Earth's atmosphere and when re-entering. When approaching the target, the missile develops a speed of 2-3 Mach (approximately 2500-3600 km/h), which makes it an extremely difficult target to intercept. Moreover, the warhead can maneuver, evading interceptor missiles.
In essence, Iran demonstrated in practice its tactics of multi-level ballistic attacks, which previously existed only in theory. Using missiles flying at different altitudes, with different speeds and trajectories in one attack, the Iranians were able to partially "suppress" Israel's missile defense counteraction and deliver quite sensitive strikes. However, not all of Iran's missile arsenal was used during the conflict.
Experts believe that, having achieved superiority over the enemy's missile defense, the Islamic Republic could use the Khorramshahr missiles. Unlike all previously used models, this weapon has a more powerful warhead of 1,800 kg and a range of up to 2,000 km. In the future, Iran could use them to destroy underground fortified facilities or Israeli Air Force airfields.
In other words, Iran is far from exhausting its ability to increase the intensity of its attacks.
PENETRATOR BOMB
It is noteworthy that Israel, even after declaring that it had “seized dominance” in the skies over Iran, was unable to prevent the missile strikes.
Each day they destroyed more launchers, so fewer could be shot off at once. And each day they destroyed more missile caches, so Iran had fewer to shoot off. It was a race to the end.
In preparation for a possible conflict, the Islamic Republic had placed warehouses with finished products and launchers in advance in underground shelters and bunkers in the mountainous regions of the country.
During the raids, Israel used F-16 and F-35 aircraft armed with American-made air-to-air munitions. First of all, we are talking about GBU-38 high-explosive air bombs, which are equipped with the JDAM guidance and control system. These munitions are highly accurate and effective in hitting individual buildings, military installations or infrastructure. But the mass of the warhead is 207 kg (446 lb), which is clearly not enough to hit objects located under tens of meters of rock.
Israel has also made active use of Elbit Hermes 900 tactical drones, equipped with small-sized guided aerial bombs "Miholit". These bombs are also well suited for pinpoint destruction of individual unarmored targets, and even for attacking missile launchers, but clearly not for strikes on bunkers.
The only weapons that could cause critical damage to Iranian military facilities are the American GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), used during Operation Midnight Hammer to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
The mass of one bomb is more than 13,600 kg with a warhead of 2,500 kg. The Penetrator's body is designed to withstand the resistance of concrete and granite at supersonic speed. The bomb is equipped with a penetrating warhead that penetrates the bunker ceiling by tens of meters, after which the "smart detonator" makes a decision to detonate.
However, the US Army only has a few dozen of these high-tech munitions at its disposal. Moreover, only the B-2 Spirit strategic bomber can drop them – one aircraft can lift about two bombs at a time.
So for now, the Iranian missile program and missile silos remain an elusive target for the Israeli army. And in that sense, ending the conflict before it escalated into a global war of attrition was a win-win for both sides.
Israel did not tempt fate by taking hits from increasingly powerful missiles that each time penetrated the Iron Dome air defense system, and Iran was able to keep its strategic military installations safe.
Some of them, anyway. But it’s odd how many sites Israel seemed to know the location of…
[IsraelTimes] Experts say it will take years for Tehran to replenish its missile supplies, but it can still terrorize Israel and others with cluster warheads and short-range rockets.
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Rising Lioness (not lion) have showed that Iranian military is just a bunch of terrorists - exactly like their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. Push come to shove, Israel will simple ignore "international law" invented by the degenerate nihilists of Western Europe and bomb Iran into 5th century.
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