#terror attack in iran

[eretzyisrael]

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Today, the Islamic State's al-Furqan media released a new speech from Islamic State spokesman Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari. The speech, entitled "And kill them wherever you find them" (taken from Qur'an 2:191), focused primarily on the Israel-Gaza war but was a very predictable reiteration of the group's talking points: (i) that the battle in Palestine is a religious war against Jews, and not one about liberation to establish a national homeland, (ii) denunciation of the various 'nationalist' Palestinian factions and those like Hamas aligned with the broader Iranian-led 'resistance' axis, which is utilised by Iran as a Shi'i expansionist project that is no less dangerous if not more so to Islam and Muslims than the state of Israel, (iii) the various Sunni Arab governments are 'apostate' entities that are part of the Jewish-'Crusader' alliance against Islam, (iv) the correct form of jihad is one the Islamic State pursues to establish the rule of God's law, and fighting all the disbelievers.

Within this context, the Islamic State has now launched a new expedition entitled "Kill them wherever you find them," beginning with claiming responsibility for the two bombings that took place on in the hometown of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander Qasim Sulaymani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the Americans. As soon as the sheer scale of the killing of people in such an indiscriminate terrorist attack, it became evident to me that the bombings were likely an Islamic State operation (though it is always wise to wait and see if the group claims a particular attack). Blaming Israel for the incident, as John Hopkins professor Vali Nasr did, was frankly ludicrous. It is simply not Israel's modus operandi to engage in such terroristic acts inside Iran: rather, Israel pursues carefully targeted killings for specific goals like undermining Iran's nuclear program. The suggestions that the attacks might have been an inside Iranian job also struck me as ridiculous.

These attacks illustrate the Islamic State's unchanging basic worldview and that it is ultimately a marginal player in wider regional geopolitics. The Islamic State pursues an ideologically purist agenda based on fighting all others who do not share its rigid political program, wherever it is possible for the group's members and supporters to do so. Ultimately, this amounts to the same old messaging and the same old tactics. While there was concern that these bombings would somehow trigger further 'regional escalation,' they are in reality a sideshow, especially now that the Islamic State has officially claimed the attacks.

Below is the statement by Islamic State claiming responsibility for the Iran bombings, translated by me.

As part of the 'And kill them wherever you find them' expedition: the killing and wounding of more than 300 of the idolatrous Rafidites [Shi'a] in a dual martyrdom operation [suicide bombing] in Iran.

Iran: Thursday, 22 Jumada al-Akhira 1445 AH

Through granting of success by God Almighty, and as part of the 'And kill them wherever you find them' expedition, two martyrdom operative brothers- Omar al-Muwahhid and Sayf Allah al-Mujahid (may God Almighty accept them both)- headed yesterday towards a great gathering of idolatrous Rafidites, near the tomb of their hypocrite leader 'Qasim Sulaymani' in the town of Kerman in southern Iran. There, they blew up their explosive belts amid their gathering. This resulted in the killing and wounding of more than 300 idolatrous Rafidites. Thanks and praise be to God.

May the idolatrous Rafidites know that the mujahidin lie in wait for them and their projects, by the permission of God Almighty.

[matan4il]

As we still don't know how and when Israel is going to respond to the massive Iranian attack, the Iranian-funded terrorist organization Hezbollah hits Israel with a drone attack for the second day in a row, this time it hit a Bedouin (Muslim Arab) Israeli town and injured 18. On TV, they're reporting that the 18 people injured are Israeli soldiers, who were stationed in the town in order to protect its Muslim Arab population. Six of the soldiers are said to be in a serious state.

And here's an Iranian woman to remind you all that if you're standing with the Islamis regime of Iran, just so you can stand against Israel, then the regular Iranians are judging you...

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[simplysiriuslyjoking]

Another video of the attack in a different part of the country.

I wish this upon any person who is antizionist/antisemitism.

[cavalierzee]

Hauntingly Beautiful Bombardment?

Is it also okay to say the rockets that strike Israel from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Etc., are “Hauntingly Beautiful?”

[lostinsidelostoutside]

[jloisse]

🔴 Moussa Abu Marzouq, adjoint du bureau politique du Hamas :

« Après la réponse de l'Iran, le nombre de martyrs parmi notre peuple dans la bande de Gaza a diminué jusqu'au niveau le plus bas. »

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Really fucking sucks that I have to keep speaking about this, but Israel just bombed Tehran. This is the 3rd country they’ve invaded and actively engaged in war with since October 7, 2023. If they attack their nuclear or oil capacities, it will be the last accomplish they need to complete their WWIII speedrun. Now, I’m a personal believer that WWIII is already happening, I’d argue it has been since 9/11, we’re just reaching the fulcrum. Israel has nuclear weapons and unlike Russia, they will not be retaliated against by the west in the same way if they use them, considering the chokehold they have on the western world. Shit could get unimaginably bad real quick any day now, it has already actually, and if not not now, inevitably eventually, and we (the west) will assuredly find some way to justify it. Pray for Iran, pray for Lebanon, and pray for Palestine. Israel is a monstrous, hitlerian bully, and it’s appetite for blood is going to leave irreparable wounds on the world forever. They won’t stop until they have the entire region in chains. 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷

[malificandy]

[workersolidarity]

[the moment explosions rocked the Iranian city of Kerman where mourners gathered to commemorate the 4th martyrdom anniversary of Gen. Soleimani]

🇮🇷 🧨💥🚑☠️ 🚨

💥EXPLOSIONS ROCK KERMAN, IRAN, THE BURIAL SITE OF QASSAM SOLEIMANI ON ANNIVERSARY OF ASSASSINATION💥

Explosions rocked the burial site of assassinated Iranian General Qassam Soleimani on the anniversary of his assassination by the United States Wednesday.

According to reports, upwards of 103 were killed and another 141 wounded in Kerman, Iran when two explosions rocked a ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of Qassam Soleimani's assassination by U.S. forces.

Medical sources said they expect the death toll to rise as ambulance services transported the dead and wounded to hospital, with the Deputy head of Iran's emergency services, Babak Yektaparast, emphasizing that many of the injured are in critical condition.

Iranian State-News service IRNA said the first explosion occured about 700 meters from Soleimani's burial site, while a second explosion occured about a kilometer away.

Tasnim news agency is reporting that two bags loaded with explosives were remotely detonated, causing the explosions.

The first explosion took place at approximately 2:50pm local time, with the second explosion taking place roughly 10 minutes later.

Iran's Red Crescent Society announced three of their rescue personnel were killed in the second explosion. Some were also injured when the crowd rushed to escape after the explosions.

In response to the explosions, Iran's Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi the Iranian News Network that a "crushing" response will soon be given to the culprits.

#source

#videosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[just-a-shrew]

havent been on tumblr in awhile but i needed to talk about this and spread this information.

yesterday and today (that is, September 16 & 17, 2024) there were bombs going off in iran.

yesterday it was pagers. pagers are used as theyre easier to hear and feel, and typically more reliable than iphones which use cell towers, and are also less likely to be tracked.

israel somehow put bombs in their pagers, which were set off and ended up killing 12 people, including 2 children, and injuring thousands more; nearly 3,000 people were injured from these explosives.

today, it was their walkie talkies that exploded. on top of the 12 killed yesterday, another 9-20 (numbers vary from different sites) are dead with hundreds more people injured (300-450)

the attack was mainly focused on the hezbollah, but even so many, many civilians were hurt and killed.

my stuff on tumblr is typically light hearted but seeing as i did a bit of research on this to share with my friends, i figured i should spread the word here too. its only right. and im by no means an expert, so take what i’ve said with a grain of salt and do a bit of research on your own. articles and videos i read/watched are below.

here are some videos explaining/talking about the exploding walkie talkie situation youtube.com/watch?v=nE3q0Zdc9gA

youtube.com/watch?v=Sdng8IMmU-o

if you want a video thats a but longer and goes a bit more in depth heres this one: youtube.com/watch?v=PhKMczBBP40

and some videos on the pager attack from yesterday youtube.com/watch?v=cU-fhvd-REk (skip to 0:50 for the attack)

youtube.com/watch?v=zmOOjnErHmc

some articles: (i really recommend reading these as they go way more into depth and explain things more and better than i can)

cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk/index.html

bbc.com/news/articles/cz04m913m49o

bbc.com/news/articles/ce9jglrnmkvo

theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/pager-and-walkie-talkie-attacks-on-hezbollah-were-audacious-and-carefully-planned

time.com/7022458/exploding-pager-attack-lebanon-hezbollah-israel/

apnews.com/live/lebanon-syria-pagers-hezbollah-updates

stay safe, stay curious, share information but make sure to do proper research too. never trust just one site, always look for common and shared information between multiple sources.

information is made by humans, for humans, and for a reason. in this case, its to share and spread the word of what israel is doing to other countries.

[matan4il]

I've written before that the Iranian attack on Israel is pretty unprecedented, and I was thinking in terms of the history of this specific conflict, but it's actually true on a bigger scale as well.

They launched at least 331 airborne weapons that Israel has intercepted as well, more if you take into account what was intercepted by other countries. Most of the weapons were launched out of Iran itself, but some were launched by Iran's proxies from the territories of Yemen and Syria.

Now, the suicide drones? Take about 8 hours to make it from Iran to Israel. The cruise missiles? Around 4 hours. And the ballistic missiles? Those are the ones that would cause the most damage and would be the hardest to intercept, they actually leave the Earth's atmosphere, travel in outer space and re-enter right before they strike, and they move at such a speed that they make it from Iran to Israel within just 10 minutes. So imagine what it means, that Iran launched all of these weapons at different times, from different locations, but coordinated everything to make sure they'd all hit Israel at roughly the same time. That was done in order to tax our defence systems, to maximize how much would get through and succeed in hurting Israelis. Despite that, 100% of the drones were intercepted, as were 100% of the cruise missiles, and 99% of the ballistic missiles. Only one person (a 7 year old Muslim Bedouine girl, Amin al-Houssani, was injured, please keep her in your thoughts) was directly hurt (though over 60 more people were indirectly harmed).

Defence systems usually aim for a success rate of between 80 to 90% interceptions, so the fact that this MASSIVE and UNPRECEDENTED attack was launched, designed to penetrate all of the defence systems that could be employed against it for maximal damage, yet Israel and the coalition that came together (including Arab countries) to stop Iran's attack managed to make sure that less than 1% got in? Unbelievable. The attack was unprecedented, and so was the defence. I can tell you, even some of the Israelis who worked on developing our defence systems for years felt the success rate had actually exceeded their expectations. That said, the attack was bigger than anyone in Israel thought it would be, too.

Just to really drive home what a ballistic missile is like, this is just the engine carrying part of this ballistic missile, which was intercepted over the Dead Sea (Iran launched at least 110 at Israel, 99% of which were successfully intercepted):

But even intercepted airborne weapons cause damage. Little Amina was hit by debris from an interception. I'm sharing a vid, cut from the news (it's just for visuals, so I didn't translate it), which shows one of the few hits inside Israel (filmed by Israeli Muslim Arab Bedouins, you can hear one of them calling in panic to his friend, Ramadan), and then the debris that the IDF collected and removed by trucks, to give you an idea of the size of these pieces of weapons, falling from the sky, after they had flown across 1,600 kilometers (~1000 miles):

Bottom line, it's no surprise that the Israeli Chief of Staff made it clear that there will be an Israeli response. We don't know yet what kind of a response it would be, or when it will take place, but there will be one. This kind of attack from Iran just can't be met with silence. If it were, that would imply acceptance of the massive and unprecedented nature of the attack, which in themselves constitute evidence that Iran very much did intend to cause Israel real damage.

That means if Israel accepts the attack with a shrug of, "hey, we inetrcepted it, and it only cost us 5 billion shekels, so we can just look the other way," then next time? Iran will launch an even bigger attack, to try and get past this remarkable defence. And there will be a next Iranian attack, no matter what excuse they use in order to launch it.

In related news, the Iranian-funded terrorist organization Hezbollah has launched two attack drones at Israel today, which did not set off the warning alarms, crashed in Israeli territory, caused a fire, and wounded at least 3 people.

Meanwhile, this is a reminder that while the Islamist regime of Iran has had a lot of victims since its inception in 1979, no one has suffered at its hands more than the Iranian People. It's no wonder that there are signs of Israel support in Iran, even under that oppressive dictatorship. Here's a graffiti seen in Tehran:

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[tomorrowusa]

While monitoring events in the Middle East, don't take your eyes off of Putin.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is not unrelated to Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.

From Josh Rogin in the Washington Post.

The current temporary government funding bill expires at the end of November. That’s also the deadline for approving U.S. aid to Ukraine before real damage is done to Kyiv’s ability to continue fighting. The House will feel pressure to pass an Israel-Ukraine funding bill quickly if the Senate sends it over. But it’s a high-risk gambit. “If the administration and Ukraine supporters in the House and Senate don’t get together and push this through, it is very possible that Ukraine aid will not pass in the House at all,” a senior GOP congressional aide told me. “This is going to be a fight and it’s not going to be easy. But this is one of the only realistic paths forward now for Ukraine aid.” It’s worth noting that Russian propaganda outlets are eager to present U.S. aid to Israel and Ukraine as contradictory, with President Biden forced to choose between them. The Russian government has not condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks. The Kremlin is asserting that Ukraine has sent weapons to Hamas, while Kyiv claims that Hamas received captured Ukrainian arms from Moscow.

You know Putin is desperate when he's trying to get people to believe that Ukraine is somehow sending arms to Hamas. He's apparently appealing to the lowest IQ people on the planet.

Iran and Russia are on the same side. Iran underwrites Hamas, they are the wealthiest terrorist group around today. Russia has a large presence in Syria which is next to Lebanon where Trump's favorite terrorist group Hezbollah is active.

Yet Russia is right to suggest that the two wars are connected. For one thing, Iranian assistance plays heavily into both conflicts. Iran is supplying drones to Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians and likely helped Hamas to develop the drone capability it just used to kill Israeli civilians.

Iran builds drones which Russia, backed by the House Putin Caucus, uses to kill Ukrainians.

[simplysiriuslyjoking]

For those of you who want to spread how an attack on your homeland looks like for privileged fucks who would probably shit themselves if this happened in their country.

עם ישראל חי.

[cavalierzee]

Israel's Real Iron Dome

Arab Leaders were installed to safeguard Israel and Western interests, not to liberate their occupied lands nor liberate Occupied Palestine.