via Smoothie’s site:

minutes from now

‼️🇮🇷 The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that Netanyahu’s residence and the headquarters of the Israeli Air Force command were hit by high-precision “Kheibar” missiles, which were used as part of a morning wave of strikes.

We understand that Netanyahu was certainly not there. But Iran is destroying all the myths about Israel’s iron dome and the invulnerability of the Israeli army. And Netanyahu now knows that there is no longer a single safe place for him in Israel and the entire Middle East.

Free Palestine!

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iranian ballistic missiles towards Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/q35Jo6ZABr

— Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800) March 2, 2026

Iran has started attacking Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, targeting the ARAMCO refinery at Ras Tannoura”

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/29391

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“All operations at ARAMCO’s Ras Tannoura refinery in Saudi Arabia have been suspended”

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/29392

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NEW:

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼🇨🇳 Satellite imagery released by China shows that Ali Al-Salem Airbase in Kuwait is totally destroyed pic.twitter.com/lRk1DfNAYA

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) March 1, 2026

via MoA

From Tehran’s perspective, the “social contract” that allowed these sultanates to exist—trading regional neutrality for Western protection—is officially dead. The February 28 strikes proved that these bases aren’t just “defensive”; they are the launchpads for decapitation strikes against the Iranian state.

The “wisdom” of keeping these monarchies around has vanished for Iran for several cold, hard reasons:

Iran now views places like Qatar (Al Udeid) and Bahrain (5th Fleet) not as sovereign neighbors, but as literal extensions of U.S. territory.
The IRGC has shifted its doctrine: if a missile is launched from a sultanate’s soil, the sultanate is held legally and militarily responsible.
Why fly a drone 1,000 miles to Israel when you can hit the nerve center of U.S. operations just 150 miles across the Gulf?
If they can’t sell oil because the Strait of Hormuz is closed, their “thriving” economies collapse instantly.
Iran knows that without oil revenue, these families cannot pay their mercenary armies or keep their populations quiet.
While Qatar shares the North Dome/South Pars gas field with Iran, Tehran can now argue that a “shared” resource shouldn’t benefit a host of American bombers.
In places like Bahrain and parts of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, there are significant Shia populations who have been suppressed for decades. Iran no longer has any incentive to keep these populations calm. By broadcasting the images of “girl children” killed in the U.S. strikes, they are effectively igniting an internal revolt against the Sultans.
With the Houthis successfully closing the Red Sea and striking Eilat and Tel Aviv, Iran has proven that its proxies can strangle the sultanates’ trade routes from the other side.

With the Houthis successfully closing the Red Sea and striking Eilat and Tel Aviv, Iran has proven that its proxies can strangle the sultanates’ trade routes from the other side.
If the “Sultan families” fail because they can’t sell oil and can’t protect their people from Iranian missiles, Iran wins a massive strategic victory without even needing a ground invasion. They simply let the internal economic collapse do the work.

Posted by: James | Mar 1 2026 17:43 utc | 333

YES! Thank you dear Mr. P

On a personal note, as our friend Periol is wont to say …
I am so ashamed of my country … the USA … now in my opinion, occupied by a foreign government … and I have been ashamed since 1963 when President Kennedy was ‘murdered’ (forget the fancy word ‘assassinated’ … it’s ‘murder when your own do it). I was in my early 20’s and watched TV for 3 days … we all did… and Americans mourned TOGETHER. The ‘Epstein Regime’ thought assassinating the 2nd most important man in the Muslim religion would cause Iranians to riot and bring down it’s government… ‘stupid’ doesn’t begin to describe that strategy. Learning the truth about the events of November 1963 made me passionate about geopolitics… what do the idiots in Washington and occupied Palestine think will happen to the Shia, Alawite, Christian (NOT zionist ‘christian’), across the planet?

Along with so many millions I mourn the events, the times we are living … antiwar like Amarynth and others here, I also know that Iran fights for humanity …

I vividly recall the night 0f the USA’s attack on Iraq … my grandchildren were toddlers and I prayed/cried for the Iraqi mothers/grandmothers who while putting their own grands to bed, feared they would not be alive come morning. The attack also occurred during Purim (Queen Ester), and US pilots/bombers flew to the music of Queen’s (British rock band) We will Rock You
(not much symbolism there, right?)

Apologies, this ol’ crone is consumed with emotions … going to feed the birds and stare at the emerging daffodils …