Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #3

[mystery-ak]

Thank you Jesus

https://twitter.com/HormuzLetter/status/2040144737110217069

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/2040216573948964990

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/defense_civil25/status/2040211672258732443

For them to call a meeting at the White House this evening is foreboding

I hope they're getting serious @DCPatriot  --- really serious.

During his first campaign, Trump gave a synopsis of what he would have done differently in Afghanistan. 

In a nutshell he said he would have bombed the shit out of the place --- massive bombs, bunker busting bombs, rock turned into sealed dust.  Every road in and out of the country made impassable for a generation.  Then he would have gone on to destroy their cities, towns and supply lines.  Demolished all air strips, starting with ours --- crumbled it twice without leaving so much as a bottle of water.

On on the way out the poppy fields would have been turned into slow, perpetual burn pits coughing poison into the air for years.

He would have taken one final look at the total destruction and smiled anticipating the day the black smoke clears just enough to expose the pole with the note: "Don't make us have to come back".

Thanks to Generals Macron and Starmer cancelling their alliance with the US ⬆️ this is doable in Iran.   

[mystery-ak]

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=579615.msg3294299#msg3294299

Damnit!

[mystery-ak]

David Hookstead
@dhookstead
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1h
U.S. Special Operations have heavily entered Iran tonight to find our missing F-15 crew member.

Iranian forces are also swarming the area.

Pray for our troops and pray they get our guy home. Tonight has the potential to be brutally violent.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/defense_civil25/status/2040208926591889628

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/TruthTrumpPost/status/2040129429645512968

[Smokin Joe]

What ABC is describing IS a heat-seeking missile.

Yep. Think 'Stinger'.

[libertybele]

 Iranian air defenses are becoming more dangerous for US jets!!  So .... what has changed????

[mystery-ak]

Okay..he hasn't been rescued yet...

https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/2040224345901973829

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/2040223828853575981

[mystery-ak]

per fox Mike Tobin...the A-10 was shot down and the pilot rescued

The F-15E Airman has NOT been rescued....

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/2040229843720176010

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2040225987577659774

[mystery-ak]

Just Now
Pinned
Second US jet 'crashed' near Strait of Hormuz, F-15E crew member still missing: sources

An A-10 Warthog aircraft reportedly “crashed” near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, though the exact location remains unclear, according to sources briefed on intelligence matters.

The pilot was safely recovered.

In a separate incident involving the downed F-15E fighter jet, the aircraft’s weapons systems officer remains missing. It is not immediately clear whether he was able to eject from the aircraft safely.

Two rescue helicopters deployed as part of a combat search-and-rescue mission to locate the missing crew member also came under enemy fire.

Both helicopters sustained damage, and some crew members were reportedly injured, but the aircraft were able to land safely.

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
Posted by Sophia Compton

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2040150758901846445

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2040234946762002606

[mystery-ak]

Rodavlas
@Rodavlas11_8
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3,700 sorties and Iran is still setting up ambushes with shoulder-fired missiles. That's not air superiority — that's a $31.8B air campaign being defeated by guys with MANPADs on mountain ridges. Hegseth promised dominance in 48 hours. Week 5: two jets down in one day.

[Hoodat]

Brian Allen
@allenanalysis

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A retired Navy SEAL is confirming on camera that US Special Operations Forces — SEALs and Green Berets — are operating deep inside Iran on a rescue mission for the downed F-15 crew.

This is American boots on the ground in Iran.

Thank you for tipping off our enemies, you schmuck.

[Hoodat]

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman

BREAKING: Michael Pregent just dropped the UNFILTERED TRUTH on Fox about the downed U.S. jet in Iran.

The IRGC managed to set up air defense ambushes using low tech tactics like shoulder fired missiles or optical AA guns

@DCPatriot

Like I said, the IRGC has become Hezbollah.

[Timber Rattler]

@DCPatriot

Like I said, the IRGC has become Hezbollah.

One thing I'm wondering about is where the regular Iranian Army is standing amidst all this.  The IRGC is like the Nazi Waffen SS and Gestapo, whereas Iranian regular troops are more analagous to the Heer/Wehrmacht, which was the regular German army, and was reconstituted as the West German Bundeswehr in 1955.

For example, at the Battles of Castle Itter and Hostau, regular German troops turned on the SS and joined with U.S. Army units to fight them off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy

So what are the Iranian regulars doing?

[DCPatriot]

@DCPatriot

Like I said, the IRGC has become Hezbollah.

Yep! 

[bigheadfred]

Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
@BabakTaghvaee1
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3h
BREAKING: In just few hours, the oil price will reach to $200 USD per barrel! Heavy U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have targeted the Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in southern Iran. This is one of Iran’s major oil infrastructures.

Multiple explosions were reported minutes ago, with at least 25 heavy blasts recorded across the area. Facilities including Marun, Karoun, Bandar Imam, Amir Kabir, Razi petrochemicals, and Fajr 1 & 2 power plants were hit.

Large columns of smoke are rising from the petrochemical complex as a result of the strikes. Further updates are expected.

The IRGC is expected to retaliate this by heavily targeting major oil infrastructures of Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the Saudis had an important role in the airstrikes against the oil facilities of Iran today (by providing access to the Prince Sultan Air Base).

[bigheadfred]

Jim Ferguson
@JimFergusonUK
🚨 IRGC COMMAND HIT — DECAPITATION STRIKE IN TEHRAN

A major intelligence-led operation has reportedly taken out a senior IRGC command and control centre in Tehran.

Dozens of top officials — eliminated in one strike.

[BobfromWB]

You're such a positive uplifting person....LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

Ooh nasty realism is so threatening - even 47 is beginning to see the real effects of his rah rah statements.

[bigheadfred]

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر
@emilykschrader
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1h
Iraqi media reports that Saturday afternoon, a convoy of Hashd al-Shaabi Iraqi proxy terrorists that had entered Iranian territory were targeted by airstrikes from the Israel-U.S. coalition.

Reuters also reported that the Iraqi government closed the Shalamcheh border crossing.

[bigheadfred]

FalconUpdatesHQ
@FalconUpdatesHQ
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6h
BREAKING 🚨

💥 A Major blow to IRGC assets.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 U.S. and Israeli forces carried out a strike on Kolchehchal, Tehran, targeting surveillance, communication, and radar systems.

📡 Preliminary reports indicate that multiple high-value systems were destroyed in the operation.

[BobfromWB]

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2040150758901846445

And they would know this bit of information how? Talking with their friends in the IRGC?

[bigheadfred]

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
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20m
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Insane close-up of the U.S airstrike on Iran's B1 bridge in Karaj, west of Tehran.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2040395960480682326

[bigheadfred]

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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41m
🚨 BREAKING: A full scale search is still racing to find the American hero downed inside Iranian territory, and the crew member has to be full SURVIVAL MODE right now

President Trump is at the White House today focusing on the mission

BRING HIM HOME 🇺🇸🙏🏻

[bigheadfred]

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
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1h
🇨🇳🇮🇷 China has reportedly sent 4 ships carrying chemicals, which can be used to produce hundreds of ballistic missiles, to Iran.

The U.S. began the war to cut China off from oil to win the AI arms race, and now China is helping Iran sustain the worst global energy crisis since the 70s for the foreseeable future.

Source: Telegraph

[bigheadfred]

Iran Spectator
@IranSpec
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6h
People don’t understand how easily the Islamic Republic could now collapse.

With their infrastructure and bases already decimated, and all the top leaders dead, the hardest work is over.

Success now requires a strategic push that avoids provoking the Artesh (extremely important)

This involves seizing Kharg Island to starve the regime, mobilizing 100,000 revolutionary operatives, defectors, and igniting mass protests.

All while U.S. and Israeli drones neutralize suppression hotspots from above.

A nationwide uprising will stretch the regime paper-thin, they will simply be pushed out of cities into mountains.

How am I so sure?

Remember the January protests?

Remember how the regime was genuinely spread so thin that they were preparing escape plans to Moscow + importing militias from Iraq?

The protesters will taking over entire city blocks at one point.

Now imagine that uprising restarts now…

[BobfromWB]

Rodavlas
@Rodavlas11_8
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38m
3,700 sorties and Iran is still setting up ambushes with shoulder-fired missiles. That's not air superiority - that's a $31.8B air campaign being defeated by guys with MANPADs on mountain ridges. Hegseth promised dominance in 48 hours. Week 5: two jets down in one day.

    Air Superiority ensures a favorable air situation where the enemy's efforts are insufficient to prejudice friendly land, sea, or air operations, but localized threats may still exist.

    Air Supremacy (a term frequently used interchangeably with or as a precursor to dominance) exists when opposing forces are completely neutralized or unable to contest the air domain effectively.

    Air Dominance extends beyond supremacy to imply total control, ensuring nothing moves or operates in the enemy's airspace and that airpower effectiveness is fully realized to achieve strategic objectives.

While air superiority is often a tactical condition that can be temporary or localized, air dominance is considered a strategic objective ensuring that friendly forces can conduct operations across land, sea, and sky without fear of reprisal from enemy aircraft or ground-based defenses.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
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1h
🇨🇳🇮🇷 China has reportedly sent 4 ships carrying chemicals, which can be used to produce hundreds of ballistic missiles, to Iran.

The U.S. began the war to cut China off from oil to win the AI arms race, and now China is helping Iran sustain the worst global energy crisis since the 70s for the foreseeable future.

Source: Telegraph

China is not worried about a short-term energy crisis, even though it hits them hard.

It is focused on winning strategically by gaining access to the world's most prolific region of oil and gas.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

@DCPatriot

Like I said, the IRGC has become Hezbollah.

And China is pulling the strings

[mystery-ak]

Sheehy: We ‘Largely’ Have Air Superiority, But Can’t Destroy All Missile Systems

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) said that “we’ve largely established air superiority” in Iran and “largely debilitated their ability to control their airspace” but there are shoulder-carried systems and “vehicle-based systems hat will always evade the ability for us to detect and destroy all of them.”

Host Laura Ingraham asked, “Senator, we kept hearing throughout the day that, look, they claim — the administration claimed they had near complete air superiority, almost total air superiority, across Iran, we had knocked out all of their defenses, but we obviously have not. What do you say to those skeptics, critics, malcontents, whatever you want to call them?”

Sheehy answered, “

• f course, it’s accurate to say we’ve largely debilitated their ability to control their airspace. Their air defenses have largely been destroyed. Of course, there are still MANPADS, which are literally shoulder-carried missile systems that ground troops can hide in trucks, they can hide in homes and caves and pop out and shoot them. There are vehicle-based systems that will always evade the ability for us to detect and destroy all of them.”

Sheehy also stated that we lost far more aircraft during the same time period during the first Gulf War, and “I think it’s accurate to say we’ve largely established air superiority.”


https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/04/03/sheehy-we-largely-have-air-superiority-but-cant-destroy-all-missile-systems/

[mystery-ak]

Dem Rep. Moulton: ‘Iran Is Winning the War,’ Trump ‘in over His Head’

Friday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said President Donald Trump is losing the military operation in Iran because he’s in “over his head.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/04/03/dem-rep-moulton-iran-is-winning-the-war-trump-in-over-his-head/

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2040415672526684489

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/World_At_War_6/status/2040398984427311291

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/2040391257814421693

[Canuck Conservative]

How much you want to bet that those MANPADS were supplied to Iran by Russia?

Pres. Trump should be saying "Putin!" the same way Jerry said "Newman!"

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/2040361285729075342

[bigheadfred]

Baba Banaras™
@RealBababanaras
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39m
BREAKING : At least 40 Hezbollah terrorists were killed in an intelligence based targeted strike by the Israeli Airforce in Lebanon when they were in a meeting to plan an attack on Israel.

[PeteS in CA]

In other words, a heat-seeking missile.

ABC Skews was trying to make IR technology sound new and mystifying. In the real world, the US and other nations started using and evolving IR detection for missile guidance since the 1940s. The first generation of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile came into service in 1956. Flares are used to distract IR missiles (also decades-old technology), but depend on knowing there is a possible need for the flares.

[PeteS in CA]

It's as easy as ABC. And NBC. And CBS. And CNN. And MSNOW. And...

The WashPost and NYT and ... are offended you did not mention them.

[PeteS in CA]

https://twitter.com/defense_civil25/status/2040211672258732443

Panic-mongerers. IR technology is older than I am, merely evolved through multiple generations. In a month of the USAF and USN flying non-stealth aircraft over Iran, this Sarcasm Magic IR Technology /Sarcasm has brought down 2 US aircraft, 1 of which survived the hit long enough to exit Iranian airspace and crash-land safely in Iraq.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/2040437173057384641

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/_MAGA_NEWS_/status/2040432631087825248

[PeteS in CA]

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/2040437173057384641

How do you say, "Wunderwaffe," in Farsi. If Iran had these Wonder Weapons, they would have been used when the attacks began 5 weeks ago. No military commander with a tenth of a brain gives their foe a month-long free pass before using their best weapons.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2040446893897957674