Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #6

[mystery-ak]

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https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=583738.0

Brand new thread...

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Al Jazeera Breaking News
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BREAKING: Trump to US media: US forces carried out strikes on Iran across three consecutive nights in response to attacks on commercial shipping.

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John F. Kennedy Jr Q
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Commentary account
🚨U R G E N T

The Iranian army is moving heavy missiles, saying after the ceasefire breach, there will now be major surprises that the world and the American and Israeli enemy will remember for many centuries🔻😱

Await the historic night, which may begin within hours from now

[Cyber Liberty]

 

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2072821369268851005

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2072783689793278195

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/ConstitustionX/status/2072566894864052362

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I've been saying this for months

https://twitter.com/NiohBerg/status/2072715778516718024

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[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/2072821327514194379

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Ah shucks!

Israel Reportedly Attempted To Shoot Down Iran’s Negotiators

Francis Kapper
Defense Reporter
July 02, 2026 4:40 PM ET


Israel attempted to kill Iran’s negotiators on their plane after talks between the U.S. and Iran concluded in Pakistan, The New York Times reported.

The attempt occurred in the air as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf were flying home to Tehran from talks in Pakistan, the outlet reported, citing anonymous U.S. officials. As the officials were en route flying home, Iran’s security forces notified the plane that two Israeli fighter jets had entered Iranian airspace with the intention of attacking it.

However, the plane was not shot down as it made an emergency landing in Mashhad, Iran’s closest airport to Pakistan, according to the Times. The diplomatic jet also had an escort from Pakistani fighter jets.

The Iranian diplomatic jet was carrying more than 70 other Iranian officials during the flight, the outlet reported.

more
https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/02/israel-reportedly-attempted-shoot-down-iran-negotiators/

[mystery-ak]

A target rich environment

Iran sent a warning Thursday to the United States and Israel as it prepares for the funeral of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Reuters reported.

"We warn the enemies of Iran, especially the U.S. and the Zionist regime (Israel), to avoid any miscalculation and to think about the harsh retaliation our armed forces would make to any threat and aggression against our country," Ali Abdollahi, commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said in a statement carried by state media.

Funeral processions for Khamenei will begin Friday in Tehran and end July 9 with his burial in his hometown of Mashhad. Additional ceremonies are planned in Qom and Iraq between those dates.

The head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization also said that temporary airspace restrictions would be in place over several cities, including Tehran and Mashhad.
Posted by Emma Bussey

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[Timber Rattler]

U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html

U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal, according to current and former American officials.

Killing senior Iranian leaders had been part of Israel’s strategy from the start of the war. But American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials — Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Parliament — spiked during delicate cease-fire negotiations that began in April.

Fearful that an Israeli assassination effort would doom the negotiations, the United States, according to some of the officials, went so far as to ask other countries in the region to warn Iran about the possibility Israel could target the two officials.

U.S. officials acknowledged that during the intense phase of the war, Mr. Araghchi and Mr. Ghalibaf, as senior government officials, could have been legitimate targets for Israel

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So that's what Trump meant when he warned them that they might not even make it back home from Switzerland.  LOL!

[Timber Rattler]

As the officials were en route flying home, Iran’s security forces notified the plane that two Israeli fighter jets had entered Iranian airspace with the intention of attacking it.

Tipped off by the U.S. no doubt.

[Timber Rattler]

JD Vance: An isolationist sophomore who negotiated victory into humiliating capitulation

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4633735/jd-vance-isolationist-sophomore-iran-nuclear-deal-capitulation/

“Sophomore” is often quipped to mean “wise fool,” as a play on the Greek root words sophos and moros. With his negotiation of the “agreement to agree” with Iran, Vice President JD Vance offers a fitting modern example of sophomoric ceasefire negotiations.

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Unfortunately, after the brilliant initial campaign, Trump threw in his lot with Vance, naming him as chief negotiator, Iran’s understandably first choice. Clearly, Vance and his allies had convinced Trump that a quick exit, forgoing regime change, would be popular, bringing down pump prices and meeting security needs, Israel notwithstanding. But buying into Vance’s ideas and sophomoric negotiating strategy now portends the ruination of Trump’s legacy.

A cardinal rule of Trump’s Art of the Deal is that a negotiator cannot signal that he needs the deal and can’t walk away. One therefore had reasonably assumed that Vance would at least know how to shrug his shoulders at impasse and say, “Okay, make Trump’s day. We will resume bombing.” So as a deal appeared on and off, the inference was that a skilled Vance would have gained concession after concession, each won after credibly threatening resumption of the hostilities. The occasional sporadic American bombing lent support for this reasonable conclusion.

With the release of the deal, however, it now appears that the party that continued to make valuable concessions, to pay for the continuation of talks, was not the devastated Iran but the dominant United States, courtesy of the callow Vance. In short, Vance made it clear that he needed the deal more than the powerless Iran did, and continually paid to keep the process ongoing, without satisfactory resolution.

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