Iran strikes back after Israel, US launch war, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the Resistance Report for day 881 of Israel's genocide in Gaza and day six of US Israeli war on Iran. I am reporting this on the afternoon of Thursday, March 5th. Things are moving quickly, so keep that in mind. Well, we're going to cover the first 5 days of this war and let's start with the maps off the top as we usually do and this compliments what Ali was talking about about the Strait of Hormuz. Um you got the choke point of global energy, 20% coming out from Qatar and 20% of the oil to natural gas from Qatar and 20% of the oil that the world uses comes through that straight. Ali covered that really well. Just one thing that I'll add to that is a commander of the naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said yesterday that the United States cannot escort ships out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump cannot send his to extract those stuck in the Gulf or open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump says, "We will escort the ships if necessary." Now is the time for necessity, Mr. Trump. So come and escort your ships. Of course, that puts them well within range of short-range ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles, and so the Iranians are taunting the Americans to actually escort those ships. That would be a massive undertaking for the Americans and they do not have the warships in the area right now to do that. So it would involve another build-up. So for now, I think the energy markets are going to spike for sure. And we look at the next one, we can see these bases. These are the main targets of this battle. Each of these countries moving from the shores of Iran out. The UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, um, of course, Israel are the main thrusts of it. The US has said that it has dropped 2,000 bombs in the first 30 hours of this war. 1,000 um, were in the first 13 hours of the war. Um, they've struck more than 2,000 targets. Um, the Israeli Air Force said this morning that they've dropped over 5,000 bombs in strikes. The Iranians say 500 ballistic missiles and more than 2,000 drones have been launched. Uh, Hagel Seth, the uh, defense secretary, uh, outlined the mission. He said, "The mission of Epic Fury is laser-focused. Destroy Iranian offensive missiles. Destroy Iranian missile production. Destroy the navy and other security infrastructure." So, this is a regime change operation. Um, and as Ali pointed out, Trump has 47 years of grievances uh, against Iran uh, that they're using to justify this uh, uh, regime change. If we look at the next map, you can see the bases uh, that have been targeted. Um, and these are the key bases uh, in the UAE. Um, the key bases there, Al Udeid in Kuwait is the CENTCOM uh, uh, main air base. And then beside it there in Bahrain is the fifth fleet, which is the naval command for um, the entire region. CENTCOM covers basically everything that you see in that map and a little bit more. Um, but you can see also targeting in Kuwait. There's a significant um, force in Kuwait. The numbers in between Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar are more than 40,000 American troops in those bases. But the number of military bases and installations that have been targeted by the Iranians are in the dozens. They've also hit diplomatic and strategic facilities like embassies. CIA stations are all in those embassies. And the CIA um, said this week that they are um, evacuating all of their CIA offices that are in usually they're in the embassies particularly because the one in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was hit and Saudi Arabia also hosts that key airbase Prince Sultan airbase that you see down in the south there and in Jordan Muwaffaq al-Salti airbase that hosts the American Expeditionary Wing and we saw in my report last week about the buildup that the US is concentrating their forces on that airbase rather than having them all spread out so the air defense tactic is to concentrate their troops on a few of the bases and then use the carriers that are out the carrier that is in the Mediterranean and its guided missile destroyers as basically air defense for Israel um if we look at the next map again you can see the targets all around those are both sides targets as of yesterday and you can see just how close those Gulf uh the Gulf states are and the American bases are to Iran and that is a huge advantage in weaponry they do not need their long-range ballistic missiles they can use shorter range ballistic missiles and that's the same for traveling the Strait of Hormuz they can pull out anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles to hit from close range those are devastating weapons at that range and the Americans don't want any part of that they haven't wanted that in the in the Yemen front as well they keep their carriers as far out of distance as they can out of distance at least of the short range so they're often the Arabian Sea there down in the bottom right of the map and the other carrier the USS Ford is up off the coast of Israel. It's out in the Mediterranean. It's not in Israel. There was a lot of misreporting that it was coming into dock in Israel, but it is staying offshore again. Hezbollah has anti-ship capabilities as well on the Lebanon coast that you could see there up in the upper left of that map. Um so really is a regional war and these maps show that as clear as day. Um the next slide here we're going to start with um the school massacre because of course this is the way Israel fights its wars and the Americans do too. Um the massacre at the school that was sort of captured I think with this photo here that we're looking at a backpack with a child's blood on it. Um 168 schoolgirls aged 7 to 12 were killed along with 15 of their teachers. There was two strikes on the school in southeast Iran uh in the town of Minab. Uh six buildings including the school and the clinic were destroyed. Um we can see on the next slide here um just the totality of this horror. Um these are the graves for the children being dug. And as they always say in in Gaza, the smallest coffins are always the heaviest and you can see that um with those small graves there that we're looking at. A row row upon row of graves to bury um more including the teachers more than 175 uh people and one more um like this will show you the funeral on that day. And then the the funeral on that day despite Trump saying don't go outside your house, it's scary, there's bombs falling, you don't want to be out there. There was a massive funeral demonstration uh for these schoolgirls um showing just um you know, the kind of resolve that I don't think the Americans uh expected in this war. um, but the street scenes of those, um, funeral marches were incredible, uh, under the scale of bombing that's happening, um, you know, 7,000 bombs according to the US and Israelis at minimum, um, and there was thousands, tens of thousands of people out on the streets for those, uh, mourning that funeral. Um, we'll take a look at the next slide, um, cuz the war began with these two strikes, the strike on the school and then the strike on the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Um, and he was killed, uh, at a meeting. So, the key to the way the war started is it started on the first day of the work week in Iran and it started at 9:30 in the morning. So, when people were all out in the streets and people were meeting in, uh, in their offices in the National Security Council in, Iran, um, and they, uh, Americans and Israelis, uh, managed to kill in that assassination, not just Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but also the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, the Minister of Defense, the head of the Military Council, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, um, as well as the Deputy Intelligence Minister in that, um, again, perfidy by the, uh, Israelis because the Iranians believed that they were still in negotiations after the last round of negotiations just last week, um, negotiations were supposed to continue and they had plans to meet again, um, and so, again, Iran trusting its enemy, to be honorable, which we know from two and a half years of war with Israel, uh, is not the case. This is a poster you're looking at here that was put out by the PFLP's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, um, that's, uh, that calls, uh, Khamenei a martyr on the road to Al-Quds and Palestine and also the Qassam Brigades spoke about um the murdered leader and this is what they said. The murdered leader I Ali Khamenei represented the primary supporter of the axis of resistance, Palestine and its fighters. Indeed, all the Islamic Republic has provided for decades in terms of support and backing for our people and our resistance, at the heart of which are the Al-Qassam Brigades, was by his direct decision and under his full patronage. This great support and backing for the path of resistance constituted an essential and important factor that contributed to the development of the resistance and its it displayed in Al-Aqsa Flood and the legendary steadfastness for two full years in the face of the most powerful forces of injustice in the region. So, saluted by all of the Palestinian resistance factions, of course. People who watch this show know that would be an obvious thing that would happen from all of the factions, from the leftists, all the way across the political spectrum of of the resistance groups. We can see next here a promo that was put out by Khamenei Khamenei's office of preservation and publication for the works of Ali Khamenei. They put out this missile and drone launch that you can see and he says here, "We are not the initiators of war. However, anyone who shows their greed and seeks to attack or cause harm will face blow from the Iranian nation." And here we're seeing buried missile silos, racks of Shahed drones and then attacks here on the various installations of the Americans in the region. I will go through these operations one by one, but we're seeing them now, hits in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan uh the region. Um Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the top security figure right now in Iran, said, "As in the past 300 years, Iran did not start this war, and our brave armed forces are not engaged in any attack except for defense. We will fiercely defend ourselves and our 6,000-year-old civilization, regardless of the cost, and we will make the enemy regret their miscalculations. Iran, unlike the United States, is prepared for a long war." Also, just to note, uh Ali Khamenei had a fatwa against nuclear weapons for many, many years, decades even, uh and him saying that was in the preamble preamble of the JCPOA, so um again, putting lie to the American propaganda, um as always, but we just uh cover it here. Uh so, we'll go to number 10 here. Um we'll show map of the missile range here um from their short-range uh missiles uh all the way to their more sophisticated, high-end, long-range uh solid-fuel uh and advanced missiles down at the bottom, which um according to the IRGC have not been used yet. They um they said they have been saving them and using old stock, but you can see with the concentric rings going out from 300 km out to 2,000 km that they have missiles for every purpose in this uh in this war, for each distance, for each um uh for each outcome. So, a significant missile force that has been built up um over more than a generation, um and is being put into use uh today. We'll look at the next map is another one um showing their missiles again with a map that you can see the distance. All of it well within range, um and they're also within range of drones, which they have been using significantly, and we saw that in the previous three Iranian exchanges of fire. Um, True Promise 1, 2, and 3, and this is True Promise 4 that we are in right now. If you look at the next slide, you can see some uh launches from underground missile bases. And again, this is this the the key because the Israelis and the Americans have been showing us lots of footage of uh launchers being knocked out um because lots of them are truck launchers, and they're easy they're easier to track once they have been launched. Um, but when you see these kind of underground facilities, these are very difficult for Israel to get. They don't know where they are, unlike um the nuclear facilities where they knew where they were um and had previous interactions with the United Nations inspectors and whatnot. These missile bases are um are not known to the Israelis. There's the Shahad drones. Um, there's their longer-range uh fuel uh liquid-fuel missiles. Um, and you saw a bunch of launches of solid-fuel missiles as well. Solid-fuel missiles are uh a lot better because you don't have to load them. You don't have to load the fuel. You don't have to have workers out there uh exposed while you're loading. Um, and so the solid-fuel advanced missiles, which is what we'll be seeing in the coming days um and weeks are um a preferable on the battle space. And these are all being uh you know, these are missiles that cost maybe, you know, high hundreds of thousands, early millions, um early 1 millions uh to to to make, and the uh interceptors that are knocking them down um that are not uh built as fast uh are in the $3 million to $27 million dollar Um, so there is a a massive discrepancy in the outlay of costs in this war, which will also over time uh be a damning factor for for the US and its stocks. We won't get into too much of that on this show right now because the first week of the war we don't need to worry too much about missile stockpiles and interceptor stockpiles, but I've talked about it on this show a number of times when we were covering Yemen um that the uh the missile math is not uh it's very finite. Uh the uh interceptors are expensive. Um the military um build-up for this war was very fast. It wasn't planned. Um so they didn't have chance to um you know, increase domestic production, which is something that almost can't really happen in the US the way the economy um uh it is shaped and is particularly the military-industrial complex is shaped. So these things will all be significant as the days go on. Iranians 500 ballistic missiles, 2,000 drones, and IRGC said 40% have been aimed at Israel and 60% at US bases and consulates throughout the region. Um we will go to 13 now. I think yes, yes. Okay, so here's some strikes on Israel. Again, there's massive censorship in Israel. We're watching um this is a news broadcaster that we've seen footage come from before. Obviously, one of the producers is sneaking this footage out. Um but we have seen off this um uh off this balcony a number of shots and uh for people uh listening, um we're watching the streaks in the sky and the massive blast hitting Tel Aviv. And of course, they tell you in Tel Aviv that these uh aren't landing and that they have 100% interception rates. In fact, the next video that is uh going to come in this series, yeah, this one here from NBC, they're on the air talking about how uh the Iron Dome gets all the rockets and gets all the missiles um and then this one comes right in right while they're talking. I cut their talking out for the same reason Ali cut uh Netanyahu because you don't need to hear it, but uh they don't know what they're talking about. They're talking about the wrong uh air defense systems, but as they were bragging about how good they were, missile came right down uh and smacked and then they had to talk about that missile and try and figure out what what was going on. Um and you can see the uh on the ground the censorship in Israel has been remarkable. Um at the threat of jail time will do it, I guess, for people. Also, there's a nationalistic element in it that they don't want to be I I I assume that there's a nationalistic element of not wanting to be um shown to be humiliated uh in front of the world, but for whatever it is, the number of videos coming out from Israel compared to the 12-day war, um which itself was uh sh- covered in sent shrouded in censorship, um is even less this time around. This next slide is going to have audio in it. >> [snorts] >> So, that's from uh on the ground in Israel. These are all targeting of Israel. At the beginning, what you heard was cheering from children in Gaza. Uh, and you can note that throughout uh, this report that each of the countries have the missiles falling on them, ostensibly, are cheering those missiles. We'll see that again when we cut to Bahrain. Um, I think we have uh, audio in the next slide as well. We also have a siren, so um, be aware that there's going to be a siren. This is the sound of what uh, the war sounds like in Beersheba in southern Israel. So, this was from Monday. Um, it was the 11th wave of Operation True Promise. The IRGC is releasing um, their field reports in waves um, that they talked about. And this wave uh, included Beersheba where there's an IDF industrial communications complex in the city. And that barrage wave 11 targeted 20 sites across Israel. So, spreading out um, spreading out the attacks, keeping the entire country moving to shelters. Um, these are strategies rather than using advanced missiles. Um, they're using They've been saying they're using their old stock up and um, keeping people on the run throughout Israel from the north to the south and that is clearly part of the strategy of this. We have again audio in this next slide, but we are going to now go to Bahrain. Um so this is a targeting of the fifth fleet, the US Naval Command uh in Manama, Bahrain. Number 16. Woah! Oh my god! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY OKAY. What the [ __ ] Missile threat warning. Seek hardened shelter immediately. Shelter in place. So as you can see, that the Bahrainis don't seem to have much problem with uh the US bases being targeted. Of course, in each of these countries there's movements to get rid of these bases um that are stamped out by um by the uh royal families that uh run these countries as their own personal fiefdoms. Um so that is Bahrain, fifth fleet. This is a critical uh critical site for the Americans overseeing the entire region between the fifth fleet and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar uh forms the real uh the real core of the US presence in the region. We got audio in the next one again. This is again the fifth fleet. So the same things you hear in Gaza in Bahrain as well. And this next one also has audio in. This is the targeting of hotels. And let me just say before we show this that this is the targeting of hotels of US troops. The IRGC said the flight of cowardly US soldiers from regional bases. They're taking refuge in hotels in host countries and their criminal armies use of civilian facilities in the Persian Gulf countries as cover. Do not escape the intelligence monitoring of the IRGC. So we'll take a look at 18. And you can actually hear that on the first one I showed you three back when the when they were in the car. That's American soldiers in the car. In many cases these videos are coming from American soldiers while they're in their hotels and that's why you're hearing people speaking English like that and then that car while they're being shocked. So that was 18. We have a lot of media today. So thanks to Mara for working through this all with me. So this is the burning of those facilities after again they've been targeted numerous times. But this is what you see when you drive by on the highway of the uh fleet, and there's times where um um people wouldn't have thought this was possible to see this. Um these bases have been built particularly they were built for um they started in in the Gulf War in the first Gulf War in the 1990s, but of course the post 9/11 war on terror expanded these bases considerably, um and they were not popular locally. Um so that's 19, and just to give you a sense of how the IRGC writes up there um uh field reports like we we we've described the Qassam Brigades doing, so this is how the IRGC does it. They say the 18th wave of Operation True Promise 4 has begun. We remind the arrogant enemy the movements of American soldiers in Qatar and Bahrain, and their use of non-military facilities in Persian Gulf countries are not hidden from us. No amount of air defense systems will help you. Um so that's how that was announced before those drones were launched, so it's almost like an early warning. Um but effectively telling exactly what is being hit, and I think we'll see that in these next few uh is this 20? Okay, this is the continued burning. So those two uh 19 and 20 go together with these burnings of these facilities that um that the uh that the US is saying they're intercepting or Bahrain is saying they're intercepting all of these, and they're just clearly not. Um we will see with the next slide um satellite imagery. Um you can see the base. We're seeing the base there, and then before and after of the base clearly showing um a headquarters that was hit in this base. Two satellite communications terminals were destroyed. Several large buildings at the base were also destroyed and extensively damaged, the New York Times said. This is New York Times satellite analysis. Um and you can clearly see the damage. So, these are pinpoint strikes and that's the thing is about the drones. They um you can you could make them pinpoint. That's That's what they do. They hit uh right where they're supposed to go. Um GPS tracked or uh to get them exactly on their topic or Russian in in a lot of cases Russian GPS is being used. Um so, you can see the destruction there. Um and the next one you could see um Al Udeid Air Base. Again, satellite communications. These are the two key bases to repeat. And so, when you're knocking out the satellite communications at these bases, you're knocking down the capacity for the network connectivity that the entire American um missile defense program and defense in general runs on. So, clearly the first targets of this war were those uh satellite and terminal um and satellite terminals and communication terminals. Um again, we saw that with the early days of the Hezbollah um joining the war after October 7th, knocking out Israel's network connectivity. Um these are very standard and important first day of war um attacks. And just to give you a sense, the UAE says that they have endured more than 800 drones and 186 uh ballistic missiles. So, with more than a thousand targeting just the UAE itself has uh a major US air base uh there too, Al Dhafra Air Base. Um in Qatar, they say uh 100 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, 24 drones. Um Kuwait was 180 ballistic missiles, 400 drones, uh 100 uh missiles in Bahrain and 76 drones and dozens in Saudi Arabia, which we will see in these next two slides. This is the Prince Sultan Saudi airbase. Oh, that's another Al Udeid. And yeah, here's the the Prince Sultan. So, this is Al Udeid. We'll go to the next one. That shows more destruction of those satellite terminals. This is the Prince Sultan base that you can see again structural damage, large plumes of smoke coming up from them. So, direct hits on these bases. 26, we're going to take a look at Jordan now. This is the key US expeditionary base. Muafaq al-Salti and you can see there clearly a direct ballistic missile hit in on that airbase. And again, people watching that closely. The next one shows you um a problem that we've seen a number of times, but you can see over to the right there. That's a misfiring interceptor that's just being fired into the Jordanian community along with the shrapnel that from the because the drones are mostly shot out of the sky using fighter jets and helicopters. So, they blast them out of the sky and the pieces fall all over Jordan. And that's part of the deal, I guess, with the king. And again, at this airbase it's key because this is a concentration of US forces on top of the expeditionary air wing that's already based at that base in Jordan. I showed you the map the satellite imagery of that base in Jordan in last week's show. And there wasn't enough room for any more airplanes. It was all bristling with fighter jets. So, when these get it's it's one thing to concentrate your defenses, but when your defenses are concentrated and something gets through um it's going to be a big mess. So, they are expending extraordinary amounts of interceptors to try to prevent that from happening. This next one, 28, this is going to have audio in as well. This is a strike on a US base in Kuwait and you can hear the US soldiers commenting on the strike here in this one. That's my [ __ ] truck. All right. I think it's a joke cuz he's looking at a bunch of MRAPs there, but the the soldier says, "That's my truck." And [snorts] these there has been six US soldiers killed on these bases in these attacks. These are the only casualties that the Americans have admitted to. Dropsite has done some reporting that that they believe the number is being suppressed significantly. But we will have to see in the coming days when the honesty of casualties comes out cuz we're particularly not hearing about wounded soldiers. And also just to to say those drone strikes that were hitting the the city that that were hitting those hotels, those are not killing locals. The number of locals killed in each of these countries is in the single digits throughout this war and we're not clear who they are. If they're on the base, if they're base workers, all of that stuff is still all fuzzy at this point, but we will keep track of that, of course. And the next slide you could see the significant damage at the Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait. You could see again satellite dishes, radar domes, all the specific targets of those. So they're taking drones, um precision drones that are about uh I mean, they're basically the the the price of your car. They go the speed of your car. They're roughly the size of your car. It's a good way to understand them. Um but they're very accurate with their with their strikes. And so, they're using the drones to flood the air uh waste air defenses, but also to get in and knock out these uh these critical nodes of the air defense system. Um and then 30, I think we can see uh the embassy here in Kuwait uh on fire. The embassies have all been evacuated. Um but also the CIA bases attached to the embassies have also been evacuated cuz they were hit in Riyadh the other day. And the CIA announced that everybody uh was to evacuate. Now, for this next one, we're going to have audio in here because we're this is the um the shooting down of three uh US F-15s that were downed by um apparently Kuwaiti friendly fire. Um all three of them right in a row here. Um and we're going to watch each one of them. These are F F-15E Strike Eagles falling from the sky. You could see the ejection of the pilots there. According to CENTCOM, all six pilots survived. Um when they reached the ground, they were treated. Um all were treated well by uh the population when they landed. You can see the ejection from that one as well. So, three, uh, three more lost fighter jets. We know they lost three during the Yemen, uh, battles as well. And the key to this is not just that it's an accident that happens. The key is that it's during active combat. It's when missile drone, uh, combo attacks are happening, layered attacks are happening, incoming, um, that creates the confusion, um, that creates the friendly fire. Or in the case of Yemen, where the, um, aircraft carrier had to do a sharp turn and therefore lost the plane overboard. But that's not just happening in a vacuum. It's happening in the moment of a complex strike that's happening directly on these forces. So, um, they are friendly fire, but they're, uh, very much, um, a forced error, if we can use, uh, tennis term there. Um, >> so, there was also reporting today, won't get into that, but there may have been a fourth, uh, fighter jet, American fighter jet shot down, uh, in Iran. There's early reporting about that. Um, we'll have to wait to confirm all of that. And all of this stuff takes a lot to confirm because as I'm sure people watching know, there has been a lot of misinformation, disinformation, um, purposeful, uh, misguidance of what's going on, uh, as part of the propaganda campaign, uh, happening here. Let's take a look at Dubai now. Um, 32, um, this is IRGC. I think we have audio in this one as well for 32. So, that was the US Embassy as a consulate in in Dubai. I believe that it was a consulate not an Embassy but an empty and again Ali talked about these countries as brands these kind of attacks definitely take the shine off of that. You'll see one more angle of it here coming up right now. We're watching street level view of panicked people and there's the burning consulate shown from people driving down the highway. And then the next slide you can see that the um the Ministry of Defense of the UAE has been putting these out. They say they have detected 186 ballistic missiles launched towards them. They say they have intercepted 172 of them. Not sure how um not sure how good these stats are but they're putting them out and it's interesting for at least what they are seeing coming at them. You're talking about eight cruise missiles and 812 uh Shahed drones fired at them. So more than a thousand uh projectiles fired at the UAE alone in this case. So significant focus on the UAE uh as well. Um now let's take a look at some of the drones um the the drones the IRGC Aerospace Force has downed a number of drones. I attempted to do a count of them because to see if we can match them up. Um but we have footage like this footage clearly here of an Israeli Hermes 900. There's an Elbit drone one less Elbit drone. Here comes another uh Elbit drone blasted out of the sky and then there's a third one here that's uh an Israel Aerospace Industries Heron drone that you can tell um the difference between them because of the the back wing that you'll see. Um so these are being knocked out of the sky every day in Iran. We see footage of them on the ground. We've seen some of this footage from the missile cam. That's what you're seeing here. These look a lot like uh the weapon that was used in Yemen. Uh it's not totally clear, but um it seems to be the same the 358 that the Yemenis were using to to down a couple of dozen uh MQ-9 Reapers. So far these are all uh Israeli drones that we've seen drop. Um although the Iraqi resistance uh reported that they got a um an MQ-9 Reaper. If they did, I'm sure we will be seeing that um in due time. Um the Iranians and number 35 has two two more drones coming out of the sky. Um you can see them dropping here. Again, it's a Hermes uh falling out of the sky and then there's going to be a number another one on the ground. And we've seen at least uh we've seen more than a dozen for sure separate uh drops. The Iranians uh the Iranian army is also doing air defense. They do an integrated air defense with the IRGC. Um and they put their number of drones downed um in the many dozens um something like 30 through these days um but difficult to verify cuz we don't have footage of all of them. Um the Ansar Allah movement always gave us footage uh to match uh their um their claims. So we uh we'll see we'll see if this uh reporting uh crystallizes more in the coming weeks. But you can see it that drop down again uh over a city in um southern Iran. And then there's this is the the Hermes 900. This appears to have been taken down by electronic warfare because it is perfectly more or less perfectly intact and the IRGC said that um that it was under the control of the fighters of the Aerospace Force of the IRGC and there you can see it's bomb load out loaded out hadn't used them yet on this particular drone but definitely not seeing this on news that I'm watching so I thought I'd bring you this angle as I always do and then this this was an interesting story cuz the US has actually cloned the Shahed drone and have their own and they announced number 36 here they announced their own the launch historic first they they said this was uh um this was on day two that they that says we're we're looking at a CENTCOM tweet press release it says CENTCOM's task force scorpion strike for the first time in history is using one-way attack drones in combat during operation epic fury these low-cost drones modeled after Iran's Shahed drones are now delivering American-made retribution. So again blustery American military announcements followed by let's take a look at the next clip uh it only took uh some few hours before the Iraqis were picking apart one of these Lucas drones low-cost um drones that look exactly like the Iranian drones and are run on Starlink you can see the Starlink satellite dangling off there so that that was less than 24 hours turnaround from them boasting about retribution to Iraqis in the desert laughing and and having fun with the drone trying to decide what to do if it can fit in their pickup truck or not. Um sort of like the footage we used to see in Yemen when the drones went down. So, that's a remarkable little turnaround there for uh their copycat drones. And now Hezbollah joined the war. I think Hezbollah joined the war this week, but the war was going to join Hezbollah. So, I think that they got out in front of it. Um there hasn't been a ceasefire. The ceasefire has been in many ways more fraudulent in Lebanon than it is in Gaza even, which is hard to say because it's been brutal in Gaza. Um but in Lebanon, the number of violations is in the tens of thousands, and the number of Hezbollah commanders, operatives, soldiers killed is more than 500. There's daily strikes. Um And this war was not going to let uh Israel was not going to let was not going to let Hezbollah be on the sidelines of this war. So, Hezbollah joined the war um 2 days ago, and immediately we get clips like this. Number 38. We see a Merkava tank there in the distance. And again, this is in um this is at the top of the Galilee panhandle. Um and that's a Cornet anti-tank guided missile that's going to be launched and a direct hit. You're going to see as it spools its way uh on target. Um this is a remarkable shot, multiple kilometer shot. Um I didn't do the calculation myself, but um I saw a calculation from a source that said that this was 5 km. Um it which would make sense. And again, this is an area that Hezbollah is not supposed to be, let alone their uh clearly they the first shot was clearly by their anti-tank marksmen because that is a long-distance shot, and it hit perfectly. The Israelis have uh uh said that there has been several injuries inside tanks that have been hit by anti-tank guided missiles. So, Hezbollah has backed 36 operations in the first two days and they're on their way to that total again today. And of course, the the Islamic Hezbollah said in this on this post of this video, they said of the field report, they said the Islamic resistance is committed to defending its land and people, especially as the Israeli enemy crosses boundaries within its crime with its crimes. It is res- Its response targeted military sites, unlike the enemy which targets civilians. So, Hezbollah saying we target military sites and they have rocket and drone attacks Israeli bases all across the the front line which now includes Syria because the Israelis are occupying Syria now as well. So, they were targeted there by Hezbollah as well. And number 39, we're going to see the Iraqi resistance has been This is an underground missile base. You can see Nasrallah, Qassem Soleimani. You can see their missiles and in their underground um in their underground bunkers as well. And the Iraqi resistance joined immediately. They didn't need any prompting. They joined the war in the first minutes of the war and began hammering the American air base at Erbil in northern Iraq as well as the two other American air bases, Ain al-Asad in in the western in western Iraq. And then they have a base the US base at Baghdad Airport. So, that's the Erbil um airport that you're seeing air base that you're seeing in flames there from the Iraqi resistance. And just one more, number 40. Um of of all of this after all of this, the US sent out this notice this week. This is from the State Department that says security updates for Americans in the Middle East. Depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks and it lists the countries. Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. So essentially the Americans saying uh we're too busy uh protecting Israel right now to uh worry about our um our people in the region. We didn't uh we we sprung the war on them so fast that they didn't have reasonable chance to get their families out of the region and they they say to them, "Depart now uh and you're on your own." Although I did hear yesterday on the news that instead of um just hanging up on people calling the embassies that there's now a recorded message. So just real kind of a last thing to just say that um the the focus is never seems to be for the America Firsters on the Americans. Um that was all a big fraud. So this has been the resistance report for day six of the war in Iran.