I've seen rumors of China discretely sending a cargo plane to Iran, maybe weapons. These are just rumors, but it might make sense for China to ignore deterrence that a public show of force would bring and instead only boost Iran when it deems necessary to keep them afloat. After all, US and Israel are not getting deterred by anything, but China's own geopolitical position is at stake if this war goes south for Iran at any point.

From an Iranian telegram:

“ 🔶Stop the stupidity

🔸In a war situation and a situation where Iran must simultaneously deal with a multitude of infiltrating forces in the heart of its land, the official media and the government still insist on making the situation seem normal!

🔸The country's conditions are not normal and what is needed today is firm and decisive measures. Evacuating office buildings, closing all non-essential centers, institutions and organizations until further notice, deploying large-scale ground and security forces in cities, establishing constant drone patrols and imposing restrictions on movement are the definitive needs of today.

🔸We cannot welcome the dangers by playing tents and talking nonsense on national television. Iran is at a historic crossroads. What we do today will determine the fate of the nation, government and land of Iran.

🔸The situation is not normal and under control! Stop pretending and take the necessary steps immediately.

Archivist @Partisan2015”

https://t.me/partisan2015/82030

Coming at 4,000 comments like a Fattah-1 coming for Tel Aviv…

Al Jazeera

Trump says ‘possible’ US ‘could get involved’ in Israel-Iran conflict

We have more comments from Trump – this time from an interview to ABC News. The US president said “it’s possible we could get involved” in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. Trump added that the US is “not at this moment involved” in the conflict. He also said he would be “open” to Russian President Vladimir Putin being a mediator. “He is ready. He called me about it. We had a long talk about it,” Trump told ABC.

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I scrolled down and saw this. "Many calls and meetings" - Hmm.... he's playing golf?

Trump’s comments come as US coy on diplomatic moves

In a social media post, Trump said that “many calls and meetings” are taking place to de-escalate the situation between Iran and Israel. That’s the first we’re hearing of it because the administration has not been willing to say publicly what it has been doing from a diplomatic standpoint. All we know is that in recent days, the US did ratchet down its diplomatic presence in countries in the region, anticipating that these air strikes on Iranian military sites would be taking place.

And we also know that the US military did put its forces on a slightly higher alert posture just in case things were to spiral out of control. That said, the US government is not interested in seeing this conflict between Israel and Iran escalate. A US State Department spokesperson told reporters on Saturday that even though the Sunday talks in Oman between the US and Iran were scrapped because of the ongoing conflict, the US is still hopeful that these negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme can continue and the US is prepared to engage.

🇮🇷🇮🇱| IRNA: It has been confirmed that the most recent wave of Israeli attacks in Tehran was carried out with 5 planted explosives and car bombs

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1934246030750404643#m

I was just remembering how the apartheid state had occupied a whole new swath of Syria, including the tallest mountain in the region. Is there a possibility of Iranian attacks extending to the occupation forces there... like, would that help ease pressure on Hezbollah and any resistance forces in Syria, or is that all moot at this point. I could see why the Iran would want to focus on tel aviv and the entities core military/industrial/energy facilities, but wouldn't it also be more difficult for the entity to defend its periphery and potentially lead the entity to make a caluculated retreat from the area?

On another note, this whole thing is really making it feel like Iran could have ended all this a long time ago by responding this way the first time around. I know hindsight is 20/20 but if all this was going to be made inevitable, it would have been better to go whole hog on the resistances terms rather than Israel's. Like if Hezbollah was still fighting and taking out the entities defensive infrastructure, Iran would probably have even more unfettered ability to strike targets deep in Israel, no?

Israel has the military support, radars, funding aerial fueling, propaganda of the entire west and the comprador regimes of the region all to fight a sanctioned third world country that got its independence in the 80s.

NYT

Earlier today, Iran’s government advised citizens to take shelter in mosques, schools and subway tunnels. In remarks carried by Iranian news media, cabinet spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said that most services would be staffed remotely, while banks and healthcare centers would continue to operate with reduced staff. “We are in a state of war, a war that has been imposed on us,” Mohajerani said, urging calm during a news briefing.

Looks like all the missiles from the latest daytime Iranian missile barrage against Israel were intercepted, no footage of impacts.

New salvo it seems

🇮🇷🇮🇱| BREAKING: Dozens of Iranian missiles have been launched towards Israel

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1934235682831995100#m

Peter Scholl-Latour (1924-2014), a prominent German journalist and middle east expert, worked for the BND (German foreign intelligence), newly released archive files reveal.

Scholl-Latour, as can be seen from the 70 or so pages of the BND archive, is said to have repeatedly reported on his travels and people he met to the BND in the 1980s. He is also said to have made film and photo material from war zones available to the BND even before it was published.

The historical documents also mention assignments for the BND: for example, it is said that Scholl-Latour was supposed to meet a BND source in Lebanon. Elsewhere it is noted that Scholl-Latour wanted to help identify a person from the GDR who was working for the International Red Cross in Africa.

German article: tagesschau (ARD/WDR) | archive