— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇮🇶/🇸🇾 17th day of the war, October 23rd status update and major events:
– Heavy airstrikes on Gaza at night. Still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity. Hospitals are expected to be out of power within 48 hrs.
– Sporadic rocket attacks by Hamas and PIJ took place on cities like Sderot, Ashkelon and others. Very small.
– Throughout the day, Hezbollah carried out at least 3 attacks with ATGMs against IDF targets in settlements near the Lebanese border. Today's activity on the northern front was significantly less intense than the previous days, possible even the least we have seen since the first few days of the war.
– The amount of officially announced Hezbollah martyrs has risen to 32.
– As a response to Hezbollah attacks, the IDF carried out artillery shellings, drone strikes and airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, but much less than previous days.
– The Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out attacks on 5 U.S. occupation bases in Syria with suicide drones. They first struck Al-Tanf, Al-Rukban and Al-Malikiyah in the afternoon, and then Al-Omar oil field and Al-Shaddadi base in the evening.
– IRGC-affiliated planes started using Khmeimim airbase in Syria for the first time.
– Hamas released two elderly female prisoners for humanitarian reasons.
– Limited Israeli raids and incursions took place in the Gaza strip to the East of Al-Maghazi camp.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Japan's 10Y Bond Yield chart is something for the history books.
This is definitely not normal. https://t.co/YlD8kOFh3f
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷- Map of the US-Iranian missile/drone exchanges from August 30th- September 1st
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷- August 30th confirmed US impacts: Larak Island.
➡️September 1st confirmed US impacts: Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Sirik, Konarak, Bandar-e-Jask, Kuhestak, and Qeshm Island.
➡️September 1st unconfirmed US impacts: Minab.
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴- August 30th confirmed Iranian impacts: A hanger at the Muwaffaq Al- Salti airbase in Jordan.
➡️August 30th unconfirmed Iranian impacts: The King Hussein airbase in Jordan.
➡️September 1st confirmed Iranian impacts: Aqaba (presumably Camp Titin) in Jordan.
🇮🇷❌🌞- Iranian drones have also struck the Erbil airport in Kurdish Iraq today on September 2nd.
@GeoPWatch
🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Jerusalem Post suggests Americans need “a federally administered debt-forgiveness enlistment program…” for the Iran war.
The CIA has now confirmed what the strike data was already reflecting. First, Iran's military capacity did not collapse. Second, air power resolved neither the institutional problem nor the negotiating problem. Third, the Pentagon still lacks the tools needed to end the war with the Islamic Republic.
Recruitment numbers are running below what a ground invasion of Iran would require. Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran's 31 provincial commands and its Mosaic Defense Doctrine run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops. The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand. The math does not work, obviously.
The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high...