Public sentiment is highly polarized regarding the Israel-Iran conflict, with many expressing support for Iran's right to self-defense while also criticizing both nations for escalating violence. Commenters voice skepticism towards Western media narratives and urge for peace, expressing frustration with perceived hypocrisy among international leaders and a longing for diplomatic solutions to alleviate civilian suffering.

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progress18

Cautious optimism so far, no initial reports of hits

clarabosswald

compsciphd

Stay close alert = get dressed.
 
Alarm in a few minutes = go and pee 

Alarm = go to shelter.

Die schiessne schon were raggedne di spinnabande!

DearArachnid9091

Are there two faction in Tehran now fighting over how to continue the war?

Iran did not send any message to Israel via a third country, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Sunday, after Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said earlier Tehran had asked Nicosia to convey "some messages" to Israel

Logical_Welder3467

Listen at least I’m drunk for the current alerts

Eheh00999

I hope this time Israeli stays in the shelter and really hope Israel would be able to take down some launchers of Iranian Regime since it is happening in broad day light

PursuerOfCataclysm

We're now instructed to stay near shelter.

X211499Reddit

The body of one missing person was just found in the Bat Yam hit site. The number of fatalities from last night's attack rises to 11.

Hey, you guys stop fighting


Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has spoken to Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, according to a German government statement, as regional tensions rise following Israel’s attacks on Iran.

They both agreed that the conflict should not escalate and expressed their willingness to help end it through diplomatic means, the statement said.

I am so badass!

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq, has issued a statement saying it is “closely monitoring the military movements” of US forces in the region.

“If America intervenes in the war, we will act without any hesitation against its interests and bases throughout the region,” the group was quoted as saying by Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency.

It added that Iran does not need anyone’s support and has sufficient capabilities to stand against Israel.

Why hasn’t the live thread been updated in 9 hours?

chaosxq

I find it very arrogant when NATO backed Nuclear watchdog agencies go on and on about other countries' nuclear proliferation programs. It's clear NIMBYism.


And it has been proven again and again that having nuclear weapons gives you a much stronger presence at the world stage and inadvertently affects your enemies. 


This is not a peace initiative. It's a power lock disguised as one.

ZairNotFair

Its daylight in Tehran and already they are striking everywhere, i wonder what will happen at night..

CptLevi9

Iranian Australians share 'mixed' emotions after Israeli missiles kill regime officials

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/iranian-australian-war-israel-middle-east/105418534?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other

Tl;dr Iranian Australians interviewed by the ABC for this article are happy enough to see members of the Iranian regime dead, but are understandably concerned for the safety of loved ones and are uncertain about what the future holds.

SweetChilliJesus

The more likely a persons lifestyle would be to have them executed by Hamas or Iran the more likely they are to be cheering when missiles hit in Israel. Weird time we’re in.

whatareyoudoingdood

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Pro Pali still believes Netanyahu runs to Greece and hilariously they are citing Hebrew News

Iran confirms an additional 6 killed high ranked generals.

hardenedsteel8

Tehran's nuclear program is a threat to the security of Israel and Europe, and diplomacy is the only way to avoid an escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday.

"The Iranian nuclear program is an existential threat for the security of Israel and beyond the security of Europe. We always said the best way to prevent that threat, to contain it, remains diplomacy," Barrot told RTL radio.

Germany, France and Britain are ready to hold immediate talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program in an effort to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said earlier.

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, in a press conference, confirms the Israeli Air Force carried out a strike in Yemen last night, at the same time as strikes in Iran.

The target of the Israeli strike in Yemen was Houthi military chief of staff Muhammad Al-Ghamari, according to Israeli officials. The results of the strike are not yet known.

“Last night, while the strikes in Iran were ongoing, air force fighter jets flew over 2,000 kilometers from Israel and struck in Sanaa in Yemen. We will update later on the results of the strike,” Defrin says.

Silvuh_Ad_9046

This Conflict Is Like Day For Israel to shine and Night for Iran to shine

Iran has asked Cyprus to convey “some messages” to Israel, President Nikos Christodoulides says, adding he expects to speak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the day.

Christodoulides did not elaborate. He also said he’s not happy with the “slow reaction” by the European Union to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

Cyprus, the closest EU member state in the region, has asked for an extraordinary meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, he said.

Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani has said that starting tonight, metro stations and mosques will be available as bomb shelters for the public.

The comments carried by state television indicate that Iranian officials believe Israeli attacks will continue.

Hamas still kissing Iran's ass

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, says Iran demonstrated “a remarkable ability to absorb the first blow and regain the initiative” in its fight against Israel.

“We are facing a battle of wills, not just calculations, and Iran is demonstrating a high degree of will and preparedness,” he said in a statement on Telegram:

“The equations are changing, and anyone who thinks that the fire will only consume one party has not read history well,” the Hamas official added.

Jordan’s National Center for Security and Crisis Management announces shelters are being prepared for emergencies and disasters.


Comment: this is very early in the day, probably a long term move for sustained conflict than an immediate threat?

BringbackDreamBars

Jfeed: IDF Strikes Iranian Underground Missile Base in Kermanshah

Early-Cloud2458

 IDF releases new footage of strikes on Iranian ballistic missile launchers and radar station.

[https://x.com/Maks\_NAFO\_FELLA/status/1934179696633069933](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1934179696633069933)

IDF: Iranian attacks less than what we expected - Army estimated far larger number of causalities and damage but Iran can still escalate

Why does it feel like Iran is completely unprepared?

tituschao

Friday open should be fun.. can’t wait! Great summary, I love the breakdown of the eve of vs the day of strikes!

Falveens

Holding an underwater energy ETF now over a year, at last, a chance to bail.

Recent_Impress_3618

Calling it now: There will be a few rounds of retaliations, but no full blown war

moragisdo

Useful-Grab-9902

doolydelicious

Like how did they manage to kill their chief of defense staff? It's like Iran is not even remotely as powerful as I used to think.

9ight0wl

Top-Huckleberry7640

abey_belasco

This is such a well timed plan:

- what can Iran do ? Hezbollah, Hummus and Syria are too weak to help Iran. (Syria had a regime change, Hezbollah and Hummus became the blind and dickless brigade after thousands of walkie-talkies and Pagers exploded in Gaza and Lebanon last year). 

- Iran could attack USA bases and block the straits of Hormuz, which will prompt USA to join in a regime change. 

- Iran’s new best friend Putin has his own war. China is mired in a trade war with the USA to care.

The ideological opponent of Iran isn’t Israel/USA, it is KSA which is just waiting for the Persians to fail, so that they could kick out the Houthis in next door Yemen. 

- Iran’s only course of action is to fire rockets at Israel. They can’t even fly jets near Israel. 

Plus they don’t enjoy widespread support among the citizenry. 

Iran is very weak.

raytoei

FrogFishTurtle

davesmith001

The fact that oil, gold, and defense names all surged within minutes tells you how fragile the regional balance is. If Iran’s retaliation hits Gulf energy or U.S. assets, the second-order effects could be global.

Electrical_Fly1194

Trump calls the strike excellent but claims neutrality lmaooo

Academic_District224

This is better than reading manga! Thanks for the events breakdown.

tato0418

Markets didn’t drop as much as I thought they would today, in my mind Monday is pointing to red with potential retaliations from both parties over the weekend.

marketertips

Thanks for the breakdown. I really enjoyed reading through it.

TickedOffTrader

FlatAd768

Not content with murdering Palestinians, the war mongering machine, sponsored by the US, wants to murder Iranian children. No fan of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but the American public seriously need to re-evaluate their relationship with their blood thirsty love child. Israel is the basic cause of conflict in the Middle East.

How do you retaliate knowing your enemy has a nuke

Pristine_Mistake_149

I fear this may escalate more than the strikes from last year. This time, several generals, including the leader of the revolutionary guard corps, have been killed. From these titles, the chief of staff was also killed along with top nuclear scientists? This is much worse of a fallout for Iran than the last time and so many generals killed is highly escalatory. 

Also, just some slight corrections! The 9:32pm article states Senator rather than Sec of State Rubio. Also, the “eve” of the strikes should be listed as Thursday, June 13 and the day of the strikes should be listed as Friday, June 14. Altogether though, great post. Thank you for sharing and consolidating! I hadn’t been privy to the buildup and was caught by surprise when I saw the breaking news notification that Israel struck Iran.

hab365

RexPelagiuz

Bubbly_Working9184

I’ve been following defense stocks closely — LMT and RTX moved fast after recent news. I actually broke this down in a post if you’re interested.

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gstanleycapital

With the repositioning of US embassy’s staff this week, I’m not sure how anyone could be surprised this happened.  The only surprise I see is that it happened Thursday night/Friday morning.

I wouldn't give the Israelis the deep bunker buster bombs to hit the ultra protected Iranian nuclear site, but I know who I favor.

Go gettem Israel.  Some of us haven’t forgotten the hostage crisis.

Longjumping-Ad8775

Trump urges restraint so that he could tell his friends to sell the market.  

To  bomb in the afternoon in Iran and make sure it is  after market close.

What a coincidence!!

2to20million

smooth_and_rough

Looks like mr sausage got killed.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-revolutionary-guards-chief-hossein-salami-killed-in-israeli-attack-news-agency-afp-cites-iran-media-8655735

Meanwhile the rest of the Middle East are quietly cheering Israel on.

One day the western leaning world will thank Israel  for iraq in 1981, Syria in 2007 and Iran in 2025.

——

~~I will never forget these bad regimes cheering for 9/11 and wanting to teach the world a lesson~~

This was a very long winded post for saying I lost money today

OrganizationWest3187

No-Economy-666

Literally NO one wants United States involved..except Israel of course

mikki1time

I'm a Black man from the South Side of Chicago; Professor Mirandi echoes the sentiments of billions of us across the globe who are exhausted with being marginalized, the double standards, wonton violence, racism, gaslighting, thievery, and so much more.   
  
May God be with the Iranians.

Bast_OE

Thanks Trump for breaking that Obama treaty that could’ve prevented all this

Major_Lynx_7425

Where have we heard this before?  Iraq and WMDs? 

I'm no fan of the Iranian or Israeli regime, but please don't treat Americans like idiots.

Free the Palestinian people!!!!!

womanonawire

Meanwhile, the real cnut who caused all the conflict is running away..

FullmetalPlatypus

prof is right. the only way to end the war is to reinstate Palestine and let the palestinians, christians and jews live together peacefully. like in pre 1948

Imaginary-Union5171

The world is so screwed Iran seems level headed.

Reluctant_Winner

Love Professor Marandi, big fan of him!!!

AffectionateElk3978

Never thoyght id be thank8ng Iran for anything in my life.

Traditional_Pay7421

"Get Real" Israel, abandon your racism and prostrate yourselves begging for forgiveness. Nobody wants further war except you. Stop the Holocaust, Stop the Genocide, and Stop the Slaughter of Innocents.

Anthropologists consider the dawn of human civilization to be when we cared for and protected fellow human beings who had become injured. Remains were found of an adult woman who had healed fractures in her thigh bone. That kind of injury takes a long time to heal and she would have needed months of care to recover.

A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is the Great Filter which posits that something, either before or after where humanity is right meow, prevents or filters out advanced sentient civilizations so that's why we don't see any aliens out there let alone tons of them since statistically we should see them. One candidate for Great Filter is how Eukaryotes evolved only once, with the leading evolutionary theory being that symbiogenesis between anaerobic promethearchaeati archaean and an aerobic proteobacterium which in turn created the powerhouse of the cell, the mighty mitochondria. Essentially what I posit this means is that Jolly Cooperation is hardwired into our cells as advanced animalia who would never have had the chance to become anything close to human beings, with everything that we are, if it wasn't for the ultimate fluke when one unicellular organism consumed another and instead of destroying the consumed for energy the consumed organism reconstituted the waste of the consuming organism into energy and thus "convinced" the consuming organism to spare it's life. My point is it is always always always better to work together in Jolly Cooperation than to be selfish and destroy one another for fleeting gains.

I implore Israel to please reconsider your humanity, your hardwired innate nature to work together, and finally to rediscover your empathetic compassion for your fellow human being. Please realize you are delusional and that your delusions are causing so much human suffering that the entire world is traumatized for having to witness your atrocities live streamed 5 inches from our faces.

Israel needs to stop the Violence Now! Lay down your weapons, immediately allow all aid and emergency personnel into Gaza, cease all military operations, and hold your leaders accountable for turning you all into monsters complicit in the Undeniable Worst Holocaust in modern History. Please I beg you, stop killing children. No god worth worshipping would ever condone such carnage and bloodshed. Its not self defense if you attack first, no matter how you present it no humane individual can justify hurting another unless there is an immediate threat to their person or another person. Give your head a shake and realize the world is not on your side and you are not on the right side of history. Get Real, Israel.

thetitanitehunk

From Stuxnet to now, Iran has suffered massive blows to its nuclear ambitions. It is very unlikely that Iran will be a net winner in this conflict - even with hypersonic missiles.

Proxy wars are the norm in modern skirmishes. Nothing has changed from a petro-dollar standpoint since anyone posting has been alive. All of it is traded in dollars in exchange for security.

Culturally, there's no question about difference in opinion; most of that difference is religiously motivated and heavily artificially imposed. The very obvious danger for Iran is that the US and Israel are both allies and nuclear-capable. Their air-superiority is questionable at best. In a ground war, they would lose almost instantaneously.

The sad thing about this exchange is that there will be a fight that results in the death of many who cannot possibly extract gain from the conflict. The worst part is that it will all be justifiable on both sides from cats all around the world who laugh at enemy death, and freak out about anyone else experiencing the same pain.

Mindless_Dependent71

Expert Analysis: they fucking hate each other.

ronweasleisourking

Trump had meetings with Netanyahu to keep this conflict going through the election, and is now in the “finding out” stage of fucking around… Unfortunately, his method of diplomacy is to throw gasoline on any given fire, which means things are far likely to get much worse before they get better.

Watch this idiot lead us into another unwinnable war in the Middle East.

definitivescribbles

The idiots keep forgetting that the ones you keep bombing (in order to defeat) are actually the ones who are the most dangerous.
The american occupation forces got their asses beaten by people that lost too much, nokias and cables.

If they come to iraq we will have a repetition of 2003-2011 nothing will fucking change

PapaN27x

chicken_nugget_champ

If I was your neighbour, I'd probably do something similar to be fair.

PiingThiing

What a liar. They hit apartment buildings and killed civilians. More lies coming out of Iranian mouths. Nobody in the Middle East cares for the Iranian regime.  Strike military bases while Trump is in office and Tehran won’t exist.

westcoastwholesale

You can’t walk up to someone else’s house take a shit on their doorstep and expect them to be okay with that?

likedasumbody

I've never seen him so pissed off. I like him pissed off.

Winter-Escape-4972

Spoiler alert: The Jews will mop the floor with them like everyone else

BarnacleFun1814

He seems to SPEAK FAIR. Watch yall RACISM!! or get your ass handed to you!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Skillzgeez

If Iran could, they would have destroyed Israel and USA long time ago. It's their leader's wet dream. On the other hand Israel, USA CAN destroy Iran but have not. Be real the attack on Iran's nuclear sites is for everyone's safety. you can't have apes (the regime, not the majority of the people) run around with nukes.

fl0rinescu

I’d be careful if Iran attacks US. It’s all a games until you push the current crazed president to push a button. Note to Iran and this asshole, don’t poke the Eagle right now. If we say we are not involved with this attack, fight one person (Israel) not the US. You will regret it. If anyone thinks Iran can attack the US and just be, the world will see otherwise in a very brutal way.

LimeSuitable3518

The Zionist death cult is insisting on starting WWIII.

All because they don't want you to see that they are doing the same in the West Bank as they've done in Gaza.

He-knows-best

man, I wish Pakistan, almost similar level of strength, could show this much balls.

Umair65

Iran is going to get fucked. I'll be sitting front row with popcorn watching.

Pauly_Wauly_Guy

This guy knows how to use his words and his time and speaks truth to power. I admire him.

New_face_in_hell_

Rightricket

Iran was among the first to help Putin, providing essential support when his early efforts were faltering.  Iranian weapons are killing innocent Ukrainians daily.  I support the Palestinians, but the Iranian regime is evil too.  Enemy of my enemy doesn't make it a friend.

Diligent-Run6361

The government of iran and the government of israel are the ENEMIES of the citizens of israel and the citizens of iran.

Both governments need to be dissolved. Netenyahu needs to be brought to justice for warcrimes. And all of the party members in the ruling parties need to be permabanned from politics. Especially the hard right war hawk types who prefer to be bullies instead of play nicely, and recognize the rights of other humans.

And furthermore, the US should not get involved.

Worldly_Ingenuity_27

That newsreader is the living embodiment of a blockhead.

JanSmiddy

Nx-worries1888

In a significant escalation of hostilities, Israel and Iran have been engaged in intense exchanges of missile strikes over the past few days. Israel's military operation has targeted key Iranian military and nuclear sites, while Iran has retaliated by launching missiles into Israeli cities, resulting in multiple casualties on both sides.

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