Ramadan is over (Eid Mubarak) but the Ramadan War is just getting started. Yesterday was a veritable festival of firepower, which I'll try to cover before picking my daughter up. Normally I do a strategic summary first, but instead I'll include this (AI) video that aired on Chinese state TV. It explains the war in a way a child can understand, because it really is that simple. And it's done in a Cat-Fu style which is adorable.

Strategic Context

The video is AI, but the human writing is what makes it excellent. The White Eagle Empire (what I call White Empire) really has expended its Golden Arrows and Golden Thunderbolts against ‘wooden’ drones and missiles. Now the Gulf Shield around 'Israel' is down and a missile gap has become a missile chasm. Iran has plugged the ‘Valley of Flowing Gold’ and the only thing the video gets wrongish is that there is no going around it.

Unlike the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf is where the oil starts, and Iran can stop it. Nobody is going around Iran, Iran is reorienting trade around itself, and around morality rather than corruption. The Strait isn't quite closed, you can get through with Iran's permission, and paying in Yuan. What was once a strait open only to the wicked has been gated by the righteous now. Geopolitically, 2026 is when the 1974/1979 Oil Shock final sinks in. The idea that the region will be sovereign over its own resources, and that White Empire will be thrown to the wind. It's been a long time coming but, as Sam Cooke sang, a change is gonna come.

I want to repeat what the news does not repeat. The Ramadan War is already a big strategic victory. Iran is not a guerrilla army surviving over decades, they are a gorilla army chasing the entire White Empire out in weeks. The best US aircraft carriers and aircraft have been defeated. The USS Gerald Fart is running away to repair its damages, and the USS Lincoln is hiding. At least one F-35 has been shot down. The Empire can spin this any way it wants. Same result. Strategic defeat to them, strategic victory to Iran.

I also want to say what they distract away. The White Empire has lost land and has been unable to set foot in Iran entirely. Its bases in the Middle East are permanently defeated. They cannot rebuild these bits of rare earth without Chinese resources, Iranian permission, and the work ethic of their grandfathers, none of which are forthcoming. Meanwhile the White Empire's troops and spooks are hiding in hotels, their embassies are being evacuated, and their ships are either weeks away or sailing in the wrong direction. This is a retreat turning into a rout. From the Gulf to Iraq to Saudi, the region is being decolonized just as Fanon said. He said, “In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.” That decisive confrontation is happening now, and make no mistake, Iran is winning.

Dimona and Arad

It really is one battle after another, but not an Afro-sexualized White savior story like the movie of the same name (it's lame). Across the White Empire, Iran is still discussed like they're Ewoks, fighting with sticks and stones, but it's time to admit what the battlefield is teaching the world. Iran has superior technology. They have vastly superior missiles that cleared every US base within days, innovative air defenses that can shoot down F-35s, and naval and aerospace forces that can chase away aircraft carriers while remaining invisible (to morons).

The Empire—even people that hate the Empire—keep coping, saying they're destroying Iranian missiles (by running into them), have air supremacy (by running away from the border), and are just having technical problems (what caused them?). This is the subtle bigotry of low expectations, and it is increasingly irrelevant. It does not matter what people within the Cable-TV Colosseum think when the gates of Rome itself are rattling. The battlefield talks, and Iran has spoken up. As Nasrallah said,

Experience has shown us that red blood is capable of obliterating red lines, and if the nation chooses to follow this path [of Resistance], Israel and America will find that they are incapable of changing anything in the equation.

Now look at what Iran has done. Here, for example, is IRGC's report on the 73rd Wave of True Promise,

Over 200 killed and wounded in Wave 73, and increased security pressure on "israeli" journalists to censor the destruction.

The south and north of occupied Palestine were targeted in the 73rd wave of Operation True Promise 4, under the codename "Ya Haydar, peace be upon him," and in honor of the heroism of the air defense martyrs, by a hard and decisive strike of missiles and drones from the Aerospace Force of the Revolutionary Guard.

Military installations and security centers in "Arad", "Dimona", "Eilat", "occupied Bir Al-Sabi'", and "Kiryat Gat" in the south of occupied Palestine were struck with precision following the collapse of the defense system of this usurping "israeli" army. Additionally, the Ali Al-Salem, Minhad, and Al-Dhafra bases of the terrorist US army in the region were hit with precision by Fattah, Ghadr, and Emad missile systems, and suicide drones.

According to field reports, more than 200 have been killed or wounded in the initial hours of the offensive. "israeli" security officials have increased pressure on journalists and eyewitnesses to censor the destruction and reports of casualties.

Iran keeps saying that we are equal to you, and if you hit us we will hit back the same or worse. The Empire cannot get this through their heads (are the Ewoks talking?) but the missiles are getting through to show them. As we've discussed earlier, Iran has methodically taken down the radar spider's web that girded the entity and they have fire control over the entire region. So when 'Israel' (or America, who cares) hits their nuclear facility, Iran hits them right back in the nuclear facility (Dimona, and neighboring Arad). 'Israeli' isn't even supposed to have nuclear facilities, so they can't really complain.

As Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf (who has taken up the shit-posting mantle from the martyr Ali Larijani) said, “Israel fails to intercept missiles in the highly protected Dimona area. This is a sign of entering a new phase of the battle: ✅ Israel's skies are defenseless.”

Here's the hit from multiple angles. You can see the missile evading an interceptor (they're running out, and their Gulf Shield is down) and absolutely flamboozling a target. You can also see the impacts in Arad (different place, but nearby).

What target? According to Arya Yadheghaar (AryJeay), “Geolocating by OSINT acccounts suggest the Iranian missile hit a bomb shelter in Dimona. This likely suggests that Iran had intel that Israeli nuclear scientist possibly were using this bomb shelter, as it is only about 10km away from the Dimona nuclear facility.”

And you can see the results,

Given constant assassination of Iran's legitimate nuclear scientists, with help from the snitch-tagging IAEA, this would still be less than proportional. There are not reports of deaths yet, but over 100 casualties in the imperial media. You can see from the damages to both Dimona and Arad (a nuclear company town) that these impacts were like the hit on the Genocide Sciences Weizmann Institute in the 12-Day War. Absolutely devastating and intercepted only by the ground.

Remember that Iran has taken a moral stand against nukes, while 'Israel' has been immorally and illegally building dozens of them. If the logic of this war is to stop nuclear proliferation in the region, Iran is doing it.

Reciprocity

The principle Iran is trying to establish is reciprocity. This is well-known enough in international law, but since that has never applied to colored people, the White Empire is very confused about it. I don't quote Donald Trump much because he's increasingly irrelevant, like his AI counterpart, but he recently said, “If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.. the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”

However, as the IRGC Deputy Commander said in 2024, “Israel will expose its existence to extinction if it makes a mistake. We'll target all its energy sources, power plants, refineries & gas fields. Iran has many economic centers but Israel has only 3 power plants & some refineries. We can hit all at once, if we want.” Iran only gets a fraction of its power from one power plant, whereas 'Israel' gets all of its power from just a few. If they try to go eye-for-an-eye, 'Israel' will be lights out in three pokes, whereas Iran has as many eyes as angels do.

As Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari just said,

We warn the enemy that you made a major mistake by attacking the energy infrastructure of Iran. Iran had no intention of expanding the scope of the war to oil facilities and did not want to harm the economies of friendly & neighboring countries. However, after US/Israel’s aggression on Iran’s energy sector, Iran has effectively entered a new phase of the war, and struck energy facilities linked to the United States and American shareholders. The responses are underway and is not over yet. If terrorism against Iran is repeated again, the next attacks on your energy infrastructures and that of your allies will not stop until their complete destruction.

Decolonizing the Colony

As we have discussed many times before, Iran's strategy has been 1) take down the Gulf Shields 2) scare off the US fleet 3) dismantle 'Israel'. We are now well into phase 3, though the phases run in parallel. If you look at how Ben Gurion Airport (now effectively a military airport) operates, they cannot go on like this. As 'Israeli' YNet reports (summarized by @ripplebrain)

- 80 aircraft were immediately evacuated from the airport at the start of hostilities
- Ynet's tour began with an immediate descent into a shelter within the airport due to a real air alert, which happens multiple times a day
- Specialized vehicles constantly clear the runways of debris
- Check-in and screening for passengers has been moved to locations in close proximity to air raid shelters
- Only one cafe and one duty shop is open, all other shops and restaurants in the airport are closed
- Only one commercial concourse is open
- Commercial aircraft only stay at Ben Gurion for the minimum window required to land, pick up passengers, and depart
- Each time there's an air alert, any plane preparing for takeoff returns to the terminal so the passengers can run to a shelter. If there's not enough time, the passengers evacuate the plane through emergency exits and lie flat on the runway while covering their heads until the alert is over
- Only 2,300 people (including staff) are allowed in the airport at any given time, so evacuating all of them to shelters is possible
- Only 100 passengers are allowed on a plane
- Only two flights are allowed per hour
- ATC is fully integrated with the IAF to allow US and Israeli military planes to conduct operations, which take priority,
- Planes regularly have to circle the airport or turn back entirely due to air alerts
- No foreign airlines are operating out of the airport
- New bomb shelters are being continuously added in the hopes of expanding capacity for passengers

This is not a normal country and never will be again. They're adding bomb shelters to extend capacity and planes regularly turn around in the air or passengers have to get out and cower on the tarmac. They sowed the wind and reap the whirlwind. Whenever 'Israelis' get on social media to complain, they are bombarded by images of Gaza is 1000x worse shape. Nobody gives a shit. Reality is antisemitic.

'Israel' is really the most antisemitic idea possible (go back to where you came from). The last ghetto Europeans deported the Jews to, to be kapos over real Semites, offering their grandchildren as tribute to the White Empire, to frack oil with blood. 'Israel' was a deal with the White devil and you know how those go in the end, which is nigh. Any 'Israeli' with half a brain and a passport is finding a way to get out. All that will be left are ultra-radical Orthodox Jews that won't fight, exhausted reservists with traumatic brain injuries and full-diapers that can't think right, and a bunch of guilty bystanders that will take flight. God help the places they go, but it won't be Palestine's problem anymore. Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin was right, by 2027, 'Israel' will go not so gentle into that good night.

The martyr Basil Al-Araj said, “Let us be like a solid structure and play a game of biting fingers with the enemy, our society against their society,” and you can see who's winning from the street. As the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said,

Victims crawl from underneath the rubble and say, "We all sacrifice to the service of the cause." Do you believe that these Israeli people who were collected from the corners of the world diaspora, have you ever heard any of them saying that "My blood, my beloved ones and my home can be sacrificed for Israel!"? None.

Lebanon

I want to take a moment to highlight two of the lesser-covered fronts in the Ramadan War. Lebanon and Iraq. This is bad on me cause Hezbollah's media game has always been top-notch (they have an orchestral band) and the Iraqi Resistance is stepping up. These are the ground troops that will liberate Al-Quds, inshallah.

'Israel' is trying to Nakba Southern Lebanon, blowing up bridges, hospitals, and attacking journalists (their usual). Like the Nazis when they had bigger problems, 'Israel' just cannot stop genociding for an instant. However, every time they encounter men in the field, they get merked in their Merkavas. Hezbollah is resisting all across the contact line. 'Israel' cannot advance on the ground, and everywhere they set foot they are getting lit up. 'Israel' does not actually have that many Merkavas, and in the past week alone I've seen 15 frying in the sun.

It is difficult to overstate how much Hezbollah is doing, and how little they have been subdued. Nasrallah is dead but Nasrallah's ghosts are all over. Hezbollah “issued 35 military statements on Saturday 21/03/2026” alone, I can't even go through them all, but 'Israel' is obviously going through a lot.

Iraq

Meanwhile, the Iraqi Resistance A) exists and B) is unexisting White Empire. They are clearing US bases and Iraqi airspace. The imperial troops are leaving by road and the imperial ships don't dare cross the border.

As the Iraqi Resistance has said, “The fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out, during the past twenty-four hours, twenty-one operations, using dozens of drones and missiles against occupation bases in Iraq and the region.” And also, “The cowardly enemy, under the protection of the Counter-Terrorism Service, is fleeing from some of its bases towards Jordan. We have all the sufficient and detailed information about their current presence, and whichever base they turn into a burrow for their hiding.” Every base and even embassy in Iraq is burning and NATO and Poland have evacuated their war criminals.

The Empire does not get it. They have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Khamenei in Iran and won nothing but a fatwa from Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq. Now it's every Shia's duty to attack the White Empire, and the Iraqi Resistance has proven up to the job. Even their media game has stepped up:

The Iraqi Resistance is simply overwhelming imperial strongholds with drones. In a phrase that should terrify imperial soldiers, the IEDs have wings now.

Just look at this video of a convoy of troops fleeing Iraq, heading to Jordan. But Jordan isn't safe either, they'll have to go to Europe, and then home.

It's taking a while to end the Iraq War, but it's over. Iraq's oil money is still flowing through the US Treasury, but with the strait blocked, that's over. Iraq'll have to price it in Yuan now, and finally break the bonds to the White Empire that tortured them so long.

The Coverage

None of this is being covered by the Western press, including Al Jazeera (attached to the military base Qatar). But it is happening nonetheless. The news is a mess, but the history writes itself. I repeat, I repeat, this is a defeat, a retreat turning into a rout. Look at the colonizers being chased out of Iraq into Jordan, from which they will also be chased out. Look at the empty bases around the Gulf, from which they have to flee to 'Israel', which is also being hollowed out. What's next? Cyprus, Diego Garcia, Romania? Those are all within range also. Colonizers just need to go home, until their genocided United States falls apart also.

It doesn't matter if they load 5,000 marines onto some rust-bucket and sail it across the seas, to offer as ritual sacrifice to Hormuz and Raytheon. The Americans can't hold their own fortified bases anywhere near Iran, how are they going to occupy an island right under the cliffs of fortress Iran? It doesn't matter. The White God is dead (capital) and the people of Allah are strong. As the Quran says, “Had it not been for God’s repelling some people by means of others, the earth would have been filled with corruption. But God is bountiful to mankind,” (2:251).

I said America would lose a war with Iran years ago, citing America's own reports from even longer ago. Now it's coming true, and Trump just makes it worse the more he struggles. People talk about finding an exit ramp or negotiating or this or that, like the Empire has a say in anything anymore. But the martyr General Mousavi said, “It is his hand to take, but it is no longer his hand to let go.” Iran has taken power, and the White Empire can only glower and cower. America has been in retreat for a long time, since Vietnam really. But with Iran pushing them out of the Middle East entirely, it's turning into a rout.

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