Iran has swept up the spider's web—the radar web around 'Israel'—and the superpowered spider is slinking off. But where can the Americans land? Where can they can they weave their tangled webs now, and who's going to buy into their protection racket? They are not just losing this war, they are losing power. As the Quran said, “Those who take protectors other than God can be compared to the spider which builds itself a cobweb, but the frailest of all structures is the house of the spider, if they but knew it.” Ever the scholar, Nasrallah called it.

And you can't say the Americans weren't warned either, in the only language they understand. Iran pinpoint struck the radar in Qatar during the 12-Day-War, stating clearly this is what we'll blow up. But here we are anyways, covering day eight of the Ramadan War they started, “When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported. When they came in vertically and return horizontally, it's then that the Trump administration will realize that they have lost the region,” as the late, great Nasrallah reported. He's still the best narrator of current affairs, and has been since the 1980s.

Spiritual Background

Speaking of the 1980s, here's Khamenei speaking then, about a day we're approaching.

Khamenei is talking about Laylat al-Qadr, the night of power, which occurs every Ramadan. He said, “The night of destiny for the oppressed nations is worth more than a thousand months of life. The forces of history, the eternal and unchangeable laws of history and humanity come to the aid of those who forge their own destiny. A divine promise. It will not be broken.” Doesn't it feel like that now, in these weeks where centuries happen?

Khamenei's philosophical work—which is excellent, I'd say he was our best living philosopher until martyred—was very much about the combination of faith and action. Have faith, yes, but take action. His book Islamic Beliefs is hard to find but I've excerpted a bit in my Reading Resistance. In one of those Ramadan sermons he gave in 1974, Khamenei said,

Moral duties are not just for religious seasons. They are not for sometimes. They do not apply one day but not another. They do not apply to one person but not another. Duties are perpetual, universal and eternal.” And also, “‘God has promised those of you who have faith and do righteous deeds’—in other words, those who act upon the moral duties that emanate from their faith. God has promised these ‘that He will surely make them successors in the earth.

In this sermon, well before the Islamic Revolution, you can see why the Islamic State he helped build emphasized science and technology so much, and empowered mostly women to follow it it. As Khamenei continued,

Sometimes we imagine that, from the beginning of the time and wherever they were, the faithful were always Oppressed. This is how many Muslims see the world today: They think having faith means to take a beating! To be a Muslim, to be a believer, to be striving in the way of God, means suffering, means persecution, means oppression. The Qur'an wants to say the opposite is true—that from the moment religion came into being it was always moving forwards, it was always advancing, it was never going backwards. According to our beliefs, religion has never taken a single step backwards. Even the things that some people think are signs of ‘backwardness’ are actually steps towards progress.

This is why Iran is successful in this war. Not because they sat around waiting for Ramadan vibes to save them, but because they long prepared for the Ramadan War.

Strategic Background

The Ramadan War is now reaching its decisive moment. And it is Iran who decides, that is how much the balance of power has shifted. As SNAP! said, I got the power. Or as some dude on Twitter said, “The phrasing in op-eds and consensus opinion is that “Trump needs to end this war” and it’s like buddy he doesn’t get to decide that. You’re all along for the ride now. You’re finished when Larijani says you’re finished.”

Remember that failing to plan is planning to fail and Trump's administration didn't even fill up their own gas tank before blowing up the gas station. Their strategic petroleum reserves are emptying and they were strategically defeated on day one, when Iran didn't just implode and let him dictate fiqh to them.

Meanwhile Iran has been planning this war for generations. As the martyred Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major-General Abdul Raheem Mousavi, said 6 years ago:

There will definitely be counter-strikes in such a way that he cannot free himself from this. It is his hand to take, but it is no longer his hand to let go.

Or as surviving Major General Mohsen Rezaei said recently,

In that last interview I did on the fifth day, I said we have passed the peak and are heading downhill. Now is our downhill phase. You saw what happened just last night in Tel Aviv. Meaning, because we hit the radars and the infrastructure, today, truly, Mr. Trump and Netanyahu are trapped in a slaughterhouse in the Persian Gulf. And in the coming days and weeks, much more joyful news will be delivered to the dear nation of Iran.

This is the strategy I have described earlier, straight from the warhorse's mouth. That strategy is,

1. Take down the Gulf Shield Generator
2. Scatter the US Fleet
3. Destroy the Death Colony

Step one is almost completely done, the US fleet is on the run, and we are now on the final run of the escalation ladder, 'Israel' getting hung. I'll start with that because I know y'all have been waiting. After Bye-Bye Dubai and See Ya Later Sailor, they're finally playing Boom Boom Tel Aviv, everybody's favorite song.

Palestine

It's important to understand that the 12-Day-War was a threat display from Iran. They did stuff like hitting the officer's swimming pool at an airbase and flashy hits to show they could simply reach 'Israel', to get them to back down. This made for quite a highlight reel, because they were trying to put the fear of God in these godless people. Bu that's not what's happening in the sequel.

They don't want you to look (their wartime censorship is good), but 'Israel' is getting cooked.

What used to come in regular waves with regular warnings are now just constant bombings with little to no alarming. 'Israel' long-range radars in the Gulf States have been incinerated, their proxy defenders in Saudi and Jordan have had their bases decimated, and their own Iron Dome is increasingly defenseless.

'Israel' now has powercuts, and they'd better get used to it. Their power is both literally and figuratively being cut. Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said 'Israel' would be destroyed by 2027, and the clock has started.

There are also targeted hits in 'Israel'. We don't yet know what high-level 'Israelis' have been assassinated, but it's a nonzero number, certainly. They don't report it, but many things are reported.

During the 12-Day-War, 'Israel' had many saboteurs and cells inside Iran, hitting vital points from inside the country. Now the tables have turned. Those cells have been burned, and Hezbollah has returned. Hezbollah is targeting 'Israel' at a depth of at least 135km, and with great accuracy because Iran has taken the Gulf Shield Generator down. For example, here is an 'Israeli' SATCOM that Hezbollah has destroyed.

What you can see is that 'Israel' can't see. First the Shield Generators in the Gulf, and now the radar and satellite links in the Death Colony itself are not working. Like a spider at the center of a web senses vibrations, they sensed threats incoming through the perfidious Arab nations. But now nothing, but devastation.

I want to remind you that these are compounding damages. The more their web gets shattered, the more it scatters. And it has only begun. It's demolition time for demons. Now Iran is unleashing the big guns. As the IRGC Aerospace Force Commander said, via, “From now on, no missile with a warhead lighter than one ton will be fired; the wavelength of the firings and the level of waves will be greater, and the amplitude of it will be wider.”

This is all breaking 'Israelis' psychologically, who are used to hitting everybody and never getting hit back in return. As the colonizer Ori Goldberg says from occupied Palestine,

Just had the most intense two hours of bombardment here since Israel began its criminal war in Iran. Israeli citizens received a full demonstration of how dazed and confused our civil defense is, and I live in a well-to-do area. Just as Israel thrives on denying the humanity of its victims in Palestine, Iran and Lebanon, so do Israelis thrive on complete and utter dissociation from their own lives, on murderous solipsism. This works exactly until the second it stops working. Then it comes tumbling down like a house of cards.

The scale of civilian damage is not what it is in Iran, Lebanon, or certainly Gaza, but the damage to fragile 'Israeli' egos is much more. As Golberg continues, “Tel Aviv has not been destroyed. Israel is destroying Tehran and Esfahan and Beirut. But Israel is deeply rattled and effectively paralyzed.” As Nasrallah, said describing the difference in morale amongst the immoral,

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.

And like so much Nasrallah said, it's coming true.

There is (hitting autotranslate), “Chaos at Ben Gurion Airport: El Al received approval yesterday to board 200 passengers on some flights - but today the number has dropped back to 50 - many passengers were left furious at the check-in counters after arriving at Ben Gurion Airport. Ground crew member: “Loss of control—they closed the check-in counters. There's violence between the police and passengers.””

The disastrous diaspora is dispersing again (hopefully not into Sri Lanka, please God). As I've said, 'Israel' was the final ghetto where Europeans deported their Jews (right into a war zone). The Palestinians were actually Semitic people that actually helped them, but they got nothing but punished for their kindness. The Jews could have chosen co-existence at any time, but no, they chose violence and service to the White Empire that genocided and then deported them. But now that deal with White Devils ends, as the White Empire collapse all around them. Jews are discovering that they don't have the final White privilege, committing genocide and getting away with it.

The Other Fronts

This time I won't cover the other fronts so much because they're effectively being wound up. The US bases in the region are almost completely cleared, Iran is running out of stuff to bomb. America keeps having to retreat further and further, from its bases in the Gulf, from its bases in Saudi, and so on. This is what their own reports called the tyranny of geography, but their Commander-in-Chief doesn't read, of course, so it's TV news to him.

Iran has full fire control over the Strait of Hormuz and insurers have closed it for them.

Trump was able to move oil prices down with a few tweets, because financial speculators love speculating, but the overall trend line is defeat. As Major General Rezaei from above said,

They didn't think, for example, the price of oil would go up from $80. It has already gone up to $110, you should expect $120 and $150 oil in the coming days... Well, what does this mean? It means the entire global economy will collapse. If the global economy collapses, will the world allow Trump to continue his warmongering? Or will the countries of the region allow him to continue his warmongering?

I have less faith in the world or the region doing anything, but I have faith since Iran is in the driver's seat. They have the global economy by the teats and they can turn up the heat until America retreats. This is a massive strategic defeat. I don't mean failing to destroy Iran, that still implies that America has agency, and merely failed to do something. This is not Vietnam or Afghanistan where the guerrilla army, as Kissinger said, wins by not losing. No, Iran wins. The one independent country in the Middle East is taking control of the region. All that's left is a sweeping up of the cobwebs.

Where This Is Going

What I find fascinating is that while the American logic changes from tweet-to-tweet, you can read Resistance sources from any point in the past 40 years and they're completely consistent. Honestly, I can read the Quran from centuries ago and it's accurate, because they really do follow it (see The Islamic Art of War). The strategy was set long ago, and the Decentralized Mosaic Defense today is just patiently executing it. Martyring these people does not eliminate them, it just promotes the next generation, like replacing Khamenei with Khamenei.

So if you want to know where this is going, you can listen to Iran's Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf from today, as he says,

We are absolutely NOT seeking a ceasefire. We believe the aggressor must be struck in the mouth so that it learns a lesson and never again even thinks of attacking dear Iran. The Zionist regime sees its disgraceful survival in the continuation of the cycle of ‘war–negotiation–ceasefire, and then war again’ in order to consolidate its dominance. We will break this cycle.

You can read between the lines, this is not ending until 'Israel's' ending. Or you can listen to Major General Rezaei from before the Ramadan War, saying the same thing. The Americans have proven that they are ‘negotiation-incapable’, as the Russians say, and Iran, inshallah, won't be fooled again.

As Rezaei says,

When Mr. Trump shows his face, it reminds me of how Hitler's armies got stuck in Russia's snow. When Hitler failed there, he could not even protect Germany and half the country was lost. They do not understand that Iran is like the Russian winter. The further Trump advances, the worse his situation.

Trump said to them, “I do not want a long war, I will carry out on short attack.” Mr. Trump, you probably thought to yourself that after your short attack, you would ask for a ceasefire again. Do you really think that Iran would agree to a ceasefire this time? We advise you to pull back. Do not advance any further. If we set out, there will be no more talk of ceasefires or anything like that. We are telling you this now, loud and clear. The blows you have landed and the damage you have caused in the past 50 years... no matter our magnanimity and strategic patience, you failed to heed it.

This is indeed a serious matter, but our armed forces are ready. Mr. Trump, not only do we have our finger on the trigger, the bullet is already chambered.

Now Trump has pulled the trigger, and blown off his own head. So it doesn't really matter what's going on inside of it. The void within has joined the void without. Trump is a political non-entity, like the final colony that egged him on. If Gaza was Stalingrad for these Nazis, then this their Operation Bagration, when they get broken forever and pushed back to Berlin (precisely where Netanyahu's plane went on day one).

After all these days when centuries happen, we are just awaiting the decisive Night of Power. When the work of generations comes to fruition, and the enemy scatters and flees for good. As Nasrallah said, “When the US leaves our region, these Zionists will pack up and leave. We might not even have to fight a battle against 'Israel'.” So far, he hasn't led me wrong. I'll see you in Al-Quds, inshallah.

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