These updates used to be daily, because things were crazy, but now they can become weekly, because the Empire is weakening. Attrition warfare is a very different for defenders on their own land vs. offenders on a ship, overflowing with their own shit.

Strategy Recap

I'll repeat the military strategy because it hasn't changed.

1. Take down the Gulf Missile Shield
2. Exhaust the US military
3. Dismantle 'Israel'

Things are proceeding apace. The only thing I won't discuss here is the economic strategy, which is already causing rationing in my native Sri Lanka, on the IMF edges of White Empire, and which is coming for you soon!

Iran's war strategy broadly matches Art of War, as Justin Podur points out. As Sun Tzu said (from the Michael Nylan translation, who is actually a woman),

Best in war is to target their strategies, then their alliances (or allies); and then their troops. The least desirable option is to attack a fortified city.

Who is the Resistance fighting, or more specifically, how are they fighting? I call them White Empire, because I get tired of repeating America and all its lackeys over and over. They are following ‘underpants’ strategy, from their own South Park propaganda. That is,

1. Kill leaders and children
2. ???
3. Profit

1 | The Gulf Apostates

This first point of contention is the fake Gulf States that held real US military bases, and served as the Ironic Dome, a bunch of 'Muslim' countries defending an 'Israel' that constantly disrespected them. This was the first target of Iran (as they warned), and now the shields are down.

It should be noted that Iran warned everybody that this would happen, saying “all bases, facilities and assets of the hostile force in the region would constitute legitimate targets in the context of Iran's defensive response,” in a letter to the UN in February 2026. Seyed Mohammad Marandi also did the exhausting work of explaining this to idiots across Western media. But as they say say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. In the same way, you can try and deter a dumbass from slaughter, but you can't make them think.

Now Iran has taken down the priceless (can never be replaced) radars in UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain and is now dismantling the occupying US bases forever. These bases are never coming back. Rebuilding would require Iranian permission, Chinese resources, and American wherewithal, none of which are coming back, ergo, these bases are just gone.

Iran's position has been very clear, that all the US bases in the region are being cleared. They have given other Muslim states the chance to stand up and expel their own occupiers, because, as the Quran says, “Say to the desert Arabs who stayed behind, ‘You shall be called against a mighty people; then shall you fight, unless they submit. Then if you prove obedient, God will grant you a good reward, but if You turn back as you did before, He will inflict on you a painful punishment’,” (48:16). The modern desert Arabs are still not standing up to fight, so Iran is doing all the decolonizing for them.

As speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammed Ghalibaf said,

The enemy has begun targeting our energy storage facilities, and this means an infrastructure war. If this path continues, let them be sure that we will target their infrastructure as well, and we will attack any region from which the United States attacks us.

Our relations today with the countries of the region are the same friendly relations as before and will continue, but if some countries place their territories at the disposal of the Americans, it became incumbent upon us to do what we did, and we have truly done it.

Even after the obvious indefensibility of the Empire's offending bases in the Gulf became clear, Iran gave the United Arab Eunuchs a chance to kick them out themselves. But this would require balls where, as I have implied, there are none. Just look at these satraps giving each other slaps on the back.

Now look closer. It's Ramadan, when one fasts during the day, and these guys are eating and drinking in what looks like broad daylight! Regardless of what time it actually was, this is a staged photo op, and these guys can't even pretend to be real Muslims. The devils can't hide their horns, and the White devils they took as protectors instead of God have abandoned them.

Attacks have continued from occupied soil—including blowing up civilian planes and airports in Iran—and so the United Arab Eunuchs get it in turn. Now Iran is ‘killing the idea of Dubai’ entirely, and most people are cheering for it. Though shout-out to the majority South Asian brothers and sisters stuck in the Emirates, who are now effectively hostages.

The ‘idea of Dubai’ is that you can sell out your neighbors and any Islamic values, pay for your own occupation, and profit in dollars. They made this deal with the White Devils, and you know how all deals with the devil go. Great in the beginning, but they get you on the interest rate. Americans are simply not that interested in the Gulf Apostates, any dwindling missile defenses are going to 'Israel'. And the Gulf States are getting decimated. They'll never become Las Vegas in the desert again, they'll just become vacant and deserted. And you can't say they didn't have it coming. As the Quran said long ago,

The satisfaction of worldly desires through women, and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and pedigreed horses, and cattle and lands is attractive to people. All this is the provision of the worldly life; but the most excellent abode is with God. (3:14)

and

As for those who deny the truth, their wealth and children will not help them against God. They will be fuel for the Fire. (3:10)

Qatar has been the more responsible of US military bases with gift shops attached, they've been running barebones flight. Dubai is the most evil of the emirates—a US military base with a brothel attached (perhaps redundant)—and their flagship carrier, Emirates, tried to return to normalish flying last week. You can see how that worked out.

A friend of a friend did get through about a week ago, accompanied by two jet fighters on each wing, which is not reassuring at all. But now that's stopped as the fuel tanks are burning. Emirates just ran long flights from Manchester to Manchester, Johannesburg to Johannesburg, and Dublin to Dublin. Now that its fuel depot has burnt for at least a day, the airspace over UAE is almost completely shut. Hopefully this decelerates their own, personal, genocide of Sudan.

What has been revealed in the Al-Aqsa Flood is that these Gulf Apostates were not real states at all, they were just radar bases for 'Israel', which is itself a conscript colony for White Empire. Together this Greater 'Israel' was trying to destroy the only free country in the region, Iran, but Iran is destroying them back, as they deserve. As the IRGC said today (the 18th),

All American bases in the region were razed for the third consecutive time in Ali Al-Salem, Victoria, Al-Kharj, Al-Udeid, Al-Udayri, Al-Dhafra, Al-Azraq, the Fifth Fleet, and Arifjan with powerful multi-warhead missiles and precise destructive drones.

2 | Exhaust The US Military

Remember that White Empire hides behind many false flags. During the 12-Day-War they hid behind 'Israel', and Iran played along to avoid direct confrontation. Iran didn't attack the radar bases in the Gulf States, because they were pretending like those were something else. But this is the real one, and all bets are off. Now Iran is facing the US military directly, something even Russia and China haven't done. And now all illusions must be cast off. As the Art of War says, know your enemy, and the White Empire is one.

Following Sun Tzu, he also said, “Best in war is to target their strategies, then their alliances (or allies); and then their troops.” Iran has targeted America's strategy by not immediately dying like they were expected to. Then they targeted the Empire's alliances militarily by blowing its Gulf allies and the entire petrodollar system (via Hormuz). Now they're targeting the troops, like they're supposed to.

America only reports a few dozen killed, usually with pictures of them holding babies, as if they were not professional baby-killers. But everybody knows that this is an undercount. America also reports everything as an accident; the dryer is Hamas, the wind is Hezbollah, Kuwait is the IRGC, the toilet is Ansarallah. From our perspective, does it matter? Own goal or goal, it's a goal, and America is losing, sore. Just look at the scoreboard.

Oil prices are up, stock markets are down, US bases are empty, and the Palestinian sky is full. Sun Tzu said “Warfare is the art of deception. So when you can, feign incapacity,” which Iran doesn't even have to do. For Americans, warfare is the art of self-deception, and they fool themselves out of sheer racism.

American media keeps talking about Iranian missiles being depleted, which is just another accufession. Iran is in Iran, which is in Asia, AKA connected China and Russia. They can just make more. It's like going to a bakery in the evening and saying they're out of bread. Chill bro, come in the morning, they're always baking more. Meanwhile America is not in America, and has to airlift everything over, from a military industrial base that doesn't exist anymore. America only has so many guns, and nowhere to reload them.

Aircraft Carriers

Take America's aircraft carriers, which are just a shitty, expensive, and vulnerable simulation of land. These carriers carry Tomahawks (a stolen name) and other VLS (Vertical Launching Systems) that only be reloaded in port. But what port? The Fifth Fleet is homeless, Iran is using their base in Bahrain for target practice. No, they have to slunk all the way back to Crete (Greece), which is precisely what the USS Gerald Ford is doing.

The Ford, AKA the Fart has other problems also. They have had persistent toilet issues since they switched to vacuum toilets that fail almost once a day, spilling shit on the floors. They also reported a ‘dryer fire’ that burnt for 30 hours and left 600 baby-killers without bunks. Which also means no laundry is being done. Can you imagine the morale on this shuddering hulk, tasked with doing immoral deeds for obvious pedophiles, unable to shit, sleep, or change clothes properly? I would feel bad for them were they not such bad people.

If the cover story for the US military is ‘we shit ourselves and can't do laundry,’ can you imagine how bad the truth is? As the inestimable Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari said,

An enemy that declares the death of its soldiers as "mild brain concussions" must also ignore the desperation and fire on the USS Gerald Ford and the casualties left behind during friendly fire, and now, with the same justification, the destruction of its refueler is labeled as a "technical defect."

The number of your "technical defects," "mild brain concussions," and friendly fire incidents has been higher than ever for some time now. Wherever you are in the region, especially in your residential areas, industrial zones, and underground bunkers, you will be buried under fire and rubble.

America is both increasingly unable to defend itself and unable to offend anything but the human conscience. I have gone through US military reports for years and everybody knows that they don't have that many modern ‘smart’ missiles (Tomahawks and JASSMs) whereas that's basically all Iran has. We're talking smartphones vs. Nokia, and the US military is Nokia. There is a huge missile gulf between Iran and America, and America's on the wrong side of it. Furthermore, Iran has a giant aircraft carrier called land, whereas America has roving diarrhea fountains. That's why I say the Resistance has gone from fighting the Diaper Army to the Toilet Navy. Aircraft carriers are supposed to provoke fear, but everyone is just laughing at them.

To do a rough napkin calculation of missile exhaustion, I'll rely on Will Schryver, who has said,

Prior to the recent commencement of war with Iran, the general consensus of Tomahawk cruise missiles loaded in the deployed destroyers and submarines was ~600 missiles.

It is now almost certain that few, if any, of these Tomahawks remain. And, given that the main US naval base in Bahrain has been destroyed, Souda Bay, Crete, is the only base within thousands of miles with the facilities necessary to reload the navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

Souda Bay is not fitted out to reload missile-carrying submarines, which would have to return to the United States mainland to be reloaded.

Then, regarding JASSMs, he says,

The bottom line is that the US Navy has now exhausted virtually its entire magazine depth of Tomahawk cruise missiles. That leaves only the JASSM air-launched cruise missiles as a serviceable stand-off munition for attacking Iranian targets. We know that the recent sorties of B1-B and B-52 bombers have all consisted of JASSM stand-off missiles (~600 mile maximum range). If there have, in fact, been any B-2 bomber sorties in the past 18 days, they would also have almost certainly delivered JASSMs.

The United States' worldwide total JASSM inventory at the beginning of 2026 was ~3000 units. The B1-B can carry 24 JASSMs. The B-52 can carry 20 JASSMs. The B-2 can carry 16 JASSMs. My rough guess for total strategic bomber sorties in the past 18 days would be in the range of 50 - 75 — so, an expenditure of at least 1000 JASSM cruise missiles. In other words, at least one-third of the total JASSM inventory has been consumed in less than three weeks.

Now understand where these aircraft carriers are.

It's a bit hard to understand from this Chinese satellite image, but what they say (at left) is that they're tracking a Ford-Class C-2 Transport (plane) “with altitude and speed consistent with the climb phase after catapult launch from the carrier deck. Combined with concurrent image tracking, this point coincides with the location of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Carrier Strike Group (CSG-12), which is currently stationed in the north-central Red Sea near Saudi Arabia.”

They're also tracking, “the current deployment area of ​​the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CVN-72). The Lincoln is currently conducting Operation Epic Fury flights off the coast of Salalah, Oman, in the northern Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.” You can see this at right.

Note that neither of these aircraft carriers are in the Persian Gulf. The Lincoln is hiding behind Omani mountains after the IRGC hit it, and the Ford is in full retreat in the Red Sea, after shitting itself. Now think about what this does to the utility of aircraft that the carriers are supposed to deliver aircraft close to the battlefield. As Armchair Warlord says,

At this point the carrier is operating at drastically reduced effectiveness, with any strike aircraft launched requiring midair refueling to strike even coastal targets in Iran and running at a glacial sortie rate. It's an equivalent range to land-based strike aircraft staging from Jordan or Israel - using worse midair refueling equipment.

You don't have to sink an aircraft carrier to defeat it. You can just exhaust its missiles, overload its maintenance crews, and the Americans will just retreat it.

Refuelers

Remember what Armchair Warlord about US aircraft needing air refuelers because A) their bases are gone and B) their aircraft carriers can't get close? Those air refuelers are vulnerabilities too. Every rich man's house has a servant's entrance, and every stealthy plane needs a blocky refueler to go long distance. Iran has quite wisely targeted these refuelers, hitting two in the air (goal or own goal, still counts) over Iraq and five on the ground in Saudi Arabia. America doesn't have many of these things and it's a single point of vulnerability for almost all of their airplanes now.

Because their refuelers keep getting cooked, America has just abandoned flying over Iraq at all. You can observe it for yourself on FlightRadar, as many nerds are doing. Forget air superiority over Iran, America doesn't evan have it over Iraq. The Iraqi Resistance has won a no-fly zone over Iraq.

American planes are also scared to venture into Iran. They say their Kuwaiti allies are shooting them down or they're just tripping over rakes or something, but everybody knows what's going on. The Americans are scared, and they're firing JASSMs and other stand-off munitions across the border. And they A) don't have many of these missiles and B) are losing refuelers even getting that far.

The White Empire has lost their bases, they are losing their aircraft carriers, and their refuelers. They are getting simply exhausted. It's a war of attrition and America simply doesn't have the attrition span to hold out for long. Iran can just hang out there, but the colonizers are a long way from home.

3 | Dismantle 'Israel'

Now we get to 'Israel' which is the main event for many of you, I know. But I must admit, I don't think about 'Israel' much at all. They were defeated on October 7th and all the king's horsepower can't put that dumpster fire back together again. As the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said after the Flood,

The swift response by the United States to support and back Israel has proven how Israel is failing. From the very first days of Operation al-Aqsa Flood, against a totally besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli government was in a dire need for the US fleets to navigate to the Mediterranean for military and psychological support. Where is your fleet? Where are your warplanes? Where is the invincible army of Israel, the mightiest in the region? Where is all that?

The United States hurriedly despatched aircraft carriers and other pieces of their naval fleet. The US top brass, generals, military experts went running to the area to open the strategic weapon depots for the Israelis. From the very first days, Israel demanded new weapons, new missiles from the United States. From the first day, Israel demanded ten billion dollars. Is it a strong state, an invincible army, as claimed? A state the requires this amount of US and Western support?

The fact is that without White Empire's support, 'Israel' cannot exist, and we are seeing the high water mark of that support. The Gulf Radar Shield that protected 'Israel' is never coming back, the military bases that girded it are never coming back, the rusty aircraft carriers are never coming back, and 'Israel's' perennial victim status is never coming back. This is not just the high water mark of 'Israel's' military support, it's the end of their political support entirely. Even Western populations hate them, especially younger generations, and people like Tucker Carlson and that Massie guy are laying the groundwork for their eventual defenestration. The Americans are going to play the old European trick of blaming Jews for corruption they were totally in on too.

In what was a hypothetical proven fact, Henry Kissinger said, it is dangerous to be America's enemy, but fatal to be America's friend. Jews thought they were the exception to that but there are no exceptions, it's the rule. Jews thought they had the final White privilege—committing a genocide and getting away with it, like Canadians, Australians, and Americans—but they don't. 'Israel' was just the final ghetto that Europeans deported Jews to after World War II, dumping them into a war zone as stormtroopers near the oil, to spoil it for the natives. Zionism was a fringe belief within Judaism at the time, but now it's corrupted the whole lot. Extremism is mainstream in the Jewish community, and there are basically no Jews that support the Resistance at all. Judaism has made the unusual progression from local cult to religion and back to cult.

But I suppose you came here for the war-war and not the jar-jar, so let's proceed with the destruction. Occupied Jaffa (Tel Aviv) is being bombed on the daily now, by some reports every 90 minutes at least. 'Israelis' are not natives, and as soon as the airports open, they'll flee.

Iran has been using submunition missiles that spread out like fireworks across the night sky. These are called cluster munitions by 'Israel' (which is what they use), but they seem closer to MIRVs. With Multiple Independent Re-Entry Vehicles, the submunitions are guided (and what people see as fireworks may be flares). These are being used to devastating effect to evade already exhausted air defenses, in what is still not tit-for-tat. As the IRGC said recently,

In wave 62, centers in Akka, Haifa, "Tel Aviv", and occupied Bir Al-Sabi' were destroyed with powerful missiles, after the collapse of the ultra-advanced defense systems of the zionist regime and the criminal America, without the warning sirens being activated.

You can see the results (from previous volleys). We're on wave 62, and they're as regular as waves on the beach now.

To add injury to insult, 'Israel' has tried to mount a full ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but the ‘ghosts’ of Nasrallah are popping out of the wood-work and lighting them up. Hezbollah launches dozens of operations every day, hitting 'Israel' with rockets up to 165km deep, under Iranian air cover. They are knocking on the door to Al-Quds, even as 'Israel' closes that mosque to Muslim worshipers and the Holy Sepulchre to Christians (for the first time in history, I think).

There's a lot more of this, but honestly, I've got to return to my job as driver for my children soon, though my whole country (Sri Lanka) is on fuel rations and Wednesdays are national holidays now lol. 'Israel' is the final horcrux of colonialism, and Iran is decolonizing all of us, whether we like it or not.

Ali Larijani

To close, I must mention Ali Larijani, a philosopher warrior who was martyred with great honor. He was a godly man and a god-tier shit-poster. To understand this—why wasn't he in a bunker, why didn't he avoid this?—I invite you to Reading Resistance (I edited a book about this, for my own reference). In that, martyr Al-Qassam (Hamas) leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri said,

Our heroic martyrs, when they are from the leadership, and from the first ranks [of leadership], they awaken all the ranks of our people to be part of the Resistance. This is the indication of sincerity. When the leaders and the first ranks come forward to martyrdom...

We affirm in a categorical and definitive way that our blood and souls are not greater nor dearer than that of any martyr. We are equal. The martyr that precedes us by one day is better than us. Better than us.

Iranians are being killed and Larijani was an Iranian. He was among them, he served them, he was not above them. You have to understand this. This is a indication of sincerity, as al-Arouri said. As Allah said, and as the Islamic Resistance often repeats,

Do not say that those who are killed in God’s cause are dead; they are alive, but you are not aware of it. We shall certainly test you with fear and hunger, and loss of property, lives and crops. Give good news to those who endure with fortitude.

I leave you then with Larijani's words. When Nasrallah died I was heartbroken for weeks, but since then I still talk to him almost every week, and I begin to understand what God was saying. These men are alive, more alive than we are, really. You can still talk to them.

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