World War III is a world war in slow motion. Unlike the daily, massed clashes of WW1/2, we get much more precise, often almost symbolic fighting taking place over decades. I date WW3 to when America Pearl Harbored itself in 2001. Since then is has been open war across the world, complete with multiple invasions and genocides, reaching its climax, inshallah, now.

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Like the Nazis, who romped pretty hard before breaking their teeth on West Asia, the White Empire was winning World War III until they also started multiple land wars in Asia. Now they've hit their Stalingrad in Gaza and are finally being pushed back on their heels. After failing to take Tehran, they have been pushed out of their Persian Gulf bases entirely and are fighting from their second offensive line, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Their historical peak has passed but these dumbasses don't get it. Hubris dies hard, and they accelerate their decline the more they squirm. The White Empire has lost two major naval battles in SW Asia (to Yemen and Iran) and a land battle in NW Asia (to Russia) and are only hanging around because, I dunno, aphasia. Like the Nazis after Stalingrad, this makes them no less of a dangerous or genocidal enemy, but they're on the same trajectory. A tryst with their own density.

Again like the Nazis, the latest incarnation of White Empire is waging war on too many fronts all at once. They're still doing their traditional genocide of the Americas (illegals are the new 'Indians'), their usual war with the Soviets (though they're called Russians now), and the Carbon Crusader war with the Iran et al. They are also, engaging in siege warfare on China, opening fronts on both sides of Asia at once. All undeclared, of course, because they're cowards.

This is, inshallah, the final war of the World War series, the Empire trying to wage multiple land wars in Asia which is, as a Sicilian said, a classic blunder compounded. And if you read no further, leave with this. The resistance (in China and Russia's case, just existence) is winning.

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People ask why isn't Iran hitting 'Israel' and the answer is they are, that's exactly what they're doing. The real Greater Israel was the fiends they made along the way. Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Iran is systematically degreating this was-real, in order. The Gulf Bases have already been debased, which is why we're seeing more news from Jordan and Saudi now. This is Greater Israel being rolled up.

Understand, further, that it's all one White Empire and long has been. It is irrelevant which part of the dog is wagging the other, this bitch is rabid and needs to be put down. Understanding this, you can see what is happening more clearly, past all the false flags and blind border. The White Empire being physically pushed back from one offensive line along the Persian Gulf to another, along the Red Sea. Make no mistake, this is a retreat turning into a rout. An Empire used to technological power and controlling trade routes is reduced to petty piracy and terrorism now.

This cruel September started when the Empire, as is their macabre tradition, bombed a wedding. In response the Iranian army (Artesh) attacked the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain, ie the vanguard of Greater Israel. In response, the IRGC hit the US military's retreat positions in Jordan. As Middle East Spectator said, "In exchange for bombing a wedding in Iran, 5+ US bases got boinked. This is simply not sustainable for the Americans. It's a humiliation ritual." This is all possible because Iran methodically cleared the Persian Gulf bases before, specifically of early-warning radar.

Insomuch as anyone cares (Americans don't) American casualties are mounting. Just one IRGC attack on RQ-4 and MQ-9 drone shelters at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan "resulted in the destruction of several American drones and the death of several pilots and technicians. In addition, several technical infrastructure facilities were set ablaze.’" This is according to the IRGC, which has never lied to me, and denied by the Americans, who have always lied to me, so consider it confirmed doubly.

This is in addition to the ongoing MQ-9 Reaper genocide, as Amerikanets calls it. America's traditional uninvited wedding guest is now so regularly destroyed that the White media has taken to calling it a one-way drone, which it isn't.

You can see that America has been reduced to the weapon of the poor, terrorism, while Iran is hitting rich targets with more and more sophisticated weapons.

For example here, General Rezaei (please keep him alive, I have mourned a few of these guys) talks about using a 'special missile' to scare off US destroyers. There are speculations that this was a hypersonic missile, or a 'cluster' munition (MIRV), or something unusual. I don't know and he's not telling me. Any of these would cause havoc on a ship, which is what Rezaei reports as happening, but he only calls the missile 'special'. He said 'real hell' broke loose and the ships fled. This was a warning shot and, as we'll see later, two destroyers were later hit.

America talks about X or Y amount of tankers (and oil) getting through and up to a point this is true, but only with the full force of the US Navy pushing it through! This is like a dialysis patient taking the piss. They can only pass oil with the full force of the US military-industrial complex behind them. America is trying to force the Strait of Hormuz 'open', which only (and barely) applies as long as they use force. But how long can they use force? Their crews are eating shoe leather and walking overboard out of desparation. Using such force is costly on a good day, and Iran is showing that they can make it a bad day any time they choose.

Reverse Sanctions

Iran is now confidently wielding a weapon that was previously Whites-only. Sanctions. As Rezaei said, via People's Daily,

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has said that his country would announce a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days and place any ship attempting to transit the area on Tehran's sanctions list.

As Seyed M. Marandi has said, Iran cannot impose banking or other bureaucratic sanctions, so they'll just blow shit up (my paraphrase). Sanctions by fire, so to speak. As Rezaei continued,

In an interview with state-run IRIB TV, which was broadcast Sunday night, Rezaei said that the zone would extend from "the line where the U.S. naval blockade begins to the Strait of Hormuz region and inside the Persian Gulf on the other side (of the strait).

This line has been discussed before (in May), but if it were to be seriously drawn, it would draw serious blood. Iran, right now, is evaluating ships on a case-by-case basis and letting quite a few through. If, however, they declare the whole region restricted, that is different kettle of fish stew.

A zone (as opposed to a man) defense makes anti-shipping much easier and White shipping basically uninsurable. If it's there without permission, hit it, much simpler than going through manifests. This drives a wedge between the White fleet and the shadow fleet. Lloyd's of London, insurer of the White fleet, has banned paying the Iranian toll, but Iran has banned ships that don't pay the toll. What is the White fleet going to do here? What's worse, losing insurance (which you can get elsewhere) or losing your ship?

Testing Iran's will to enforce this, CENTCOM said. “Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours. We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” And this did happen, though not in the proportions he's talking about.

The US struck three Iranian ships (killing three Indians) and Iran struck three back. The irony sinking to the bottom of the sea is that oil is a global commodity, whatever ship its in, and the Empire is tanking its own economy. Remember that America unsanctioned Iranian and Russian oil at the beginning of the battle, because they knew this. But then, cue hubris.

The Palestinian martyr Basil Al-Araq said this was a game of biting fingers (a nail-biter, I assume) and a battle of societies. And American society is weak. Yes, America can sink Iranian ships and expose the Iranian people to great hardship, but the Iranian people are united and can take it. Meanwhile the American people do not support this war, and once they start to feel the costs (we'll get to that) they won't want to pay anymore.

The American people, if you can call them that, know they're fighting (another) unjust war. They just do not care as long as they get their treats and fuel in their gas guzzlers. But the minute they don't there will be problems, not because Americans are brave, but because they're the most cowardly people imaginable.

So, as I'm sure Iranians are reading in the Quran, "Do not relent in the pursuit of the enemy. If you are suffering hardships, they too are suffering similar hardships, but what you can hope for from God, they cannot. God is all knowing and wise."

Personnel As Policy

One more strategic point before we get back to shit blowing up. As they say, 'personnel is policy' and Iran has had a policy shift under Major General Mohsen Rezaei. He became head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), in what seems to be a power move by Supreme Leader of the Revolution Mojtaba Khamenei.

Rezaei was previously appointed commander-in-chief of the IRGC at age 27 (!) and led them through the toughest part of the Iran/Iraq War. He is also an economics PhD, because Iranians stay stunting on these American fools. He (and Khamenei) advocate a more offensive strategy in what is still inherently a defensive war until the Americans leave the region. And the rules of engagement are publically changing now.

Army (not IRGC) spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia recently said, "When we face an American threat, we defend ourselves, and international law allows us to defend ourselves preemptively." He also said that, since the Empire has been so debased, “With the destruction of these systems, targeting the occupied territories and the Zionist regime’s bases in the region has become much easier than in the past.”

This is a new doctrine under new people in a new situation, none of it advantageous to the invaders. It means that Iran will fire at will now, not necessarily in response. Since I was editing this, this has already happened, as we'll cover in the next section.

Let us compare this to the personnel changes on the American side.

At the bottom, American grunts are jumping overboard, and at the top they are quitting or being thrown out. American leaders are cowards and do not die in battle, they just go off to pasture as arms contractors. Most recently the Army Secretary was eliminated, following the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a lot of the military and civilian leadership. Unlike Iranians, these cowards rarely fall in battle, but from the top and bottom, they are starting to break ranks and run.

Breaking News: Breaking Bases

As a demonstration of its new doctrine, Iran has just (as of 9 September 2026) hammered Muwaffaq Al-Salti airbase in Jordan. As an important note, Iran does not call this base Muwaffaq Al-Salti because that was a hero that fought against the 'Israelis'. They call the base Al-Azraq, and I'll just call it Jordan going forward, though there are more bases than one.

After American attacks on Iranian oil tankers, their bases in occupied Jordan were hammered. Imperial oil tankers were also told to free and they're being hit (in the Gulf) as I type this now. But back to Jordan.

America responded by firing dozens of Patriot missiles, perhaps even on auto as they weren't prepared for this. It's honestly just a waste. The person filming here reportedly counts 72 interceptors, which seems to match reports of 30-40 Iranian incoming. But this would be nearly 10% of the total Patriots available.

As we discussed in Logistics War 3: The Missile Gulf, the Empire has less than a thousand Patriots (total, not just in theatre). The Empire simply doesn't have the munitions to go another round with Iran, even if the munitions worked as advertised, which they don't. As the fine print in an internal US report says says, "If deterrence fails, U.S. strategy describes missile defense as a tool for “damage limitation.”" Well, it's not so limited now.

Worryingly for the proxy king of Jordan, you can see Jordanians, below, cheering for the destruction of the bases occupying them. Nobody in the region (or the world, really) likes this Empire, we just lack the organization to face them. But Iran does and they are battering them.

Previously, in July, you can see the hits on Jordan were highly targeted. Via Soar Atlas, you can see surgical strikes on specific troop barracks and aircraft hangars.

Now they're just lighting shit up in general, you can see Iran using 'cluster' (MIRV) munitions that blanket a wider area. These are impossible to stop with conventional missile defense, the interceptor ratio would go from 2:1 to 25:1. The futility goes exponential.

In addition to Jordan, the IRGC announced that "2 American vessels [Destroyers], 8 oil tankers and 10 violating ships were targeted in the forbidden and unsafe area of ​​the Strait of Hormuz. We have navy, air force, radars, missiles, drones and everything necessary to crush the bones of enemies." The names of the Destroyers were the USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) and USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). I'll keep an eye out for them. Iran also captured an Anduril Dive LD autonomous submarine which will probably make them stupider for reverse engineering it.

Yemen

Yemen is also doing a lot, though for once not saying a lot. There is a currently a ground war waging for control of Yemen itself with Saudi proxies and an open air war against Saudi infrastructure. Ansarallah has asked people not to speculate, so (as much as this is possible for me) I won't. But they have released a few jaw dropping videos.

As background, Ansarallah (incorrectly called the Houthis) do not control all of Yemen. Ansarallah doesn't even control the land directly overlooking the Bab el-Mendeb, though they control the strait by aerial weapons.

I have downscaled this video to fit, but you can see that Yemen has 4K oversight over the battlefield and can seemingly hit whatever it wants to hit. Ansarallah has 80% of the population though the proxy-of-a-proxy government has more land, but that land seems mostly open and they're sitting ducks out there.

This is not a case of guerrilla warfare against superior weapons. The weapons and tactics Yemen has are superior to the over-hyped stuff the Saudis have bought from their American masters.

Here, for example, is a desert meeting of Saudi/proxy commanders getting blown up by a ballistic missile. This is what the Americans did to the martyr General Soleimani being done back to them in HD. You can see that free Yemen has perfect oversight and can put the fear of God into people used to having air supremacy.

At the same time, Yemen has a lot of motivated dudes with AKs and seem to be doing trick shots with mortar shells, here they are hitting a moving target with a drop of a presumably unguided munition. This is Looney Tunes shit and these mercs are crazy to be out there. Ansarallah is both a superior guerilla force, and can beat all the imported Saudi toys with native ingenuity. Hell, they already beat the US Navy.

Most dangerously for the Empire, Yemen is also hitting Saudi infrastructure, and not quite as surgically as Iran, they're amputating it. Recently, Yemen has hit, via Fotros,

• ARAMCO Jazan oil refinery
• Multiple hits at Jazan Bulk Plant
• King Abdullah Airport
• Multiple hits at ARAMCO bulk plant in Abha
• Oil/gas depots at the Asir Central Power Plant in Abha
• King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait

This takes more oil offline, increasing the pressure on Empire as a whole. How does this end? I don't know, but this is what the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said about Yemen long ago.

Or as the Quran says, "Among the believers there are men who have been true to the pledge they made with God. Among them are such as have fulfilled their vow, and some who [still] wait, without having changed [their resolve] in the least."

Return to World War

This world war is being waged by White Empire, which retreated to the colony America after World War II. This is a very defensible position for indefensible action. America cannot be hit even if the Resistance wanted to, but the carrying Empire can be hit, which is what they're doing. But unlike Hadria, who abandoned Mesopotamia so the Roman Empire could lumber on a bit longer, the modern White Empire cannot resist world domination, and so accelerates its own fall.

As we've discussed in the Logistics War series, the Resistance has systematically drained the Empire's oil, shipping, and missile reserves. We are getting very close to the point where all shields are down, and past the point where the shields protect them from hurt. The pressure points Iran is aiming for, as MB Ghalibaf cryptically points out, are oil prices, bond yields, and oil reserves. Most specifically, diesel prices, Japan's bonds, and the Federal Reserve. And those are all squeezing them closer and closer to home.

You can follow those links for further discussion, but suffice it to say that oil prices have just cracked $100, diesel prices are already on crack, Japan is dumping bonds, and the Federal Reserve will meet next week is with a red dot on their forehead. Either they make the mad king madder by raising rates, or they lower them and watch their whole bubblicious economy inflate. Ghalibaf predicted December for the Empire going splat and I think that's conservative. Really, it can't come soon enough, because the genocide in Gaza, at the heart of all this, is only getting worse.

One wishes Iran would unload everything they have now, to stop the suffering, but we're not the ones on nuclear knife's edge and they have to proceed with caution. They are able to hit Jordan now because they hit the Gulf Apostates before, and once Jordan is cleared they'll be able to hit 'Israel' and smash the horcrux of White Empire. They're going through this methodically. As the martyr commander Shahid Tehrani Moghaddam said, "This wild bull, how can it be struck? How can you take it down? In Spain, how do they hit a bull? They bring the bull to its knees. This wild, crazed bull. And we got to bring this wild bull, guys, down into the dirt and blood."