2026 Israel-US vs. Iran conflict [Military updates/News Only]

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enroger

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Temstar said:
Losing a single 5th gen fighter is nothing.
Having the illusion of invincibility shattered is historic. This is one of those "even a god can bleed" moment.

Iran you better not also get that first blood on supercarrier too...
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Still it is extremely impressive, I wonder what system did this. If it is tracked with this clarity from I assume a ground based sensor, was the F-35 flying low?
 
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xypher

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Twelve Arab and Islamic countries condemn the Iranian attacks and demand their immediate cessation.

The foreign ministers of Qatar, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates condemned Iran’s repeated attacks on a number of countries in the region during their consultative ministerial meeting held yesterday, Wednesday, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The meeting stressed that the future of relations with Iran depends on respecting the sovereignty of states and not interfering in their internal affairs, not using military capabilities to threaten the countries of the region, and complying with Security Council Resolution 2817 (2026), including stopping any attacks or provocative acts, refraining from supporting and arming militias in Arab countries, and not threatening international navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab.

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It appears most countries. Including (but of course not limited to) Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan are afraid of showing themselves as enemies to Saudi Arabia due to the importance of the KSA not just in terms of oil but also because the KSA has big religious influence in the muslim world. And the KSA is making maximum use out of it by putting even countries like Russia and China on the spot "do you support these Iranian attacks on our land or not?" If any one says yes then they will be portraid as an enemy not just of the KSA but of the muslim world.

If Iran wants to win and kick the US out of the middle east. They have to topple the GCC governments especially that of the KSA.

Iran cannot continue on being nice towards the GCC. They have to hit them just as hard as they hit Israel if not even harder. No holds barred.

I believe the reason why Iran is still holding back against the KSA is actually for the same reason why you have countries taking the side of the KSA condemning Iran while not mentioning the attacks on Iran as an issue, and that is because Iran at the top level still doesn't want to burn all bridges with the KSA and hopes that one day if Iran prevails in this war the KSA will have better friendlier relations with Iran.

I believe that is a false hope.

Idealy (though probably not smart to do) The Houthis need to mobilize and once the US' military position in the mid east is severly weakened Iran should focus its fire on Saudi military positions and pave the way for the Houthis to do (as Trump would say) an "excursion" in the KSA to topple the government there.
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Honestly, KSA's only remaining relevance is them holding those religious sites:
1) They have a very fragile economy that relies on a single export - oil - and Iran can easily destroy the source of their wealth.

2)Their military is shit - they have been buying all those shiny American weapons only to get their asses kicked every single time.

3) Their infrastructure, science, engineering, etc. - basically every foundation of national power - is heavily dependent on foreign specialists because their own citizens are very lazy and decadent.

KSA is shiny on the outside but hollow on the inside, similar to other Gulf states, that's why Iran, which on paper is poorer and spends less on military, is able to pummel their strategic infra without any repercussions.
 
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