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...and this is the headline sin our papers now.. terrifying everyone , when we were not involved in this chit at all...it makes me furious!!:mad:



The UK should 'actively prepare' for a direct attack on British soil in a potential 'wartime scenario' for the first time in many years, the Government has warned.

In a national security strategy published today, ministers said the UK now finds itself in 'an era in which we face confrontation with those who are threatening our security'.

It highlighted Russian cyber attacks and sabotage against the UK, Iranian hostile activity on British soil, and other adversaries 'laying the foundations for future conflict'.

This includes them 'positioning themselves to move quickly to cause major disruption to our energy and or supply chains,' the strategy said.

It added: 'For the first time in many years, we have to actively prepare for the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat, potentially in a wartime scenario.'

The strategy aims to protect the UK at home and abroad, and also invest more in artificial intelligence (AI) and defence.

Sir Keir Starmer said the UK is 'facing daily challenges on the home front' with Britain targeted by 'very, very frequent and very, very serious' cyberattacks.

The Prime Minister, speaking to Sky News at a NATO summit in The Hague, added: 'We have to guard properly against those threats, and we will do so.'

While the national security strategy outlined the threat from Russia, Iran and North Korea, it also highlighted the 'challenge' of China as a global actor.
 

IKE said:
Latest intel suggests that we did not destroy Iran nuclear sites.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...ran-did-not-destroy-nuclear-sites-2025-06-24/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites
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While I couldn't possibly, truly know... I suspect that both CNN and Reuters have it totally wrong.

"They" say that there was 14 GBU-57s, 25+ Tomahawks and another 30+ "other" guided missiles used for suppression... I think that
unless they totally missed the target sites... a lot of chit got blown up.

If they hit our barn with a that much ordinance, it would take more than a "couple of months" to rebuild.
I just don't think that they missed that badly... though I'm aware that world leaders are known to
exaggerate their "successes", our Prez is no different in that regard.
 

Tish said:
The Latest: Trump announces ā€˜complete and totalā€™ ceasefire between Israel and Iran

Washington: US President Donald Trump says Israel and Iran have agreed to a ā€œcomplete and total ceasefireā€ to be phased in over 24 hours, to end the conflict between the two nations after nearly two weeks.

Trumpā€™s declaration of a ceasefire, which he suggested would last forever, came just hours after Iran launched missiles at a US air base in Qatar in retaliation for the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites at the weekend. Trump has claimed the strikes obliterated the nationā€™s nuclear weapons program.

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And the Pentagon said they did not ! Hmmmm....who do we believe?
 
Two days before American B-2 stealth bombers dropped the biggest payload of explosives since World War II on Iran, trucks were seen lining up outside the primary target at Fordow.

Satellite images showed scores of cargo vehicles outside a tunnel entrance to Iran's key nuclear base inside a mountain.

Donald Trump has insisted that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program was destroyed in the precision strikes, an assessment backed by the CIA and Israeli intelligence.
But there was also a frantic effort to move centrifuges and highly enriched uranium before US bombers attacked, the key question for the Pentagon now is: where did it go?

One possibility, according to experts, is a secret facility buried even deeper under another mountain 90 miles south of Fordow: 'Mount Doom.'

In Farsi, the potential new ground zero for Iran's nuclear program is Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, otherwise known in English as 'Pickaxe Mountain,' located in the Zagros Mountains in central Iran on the outskirts of one of the regime's other nuclear sites at Natanz.

'It is plausible that Iran moved centrifuges and highly enriched uranium (HEU) to secret or hardened locations prior to the recent strikes - including possibly to facilities near Pickaxe Mountain,' Christoph Bluth, professor of international relations and security at the University of Bradford, told the Daily Mail.

Previous intelligence had showed 'large tunnels being bored into the mountain, with possible infrastructure for an advanced enrichment facility,' he claimed.

'The site may be buried 100 meters below the surface. So it is conceivable that advanced centrifuge cascades have been hidden there, but there is no specific evidence at this time to confirm where centrifuges and fissile material has been moved to.'
99722321-14847431-A_satellite_picture_provided_by_Maxar_Technologies_and_taken_on_-a-11_1750943090467.jpg
A satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 19, 2025, shows trucks positioned near the entrance of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant

Previous satellite images have shown heavy construction at Pickaxe, and Iran reportedly dismissed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) when asked what was occurring in the bowels of the mountain

Experts have suggested that, if there was a centrifuge hall being built there, it could be bigger than Fordow. The site has four tunnel entrances, each is 20 feet wide by 26 feet high, and experts who have analyzed satellite data suggest its tunnels could go well beyond 382 feet deep, further underground than Fordow.

'It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb,' said Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

According to Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, the Iranian regime may have moved about 880lbs of uranium that was being stored in casks the size of scuba tanks and was transportable by vehicles.
 
Trump can live in his alternate reality, so why can't we all have our own realities. We just live in our believes, nobody is harming anyone.
 
hollydolly said:
Two days before American B-2 stealth bombers dropped the biggest payload of explosives since World War II on Iran, trucks were seen lining up outside the primary target at Fordow.

Satellite images showed scores of cargo vehicles outside a tunnel entrance to Iran's key nuclear base inside a mountain.

Donald Trump has insisted that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program was destroyed in the precision strikes, an assessment backed by the CIA and Israeli intelligence.
But there was also a frantic effort to move centrifuges and highly enriched uranium before US bombers attacked, the key question for the Pentagon now is: where did it go?

One possibility, according to experts, is a secret facility buried even deeper under another mountain 90 miles south of Fordow: 'Mount Doom.'

In Farsi, the potential new ground zero for Iran's nuclear program is Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, otherwise known in English as 'Pickaxe Mountain,' located in the Zagros Mountains in central Iran on the outskirts of one of the regime's other nuclear sites at Natanz.

'It is plausible that Iran moved centrifuges and highly enriched uranium (HEU) to secret or hardened locations prior to the recent strikes - including possibly to facilities near Pickaxe Mountain,' Christoph Bluth, professor of international relations and security at the University of Bradford, told the Daily Mail.

Previous intelligence had showed 'large tunnels being bored into the mountain, with possible infrastructure for an advanced enrichment facility,' he claimed.

'The site may be buried 100 meters below the surface. So it is conceivable that advanced centrifuge cascades have been hidden there, but there is no specific evidence at this time to confirm where centrifuges and fissile material has been moved to.'
99722321-14847431-A_satellite_picture_provided_by_Maxar_Technologies_and_taken_on_-a-11_1750943090467.jpg
A satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 19, 2025, shows trucks positioned near the entrance of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant

Previous satellite images have shown heavy construction at Pickaxe, and Iran reportedly dismissed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) when asked what was occurring in the bowels of the mountain

Experts have suggested that, if there was a centrifuge hall being built there, it could be bigger than Fordow. The site has four tunnel entrances, each is 20 feet wide by 26 feet high, and experts who have analyzed satellite data suggest its tunnels could go well beyond 382 feet deep, further underground than Fordow.

'It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb,' said Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

According to Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, the Iranian regime may have moved about 880lbs of uranium that was being stored in casks the size of scuba tanks and was transportable by vehicles.
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As good as Isreal's intelligence is, why don't they come out explain what this Pickaxe is all about?
 
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hollydolly said:
Two days before American B-2 stealth bombers dropped the biggest payload of explosives since World War II on Iran, trucks were seen lining up outside the primary target at Fordow.

Satellite images showed scores of cargo vehicles outside a tunnel entrance to Iran's key nuclear base inside a mountain.

Donald Trump has insisted that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program was destroyed in the precision strikes, an assessment backed by the CIA and Israeli intelligence.
But there was also a frantic effort to move centrifuges and highly enriched uranium before US bombers attacked, the key question for the Pentagon now is: where did it go?

One possibility, according to experts, is a secret facility buried even deeper under another mountain 90 miles south of Fordow: 'Mount Doom.'

In Farsi, the potential new ground zero for Iran's nuclear program is Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, otherwise known in English as 'Pickaxe Mountain,' located in the Zagros Mountains in central Iran on the outskirts of one of the regime's other nuclear sites at Natanz.

'It is plausible that Iran moved centrifuges and highly enriched uranium (HEU) to secret or hardened locations prior to the recent strikes - including possibly to facilities near Pickaxe Mountain,' Christoph Bluth, professor of international relations and security at the University of Bradford, told the Daily Mail.

Previous intelligence had showed 'large tunnels being bored into the mountain, with possible infrastructure for an advanced enrichment facility,' he claimed.

'The site may be buried 100 meters below the surface. So it is conceivable that advanced centrifuge cascades have been hidden there, but there is no specific evidence at this time to confirm where centrifuges and fissile material has been moved to.'
99722321-14847431-A_satellite_picture_provided_by_Maxar_Technologies_and_taken_on_-a-11_1750943090467.jpg
A satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 19, 2025, shows trucks positioned near the entrance of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant

Previous satellite images have shown heavy construction at Pickaxe, and Iran reportedly dismissed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) when asked what was occurring in the bowels of the mountain

Experts have suggested that, if there was a centrifuge hall being built there, it could be bigger than Fordow. The site has four tunnel entrances, each is 20 feet wide by 26 feet high, and experts who have analyzed satellite data suggest its tunnels could go well beyond 382 feet deep, further underground than Fordow.

'It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb,' said Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

According to Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, the Iranian regime may have moved about 880lbs of uranium that was being stored in casks the size of scuba tanks and was transportable by vehicles.
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The Pentagon has denied these reports.

Pentagon Denies Report
 
VaughanJB said:
The only war update we should care about is the number of dead. 650 in Iran reported, and 28 dead in Israel.
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Iran isn't the only place the Israelis are killing people.

"As of June 27, 2025, according to sources like Al Jazeera and hospital officials in Gaza, at least 47 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the early hours of this morning.
Additionally, an Israeli strike in central Gaza killed 18 Palestinians who were trying to get bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit. Doctors Without Borders condemned an Israeli- and US-backed aid scheme, saying that at least 10 aid seekers are killed or wounded daily."
 
Trade said:
Iran isn't the only place the Israelis are killing people.

"As of June 27, 2025, according to sources like Al Jazeera and hospital officials in Gaza, at least 47 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the early hours of this morning.
Additionally, an Israeli strike in central Gaza killed 18 Palestinians who were trying to get bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit. Doctors Without Borders condemned an Israeli- and US-backed aid scheme, saying that at least 10 aid seekers are killed or wounded daily."
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100%. They recently started killing people at aid centers.

Honestly, my impression is, most people don't care. Israel gets a free pass.
 
VaughanJB said:
100%. They recently started killing people at aid centers.

Honestly, my impression is, most people don't care. Israel gets a free pass.
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They are either killing them at the aid centers or starving them. I can barely stand to watch the news or to read about it any longer. Itā€™s heartbreaking.
 
Trade said:
They play their "Victims of the Holocaust" card which entltles them to committ genocide on the Palestinians.
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I do want to stress, it's largely the government that is causing this, not the people. Netanyahu is gradually losing support from the voters there.
 
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