War US-Israeli Attack On Iran | Israeli War w/Lebanon: Frequent News Updates & Footage Vids

[DeathHand]

Vid: U.S. Secretary of War, "Kill 'Em All!" Pete Hegseth, "We didn’t start this war - but we’re finishing it." Mar 2 2026.

 

[DeathHand]

A few more vids from earlier today.

Vid: Iranian Shahed drone strikes near U.S. Consulate, multiple angles, Dubai, Mar 3 2026.

Vid: American B-2 bombers are reportedly involved in operations, targeting IRGC command and control bases and other strategic facilities, Tehran, Iran, Mar 3 2026.

 

[DeathHand]

A cool new weapon in action...

Vid: Israeli laser beam, "Iron Beam", zaps and destroys Hezbollah rockets seconds after being launched, Feb 28 2026.

1. Trump...

 

[DeathHand]

Iran still firing at whatever they are firing at...

Vid: Iranian ballistic missiles launched en masse, presumably towards Israel, Mar 3 2026.

Vid: Iranian drones hit oil infrastructure in Fujairah in the UAE and the port of Salalah in Oman, 2 vids merged,

Mar 3 2026.

 

[DeathHand]

Mar 3rd, and shit is still hitting the fan.

Vid: 3 vids merged - 1. Iran struck the Saudi Aramco refinery in Ras Tanura; 2. Iranian Shahed drone hits a target in Manama, Bahrain; 3. Moment of the Israeli airstrike on Aramoun, Lebanon, Mar 3-4 2026.

 

[Whatdoesthefoxsay]

Vid: U.S. Secretary of War, "Kill 'Em All!" Pete Hegseth, "We didn’t start this war - but we’re finishing it." Mar 2 2026.

This is soo interesting and exciting...a 200+ years old experienced country doing like this...it is really fun to watch 😊 😊 😊

 

[DeathHand]

Iran's new guy....

1. Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ali Khamenei, became the new Supreme Leader of Iran...but how long before he becomes debris scattered in the rubble?

 

[DeathHand]

Israel sends troops into southern Lebanon as Hezbollah says it is ready for ‘open war’​

March 3, 2026

"Israel sent troops into southern Lebanon on Tuesday and warned residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate as the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group said it was ready for an “open war” with Israel in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

The development came after Hezbollah fired rockets and launched drones early Monday toward northern Israel. Israel retaliated with a wave of airstrikes that killed 50 people in Lebanon, including seven children as well as a Palestinian militant and a Hezbollah intelligence official in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

That death toll is a revised figure from an earlier one reported by the Health Ministry, which originally said Monday that 52 people died in the strikes. Lebanese Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine then on Tuesday reduced that number to 40, then later raised the toll to 50.

Lebanon also said 335 people were wounded and that tens of thousands were displaced.

The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that 30,000 displaced people were staying in collective shelters in Lebanon, “while many others slept in their cars, on sides of the roads as they could not yet find safe shelter.”

Hezbollah says it has no option but to fight Israel

Hezbollah fired two salvos of rockets toward northern Israel, the militant group said while Israeli airstrikes overnight damaged a building housing Hezbollah’s television and radio stations. Beirut’s southern suburbs also saw a series of strikes on Tuesday afternoon that came without warning. The Israeli military later said it targeted Hezbollah officials.

The Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman, Avichay Adraee, warned residents of more than 80 villages and towns in southern Lebanon to leave, adding that people should not return to these areas until further notice.

A senior Hezbollah official said that after more than a year of abiding by a ceasefire as Israel’s strikes continued on Lebanon, the group’s patience has ended, leaving it with no option but to fight Israel. “The Zionist enemy wanted an open war, which it has not stopped since the ceasefire agreement,” Mohamoud Komati said.

“So let it be an open war,” added the Hezbollah official.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States, France and Egypt on Tuesday that Hezbollah has been firing rockets from areas north of the Litani River. That’s outside an area south of the river and along the border with Israel, where Lebanese troops have earlier said they are in full control.

More Israeli troops enter Lebanon

The Israeli military said Tuesday it sent additional troops into southern Lebanon and took new positions on several strategic points close to the border. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the Lebanese army was evacuating some of its positions along the border.

Adraee, the Israeli spokesman, said on X that the troops’ movements inside Lebanon are meant to bolster Israel’s forward defense system and create an addition layer of security.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the Lebanese army was evacuating some of its border positions.

A Lebanese military official confirmed to The Associated Press that Israeli troops had moved into several areas in southern Lebanon on Tuesday and that the Lebanese army was “repositioning” in the area. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military movements.

The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, later Tuesday said its peacekeepers saw Israeli troops making forays across the border and then returning to Israel. Israel’s army said its troops are still operating in Lebanon, but it wasn’t clear how many soldiers remained inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing into Israel a day after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel triggered the war in Gaza. After months of low-level fighting, a full-scale war erupted in September 2024 and Israel later launched a ground invasion of Lebanon.

Israeli forces withdrew from most of southern Lebanon after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted the fighting in November 2024 but continued to occupy five points on the Lebanese side of the border. Israel also continued with near-daily strikes, primarily in southern Lebanon, saying that Hezbollah has been trying to rebuild its positions there.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry also said Tuesday that 397 people had been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect and before Hezbollah launched its latest attacks." TheAssociatedPress

Well, here we go...good job Trump, "Mr. War Stopper...like never before seen since the caveman".

 

[Sauerkraut]

If you believe the BS floating around social media, apparently Iran is winning! Hmm, where have we seen that before?

 

[DeathHand]

Vid: A US 2,000-pound GBU-31 JDAM bomb struck Urmia in northwestern Iran, Feb 3 2026.

 

[DeathHand]

If you believe the BS floating around social media, apparently Iran is winning! Hmm, where have we seen that before?
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Who's using social media and wtf does Zelenskyy have to do with all this?

 

[DeathHand]

Trump talks regime change in Iran after strikes, but history shows that could be very hard​

Mar 1 2026

"Barely an hour after the first U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. “Now is the time to seize control of your destiny,” he told the Iranian people in a video. “This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.”

Doesn’t sound complicated. After all, with Iran’s fundamentally unpopular government weakened by fierce airstrikes, some of its top leaders dead or missing and Washington signaling support, how hard could it be to overthrow a repressive regime?

Possibly very hard. So says history.

Washington has a long, complicated past when it comes to regime change. There was Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s, and Panama in 1989. There was Nicaragua in the 1980s, Iraq and Afghanistan in the years after 9/11, and Venezuela just weeks ago.

There was also Iran. In 1953, the CIA helped engineer a coup that toppled Iran’s democratically elected leader and gave near-absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. But as with the shah, who was overthrown in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution after decades of increasingly unpopular rule, regime change rarely goes as planned.

Attempts to usher in U.S.-friendly governments often start with clear intentions, whether hope for democracy in Iraq or backing an anti-Communist leader in Congo at the Cold War’s height. But often those intentions stumble into a political quagmire where democratic dreams turn into civil war, once-compliant dictators become embarrassments and American soldiers return home in body bags.

That history has long been a Trump talking point. “We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change,” he said in 2016.

“In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built,” he said in a 2025 speech in Saudi Arabia, deriding U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The “interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand.”

Now, after Saturday’s actions, a key question emerges: Does today’s U.S. government understand what it’s getting into?

It’s unclear what regime change would even mean

Iran’s economy is in shambles and dissent remains strong even after a brutal January crackdown on protests left thousands of people dead and tens of thousands under arrest. Many of the nation’s key military proxies and allies — Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad government in Syria — have been weakened or eliminated. And early Sunday, Iranian state media confirmed Israel and the United States had killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The United States hasn’t laid out a postwar vision and doesn’t necessarily even want a complete overthrow of the Iranian leadership. As in Venezuela, it may already have potential allies in the government willing to step into a power vacuum.

“But there’s a lot that needs to happen between now and a possible scenario along these lines,” said Jonathan Schanzer, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank that is deeply critical of the Iranian government. “There needs to be a sense that there is no salvation for the regime as such, and that they will need to work with the United States.”

In a country where the core leaders are deeply united by ideology and religion, that may be extremely difficult.

“The question to my mind right now is have we been able to penetrate the ranks of the regime that are not true believers that are more pragmatic,” Schanzer said. “Because I don’t believe that the true believers will flip.”

It’s simply too early to know if — or how much — the political winds are shifting in Tehran. The leaders who come next could turn out to be equally repressive or seen domestically as an illegitimate U.S. stooge.

“We’ll see whether elements of the regime start moving against each other,” said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “Air power can damage a leadership,” he said. “But it can’t guarantee that you’ll bring in something new.”

US intervention in Latin America has a long history

In Latin America, Washington’s history of intervention in goes back a long way — to when President James Monroe claimed the hemisphere as part of the U.S. sphere of influence more than 200 years ago.

If the Monroe Doctrine began as a way to keep European countries out of the region, by the 20th century it was justifying everything from coups in Central America to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Very often, historians say, that intervention led to violence, bloodshed and mass human rights violations. Therein, they say, lies a lesson.

Direct U.S. involvement has rarely “resulted in long-term democratic stability,” said Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at the London think tank Chatham House. He points to Guatemala, where U.S. intervention in the 1950s led to a civil war that didn’t end for 40 years and left more than 200,000 people dead.

Or there’s Nicaragua, where backing of the Contra rebels against the Sandinista government in the 1980s contributed to a prolonged civil conflict that devastated the economy, caused tens of thousands of deaths and deepened political polarization.

While large-scale, overt U.S. involvement in the region mostly petered out after the Cold War, Trump has rekindled the legacy.

Since assuming office last year, Trump launched boat strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean, ordered a naval blockade on Venezuelan oil exports and got involved in electoral politics in Honduras and Argentina. Then, on Jan. 3, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro, flying him to the U.S. to face drug and weapons charges.

What followed in Caracas may signal what the White House hopes will happen in Tehran. Many observers thought the U.S. would back María Corina Machado, who has long been the face of political resistance in Venezuela. Instead, Washington effectively sidelined her and has repeatedly shown a willingness to work with President Delcy Rodríguez, who had been Maduro’s second-in-command.

“There are those who could claim that what we did in Venezuela is not regime change,” said Schanzer, at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The regime is still in place. There’s just one person that’s missing.” The AssociatedPress

 

[chowcat]

Nice

 

[chowcat]

US sub torpedoed an Iranian warship

 

[hedgerow]

^ looks like a submarine got another one

 

[DeathHand]

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately​

Mar 4 2026

"Iraq's Ministry of Electricity announced a complete shutdown of the national power system on Wednesday, with every governorate in the country losing electricity after all transmission lines and generating stations went offline simultaneously, according to the ministry.

A spokesperson for the electricity ministry confirmed that the country's power network had shut down entirely, though the cause of the grid failure remained unclear amid the rapidly escalating regional conflict.

The blackout compounds what has already been a catastrophic week for Iraq, as the country finds itself caught in the crossfire of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran and retaliatory strikes by Tehran and its allied militias.

Fresh explosions were heard in the northern city of Erbil on Wednesday, according to an AFP journalist on the ground. Pro-Iranian armed groups, including the Saraya Awliya al-Dam (Blood Guardian Brigades), have claimed responsibility for recent attacks near Erbil, at the Al-Harir base, as well as at the American Victoria base in Baghdad.

Right after the blackout [the] US Embassy in Baghdad issued an urgent directive on Wednesday telling American nationals to get out of the country without delay. "US citizens in Iraq are strongly encouraged to depart as soon as they are safely able to do so, and shelter in place until such time as conditions are safe to depart," the embassy said on X. "If safe to do so, Americans should leave Iraq now."

The State Department had already updated its travel advisory for Iraq on March 2 to reflect that non-emergency US government employees had been ordered to leave the country due to security concerns, with Iraq's advisory level remaining at its most severe, Level 4: Do Not Travel." Source

Vid: It's kinda dark...Power has gone out across all of Iraq, the blackout comes amid Iranian strikes across the region in response to American and Israeli attacks, Mar 4 2026.

Must have been Ukrainian FP-2s, applying Belgorod tactics on Iraq...

 

[DeathHand]

Vids continue....

Vid: A 2,000-pound GBU-31 JDAM bomb struck Urmia in northwestern Iran, Feb 3 2026. Bunker busting something...

Vid: Israeli air strikes on Tehran, Mar 4 2026.

Vid 3: Moment of Israeli strike on the 'Kasrawani' building (the Grudge building?) in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Mar 3 2026. I don't know if there is some significance to this building...but source specifically named it.

 

[DeathHand]

Vid: IDF strikes on Tehran, Iran, Mar 4 2026.

Vid: More IDF strikes on Tehran, Mar 4 2026.

 

[DeathHand]

One Of Iran’s Most Advanced Wacky Catamaran Warships Sunk In Epic Fury
The Shahid Soleimani class warship is now on the list of ships the U.S. has sunk​

Mar 4 2026

"We are seeing the total destruction of Iran’s naval capabilities unfold day by day. Earlier this morning, the Pentagon announced that a U.S. Navy submarine had made the first torpedo kill since World War II against an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean. Now we are seeing footage of one of Iran’s strangest and most advanced warships, the Shahid Soleimani class IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi (FS313-03), being struck and set ablaze. The ship would later sink, according to the Department of War.

Vid 1:

The first ship in her class, the Shahid Soleimani, was commissioned in 2022, and is a very unique vessel indeed. Built for littoral combat, it incorporates a number of interesting features for a ship of its size. This includes a vertical launch system with two cell sizes that is capable of slinging air defense missiles. It also features anti-ship cruise missiles, gun systems, and a large flight deck. Clearly, Shahid Sayyad Shirazi‘s capabilities offered little help to its survival, as the video, shot by a U.S. surveillance aircraft, shows.

Vid 2:

In fact, if you look closely at the image at the top of the story, it appears that either a missile is exiting one of the IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi‘s vertical launch cells or it is stuck on its launch rail. We also see an image with smoke streaks surrounding the ship. It isn’t clear if this was it launching weapons at its attackers, or the attacker’s weapons finding their way to the Shahid Sayyad Shirazi." Source

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[Tuomas Woorhees]

Exellent thread @DeathHand keep going. And thanks.