Political Prisoner Steve Bannon returns tomorrow.

Milley deserves to hang.

https://t.co/5U4GsbhnZl

More on the Walz affair in China; Daily Mail reached out by the affair partner.

Per your request in yesterday's poll, time for a thread on the Israeli strike on Iran. You ready?
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Background information.
The Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program.
The best publicly available estimates out there for open source intelligence suggest that Iran is readying enough partly enriched Uranium to only need one more jump to achieve a stockpile of HEU (Uranium enriched to weapons grad, 90%). Iran is currently attempting to master the art of implosion detonations necessary to build higher yield fission devices based on HEU. They have a working, known tested design already- purchased from the AQ Kahn network in Pakistan. The head of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program sold iran and several other clients the design and engineering data of the design pakistan successfully test detonated.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/08/29/deterring-irans-dash-to-the-bomb/

"The monograph begins with an analysis of the current status of Iran’s nuclear program. It then lists specific nuclear weapons program advances that Iran might, unless deterred, undertake and complete in the coming weeks. Within the overall scope of its nuclear weapons program, Iran is evidently attempting to advance in two major categories. The first is enrichment activities other than enriching uranium to 90 percent U-235 (weapons-grade level). The second is nuclear weaponization activities (advancing toward construction of an explosive device capable of unleashing the destructive power of the weapons-grade uranium (WGU) inserted therein). The next section derives key principles for deterring Iran based on previous successful U.S. efforts to deter Iran. The monograph then recommends specific military and non-military steps that the administration should take."

More about Iran's relationship and business partnership with the AQ Kahn network can be found here:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/khan-iran.htm

A detailed list of Iran's nuclear weapons research and development sites can be sound here, as well as details of the activities conducted at each site:
https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/weapon-program-background-report/table-iranian-nuclear-sites-related-facilities

More on Iran's near threshold capability- meaning Iran is days or weeks away from the 'breakout' stage of having all the resources needed to assemble its first bomb:
https://thebulletin.org/2024/10/iran-vs-israel-redux-the-enormous-difficulties-and-ramifications-if-israel-attacks-irans-nuclear-sites/

The next statement from that article is particularly relevant:
"Iran views its nuclear program as a deterrent against direct US strikes on or invasion of its territory, acting as an insurance policy of sorts against invasion following erroneous Western accusations over its nuclear program, ala Iraq in 2003. That’s to say, during an attempted invasion, Iran could quickly produce nuclear weapons."

Given today's statement to the Iranian Regime by the United States at the UN, it seems clear why the US used the B-2 Spirit with the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to neutralize a deep underground hardened shelter the Houthi's were keeping advanced Russian made missiles in; it was a clear signal to Iran that if they escalated a war in the middle east further, the United States may take an active part in ending not just the conflict, but Iran's nuclear weapons program. Alex Hollings covered this strike here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SMoW8AKaE

Iran's economy has two major sources of revenue for the Regime itself, the largest of which is Oil Production and sales to countries like China, and black market importation of goods to be traded inside of Iran:
https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/blog/uncovering-chinese-purchasers-of-iranian-oil

Among the targets NOT hit in the previous Israeli strike are both Oil and Nuclear sites. Attacking these sites would trigger an immediate response by the Regime in Tehran. It's well known the Biden-Harris regime put extreme pressure on Israel to withhold from attacking these sites, as they view the escalating war in the middle east as bad for their electoral chances on November 5th. They were not content to simply threaten Israel with an arms embargo this time, but offered the Israeli government the deployment of a second THAAD battery to defend against Iranian Ballistic missiles to beef up Israel's Anti Ballistic Missile shield which is likely running low on Arrow 2 and 3 and David's Sling ABM interceptors.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-already-requesting-second-thaad-missile-defense-battery-us

With ABM defenses in place, and the first strike carried out against Iran, the stage has been set. According to verified reports, Israel's attack has crippled Iran's ability to manufacture ballistic missiles, as well as attack drones. This is a key point: while Iran has a large stockpile of Ballistic missiles already in its inventory, it doesnt have the ability to replace any used or lost to further strikes. This changes the calculus- Iran can no longer simply throw unlimited amounts of ballistic missiles at Israel in at attempt to overwhelm its ABM defensive shield.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/israels-reprisal-strike-carefully-calculated-unclear-if-jets-ever-flew-over-iran

But more importantly is what the first wave of that strike did. In any large scale, sophisticated air attack against a state with a reasonable, working air defense, the task is to clear the path. Modern Air Defenses consist of numerous ground search/early warning radar sites networked together to give a clear picture of incoming attacks, and to alert and coordinate defensive systems also connected to the network: the fire control radars and Surface to Air Missiles used to attack and shoot down incoming planes and cruise missiles.

This first phase is known by its acronym, SEAD: Suppression Enemy Air Defenses. There are various techniques for doing so that range from aircraft with missiles and tactics specially trained to hunt and kill SAM sites, to election warfare attacks that interfere with the SAM's and Search Radars ability to see the strike coming, and many more techniques that remain classified.

The Iranian Air Defense network prior to the Israeli attack consisted of several Russian Made SAM systems that were of relatively high quality and posed a serious danger to incoming strikes, as well as Iranian manufactured derivatives of the US Hawk missile system, a 1970s era medium range SAM system. The Iranian variant incorporated some sophisticated upgrades like newer digital radars and newer missiles.