re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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You’re probably overwhelmed by the flood of battle damage imagery from Iran etc on your timeline, but take a moment to look at this photograph of Iran’s Chabahar Konarak Airport.

Look closely at the holes punched cleanly through the roofs of the 4 hardened aircraft shelters by air-launched precision penetrator weapons.

Four clean holes practically in a straight line.

Notice how there are no chaotic scars of conventional bombing. Each entry point sits with almost elegant, geometric precision, spaced evenly, placed exactly where the structure is most vulnerable.

The air strikes cleanly calibrated to penetrate the reinforced concrete and detonate inside, collapsing the protected space within while leaving the outer structure largely intact.

It’s the visual signature of intelligence-led, precision-guided air warfare, where the goal is to kill the aircraft and infra inside. Just controlled, deliberate punctures that signal more than brute force (there’s plenty of that elsewhere).

The targeting design itself here is the message: your assets are mapped, your protections are understood, and even your most hardened spaces are reachable at will

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will brief Senate and House leaders on Monday after joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran, according to his public schedule.
The Pentagon will also hold a press conference on Monday on Operation Epic Wrath, with the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff set to appear.

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U.S. AND ISRAEL ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO STRIKE A WEEK EARLIER

The attack was supposed to happen February 21.

Weather and coordination issues pushed it to the 28th.

That delay created space for one more round of talks in Geneva.

Israeli and U.S. intelligence spent that week nervous that Khamenei would move underground.

They deliberately signaled no imminent strike so he'd feel safe staying above ground. It worked.

The final American offer in Geneva: a 10-year moratorium on enrichment, then symbolic capacity, plus free nuclear fuel for civilian needs.

Trump's team was "very explicit" that rejecting it meant military force.

Iran rejected it.

Kushner and Witkoff called Trump. The president gave the order.

One U.S. official:

"There was a concerted effort to negotiate in good faith, including in Geneva. But nothing came of it.

And we had our assets ready to go."

The talks were real.

But so was the strike date on the calendar behind them.

Source: Axios

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