⛴❌🇮🇱 Maersk has suspended all vessel calls to Haifa, Israel’s only fully operational deepwater/hub port. With Ashdod Port constrained by its proximity to Gaza and Eilat Port now defunct due to the Red Sea blockade, Israel’s maritime access is approaching strategic isolation

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🇮🇷🚀🇮🇱 The biggest news of today is that, contrary to the narrative pushed by Western Zionist medias, Iran is getting stronger.

Today's attack on the port of Haifa happened at 15:45 (3:45 PM) local hours and with a salvo of 15 missiles, 6 went through Israel's air defense system.

Last night a number of Iranian Shaheds were shot down over Israel itself.

Despite daily airstrikes on Iran itself by the Israeli Air Force, Iranian capabilities do not seem to have been affected much by Israeli air power. They have managed to maintain their rate of 20-30 missiles per strike and only out of their own volition choosing to fire smaller salvos of 5-15 missiles.

Ironically enough, the only ones who have become weaker since the start of the war are the Israelis themselves who are intercepting less and less missiles and drones even with help from the U.S. and the Kingdom of Jordan.

The fact that Israel is being hit this badly by Iran during the afternoon, not even at nighttime, should ring a ton of alarm bells in Washington and Brussels about the effectiveness of their air defense systems in a prolonged conflict.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇳 U.S. to the UN: "We can no longer ignore that Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon."

🔗 Disclose

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇳 The mother of all Freudian slips:

“Israel has also spread chaos, terror, and suffering throughout the region” — US Ambassador at the UN Security Council meeting on Iran.

Sometimes, the truth slips through.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 Israel doesn't see any instability inside Iran following the beginning of its bombing campaign

Israeli military sources say that despite a concerted effort to cause havoc and overthrow the Islamic regime in Iran with Iranian opposition figures and insurgencies in certain parts of the country, the Islamic Republic still has a strong grip on power — Jerusalem Post.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 US official to WSJ:

Israel risks depleting its stockpile of Arrow 3 missiles if Iran continues to launch missiles.

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🇺🇸🛡🇮🇱 U.S. Races to Defend Israel as It Burns Through Missile Interceptors — WSJ

Short supplies of high-end defenses could lead to rationing as Iranian attacks continue

The U.S. is racing to reinforce Israel’s defenses, sending more warships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles to the region as Iranian attacks drain Israel’s stocks of interceptors.

An additional U.S. Navy destroyer arrived in the eastern Mediterranean on Friday, joining three others in the area and two in the Red Sea. The ships are operating close enough to Israel to be able to intercept missiles fired by Iran, a defense official said.

Most of the U.S.’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers are armed with a range of interceptors, known as SM-2, SM-3 and SM-6, that can shoot down ballistic missiles and other aerial threats. SM-3s, first used in combat last year to counter an Iranian attack, are designed to intercept missiles above the atmosphere in the middle of their flight paths.

The U.S. has also replenished stocks of ground-based interceptors for the Thaad antimissile system it set up in Israel last year.

The surge of seaborne- and ground-based missile defenses underscores the concerns about Israel’s dwindling supplies of the armaments. Israel risks exhausting its supply of high-end Arrow 3 interceptors in the coming weeks if its conflict with Iran isn’t resolved and Tehran continues to launch volleys of missiles, a U.S. official said.

The Arrow 3 is the crown jewel, designed to intercept missiles above the Earth’s atmosphere. It can neutralize threats before they cross into Israeli airspace and give other systems time to act if the first shot misses.

Israel’s armed forces also declined to comment on interceptor stockpiles, but said the military is ready to handle any scenario.

Tehran has continued to fire volleys of missiles at Israeli population centers. If Iran keeps up its attacks, Israel in the coming days might be forced to make difficult decisions about husbanding its resources and giving priority to which missiles to intercept,

The U.S. is facing its own concerns about supplies of interceptors. Supplies diverted to the conflict in the Middle East are coming at the expense of those available in the event of a bigger conflict with China.

The U.S. might also face tough decisions about how many interceptors to exhaust if the fighting drags on. It rushed missile defenses to its Persian Gulf partners after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel kicked off what would become more than a year and a half of war.

Those defenses are politically and militarily important. Gulf countries have pressed the U.S. to take a more active role in their defense, and Iran has threatened to hit American bases in the Gulf and elsewhere in the region if the U.S. joins Israel in the attack.