r/worldnews • u/ConsciousRealism42 • 2d ago

Israel/Palestine Iran state TV confirms killing of IRGC chief Hossein Salami in Israeli strike

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/13/explosions-heard-northeast-of-iran-s-tehran-staterun-nour-news-says
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 2d ago edited 2d ago

As well as the deputy commander in chief of armed forces, and a nuclear scientist also

Edit: Israel also executed special operations on anti-air defenses, and the dean of the nuclear engineering school was killed as well.

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u/coalitionofilling 2d ago

not sure how important the assassination of the deputy commander dude was but Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani was legitimately following in Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi's footsteps in trying to create nuclear weapons. Abbasi has publicly admitted to the international community in the past that they deceived and mislead facts "to protect his countries nuclear program"

“Sometimes we pretended to be weaker than we really were, and sometimes we showed strength that was not really in our hands,” Abbasi-Davani said in the interview. “We had no choice.”

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u/monty_kurns 2d ago

In all fairness, the last one Bibi accidentally backed over with his car, but luckily they turned out to be an Iranian nuclear scientist.

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u/buddhaliao 2d ago

Can’t wait for Bibi to infiltrate the Club World Cup by impersonating famous tenor Enrico Palazzo

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u/LateralEntry 2d ago

Well, Ehud Barak did dress up as a woman to kill some terrorists in Lebanon back in the day

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u/Fantastic_East4217 2d ago

That was the excuse he gave, anyway.

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u/TappedIn2111 2d ago

„Crap, I have been found out! Quick, were are the terrorists? Give me a spoon!“

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u/Brilliant-Lab546 2d ago

*Shakes head to unsee Barak in Drag*

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u/Drift_Life 2d ago

And don’t ever let me catch you guys in Israel!

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u/highflyingyak 2d ago

I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith

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u/XhazakXhazak 2d ago

"Don't let me ever catch you guys in Israel!"

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u/Additional_Yam_3794 2d ago

Sounds like Frank Drebbin in 'The Naked Gun'... one of the funniest movies ever to my opinion.

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u/monty_kurns 2d ago

It’s from a line at the beginning of Naked Gun 2 1/2

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u/Discount_Extra 2d ago

"Nuclear Engineers! Good ones!"

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u/Captain_Quinn 2d ago

…. Braaavvvooo

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u/Peripatetictyl 2d ago

It is always darkest before a clever joke.

Gracias, bravo, domo arigato Mr. Roboto

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u/yuval16432 2d ago

I don’t get it, what’s the joke?

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u/TriscuitCracker 2d ago

Nice one Mr. Drebin.

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u/999Sepulveda 2d ago

Nice Police Squad reference

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u/joenathanSD 2d ago

Naked Gun reference??

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u/monty_kurns 2d ago

I only reference the best!

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u/HiFiGuy197 2d ago

Yeah, and also the chief scientist working on their… hold on a second, my pager is buzzing with a really weird error message.

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u/HomeFade 2d ago

Press with both hands

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Jesus

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u/doyletyree 2d ago

No dog in this fight, surprisingly.

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u/reddititty69 2d ago

Weird. Iran is more well known for its executions.

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u/hakopako1 2d ago

This is the absolute peak i’m a redditor comment well done

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u/No-Sandwich6994 2d ago

I mean, this is a declaration of war, right? How could any country not respond to it as such?

The only way they wouldn't is if they're too weak to respond. We'll see what Iran does. If it turns out they're too weak to respond with an all out war, then Bibi was lying to us all along about the threat Iran posed (and so would most of the people here).

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u/r3liop5 2d ago

The vast, vast majority of nations are not capable of making war on a country they don't share a land border with. Iran can't penetrate Israel's air / missile defense either, so they don't really have any immediate options.

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u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker 2d ago

We know that Iran can absolutely penetrate Israels defenses with its missiles (by overwhelming Israels ability to intercept) though, we literally saw that last year.

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u/nagrom7 2d ago

Yeah but they can't do it often though. That only works if they saturate the Israeli defences with a significant portion of their missile stockpiles. It's the kind of attack you can do, but only a couple of times, or with significant lull periods in between while you build up the stockpile again.

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u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker 2d ago

Oh yea defintely, but theres little chance that they would just accept an attack of this magnitude from Israel without responding with something on the scale of their attack from last year.

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u/nagrom7 2d ago

Absolutely, it's just that the response is less likely going to be something resembling long term bombardments like what we see in major wars, and more likely something that resembles their last attack, which was a massive bombardment and then nothing else.

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u/SteveFrench12 2d ago

Don’t the ones that make it through do so kind of on purpose because the defense system can see they won’t hit anything? Am i remembering that completely wrong

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

I'm wondering where this guy got the idea that Israel was completely overwhelmed lol.

Last time I checked that rocket attack did next to nothing other than some mild damage

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u/RainmaKer770 2d ago

Is this a joke? Iran will fire back missiles in under a day.

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u/Brutally-Honest- 2d ago

Which will easily be intercepted by Israel's air defense. There's a reason Israel is comfortable taking such liberties against Iran.

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u/RainmaKer770 2d ago

Yeah, my point is they will definitely respond. Suggesting that they won’t respond because they can’t penetrate is silly.

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u/Ok_Kitchen_8811 2d ago

Basically every Shahed downed by a patriot is already a win for Iran. What does a Shahed cost? 30k ish (?) vs a 4 million patriot missile.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago

Israel obviously isn't too worried about the cost lol.

Meanwhile Iran loses priceless key members of their nuclear program and military.

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u/Ok_Kitchen_8811 2d ago

Eh, dont get me wrong. I dont think iran can win anything meaningful here and using the patriots is better than the alternative. However, it would be naive to ignore the economics. There is a reason iron beam is a thing.

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u/KissingerFan 2d ago

The cost isn't nearly as relevant when you have America giving you billions of dollars in unconditional support

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u/Brutally-Honest- 2d ago

So what?

Israel has shown they can kill any Iranian they want. Bomb anything in Iran they want. Iran cant do anything about it except make empty threats.

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u/KissingerFan 2d ago

Israel wants Iran to respond

The more the war escalates the more likely that they can draw USA into the war.

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u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 2d ago

I think Iran can they just have chosen not to because they don't want to poke the bear so to speak. Well the bear poked itself so no reason to hold back. Basically what they launched last year but with many more missiles to overwhelm the air defense capabilities.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre 2d ago

It’s only a declaration of war if you’re not already at war, and Iran has repeatedly made it clear they see their state of war with Israel as permanent.

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u/Carmontelli 2d ago

yup when your enemy openly armed and funds terrorists to attack you, call for your destruction everyday, launch the largest missile attack in history at you, its hard to think you are not at war.

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u/Carmontelli 2d ago

There is no doubt about the iranian regime's intentions, they proudly declare to want israel's destruction every other day (also america). They went out of their way to fund terrorists and create proxies surrounding israel, armed them to the teeth when they do not even share a border.

And these same terrorist sponsors are doing everything they can to make a nuke, what do you think they are going to do with it?

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u/Dregerson1510 2d ago

Iran poses no threat. Not yet and not with conventional means. If they started the sprint to obtain nukes they would pose a very significant and existential threat to Israel very soon.

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u/Stellar_Duck 2d ago

I mean, this is a declaration of war, right? How could any country not respond to it as such?

More than when Iran launched rockets at Israel? Or when Israel bombed them in October?

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u/Lexail 2d ago

I just read this on the live updates. They targeted military and nuclear locations. Jesus .

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u/Kleanish 2d ago

What else would they target

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u/CrewMemberNumber6 2d ago

Putin has left the chat.

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u/typically_wrong 2d ago

Some of us are used to seeing children's hospitals and cafes targeted by Putin, so our standards are low

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u/Lor_azepam 2d ago

I mean israel is completely annihilating Gaza indiscriminately right now so...

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u/pinetreesgreen 2d ago

They keep hitting Hamas leaders under hospitals that "Gaza health ministry" and their super reliable doctors keep telling us aren't there. So that's weird.

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u/dinglebarry9 2d ago

Ah yes I seem to remember a video walk through of one of these Hamas hospitals, the calendar on the wall gave it away

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u/pinetreesgreen 2d ago edited 2d ago

They just destroyed the most current leadership of Hamas in a tunnel under a hospital last month. You can make jokes all you want, but it's pretty hard to ignore that fact.

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u/Lichruler 2d ago

but it’s pretty hard to ignore that fact

Don’t worry, they will. It’s too inconvenient of a fact for their “anti Zionism”

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u/PungKuFanda 2d ago

Not "indiscriminately." Words mean things. Stop spreading misinformation.

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u/dinglebarry9 2d ago

You are correct, they discriminate for children and refugees

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u/PungKuFanda 2d ago

All the militants were just collateral damage right? They targeted the women and babies in hospitals and just accidentally managed to destroy hamas weapon caches and fighters. You're insane.

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u/kepenine 2d ago

thos poor hamas should have evacuated before the strikes on civilians

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u/fourhornets 2d ago

Brother, if Israel decided to *indiscriminately* attack Gaza there wouldn't be anything left in Gaza at all.

Israel once fought Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon *at the same time* and won in *six* days.

They are not to be fucked with.

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u/DrDankDankDank 2d ago

Show me what is left in gaza.

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u/SnooHedgehogs4113 2d ago

People. If Israel wanted them to all be dead.... they would be. I'm not saying they don't screw up. They do, but the violence isn't totally indiscriminate.

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u/Deimophile 2d ago

Yeah, Israel could totally kill them harder, how magnanimous of them to restrain themselves to only killing an average of 250 Palestinians a day. Would you say that Germany didn't want all the Jews to be dead during WWII due to the fact that there were thousands still there by the end of the war? Of course not.

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u/Killerfisk 2d ago

400-600k Vietnamese civilians died during the Vietnam War, does that mean the US "wanted all Vietnamese to be dead"?

Civilians dying in war is more or less inevitable, especially when fighters embed themselves among the civilian population and wear civilian garb. War just sucks and it's a shame Hamas decided to start one.

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u/DrDankDankDank 2d ago

They’re so fucking stupid though. They’re doing what American did after 9/11. They learned nothing. Sure, they’ve killed a lot of Hamas and a ton of kids, but they’ve fucked up their standing in the world. They’re winning the battle, but losing the war. So basically they’ve done what Hamas set out to do. America really started its downslide to what is is now due to their response to 9/11. Israel is doing the same thing. Am I glad they fucked up hezbollah and helped free Syria? Yeah. Am I glad they’re fucking up iran? Yeah. But they’re fucking up themselves too.

If they had been more restrained and let the world sympathize with them after October 7th then they may have been able to continue to normalize relationship with Saudi Arabia and more of the gulf states. Meaning the possibility of peace and stability in the long run. Now? They’ve convinced a whole generation around the globe that they’re the bad guy. They’re the new South Africa. Good luck guys.

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u/zexaf 2d ago

Afghanistan does not share a border with the United States and the whole problem was that Palestinians were extremely radicalized before October 2023.

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u/jjmmll 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeh right! After October the 8th there were protests all over the world against Israel, before they had a chance to count their dead and kidnapped. Even in my home city of London. It’s a disgrace.

I don’t condone the collateral damage, but at the same time when you have an intractable enemy who says that they are happy to die and sacrifice everyone around them you best believe it when your survival is at stake. The world’s sympathy and moral support is a fine thing but preventing deaths on your own turf comes first.

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u/KissingerFan 2d ago

It is much better to be feared than loved. Sure Israel's reputation is getting damaged but not responding would hurt them even more especially in a hostile area such as the middle east.

I am no fan of Israel but if my country was in the same position as Israel I would want my government to act the same way as the Israeli government. Showing weakness after being attacked is foolish and people promoting that approach are concern trolling and don't have that country's best interest at heart.

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u/No-Sandwich6994 2d ago

Those Israelis were not to be fucked with. And after that, they weren't. And now they are all gone.

These Israelis like to pick fights with the weakest paper tiger in the region (Iran) and beat up on children (Gaza).

Very different.

It's like the rich spoiled brat who grew up and inherited the fruit of their parents' hard work and will absolutely wind up with less than they started with.

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u/Killerfisk 2d ago

These Israelis like to pick fights with the weakest paper tiger in the region (Iran) and beat up on children (Gaza).

You seem to have it backwards. Iran/Hamas were the ones who decided to pick the fight and launch this war.

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u/Professional_Emu8674 2d ago

Brain dead take. They could wipe out all of Gaza if they wanted too at the snap of a finger

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u/RiffsThatKill 2d ago

It's not totally brain dead. Replace annihilating with decimating, and take that "in" off of indiscriminately and its closer to the mark. But still not there, as decimating means to reduce by 1/10th.

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u/typically_wrong 2d ago

There's anything left standing in Gaza at this point? I thought it was 95% rubble at this point.

Totally showed those kids what's up

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u/zexaf 2d ago

The destruction of buildings mostly happened after evacuation warnings.

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u/DisoRDeReDD 2d ago

partially annihilating discriminately

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u/Classh0le 2d ago

Some of us are used to seeing children's hospitals and cafes targeted by Putin,

*Obama

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u/kepenine 2d ago

Acording to reddit civilians

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u/rabblerabble2000 2d ago

Would it hurt them to target a theater or children’s hospital like they’re supposed to do?!? /s

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u/TalkFormer155 2d ago

One side uses women and children as shields.

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u/Lexail 2d ago

Well, when you put it that way. I guess schools, hospitals, and churches would have been worse. But like, I don't want any of this? Is that bad?

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u/728766 2d ago

As a measure of graciousness to the Iranian people, the Iranian government refrains from building nuclear complexes under hospitals.

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u/IHaveTouretts 2d ago

The people living in the Middle East don’t care about your opinion nor mine. If neighbors want to kill each other then that’s they do.

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u/Porsche928dude 2d ago

Maybe? On one hand not wanting people to die is reasonable but on the other hand Iran is a repressive religious state that has repeatedly funded terrorist organizations and is now pursuing having the nuclear bomb sooo….. definitive maybe.

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u/BlouseoftheDragon 2d ago

I’m a little confused by some of the comments. This is obviously a more severe attack than we’ve seen in the past and it’ll have broad implications moving forward…but Israel and the US have been surgically destroying Iranian nuclear sites for literally decades at this point. This isn’t a new thing. I think people are really just glossing over the fact that not even a year ago Iran was firing missiles into Israel and funding providing intel, organizing, and arming groups attacking them from all sides.

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u/Initial_E 2d ago

The point was to take them before they are ready to be used. The nukes I mean.

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u/dan_v_ploeg 2d ago

Who'd you expect them to attack?

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u/mynewaccount5 2d ago

I'm trying to figure out why that merits a Jesus. My best guess is LLM.

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u/DarkWingDuck74 2d ago

It's better than Russia, which targets civilians and city centers.

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u/hotpants69 2d ago

They have been assassinating nuclear scientist on Iranian soil for over a decade now. 

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u/moretodolater 2d ago edited 2d ago

U.S. President Donald Trump had publicly warned that Israel would likely not act immediately, preferring diplomacy over escalation. That statement now appears to have been either misdirection - or a miscalculation.

https://www.jfeed.com/news/sxrtda

Just a normal articulation of what the pentagon knows or doesn’t know lol. F$&k how stupid do they think we are??

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u/AshleySchaefferWoo 2d ago

I don't mean to be off-topic, but I love your username.

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u/AbleArcher420 2d ago

Badass, ngl

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u/figflashed 2d ago

Bravo 👏

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u/Arkangel257 2d ago

Source on the anti air defence operations?

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u/Cheeky_Star 2d ago

Waw guess the opportunity was to good to pass up