cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47150225
May 7, 2026
Iran can withstand the US naval blockade against it for three or four more months before facing severe economic hardship, the CIA told the Trump administration this week, according to a report by The Washington Post on Thursday.
The report also said the CIA has found that Tehran retains “significant ballistic missile capabilities” …
The CIA report flies in the face of public statements by the Trump administration, which has claimed that the vast majority of Iran’s drone and missile capabilities have been destroyed.
The US has said that Iran is running out of storage space for its oil…
Analysts have told MEE that Iran has “weeks” of storage space left.
i fucking hope so.
They haven’t lost their ability to manufacture more missiles and drones and probably won’t. Russia and China will prop them up with food and supplies to fight a proxy war on their behalf. This will be a forever war.
Since they’re almost certainly the next one’s to reach that status, it absolutelly makes sense for at least China to accelerate the fall of the current World-level Empire if they can do it with little or no negative impact for themselves.
Having a decaying America bleed itself and the goodwil of its allies for years against the prickly wall which is Iran is an optimal outcome for China.
Russia, I doubt it, mainly because Russia has no chance in hell of becoming an Imperial power, plus having a military whose capacities were seriously overestimated being bled by an adversary they seriously underestimated as happening to America in Iran, is what has been happening to Russia in Ukraine.
I don’t trust anything, anyone from this US regime says. A government run by pedophiles, charlatans, worm brain, alcoholics, rapist, faux Christians. At this point I trust Iran propaganda more than whatever BS the US is spewing.
Just see if trump denies the report, if he does, its likely at least as truthful as we can trust Iran’s propaganda.
they are likely going to receive equipment from russia and china to build even more.
I kinda doubt they’ll be getting anything from Russia.
China is more likely though.
They’ll get food from Russia as needed.
interesting…
Wait I thought we had a free and democratic strait now thanks to the yanks.
I think donnie boy and kegsbreath dont understand what ‘decimated’ actually means.
That’s the historical meaning but it can also mean this (according to Merriam Webster):
3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number
An outbreak of cholera decimated the population.
Kamieniecki’s return comes at a crucial time for a pitching staff that has been decimated by injuries.— Jason Diamos
3 b: to cause great destruction or harm to
A fire decimated the city.
An industry decimated by recession
Yeah, nowadays the word is used from its brutality, not the exact number. The point is not just that every 10th was killed, but that the rest of them were made to do it.
Maybe they do but by ignorance as it originally was used as a punishment for a Roman legion that failed. Every 10th man was executed hence “decimate”.
We made them shoot 30% of their missiles. That’s 3 decimations.
As long as they keep shooting missiles, we keep winning 😎 . Trump is playing 3d chess ♟️, weakening his opponent’s fists with his face.
As our economy weakens, so too does Iran’s weapons stockpiles. A Devil’s bargain or the art of the deal? How many moves ahead must we be for Trump to halt Project Freedom just so that Iran can save face?
Unfortunately I want this to keep going and gas prices to skyrocket. So my countrymen will get a punch to the mouth. Since apparently the only thing that can break them out of a cult is gas prices and suffering.
From Europe I definitelly want to see this shit go full on fucked up, since it’s the only way the Corrupt and Kompromat-controlled politicians around here stop doing what America and Israel wants because they are fucked either way as even the most selfish and unprincipled of voters will fuck them up in the voting booths if cost of living goes crazy.
We’re already seeing that the crooks not already looking for ways to look less pro-Israel and pro-America are those in the EU Commission and in other EU positions which are not elected.
good luck iran against imperialist USA and israel
I am getting the feeling Iran was preparing for this very contingency for decades!
I’m shocked! Shocked!
I have like 5 favorite surprise meme images and I use them every chance I get. Even if it’s gratuitous.
its not like they have experience from fighting israel, or getting intelligence from russia, and ccp.
Preparing for contingencies? That’s for communists. Stable geniuses react randomly to events as they occur by throwing unqualified yes men at them.
Wait I thought we destroyed all their missles? 🤡
Their entire military capabilities were completely destroyed 7 times a day for the last couple months. Iran now has -392 militarys.
So you’re telling me they’re exploiting buffer underflows?
*integer
Life’s a buffer
oh no.
They exploited the civ1 gandhi method
They now have 1000% less missiles.
Oof, that’s a lot less! So in metric percentage it’s 30?
Their whatsles?
MISSLES!
Like measles with only one eye.
place some measles inside a missile.
Kegbreath reduced the vaccine requirements for the military, so there could be measles in any of the ships loading the missiles.
To the surprise of who (with a brain) exactly?
Country that spent the past 50 years planning for exact thing, having watched exact thing happen to their neighbors, and major ally of 2/3rds of the world’s military superpowers, shockingly undefeated after 2 months.
Ironically I think this self made oil crisis is the kick in the nuts the world needed to adopt more clean energy options. Even if oil is being burned more now, the high price is pushing many to use green tech. I hope that oil prices skyrocket for the average person so we do something positive for global warming.
trump though this would be a temporary distraction from the epstein files, now that iran has collapsed with 3 days, and is going on for months.
FAFO Donnie.
