Iran does not stand alone

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:

Turkey's new 'kamikaze' drones may replace Iran's Shahed​


Over the past year, and two US-Israeli conflicts with Iran, Turkey has focused on how to use "kamikaze" suicide drones in warfare after seeing how effective Tehran's have been.

Turkish officials have been taking notes amid rising tensions between Turkey and Israel. Both countries have emerged since 2024 as rivals vying for regional dominance.

While many Turkish arms companies, including Skydagger and Turkish Aerospace Industries, are developing drones similar to the Shahed, a prominent Turkish company called Baykar was the first to cross the finish line with three separate "kamikaze" drones.

The drones - K2, Sivrisinek and Mizrak - differ in specifications, range and capabilities.

While each has features that could compete with the Shahed, the real innovation lies in how they could work together against enemies in a layered attack strategy.

K2, a large drone that can carry munitions weighing 200kg, can fly for 13 hours within a range of 2,000km without using global navigation satellite systems.

It can autonomously estimate its location by visually scanning the terrain and conduct precision strikes thanks to its satellite datalink features. The drone can either destroy itself in the attack or fly back for reuse.

Sivrisinek is estimated to cost as little as $25,000 to $30,000 and could be used in large numbers since it is highly expendable. The drone is believed to be an updated version of the YIHA-3, which has been heavily used by many countries including Pakistan since 2023.

Sivrisinek benefits from extensive battle experience and valuable real-world technical data thanks to its predecessor's use in the conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and Sudan, as well as the 2025 clashes between Pakistan and India.

The latest product, Mizrak, which was revealed on Thursday, has similarities with the Shahed-136.

While the Shahed-136 boasts a 2,000km range and a 50kg warhead after years of development, Mizrak has suddenly emerged with a 1,000km range and a 40kg payload.

All three "kamikaze" unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are resistant to electronic warfare, can visually pinpoint targets without GNSS, and conduct attacks using their own autonomous capabilities and satellite links.

"The Iranian UAV programme lacks proven capabilities in AI-based autonomous and network-centric swarm attack skills," said Hursit Dingil, an expert on Iran's military capabilities at the Ankara-based Centre for Area Studies.

"In other words, it can be argued that the Shahed-136 cannot enter this new hybrid class developed by Turkey, given its proven autonomous capabilities and inherent drone power advantages," he said.

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If Iran wants help with AI drone swarming the Russians are ready to teach.....they are currently the best at it.
 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:

China and Russia create restraint​


China, and Russia do not stand aside; they hold the war in deliberate abeyance add solidarity and deterrence. What appears as support is, more precisely, structured pre-emption against reckless US escalation.

The United States is compelled to calculate against a dispersed but formidable alignment of power. The ongoing war is not sustained war, but a multipolar, multi-cornered balance that restrains dominance. This is no longer a theatre of dominance, but a multipolar, multi-cornered contest of endurance.

The most consequential actors in the Iran conflict are not only those deploying force on the battlefield, but those who have embedded themselves within the conflict’s underlying architecture.

Through intelligence sharing, economic sustenance, and diplomatic shielding, they have inserted themselves into the operational core of Iran’s war effort. This is not conjecture; it is acknowledged by Iran itself. The statement by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is not a passing diplomatic courtesy but a window into the structure of contemporary warfare, where alliances are no longer defined by formal treaties or troop deployments, but by the capacity to sustain a state under conditions of extreme pressure. What we are witnessing is not the absence of participation, but its transformation into a more diffused and systemically embedded form.

This shift marks a departure from the classical understanding of war associated with Carl von Clausewitz, who conceptualised war as the continuation of politics by violent means within identifiable theatres of conflict. In the present case, politics, markets, and technological infrastructures have themselves become instruments of war.

War, in this sense, is no longer confined to geography; it is dispersed across satellite systems, financial networks, energy corridors, and diplomatic arenas. The battlefield persists, but it is no longer sufficient to explain the war.
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Iran is sinking alone...
 
Not all of us have been successfully brain washed......you are going to have to add us to the massive new piles of bodies......FUCK U and the horse you rode in on.......there were people who had hope for you.

Dark Ages Suck.
 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:

China and Russia create restraint​


China, and Russia do not stand aside; they hold the war in deliberate abeyance add solidarity and deterrence. What appears as support is, more precisely, structured pre-emption against reckless US escalation.
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What war, dope?
What escalation?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:
The United States is compelled to calculate against a dispersed but formidable alignment of power. The ongoing war is not sustained war, but a multipolar, multi-cornered balance that restrains dominance. This is no longer a theatre of dominance, but a multipolar, multi-cornered contest of endurance.
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What war, dope?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:
The most consequential actors in the Iran conflict are not only those deploying force on the battlefield, but those who have embedded themselves within the conflict’s underlying architecture.

Through intelligence sharing, economic sustenance, and diplomatic shielding, they have inserted themselves into the operational core of Iran’s war effort. This is not conjecture; it is acknowledged by Iran itself. The statement by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is not a passing diplomatic courtesy but a window into the structure of contemporary warfare, where alliances are no longer defined by formal treaties or troop deployments, but by the capacity to sustain a state under conditions of extreme pressure. What we are witnessing is not the absence of participation, but its transformation into a more diffused and systemically embedded form.

This shift marks a departure from the classical understanding of war associated with Carl von Clausewitz, who conceptualised war as the continuation of politics by violent means within identifiable theatres of conflict. In the present case, politics, markets, and technological infrastructures have themselves become instruments of war.

War, in this sense, is no longer confined to geography; it is dispersed across satellite systems, financial networks, energy corridors, and diplomatic arenas. The battlefield persists, but it is no longer sufficient to explain the war.
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What war, dope?
 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:

Pakistan opens up road trade routes into Iran amid Trump's Hormuz blockade​



With shipping disrupted by US, Islamabad activates overland corridor to move stranded cargo into Iran.


Pakistan has opened six overland transit routes for goods destined for Iran, formalising a road corridor through its territory as thousands of containers remain stranded at Karachi port because of the United States attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trade route from where, moron? You're full of shit.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Not all of us have been successfully brain washed......you are going to have to add us to the massive new piles of bodies......FUCK U and the horse you rode in on.......there were people who had hope for you.

Dark Ages Suck.
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You having another schizophrenic episode, Chicom? You are only one person.
 
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday.

The visit — and its timing — underscore what analysts say are China’s significant stakes in the US-Iran war.

The visit comes a week before Trump is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15.

With the US feeling an economic downturn, including rising domestic fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections, analysts say the shared interest creates space for Beijing to play a crucial diplomatic role.

During Wednesday’s meeting, Wang again condemned US and Israeli military actions against Iran as “illegitimate".

China has also criticized the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a dangerous escalation that risked returning international politics to “the law of the jungle”.

Alongside Russia, Beijing has vetoed efforts at the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran.





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