Iran's Shia Islamic regime appears to have lost control as thousands of people flee Tehran by car. Many are heading north towards the Caspian Sea coastline.
Daylight view of the mass exodus from Tehran.

US President Donald Trump has requested the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room when he returns to Washington DC tonight from the G7 meeting a day early.

This comes after he posted on Truth Social that everyone should evacuate Tehran immediately. Al Jazeerah reported that Trump might be considering the US joining in an attack on Iran, but there was no clear answer yet.

Iranians appear to have received Trump’s message, and are fleeing Tehran in their thousands, with car convoys stretching many kilometres.

Iran also appeared to have launched a last-ditch missile attack on Israel early Tuesday Middle Eastern time, but has lost control of its own airspace as Israeli jets and drones fly sorties over Tehran, hitting strategic targets such as power infrastructure. Video posted on X showed a major Israeli attack in progress over Tehran.

One independent news source reported that the Israeli Air Force was now flying its Eitan long range surveillance drones over Tehran, and “many of the Iranian regime officials were hiding in their homes fearing to exit as they believe these drones will hunt them.

IDF footage also showed an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian nuclear program HQ in Tehran.

According to one Iranian expatriate who posted on X, there are some 9 million Iranians living outside of Iran – about 10% of the population – who had fled the Islamic Shia regime. She said there were no demonstrations by these Iranians against Israel or the US because they were “not a bunch of savage, inbred jihadi terrorist sympathisers”.

Another post on X showed what appeared to be an Iranian woman discarding her hijab in some sort of protest. When this took place, however, is not known.

Meanwhile an Iranian Embassy official angrily attacked a British journalist for suggesting that Israel was not attacking civilian targets.

The official said an Israeli attack on a large apartment building to take out several Iranian Army commanders, killed 60 people including 20 children.

The official denied reports that Iran was not at the negotiating table with the US, and said Trump conspired with Netanyahu to flip his position on uranium enrichment.

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  1. BTW another poster on another site who is there reported that the pictures of all the cars leaving had Israelo plates.. not Iranian… lol That’s MSM for you. They are fleeing Tel Aviv.

  2. Beats me how we are managing a decent day’s and night’s sleep with all the ruckus that’s being staged for us.

    Would someone please call the RSPCA head office and register a complaint? Our shepherds are still covertly fleecing us without our knowledge and consent.

    Last time I heard it was against the law.

  3. Hey folks,

    Israel has imposed a total media blackout on any reporting on the destruction in Israel from Iran’s counterattacks. What do you suppose we’ll be seeing here in the West where 90% of all major media is owned by Israeli stooges?

    And our BFF Polish Benny has banned Israelis from leaving Israel. Surprise! Don’t want any of those juicy rats abandoning the sinking ship, do we? Too much PR leverage at stake with all those “victims” on hand ready for the cameras.

    And of course, they’re attacking Iranian media to shut them up too…

    “… In a brazen violation of international law, Israel bombed the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster, IRIB, during a live television broadcast on June 16/…”

    [ https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-06-17-israel-bombs-iran-state-tv-journalists.html ]

    “In a brazen violation of international law”, you say?

    Why stop now?

  4. The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy

    by Seymour Hersh

    The Samson Option explodes one of the world’s most closely guarded secrets—the secret of Israel’s atomic arsenal. It relates, for the first time, the political, diplomatic, and military repercussions that have for decades been concealed from the world.
    It is also about America’s ability not to see what it does not want to see. All American presidents since John F. Kennedy have turned a blind eye toward Israel’s growing nuclear capacity while paying lip service to the goal of nuclear non proliferation.

    In The Samson Option, Seymour M. Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winner who wrote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, reveals one of the classic clandestine operations of our time: Israel’s spectacular underground nuclear facility in the Negev Desert, where its technicians and scientists began manufacturing nuclear warheads in the late 1960s. It describes the bitter infighting within the Israeli government over the bomb and its huge cost. It tells how the money for me nuclear program was raised abroad, and how the early technology was acquired with the aid of France. And it shows how and when Israel threatened to use its nuclear power……………………….

    The Samson Option is ultimately a narrative of how the bomb influenced the diplomatic relations between Israel and America far more than was seen or understood by the press and the public. It shows that, in every sense, Israel was born a nuclear power. Since its founding, some of its leaders, including David Ben-Gurion and Ernst David Bergmann—the little-known scientist who was the father of the Israeli bomb—were determined that no future enemy would be able to carry out another Holocaust. Just as Samson brought down the temple and killed himself along with his enemies, so would Israel destroy those who sought its destruction.

    The message of The Samson Option is stark: The next Middle East war might very well be nuclear.

    https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option

  5. These regular discharges of military hardware are simply the industry’s way of disposing of old stock.

    Like all products, military hardware has a limited shelf life and quickly becomes obsolete. Firing off missiles on a regular basis is just the industry’s way of getting rid of last year’s produce to make room for the latest models.

    This is why its an ongoing procedure.

    Both sides will soon exhaust their old stock, followed by a period of quiet as they restock, then another disposal of old goods, and so on.

    Its not difficult to work out.

  6. To zzz3856
    True I saw footage of huge numbers of people (thousands?) in the streets of Iran who were HAPPY that Iran was FINALLY going to stand up to the Zionist aggressor.
    A big cheer went up when the retaliation started. It appeared that as a people they will stand and fight with their boots on. They are sick of it.

    If people can’t see that Trump is like an annoying child that keeps poking at a cat’s eyes until the cat scratches back then they live in a delusion. He has poked and poked because he wanted a response.

    My first thought when I saw the traffic footage was that it looked like the Bruce Highway on a Friday night. Nothing to see there.
    Either way what we do know is that there will be a blackout on the truth and particularly in Australia, the MSM is as bias as any Communist Country would be.

    Yes, the reporting is just as an Communist Country would have it. One sided.

  7. Ed – Of course some people are trying to escape the bombing, but Tehran is a city of 10 million people… Most of whom are standing firm against the killers. It has nothing to do with Shia though Netanyahu is spreading propaganda about this because the object after all is regime change and he is trying to incite the people.. but in fact the people of Iran are more united than ever now (Prof Marandi). And yes Israel is attacking civilians on purpose, the same as Gaza.

    There is no doubt that Iran has done a lot of damage to Israel;s gas and energy sites and Tel Aviv is starting to look like Gaza but none of this is shown or talked about in the media – only what Israel has done – much like this article – to convey the impression Iran is weak.

    Israel CANNOT win this war unless the US helps it… which will bring a whole new dangerous escalation and actually prove that Trump is a liar.

    No matter how you look at it, this attack on Iran was unprovoked and the lie about WMD is the same as the WMD of Iraq. And the US is complicit. So how about some fairer reporting…

    And habibs are not compulsory in Iran.. as anyone who has been there or lived there will tell you – this is media propaganda, they can choose to wear or not.

  8. re : ““If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” —President Donald Trump, NBC News Interview, March 30, 2025”

    Trump is sadly not very well. How many people so far has he threatened with his “Do as I say or I’ll kill you” deals? By that standard Pol Pot and Al Capone were great dealmakers too.

    Don’t peeps find the fake WMDs story a bit passe after 40 odd years of it being recycled time after time? Or is fear mongering a time honoured, perennial go to option for achieving one’s ambitions?

  9. re: “Has the man of peace become a warmonger? Not looking good.”

    And there I was hoping he’d turn out to be a narcissistic sheep in wolves clothing. lol But, like every US president, he’s true to form.

  10. It’s all “propaganda”, sourced from who and what, and where?

    Saying something or showing images of something on a TV or a computer screen, or in a “newspaper”, magazine, or book, doesn’t really mean anything except; there are words and imagery presented on/in whatever media, and a story/explanation is intended to be communicated by them.

    The difference is; is it truthful or is it deceptive?
    What is the premise it’s all based on? Is that truthful or deceptive? True or false.

    If a false premise is accepted, it doesn’t matter how reasonable and logical the story seems…the conclusion will still be false.
    That’s either by accident/mistake or intent/design.
    What’s their track record?
    By their fruits we will know them.

  11. I thought Grok was another crappy ChatGPT with safety warnings.
    Is commenter Strawman the same person as the former MadMaxFree ?
    I don’t want to debate all-comers, MMF is “been there done that”.

  12. Thats interesting Jen which part is the propaganda? Theres miles of footage showing Tehran motorways chockers with cars fleeing the metro. It seems that Deep State still has a foothold in the Pentagon. Editor

  13. When you look at the problems we all face in the world you look to this, you look to that…but you never look at yourselves.

    If you dare look in the mirror, who is that hates you, who wants to wipe you off the face of the earth?

    The last five years have revealed the cowardice of our modern men, lets hope the next five years reveals the men that will save the whole world from ruin.

    Good times breeds soft men, soft men breed hard times, hard times breed hard men, who bring good times…and that breeds soft men. Around we go…over and over again.

    Who are you and where are you. Ever asked those two most impoirtant questions of all questions? They are so important because if you do not know where you are, you cannot know who you are, if you know neither? You know NOTHING worth knowing.

  14. Joe Bogan writes…-native Jews-…

    There is no such truth in the whole world Joe.

  15. zzz3856 said – “… Trump has turned out to be a big liar…”

    Come on zzz3856, get with the program and TRUST THE PLAN!

    And just BTW, Trump did NOT turn out to be a big liar, he turned out to be a big FAT liar, and a sadistic blood-thirsty one at that. All this from someone who says he done got religion when he dodged a bullet. Considering what he did to Solemani and now is trying to do to Iran, one could suggest in hindsight that Trump’s miraculous escape was perhaps a miscarriage of justice.

    A betting man might suppose that Elon let slip the TRUTH about Trump. We already know the unsavoury Truth about Bernie Sanders and no less than half a dozen former Australian Prime Ministers, and all of them utterly UNTOUCHABLE. Seems they’re PROTECTEED as long as they do what they’re told and keep their mouths shut.

  16. “What’s going on”
    International terrorist Bibi is using native joos as his human shield for his Zio-bosses purposes, which are to secure oil as usual. Recall the days of Moby Dick when oil was the price of catching and processing a whale. Now look how bountiful the stuff is, and everyone wants more. Did you know British Petroleum was originally known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. And now BP is “green” as their Green King would wish. Whatever that is supposed to mean.

    Of course we all know the royals of Europe are all as poor as churchmice with such expensive estates to mow the lawns of. Having united to give all their money to Rotschilds and ordered their armies to stand back as their last gold bars were handed over to Rotschilds, along with all their share certificates and rental properties. Rotschilds swindled the lot of them out of everything in only 200 years and now they own at least 51% of the planet. According to the popular narrative.
    Amazingly nobody has ever complained or demanded their money back for fear a Rotschild might come and poke them in the silk tie, as the old Photoshop picture proves. The poor royals with their cancer disappearances, dodgy uncles, dodgy doubles and tedious duties like overseeing new laws and giving assent to bills after lots of careful consideration. Just knowing in advance what the government was going to be spending billions of $/£/€ must be such a burden. Perhaps someone could ask KRudd or old Chromedome, who both seem to know something about this type of thing.

  17. Caltrop and others… It really has nothing to do with Iran having nuclear weapons – this is a deception to convince the world Iran is bad (Iran does not have nuclear power at all! – but Israel does!) – it is mainly really all about regime change – put a puppet in to do their bidding.

    Israel thought if they bumped off all the scientists and military commanders that would be it, that Iran would just fold. But it has backfired badly.. Iran is fighting back and doing a lot of damage .. and has a huge supply of missiles and munitions and they will not yield to the evil oppressors.

    Israel cannot sustain this war without help from the US as they do not have the munitions or the manpower. If the US openly steps in then things will escalate.. and this could be very dangerous for that region.

    Trump has turned out to be a big liar and the American people know that know, as do most world leaders. Americans are regretting that they voted for him.. he promised peace.

    Please see Sonar 21 for what is really happening.

    Viva Iran !

  18. Caltrop said – “… Does any one know a song in this genre that has had more views?”

    You do know that’s just been one creepy old guy sitting in his basement watching the same music video over and over non-stop for the last 15 years, right?

    Because after all, creepy old guys need less sleep. Which is precisely why AnAL’s arse was so very very sore after his saucy three-day non-stop romp with creepy Bill in that big four-poster bed down there at Kirribilli House. Creepy Bill didn’t give two hoots if AnAL was asleep or unconscious or dead. Lucky for AnAL that Paul Bearer wasn’t there as well.

  19. China Pulls the Plug on U.S. Military Supply Chain! China Cuts Off U.S. Rare Earth Smuggling Route

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXStB47K5Iw

  20. Does any one know a song in this genre that has had more views?

    The words are particularly relevant today -“What’s going on?”

    4 Non Blondes – What’s Up (Official Music Video)

    1.69M subscribers/

    1,947,509,635 Views

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc&t=3s

  21. I have it on good authority that Mein Trumpf did not go home to oversee regime change in Persia, he went home to keep up with the Mad Mushroom Lady news.

  22. Re: the video Caltrop posted: Jim Chalmers. What a clown. The Australian governments-Lib and Lab-over the years , have betrayed us, first by diminishing our fuel capacity (call it a form of national sovereignty), so that we get almost 90% of our liquid fuel from Singaporean refineries, leaving us extremely vulnerable to fuel shortages, and then, in the Howard era, by going to world parity pricing unnecessarily, as that was only done to make more money off Australian fuel consumers, via the excise and unlawful 10% GST on fuel. This government, and their UniPArty brethren, are just a bunch of kleptomaniacs, as those stories about Scott Morrison and his sackings show. None of the Opposition ever queried his bogus legislation making, as that Cairns News commenter claimed: unsecured creditors of the Banks, where our money is supposed to be placed “for safekeeping”, yes?

  23. It’s rumoured Grok has a bunker in Christchurch.

    I don’t know whether there is a conference over the ditch in late July — August, but there are an extraordinary number of private jets flying in.

  24. The genocide in Gaza the deliberate starving to death of ten of thousands.

    The carpet bombing mass murder of thousands in residential areas because opposition fighters are located in tunnels deep beneath apartments and hospitals.

    The deliberate killing of journalists.

    Yet no crimes against humanity or war crimes to answered for by the sufferers of eternal victimhood.

    The International Criminal Court is an empty void, of no substance; seemingly bankrupt or compromised.

    Terrorism:

    “The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

    The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.

    The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.”

    — The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

    Reminds me of the pot calling the kettle black, hiding military system control beneath a hospital and ground to air defence hardware in narrow suburban streets, then in lockstep, compromised media cries foul when they’re taken out and men an women of all ages are killed.

    Two days back George Galloway when interviewing Iranian Professor Marandi via data from a mobile phone in Tehran suggested Marandi was an Israeli assassination target.

    Marandi said the only way to get the message out to the world was through his phone, so he had moved out of his apartment for the safety of his family and others living there.

    Last night just before an arranged Piers Morgan interview with Marandi, Israel bombed a television station, at the time when and where the interview was to take place,

    Marandi survived, the interview went ahead.

    Morgan was hysterical, lost his shit when Marandi called him a coward for not accepting his offer to come to Iran for an interview; then the servile flatterer continually interrupted and ranted uncontrollably, not allowing Marandi to answer his questions.

  25. This article is a true propaganda piece.. just like msm it takes the Israel side only but iran is steadfast.. they have been using hypersonic missiles on Israel and Tehran is looking like a new Gaza… about time they got a bit of their own medicine.

    Trump, the Emperor, truly has no clothes at all now and has lost all credibility.. he repeats the same lies that msm does. Is he truly that dense?

    For some real news read this and watch the videos.. Iran is fighting the good fight and they will not give in.

    https://sonar21.com/donald-trump-doubles-down-on-crazy/

  26. Sometimes I think this is all to confuse us! Because what is really happening? As Caltrop said up there, Iran have been playing by the rules and as a sovereign state have a right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

  27. Trump Threatens to Bomb Iran to Smithereens for “Playing By the Rules”. Mike Whitney

    “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” —President Donald Trump, NBC News Interview, March 30, 2025

    President Donald Trump is threatening to launch air strikes on Iran for activities that are approved under the terms of Iran’s treaty obligations. This is not a matter on which there should be any debate. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) explicitly grants all parties, including Iran, the “inalienable right” to develop, research, produce, and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. This “inalienable right” includes the enriching of uranium.

    Trump either doesn’t understand what a “treaty” is or thinks its terms should not apply to Iran. For the sake of clarity, a treaty is a formal, legally binding agreement between sovereign states that is governed by international law. It establishes mutual obligations, rights, or rules on matters such as trade, security, nuclear non-proliferation, or environmental protection. A treaty is not optional and cannot be repealed by executive fiat. States that ratify treaties are legally obligated to comply with their terms in good faith. Political leaders, as representatives of the state, are expected to uphold these obligations.

    This is all very straightforward which is why we find so it hard to understand why Trump is threatening a country that is clearly “in compliance” with its obligations under the NPT. Here’s what Trump said on Friday on Air Force One:

    “They won’t be enriching. If they enrich, then we’re going to have to do it the other way… (air strikes) And I don’t really want to do it the other way but we’re going to have no choice. There’s not going to be enrichment.”

    Trump has no legal authority to determine whether Iran can enrich uranium or not. It’s simply not his decision to make. Even Grok—with its obvious pro-Israel bias—understands this. Check it out:…

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-threatens-bomb-iran-smithereens/5890441

  28. Well folks,

    Here’s somemore context…

    [ https://www.bitchute.com/video/1d–64tNWUc ]

    In case anyone hasn’t noticed, America is the muscle for the Master Race Mafioso, and Trump is just one more obedient bloodthirsty Capo. Maybe ponder how much mayhem Al Capone wreaked in Chicago before he was taken down.

    This time it’s not Chicago, it’s the whole world. Has been for decades now.

  29. tehran times.com painted a different picture, but their server is now down?
    They certainly didn’t come across as defeatist.
    They do believe in ‘an eye for an eye’.

    If the Iranian people have a place to shelter while the Zionist warmongers push on with their ‘Greater’ plans then it’s smart for civilians to get out of the way.
    That does not reflect ‘defeatism’.

    As I posted on an earlier article maybe we need to take the wider lens….

    The Zionist Orange man “has refused to sign a joint G7 statement for de-escalation between Iran and Israel.” There are no surprises there.

    What should concern Australians is that Iran is calling this escalation a ‘Zionist-American’ enemy.
    (MiddleEast news)

    Might be a good time to reassess our friends?
    Or let those friends fight their own battles.

    PLEASE LET THEM FIGHT THEIR OWN BATTLES and do not draw us into this.

    Meanwhile we just wait for a ‘false flag’ World War 3 psyop button – oh look, they found an “unknown Nuclear facility In Iran spanning 2500 acres on (their) satellite imagery”.

    We can’t have that now can we.
    That could be a ‘weapon of mass destruction’…..

    Would you let your sons and daughters die for this cause?

  30. America allegedly supplied the weapons which Israel used in the attack.

    Note: Trump advised the Iranians to evacuate Tehran.
    He did not demand the Israelis to back off.
    Has the man of peace become a warmonger? Not looking good.

    The US war hawks 20? years ago had a list of Nations to be taken down.
    Iran on the list. Has that day arrived. Not looking good again.

    If China and Russia rise up against Israel is that the battle of Armageddon unfolding? Not looking good again.

  31. Colonel McGregor told Redacted, the other day,that iran was using old missiles to reduce the number of Israeli armaments before a mass attack that would ruin Israel.
    I like the Colonel, but it seems, if things do not transpire differently, that the Colonel was majorly wrong.
    This whole shebang has just gotten worse today, when it was just a total disgrace right from the start.
    Should The Donald then be regarded as a war criminal?
    Because it si alla “deal” in the end, about resources and hegemony in the Middle East.
    And where do Turkey and Russia stand, Russia ostensibly wanting peace everywhere?
    Maybe RT News will tell me?

  32. Can Trump win a war against Iran, China, North Korea and Russia and other nations likely enter the fray with them?

    Putin Forging Anti-West Alliance With America’s Top Rivals? Iran, China, N Korea, Russia Join Forces

  33. Larry Hannigan put up meme a while ago showing the Hmas leaders, all of whom live in Doha, a long way away from the conflict zone. And they are al worth billions of dollars. Similarly, aone report said that the Imams said that they were okay with losing up to 70% of their people as log as they achieved their outcomes. I hope that last one is not true, as these Iranian peopel are good people, by and large,as are the Gazans.
    I intend to ring the US Embassy in Canberra and give them some what-for, as The Donald is a war criminal, as is Yahou.
    And I am going to tell the Embassy that my proposal to have some Palestinian kids rescued to Australia has fat chance now, given the criminality of the Tehran attacks.
    It seems that LAW does not exist any more.

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