Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 6/8

[SVPete]

Score Two More Big Wins for Israel Vs. Iran... Maybe

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/08/score-two-more-big-wins-for-israel-vs-iran-maybe-n4953720

It started so simply, as these things do, with a barrage of Iran's patented Totally Ceasefire Missiles™ that Israel knocked out of the sky. It ended, if that's the right word, with Israeli airstrikes taking out Iran's top two leaders. That's a big win, even if one of them was already mostly dead.

The fun began on Sunday, when "Iran launched missiles into Israel, not just in the north by the Galilee, but all the way down to Caesarea," as reported by PJ Media's own Rabbi Michael Barclay. In all, Tehran launched a total of about 30 missiles in several waves. They were all either shot down by IDF antimissile systems like Iron Dome, or caused no notable damage.

 Israel responded with two air attacks that PJ Media's own Catherine Salgado reported on at Zero Dark Thirty last night, but only now are we learning just how effective those strikes really were.

Several outlets report today that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Ahmad Vahidi is among those dead in yesterday's Israeli Air Force (IAF) strikes.

Vahidi's death isn't confirmed yet, but fingers crossed. He's only been IRGC chief since March 1, when his predecessor was taken out in similar fashion.
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Just as pleasing, if perhaps not quite as consequential, is the reported death of the regime's so-called Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei — son and heir of the previous Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The elder Khamenei, you'll recall with no small measure of schadenfreude, was killed in a similar IAF strike in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury.

The younger Khamenei — long rumored to be homosexual and also believed to have been severely wounded during the air campaign — is (or was) at best a figurehead. He hasn't been seen or heard in public since before Ali's death, lending credence to the reports that he is (or was) barely alive.

Or living it up on Fire Island. Accounts differ.

Currently, IMO, Iran does not have national-level leadership. There are at least two very opposing factions acting as if they represent the nation of Iran. Until there is just one faction, IN CONTROL, meaningful negotiation is not possible. One faction negotiates a "cease fire", while the other uses the pause by the US to do what they damn please. I get the humanitarian considerations, but I think it's time to warm up the B-2s, B-1s, and BUFFs to bomb Iran's "leaders" down to sand temperature and their industrial base back to the 7th Century.

[RonE]

I agree and hope Trump's military leaders are setting up a house cleaning of Iran's leadership of near biblical proportions. but, I admire Trump's restraint in the hope of minimum casualties to win this thing. He's the humanitarian the libs claim to be. And they hate that he took that from them too.