So, Iran has accepted the ceasefire offer. Iran was, as best I can tell, winning. The Iron Dome could not stop their more advanced missiles and was days from running out of interceptor missiles. Two weeks if the US sent its entire stockpile. The US attack on Iran’s nuclear facility was a dud, the enriched uranium has been moved, etc…
I said that Iran had finally gotten over its caution, but feared it would revert, and so it has. It’s clear that the sooner Khameini dies and is replaced the safer Iran will be, also because that will be the end of the non-nuclear fatwa. (It should be noted that 60% enriched is enough to create a dirty bomb which would render Israel uninhabitable, and Iran should inform Israel that it has created a number, read for missile deployment.)
Iran could have kept going and insisted that Israel withdraw from Gaza and Lebanon (confirmed by the Russian and Chinese satellites.) Once again, it has abandoned its proxies. It is clear that they were only disposable proxies, not allies.
That said, this is an Iranian victory, just a very limited one. Israel and the US were the ones who begged for a ceasefire, not Iran.
Meanwhile, we have further confirmation that Gaza casualties are likely at least 377K.
A year ago I estimated Gazan casualties at 500K. A new estimate has come out based on fairly conservative metrics, which puts them at a million.
A million estimated deaths in 500 days. Half a million children.
The Zionist-NATO war on Palestine is shaping up to be among the most vicious genocides in the history of genocide. pic.twitter.com/UPnHceQDYz
— Paweł Wargan (@pawelwargan) June 24, 2025
I find this estimate plausible, unfortunately, especially given the starvation campaign which is ongoing. (Regular reports now come in that the few aid stations Israel has permitted are used to draw civilians in, then murder them.)
I reiterate that the only moral nation in the world appears to Ansar-Allah’s Yemen. In a few years everyone is going to be scrambling to pretend they were against this genocide or “didn’t know”, but we have the receipts.
There is no statute of limitations for genocide.
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