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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87504, member: 27"] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death just lit a fuse, and the entire Middle East is feeling the blast radius. Trump's warning to Iran [LIST] [*]Donald Trump put Iran on notice, threatening a scale of force never deployed before. [*]Trump's statement came after Iran signaled it was gearing up for a major strike. [/LIST] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps goes on the offensive [LIST] [*]Iran's Islamic Republic Guard Corps vowed to hunt down those it labeled Khamenei's murderers. [*]The IRGC promised its response would be the most ferocious offensive operation in its history against the US and Israel. [*]Operation True Promise 4's fifth wave targeted American vessels in the Indian Ocean, hitting an ammunition-carrying ship with four drones. [*]A refueling tanker in the Indian Ocean also took hits from Iranian Qadr 380 missiles. [/LIST] The Kuwait base strike [LIST] [*]Four ballistic missiles and 12 drones slammed into the American naval base in Kuwait's Abdullah Al-Mubarak region. [*]The IRGC claimed all primary infrastructure at the base got wiped out. [*]A significant number of American forces were reportedly killed or wounded in the attack. [/LIST] The bigger picture on Khamenei [LIST] [*]Khamenei's death came from a joint US-Israeli strike, ending 46 years of Shia-theocratic rule in Tehran. [*]His killing triggered a chain of retaliatory moves that set off conflicts across a wide stretch of the Middle East. [*]The IRGC, the Armed Forces, and the Basij forces all pledged to carry on his legacy and resist what they called internal and external plots. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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