
Murtaza Hussain
Co-Host at Intercepted Podcast
Journalist at Drop Site
National security and foreign affairs @dropsitenews Email: [email protected] Signal: mhussain.53 Personal Substack: https://t.co/FW0V0QoFZb
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1 week ago |
dropsitenews.com | Murtaza Hussain
Almost a week after Israel launched an unprovoked military offensive against Iran, the Trump administration is on the verge of sending U.S. aircraft to join the fight directly. Speaking on Wednesday morning to reporters at the White House, in response to a question about whether the U.S. was preparing its own strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in support of Israel, President Trump replied, “I may do it, I may not do it.
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2 weeks ago |
dropsitenews.com | Murtaza Hussain
Watch Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain discuss this breaking story on Drop Site’s livestream here. Israel attacked Iran early on Friday morning, targeting the capital Tehran and other parts of the country with multiple airstrikes in a dramatic escalation of its regional war. Explosions were reported in cities home to major sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program.
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2 weeks ago |
dropsitenews.com | Ryan Grim |Murtaza Hussain
In the midst of an escalating global standoff over its nuclear program, the Iranian government this week claimed to have scored a major intelligence coup that could transform its relationship with its regional and international rivals. Over the past several days, senior Iranian officials, as well as government-connected journalists, have claimed that Iran is in possession of leaked documents revealing secrets about Israel’s nuclear weapons program and regional espionage network.
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2 weeks ago |
dropsitenews.com | Murtaza Hussain |Waqas Ahmed |Ryan Grim
For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the world. The cost of that collapse, it turns out, can be measured. Meta, which owns both Instagram and Facebook, is the primary way that many companies reach customers.
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3 weeks ago |
mazmhussain.substack.com | Murtaza Hussain
Last week, the Washington Post published a column asserting that the war in Gaza had crossed the boundaries from normal armed conflict, with all of its attendant evils, into the realm of genocide. This is an opinion I happen to share, for reasons that I will explain below. During war, civilians are frequently killed, and critical infrastructure sustaining life is destroyed. Israel was obviously going to retaliate to the October 7 attacks, as any state would.
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Footage showing Iranian air defence intercepting Israeli drone in Tehran. https://t.co/ySRoAeZcGi

RT @Faytuks: Air defence activity reported over Tehran as Israel resumes strikes on Iran, according to State-run Tasnim News Agency https:…

If that is the intention it would explain why they did not target the leadership of the Artesh in the initial wave of strikes.

The only reason Mossad reached this level of penetration is because there are factions that see the end of Iran’s revolutionary regime (likely since Solaimani got baked), and collaborated or stood by as IRGC gets systematically decimated. A soft coup that needs a purge of the