Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
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Defense & Security Analyst, Author and Historian. I wrote for BBC, Israel Hayom & RFE/RL in the past. Now for @PtisiMagazine, @Combat_Journal & @AFMonthly
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It has now been established that what happened in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla was a successful example of hybrid warfare orchestrated by the Moroccan government against Spain. Nearly 50,000 Moroccan nationals were transported from towns and villages across Morocco using trucks and other heavy vehicles organized by the government before being funneled into the two Spanish enclaves. The objective was to exert political pressure on the Spanish government in an effort to force concessions over Morocco's long-standing claim to Ceuta and Melilla.
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Heavy clashes erupted last night in Suwayda, southern Syria, and continued into this morning, as internal security forces of Ahmad al-Sharaa’s regime attempted to advance into areas controlled by Israeli-backed Druze forces. The Syrian internal security forces, reportedly operating under the direction and coordination of Turkish intelligence, attempted to establish control over several areas around Suwayda but encountered fierce resistance from Druze forces defending the city. The Israeli Air and Space Force also deployed Hermes 450 armed UAVs over the area, reportedly prepared to carry out airstrikes against the Turkish-backed forces of Ahmad al-Sharaa if necessary. However, the Druze forces were able to repel the attacks without requiring Israeli air intervention. The latest fighting has reportedly been among the largest and most intense clashes in Suwayda in recent days. Syrian state media acknowledged that at least 10 members of the Internal Security Forces were wounded, while Druze forces accused government forces of using mortars and 23mm weapons against areas on the western outskirts of Suwayda.
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BREAKING: The number of Islamic regime officials and supporters, including Shia clerics, defecting to Canada has increased. This footage recorded at Toronto International Airport shows the arrival of a Shia cleric and his family at the airport. Canada has long been a safe haven for officials of the Islamic regime of Iran. After the fall of the Islamic regime in Iran, many Iranians will return to their homeland, while more regime officials and supporters will come to Canada. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury
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BREAKING: Following the pattern of their Kurdish Marxist comrades in the PDKI and Komala in Iraqi Kurdistan, the National Liberation Army of Colombia, an internationally recognized Narco terrorist organization, has just announced that it has launched a new terror campaign against the Colombian government for the purpose of creating independent Communist/Marxist states. Colombians will treat these terrorists the same way FARC was treated. The ELN terrorists have started capturing and murdering female police officers in Colombia. Right image shows their recent victims.
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BREAKING: Unfortunately, the Ukrainian Air Force has lost another of its valuable MiG-29 fighter interceptors, this time over Odesa. The MiG-29 was preparing to engage an incoming Russian one-way attack drone with an air-to-air missile but the missile malfunctioned during launch. Its rocket motor ignited, but the missile failed to separate properly from its launcher and remained attached beneath the aircraft’s wing. The burning rocket motor subsequently caused serious damage to the MiG-29, leaving the pilot with no option but to eject. Fortunately, the pilot survived, but the valuable MiG-29 was lost and subsequently destroyed.
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BREAKING: First video shows heavy clashes between USAF CSAR teams and IRGC Basij militants attempting to capture the second F-15E crew member who had been given shelter by villagers in Kuh-e-Siah, Koohdasht county, Iran. The A-10C+ pilot protecting the HH-60W CSAR helicopters launched guided rockets at the Basij militants, killing them before they could capture the crew member. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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BREAKING: A video recorded by a civilian truck driver in Sirik, southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, appears to show the aftermath of one of the recent U.S. military strikes in southern Iran. According to the video's narration, the strike hit several old barrels of tar in a remote area. The truck driver expresses surprise that what appear to be long-abandoned tar barrels were struck by what he describes as a costly precision-guided munition dropped by a U.S. Navy fighter aircraft. This is one of many examples of low-value targets being attacked in southern Iran, claiming it reflects a lack of significant military objectives remaining. It further characterizes the strikes as a sign of desperation by the Trump administration as it seeks to bring the conflict to an end. #OperationEpicFury
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BREAKING: Happening right now in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the IRGC Aerospace Force is targeting its international airport, disrupting flight operations in the city and causing fear among people. You can see UAE air defense launching what appears to be an MIM-104 surface-to-air missile at one of the incoming Iranian one-way attack drones. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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BREAKING: One of the surface-to-air missiles belonging to a THAAD battery of the U.S. Army protecting Israel has been found crashed in Suwayda, Syria. Its seeker section has survived the crash and could potentially be shared with Russia and China for reverse engineering. The system appears to be equipped with an infrared sensor used to detect ballistic missiles and trigger the proximity fuse. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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BREAKING: Footage released by the IDF shows how a Hermes-900 armed drone of the Israeli Air Force chased a group of IRGC Aerospace Force officers who were attempting to launch several Shahed-136 one-way attack drones at Israel from Kermanshah, western Iran. You can see the Israeli drone using Mikholit air-to-surface bombs to target the drone operators, killing them one by one. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury
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This occurred during Exercise #BrightStar25 in #Egypt on August 30, 2025, and was released only recently. An #USAF F-16C pilot from the 55th Fighter Squadron outmaneuvered an #Egyptian Rafale DM in a dogfight. While the Rafale is generally superior in close air combat, a moderately experienced Rafale pilot stood little chance against one of the world’s best F-16 pilots — a veteran with thousands of flight hours and combat sorties including missions against #Iranian drones on June 13–14, 2025.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists are trying to turn #Israel into another #Iran under control of a religious extremist regime which violates women's rights. Gender Segration in public transport was its start. Now, these extremists are attacking women who don't cover their hair in public!
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BREAKING: To humiliate Israel, the IRGC Aerospace Force launched a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles from its Al-Ghadir ballistic missile base in Yazd at Tel Aviv just minutes after the Israelis bombed it. This shows that the IDF is incapable of pausing operations at this missile base—and many other IRGC missile bases—due to their hardened structure. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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BREAKING: The failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump may have been carried out on the orders of IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi, the same individual who sabotaged Iran–U.S. negotiations and is now attempting to have Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf arrested and imprisoned (as he previously did to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad).
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BREAKING: Extremely sad scene show the world’s last KC-747 tanker (Boeing 747-131F), 5-8107, on fire following an Israeli airstrike at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026. The IDF falsely claimed that the aircraft was associated with the Quds Force, which is absolutely untrue. It was a tanker aircraft used to refuel F-4E Phantom IIs and was a veteran of Operation H-3, having refueled IRIAF F-4Es that struck the H-3 air bases in Iraq on April 4, 1981. 1981 was also the last year this aircraft flew to Syria, when it refueled IRIAF F-4Es at an altitude of just 100 feet over the Iraqi-Syrian border. It was never used by the Quds Force and never carried any weapons or ammunition for them. The aircraft was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when the Israeli Air Force targeted Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. It was not alone. The strikes also destroyed two passenger Boeing 747s (one of them already decommissioned) and two civilian cargo Boeing 747s, in addition to three Iranian Air Force Boeing 747s, one KC-707 tanker and two RC-707 reconnaissance aircraft that were bombed at Mehrabad Airport on March 7, 2026. My image of 5-8107 from 2011. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury
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BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force cannot even correctly identify what it is targeting and destroying. What the Israeli Air Force destroyed at Sanandaj Airport was a Bell 214A Isfahan utility helicopter belonging to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, not an Mi-17. Even if it had been an Mi-17, it would still have belonged to the Red Crescent Society. There is no military base at Sanandaj Airport. The Israeli Air Force is striking whatever it can and labeling it as an IRGC or military asset to justify its actions. This Bell 214A was in use to provide emergency medical services for Kurdistan Province and had been deployed from its home base at Qazvin Airport to Sanandaj a couple of months ago, replacing an Alouette III of the Iranian Helicopter Services Company that had previously been based there to carry out aerial medical services for the province. This footage show the same helicopter almost eight years ago. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury
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BREAKING: Suspected IRGC attack at La Porte near Pasadena, Texas, United States, with reports that two fuel tankers are on fire. They might have used Mexican Narco terrorists to do this. It might have also been done by the IRGC hackers remotely. The FBI needs to investigate this immediately. This might be linked to the Islamic regime of Iran. #OperationLionsRoar #OperationEpicFury
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BREAKING: Interesting footage recorded this morning near Chabahar in southeast Iran shows a group of local fishers on their boats, along with dolphins catching fish, as an F/A-18F Super Hornet of the U.S. Navy, flown from USS Abraham Lincoln, performs a flyby over them. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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BREAKING: The U.S. military is ruling the skies over southern Iran. Video recorded near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, southern Iran, shows a U.S. Army AH-64E Guardian attack helicopter patrolling over the Strait and flying near Iranian fishing boats to identify the individuals aboard them and ensure that they are not members of the IRGC Navy. Because of the presence of these helicopters, as well as armed drones, fighter jets, and many other U.S. military assets over the Strait of Hormuz, IRGC Navy personnel can no longer freely operate vessels or boats in the waters off southern Iran. Only local fishermen and civilians are allowed by the U.S. military to sail in the waters south of Iran.
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BREAKING: Her name is Zahra Kazemian Shad. According to what she has claimed on her social media account, she is collaborating with the intelligence services of the Islamic regime of Iran. Her role in London, United Kingdom, is to identify Iranians who oppose the Islamic regime. She infiltrates Telegram groups, identifies individuals, and reports them to the Intelligence Ministry of the Islamic regime. She even published a video on her social media account documenting her own actions in support of the Islamic regime of Iran. I call on my friends to inform the British authorities about this and have her arrested for collaborating with the intelligence services of the Islamic regime of Iran and putting the lives of Iranians at risk of execution by the regime.
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