Federico Gueli

🇮🇷🚀 Defense Express shows where Iran could strike if the conflict in the Middle East further escalates

The latest satellite images of strikes on Iran US and Israeli strikes targeted sites across Iran, taking out the country’s top leadership and damaging military sites.

I put together some of the sharpest satellite images from the weekend's strikes on Iran, and Tehran's retaliation across the Middle East in today's Views From Above newsletter.

I also warn of a growing risk: fake satellite images. Read below. viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com/p/the-latest...

🔥 Update: Attack on 15.12.25 by the SBU's "Sub Sea Baby" underwater drones at the location of Project 636.3 submarine "Varshavyanka", - Exilenova

Satellite images record significant damage to the concrete pier near which the submarine was located.

The stern of the boat was seriously damaged.

Announcement
The German government wants to bring back sick people and children from the Middle East
via Tagesschau
(Translated)

This is a terrifyingly non-specific and opaque word salad in response to an essential question: what are our objectives?

The Pentagon appears to have zero clarity on what it is doing and why. Be afraid.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️🇮🇷— For more than four hours, U.S. and Israeli aircraft have been continuously bombing military facilities in Tehran.

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

Hegseth:

Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a conventional shield for its nuclear blackmail ambitions.

Let me say that again: a conventional shield for nuclear blackmail ambitions.

Gas prices in Europe have surged by nearly 50% following the suspension of liquefied natural gas production in Qatar.

A source close to the Saudi government said Saudi Arabia could take military action following the coordinated Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities, AFP reported. #Iran

🇺🇸✈️ U.S. Air Force B-1 strategic bombers conducted overnight strikes on above-ground ballistic missile and command-and-control sites in Iran, - Axios

Greece will send several military ships and fighter jets to Cyprus after Iranian attacks, Protothema reported. Two Greek Navy frigates will be deployed, including the new French built FDI HN HS Kimon F-601. #Europe

X: QatarEnergy says it is suspending all liquefied natural gas production after Iranian drone strikes on its facilities in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed Industrial City, and European gas prices have surged with benchmark TTF futures climbing around 45% after the halt in output #Iran

Smoke is rising over the territory of UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus. Meanwhile, Cyprus’ Interior Ministry announced the evacuation of one area due to the threat of repeat strikes. #Iran

New explosions in western Tehran. #Iran

A Russian drone struck a carriage of a suburban passenger train in motion in Kryvyi Rih district of Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one person and injuring seven passengers. #Ukraine

BREAKING:

Israel military says it killed the head of Hezbollah's intelligence HQ in Beirut

The IDF says it can now confirm that its overnight strike in the Lebanese capital killed Hussein Makled, "who served as the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters."

❗️ “That’s my fucking truck,” – American soldier at a base in Kuwait after an Iranian drone strike on the parking lot of American armored vehicles

💡🇮🇷 Various sources report that there is also a power outage in Tehran.

The Saudi military has raised its alert levels.

Source: AFP

Multiple fires are burning at the Bandar Abbas Naval Base, which serves as the headquarters for the Southern Fleet of both the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (Nedaja) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN).

#OSINT

CNBC
Qatar's state-owned energy company halts LNG production after Iran drone attacks
via CNBC

An Iranian drone attack targeted Erbil airport in northern Iraq, which houses a base belonging to the US-led coalition forces.

BREAKING NEWS
Gas prices soar as Iranian drone attacks shut down Qatar LNG production and hit oil refinery - live updates
via Daily Mail

🇺🇸 All U.S. military bases have been placed on heightened alert under Threat Condition “Bravo,” signaling an increased risk of attack, - ABC

🇨🇾🇬🇧 Cyprus seeks British guarantees that bases be used "only for humanitarian purposes," – AFP

Breaking News
A fourth U.S. service member has died from injuries sustained in the war with Iran, the U.S. military says.
via CBS News

Exclusive: Iran scrambling to salvage what remains of nuclear program before it's too late
via The Jerusalem Post

China's Foreign Minister stated support for Iran's sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

#OSINT

Saudi Arabia and Cyprus/UK? are both now on the list of countries targeted.

--> A Saudi Aramco facility in Dammam, near Bahrain, was targeted.

--> The UK military base RAF Akrotiri, located in Cyprus, was targeted by drones.

Russia has begun using a new subsonic cruise missile, the Izdeliye-30, against Ukraine, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said. The missile has a range of up to 1,500km, an 800kg warhead, speed of 600-800 km/h, and EW-resistant satellite navigation. #Ukraine