US military strikes Iranian boats, missile launch sites: CENTCOM

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 25, 2026 7:13 PM EDT Updated 27 mins ago


WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. military carried ​out strikes on ‌Monday in southern Iran against targets including ​boats attempting ​to lay mines and ⁠missile launch sites, ​in what it ​described as defensive actions.

U.S. Central Command said in ​a statement the ​strikes were designed "to protect ‌our ⁠troops from threats posed by Iranian forces."

"U.S. Central Command ​continues to ​defend ⁠our forces while using ​restraint during the ​ongoing ⁠ceasefire," said Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, ⁠a ​Central Command ​spokesperson.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-military-strikes-iranian-boats-missile-launch-sites-centcom-2026-05-25/

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Just breaking.

[Angrybob2001]

1. Up is Down

I guess i just don't understand what cease fire and defensive mean. more alternative facts i guess

[slightlv]

3. I made the comment earlier that up is down

the sky is yellow and the grass is blue. We are living in a twilight zone dystopia, where words have no meaning and actions are inherently hostile.

The CiC couldn't honor the war dead and soldiers even one day without having them kill others in his name. despicable!

[ananda]

7. More Orwellian gobbledegook as well.

!@#$T

[gab13by13]

2. What happened to the imminent peace plan?

[slightlv]

4. Check the stock market

and the prediction markets. They'll tell you which side of the peace plan we're on at the moment...!

[pat_k]

5. Thought they'd given up on the "ceasefire" lie.

"using ​restraint during the ​ongoing ⁠ceasefire"

Like the Gaza "peace deal" that gives Israel carte blanche to bomb Palestinians.

Doublethink in action. War is Peace. "Restrained bombing" honors a "ceasefire"

1984

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able -- and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years -- to arrest the course of history.

[Drum]

6. Clearly, a "deal" is imminent.

[BarbD]

8. Bat shit crazy.

In all of my 88 years, I've NEVER seen anything like this. So many crazy people in charge running things into the ground.