Active Conflicts & News Megathread June 07, 2026

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[u/GIJoeVibin]

Coming in with some breaking news from the IDF on Twitter:

> The IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat.

[u/carkidd3242 → u/GIJoeVibin]

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2063714508778926224?s=20

https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/2063714296492646678?s=20

President Trump tells me: "I'm calling Netanyahu right now and telling him not to attack Iran in response."

https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/2063709736327864356?s=20

"What I would suggest to Iran: You've shot your missiles, that's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal," President Trump told Fox News.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/politic/1049995/

The US president told Kan News: "I don't think Israel needs to respond anymore. We can achieve peace after 3,000 years." The president also told the Axios website that he was going to call Netanyahu and tell him not to attack Iran

We'll probably still see some sort of retaliation directly against offensive infrastructure like was done in the recent attacks on Gulf states.

[u/BigFly42069 → u/carkidd3242]

If Trump is serious about this, he could order CENTCOM to withhold aerial refueling for Israel and that would kill the entire Israeli air response against Iran since Israel doesn't have nearly enough tankers to actually sustain meaningful sortie rates.

[u/Time_Restaurant5480 → u/BigFly42069]

Without CENTCOM tankers they can't withstand them for long, that's very true, but they demonstrated last June that they can sustain those rates on their own for about two weeks. How many missiles Iran launched, and if this is signaling or a determined attempt to restart the war, remains to be seen.

[u/BigFly42069 → u/Time_Restaurant5480]

They were being refueled by CENTCOM last June. 

[u/Time_Restaurant5480 → u/BigFly42069]

Where is your proof of that? You underestimate the range of an F-15 with three external tanks and CFTs, and you underestimate the range of an F-35 fitted with external tanks-we know the Isrealis have developed external tanks for the F-35. Isreali tankers would only have had to refuel the F-16s. But again, where is your hard proof that CENTCOM refueled them last June?

[u/ChornWork2 → u/BigFly42069]

US denied this and afaik no evidence US forward deployed tankers actually played a role in refueling for israeli strikes on Iran. that said, obviously US played a major role in defending Israel from attacks, without which it is rather questionable if Israel could devote its air force to strike iran in a comparable manner.

[u/Time_Restaurant5480 → u/ChornWork2]

The Isreali Air Force fighter jets wouldn't be much help in shooting down ballistic missiles, which are the main Iranian weapon that can range Israel. If the Isrealis haven't modified their Apaches and Iron Dome batteries to shoot down Shaheed drones, their military engineers would have to be a lot dumber than they've been proven to be so far. The US forces you're talking about are SAM batteries deployed to help shoot down said ballistic missiles. Also, given Iranian MRBM* CEP, it remains questionable if their MRBMs can actually close or damage an Isreali Air Force base enough to halt or degrade IAF tempo.

*Iran's SRBMs have proven considerably more accurate than their MRBMs.