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Open Source Intelligence Monitor focused on Europe and Conflicts across the World. RT ≠ Endorsement. Want to Support my Work? https://ko-fi.com/osintdefender
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Channel The Defender Dome (@defenderdome) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 21 753 subscribers, ranking 2 712 in the Politics category and 1 834 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 21 753 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 07 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -342 over the last 30 days and by -4 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 15.29%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 12.32% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 3 325 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 680 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 49.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as u.s, iran, donald, dinner, defense.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Open Source Intelligence Monitor focused on Europe and Conflicts across the World. RT ≠ Endorsement. Want to Support my Work? https://ko-fi.com/osintdefender”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 08 July, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Politics category.
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Channel Posts
According to Iranian state-backed news outlet, Fars, the IRGC has said that in response to U.S. retaliatory strikes tonight, they targeted 85 targets in Bahrain and Kuwait, saying that Kuwait’s Ali Salem Airbase and the U.S. Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Manama, Bahrain were targeted.
| 2 |  According to a release from the Kuwaiti Army, Kuwait is now under attack from Iranian drones and missiles, as Kuwaiti air defenses work to mitigate the threat. | 1 153 |
| 3 |  An additional wave of Iranian strikes appears to be underway, as Bahrain’s ministry of the interior has announced that alarm sirens are active, saying people should seek shelter. | 1 369 |
| 4 | Barak Ravid of Axios, citing a U.S. official, has confirmed reports of Iranian strikes against Bahrain, with the official telling him that Iran has launched drones against the Gulf country. | 1 652 |
| 5 |  Early reports from Iranian state-backed news outlets are now saying that Uran has targeted Bahrain, specifically the U.S. Fifth Fleet Headquarters there, in retaliation for U.S. retaliatory strikes on key military infrastructure across Southern Iran. | 1 670 |
| 6 |  According to a release from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. has completed its latest round of retaliatory strikes against Iran, following their targeting of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Per the release, over 80 targets, including air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 IRGC small craft, were hit in the strikes. U.S. officials have told news outlets that they will assess the outcomes of these strikes before moving forward. | 1 412 |
| 7 |  According to Axios, citing a U.S. official, U.S. President Donald J. Trump approved ongoing retaliatory strikes on Iran after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent while in Turkey for the ongoing NATO summit. U.S. officials also told Axios’s Barak Ravid that “We’ll get the assessment about the results of the strikes and make decisions after.” | 1 665 |
| 8 |  This is the current visible military air picture over the Middle East as U.S. strikes against Iranian targets continue in response to the attacks on four commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
Visible at this hour are at least 12 U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft, 4 KC-135R "Stratotankers" and 8 KC-46A "Pegasus", along with a U.S. Navy P-8A "Poseidon" maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft.
Also active are two multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft operated by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, highlighting continued regional support for coalition air operations. | 2 484 |
| 9 | As reports of additional U.S. strikes against Iranian targets abound, CNN has been told by a U.S. official that these strikes are “punishment, not proportional,” and that said strikes will not be as quick-ending as past U.S. retaliatory strikes in response to Iranian provocations. Retaliatory Iranian strikes on Gulf countries are now expected in the coming hours and days. | 1 786 |
| 10 |  According to @BarakRavid, citing a U.S. official, today’s strikes in Iran, that targeted air defense sites, surface-to-air missiles, coastal surveillance systems, drone launch sites, port facilities, and anti-ship cruise missile installations, were scaled up ‘four or five’ times, in relation to past U.S. responses to Iranian MOU violations. | 1 834 |
| 11 |  The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the U.S. strikes across Southern Iran, saying that it is a violation of the U.S.-Iran MOU, despite Iran first targeting three tankers as they transited the Strait of Hormuz, a violation in and of itself. Per the release, Iran “holds the U.S. government responsible” for their expected response, which will likely be a resumption of Iranian strikes on U.S. bases and infrastructure in neighboring Gulf countries. | 1 782 |
| 12 |  Fires seen burning at the Port of Shahid Haqqani in Bandar Abbas, Southern Iran, following tonight’s wave of retaliatory strikes against Iranian military and infrastructure sites by the U.S. Air Force and Navy. | 1 809 |
| 13 |  Several fast boats operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) were reportedly targeted at the Port of Sirik, in the Hormozgan Province of Southern Iran. | 1 900 |
| 14 | Explosions from U.S. retaliatory strikes also heard in Sirik and Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province of Southern Iran. | 1 915 |
| 15 | Multiple explosions in the last few minutes on Qeshm Island in Southern Iran. | 1 958 |
| 16 |  U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that forces have begun a “series of powerful strikes” against Iran, in response to recent attacks against commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. | 6 439 |
| 17 |  +1The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has amended the general license that temporarily suspended sanctions on Iranian petrochemical products, revoking the authorization effective today.
A 10-day 'wind-down' period has been provided, allowing previously authorized transactions to conclude no later than 12:01 a.m. ET on July 17, 2026. | 2 167 |
| 18 |  Despite recent reports that Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is “brain dead,” after being hospitalized weeks ago and not seen or heard from since, CNN contributor Scott Jennings has now claimed to have spoke with the senator this morning. Jennings doubled down on many people’s characterization of his condition, by saying that he “He’s still recovering in the hospital.” Per Jennings, he spoke on a number of current issues, both domestic and international, with McConnell. | 6 835 |
| 19 |  +1New advisories from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (@UK_MTO
) indicate two additional tankers were struck while transiting the Strait of Hormuz earlier today.
According to the reports, one vessel was hit by an unknown projectile, while another was struck by a one-way attack drone. No casualties or pollution have been reported in either incident.
These latest attacks bring the number of commercial vessels reportedly struck in the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours to four. | 2 344 |
| 20 |  During a press availability with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that he’s “not worried” about the existence of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems in Turkey, as it relates to the possibility of a U.S. FMS of F-35s to Turkey. When asked about reports that said systems could be sent to a third party nation before such an FMS took place, President Trump appeared to be unaware of the potential framework, saying “in relation to what,” when asked about the reports. | 2 434 |
