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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 21 726 subscribers, ranking 2 714 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 21 726 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 11 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -346 over the last 30 days and by -10 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 14.22%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 12.18% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 3 090 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 648 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 44.
- 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 12 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
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that at the direction of the Commander-in-Chief, President Donald J. Trump, forces have began launching additional strikes against Iran to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
| 2 |  A U.S. official has told @haltman that no U.S. forces have been injured since the renewal of hostilities in the region and that most of the Iranian drones and missiles fired at U.S. bases and infrastructure and Gulf neighbors have been intercepted. | 935 |
| 3 |  The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. carried out another round of strikes Sunday against Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile sites, air defenses, fast attack craft, coastal surveillance systems, and drone infrastructure following continued attacks on commercial shipping.
The report also notes that Iran has expanded its response beyond the Strait, launching missiles and drones toward Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, broadening the confrontation to include several Gulf states that host U.S. forces or have supported efforts to keep maritime traffic flowing.
From the U.S. perspective, the strikes are intended to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping and preserve freedom of navigation through the Strait. Iran, however, maintains that it has the right to regulate traffic through the waterway, has declared the Strait closed, and argues vessels using routes not authorized by Tehran are operating unlawfully, viewing control of Hormuz as key leverage in broader negotiations with Washington. | 1 414 |
| 4 |  U.S. President Donald J. Trump has ordered that all American Flags throughout the country be lowered to half-mast until 6:00 P.M. on Saturday, in honor of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. | 1 943 |
| 5 |  Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense reports that three northern land checkpoints on the border with Iraq and an offshore drilling platform affiliated with the Kuwait Oil Company were attacked earlier today by Iran, resulted in material damage and injuries to one worker on the platform, with a state of high readiness being placed on the Armed Forces of Kuwait. | 2 491 |
| 6 |  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham pictured being wheeled to a waiting ambulance by several paramedics with the D.C. Fire Department last night, chest compressions in progress, before being pronounced dead shortly after arrival at George Washington University Hospital. | 1 988 |
| 7 |  Smoke rises from a number of sites targeted by the U.S. military in the last hour on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf. | 1 974 |
| 8 |  According to Axios’ Barak Ravid, citing a senior official, the U.S. military conducted a wave of strikes in the last hour against Iranian missile and air defense systems as well small boats at a couple of locations around the Strait of Hormuz. | 1 911 |
| 9 |  Russian soldier with a mobile air defense team nearly kills several other soldiers in a training incident, after losing control of his YakB-12.7mm Rotary Machine Gun, normally mounted on the Mil Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Gunship. | 2 197 |
| 10 |  Following his sudden death from cardiac arrest last night, President Trump has said that he has someone in mind to serve the remainder of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s term in Congress, which ends in January. Telling NBC News’ Meet the Press in an interview Sunday, “I have somebody that I think would be great, but I don’t want to say it now because it just, you know, it’s too soon with Lindsey.” | 2 502 |
| 11 |  FBI Director Kash Patel states that the FBI is “assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,” following last night’s sudden death of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at his home in Washington. | 2 181 |
| 12 |  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), appearing overall outwardly healthy, spoke to reporters yesterday in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, expressing support for the White House’s decision to impose tougher sanctions on Russia. Roughly 24 hours later, he was dead from sudden cardiac arrest at his home in Washington. | 2 376 |
| 13 |  U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced once again that the Strait of Hormuz remains open to commercial shipping, despite Iran's recent claims that the waterway is closed.
According to CENTCOM, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the safe transit of more than 800 commercial vessels carrying over 400 million barrels of crude oil since early May. More than 140 merchant ships have transited the Strait over the past week alone. | 2 407 |
| 14 |  The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) has issued a new advisory stating that the U.S. established southern transit corridor through Omani waters remains open and available to all commercial traffic, despite Iran's declaration yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
The advisory reinforces that the southern route remains available for use even as regional tensions persist, following recent attacks on commercial shipping and subsequent U.S. strikes against Iranian military targets. | 2 505 |
| 15 |  Statement from U.S. President Donald J. Trump following the sudden death tonight of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham:
“Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!President DONALD J. TRUMP” | 2 514 |
| 16 |  Paramedics were called to the home of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who had just returned from a trip to Ukraine, in Washington, D.C. overnight on Saturday, in response to reports that he was suffering from “chest pains,” before he fell into cardiac arrest and died, officials tell The Washington Post. | 3 137 |
| 17 |  Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is dead. | 2 592 |
| 18 |  U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it has completed a third round of strikes this week against Iranian military targets in response to another attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to CENTCOM, approximately 140 military targets were struck during the latest operation, including missile and drone sites, naval assets, ammunition depots, communications networks, and coastal surveillance systems.
Across three nights of operations, the U.S. says it has now struck more than 300 Iranian military targets aimed at degrading Tehran's ability to threaten commercial shipping. CENTCOM also stated that, since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the safe transit of more than 800 commercial vessels carrying approximately 400 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz. | 2 597 |
| 19 |  Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively unchanged despite the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the region.
Over the past 24 hours, just six merchant vessels were observed, visible via MarineTraffic.com, completing the transit via the Iranian (northern) traffic separation scheme, while none utilized the U.S.-supported southern corridor through Omani waters.
The static traffic picture follows Iran's attack on the Cyprus-flagged M/V GFS Galaxy, subsequent U.S. self-defense strikes against Iranian military targets, and reports of air raid sirens sounding across multiple Gulf states as regional tensions continue to escalate. | 2 482 |
| 20 |  Following the Iranian strike on the M/V GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre has said that the crew has now abandoned the ship due to the significant damage the vessel sustained. The crew has embarked onto a lifeboat, per the report. | 2 558 |
