Persian Nuclear Farce
- Dagny
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The Coalition is Falling Apart
🇵🇰 Pakistan opens backchannel with Iran to move Qatari LNG through Hormuz - report
A Qatari LNG tanker appears to have successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the Iran war erupted in late February.
The Al Kharaitiyat, owned by Qatar’s Nakilat, loaded at the Ras Laffan export plant earlier this month, exited the strait and was in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday, Bloomberg cites ship-tracking data as showing.
👉 It is now reportedly heading to Pakistan’s Port Qasim after navigating an Iran-approved route along Iran’s coastline.
The shipment comes as Pakistan quietly negotiates with Iran to secure more Qatari LNG cargoes through the Strait of Hormuz to ease a deepening energy crunch, sources are cited as saying.
Pakistan is grappling with severe gas shortages and nationwide blackouts since LNG flows from Qatar — its main supplier — were disrupted by the conflict.
Three additional Qatari LNG tankers are also reportedly signaling Pakistan as their destination.
🇸🇦⚠️🇺🇸NBC News; Trump's abrupt U-turn on Project Freedom wasn't about Iranian "face-saving" or Pakistani mediation — it was about Saudi Arabia pulling the plug.
➡️Riyadh suspended US military access to Prince Sultan Airbase and Saudi airspace the moment Trump announced the operation on social media on Sunday — an announcement that blindsided Gulf allies (Qatar included) entirely - notifying them after the "operation" had already begun.
➡️Meanwhile Trump has issued his standard negotiating ultimatum: Iran agrees to terms or "the bombing starts, at a much higher level and intensity than before."
🐻US launched a military operation without coordinating with the allies whose territory it needed to execute it, got shut down within 24 hours, and is now calling it diplomacy. In other words - just another Wednesday.
🇮🇷🇶🇦An IRGC drone-kamikaze attacked a bulk carrier in Qatar's territorial waters northeast of the port of Mesaieed,
As a result of the strike, a small fire broke out on board the vessel, but there were no casualties.
At the same time, through the Strait of Hormuz, on the so-called northern route, approved by Tehran, a Qatari tanker Al Kharaitiyat, loaded with LNG at a plant in Ras Laffan, passed for the first time. The ship's destination is Pakistan.
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🇶🇦🇮🇷| A 2nd LNG tanker from Qatar to Pakistan was denied crossing the Strait of Hormoz by Iran today.
The vessel ‘MIHZEM’ has turned around and is now anchored waiting for IRGC approval.
2 days ago, a Qatari LNG tanker crossed the Strait with Iran’s approval and paid the toll.
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Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas on X:
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Far from exploding, Iranian oil wells are pumping and pumping (don't believe everything the White House says).
According to CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 imagery, Iran was loading today three (3 !!!) tankers simultaneously at Kharg Island (🛰📷 May 6 @ 7.16am GMT)
Iran ambushed US convoy sneaking through Hormuz – Iranian expert
Even though the US vessels turned off their AIS to spoof their identities, Iran’s forces spotted them, says an Iranian expert.
Iran sent out a warning that was ignored, and afterward struck four vessels, he says.
The remaining American ships were forced to turn their radios on, admit their mistake, and retreat.
💬 “And they were given a way to return to where they came from.”
July Deadline
💬 "By the end of July, if this keeps up, we’ll run out of [oil] inventory… When the oil inventories run out, then you have a real shortage, and the price will really spike," US economist Steve Hanke predicts.
Die-hard Zionist Robert Kagan admits US defeat in Iran
The United States failed to bring Iran to its knees and now stares inevitable defeat in the face, bona fide neocon and Zionist Robert Kagan laments in an article he penned for The Atlantic.
This defeat, Kagan says, looks like this:
🔴 Iran retains control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is a serious blow to the US and Israeli interests
🔴 Arab nations who witnessed the impotence of the US security umbrella they used to rely on, will have to accommodate Iran now
🔴 All countries that depend on energy imports from the Gulf will have to “work out their own arrangements with Iran”
🔴 The severe depletion of US weapon and munition stocks caused by this war will negatively affect the US’ ability to react to crises in other parts of the globe
💬 “The global adjustment to a post-American world is accelerating. America’s once-dominant position in the Gulf is just the first of many casualties,” Kagan admits.
Donald Trump may be in denial about his fiasco in the Persian Gulf, but it seems that even the die-hard Zionist and Iran haters in the US see the writing on the wall.
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🇺🇸⚠️🏳🏴☠🏳: Robert Kagan - "Checkmate in Iran"
In a May 10, 2026 Atlantic essay, even the most staunch neoconservative analyst Robert Kagan argues that the United States is facing a strategic defeat in its military confrontation with Iran — one that, unlike Vietnam, Afghanistan, or early Iraq, cannot be reversed or minimized.
After 37 days of intensive US-Israeli strikes that destroyed much of Iran's military and killed significant portions of its leadership, Iran neither collapsed nor conceded.
The conflict's turning point came on March 18, when Israeli strikes on Iran's South Pars gas field prompted Iranian retaliation against Qatar's Ras Laffan facility, damaging global LNG capacity for years.
Trump halted strikes and declared a ceasefire without extracting any Iranian concession.
Kagan argues that Iran has effectively secured control of the Strait of Hormuz, converting it from an international waterway into a strategic instrument. Iran can now selectively restrict passage, demand sanctions relief, and pressure states through energy leverage — a tool Kagan considers "more immediately powerful than nuclear capability."
Gulf Arab states, European nations, and Asian energy importers will be compelled to accommodate Tehran directly.
Broader consequences, per Kagan, include:
-diminished US credibility globally;
-strengthened roles for Russia and China as Iran's backers;
-Israel's increasing isolation;
-potential naval arms races among energy-dependent powers;
-accelerated questions about American reliability in East Asia and Europe.
Trump, facing oil approaching $150–200 a barrel and no viable military or economic pressure remaining, is reportedly exploring how to declare victory and exit — but Kagan suggests no available option avoids the core strategic loss.
The article's most revealing passage outlines what avoiding defeat would actually require — and here Kagan's maximalist psychotic neoconservative framework - that is the core of US foreign and domestic policy - surfaces most plainly:
"Unless the U.S. is prepared to engage in a full-scale ground and naval war to remove the current Iranian regime, and then to occupy Iran until a new government can take hold; unless it is prepared to risk the loss of warships convoying tankers through a contested strait; unless it is prepared to accept the devastating long-term damage to the region's productive capacities likely to result from Iranian retaliation — walking away now could seem like the least bad option."
🐻When even the most zealot sociopathic media and "intellectuals" pull out the white flag - and the Westoid MSM and "elites" stick to uncritically quoting and perpetuating the Imperial kabuki talking points... Welcome to the "rules based international world order or bust", 2026. Pivot to Asia it is. The actual US job - economic destruction of EU & ME & global economic crisis - mission accomplished. The New American Century is on track.
🇮🇷 Iranian authorities are using the so-called "mosquito fleet" of hundreds of speedboats to control the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Financial Times.
In April, experts stated in articles that Iran's "mosquito fleet" of about 20 Ghadir-class mini-submarines and several thousand high-speed missile and assault boats could effectively counter the US Navy in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.
According to the newspaper, the Iranian fleet allegedly uses both cheap Iranian-made boats, which are easy to replace, and more advanced models.
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Saudi Arabia foiled Israeli plot to drag it into war with Iran – ex-Saudi intel chief
Riyadh didn’t take the bait aimed at dragging it into a tit-for-tat response with Iran, Prince Turki Al-Faisal writes in an Arab News op-ed.
A response to Iranian strikes — such as those on the US Prince Sultan Air Base — could have triggered retaliatory attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure and Gulf desalination plants, the former Saudi intelligence chief warned.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not allow the US-Israeli war on Iran to “divide the brotherly Gulf states.”
💬 “Had the Israeli plan to ignite war between us and Iran succeeded, the region would have been plunged into ruin and destruction. Thousands of our sons and daughters would have been lost in a battle in which we had no stake,” writes the ex-Saudi government official.
If Israel’s scheme had succeeded, he notes, it would have “succeeded in imposing its will on the region and remained the only actor in our surroundings.”
Now, Saudi Arabia, together with Pakistan, is helping prevent escalation, he asserts.
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He only would do that if he saw the end in sight for us paying the bills.
🚨PM Netanyahu announces he plans to END Israel’s reliance on U.S. foreign aid -
“I've said this to President Trump. I've said it to our own people…I said I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation… we receive 3.8 billion dollars -
🔊☢️ Russia is ready to store Iran's enriched uranium — as it has done before
Russian president Vladimir Putin reminded that Moscow already played this role under the 2015 nuclear deal. All parties accepted the model until Washington later hardened its position.
💬 "We did that once in 2015, and Iran trusting us fully... We have this experience. And I said once again that we are ready to repeat just that."
Putin notes that Russian‑Iranian cooperation on peaceful atom continues unaffected by the current war – Bushehr is still running.
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🤩 Trump threatens Iran with 'one big glow'
Demented Don says the ceasefire with Iran is still on — then immediately threatens what sounds like nuclear annihilation.
💬 “If there’s no ceasefire… you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran,” Trump said.
☠️ “One big glow.”
🤯 Why threaten nukes if you’re “winning” every single day?
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🇦🇪(=🇺🇸)💥🇮🇷BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates is attacking Iran
Multiple strikes have taken place against Qeshm Island and Siri, so far.
Sources say it’s a joint U.S-Emirati operation, with American logistics backing.
🇮🇱 Israel has denied involvement in tonight's reported explosions inside Iran, with Tel Aviv officials telling domestic media they had no role in the blasts.
🇮🇷 Tasnim Sources report signs of a hostile UAE operation at Bahman Qeshm pier.
Multiple Iranian sources indicate explosions heard in Bandar Abbas were the result of air defense engaging two drones. Separate sources point to a hostile act by the UAE government, acting as a proxy for the Zionist regime, targeting Bahman pier on Qeshm Island.
Neither claim has been officially confirmed. Iranian sources warn that if confirmed, the UAE will pay the price for the operation.
🇮🇷| During an exchange of fire between Iranian armed forces and the enemy, parts of the Bahman commercial dock in Qeshm were targeted — Fars
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Because of President Trump’s decisive leadership,NNSA and our partners successfully removed all remaining highly enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor in Venezuela.This mission strengthens global nuclear security and sends a clear message that America leads from strength.
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No more nuclear fuel for Israel.
🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️American President Donald Trump stated that the United States will seize the reserves of enriched uranium from Iran.
“Sooner or later, we will get them. We are monitoring this. You know, I created what is called the Space Force, and they are monitoring this every [day]. If someone enters there, they will be able to tell you their name, address, and badge number. No, we are monitoring this very well. If someone approaches this place, we will find out about it and blow them to hell,” said the American leader during an interview with journalist Sheryl Atkinson, answering a relevant question.
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🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️US President Donald Trump will arrive in China for an official visit on May 13th.
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🇰🇵North Korea will launch a nuclear counterstrike if Kim Jong Un is killed by a foreign adversary.
The Republic has enshrined this in its Constitution, writes The Telegraph.
The decision was made following the events in Iran.
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