Chaos or Peace?
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“I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE COUNTRY OF IRAN, HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.” Trump posted in an all-caps message on Truth Social.
“BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WHICH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A FIVE DAY PERIOD.”
He also says if a deal is reached with Iran, the US will move to take Iran’s enriched uranium critical to its nuclear program.
Trump said the Strait of Hormuz could be “open very soon” and could be “jointly controlled.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview released Monday that “We are working to bring Israel to places it has never been, and also Iran to places it has never been. They are down, we are up.”
Trump: “We’re doing a five day period, and we’ll see how that goes. If it goes well, we’re going to end up with settling this,” according to the BBC. “Otherwise, we’ll just keep bombing our little hearts out,” Trump said.
Iranian state media denied talks are under way, according to NBC News.
“There is been no negotiation and there is no negotiation, and with this kind of psychological warfare, neither the Strait of Hormuz will return to its pre-war conditions nor will there be peace in the energy markets,” state media reported a government official as saying.
Note: This sounds like the original deal that Israel scuttled.
This was in response to this:
🇮🇷Iran has published an exact list of targets they will strike if Trump bombs their energy network
🇸🇦 Ras Al-Khair desalination plant → THE LARGEST in the world → millions will be left without water
🇸🇦 Shuqaiq power station → Saudi Arabia's southern power grid
🇶🇦 Al Kharsaah power station → a strike on Qatar's power grid
🇶🇦 Ras Laffan C (electricity + water) → Qatar's LIFELINE
🇦🇪 Taweelah desalination plant → one of the largest in the Persian Gulf → a strike on the UAE's water supply
🇦🇪 Barakah power station → the UAE's nuclear power station → a strike = risk of radioactive contamination
🇧🇭 Al Dur (electricity + water) → Bahrain's main water source → 60% dependency
🇰🇼 North Zour power station → the largest in Kuwait → 90% dependency on desalination
🇯🇴 Aqaba thermal power station → Jordan's southern power grid
🇯🇴 Samra power station → 40% of all Jordan's electricity
Twelve named facilities in six different countries.
🇺🇸🔊🇮🇷 US-Iran back-channel via Ghalibaf? Tehran says no
👉 Axios reporter Barak Ravid, citing an Israeli official, says US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are negotiating with Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, with mediators pushing for a possible meeting in Islamabad later this week.
🤥 Trump earlier claimed “very positive and productive” talks and ordered a 5-day pause in strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure.
❌ Iran's Tasnim news agency fiercely denies Ghalibaf’s involvement, calling it a “big lie” by an outlet it describes as the “media arm of Israeli Mossad.”
Do you believe this reporting?
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🚨 Iran to Trump: Hit our energy — the entire region will go dark
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central HQ spokesperson responded to Trump's threats against Iran's power plants:
"If Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, we will target all energy infrastructure, information technology systems, and desalination facilities belonging to the US and Israel in the region."
Earlier, Trump said the US would start attacking Iranian energy infrastructure if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
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🗣 Ghalibaf declares 'new phase' of Iranian strikes
"If the Israeli regime cannot intercept the missiles in the highly protected Dimona area, operationally it is a sign of entering a new phase of the battle: Israel's skies are defenseless," Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf wrote on X.
📌 Satellite footage shows that the Iranian missile landed just 12 km away from the Dimona nuclear facility.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷There's a full-blown confrontation going on. Trump publicly criticized Israel for attacking Iran's oil and gas infrastructure.
At the same time, he noted that Israel is actually to blame for Iran's retaliatory strike against the world's largest gas condensate complex located in Qatar.
And the conclusion: he publicly promised that Israel will no longer attack Iran's oil and gas infrastructure without prior coordination.
Trump says Israel attacked Iran's South Pars Gas Field without US knowledge. Iran retaliated by hitting Qatar's LNG facility, not knowing Qatar wasn't involved.
Trump now threatens to "massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before."
But also says he doesn't want to "because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran."
He's threatening to destroy one of the world's largest gas fields while blaming Iran for not knowing things they couldn't have known.
ℹ️Keep in mind that Axios reported that the Israeli strike on the gas field was coordinated with the Trump administration.
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 WSJ: Trump opposes further strikes on Iranian energy sites after Israel hit the South Pars gas field, U.S. officials say. He backed the Israeli attack as a warning over Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz but sees no need for more attacks—though future action could change that stance.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷Trump blames everything on Bibi:
Trump: I told Netanyahu not to strike Iran's oil and gas fields
🇮🇷🇶🇦The first satellite image shows an Iranian missile strike on the Ras Laffan oil refinery in Qatar - the world's largest gas condensate complex.
🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump stated that he is not interested in the Strait of Hormuz.
"We have already defeated Iran. As for the Strait of Hormuz - we don't need it, we don't use it," he said.
At the same time, he stated that he does not want a ceasefire.
🇮🇷Iran has started charging fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, organizing a "safe corridor" for approved carriers, according to Lloyd's List. According to the publication's sources, one operator paid about £2 million for the transit of his tanker.
A total of at least nine ships have already passed through the strait under this scheme. However, it is not known how many of them paid for the transit permit, because in some cases the parties limited themselves to diplomatic intervention. The mechanism of making payments given the current sanctions against Iran also remains unclear
In the absence of US capabilities to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, this is quite a viable scheme.
🇮🇷🇬🇷 First Ship Transits the Strait of Hormuz in Nearly Three Weeks
The Greek-owned bulk carrier Giacometti has become the first vessel to transit the Strait of Hormuz with its AIS transponder active since March 2, nearly three weeks into the closure.
The ship transited around Larak Island on March 20, according to Lloyd's List Intelligence and Seasearcher tracking data.
ℹ️ Note that Lloyd’s List has already reported multiple ships using the new route Iran set up, where they undergo Iranian inspection and are then allowed to continue. The Greek vessel appears to be the first to make the transit with its transponder turned on.
🚫 🇮🇷 Iran grants limited access to Strait of Hormuz
At least eight vessels — including oil tankers and bulk carriers from India, Pakistan, and Greece — used Iranian waters to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the FT reports.
⛴ All the ships reportedly used an unusual route around Larak Island, off the coast of Iran, to navigate the strait.
Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a vital maritime route, shortly after the start of US–Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic in late February.
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– Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani announced that the country has reached an agreement with Iran regarding the passage of Iraqi oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz – Al Jazeera
🇮🇷 Iran has established a safe transit corridor through the Strait of Hormuz.
At least nine vessels have already passed, routed near Larak Island for visual inspection by IRGC naval forces and port authorities, according to Lloyd’s List, a maritime intelligence outlet.
This aligns with broader reports that Tehran is selectively allowing ships through while maintaining effective control over the strait and restricting wider traffic.
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🇾🇪 🇮🇷 The Houthis officially declared that they had entered the war on Iran's side.
"We will strike American ships in the Red Sea. This war is a war for the entire ummah,"
the statement read.
The Houthis also stated that, by the grace of Allah, they possess Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles, with a range of up to 2,150 km and a speed of up to Mach 16.
Yemen pulls the plug on Red Sea route — US and Israel about to feel the pinch
Yemen’s Ansar Allah has signaled readiness to blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait – the entrance to the Red Sea.
What would it mean for the US and Israel?
What's the Bab el-Mandeb Strait?
🔴 The Bab el-Mandeb or ‘Gate of Tears’ is a 32 km-wide choke-point linking the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal
🔴 Ansar Allah began targeting shipping there in late 2023 in the wake of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, but stopped following the October 2025 ceasefire
🔴 Before disruptions:
👉 Some 8.8 million barrels a day — roughly 10% of global seaborne oil — passed through the strait
👉 10% to 12% of global seaborne trade
👉 About 8% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade
US can't break the Houthis
US President Donald Trump’s 52-day Operation Rough Rider from March to May 2025, exposed US naval and air force weaknesses to Yemeni drones and missiles:
🔴 Cost over $1 billion but failed to defeat Ansar Allah
🔴 Two $67M F/A-18 jet fighters fell off a carrier
🔴 Several MQ-9 Reapers were shot down
🔴 An F-35 barely dodged a missile
Bab el-Mandeb Strait blockade
🔴 US warships operating in the region often cross the Bab el-Mandeb en route to the Persian Gulf
🔴 The US Navy would face increased risks from ‘pop-up’ attacks in the narrow waterway
🔴 Avoiding the strait would complicate supply and maintenance for Trump’s armada in the Gulf of Oman
🔴 Fighting Yemen would drain US and Israeli air-defense stocks and offensive munitions
🔴 The US would face a two-front war, while Israel could be stretched across three fronts by Iranian, Hezbollah and Houthi attacks
🔴 The global economic fallout would drive up energy prices and hit Americans in their wallets
No passage for aggressors
🔴 The strait would be blocked only for "aggressors states" fighting against Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and other countries of the ‘Axis of Resistance’, Ansar Allah spokesman Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told Russian media
🔴 Yemen is considering all options for resisting Israel and the US
🔴 If the war drags on, it could engulf the region and involve ground fighting, spreading to Israel and Palestine – as foretold in the Quranic verses of the Surah Al-Isra or Last Promise, he added
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 About 90 vessels, including oil tankers, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, despite the waterway being effectively shut. Oil exports continue, with millions of barrels still moving through the corridor, according to AP News.
A large share of these crossings are “dark” transits—ships evading Western monitoring and sanctions, many linked to Iran. More recently, vessels tied to India and Pakistan have also passed amid ongoing negotiations.
Since early March, Iran has exported over 16 million barrels of oil. With Western markets restricted, China remains the primary buyer.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸❗️We will strike all over the world where our enemy is present — IRGC
Iran announced revenge after the killing of high-ranking Iranian officials
We will strike all over the world where our enemy is present, including officials, pilots, and soldiers, even in civilian areas such as resorts and tourist zones. "Not a single place in the world will be safe for you.”
Recreational and tourist sites worldwide will now be a target for Iran’s aggression and what remains of the Islamic state’s leadership further added Friday it is still building missiles.
🌐🇮🇶The NATO mission is evacuating its personnel from the Middle East to Europe. Earlier, it was announced about the complete evacuation of Poles from Iraq.
Iran is methodically liberating Iraqi territory from foreign occupiers, who settled in Iraq after 2003.
🗣 🇮🇱 Message to Israeli and American pilots: Iran will hunt you down and punish you for your crimes
“From now on, based on the information we have about you [US and Israeli pilots], recreational centers, tourist attractions, and entertainment centers around the world will also be insecure for you,” Iranian Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi warned recently.
This is not an empty threat, as back in the 2000s, Iran methodically hunted down and assassinated former Iraqi combat pilots who participated in the Iran-Iraq war.
👉 At least 182 Iraqi pilots were killed during these reprisals and another 800 ended up fleeing Iraq out of fear for their lives, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s statistics that emerged in media in 2010.
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President Trump just gave Iran the ultimatum: "If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!" 🔥 twitter.com
Fertilizer War
John Mearsheimer on what the Strait of Hormuz closure actually means:
"It's not only oil. One third of the world's fertilizer comes through the Strait of Hormuz. This is going to create major league inflation, which is going to slow down growth and result in the deaths of many people all around the world."
Everyone is watching the oil price. Almost nobody is talking about fertilizer.
One third of global fertilizer supply moves through a strait that has been closed for three weeks. The food shock from this war hasn't hit yet.
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🔫 Why US ground operation against Iran would be a complete and utter disaster
The USS Tripoli and its Marines (about 2,200–2,500 troops) are heading straight into the northern Arabian Sea. The plan—if they actually go for it—would be to storm ashore at Bandar Abbas (Iran's main port that basically owns the Strait of Hormuz) or hit side targets like Assaluyeh and Kharg Island.
But here's the cold truth: this op is stacked against them so badly it's almost guaranteed to blow up in their faces.
🔴 Numbers don't add up at all
Real amphibious assaults need 4–6 times more attackers than defenders right at the beach landing moment. One unit (~2,500) vs. Iran's ready coastal brigades, IRGC naval infantry, and fast reinforcements dooms any beachhead before it can be consolidated.
🔴 Getting from ship to shore is a meat grinder
US Marines will have to cross open water in slow AAVs, hovercraft, Ospreys, and fast boats—straight into hundreds of Iranian speedboats, explosive drones, mines, and surviving anti-ship missiles that continue to operate despite prior strikes.
🔴 Air cover won't save them
F-35s and helos can't hang around low providing close support—too many Iranian MANPADS, short-range SAMs, and kamikaze drones still out there. Pilots would have to stay high or pull back fast to avoid shooting their own guys or getting shot down. Without real air help the Marines will get pinned and picked apart.
🔴 Splitting up makes it worse
Hitting multiple spots at Assaluyeh (for logistics control) and Kharg Island (for economic/political impact) dilutes the already limited Marine force across multiple objectives. Iran can shift troops quicker on home turf and smash isolated pockets one by one. With no backup or reserve the operation is doomed.
🔴 Logistics would collapse almost immediately
Even if they grab a port for five minutes, getting ammo, fuel, and medevac through mined waters full of Iranian missiles and boats is basically impossible. The standard "autonomous hold" capability of 15 days would turn into a couple days of hell before they run dry.
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Economist 4 courses of action analysis
🇺🇸🇮🇷Washington has four possible courses of action regarding Iran, but all of them are bad for the United States, The Economist wrote in an article:
“To almost everyone else it is clear that America entered this war with a flawed strategy, starting with its failure to anticipate that Iran would close the strait. With the fighting entering a fourth week, Mr Trump has four options for how to proceed.
He can talk,
leave,
continue or
escalate.
If he has not yet chosen one, it is because none of them are good,” the article said.
The Economist noted that:
negotiations are complicated by mistrust and maximalist demands,
ending the conflict now would not resolve uranium and energy risks,
continued military action offers no guarantee of success, and
escalation could require a ground operation and trigger strikes on regional energy infrastructure.
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🇮🇷🚀🇬🇧 Britain turned out to be vulnerable to strikes from Iranian ballistic missiles after the attack on the Diego Garcia base, — Telegraph
➡️A representative of the country's defense department called the situation "terrible" and noted that the level of preparation for intercepting ballistic missiles in the UK is "very low".
The only line of defense is six Type 45 destroyers with Sea Viper systems.
The country has very few ground-based means to intercept ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
As a result, Britain will depend on its NATO allies in the event of such attacks.
British officials called the attempt to strike the Diego Garcia base a "warning shot".
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🇬🇧🇮🇷British Foreign Minister:
Strikes by Iran on the Gulf countries are reckless and targeted at shipping, allies, and our interests in the region.
We will provide defensive support against reckless Iranian threats, but we will not participate in any offensive action.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 🛢 The US is buying oil from Iran for the first time in 30 years — Axios
Despite the war, the US has temporarily lifted sanctions and will allow Tehran to earn approximately $14 billion in revenue from the oil.
Iran Declaring Victory?
🚨 IRGC commander declares 'missile dominance' over Israel's skies
"From this moment on, I declare the missile dominance of the children of Iran over the skies of the occupied territories," Brig. Gen. Seyyed Majid Mousavi wrote on X.
He announced that the skies over Israel would "remain bright for hours."
Trump Declaring Victory?
🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump called it "unfair" that Iran is blocking the Strait of Hormuz, because, in the president's opinion, the US won the war.
"It's not even fair on their part. We've already won! They have no right to continue what they're doing!" - said Trump.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷Trump: We can definitely end the war this week.
We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran: (1) Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them. (2) Destroying Iran’s Defense Industrial Base. (3) Eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including Anti Aircraft Weaponry. (4) Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear Capability, and always being in a position where the U.S.A. can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation, should it take place. (5) Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy Military Operation for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
"The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need. Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military — Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
TRUMP EXTORTS THE GULF FOR MORE MONEY!!!
"If you want the war to continue — $5 trillion. If you want it to stop — $2.5 trillion."
Omani journalist and international affairs researcher Salem Al-Jahoori on BBC Arabic confirms reports of U.S. pressure on Gulf Cooperation Council states to pay up, either way.
According to leaks Al-Jahoori cites, Trump is demanding GCC states pay $5 trillion to sustain the war, or $2.5 trillion as a fee for stopping it, framed as payment for "what has been accomplished."
Protection racket without any protection.
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🇮🇱 After three weeks of fighting, the Trump Administration begun outlining a postwar track and possible talks with Iran. Discussions reportedly involve real estate developer Steve Witkoff and twink Jared Kushner, according to sources cited by Axios (so grain of salt, or rather a scoop of salt)
There has been no direct U.S. Iran contact recently. Messages are moving through intermediaries Egypt, Qatar, and the U.K., with Cairo and Doha allegedly signaling Tehran is open to negotiations.
A U.S. official said Washington believes it has slowed Iran’s trajectory and expects Tehran to engage. The U.S. position centers on six demands:
➡️Suspend missile development for five years.
➡️Eliminate uranium enrichment entirely.
➡️Dismantle reactors at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, sites previously struck by the Epstein Coalition.
➡️Accept strict external monitoring of centrifuges and related technology.
➡️Enter regional arms control agreements, capping missiles at 1,000.
➡️End financial support for allied groups including Hezbollah, the Ansar Allah, and Hamas.
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Lindsey Graham has once again pressed for the US to keep attacking Iran and seize Kharg Island, potential US military losses be damned.
🔊 “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this!” Graham smugly replied when Fox News host brought up an assessment that invading with US troops would end up pummeled by Iranian drone and missile strikes.
The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest WWII battles in the Pacific theater where the US Marine Corps suffered thousands of casualties – but Graham is fine with making such sacrifices as long as he is not the one sent into the fray.
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False Flag Warnings:
🇮🇷🇸🇦 IRGC Spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari:
"The Zionist regime intends to attack energy infrastructure in the region, including Aramco facilities — the regime's history of malicious acts to frame Iran confirms this evil intention."
Iran officially warning that Israel is planning a false flag on Saudi oil facilities to blame Tehran.
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🚨 Jiang Xueqin: Israel is planning controlled demolition of Al-Aqsa to ignite holy war
The Chinese academic who correctly predicted both Trump's win and war with Iran now warns: Israel is tunneling beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque to set up a controlled demolition, and then they will blame it on an Iranian missile.
⚔️ Their goal is to destroy Islam's holiest site, spark a war between Arabs and Persians, and build the Third Temple.
"You need the building of the Third Temple, which could actually happen during this war. If you observe geopolitical events, these events are happening," he told Tucker Carlson.
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🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Ex-Israeli spy floats nuking Iran
Victory over Iran cannot happen with the measures that we are currently seeing, says Tal Ornan, formerly of Israel’s clandestine military intelligence Unit 504.
He insists Iran can only be “subdued” by “total war,” and has floated two ways to get this done.
💬 “One way, which seems less realistic to me, is an invading army, Normandy-style invasion,” he says, adding in the same breath:
“…Or non-conventional weapons."
Think of the full buffet: nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical agents…
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IDF spins Diego Garcia strike false flag to coax Europe into war against Iran
Iran was not responsible for the ballistic missile strike on Diego Garcia joint US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean, a senior Iranian official has told Al Jazeera.
Diego Garcia is one of two bases the UK has greenlit for US use as part of the war against Iran.
👉 The denial came after the Wall Street Journal ran with the story that two intermediate-range ballistic missiles were allegedly fired at the base.
Iran calls it a false flag stunt aimed at convincing Europe that Iran’s missiles can now reach Europe and therefore it must ditch its reluctance to hop on the US-Israel war bandwagon.
Enter IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who sounds the alarm:
💬 “These missiles were not intended to hurt Israel. Their range reaches European cities. Berlin, Paris and Rome are all in direct danger range… This is a violent threat.”
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🇮🇷❌ Diego Garcia strike attempt pinned on Iran as ‘false flag’ to play on Europe’s fears - Prof. Marandi
Iran has denied that it fired ballistic missiles towards Diego Garcia joint US-UK military base 4,000 kilometers away, emphasizes Iranian political scientist Mohammad Marandi.
The attack allowed Israel to trigger panic mode in Europe, alleging that Iran has missiles capable of striking European capitals.
Neither did it lob missiles towards Turkey or Oman, he notes, adding:
💬 “Therefore, we must conclude that these are false flag operations.”
Was this a ploy to rope Europe into the US-Israeli war?
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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. is rushing thousands of Marines and sailors toward the Middle East according to Newsmax, citing sources.
The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are deploying early from the West Coast, cutting leave short after training. Around 4,000 personnel are aboard three ships, including the USS Boxer, USS Portland, and USS Comstock
A typical Boxer ARG air combat element includes F-35B short-takeoff/vertical-landing fighters, MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors, CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lift helicopters, AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, and UH-1Y Venom utility helicopters.
They are heading to reinforce forces in the region, alongside the USS Tripoli, which is also en route. More ships are expected to follow, bringing the total to roughly 8,000 troops, including up to 5,000 Marines.
The buildup comes amid speculation Washington may target Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf that are key to Iran’s oil infrastructure.
At the same time, the USS Ford carrier has been pulled back for repairs after a fire.
🐻 Trump says he doesn't need anyone's help and the war is won. The Marine Corps is apparently still getting the memo.
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🇺🇸 "They don't want to help us, which is amazing…"
🇺🇸 "NATO is making a very foolish mistake... ...because we don't need them, but they should've been there." - Trump again on not needing the countries he asked for help 🤷♂️
🗣 Gulf states speak out: US and Israel must end illegal war on Iran
While the US and Israel try to pit Gulf Arab states against Iran, Oman is proving their plan is doomed.
Omani foreign minister Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi used Rothschild-owned magazine The Economist to reach the Western elite
👉 He reveals frankly how frustrated Arab states are at US and Israeli destabilization of the region — which has brought destruction.
👉 Does his article contain any criticism of Iran? None — in his view, Iran had no choice.
🌏 The US and Iran were “on the verge of a real deal” when the war started, writes Albusaidi, who led negotiations between the two
🌏 It was a “shock” when the US and Israel “again launched an unlawful military strike against the peace that had briefly appeared really possible”
🌏 Iranian retaliation against US interests in the Gulf was “inevitable” and “probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership” in the face of US and Israeli attempts to “terminate” Iranian statehood
🌏 “Arab countries that had placed their trust in US security co-operation now experience that co-operation as an acute vulnerability, threatening their present security and future prosperity”
🌏 This is not a US war – it was "drawn into it" by Israel and there is "no likely scenario" in which both "will get what they want from it"
🌏 “America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth,” Albusaidi writes, stressing that the US must get out of the war and make peace with Iran.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱Iran has stated that it will level its Kharg Island to the ground if the Americans land there. Previously, there were reports that the US was preparing Marines for a landing operation.
90% of Iran's oil shipments pass through Kharg.
🇮🇱🇮🇷Israel publicly calls on Iranians to revolt, but privately admits that the protesters are likely to be "crushed", reports The Washington Post, citing a State Department document.
According to the document, Israeli officials say that the Iranian regime "is not surrendering" and will "fight to the end", and if protests break out, the IRGC "will have the upper hand" and suppress them.
Despite this, Israel still hopes for a revolt and wants the US to be ready to support it, the publication notes. But American officials now also acknowledge that protesters face an extreme risk of threats from the armed security forces.
🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧Israel has declared that it intends to annex southern Lebanon to establish a "permanent security zone" there. The Lebanese army is still cowardly hiding in the rear and looking for ways to surrender and not defend Lebanon. It's hard to find more cowardly freeloaders in the Middle East. While Hezbollah is daily pressuring the IDF, a disgrace continues in the Lebanese army's rear.
🇸🇦🇮🇱Saudi Arabia: we condemn in the strongest terms the blatant Israeli attack that targeted military infrastructure in southern Syria
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🇵🇸☪️ On Eid al-Fitr Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition at Palestinians attempting to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray.
🇮🇷🇯🇵The Foreign Minister of Iran to Japanese media:
We are ready to ensure the safe passage of ships of countries such as Japan provided coordination with Tehran
Several countries are seeking to mediate to end the conflict and we are open to any initiative
The United States has not yet shown its readiness for a real solution
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🚨🇮🇱🇨🇿 Israeli weapons factory in Czech Republic set ABLAZE
A group calling itself the "Earthquake Faction" has set a defense facility in Pardubice linked to Israel's Elbit Systems on fire.
They described the factory as part of Israel's weapons industry and pledged further actions.
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