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Farage Says Work Begins Now to Destroy the ‘Delusional’ Westminster Establishment

Pakistan Hosted Iranian Military Aircraft To Insulate Them From US Attacks

That’s enough to bomb Pakistan.

‘Mediator’ Pakistan Hosted Iranian Military Aircraft To Insulate Them From US Attacks, Graham Fumes At Islamabad

Calls for complete reevaluation of the role Pakistan is playing…

Calls for complete reevaluation of the role Pakistan is playing…

Summary:

  • CBS reports Pakistan sheltered Iranian military planes, Sen. Graham outraged, calls for ‘reevaluation’.

  • US President blasts ‘piece of garbage’ Iran response, says ceasefire on ‘life support’, reportedly mulls renewed military action; US Treasury imposes yet more sanctions.

  • Trump mulls restarting Project Freedom in Hormuz and says forcibly retrieving ‘nuclear dust’ is still on the table, oil jumps on headline.

  • Iran Foreign Ministry: “Everything we proposed in the text was reasonable and generous.” However, US officials insist on their “unreasonable demands.“

  • Saudi Arabia condemns Iran for its latest drone attacks targeting the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait on Sunday.

  • Qatari LNG tanker abruptly U-Turns In Hormuz chokepoint after earlier in weekend an initial one made it through – an unprecedented first for a Qatari tanker of the war.

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IDF Strikes Hezbollah in Beirut, Kills ‘High-Ranking’ Hezbollah Commander

Virgins!

It was the first attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs since a truce in the Israel-Hezbollah war went into force on April 17.

Lebanon

Israeli forces have bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs and claim to have assassinated eliminated Malek Balou, a commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force.

“Israeli warplanes launched an attack, targeting Ghobeiri” in the southern suburbs, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported, as a loud explosion and extensive damage were reported from the area.

The Israel Defense Forces identified the target as Malek Balou, a commander in the group’s elite special operations unit.

 AFP:  “Malek Ballout, the operations commander in the Radwan Force,” was killed in the Israeli strike.

This action follows a series of Israeli operations against Hezbollah leadership earlier in 2026. In April, Israeli forces killed Haj Youssef Ismail Hashem, commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, in a naval strike on Beirut. Other strikes targeted intelligence officials and aides close to Hezbollah’s senior leadership.

  • Israel bombed Beirut in an expansion of attacks on Lebanon and in the first strike on the Lebanese capital since a “ceasefire”, in name only, came into force on April 17.
  • Israeli forces have consistently violated the ceasefire with retaliated and on Wednesday killed at least 13 people in attacks across the country, including claiming to have targeted eliminating a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut.

“The IDF has just struck in Beirut the commander of the Radwan Force in the Hezbollah terror organization to eliminate him.”

  • Hamas has condemned Israel’s attacks on Gaza, calling the daily bombings and growing death toll a “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement” and a continuation of Israel’s “war of extermination” in the Palestinian territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the attack, saying he and Defence Minister Israel Katz had instructed the army to carry out the attack.

“Radwan terrorists are responsible for shooting at Israeli settlements and harming [Israeli army] soldiers. No terrorist has immunity – Israel’s long hand will catch every enemy and murderer,” Netanyahu said in a post on Telegram. Continue reading IDF Strikes Hezbollah in Beirut, Kills ‘High-Ranking’ Hezbollah Commander

Trump: Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon – not now, not ever

That is his bottom line.

So it seems unlikely he will sign up to any sort of deal that would allow Iran to postpone those nuclear talks for the time being.

He’s also very much aware the blockade is doing significant economic damage to Iran. He thinks it’s putting the Iranians under extreme pressure and, as he said on social media, he’s waiting for Iran to effectively sort out its leadership so they can work out who to speak to.

Two months of near-total internet blackout in Iran

Iran’s near-total internet blackout has now lasted exactly two months, according to global watchdog Netblocks.

Five sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting with Iran

Five people have been sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting “terrorist and hostile acts” with Iran.

  • As Gulf leaders meet in Saudi Arabia, Qatar says the Strait of Hormuz should not be used as a pressure card and warns against the possibility of a “frozen conflict”.
  • US President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian plan to halt the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, while postponing talks on its nuclear programme.
  • Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire as the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since an April 17 “ceasefire” rises to at least 40 people.
  • Dozens of nations have called for the “urgent and unimpeded reopening” of the Strait of Hormuz, with UN chief Antonio Guterres warning that the US-Iran standoff in the waterway risks triggering a global food emergency.
  • Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.

The Arab Voice

Strait of Hormuz should have ‘never been closed’

Qatar’s FM spokesperson al-Ansari says they are engaging with all their interlocutors over reopening the Strait.

“We believe it should have never been closed and it should be opened immediately, regardless of other considerations going on in the region,” he said.

Qatar in favour of ‘comprehensive deal’ to end conflict

The spokesperson said that Doha would be in favour of a “comprehensive deal” to end the conflict, following a question about reports that Iran wants to decouple Hormuz talks from nuclear discussions.

Lebanon:

Lebanon began discussing the group’s full disarmament, while debates raged within the country over Hezbollah’s future as a military and political power.

However, Hezbollah is now back on the battlefield, fighting Israel in southern Lebanon and appears not to be as degraded a fighting force as many had believed.

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Iran accuses Washington (of everything)

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Iran huffs & puffs

Iran is just playing for time. They need time to reorganise & to regroup, because all their top dogs have been exported to the virgins.

Trump announced he would delay a planned military attack on Iran after requests from Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

  • Iran’s IRGC says it has seized two vessels for “disrupting order and safety in the Strait of Hormuz”, Tasnim news agency is reporting.
  • US President Donald Trump has announced an extension to the Iran ceasefire, as he continues to blockade Iranian ports, until Tehran submits a proposal for talks, and “discussions are concluded, one way or the other”.
  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that “blockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire”, adding that Tehran knows “how to resist bullying“.
  • Israel continues to bomb southern Lebanon and demolish Lebanese homes, with Hezbollah announcing an attack on northern Israel in retaliation for whatever…
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IRGC says it has seized two vessels in the Strait of Hormuz


The IRGC Navy has seized two vessels and transferred them to Iran’s coast, stating that “disrupting order and safety in the Strait of Hormuz is considered a red line for Iran”.

We earlier reported that one vessel was shot at off the coast of Iran while another sustained damage after coming under attack off Oman’s coast.

IRAN’S REGIME IS EATING ITSELF ALIVE: REVOLUTIONARY GUARD TAKES THE AYATOLLAH HOSTAGE
 
The mullahs’ house of cards is collapsing in real time, and America’s pressure is finally paying off. Fox News host Jesse Watters just dropped the bombshell: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has seized control and taken the Ayatollah hostage in a brazen power grab.
 
“Generals are blocking peace talks, holding their own negotiators hostage while the economy collapses,” Watters reported. “No one’s calling the shots. A coup is in the works.”

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Trump Tells Iran: ’Lots of Bombs Start Going Off’

US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on the evening of Tuesday, April 7, in Washington, DC, meaning it was due to expire on Tuesday, April 21.

’Lots of Bombs Start Going Off’

Trump: Ceasefire Extension ‘Highly Unlikely’ if No Deal by Wednesday Night

Trump: “they will not have a nuclear weapon. They’ll have no access to, no chance of having, a nuclear weapon. And we can’t allow that to happen. That could be the destruction of the world, and we’re not going to let that happen,” he added.

“And I have to say, we had no choice in Iran. It wasn’t like we had a choice. We had to do it,” Trump said.

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Wednesday evening Eastern time marks the expiration of the two-week ceasefire in the war between the United States and Iran, and bombing will resume if a deal is not reached, according to reports of phone interviews with President Donald Trump.

Iran’s Top Negotiator Rejects Talks ‘Under Threat’

Warns Regime ‘Ready to Reveal New Battlefield Cards’

Ceasefire Looms

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Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, declared late Monday that Tehran will not negotiate with the United States “under the shadow of threats,” warning Tehran is prepared to “reveal new cards on the battlefield” as a ceasefire deadline looms and the fate of renewed talks remains uncertain.

  • Diplomatic efforts to end the US-Israel war on Iran remain uncertain, with Tehran saying it will not negotiate under the “shadow of threats”.
  • US President Donald Trump says the blockade on Iranian ports will remain until Tehran agrees to a deal.
  • Lebanon and Israel will head back to Washington, DC, for another round of talks on Thursday to end hostilities.
  • Israel continues to bombard southern Lebanon, wounding six people in an air attack on the town of Qaaqaaiyet El Jisr and demolishing homes in the town of Khiam in violation of a 10-day ceasefire.
  • Trump says Iran will negotiate with the US or face “problems like they’ve never seen before” amid continued uncertainty over whether Tehran can be persuaded to send a delegation to Pakistan’s Islamabad.
  • He also says Iran’s nuclear sites have been totally obliterated and that “digging it out will be a long and difficult process”.
  • Iran has lodged a complaint with the UN over the US’s seizure of its cargo ship, condemning it as a barbarous act that violates international law.
  • Stock markets in Asia have rebounded on early trading, with investors holding on to hopes that the US and Iran may resume peace talks.
  • Dozens of US veterans and their family members have been arrested after they occupied a congressional building in Washington, DC, in a protest against the war on Iran.

Iran files complaint at UN over the US’s ‘illegal, barbarous’ ship seizure

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal complaint with the UN secretary-general and the International Maritime Organization over the US seizure of the Iranian merchant vessel Touska on Monday, condemning it as an “illegal and barbarous act” that violates both international law and the ceasefire agreement.

Lebanon & Israel will talk directly – “France was not just sidelined, it was rendered irrelevant”

Israel Will Fight On

The six-week war with Iran has dramatically changed the strategic picture for the better.

I come here not to defend the Jews or Israel but to chastise you for your lack of knowledge of history and the fifteen hundred year threat of Islam.
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This is how the Christian majority in Lebanon ended.
“Lebanon was the only Christian country in the Middle East, and also the only one to accept Palestinian refugees. Lebanon had an open border policy, we wanted to share our knowledge with our Muslim neighbors. But then they became the majority, they started slaughtering the Christians who welcomed them.”– Brigitte Gabriel

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Iran: surviving a full-scale confrontation with a superior military constitutes victory

More about the The Muqāwama Doctrine (Arabic: عقيدة المقاومة, ʿaqīdat al-muqāwama) below the fold.

  • The US military says it will begin blockading Iranian ports on Monday at 14:00 GMT, allowing ships not coming or going to Iran to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says the Strait of Hormuz is open for civilian vessels, but says that military ships “will be dealt with severely”.

Gulf states look for alternatives as Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed

The Iranians have denied that any US military vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz, and are threatening consequences if any military vessel attempts to do so.

‘Soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4–$5 gas,’ Iran’s Ghalibaf tells US

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament who led the country’s delegation in the Islamabad talks, has again addressed Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

“Enjoy the current pump figures,” he wrote on X, alongside a map showing prices at gas stations near the White House.

“With the so-called ‘blockade’, Soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4–$5 gas.”

“Get your own oil…!”

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No Deal! Trump to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After Iran Refuses to Comply With U.S. Demands

President Donald Trump announced Sunday the U.S. Navy will begin blockading ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the news coming after he said Iran promised to open the strait but ultimately did not.

VP JD Vance Announces No Deal Reached with Iran After Marathon 21-Hour Negotiations, ‘Bad News for Iran Much More Than for the U.S.’ (VIDEO)

No Deal! Trump to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After Iran Refuses to Give up Nukes

President Trump Orders U.S. Navy to BLOCK ‘Any and All Ships Trying to Enter, or Leave, the Strait of Hormuz Effective Immediately’ After Iran Defies Nuclear Demands

President Trump Confirms He’s Going FULL VENEZUELA on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran: “All in and All Out”

The current mob in Canberra needs more than a warning:

Trump Wins Again

The Islamic Republic of Iran now claims that the ceasefire agreement with the U.S. was meant to cover Israel as well, so that the Jewish state should also stop its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Both Israel and the United States flatly reject that claim, and a day into the ceasefire, Israel made that point forcefully by carrying out “its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the latest conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month.”

Trump Warns Iran Over Strait of Hormuz Tanker Fees…

Shipping Remains Slow Despite Ceasefire

Iran and Its Terrorist Proxies Start Freeing Western Hostages

Iran’s Quds Force Chief Esmail Qaani Resurfaces After Disappearance Sparks Rumors

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From Masada to Marxism

The contemporary political landscape has devolved into a theater of the absurd where Democrat-voting Jews and self-described “Progressive Liberals” have effectively morphed into a PR wing for the Mullahs of Iran. This phenomenon demonstrates a level of historical amnesia that borders on the suicidal, as this faction has traded the ancestral survival instincts forged at Masada for a terminal case of Severe TDS. Continue reading Trump Wins Again