Iran War: Yemen’s Houthi’s announce maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia

The Pentagon has released photos of Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, a 19-year-old U.S. soldier from Carrollton, Texas, and 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii

President Trump will attend the dignified transfer of the two soldiers who were killed by Iranian attacks in Jordan. The ceremony will take place tomorrow evening at Dover Air Force Base. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says “the President and the entire White House are praying for their families” in a post on X. The president, in a Truth Social post, says “Every time Iran kills an American soldier they will pay for that killing many times over, as the U.S. continues its military campaign in the Middle East.”

Explosions in Iran as US carries out ‘new round of strikes’

  • Iranian media is reporting explosions in Bandar Abbas and Sirik as US CENTCOM says new round of strikes being carried out on Iran.
  • In a social media post, US President Donald Trump says “every time Iran kills an American soldier they will pay for that killing many times over”.
  • Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announce a maritime embargo of their foe Saudi Arabia after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.

Multiple explosions heard in Chahbahar

Fars news agency is reporting multiple explosions in Chahbahar in eastern Iran.

  • Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announce a maritime embargo of their foe Saudi Arabia after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.
  • A vessel is on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile forcing the crew to abandon ship. They were later rescued by a tugboat.
  • Hamas says Khalil al-Hayya has been chosen as head of its political bureau succeeding Yahya Sinwar who was killed by Israel in Gaza in 2024.
  • A US service member has died in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, according to CENTCOM.

Houthis see Saudi maritime embargo as an ‘opportunity’

The Houthis appear to be using the announcement of a maritime embargo targeting Saudi Arabia to “redraw the rules” while regional powers are under pressure, an analyst says.

Zeidon Alkinani, founding director of the Arab Perspectives Institute, told Al Jazeera there is “very clear” messaging in the announcement.

There was “no mention of Iran” suggesting the Houthis are acting to exploit what they see as a window of opportunity while both Saudi Arabia and the United States are pre-occupied with Iran. “They’re taking it as an opportunity to redraw the rules imposed on them before,” he said.

Negotiations with the Houthis could be “easier” than talks involving either the US or Iran, which remain in direct confrontation. “From a Houthi perspective they are controlling Yemen, which is in the GCC orbit,” he said.

Alkinani said direct negotiations with the Houthis would now make sense.

Saudi Arabia condemns Houthi’s blockade

Saudi Arabia has condemned remarks by the Houthis accusing the kingdom of besieging Yemen and announcing that the group will prevent maritime navigation to Saudi ports.

In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry called the accusations “baseless”.

Islam, Islamic ‘envoys’ & that ridiculous “Islamophobia” fabrication

U.S. Launches Strikes to ‘Punish’ Iran After Troops Killed

U.S. Launches Strikes to ‘Punish’ Iran After Troops Killed

Marco Rubio on Iran:

I do think the world is coming to a point now where it’s clear that Iran—at least some people in Iran—want to control the straits and hold it as leverage against the world. And the world has to decide whether or not it’s going to allow an international waterway to be under the control of a country like this. It would be completely illegal, unlawful, and unacceptable. The United States will continue to do what it needs to protect global shipping, but other countries need to begin to step up and provide, whether it’s hardware or finances, to help carry that burden.

Iran: Hey, We’ve Got Moses, Jesus, David and Solomon on Our Side

Robert Spencer 

Sophronius, Jerusalem Patr. 634: “Invading (Muslims) are Godless wild barbarians, filled with diabolical savagery.. they ravage all with feral design.. inflict destruction and plunder.. incessant outpouring of human blood.. Birds devour human bodies.. churches pulled down.. ” :

Al Bozo has released the new ‘Islamophobia Report’

“Some of [the recommendations] we have adopted in full and are acting on already. Others we’ll give further consideration to.”

What a disgrace!

Anthony Albanese (centre) has announced the government’s response to the special envoy to combat Islamophobia’s report.

 ISIS related Islamic Terrorists shot 50 people, killing 15, so Labor imported ISIS Terrorist Brides & brought in laws so you can’t offend Muslims.

Yep, Australia is cooked.

Azza Mahmoud Fawzi Hosseini Ali el Serougi  “Anne Aly” came from Egypt to settle behind enemy lines in Australia. Does anyone know why and how?

Since she’s on the taxpayer funded “Islamophobia” racket, she pretends to be some kind of victim. She isn’t a victim of anything. Those who support her false claims are the enemy of Australia.

 
 
 
 
 
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Iran in ‘full-scale war’ with US

Iran president says country in ‘full-scale war’ with US

President Masoud Pezeshkian says his country is engaged in a “full-scale war” with the United States and Iran must accept the repercussions of the conflict.

IRGC says it’s ready for US ground invasion; Hamas names new leader

  • Hamas announces Khalil al-Hayya has been chosen as head of its political bureau succeeding Yahya Sinwar who was killed by Israel in Gaza in 2024.
  • A vessel is on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile forcing the crew to abandon ship. They were later rescued by a tugboat.
  • One person has been killed and several others wounded after the US military attacked the Iranian city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran.
  • A US service member has died in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, according to CENTCOM.

Albanese declares “‘Islamophobia’ has no place in Australia”

Islamic Terrorism

Promptly throws taxpayer dollars at a non existent problem:

Why does the Australian government employ an “Islamic envoy?”

        • On or around July 18, 2026, the government released its response to the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia’s report.
        • The package is described as $66 million (sometimes rounded or referred to as ~$65.5–66 million in coverage) for initiatives including:
          • An Islamophobia Education Taskforce (including education from pre-school level).
          • Training for police, parliamentarians, public servants, etc.
          • Mental health and wellbeing support.
          • Multicultural grants focused on Muslim communities (especially women and youth).
          • Security measures for Islamic faith sites.
          • A new AFP Social Cohesion Team and other reporting/response improvements.

PM Albanese, better known as Al Bozo

Australian government rejects ‘Islamophobia’ envoy’s recommendation to discount role of religion in terrorist acts

After two Islamic terrorists murdered 15 Jews in Bondi celebrating Chanukah, this decrepit gov’t went to any length to protect Islam, to deep six a Royal Commission rather than allow establishing a connection between Jew-hatred & Islamic terrorism. To employ an Islamic “envoy” is an insult on every Australian taxpayer. But here we are, suffering insult after injury:

Aftab Malik, a United Nations Alliance of Civilisations “Global Expert” on Muslim affairs, has been named as the government’s Islamophobia envoy.

Australia’s “Islamophobia” top dog, Aftab Malik, recommended that the government discount religion as a motivating factor in terrorist acts. This was clearly an attempt to prevent the Australian government from discovering or shedding any light upon the role of Islam in the motivations of jihad terrorists. Anyone who dared to note that jihad violence was being committed in accord with Islamic texts and teachings would have been dismissed as “Islamophobic.” Surprisingly, Albanese rejected this recommendation, but Aftab Malik will no doubt keep pushing.

“Anthony Albanese releases government’s response to Islamophobia report,” by Lexie Jeuniewic, David Lipson and Keane Bourke, ABC.net.au, July 17, 2026:

 

Al Bozo goes to any length to suck up to the Mohammedans. “Islamic envoy” Aftab Malik is an Islamo-propagandist who demands Islamic blasphemy laws to muzzle us. And he is doing it on the taxpayer dollar. Disgraceful.

The Albanese government’s long-awaited response to its special envoy’s report on Islamophobia has rejected calls for an overhaul of counter-terror laws, focusing instead on a new education task force and expanded community liaison teams for police. Continue reading Albanese declares “‘Islamophobia’ has no place in Australia”

US bombs Iran for an eighth consecutive night

  • The US launches new strikes on Iran after two American soldiers were killed in Iranian strikes in Jordan.
  • US President Donald Trump says the deaths were “a very sad thing”, adding that “we’re never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
  • Kuwait’s state-owned oil company says one of its main facilities has been hit in an Iranian strike as Iraqi media report that the US consulate in Erbil activated air defences amid drone attacks.
  • Top Iranian commander Ali Abdullahi has warned the US, saying “any aggression or barbarism will be met with a decisive and devastating response” from Iran’s armed forces.

Cardboard mufti still in hiding, tries to rally the masses….

 

Iran’s supreme leader warns US of ‘unforgettable lessons’ amid MoU breaches

Mojtaba Khamenei says Trump’s signature is ‘worthless’ and that ‘bullying’ is a core element of US foreign policy.

Iran says 10,000 without water after US attack; fire at Kuwait water site

  • Iran’s national water company says some 10,000 people across 20 villages are without water after overnight US attacks.
  • Iran’s army says it has hit US assets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait following the latest round of US strikes. Kuwait says fire broke out at a power and desalination plant after an Iranian strike.
  • Earlier, US Central Command said it had completed its seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, employing “fighter aircraft, aerial drones and warships” to hit the country’s “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities”.
  • Iranian state media says at least three people have been killed and eight wounded in attacks in Hormozgan province which borders the Strait of Hormuz.
  • US Central Command says a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that two oil tankers have exploded in the strait after hitting mines in the international waterway is “false”.
  • What to expect after the US reimposes naval blockade on Iran’s ports?

Behind enemy lines:

US launches sixth night of strikes against Iran to ‘degrade its military’

US intensifies southern Iran attacks, killing at least eight


US launches sixth night of strikes against Iran to ‘degrade its military’

Iran hit back, launching missiles and drones at multiple countries in the Gulf and at US bases in other regional countries.

  • The US military says it launched a sixth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions in areas including Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz and Iranshahr.
  • Iran’s military warns “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed under steel blows” if the United States carries out its threat to attack Iran’s civilian sites.
  • The US military also says it “disabled” an oil tanker attempting to sail towards an Iranian port in the Strait of Hormuz by firing Hellfire missiles.
  • Iran says it carried out retaliatory attacks targeting US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.

JD Vance accuses Israel of ‘manipulating’ US public opinion to prolong Iran war

Iran Puts Trump in a Coffin on Huge Billboard in Tehran

  • The United States has carried out major strikes on Iran for the sixth night in a row, killing at least eight people and wounding 20.
  • Officials in southern Iran’s Bandar Abbas report that civilian infrastructure, including power facilities and a train station, has been hit.
  • Iran’s army says it has hit US aircraft at a military base in Bahrain, while Kuwait’s army says it is responding to missile and drone attacks. Qatar authorities say a child was injured by falling missile debris after its army thwarted incoming Iranian attacks.
  • A spokesman for Iran’s military says the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its pre-war status, as US Central Command says soldiers boarded a vessel in the Gulf of Oman to enforce its blockade of Iran.

Just three vessels crossed Strait of Hormuz amid closure

  • Officials in southern Iran report that civilian infrastructure, including bridges, airports, power facilities and a train station, has been hit.

Israel claims it killed Hamas commander in Gaza

The Israeli army says its forces and the Israeli security agency Shin Bet have killed a Hamas commander in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.

In a statement, the army claimed Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan was killed on Thursday, calling him the “right-hand man” of senior Hamas leaders.

The army added that Hamdan was a “central figure” in holding captives in the Gaza Strip and in the process of returning them to Israel.

‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain

Illegal migrants have no entitlements. There’s an argument to be made for those from Spanish speaking countries, but not for Mohammedans.

Rocio Neciosupe, originally from Peru, outside one of the buildings in Madrid, Spain, where she works as a cleaner


The government expected half a million people to apply. Nearly double that number came forward, in a process advocates say exposed how many migrants had been left undocumented for years in the country.

Madrid, Spain – Badr Tmairi, 22, from Morocco, has spent six years living in Spain without legal status. He arrived at 16, alone, without his family. He held legal residency briefly after turning 18, but lost it when he failed to renew it in time.

“What I want is to get my papers back so I can work as a hairdresser and travel to visit my family in Morocco,” he said.

Tmairi is one of more than a million people who have now applied for regularisation under a new scheme that contrasts with a growing European trend against irregular immigration.

He has been homeless for the past year. Without documents, finding work and decent housing in Spain is difficult.

“It’s very encouraging to know that so many people submitted an application and are trying to regularise their situation, but that huge number is also proof that the state has failed in its duty to protect the most vulnerable,” Edith Espinola, president of the Active Domestic Workers’ Service Association (SEDOAC) and spokesperson for the Regularizacion Ya (Regularisation Now), told Al Jazeera.

Regularizacion Ya, a collective made up of migrants, has led the push for regularisation since 2020. The measure grew out of a broad social consensus and has been backed by civil society organisations, the Catholic Church, trade unions and business associations.

Living without legal status, Espinola said, condemns people to social exclusion, as it has for Tmairi. Without rights or protection from abuse, they are unaligned with most of the rest of the population.

Spain: Police Warn ‘Collapse’ of Foreigner ID Card Processing for Illegal Migrants

Continue reading ‘Country grows, we grow too’: 1 million migrants seek legal status in Spain

Hanson Rocks Australia

Our country, you son of a b*tch. Not somebody else’s country. Our country!

Hanson seems to have her heart in the right place. But this is a worry:

She still has nothing to say about the Modi speech or the visa deal he and Albo struck to bring in more Indian curry munchers? Strange… How are you going to ‘save Australia’…?

Update:

Hanson sparks “backlash” after Tommy Robinson podcast comments

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is under fire after a UK podcast appearance with far-right activist Tommy Robinson. In the discussion, Hanson blamed Australia’s migration problems on the end of the White Australia Policy and repeated claims that people from “Muslim areas” are heavily involved in NDIS rorting.

Federal Health and NDIS Minister Mark Butler said he has not seen official data that supports those claims, and questioned why Hanson chose to meet Robinson. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young also condemned the remarks and called on Hanson to apologise. Hanson has since defended the meeting in a 7NEWS Spotlight interview and said she will not apologise. 

So it seems the Labor Government will be handing out billions on our behalf to a Chinese renewable energy company with extremely close links to the Chinese Communist Party. What madness. We’re destroying prime agricultural land, pursuing a net zero agenda that is driving up energy bills, and we’re now paying billions to the Chinese (the world’s biggest polluter) for the privilege. At what point did the national interest, or what is best for everyday Australians, enter the equation here?

Pauline Hanson has launched a barrage of policy wars with Labor and the Coalition by pledging massive cuts to government spending while ending the ‘transgender insurgency’ and Islamic fundamentalism in Australia.

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George Christensen 

 

𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁

Rubio speaks truth to power

The Journaille & the ‘Rhetoric’ 

“Radical Islam is a threat to the entire world.” – Marco Rubio

That is correct, apart from the word ‘radical’. All of Islam is radical. Islam is Islam. It is what it is.

Also Rubio: “Foreign aid is NOT charity. It must serve America’s national interest.”

Foreigners can now formally be DENIED a green card by Marco Rubio if they go full pro-Palestine and Hamas, or if they desecrate the USA flag — NYT

Thank you Marco!

The Iranian regime appears to have lost the conflict in every meaningful sense, but its leaders still refuse to admit what is right in front of them.

Their military infrastructure has been battered, their credibility has been shattered, and their threats sound more desperate with every passing day.

President Trump has repeatedly made clear that America prefers a negotiated end, but negotiations only work when both sides are willing to face reality. Iran has been given chance after chance to step back, abandon its nuclear ambitions, stop funding terror proxies, and end its campaign of regional intimidation.

Instead, the regime chose delay, deception, and escalation. Continue reading Rubio speaks truth to power