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Spain should be kicked out of NATO

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Trump then assigns them to protect Clinton, Obama, and Biden, who reject them and demand merit-based male agents.

Try to make it make sense!

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Long overdue!
Image depicting a dramatic portrayal of NATO with flags of the U.S. and Spain, featuring a prominent figure emphasizing the theme of NATO reckoning amidst military imagery.

Should the U.S. Leave NATO? NO, NATO Needs to PAY the U.S. to Stay!

Walking away completely is not the answer. Forcing a renegotiation is. It’s time NATO needs to pay the U.S. for it’s involvement with NATO.

For decades, the United States has carried this alliance on its back. We fund it. We defend it. We lead it. Meanwhile, too many member nations freeload, underinvest in their own defense, and still expect American protection. That era should be over. If NATO wants the United States, NATO needs to pay for the United States. Period.

And then there’s Spain.

If Spain is blocking U.S. access to bases and airspace during critical operations tied to Iran, that’s not just unhelpful. That’s betrayal. You don’t get to sit under the NATO umbrella while undermining the very country that makes that umbrella possible.

So here’s the line. Spain should be kicked out of NATO.

Not warned. Not negotiated with. Removed.

An alliance requires loyalty. If Spain won’t stand with America when it matters, they don’t belong. Let them see what defense looks like without the United States backing them.

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Latest updates from the Iran war:

  • The US and Israel step up attacks, targeting a century-old medical research centre in Tehran, a bridge near the capital and steel plants after United States President Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran back to “the Stone Ages”.
  • During his address to the nation on Wednesday, Trump said that the US was close to completing its core objectives in Iran – but didn’t offer a firm timeline for when the conflict might end. Iran says Tehran will continue to ‘fight back’.

Two of Iran’s biggest steel plants – Khuzestan Steel Company in the city of Ahvaz and Mobarakeh Steel Company in the central Isfahan province – say they have been pushed out of service following a series of US-Israeli attacks.

How far the Houthis are willing to go in this war?

Houthis in Yemen joined the regional conflict between their ally Iran and its enemies, the United States and Israel, by firing ballistic missiles into Israel last week.

UAE tells Iranian expats it will ‘protect rights of all residents’

The UAE says Iranians living there are a “respected and valued” part of society and the state is committed to protecting their safety and rights.

An estimated half a million Iranians live in Dubai alone.

Iran: Speaker Ghalibaf Still Alive; Hegseth vows ‘most intense day’ of US strikes against Iran…

An Iranian official has told Al Jazeera Arabic that no ship can sail through the Strait of Hormuz without an agreement with Iran and a thorough review of its documents.

“No ship carrying cargo for a hostile country has crossed the Strait of Hormuz so far, and none will cross it in the future,” the official added.

  • Iranian state media says a US-Israeli attack has targeted a petrochemical plant in Tabriz, while Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States is plotting a ground attack despite publicly engaging in diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war.
  • UNIFIL says a peacekeeper has been killed in an attack on a southern Lebanon position.

Correction:

NO, Speaker Ghalibaf has not been eliminated, at least not yet. 

That doesn’t mean he’s got an extra lease on life.

The US or the IDF may take him out at any time of their choosing.

Iran’s Ghalibaf warns country’s enemies will regret aggression against Iran

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warns that the nation’s enemies are presenting their “desires” as news while simultaneously issuing threats against the country.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has declared that the United States is “winning” in the fight against Iran, but he declined to provide a timeline as to when the war would end, stressing that decision lies with President Donald Trump.

“We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated,” Hegseth said.

“We do so on our timeline and at our choosing. For example, today will be yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran – the most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.”

Trump: ‘New’ Iran Regime in Place and Talking, but U.S. Will Blow up Its Power Infrastr

Pentagon readies ‘for weeks of US ground operations’ in Iran

The plans, which fall short of a full invasion, could involve raids by special operations and conventional infantry troops, The Washington Post reported.

The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of limited ground operations in Iran, potentially including raids on Kharg Island and coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz, according to United States officials quoted by The Washington Post newspaper.

The plans, which fall short of a full invasion, could involve raids by special operations and conventional infantry troops, the Post reported on Saturday, exposing US personnel to Iranian drones and missiles, ground fire, and improvised explosives.

Whether President Donald Trump would approve any of those plans remains uncertain, according to the report.

“It’s the job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the Commander in Chief maximum optionality. It does not mean the president has made a decision,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, responding to questions over the Post report.

Update:
 

Iran’s Araghchi tells Saudi Arabia: ‘Time to eject US forces’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country respects Saudi Arabia and considers it a brotherly nation, emphasising that regional operations are directed solely at “enemy aggressors”.

The Arabs don’t trust the Shia rafida, for good reason.

They prefer the Americans, as we can see.

Continue reading Iran: Speaker Ghalibaf Still Alive; Hegseth vows ‘most intense day’ of US strikes against Iran…

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NATO is on the way out.

Omar to be kicked out & back to Somalia?

Can’t wait to see that.

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US To Let Russian Oil Tanker Deliver Fuel To Cuba: Report

It could arrive as early as tomorrow night…

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Democrats Want YOU To Pay Reparations To Illegal Aliens 

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SHOCKER: Democrats Openly Admit Helping Illegal Aliens Are Their Top Priority 

Iran has agreed to allow 20 Pakistani-flagged ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz unharmed, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar announced Saturday.

Not Just ‘Damaged’ but Obliterated: Images of US AWACS Jet At Saudi Airbase

Images have emerged revealing that the Wall Street Journal’s initial report that the half-billion-dollar aircraft was merely “damaged” was an enormous understatement. Rather, a large portion of the fuselage has been obliterated, along with the distinctive 30-foot-diameter, 6-foot-thick rotating radar dome that’s mounted atop AWACS aircraft. We took a closer look at the photo set here. 

The images of the destroyed E-3 Sentry were first posted on the Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page:

  • Not just ‘damaged’ but obliterated: images show destroyed US AWACS jet at Saudi Airbase. 

“The loss of this E-3 is incredibly problematic, given how crucial these battle managers are to everything from airspace deconfliction, aircraft deconfliction, targeting, and providing other lethal effects that the entire force needs for the battle space,” Heather Penney, a former F-16 pilot and director of studies and research at AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, told Air & Space Forces Magazine. If this has been carefully kept under wraps until now, what else is the White House and Pentagon not telling the public?

UAE Slams Iran with Billions in Frozen Assets and Boots Iranian Residents
The United Arab Emirates is hitting Iran where it hurts most. In a sharp escalation amid ongoing regional conflict, the UAE has moved to freeze billions in Iranian-linked assets held in the Gulf and begun canceling residency permits for Iranians, including coveted Golden Visas.

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‘My favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran’: Trump indicates possibility of seizing Kharg Island

President Donald Trump said he wants to take control of oil in Iran and suggested the possibility of seizing Kharg Island, a key Iranian oil export hub, amid the ongoing US military buildup in the Middle East.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump said he preferred to take control of Iranian oil, comparing the strategy to the US plan in Venezuela, where it aims to control the oil industry indefinitely following the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

Related video: Trump addresses Strait of Hormuz: ‘We could close that up so fast’ (Daily Mail)

More below the fold.

Five drones shot down in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry says it has shot down five drones in the past few hours.

Kuwait says 5 drones shot down

The Kuwait National Guard says it has downed five drones, Kuwait News Agency has reported.

Israeli military intercepts 5 rockets targeting Haifa

  • United States President Donald Trump says in an interview he wants to “take the oil in Iran” as Tehran accusesWashington plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negotiated deal.
  • Kuwait says an Indian worker has been killed in an Iranian attack on a power and desalination plant, as Gulf states report intercepting drones and missiles.

Saudi Prince MbS reveals that President Obama gave Iran $150 billion, and the IRGC didn’t even build a single street with that money. Instead, they made missiles and drones. And they used the funds Obama provided them to finance and arm terrorists like Hamas, Ansar Allah, and Hezbollah.

With these funds, Iran offers safe harbor to the leaders of Al Qaeda, including one of Osama Bin Laden’s sons who was indoctrinated into jihadism. Obama is by far the worst man to ever set foot in the Oval Office. The neoliberals like Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Samantha Power, etc. who ran his administration did so deliberately in order to keep the region destabilized and to use Iran as a buffer to prevent the Gulf states and Israel from amassing too much prosperity.

The Arab Spring in turn was their way of creating a refugee crisis that would plunge Europe into financial and social turmoil, the effects of which are plain to see today as they struggle with irreversible demographic change. Chaos is a ladder, and peace is bad for the Democrats. It was the their way of keeping the Middle East down so they could retain the unipolar world order under the neoliberal agenda. The neoliberals did the same with Ukraine, and they tried to do it with Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. And they did so through USAID. Evil, evil stuff. Continue reading ‘My favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran’: Trump indicates possibility of seizing Kharg Island

Hezbollah ‘Journalist’: “I ask Allah to bless me with martyrdom”

No need to ask allah.

The IDF provided the transport to the virgins.

IDF CONFIRMS KILLING JOURNALIST ALI SHOEIB: ‘served as terrorist in Hezbollah under guise of journalist for Al-Manar network’

The IDF confirms targeting and eliminating Ali Shoeib, a Hezbollah terrorist masquerading as a journalist. Shoeib, in addition to being a member of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, was a long-time correspondent for Al-Manar, a Hezbollah-owned and operated propaganda outlet.

Two other journalists working for the Hezbollah-aligned Al-Mayadeen television station were also killed. — World media predictably framed the development simply as Israel “killing journalists,” marking yet another double standard considering the deliberate targeting of ISIS media operatives by Western coalition forces.

Ali Shoeib, Al-Manar’s house correspondent, is without a doubt the journalist Abu Ali Express wrote many times about him over the years. Many times he noted that there is great value in eliminating Shoeib (the last time was just two weeks ago ) – in terms of his media influence and the psychological warfare he waged against Israel for Hezbollah, Shoeib was worth more than a thousand Hezbollah military operatives. In the attached photo, he is holding one of the cameras that were dismantled several years ago from an IDF outpost on the border with Lebanon. Many times he confronted IDF soldiers and officers at point-blank range. The world is definitely better off without him.

The NYT claims targeting a Hezbollah journalist was illegal. International law says otherwise.

The New York Times reported on Israel’s killing of Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib in an airstrike near the southern Lebanese town of Jezzine. The strike also killed Fatima Ftouni and her brother Mohammed Ftouni, journalists for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen channel. The Times dutifully secured the standard quote:
 

Legal experts and human rights groups say that expressions of support for an armed group such as Hezbollah do not make someone a legitimate target under the laws of war, unless they actively participate in hostilities. 

“Just reporting on the advancement of Israeli troops or engaging in propaganda does not make someone a military target,” said Ramzi Kaiss, the Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The laws of war say otherwise. 

Iran Lost the Arab Street, Israel keeps hitting strategic targets deep inside Iran

Israel’s U.S. Ambassador: Cracks in Tehran’s Regime Widen

Iran Lost the Arab Street

  • US President Donald Trump announced that discussions are ongoing with Iran to “determine whether a broader agreement can be reached”, saying that “this time, Iran means business; they want to settle. They want peace”.
  • Tehran denied that talks with the US are taking place, with Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying such claims are “fake news” and being “used to manipulate financial and oil markets”.

‘False flag attack’: Iran denies claims it fired missiles at Diego Garcia

Esmaeil Baghaei denies the long-range missile attack on the base, which could change the war’s calculus for US allies.

Iran has denied targeting a joint military base of the United States and the United Kingdom on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia with missiles, dismissing the claim as an “Israeli false flag” attack.

 

Lebanon’s Aoun warns Israeli attack on bridge ‘prelude to ground invasion’

Israeli army chief says the operation against Hezbollah ‘has only begun’ and would be ‘prolonged’.

 

Did Iran launch missiles at US-UK base on Diego Garcia? 

The UK condemns what it says was an Iranian attack on the airbase in the Indian Ocean, but Tehran denies its role.

 

Trump: ‘We Have Major Points of Agreement’- Iran Threatens U.S. Again

Trump sez there are talks, Top Dogs of the remaining regime deny it….

The cardboard ayatollah is nowhere to be found:

Reports: Iran’s Cardboard Ayatollah ‘Isolated and Not Responding to Messages’

Trump Tells Reporters Talks with Iran Have Been ‘Very Strong’: ‘We Have Major Points of Agree

Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION

No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof.
@VDHanson
.

In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going – Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving.

Hanson’s Key Points: Continue reading Trump: ‘We Have Major Points of Agreement’- Iran Threatens U.S. Again

TRUMP GIVES IRAN 48 HOUR ULTIMATUM…

The war is now in full swing, Israel is battling on several fronts and Trump is thinking about “winding it down”, but Iran’s cardboard muftis still won’t open the straight of Hormuz, and that impacts all shipping of oil.

Lebanon

Hezbollah has carried out dozens of attacks from Lebanon into Israel over the past few days. There is, at this moment, a great deal of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

TRUMP: ‘Open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we will blow up your power plants’…

Iran warns of hits on energy, water sites after Trump threat

  • Iran has warned of retaliatory attacks on regional infrastructure if US President Donald Trump follows through on his ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has said he will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it fails to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
  • Israeli forces attack the Qasmiyeh Bridge, a key crossing linking Lebanon’s south to the rest of the country, in an escalation that President Joseph Aoun called a “prelude to ground invasion”.

A mourner holds a picture of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran [AFP]

Israel says new wave of missiles launched from Iran

The Israeli military says more missiles have been launched from Iran towards Israel’s territory.

In a statement, it said air defence systems are operating to intercept the attack.

Who is left running Iran?

Many of Tehran’s top leaders have been killed – from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to senior security figures – by the US and Israel.

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have framed the killings as victories in their war on Iran, but Tehran says its governance structure is built to withstand such blows.

Let’s bring you up to speed:

  • Iran’s military has warned of major retaliation if US President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to attack Iranian power plants, saying it would “completely close” the Strait of Hormuz and hit back at energy facilities in Israel and states hosting US bases
  • Israel carried out two attacks on southern Lebanon’s Qasmiyeh Bridge, which links Tyre with the rest of the country.
  • The bridge is now “essentially destroyed,” reports Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith from Beirut, while local electricity networks are also damaged.
  • Israel’s army chief said the country is ready for a “long campaign” against Hezbollah, which has claimed several attacks on Israeli military sites in recent hours.
  • Iran’s Health Ministry said 210 children have been killed in the US-Israeli war on Iran since February 28.

The Iranian “gift” for Eid al-Fitr: Missiles on Al-Aqsa

Internet shutdown in Iran enters day 23

Since the start of the war, Iranian authorities have imposed a nationwide internet blackout. According to the monitoring group NetBlocks, Iranians are now entering their 23rd day without internet access.

“The measure adds to the wartime distress of millions of civilians who lack independent sources of information and alerts,” it added.

  • Iran has warned of retaliatory attacks on regional infrastructure if US President Donald Trump follows through on his ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Trump has said he will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it fails to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Iranian attack on the holy sites sacred to all three religions reveals the madness of the Iranian regime, which claims to be religious.

Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research centre.

Israel’s military said it was not able to intercept missiles that hit the southern cities of Dimona and Arad, the largest near the centre in Israel’s sparsely populated Negev desert. It was the first time Iranian missiles had penetrated Israel’s air defence systems in the area around the nuclear site.

Here are the latest updates:

  • At least 180 people have been injured in two Iranian missile attacks on the Israeli cities Dimona and Arad, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
  • Hezbollah says it has targeted Israeli soldiers and military sites overnight and this morning in northern Israel’s Hanita and Avivim settlements as well as southern Lebanon’s Ras an-Naqoura.
  • The nuclear-powered British submarine HMS Anson has arrived in the Arabian Sea, according to a UK tabloid, amid US threats to escalate its military operations against Iran.
  • Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic lawmaker from Arizona, has called the US-Israeli war on Iran “reckless and illegal” while warning of its “catastrophic impacts”, including the deaths of American soldiers.
  • Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry says it has intercepted and destroyed a drone flying towards the eastern part of the country.

Donald Trump says he does not want to do a ceasefire with Iran

Trump hints at ‘winding down’ Iran war as US deploys more troops to region

Mixed messages from the US president come amid an escalating war.

Israel’s military says it killed four armed Hezbollah fighters during coordinated air and ground operations in southern Lebanon overnight.

Starmer, Lammy and other UK ministers are repeatedly saying “the US should set out their war aims”.

But Trump’s war aims are very clear.

Trump says no ceasefire as Khamenei issues defiant message

  • US President Donald Trump says he does not “want to do a ceasefire” with Iran. “You know you don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side,” Trump tells reporters.
  • Trump calls NATO allies “cowards” over lack of support for his war on Iran, brands the Western military alliance “a paper tiger” without the US.

US-Israel attack Iran’s Natanz nuclear site as Diego Garcia base targeted

UK officials have not given details of the attempted strikes that were unsuccessful. It’s unclear how close the missiles came to the base, 4,000km (2,500 miles) from Iran in the Indian Ocean.

IRGC Cowards Flee to Afghanistan as Iran’s Regime Crumbles

Masked Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members—once feared enforcers of the mullahs’ brutal rule—are now caught on video crossing into Afghanistan with passports in hand, desperate to escape the fallout from devastating US-Israeli strikes.
 
Al Arabiya footage shows these IRGC rats abandoning their posts, some reportedly shaving beards to avoid recognition after the Supreme Leader’s death and relentless attacks shredded their command structure.
 
These are the same thugs who terrorized civilians for decades. Now, with top commanders eliminated, missile forces crippled, and desertions mounting, they run like cowards when real pressure arrives.
 
Over three million Iranians displaced, borders chaotic, and the regime’s grip slipping fast—proof the theocracy is finally cracking under decisive force.
 
The IRGC only knows bravery against unarmed protesters. Against determined enemies, they vanish.
 
The end of this oppressive era can’t come soon enough.

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