Category: Lebanon

Netanyahu is not a cardboard mufti:

I’m here with Israel’s Defense Minister, our Chief of Staff, the head of the Mossad, the Chief of Air Force, our senior commanders. In the past 24 hours, we knocked out two of the terrorist chieftains, the top terrorist chieftains of this tyranny.

Our aircraft are hitting the… pic.twitter.com/lFJKEMvgxR

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 17, 2026

Joe Kent Was a Problem of Trump’s Own Making

‘It’s a Good Thing He’s Out’:

Iran vows ‘revenge’ for Larijani, Soleimani; 2 killed in attacks on Israel

• Iran launches more attacks on Israel in retaliation for the killings of its security chief, Ali Larijani, and Basij force commander Gholamreza Soleimani. At least two people are killed.
• Ali Larijani’s elimination signals a potential turning point in Iran

The ‘moderate’ who ran death squads: how BBC and Sky sanitise the Iranian regime

Afew days ago I watched Sky News with amazement as they showed Iranian propaganda images of Ali Larijani walking down the street in Iran on Al Quds Day. They kept commenting how it showed Iranian strength that he was able to walk so freely without fear of assassination, among his people.

Mojtaba’s Empire

Billions $$$$$ abroad while Iranians bleed at home.

Mojtaba Khamenei is the 56-year-old son of Ayatollah Khamenei, the late unlamented leader of Iran who recently proved, as tyrants often do, that “nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” Daddy’s little boy even in his mid-50s, Mojtaba is has just been named to succeed his father.

Mojtaba has one thing in common with his late father: he loves money, and all the things that money can buy. Reports from Western intelligence services estimate Ayatollah Khamenei’s net worth was $95 billion. Some estimates go even higher. How much of this money will end up in Mojtaba’s clammy grasp is unknown, but even before his father’s death Mojtaba was said to have a net worth of $3 billion.

He has gold and diamonds worth $300 million, and has reportedly distributed $2 billion across foreign bank accounts in the UAE, Syria, Venezuela, and several African states. He also has extensive land holdings near Mashhad in eastern Iran. Finally, he has a property empire in London, Dubai, and on the continent of Europe. Just two of his apartments in Kensington are worth 50 million euros.

Read it all. It’s an eye opener!

Lebanon cannot be expected to disarm Hezbollah amid bombings: French envoy

France’s special envoy for Lebanon said it would be unreasonable to expect the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah while under Israeli bombardment, adding that only negotiations can resolve the crisis.

Israel bombs central Beirut, killing 6, strafes south, east Lebanon

Wave of Israeli air attacks launched as ground offensive widens in south where Hezbollah are fighting Israeli forces.

• Several central neighbourhoods in Beirut have been attacked in a series of Israeli strikes. 

  

  Beirut building turned to rubble by Israeli attack

  Several central neighbourhoods in Beirut have been attacked in a series of Israeli strikes. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr has been at the scene of one attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building.

  For years, Beirut’s southern suburb has been spoken about as though it were a world apart: A Hezbollah bastion, a target, a warning, or a battlefield. But in Arabic, the word “dahiyeh” simply means “the suburb”.

   

  Dahiyeh – in size nearly as big as municipal Beirut – has been shaped by migration and displacement in the past 50 years. While many moved there in search of work or housing, most of the others were pushed there by wars, political unrest, evictions and a general sense of being neglected by the Lebanese state.

   

  This is Al Jazeera BS. Lebanon has been invaded & occupied by Islamic forces, namely Hezbollah, which ruined  Lebanon in a bloody civil war.
  

  Iran allowing more ships through Strait of Hormuz, data suggest

  The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz has nearly doubled in recent days, a maritime intelligence company says.

  The effective halt of traffic through the waterway has sent oil prices surging above $100 per barrel, an increase of more than 40 percent compared with before the start of the war.

  No shortages in Qatar

  Qatar has no reason to worry about goods shortages or disruptions to supply chains despite heightened regional tensions, the country’s customs chief tells Al Jazeera.