Lebanon is under Iranian occupation

That’s the real reason it’s turning into a killing field.
 
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are using the Lebanese—all Lebanese—as human shields.
 

In Beirut in the past 24 hours, there hasn’t been any Israeli strike since that large scale attack on Wednesday. It appears that the US administration is pressuring Israel to accept at least a reduction of violence, if not a ceasefire, because its priority is to save that deal with Iran.

But Iran has interests to ensure that deal holds, it is continuing to insist that the Lebanon front is included.

  • As the US and Iran prepare for talks in Pakistan, Israel continues to bombard Lebanon after killing at least 300 people and injuring 1,150 in nationwide strikes on Wednesday.

The Israeli military says more than 40 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in southern Lebanon over the past week, and 50 infrastructure sites destroyed.

The Israeli military has been threatening to target ambulances in Lebanon, accusing Hezbollah of making “extensive military use” of them.

Iran: the IRGC came out with a new map recently where ships must go.

They are demanding tariffs and charges that ships should pay to Iran to go through.

Hezbollah continues to target northern Israel with drones and missiles

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement in northern Israel with a squadron of attack drones on Friday.

BREAKING: The IDF gave it a name. Operation Eternal Darkness. Read the name as a capability statement, not a codename.

Ireland’s foreign minister says she is “appalled” by the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and has called for the US-Iran ceasefire to be extended to the country.

Continue reading Lebanon is under Iranian occupation

Iran’s Leaders Are Dead, Its Navy Is Sunk, and the Media Says Trump Is Losing

What Vance is saying is Pakistan passed different versions of the same proposal to Washington and Tehran, giving each side a text that did not match what the other had sent.

Result: the biggest day of Israeli bombing in Lebanon, 250+ killed.

Trump declares ‘regime change,’ says ‘Iran will cease uranium enrichment, we’ll dig out nuclear dust’

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei has ordered courts to expedite trials and executions for Iranians accused of helping foreign enemies, particularly the United States and Israel.

His directive demands that final verdicts, including capital punishment and the confiscation of assets, be carried out without delay or leniency to maintain a deterrent effect against Iranians who are opposed to the Islamic regime.

These expedited measures specifically target those labeled as “enemy agents,” with seized funds reportedly being diverted to state-controlled compensation funds.

“The Islamic Iran is exercising its undeniable right to legitimate self-defense, and we will continue this defense in the most powerful manner possible until our national security is guaranteed,” says Mohseni-Ejei.– visegrad.24

Iran’s Missing Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ‘Unconscious’

Explosions Heard at Kharg Island, Iran’s Critical Oil Export Site

Psychobabble:

Palestinian Authority: ‘Iran should have fired more missiles at Israel in Oct. 7 war’

W.H.O. Answers Iran’s Call to Meddle in Conflict with U.S.: ‘Peace Is the Best Medicine’

Before the ‘Ceasefire,’ the IDF Helped an IRGC Intelligence Chief Meet His Maker

Obama must be brought to justice!

Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly.

He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled,

“Obama: It was You.” Continue reading Obama must be brought to justice!

Trump, Hormuz & the End of the Free Ride

This is the first informed, intelligent assessment of this conflict.

All the US leadership had to do was to act on something no one else was willing do. 


Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. Continue reading Trump, Hormuz & the End of the Free Ride

Trump threatens to ‘bomb Iran back “to the Stone Ages”’

Israeli forces carried out a series of attacks against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) infrastructure in Iran’s capital yesterday, the military says.

  • Iran fires more missiles at Israel 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 Washington is close to achieving its war objectives.
  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Tehran will continue to fight back for as long as US-Israeli strikes continue. Esmaeil Baghaei adds Tehran “will not tolerate this vicious cycle of war, negotiations, ceasefire”.

Trump Considering Withdrawing U.S. From ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO

It is unlikely Trump will pull the U.S. Out of NATO. But he will certainly make the EUnuch’s pay for their cowardly behaviour…

President Trump: Iran Has Asked for a Ceasefire

President Trump: Iran Has Asked for a Ceasefire…

In his address to the US public on Wednesday, President Trump threatened to bomb Iran back “to the Stone Ages” if it did not agree to a deal meeting Washington’s conditions to end the war, now in its fifth week.

The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is a front for Hamas & the MuBros in the U.S.,  has slammed Trump’s threat to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”, saying the remarks were “anti-Muslim, racist, and dehumanising”.

Rubio: ‘We Can See the Finish Line — It’s Not Today, It’s Not Tomorrow But It I

  •  US President Donald Trump claims that Washington has destroyed the Iranian military and is close to achieving its war objectives.
  • Trump’s address to the nation came hours after he claimed Iran had asked for a ceasefire, a claim Tehran denied.

American Journalist Kidnapped in Baghdad, Suspects Linked to Iran-Backed Militia

Syrian Blackmail

Germany’s Merz Expects 80% Of Syrians To Return Home Within 3 Years

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) met with controversial former Al Qaeda  head-chopper Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former (?) jihadi terrorist, in Berlin on Monday afternoon.

Merz may claim he wants Syrians to return home but hundreds of thousands of Syrians will be naturalized within three years…

Among the topics discussed, one of the most prominent was the fact that Merz wants 80 percent of the Syrians currently living in Germany to return home.

“In the longer perspective of the next three years, it is the wish of President al-Sharaa that around 80 percent of the Syrians in Germany should go back into their homeland,” said Merz, before adding: “We need a reliable repatriation option, cooperation with Syria.”

Merz said he supported that, saying many of them “are needed at home.”

Syria: Turkey-backed jihadis say they’re ready to die fighting Christians in the way of Islam 

 

The chancellor also made clear that protection statuses would be reassessed.

“Those who have no claim will leave Germany again,” he said — particularly those who “abuse our hospitality.” He balanced this with an acknowledgment that “we are pleased about the many Syrian skilled workers who have integrated.”

Merz reflected on how, roughly a year ago, the dictatorship in Syria “was shaken off,” and reaffirmed that Germany had always stood by the Syrian people, despite the new government being accused of a number of atrocities against minorities, including Christians and Druze.

Merz described reconstruction as an “enormous effort,” stressing that stability and economic performance would be essential for it to succeed. A German delegation is set to travel to Syria “in a few days” to advance cooperation on that front.

Geert Wilders has the same problems in Holland:

The Syrian head of state opened by expressing his “deep gratitude” to Germany, declaring that “Syria is an important country for Europe” and that the country could “come back stronger,” adding: “We want to rebuild our country.”

He noted that 1.3 million Syrians currently live in Germany, including 6,000 doctors who could make a significant contribution to Syria’s recovering economy.

Now let’s take a closer look at these doctors: Continue reading Syrian Blackmail

Hungary didn’t just ‘remove’ the EU flag… they threw that symbol of Brussels BETRAYAL straight out of Parliament

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has repeatedly stressed that migration is not a complex puzzle that needs compromise, but a simple legal issue: those who enter unlawfully should not be allowed into the country and must be denied legal status if they do. Orbán has insisted that “there is a simple rule: you have to be able to protect your own borders,” and that Hungary’s experience — with only a handful of asylum applications accepted when strict enforcement is in place — proves that firm border control works if political will exists. Continue reading Hungary didn’t just ‘remove’ the EU flag… they threw that symbol of Brussels BETRAYAL straight out of Parliament

Trump: ‘Severe consequences’ if Iran keeps blocking Hormuz Strait

Latest updates:

WSJ: President Trump Shares Clip of U.S. ‘Bunker Buster Bombs’ Hitting Iranian Ammuniti

TEHRAN — Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country’s key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants.

Desperate Iran Sprays Missiles Across Middle East as Trump Threatens Oil Hub

TRUMP HAS BEEN PLANNING TO TAKE IRAN OIL FOR 40 YEARS!…

Netanyahu: War ’Beyond the halfway point’

Trump: ‘New’ Iran Regime in Place and Talking

  • Fars news agency is reporting that US-Israeli attacks on Isfahan province in Iran targeted some “military sites”.
  • Firefighters extinguish a blaze on Kuwait’s Al-Salmi oil tanker at the Dubai port following an attack on the fully loaded ship.

Trump wants to invade Iran to seize oil, calls US objectors ‘stupid people’

‘Severe consequences’ if Iran keeps blocking Hormuz Strait, warns Rubio

U.S. BOMBERS HEADING TO MIDDLE EAST REFUSED PERMISSION TO LAND AT ITALIAN AIRBASE

Hegseth: Talks with Iran ‘Very Real’ and ‘Gaining Strength’

 
  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that US President Donald Trump prefers diplomacy as a way to end the conflict with Iran, and direct talks with Tehran are ongoing through intermediaries.
  • Trump earlier threatened to target Iran’s civilian energy infrastructure, including power plants, oil wells, and Kharg Island, if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Rubio says Strait of Hormuz to reopen ‘one way or another’ amid Iran war

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in war on Iran

WHITE HOUSE TELLS SPAIN: U.S. MILITARY ‘DOES NOT NEED YOUR HELP’

The announcement comes after Madrid refused to let Washington use jointly operated military bases for the US-Israel war on Iran.

US President Donald Trump threatened to cut trade with Madrid after the Spanish government denied the US use of the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain, forcing 15 US aircraft to relocate.

Spain has also been a vocal critic of Israel’s  war on Gaza. In October, its parliament approved the enshrinement in law of a total arms embargo on Israel, permanently banning the sale of weapons, dual-use technology and military equipment.

Some action in Judea & Samaria:

This is from Al Jazeera, so the language is about “settlers” & “occupied”.

  • Israeli forces stormed schools run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in the Shuafat refugee camp, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem.
  • Israeli forces arrested a 24-year-old student during a raid on his home in Kafr al-Dik, west of Salfit.
  • Dozens of Israeli settlers set up mobile homes on Palestinian-owned land in the village of Birin, southeast of Hebron, to expand the illegal outpost of Mitzpe Ziv.
  • The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound remains closed after it was shut to Muslim worshippers in late February. Israeli authorities extended the state of emergency until mid-April.
  • The Israeli parliament approved the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners accused of killing Israelis.

For more on what has happened in Palestinian territory this week, here is a recap.

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…

“Europe is on track for civil war”

“…we are on a track for a peasant revolt. A conservative uprising in which the ruled seek to punish their rulers for violating their obligations under the social contract, and for changing the rules of the game against their wishes…”

EU Parliament Conference Hears Continent ‘On Track For Civil War’

‘Will There Be a Europe in 50 Years?’

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It is an open question whether there will be a Europe in 50 years’ time, a European Parliament conference on civil war heard this week.

Many government officials already perceive the horrific implications of Europe’s nation states losing their self-belief and descending into polar factionalism, with the continued existence of Europe or its constituent parts in question, but understand that speaking of it openly remains career suicide, a conference at the European Parliament has heard.

It is “a possibility that is quite close” that the British people will pass into history “like the Canaanites or the Arcadians”, and it is an open question whether there will be a Europe in 50 years’ time, a European Parliament conference heard from a panel of expert speakers.

Continued below the fold.

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The elderly live too long and they pose a risk to the global economy. We must do something urgent.– Lagarde 

Lagarde, or rather her handlers, denies that she made that statement. Continue reading “Europe is on track for civil war”