Category: Trump

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…!”

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

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”

JUST IN: Failing British PM Starmer Refuses To Help Enforce US Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade

‘U-Turn’ Starmer Pauses Plans To Hand Over Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia Airbase Back to Mauritius After Trump Called It ‘An Act of Great Stupidity’

British Conservative Douglas Murray Expertly Dismantles Bill Maher’s Defeatism on Iran: ‘It’s an Amazing Strategic Success’ (VIDEO)

Crowd of protesters holding Iranian flags and signs during a rally advocating for political change in Iran.

Media Downplays NATO Endorsement and Iranian Popular Support for U.S. Strikes

The current mob in Canberra needs more than a warning:

The Hungarian parliamentary election is scheduled for today, Sunday 12 April 2026

The shit media really had it in for Orban’s Hungary. Not replacing native Hungarians with a Mohammedan proletariat is a bad thing for these clowns, at least that is what they want you to believe.

The demonisation of Viktor Orbán is relentless. The Hungarian PM is not a ‘far-right fascist’, just because he objects to mass migration and wokeness. He is one of the few conservative holdouts in a Europe dominated by hyper-liberalism, says Miriam Cates
 
How Viktor Orbán revived European conservatism
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How Viktor Orbán revived European conservatism

Vance Accuses Brussels Eurocrats of ‘Election Interference’ Against Hungary’s Orb

Continue reading The Hungarian parliamentary election is scheduled for today, Sunday 12 April 2026

Pakistan is not an honest broker

“Death to America” cries & dies when America bombs the IRGC. And the Paki defence minister goes apeshit over Israel. Now this guy is supposed to be a neutral arbiter of peace.

Vance in Pakistan to lead US-Iran ceasefire talks; Israel bombs Lebanon

  • US Vice President J D Vance has arrived in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad to lead the ceasefire negotiations, the highest-level talks with Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Before departure, he said: “If the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we are certainly willing to extend an open hand.”
  • High-profile Iranian officials have also arrived in Islamabad for the ceasefire talks with the US, including Tehran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Who would accept this guy as an honest broker?

Israel rejects ceasefire with Hezbollah ahead of Lebanon talks

Israel says it will not discuss a ceasefire with Hezbollah when it meets Lebanese diplomats for talks in Washington next week – as Israeli attacks on Lebanon go on.

Read the full report here.

Ask Not for Whom the Hormuz Tolls

President Trump on Thursday warned Iran that it should not charge a toll for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which seemed to contradict what he said to ABC’s Jonathan Karl earlier in the week. Maybe he was only joking when he said he was thinking of making the toll a “joint venture” with Iran and called it a “beautiful thing.” That might not seem like something you would joke about, but would you stand next to the Easter Bunny while making a speech about the war?

Main talking points at ceasefire talks in Pakistan

Here are the main ⁠issues the two sides are expected to discuss.

Tehran is insisting that formal talks can only begin after Washington gives commitments on a ceasefire in Lebanon ⁠and lifting sanctions on Iran. Continue reading Pakistan is not an honest broker

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

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

Image depicting a crossed-out figure, military aircraft, and naval ship against the Iranian flag background, symbolizing opposition to military power in Iran.

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

Before ‘ceasefire,’ Iran called for human shields, urged youth to form ‘human chains’ around power plants
 

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

Iran: Ceasefire ‘a Mistake’

Trump threatens action if Tehran fails to comply with deal

  • US President Donald Trump, writing on social media, says that “all US ships, aircraft, and military personnel” will remain in place around Iran until the “real agreement” on a ceasefire “is fully complied with”, warning of more conflict otherwise.
  • Lebanon has declared a day of mourning after a wave of Israeli attacks killed at least 254 people and injured more than 1,165 in a single day on Wednesday.

Forbes reported:

“White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said reports the strait is closed are “a case of what they’re saying publicly is different privately—we have seen an uptick in traffic in the strait today,” she said, adding, “it has been relayed to [Trump] privately” that the strait remains open “and these reports publicly are false.””

NATO flag engulfed in flames against a dramatic sky

BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded

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Ceasefire ‘a mistake’, says Israeli minister from ruling Likud party

Israel’s diaspora affairs minister and member of the ruling Likud party Amichai Chikli says a ceasefire with Iran was “a mistake”, according to local media reports.

“I think it was a mistake to go to a ceasefire at this time. Countries like these, the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany, you need to bring them to their knees,” he told Israel’s 103FM radio.

Press secretary delivers a briefing at the White House, with the presidential seal and American flag in the background.

White House BLASTS Fake News Media for Pushing Iran Propaganda — Trump REJECTS 10-Point Plan and ‘THROWS It in the GARBAGE’

Vice President JD Vance Delivers Important Clarifying Remarks on Iran as He Departs Hungary

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Vice President JD Vance gave an impromptu press conference as he departed Hungary.  At the beginning of his remarks, Vance wanted to clarify several false media reports surrounding the Iran ceasefire deal.  WATCH:

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Takes Credit for Iran Ceasefire He Just Found Out About

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In typical U.K political fashion, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer flew to Saudi Arabia to present the optics of participation, when he found out about the Iran ceasefire deal.

Immediately, Starmer, with an apparent mouse in his pocket, heads for the cameras to announce, “well, we’vejust reached this ceasefire.”   WATCH (prompted):

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Fashionable woman in a stylish outfit posing indoors alongside a portrait of a military figure in uniform, highlighting contrasting styles and contexts.

Niece of Slain Terrorist Qasem Soleimani BEGS Ex-Boyfriend to Help Her “ESCAPE” Texas ICE Detention — He Fires Back: “She Scares Me!”

NATO will never be the same, indeed, it might not be there at all….

NATO Sec’y General: ‘Some’ in NATO Failed During Iran War, ‘Large Majority’ of Europe Didn’t

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that some NATO members did fail their tests during the war in Iran, but “a large majority” of European nations lived up to their commitments.

Host Jake Tapper asked, “Do you agree that NATO countries, some of them, were tested and failed?”

Rutte answered, “Some of them, yes, but a large majority of European countr[ies] — and that’s what we discussed today — have done what they promised before in a case like this, because they know that, when it comes to NATO, it’s there to protect the United States, because the U.S. needs a secure Atlantic and a secure Arctic and a secure Europe to stay safe here in the U.S. mainland. But it is also there to make sure that, of course, Europe is safe, and to be this platform of power projection for the United States. So, what the U.S. did with Iran, they could do because so many European countries lived up to those commitments, not all of them. And I totally understand his disappointment about that. But it is, therefore, a nuanced picture. It is not just saying it is black or white.”

Toyboy of Macronesia:

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are now saying it clearly:

 Trump: “They haven’t been friends when we needed them. We’ve never asked them for much. … It’s a one-way street.”

Rubio has been similarly blunt: “If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked but then denying us basing rights when we need them, that’s not a very good arrangement. … So all that’s going to have to be reexamined.”

They’re spot-on.

No Deal

Trump says Lebanon and Hezbollah not included in Iran ceasefire: “Yeah they were not included in the deal.” When asked about Israel’s ongoing strikes in Lebanon, Trump replied: “It’s part of the deal — everyone knows that. That’s a separate skirmish.”

The White House on Wednesday touted achieving a ceasefire and said the United States “exceeded” all military objectives in the Iran war within the initially projected time frame.

Property confiscation & mass-executions in Iran.

Meanwhile, the deranged commentariat goes apeshit over Trump & Netanyahu:

Iran also launched drone strikes against energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

JD VANCE: IT WOULD BE ‘DUMB’ OF IRAN TO END NEGOTIATIONS OVER LEBANON

BREAKING: Keir Starmer arrives in the Middle East to take credit for the ceasefire.