The UN bureaucrats don’t want to go begging for cash among difficult right wing populist leaders, they want their own money. So, yet again, they’re proposing some form of carbon tax on ships and planes, supposedly to save the world from beachy weather.
If they succeed, they will just ask for more. There’s no accountability. No limits. Just an infinite array of ways to “help us” by taking our money.
Negotiating with Islamic terrorists in general is a humiliation ritual. The moment you agree, you’ve lost face, shown weakness and it is now their mandate to humiliate you as much possible in order to extract maximum advantage while failing to keep any promises that they make.
Our leaders still haven’t learned this most basic fact from history. Including American history. (In two recent articles, “The Truth About the First Muslim Country to Recognize America” and “America Has Been Fighting Islamic Attacks for 242 Years”, I discuss how Adams and Jefferson learned this the hard way, trying to make treaties with Muslims in Algiers and Morocco, only to have them demand tribute and attack us anyway.)
So Iran is now doing exactly what I and anyone who knows anything about Islam and geopolitics predicted it would do, closing and opening the strait and demanding more. Currently Iran is demanding that the United States stop Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah attacks in Lebanon.
Assuming that J.D. Vance secures a blank check for Iran’s terrorists in Lebanon, there will be more demands, more closures and the humiliation rituals will go on until we wake up and stop jumping every time the terrorists shout… or until Iran’s ‘Death to America’ motto has been achieved.
You can’t negotiate with Islamic terrorists. All you can do is be taken hostage by them. Choosing to negotiate with them is choosing to be taken hostage. The moment we stop negotiating, the hostage crisis ends.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would “indeed” conduct inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, as the Iranian terror regime agreed to allow such inspections in its peace deal with America.
We have a strange spectacle. The war, or whatever it was, between the U.S. and Iran is over, and peace has dawned. Trump is touting his peace deal, while the Iranians are refusing to play along, and are instead making new demands, seeing Trump’s weakness and hoping he will promise that Israel will not retaliate against Hizballah’s jihad attacks in Lebanon before they give him his chimerical peace. Meanwhile, both Trump and the Iranian leadership are claiming victory. Which one has the more convincing case? Well, the Islamic Republic is still in power in Tehran. It is still screaming “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” It is refusing to give up its nuclear program, or, indeed, give an inch on anything else. Victory? Really, Mr. President?
This is a CNN story. CNN is known to be fake news.
A US fighter pilot rescued after his plane was shot down in Iran has given a bone-chilling account of the moments before he was forced to eject, describing how he was swarmed by Iranian drones moving together in unison like some nightmarish jellyfish from hell.
“Multiple drones interconnected and moving as one with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs,” one of the sources familiar with the pilot’s witness account told CNN.
Looks familiar? You’re right. We have seen this before:
Secretary of State John Kerry apologized for suggesting that Israel risks becoming an Apartheid state but this did not satisfy Israel’s distrust of the peace process after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a new unity agreement with Hamas, which the U.S. recognizes as a terrorist organization.
THE U.N. SAYS ISRAEL “DELIBERATELY TARGETED CHILDREN.”
Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem gave an Ashura speech on Sunday where he came up with a new Jewish conspiracy theory.
He stated, “Israel, through its presence and influence, has imposed in some countries that verses that speak about the Jews should not be taught so that future generations do not learn the history of the Jews and remain ignorant of historical facts.”
Essentially he is saying that some Muslim countries, under Israel influence, are not teaching the verses of the Quran that are negative towards Jews.
Which means that the head of Hezbollah just admitted that the Quran is antisemitic.
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says an agreement has been reached with the United States to release $12bn in frozen Iranian funds.
Trump says Tehran agreed to allow international nuclear inspections and any released Iranian assets will be solely used to buy US agricultural products.
So far, there has not been any direct statement from Iran on whether inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be let back into the country.
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says an agreement has been reached with the US to release $12bn in frozen Iranian funds.
This comes after the US announced a temporary easing of sanctions to allow the sale of Iranian oil and petrochemicals until August 21.
US President Donald Trump says Tehran has agreed to allow international nuclear inspections and that any released Iranian assets will be used to buy US agricultural products.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will continue to occupy southern Lebanon and “demolish” Hezbollah infrastructure.
Lebanon
A new round of US-mediated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon begins today in Washington and is due to last until Thursday.
Here’s what you need to know:
Lebanon is represented by Ambassador Nada Moawad, while the Israeli delegation is headed by Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. US officials are also participating in the talks.
The negotiations mark the fifth round between the two sides.
The latest discussions come after US-Iran negotiations resulted in a ceasefire agreement on June 19 and the creation of a “Lebanon de-confliction cell” tasked with supporting efforts to end Israeli attacks in the country. The ceasefire has largely held.
Lebanon is seeking Israel’s withdrawal from the south of the country, where the Israeli military have established a so-called “buffer zone” that encompasses about 6 percent of Lebanese territory.
Israel says it is seeking the “disarmament” of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah says the talks should be limited to “mutual security” and that its weapons must be kept off the table.
Here’s what happened overnight:
Iran says technical talks in Switzerland with the US have successfully concluded, and that the next phase of negotiations will involve the high-level political committee overseeing the mediation.
Iran’s Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has defended the decision to hold talks with the US, saying Iranian delegates went to Switzerland to end the bloodshed in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz and Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir say Israeli troops will continue to occupy southern Lebanon.
The UN says Sunday marked the first time its peacekeepers detected no air attacks in Lebanon since March 2.
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi reaffirms commitment to “toll-free passage” in the Strait of Hormuz after talks with Iranian diplomats in Muscat.
The people of Spain are now fed up with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Not because he recognized a “state of Palestine.” Not because he has put in place a boycott of all goods made in Judea and Samaria. Not because he has threatened to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “war crimes.” Not because he has now put a permanent embargo on all weapons that might be sent to Israel. No, the people of Spain are against Pedro Sánchez because he runs the most corrupt regime since the time of the late, unlamented Fascist — in the true sense — Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Sánchez, his wife, his brother, and his closest allies have all been implicated in overlapping corruption scandals. More on the protests against Pedro Sánchez, his grasping wife, his greedy brother, his greedy and grasping political allies, can be found here: “WATCH: Spanish Protesters Flood the Streets Demanding the Resignation of Socialist PM Sánchez Mired in Corruption Scandals,” by Paul Serran, Gateway Pundit, May 23, 2026:
Let’s celebrate the resignation of Keir Starmer with this wonderful song. Bye-bye, Keir! We will remember you as the biggest wanker of all UK leaders. Donald Trump and his band are performing this song for your pleasure. The Spotify version is coming soon. pic.twitter.com/id88G2yqJA
The problem in Iran is Islam.
Until that ends, there will be no change.
“There was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining. But at the end of the day, the talks continued and we made great progress.”- J.D. Vance
Trump obviously wants to put an end to this war. Democrats and the media successfully turned public opinion against it. Gas prices turned public opinion against it. Worse still for the president, due to the sudden and unexpected opportunity to take out most of Iran’s leadership four months ago, there was no opportunity to sell the public on the need to go to war with Iran before the war started. Continue reading Trump: if Iran closes the straight again they won’t have a country anymore
Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn’t look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn’t care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is cutting through one of the most persistent misunderstandings in American foreign policy thinking: the idea that radical Islam has territorial ambitions that can be satisfied, contained, or negotiated down to a manageable province. 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨.
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Every major radical Islamic movement, Rubio argues, identifies the same enemy: “𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩.” This is not a fringe reading of radical Islam’s stated goals. It is the explicit, documented, repeated declaration of every significant movement in that tradition — from al-Qaeda to H∗mas to H∗zbollah to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝. Rubio points to the progression: radical Islam has designs openly on Europe as well as the United States, and the continent has already seen that progression in real time through terrorism, political pressure, and demographic change.
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Iran is the most important piece of this picture. Tehran gives the radical Islamic project something most terrorist movements have never had: 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐬∗𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐢𝐥.
Without Iran, the global reach of this movement is constrained. With Iran, it has a government-level platform.
A senior Palestinian Islamic leader says they want to invade Europe and America to force the non-Muslim population to bow down to Islam and hand over their lands, property, and daughters.pic.twitter.com/GSBcJKzU1g
