Japan will provide Australia with a normal level of fuel supply as the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked.
The Australian government is continuing to meet with fuel exporters in the region to shore up ongoing supply.
What’s next?
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is planning a visit to Australia, Japanese media is reporting.
Fuel will continue to flow from Japan into Australia under assurances given during recent talks between the two countries.
Australia sources just 0.7 per cent of its petrol and 6.8 per cent of its diesel from Japan, with the bulk of it coming from Singapore and South Korea, according to data published by the NRMA.
Japan is among the top five countries from which Australia sources refined fuels.
Australia now has fuel reserves equivalent to 39 days’ worth of petrol, 29 days’ worth of diesel and 30 days’ worth of jet fuel.
Trump has repeated a demand for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, issuing what he says is a 48-hour deadline.
“Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”
Connectivity watchdog NetBlocks reports that Iran’s internet has now been down for 35 days, a total of 840 hours, as it enters its 36th day.
US-Israeli attacks have hit two petrochemical plants in southern Iran’s Khuzestan province, and one person has been killed in another strike on the Bushehr nuclear site.
The UAE today bore the brunt of Iran’s retaliatory attacks on GCC countries, saying it responded to 23 ballistic missiles and 56 drones today.
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Trump scolds allies for not joining Strait of Hormuz mission
European leaders have rejected demands by US President Donald Trump to join military operations to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Germany says it has no intention of joining the US-Israeli war as Europe’s foreign policy chief says EU nations have “no appetite” to send forces to ensure open navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran says it has closed access “to our enemies”.
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
Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to pursue a vigorous policy of diversity and métissage. Concretely, this means giving preference to minorities (Mohammedans) in job hiring and prosecuting those who do not comply. In other words, affirmative action as a government policy from which none are exempt.
In his message Sarkozy insisted that the French people must change, that there will be dire consequences if they don’t, and that not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. Thus he amalgamated the concepts of preference for minorities in job hiring with that of the need for the French to intermarry racially.
The ongoing Western social engineers’ jihad to deracinate the white race by herding European women into the warm embrace of Third World migrants has not, so far, gone as swimmingly as the architects of globo-homo race communism had hoped.
Indeed, the majority of the migrant-native sexual relations in Europe appear to be the non-consensual type.
Enter the crack social scientists of EU-funded academia to figure out what went wrong so as to expedite the mongrelization.
Cuckold extraordinaire Rolf Degen, with funding from the European Research Council (ERC), explains that, while the male “refugees” are “highly open” to coitus with native German women, the women themselves exhibit “much lower openness” via Journal of Family Studies:
“This study examines partnership preferences of male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria who arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016 and female residents of similar age…
Conflicts and political unrest in numerous Middle Eastern and North African countries have triggered a substantial migration of refugees to Western Europe in the last decade (OECD, Citation2017). Germany, in particular, received over 1,4 million refugees between 2014 and 2016, predominantly from Muslim-majority countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. The majority of these arrivals consisted of young, single men within prime marriageable age brackets* (BAMF, Citation2018; Sauer & Kraus, Citation2024). Facing a host-country partner market with a scarcity of co-ethnic individuals and restrictive policies on transnational marriages (Kraus, Citation2024; Rüdel & Joly, Citation2024), many of these refugees may consider forming partnerships with members of the host population (Nauck, Citation2008). The extent to which the German resident population is receptive to such partnerships remains a topic of ongoing public and academic discussion (Dancygier et al., Citation2019; Kogan et al., Citation2023; Kuhlemann et al., Citation2025)…
Overall, these results show a general high openness among male refugees towards partnering with a woman from the resident German population…
In contrast, comparable analyses for the resident female population show a much lower openness towards partnering with an Afghan or Syrian refugee (see figure 2b). Both women with and without a migration background clearly prefer a partner born in Germany over a Syrian or Afghan refugee.”
*How curious that all of the “refugees” from Syria and Afghanistan just happen to be military-age single men — a fact which, when “white supremacists” observe it, is a “conspiracy theory”!
Of all the war-torn “refugees” fleeing oppression, they all just happen to be horny men who arrive on European soil with no women of their own to fornicate with.
What are the odds the demographic migrant cookie crumbles like that — serendipity for the social engineers who aim to force blonde women into the arms of brown carpetbaggers!
Thousands of Iranians gathered in Tehran for the funeral of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval commander, killed in an Israeli strike, with mourners pledging unwavering resistance despite stern warnings from the United States.
People attend Alireza Tangsiri’s funeral, holding his portrait and that of Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right. [AFP]
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.
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.
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”.
It was just confirmed that No Kings protests are funded by 500 ORGANIZATIONS with $3 BILLION in annual revenue. Fox investigated and found that it’s George Soros and Neville Singham-linked groups and nonprofits…
Marxist groups are involved, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and People’s Forum It’s being called a “STAGED, MANAGED PRODUCTION” We ALL KNEW it was staged and funded!
The flags flown at the No Kings Rallies were pretty representative of the Democratic coalition: communist hammer & sickle, trans, Hezbollah, Hamas, & all being waved by weirdo boomers. If you want to know where the energy on the left is – they showed you.
Canada’s globalist WEF lackey Mark Carney was installed to finish the job that clown Trudeau did so well: the dismantling of a perfectly good western civilised country and its replacement with 3rd world savages.
Canada’s prime minister declares Islam as Canada’s new cultural identity which all Canadians “must come together” and follow the Muslim community as they worship Islam by marking ‘Eid al-Adha’.
As you can see in the video, during his speech he urged Canadians to adopt Islam and embrace its values as their new shared culture with the Muslim population in Canada and Muslims around the world who are welcome to come to Canada and enrich it with more foreign religions values because: Muslim values (jihad and martyrdom) are Canadian values.
Flashback: pic.twitter.com/wJ5UsQkheX
Canada’s prime minister declares Islam as Canada’s new cultural identity which all Canadians “must come together” and follow the Muslim community as they worship Islam by marking ‘Eid al-Adha’.
As you can see in the video, during his speech he…
