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[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

Our strategy has to be “the Strait without Oman,” because Iranian sovereignty over Hormuz is a product of geography and military deterrence, not a permission slip from Muscat. Oman is a weak actor operating in the shadow of American power, and its “strategic ambiguity” isn’t principled neutrality — it’s the calculated fear of a small state that doesn’t want to provoke Washington. Tying Iran’s sovereignty over its most critical point of leverage to the risk tolerance of a government like that means outsourcing a strategic decision to an actor that is itself subordinate to the regional hegemon’s will. In an anarchic international system, no serious power hands its vital deterrent lever over to the security calculations of a timid neighbor; Tehran alone pays the cost if Hormuz is lost, so Tehran alone must decide what happens to it. Oman’s caution is rational for Oman — but for Iran, it should be nothing more than a variable to route around, not a partner in policy-making.

[Al Mayadeen English @MayadeenEnglish]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that Tehran and Muscat have agreed to sustain bilateral discussions at all levels to forge a common understanding on ensuring the security of maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Stressing the strategic nature of the waterway, the Foreign Ministry emphasized that any future arrangements for managing shipping and transit must be established through direct consultations between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman.

The Ministry's spokesperson further noted that a Qatari delegation was also present for a portion of these diplomatic talks hosted in Oman.

#Iran #Oman #StraitOfHormuz #AlMayadeen

[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

@MayadeenEnglish Israeli media, foreign sources… what a load of crap. wtf is this?!!

[Al Mayadeen English @MayadeenEnglish]

The IRGC's Operation Nasr 2 targeted and destroyed weapons depots, satellite communications facilities, accommodation buildings, fuel storage sites, Patriot and C-RAM radar systems, the US Fifth Fleet's air control radar, and a command center for unmanned guided boats in Bahrain.

https://t.co/GOJ9w8yQOe

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal's devices on return from reporting trip to Iran

Blumenthal was targeted with smears by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Ali Khamenei’s funeral and the war
https://t.co/7PkYhEipDs

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi has begun attacking Sana’a and Sa’dah, Yemen.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Iranian Ballistic Missiles Target US Bases In Bahrain

Sirens are currently blaring.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Iran has just Struck several US-escorted Oil Tankers with Missiles in the Strait of Hormuz

The UAE has Confirmed that Two of its tankers are Damaged

[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

الله اکبر 🚩

[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

Trump says Iran has been ‘pushing people around’ for 47 years. In that same 47 years, Iran started zero of the two wars it’s fought: Iraq invaded first in 1980, and the US and Israel opened this one on February 28 by killing Iran’s head of state. As for who’s got the credibility problem — CENTCOM spent the spring calling Iranian claims of downed U.S. aircraft ‘false’ and ‘disinformation,’ shot down flatly on X in real time. Then in May, Congress’s own nonpartisan research service tallied the real number: at least 42 U.S. aircraft lost or damaged in Operation Epic Fury, including F-15s, an A-10, seven KC-135 tankers, and 24 MQ-9 Reapers — a count the daily denials never came close to admitting until the paperwork forced it months later. That’s the pattern: deny in real time, correct the record when nobody’s watching. Whatever ‘winning’ means here, the receipts keep arriving late.

[RT @RT_com]

‘For 47 years in a row, they were pushing people around. They’re not pushing US around. We’re pushing them around’ — Trump on Iran

[ابراهیم عزیزی @Ebrahimazizi33]

This is the Persian Gulf, and Iran sets the terms in the Strait of Hormuz.

To the Bay of Pigs failures: enough with the empty bluster, publish the real numbers on your human and financial losses.

[RT @RT_com]

HOUTHIS VOW MASSIVE ATTACKS on AIRPORTS, PORTS and OIL FACILITIES

Retaliation after Sanaa airport STRIKES

Saudi forces already firing to DOWN incoming MISSILES — AlArabiya

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Yemen Fires Ballistic Missiles & Drones At Saudi Arabia

The Yemeni Armed Forces target Abha International Airport and King Khalid Airbase in response to the strikes on Sana’a International Airport earlier.

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

🔴 Ansarullah: Bab al-Mandab will also be closed, like the Strait of Hormuz; oil prices will rise to $200 per barrel.

Follow: https://t.co/mLGcUTS2ei

[راه دیالمه @Rahe_dialameh]

جواد لاریجانی در شبکه خبر: قالیباف نباید دیپلمات باشد باید انقلابی بماند

🌐 @Rahe_Dialameh

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Iran Formally Announces Its Withdrawal From The Memorandum Of Understanding

The war has resumed.

Meanwhile, Yemen says Saudi strikes on Sana’a Airport constitute a declaration of war.

[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

Rezaee isn’t boasting. He’s confessing. A real nuclear deterrent doesn’t need to be “defended” — it deters by existing, permanently, without a single sortie fired in its name. Iran doesn’t have that. Its supreme leader was martyred in his own bunker on February 28, and everything since — the tanker strikes, the blockade, the claim that Hormuz was seized by force and will be held by force — reflects a state leaning on the one lever available to it after choosing not to cross the nuclear threshold. This is the Price of the Umbrella thesis playing out in real time: Iraq had no bomb and was invaded, Gaddafi surrendered his and was hunted down, Ukraine handed over its warheads for paper guarantees and was invaded twice. A strait can be struck, blockaded, and reopened by whoever has the bigger navy. A warhead cannot. Rezaee’s own words made the point for us: the chokepoint exists because the deterrent doesn’t.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader says the Strait of Hormuz is more valuable to Tehran than nuclear weapons.

Mohsen Rezaee said Sunday that Iran would defend the strategic waterway following Tehran’s announcement that it was closing the strait after the latest round of U.S. strikes.

“This strategic passage is more important than dozens of atomic bombs, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will protect it.”

[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

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[Voidmark @7Voidmark]

Been down a rabbit hole on Iran’s ethnic fault lines this week — Kurdistan alone absorbed a fifth of every strike in this war. Barely made it into Western coverage. New piece is up.

https://t.co/hAXJkeoFvP
https://t.co/cQ2DLvFW83

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

🚨US Navy fifth fleet in Bahrain is on fire!