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[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING!!!! The White House has released the full text of 14-point MoU

The points summarised are as follows:

1. The U.S. and Iran, and their allies in the current war, by signing this MoU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.

2. The U.S. and Iran will respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.

3. The U.S. and Iran commit to achieving a final deal in a maximum of 60 days, extendable with mutual consent.

4. The U.S. will immediately begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic will be in proportion to the number of pre-war traffic being restored by Iran. The U.S. further undertakes to remove its military forces from the proximity of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.

5. Iran will make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining, within 30 days. Iran will conduct a dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.

6. The U.S. undertakes with its regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran, as part of the final deal after 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions will be granted.

7. The U.S. will terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the UNSC resolutions, IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal.

8. Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpile enriched materials, pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with at a minimum a downblending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to Iran's nuclear needs.

9. Pending the final deal, the U.S. and Iran agree to maintain the status quo. Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the U.S. will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.

10. The U.S. undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MoU, waivers will be issued for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.

11. The U.S. undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MoU. The U.S. and Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations.

12. A monitoring mechanism will be established to supervise the implementation of this MoU and the subsequent deal.

13. After signing this MoU and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11, and the continuing implementation of these measures, the U.S. and Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal.

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a UNSC Resolution.

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@JackPosobiec Lie

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Two days ago, President Lukashenko warned Israel that they need to seriously evaluate their actions and the genocide they're commiting in Gaza.

Yesterday, Israeli MFA called Lukashenko's comments "vile and antisemitic."

Today, a bus full of Belorusian children was targeted with a Ukrainian drone....

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@JackPosobiec Strated a war, was forced to end it - Noble peace prize? Only a degenerate Neocon could say something stupid like that

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

Kiev terrorists hit a bus carrying children from Belarus. A woman was killed, and minors were among the injured. They were heading for the holidays.

Meanwhile, Western media are running images of Zelensky hugging his European sponsors.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇨🇳 Ex-Vice President & CEO of China's National Offshore Oil Corporation, 67y.o. Yuan Guangyu sentenced to death for bribes totaling more than 163MIL yuan (around $22.5MIL) — Xinhua

Court found him guilty of grand corruption, bribery & abuse of power

From 2004 to 2024, he used his position to promote interests of private businesses

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇷🇺NEW ARTICLE: US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy

(NOTE: Because X continues working with the US government it continues blocking links banned under Twitter in cooperation with the US State Department including NEO articles, so I am publishing the whole article below).

The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and containing rivals as described in the 1992 New York Times article, “U.S. Strategy Plan Call for Insuring No Rivals Develop.”

As part of this long-standing strategy the US has developed specific plans to encircle and contain key nations including China, Iran, and of course Russia. These plans often overlap - as degrading the power and influence of one targeted nation reduces the combined power and influence of all three as well as the multipolar world order they seek to construct.

For Russia specifically, the RAND Corporation’s 2019 paper, “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground” lays out policy options the US has clearly pursued for years leading up to its publication and ever since.

These options targeting Russia include those of an economic dimension such as, “hinder petroleum exports,” “reduce natural gas exports and hinder pipeline expansions,” “impose sanctions,” as well as geopolitical measures like “provide lethal aid to Ukraine,” “increase support to the Syrian rebels,” “promote regime change in Belarus,” “exploit tensions in the south Caucasus,” “reduce Russian influence in Central Asia,” and “challenge Russian presence in Moldova.”

Virtually all of these options have been implemented in one way or another - from the US sending lethal aid to Ukraine the same year this paper was published under the first Trump administration, to the continued arming of terrorists in Syria by the US culminating in the collapse of the Syrian government in 2024, to the physical destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines as well as constantly expanding US-led sanctions and maritime interdiction operations targeting Russian energy exports.

Exploit Tensions in the South Caucasus: Politically Capturing Armenia

In light of the recent elections in Armenia (in the south Caucasus region) and the President of the European Commission Ursula Van Der Leyan congratulating Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan by exclaiming, “the spirit of the Velvet Revolution you led in 2018 is alive and well,” it appears that once again the US objective of “extending Russia” has been further advanced.

While many have been tempted to assign Armenia’s pivot away from its traditional Russian partnership to the European Union and NATO to European influence - the US government itself engineered the protests in 2018 Van Der Leyan referenced, with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) itself admitting in its 2018 annual report that:

NED’s many grantees in Armenia were in the forefront of the “Velvet Revolution” last spring that swept from office a corrupt and autocratic president who wanted to manipulate the constitution to retain power. In subsequent elections held in December, the party alliance of the new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won 70 percent of the vote, setting the stage for building accountable and effective government ministries, reforming the judicial system, and strengthening the media as a critical watchdog over government performance.

By “corrupt and autocratic” the NED means a government that does not answer to Washington at the expense of its own national interests, and by “accountable and effective ministries,” the NED means accountable to and effective at serving Washington - even at the cost of Armenia’s own interests.

Organizations involved in the US-engineered “Velvet Revolution” in Armenia and the subsequent cementing of US political capture over the nation include the “Union of Informed Citizens” whose 2021 annual report admitted extensive US government backing and direction continued well after the 2018 protests - as well as Boon TV which is admittedly funded by the NED’s European counterpart, the unimaginatively named “European Endowment for Democracy.”

Just like with other nations the US has politically captured, Armenia’s “color revolution” and “regime change” were just the beginning. With a client regime in place, the floodgates of foreign interference by the US are opened.

The NED reported the following year in its 2019 annual report that US government interference shifted from producing desired outcomes during elections to consolidating political control in their aftermath, noting, “since the 2018 revolution in Armenia, NED grantees have shifted their focus from holding a corrupt regime accountable to supporting governance reform.”

Again - language like “corrupt regime” and “reform” translate into a government unwilling to subordinate itself to US interests and consolidating US control.

The same 2019 NED annual report notes how “several NED grantees have entered government,” demonstrating how US-engineered protests not only seek to overturn a targeted government, but replace it with a US-prepared and selected client regime.

NED subsidiaries like the National Democratic Institute (NDI) announced in their own 2020 report regarding Armenia the launching of two programs, “the Intern Program of the National Assembly of Armenia and the Katarine Women’s Political Leadership Program.”

The same report mentioned, “a graduation ceremony for the Institute’s Young Political Leadership Strategy Program.”

In other words the NED and its subsidiaries and European counterparts are not just funding protests, opposition parties, and placing into power client regimes, but are creating a much wider pipeline for transforming young people into pro-Western, pro-American, pro-NATA and pro-EU cadres and manipulate public sentiment into serving US interests at the cost of their own, objective best interests.

The political capture of Armenia by the United States mirrors that of Georgia and Serbia in the early 2000s and the more recent political capture of Ukraine in 2014.

The London Guardian in its 2004 article, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev,” admitted the protests in Ukraine that year were, “an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes,” that “the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box,” and that “Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia.”

Again, terms like “rigged elections” and “unsavoury regimes” translate into elections that did not turn out the way the US preferred, and governments not yet subordinated to Washington.

Extending Russia

Within the 2019 RAND Corporation paper, “Extending Russia” under, “Measure 4: Exploit Tensions in the South Caucasus,” US policymakers specifically mention Armenia.

The paper states:

The United States could extend Russia in the Caucasus in two ways. First, the United States could push for a closer NATO relationship with Georgia and Azerbaijan, likely leading Russia to strengthen its military presence in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia, and southern Russia.

Alternatively, the United States could try to induce Armenia to break with Russia.

The paper unapologetically admits the capture of Armenia - as well as Georgia - would enhance the encirclement of not only Russia, but also neighboring Iran as well as provide the US access to energy resources in the Caspian Sea.

The paper explicitly states:

While the principal aim of these policies would be to extend Russia, closer relationships with Georgia, Azerbaijan, or Armenia might yield important secondary benefits for the United States. The geographic position of Azerbaijan makes it a prime location for both intelligence gathering and deterrence measures relating to Iran, especially because many of Iran’s Kurdish and Iranian populations are concentrated near the Azeri-Iranian border. Stronger ties with Georgia, hailed by the conservative Heritage Foundation as “one of America’s best allies in Europe” for providing one the largest contributions of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, could pay strategic dividends in the future.

Increased U.S. involvement in the region could produce additional economic benefits as well. The Caspian Sea remains a key producer of both oil and natural gas. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that there are “48 billion barrels of oil and 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in proved and probable reserves in the Caspian basins. Almost 75 percent of oil reserves and 67 percent of natural gas reserves are located within 100 miles of the coast.” A closer political relationship with Azerbaijan would help secure continued access to these resources for the United States and—perhaps more important— for its allies in the future.

Far from ensuring US national security - US foreign policy is predicated entirely on compromising the national security of all other nations around the globe - “friend” and foe alike. The goal is to first subordinate as many nations as possible, then encircle, contain, and eventually collapse those it cannot.

While the 2019 RAND Corporation paper feared “flipping” Armenia would likely be difficult - it appears the US has successfully managed to do so nonetheless.

This may be in part due to the entire premise of the paper itself, “extending Russia.” An overextended Russia may focus more resources on one crisis the US creates for it - say in Ukraine - at the expense of being able to prevent other US-created crises from overwhelming its available resources elsewhere.

Syria - mentioned specifically in the RAND Corporation paper - is one such example. Russia’s military commitment to fighting against the US proxy war in Ukraine left little resources to continue defending Syria from a similar US-backed proxy war in West Asia, resulting in the collapse of Syria in late 2024. Prior to 2022, Russia had not only stopped the advance of US-backed terrorists in Syria, but managed to stabilize Syria for several years.

“Extending Russia” may have forced it to likewise concentrate resources on preserving its relationships with nations like Belarus and perhaps Georgia at the expense of other nations like Armenia for the time being.

Washington’s Unnoticed Superweapon

The admitted election interference and political capture of these nations by the United States spanning the entire 21st century has changed the global geopolitical map in Washington’s favor. Yet this process still remains a poorly understood, under-reported, yet an incredibly powerful US tool in its pursuit of primacy and its “insuring no rivals develop.”

Nations like Russia and China are clearly aware of this US method of infiltrating and capturing the political, educational, cultural, and informational space of targeted nations along their respective peripheries and beyond - leading to the subsequent hijacking and transformation of these nations’ military and economic power from serving self-preservation to serving as self-destructive proxies aimed at both nations.

Both nations through government and media programs have published reports and documentaries detailing the process - but often long after US success.

Unfortunately, the state media of both nations have repeatedly failed to “get ahead” of US infiltration and subversion - often with both Russian and Chinese state media simply repeating Western media narratives depicting protests organized by the US as “pro-democracy” or “anti-corruption” movements - thus amplifying US information warfare.

While both nations have “proofed” themselves against this form of US interference and political capture, they have failed to provide their partners and allies with the means to defend against this threat as well.

Both Russia and China have created their own domestic social media platforms and have displaced US-based social media platforms which are used specifically to capture and control a targeted nation’s information space. Yet neither nation has successfully exported either these social media platforms themselves or the capability of creating domestic versions of them in partner nations to secure their respective information spaces.

Global campaigns, forums, and other formats used to raise awareness of US political infiltration and political capture have been meager and ineffective in exposing US methods and the dangers they pose - even as the glow of Ukraine’s burning to the ground serves as a warning to the world of the final destination awaiting US politically captured nations.

At the moment, Armenia is transitioning into another US-captured battering ram to use against both Russia and Iran.

In the Asia-Pacific region the US is likewise rapidly transforming the Philippines into the “Ukraine” of Southeast Asia vis-a-vis China.

Other nations around the globe leaning toward the multipolar world Russia, China, and Iran advocate, remain targets of US infiltration and political capture, with armies of NED-funded organizations hard at work, quietly building up not only opposition parties to protest in the streets and interfere in elections, but also through the US capture of their respective information spaces - misleading the public into believing US interests are somehow “their own” interests.

Russia and China both provide partner nations with the military means of defending their traditional national security domains - air, land, and sea. A concerted effort to both expose the danger the US poses to non-traditional national security domains like political and information space, and by providing a package of technologies and methods to defend against this danger could provide these nations the ability to thwart Washington’s aggression this century, similar military backing provided nations like Vietnam to defend themselves with last century.

Nations must create educational and training pipelines within their own borders to produce the human resources required to both administer the nation and inform the public of national affairs through the media. Sending young people abroad to the West to study “journalism” or “political science” only ensures their indoctrination by the West and their likely lifelong service to the West when they return home.

Infrastructure essential to this process such as social media platforms are as important to be controlled within a nation’s borders as are physical roads, borders, shores, and airspace. In the 21st century, allowing US-based social media platforms to dominate any other nation’s information space would be like allowing US troops to mind another nation’s roads, borders, shores, and airspace. If the latter is unthinkable, why is the former still the norm?

Until nations around the world can first see this danger to their political and information space as clearly as they see military threats to their physical borders and take the steps required to secure them - the US will continue to exploit this advantage, often toppling and capturing entire nations without deploying a single US soldier or firing a single shot - all before feeding these captured nations into regional proxy wars as well as global campaigns of political and economic pressure against Washington’s enemies - all to Washington’s benefit and at the expense of everyone else.

Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

A bad day for the war mongers is a good day for humanity!

[🇷🇺 ULIANA STRIZH - WARGONZO🇷🇺 @UlyanaStrizh]

Ukraine has a heavy underwater drone

At the international exhibition Eurosatory in Paris, the Ukrainian(?) company Global Mark presented a heavy underwater drone SEA TRIDENT (sea trident), designed for the destruction of strategic targets.

It is reported that the device was developed for maritime operations requiring full autonomy and low visibility. SEA TRIDENT is capable of delivering a warhead weighing 1000 kg to strategic targets located in maritime zones. The declared maximum range of the drone is 2000 miles (3704 km), weight - 10,000 kg, maximum speed - 10 knots (18.5 km/h), cruising speed - 6 (11 km/h). The working diving depth is 60 meters, which allows it to operate effectively in coastal zones.

One look at this huge guided torpedo is enough to understand what it is intended for. The target will be the Crimean Bridge, which has been tormenting Ukraine and its British patrons for years, who, most likely, made this wunderwaffe for it.

In recent months, the Kiev regime has been methodically conducting an operation of transport blockade of Crimea. Ukrainian drones constantly terrorize the federal highway "Novorossiya" and regularly hit the bridges leading to the peninsula from the north. It is obvious that the enemy has concentrated significant forces and means to achieve the goal of this operation, the final chord of which can not be the destruction of the main bridge in Crimea.

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[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

It is a stain on America that you used to be the Secretary of State for our country, Mr. Pompeo. Your gross distortion of history, is why you make such hideous decisions — which always work out bad for our country.

To suggest that Iran wants to “kill Americans“ for no reason, totally ignores the fact that we supported an eight year war against them (by supporting Saddam Hussein, of all ppl), that we assassinated their senior General, and that we twice started a war with them in an eight month period — during the second of which we assassinated their leader and multiple other political and senior military figures — and that we have had sanctions on them to try and destroy the regime for the majority of its existence.

ANY nation on this planet is going to resist that and will not be neutral against that kind of relentless onslaught of pressure.

If you want them to behave as a “member of the community of nations“ then stop killing them or that advocating their destruction on a routine basis.

It’s a miracle that they’re still willing to even talk to us at all. The last thing any president should do the rest of your natural lifetime is to listen to a word you say – as it always harms America when they do.

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

We are the nation of Imam Hossein

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@JackPosobiec Same team, fuck you both

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@DD_Geopolitics All PR and circus, but stupid sheep will listen and believe as if Hews are running the US

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Israel Erases Bedouin Villages In Naqab Judaization Drive

Despite the residents having Israeli citizenship, their villages are left “unrecognised” by the government & hence allows a legal loophole to destroy their homes, attempting to force them from the area to make way for Jewish only settlements.

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @s_m_marandi Lying scumbag can only twist words in desperate attempt to confuse people, what a pathetic degenerate you are

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Which passports are more indestructible? Iranian or Russian?

[HiveMindNode @HiveMindNode]

@DD_Geopolitics CIA, Mossad, Neocons and Zionists played Trump like a puppy while blaming Iran

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Roger Waters Releases A New Song For Gaza With Palestinian Singer Mona Miari

The track is a re-imagined version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. Its music video is set to be released this Wednesday.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING!!! Bloomberg has published the text of the Memorandum of Understanding:

1. Tehran, Washington, and their allies announce immediate and final end to war on ALL FRONTS.

2. Tehran, Washington, and their allies pledge not to launch any hostile action and to refrain from threats.

3. Tehran and Washington pledge to reach an agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable.

4. The United States LIFTS the naval BLOCKADE on Iran immediately upon signing the MOU.

5. The United States pledges to WITHDRAW ITS FORCES from the regoin within 30 days from the date of the final agreement.

6. Iran works to resume ship movement within 30 days, taking into account its need to remove obstacles.

7. Washington pledges to cooperate with its regional partners in rehabilitating and economically developing Iran. Washington commits to ENDING SANCTIONS on Iran according to a timeline agreed upon as part of the agreement.

8. Iran reiterates that it will NEVER PRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Tehran and Washington agreed to discuss the fate of enriched materials and nuclear issues in a final agreement.

9. Tehran and Washington agree to maintain the status quo until a final agreement is reached. Iran maintains its current nuclear program without Washington imposing sanctions or strengthening its forces.

10. Washington pledges to EXEMPT IRANIAN OIL and related banking services from sanctions.

11. Washington pledges to RELEASE FROZEN IRANIAN FUNDS and assets. After receiving guarantees for the implementation of a number of agreement provisions, the two countries begin final agreement negotiations.

12. The final agreement between Washington and Tehran is adopted by a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.

[Victor vicktop55 commentary @vick55top]

Anti-Starlink device:

The Russian "Volna Dome Garant" system, developed to counter Starlink satellites, has demonstrated high effectiveness in local tactical operations, technical and information security specialist Sergei Trukhachev told TASS.

He noted that the device doesn't disable Starlink in the traditional sense, but rather "stuns" a specific satellite during its flight. Media outlets previously reported on the Russian military's use of the "Volna Dome Garant" system to jam Starlink satellite communications.