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[₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ @Navsteva]

A look at Iran's fast attack boats - something Trump's Project Freedom will have to contend with.

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨Chinese expert Victor Gao on China's sale of CM-302 anti-ship missiles to Iran:

"China and Iran have the full sovereign right to do this. No country should act surprised."🇨🇳🚀

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

🇺🇸 American woman:

"I am happy that we are losing the war with Iran."

Iran does not intend to harm us. They are only challenging our foolish government.

"Let us suffer a crushing defeat that makes the United States not dare again to attempt to carry out such disgraceful acts."

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Lebanon is the second most-documented genocide in history after Palestine, yet the most denied.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

🇦🇪🇮🇷 Reportedly, The UAE Invited Israeli Soldiers to Defend It

This explains why Iran attacked the UAE the most. I bet they KNEW it was full of IDF soldiers.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Meanwhile, Chinese EVs forced Tesla to cut the Model 3 prices to a record low in Canada. This is what competition brings to consumers: cheap and nice cars.

Unfortunately, US consumers are still trapped in their government’s protectionism and have to buy expensive outdated cars.

[Ava Brooks @ViralMindLive]

"Project Freedom" is already a fucking disaster 😂

Trump drops this huge new “secure corridor” to take back the Strait...

And ships immediately said “nah we’re good” — still glued to the Iranian traffic lane like the US plan doesn’t even exist.

The map is brutal as hell. Zero traffic in the American zone.

This is straight-up humiliating. Iran still owns the flow and everybody knows it.

How long before they quietly kill this whole thing? Drop your unfiltered take 👇

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Were you caught off guard by the operation of Iranian F-5 fighter jets?

Iranian pilots have been practicing low-altitude flights over the Persian Gulf for more than 30 years, preparing for a moment like this—to strike deep into a U.S. base undetected and by surprise.

We did not win in Hollywood; we won on the battlefield.

[MadaniNomics 🇲🇾 @MadaniNomics]

Rakaman video yang memaparkan seorang warga emas menampal lubang jalan menggunakan simen dan wang sendiri di Jalan Merpati, Kalumpang, tular di media sosial sehingga mengundang kecaman terhadap Majlis Perbandaran Hulu Selangor (MPHS).

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

WHY IRAN STANDS FIRM

The American strategy is simple: eliminate leaders until someone agrees to everything. In autocracies, this works. Elites there rely on fear and money. If you remove the top, the rest start bargaining.

But not in Iran.

Because Iran is not an autocracy in the usual sense. It's an ideocracy. Power there belongs not to a single person or a family clan, but to an orderly structure bound by a common ideology.

In such systems, a different selection principle applies. Not "who steals the most" or "whose family is stronger". But "who has proven personal loyalty to the cause".

That's why the method of targeted eliminations, which works against autocracies, backfired here. Iran didn't collapse - it consolidated.

In systems where elites are focused on accumulation, the fear of losing capital paralyzes them. There, the top starts negotiating, betraying, saving assets.

💯 Western strategists miscalculated. They measured Iran by their own standards: they thought the elites would be scared, falter, start bargaining. But they encountered the fact that power there doesn't rest on fear and money, but on the fact that the next ruling layer is ready to take the place of the one eliminated.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Iran just turned American precision against America. Sixteen bases destroyed across eight countries, using satellite data borrowed from China and Russia and munitions that cost nothing.

Meanwhile the United States had four years watching Ukraine rewrite the rules of modern warfare under live fire. Learned nothing. Sent an invoice. Insulted Zelensky on the way out.

Europe, Canada, and half of Asia signed production agreements with Kyiv instead. Building the new model with the people who actually fought the war.

Washington still thinks it is selling the future. It is selling the past at a premium.

https://t.co/6Me6ZfFjRK

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Iranian media say a US navy ship has been hit by two missiles, and was forced to turn back, after ignoring Iran's ​warnings while ‌it was sailing near ‌Jask ‌Island near the Strait of Hormuz.

Al Jazeera’s @ResulSerdarAtas has more from Tehran.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 An Iranian ballistic missile allegedly struck a U.S. aircraft carrier, and the damage reports are being buried.

Fmr. CIA intel analyst Larry Johnson makes the claim that would rewrite naval history: the USS Gerald Ford took a hit, the first carrier struck in combat since World War Two, with casualty reports actively withheld from the public.

In his telling, Iran targeted the Ford specifically because it ran command and control for the entire US air campaign.

The Pentagon has categorically denied any strike on the Ford, attributing the ship's damage to an onboard fire.

If Johnson is right, the public is being kept in the dark about the most significant naval combat event in 80 years...

@NewSonof

[Iran Army Media @IranArmyMedia]

🇮🇷IRAN JUST RELEASED A VIDEO OF A DATA CENTER THAT IS HIDDEN EVEN BY GOOGLE MAPS BELONGING TO THE U.S. 😲😲

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇬🇧🇮🇷 2 days as Prime Minister, and Burnham is taking the UK in to war

The New UK PM Burnham has approved the use of UK bases for US strikes on Iran, per CBS

[Ir.Kumar @skumar176]

Never handover our country to robbers and corrupts who have treated our National yearly budget as their family allowances ! Keep the robbers @umnoonline , @PASPusat , PN, BN , MCA and MIC out for good !

[RT Intl @RT_on_X]

‘American bases in the Gulf states are useless, they are not defending, protecting the Gulf states’ — Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Qatar University Political Science Prof to RT

‘We [the Gulf states] are who have been protecting these bases, not the other side [the US]’

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Anti-war protesters interrupted Pete Hegseth during a Senate hearing, shouting:

Stop bombing children in Iran and Palestine!

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.

Zero Western media coverage.

The complicity runs so deep...

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Iran has been bullied, plundered, terrorized, sanctioned and attacked for decades.
Iran suffered -but never retaliated.

Yemen has been under the most brutal blockade, aimed at starving an entire population, for over a decade.
Yemen suffered -but never retaliated.

They endured unimaginable suffering despite having strategic power over the entire world economy.
They chose to suffer when the world was watching them die of starvation, being attacked and assassinated.

Not anymore. The era of terrorism, subjugation and oppression by the global elites is over.

Both Straits are now closed.

Let that orange fuck open it if he can.