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🇺🇸 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to invoke the War Powers Act and order an end to President Trump’s unauthorized military operations against Iran, passing the measure 215-208 in a bipartisan rebuke of the Trump admin’s handling of the three-month-old war.

🔸Four Republicans broke with party leadership to join Democrats in support of the resolution: Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett, and Warren Davidson. (AP News)

🔸Sponsored by Rep. Gregory Meeks, the measure directs the president to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress formally declares war or passes a specific authorization for the conflict.

🔸The vote comes after House Republican leaders postponed an earlier vote before Memorial Day amid concerns they lacked the support to defeat it. The Senate has already advanced its own version, signaling growing bipartisan pressure on the White House to seek congressional approval for the conflict.

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Sudan Nashra: Military gains ground in Blue Nile front | RSF drones hit busy markets in North Darfur’s Zaghawa lands | Emerging alliance under Abdel Wahid Nur seeks seat at table in Sudan’s political talks

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@Elinoam_Shefi @POTUS @araghchi LOL 47 years of harsh crippling sanctions, derailing every attempt to normalize relations via diplomacy , overthrowing their democratically elected govt in 1953, bombing them back to Stone Age is sure no concern for their freedom!

[Richard @ricwe123]

It’s deeply satisfying to watch the narratives pushed by Mike Pompeo and Victoria Nuland completely unravel the moment they’re forced to face the hard facts laid out by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.
Their talking points immediately collapse under scrutiny because their bullshit rhetoric can not survive contact with reality.

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⭕️ Senator Booker attacks Iran deal from the right

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker told CNN’s State of the Union that Trump was being “played as a fool” in negotiations with Iran. “This weak nation has put America in a stalemate.” 

Booker’s framing drew sharp criticism from anti-war commentators. Journalist Erik Sperling noted that Booker was attacking Trump exclusively from the right, including by citing the war’s failure to prevent Iran from what Booker described as “fueling their terrorist proxies.”

Media critic Adam Johnson added that Booker’s positioning amounted to “We’re The Competent Imperialists,” saying it was “incoherent, tedious and draws no meaningful contrast” with the administration.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

The NYT article reveals that our military is telling President Trump what has been obvious from the onset of this war: there is no quick military solution in Iran and our early actions set the conditions for the stalemate we are in now.

Trump’s best option is to declare victory and walk away now. Limit our exposure in the region, reduce the risk of Iran restarting the war on their terms, and reset negotiations with sanctions relief as both carrot and stick.

The Iranians have adapted to our attacks. They can “win” simply by not losing. Future strikes will be less effective, cost us more in casualties, and further harden Iranian resolve.

Killing the Supreme Leader rallied the Iranian people around the regime. By also eliminating many moderate leaders, we’ve left ourselves with mostly hardliners to negotiate with, who are unlikely to give Trump the concessions he’s demanding.

Two lessons we should have learned in the GWOT:

1. If you stay within reach of the enemy, they will adapt and ultimately win the long war by grinding us down. Iran is doing this on a massive scale with ballistic missiles, air defenses, and drones—the same concept as IEDs, just more advanced.

2. Attacking a nation will rally the people around the regime we’re trying to overthrow, or around forces far worse.

Regime change is a fool’s errand.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 The Senate advanced legislation aimed at forcing Trump to end the Iran war or seek congressional approval, after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy flipped his vote days after losing his primary race, which Trump declined to support.

The measure passed 50-47 with support from Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and now Cassidy, exposing growing GOP fractures over the war. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted with most Republicans for more unchecked war.

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@araghchi An illegal war of choice and aggression , we the people of the USA, don’t want nor ask for, request an immediate U turn in our nefarious policies against #Iran ! Here in California, we’re paying $7 plus for ⛽️ still ⬆️ ! #NoWarWithIran #DisengageTheWarMachine @realDonaldTrump

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Araghchi absolutely RIPS at the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting in New Delhi.

A lesson to all BRICS and BRICS+ partners. Actually, a mini-manifesto:

"To virtually everyone in this room, our resistance against US bullying is not an unfamiliar battle. So many of us encounter slight variations of the same repugnant coercion. It is high time for us to jointly step up and work towards making clear that those practices belong in the dustbin of history. Today, our nations are closer to one another than ever before, and we cannot ignore the common and dangerous challenge we all face. History has shown that empires in decline will stop at nothing to arrest their inevitable fates. A wounded animal will desperately claw and roar on its way down."

[Donhammed Trumpistan @TheRealDon85]

If high gas prices upset you, remember it’s a small price to pay for a nuke that didn’t exist and a Strait that was already open

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.
Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another.
The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump ripped up a working agreement, fought a war, took a billion barrels off the market, tanked his own approval, and is now negotiating roughly the same deal from a weaker position.

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🗞️ NEW: Leaked audio recordings released through the “Hondurasgate”leaks project and reported by Diario Red allegedly expose a covert network involving former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump-aligned Republicans, and allies of Argentine President Javier Milei discussing plans to fund a U.S.-based disinformation operation targeting the left-wing governments of Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras, according to a report by Spanish outlet El País.

🔹The recordings allegedly capture Hernández requesting funds from current Honduran officials to establish a U.S.-based digital media operation aimed at spreading anti-left narratives and destabilizing regional governments.

🔹In one alleged exchange, Hernández claims Milei pledged $350,000 in support and says “files” were being prepared against the governments of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

🔹Another recording, previously reported by Drop Site, allegedly shows Hernández claiming Israeli-linked donors and “a group of rabbis” helped finance his pardon by President Donald Trump after his U.S. narcotrafficking conviction.

🔹Hernández also allegedly claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played a role in securing his release.

Full report below ⬇️

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

If high prices mean the US taking control of the world's energy supply, and deindustrializing Europe and Asia — then almost any price is worth it. And they are correct, strategically speaking. It is Machiavellian but that's how they think.

Both of those things are already happening and were kick started after Ukraine. They're just finishing the job now.

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🇮🇷🇫🇷 Iran’s Pezeshkian Tells Macron: No Negotiations Without U.S. Guarantees of End to War

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke by phone with French President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday, with Iran laying out its view for negotiating an agreement.

According to Tasnim News Agency:

Pezeshkian said U.S. behavior “has diverted the path of diplomacy towards threats, pressure, and sanctions,” and that while Iran had been “the guardian of the security of the Strait of Hormuz for years,” American actions had disrupted that stability. He said any effective negotiation requires “the end of the war and guarantees against the repetition of hostile actions,” and called on Europe to align its “diplomatic rhetoric” with practical action.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites since the war began, according to a Post analysis.

The amount of destruction is far larger than what was previously reported. https://t.co/qcDG06Dwa8