🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Reported explosions in the Strait of Hormuz and a warning from Iran's strait authority that charterers forcing ships through unauthorized routes will face restrictions, hours after Trump REJECTED the seven-day offer
The reported reason for the rejection was confidence that the oil was still moving, at about 12 million barrels a day, by analysts' count.
Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar spent the segment on where that oil actually goes. It isn't sneaking past anyone.
It runs down an alternate lane hugging the Omani coast, a bypass that can't carry supertanker volume, kept open by two carrier groups and roughly 75,000 troops with no American warship inside the Gulf itself.
His analogy is overspending: first the savings, then the high-interest card, then a second card to pay the first, each step feeling like relief.
Iran needs only a little more pressure to close that lane, and assets moving along the Hormozgan coast are how that would start.
The gap that killed the April deal, Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza, hasn't moved an inch either.
Thousand of Muslims have come out in the middle of the night in Ujjain, India to protect the 600-yr old Shahi mosque as the Hindutva regime plans to demolish it!
حاولت إسرائيل إظهار الطبيب حسام أبو صفية بصحة جيدة عبر حلاقة وتصفيف شعره، لكن آثار الضرب وسوء المعاملة بدت واضحة على جسده .
ما حاولوا إخفاءه فضحته الصور .
يجب التحقيق ومحاسبة المسؤولين .
الدكتور الأسير حسام أبو صفية، تحدثوا عنه لا تتركوه وحيدًا .
Israeli soldiers detain two Palestinian children in Hebron, accuse them of spying, and tell bystanders to stop filming.
This is the daily reality of occupation for Palestinians.
JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran threatens to cut off all air traffic in the Middle East after the US pressured countries to stop Iranian planes
Mohammad Mohber, advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran:
"Flights in the region are either open to everyone, or to no one. If Iran's ability to fly and access airport services is restricted, then no country in the region will have such an opportunity,"
John McAfee, in one of his final messages to the world:
"Is there a deep state? Yes. Can we fire these people? No. Can presidents fire them? No."
"It's designed that way so that political parties and political interests cannot affect the deep state."
"Do you understand the nightmare of our situation, people?"
"Wake up people, please."
IRGC Navy announces capture of second US military underwater drone in Hormuz
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In a statement issued on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy announced it had captured a second US military REMUS 600 autonomous underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz while it was carrying out reconnaissance operations.
The statement said the drone was seized during a coordinated intelligence and electronic warfare operation and has been transferred to IRGC specialists for data recovery.
The IRGC Navy also reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, saying it will continue to act against dangerous movements and unauthorized transit through the strategic waterway.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Kenneth Roth: The war may have made Iran more repressive, not less
There’s a nasty paradox developing inside Iran.
Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, says years of protests had already shown how deeply dissatisfied many Iranians were with the government.
Then came the war.
Large demonstrations disappeared, but Roth warns against interpreting that as renewed support for Tehran.
“Very few people protest against the government when they’re being bombed.”
More importantly, he argues the war changed the internal balance of power.
After the killing of senior Iranian figures, Roth says the leadership that emerged is more hardline. He points to the sentencing of singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes, alongside travel and professional bans over a performance without the mandatory hijab, as evidence of an attempt to reassert social control.
And sanctions create another contradiction.
Roth argues broad economic sanctions impoverish ordinary Iranians while politically connected elites find ways around them and can even profit from controlling access.
“They end up hurting ordinary people and oddly, perversely, helping the people in power.”
A war meant to pressure the Iranian state may instead have weakened some of the forces that were already pressuring it from within.
@WeTheBrandon@KenRoth
Israel is starving ONE MILLION PEOPLE in Gaza and spraying ONE MILLION PEOPLE in Lebanon with banned phosphorus while addressing the UN General Assembly about peace and international law.
Chas Freeman: Trump read the spirit of the age as genocidal. The room stayed silent. He respects power and blackmail. The Israeli lobby and the Epstein files are why Freeman says the threat has to be treated as real.
“I think Donald Trump has correctly sensed the zeitgeist, the spirit of our age, which is genocidal. Basically, he’s stating an intention to commit genocide against the people of Iran. And people sit there, and they say nothing. Why do they say nothing? First, they may regard him as a comic character, a tragicomic character who has the habit of blustering and not following through. So they may not take him seriously. But I think there is every reason to take him seriously, because I think Donald Trump is a bully who respects only two kinds of people or nations. One is the powerful, and he faces in the United States a very powerful Zionist lobby which remains committed to the destruction of Iran. And he is enthralled to that lobby, to donors from that lobby who take their cues, their direction, from the fascist government in Israel. And the second kind of person he respects is those who can blackmail him, and the Israelis apparently have the ability to do that.
The Epstein files are one of the reasons—several reasons—that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, prematurely adjourned the House until after the midterm elections. The other reason was that it looked very much as though Thomas Massie’s introduction of a bill of impeachment with eight counts of impeachment against the Secretary of Defense, self-styled Secretary of War, Hegseth, was going to pass. The Epstein files were part of this. So were several other issues. You can see that the Speaker of the House, who probably is the least independent such person in our history, is nonetheless aware that Trump’s control of the Republican slight majority in the House and the larger majority in the Senate is slipping away.
We’re in an age where open genocide is not just committed but boasted about by Israel in Palestine. The same thing is now happening in Lebanon. Who’s doing anything about any of this? People aren’t even wringing their hands about it. They’re just sitting there silently tolerating it. The intolerable has become tolerable, and Donald Trump is the avatar of the intolerable.
So what will Donald Trump do? What does he do when confronted with an intolerable reality that he chooses to deny? There’s lots of evidence that he’s capable of a volte-face and abandoning the threats that he made. But there’s also evidence that he will carry out the threats. Look at the decapitation of Venezuela, the invasion of that. Look at the two wars begun by Trump against Iran in partnership with Israel—one last year in June, one this year on February 28th. So I can’t rule out the possibility.
What I will say is I think there will be enormous opposition to this from the US military—whether it’s sufficient to produce a sit-down strike, in effect passive resistance, or mutiny of some sort, or a stimulated coup d’état, I do not know. The US military, despite Pete Hegseth’s efforts to politicize it and turn it into an arm of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, remains deeply indoctrinated in constitutionalism and dedicated to the notion that illegal orders must be resisted. So I don’t know what would happen, but I don’t think you can rule out the possibility that Donald Trump’s threats are both sincere and intended to be implemented.”
The Western zeitgeist not only tolerates but boasts of committing genocide. London, Brussels, Washington and the old Atlantic club are already finished. They will not speak.
✝️ La lumière de Notre-Dame l'a trahie en public. Hier, Léon XIV à côté, et les vitraux lui collent un masque rouge de démon pile sur le visage.
Photo réelle, pas d'IA, juste le soleil qui déshabille Macron.
« En tant qu’être humain, j’ai vraiment de la peine pour les Israéliens, car ils sont sur le point de découvrir à leurs dépens qu’ils ne sont pas une superpuissance. C’est un tout petit pays du Levant, avec 9 millions d’habitants, qui commet des crimes grotesques ; on ne peut pas s’en tirer comme ça éternellement, et ils ne s’en tireront pas comme ça éternellement. Ils seront sévèrement punis pour cela. Et j’ai donc de la peine pour eux, car ils ne le savent pas encore. » - TUCKER CARLSON dans une interview avec Mario Nawfa
#URGENTE: La actriz ganadora del Oscar @SusanSarandon:
"Mi agencia me dejó de representar por asistir a una marcha y pedir un alto el fuego en Gaza. Incluso tengo prohibido aparecer en televisión. En adelante No puedo participar en ninguna película importante."
#UrgenteCOMPARTAN #RTMasivo
🇲🇦🇮🇱 RÉVÉLATION — Vendus en Europe comme marocains, ces avocats enrichissent d'abord une société israélienne.
L'État marocain loue ses terres à une coentreprise contrôlée à 51 % par l'israélien Mehadrin, qu'il a lui-même autorisée. Résultat : près d'un avocat marocain exporté sur sept profite d'abord à une société israélienne.
🥑 Environ 85 % de la production part vers l'Europe sous étiquette « produit au Maroc ». Aux Marocains, il ne reste que les fruits impropres à l'exportation.
📍Résultat : des terres confiées à un groupe étranger plutôt qu'à des producteurs marocains + mépris du consommateur local + contournement du boycott.