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VIDEO | Footage released by the Tasnim News Agency highlights a series of combined Iranian missile and drone strikes, spanning waves 10 through 16 of Operation Nasr 2, which reportedly utilized unconventional tactics against US military installations
Iran's IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen. Mousavi says that the South and Tehran are one and the same for Iran, warning that Iran's effective and targeted strikes will continue to rain down on the enemy until calm returns to Iran's southern coast and the Strait of Hormuz.
Imperialism 101. Suck a country dry. The stupidity rife in Iraq right now makes me wonder how it could have once been the center of Arab intellectualism and innovation.
This is deeply serious. Chambers' indictment hinges on the bogus charge he donated to “foreign terrorist organizations” purely on the basis he moved money from the US to Tunisia, where lived for a time. Fergie's persecution is a test case for Palestine solidarity globally.
The Pentagon, Palantir, and the Fight for Sovereignty
@claraemattei (@FreeFreeForum) and @davidrkadler trace how the Pentagon, Palantir, and private capital have fused into a single warfare economy, and how people can reclaim economic sovereignty from it.
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Vladimir Poutine doit se frotter les mains. Les ambassadeurs des 27 États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) ont été incapables d’adopter un 21e paquet de sanctions contre la Russie mercredi 15 juillet 2026. Parmi les explications à cet échec, se trouve le veto grec.
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You're very objective Mr. Erickson, so I'll say what you have not - this is a vicious, and evil thing to do to the Iranians, to the shame and dishonor of US leadership.
Just moments ago, I released an op-ed in The Hill that explains why a renewed blockade and economic warfare campaign against Iran is doomed to fail, and why the downside risks dwarf the likelihood of success.
It would be exceptionally difficult for one to assert that the first U.S. Blockade of Iran ended in American victory. But now, with it officially reimposed as of yesterday, Iran is entering this new phase of economic warfare in a STRONGER position than when President Trump surrendered at Versailles.
Since the initial blockade was lifted by the United States, Iran has exported more than 80M barrels of oil outside the now in force U.S. blockade. With oil prices skyrocketing once again, this will likely be enough oil revenues to sustain their budgeted oil sales for 3-4 months.
But on top of this, Iran was able to import critical essential goods that Operation Economic Fury 1.0 & 2.0 looked to cut off. This includes wheat, cooking oil, medical supplies, and proteins.
In the meantime, the United States hasn’t been able to come close to normalizing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, much less unwind the damage to the global economy.
By all indications, Iran is in a stronger position than when the United States first surrendered.
The problem with this, and the crux of my piece, is that economic warfare is not cost-free for the civilians inside of Iran. Their economy, without question, is in tatters. Inflation has been terrible, the foreign exchange rate has cratered. Unemployment continues to skyrocket. And the damage from U.S. bombing has hit pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and manufacturing plants. Estimates place the damage from US bombing at close to $150 billion.
Economic warfare is not inherently good or bad. It is a trade off. You can certainly make the argument that “the short-term pain is worth the long-term gain”. I do not deny that, nor do I live in the fantasy that war is without side effect.
The problem with the renewed economic warfare campaign and blockade is that it has a stupendously low likelihood of success, and an extremely high likelihood of causing a humanitarian crisis inside of Iran.
“Economic pain for the sake of economic pain is not a strategy.”
Operation Economic Fury 2.0 will not succeed. There is no evidence to support why a second iteration would succeed where the first failed. Iran is in a significantly stronger position to weather the storm of this economic onslaught, and the timeline to catastrophe for the United States is now far shorter.
The only result of this strategy will be needless suffering for the very Iranian people we claimed to want to help when we launched this war in the first place.
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Le département d'État américain a approuvé un accord potentiel de 2 milliards de dollars portant sur la vente de 20 000 kits de guidage laser pour le système d'arme de précision avancé (APKWS II) au Royaume d'Arabie saoudite. Cette approbation intervient alors que l'Iran intensifie ses attaques contre les pays accueillant des troupes américaines au Moyen-Orient et que les tensions avec les rebelles houthis du Yémen s'exacerbent.
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The US bombed five bridges, a railway station and a civilian airport in southern Iran. This is an indication that the US has no military objectives and opts for war crimes y targeting civilians and civilian installations.
Go to bed John, it doesn't matter. We're skating on the cusp of world war, and it seems like your concern is just to be the "guy with the scoop" on some comparatively trivial matter.
Every intelligence chief VETTED this speech... The President was kept from this information — John Solomon confirms to CBS News
‘I TALKED TO THE INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS’
BREAKING | The US has attacked three bridges in Iran's Bandar Khamir district, including the main bridge linking Bandar Abbas to Lar in Fars province.
According to Tasnim, the strikes occurred while civilian vehicles were crossing the bridges, with several cars reportedly thrown aside by the missile impacts. At least one person has been killed and several others wounded, with casualty figures expected to rise.
The attacks also caused power outages in parts of the Kahurestan area and disrupted mobile phone networks.
Safer, Not Safe: Zionists Terrorize Displaced Housed in Ghaziye’s School
@alymazloumm reports from Ghaziye in Saida district where displaced families have been housed in the village's school, and assisted by local initiatives that have rallied to their support. The zionists ongoing genocidal invasion of South Lebanon has followed the displaced to Ghaziye where the colonists have launched terror strikes in the surrounding areas of the school. These strikes are a continuation of zionist's targeting of civilians in the village, as witnessed in the August 7-8th Ghaziye air raid massacres of the 2006 invasion of Lebanon.
Filmed On: 10/7/2026
Editor: Karma Tabit
Producer and Camera: Laith Marouf
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