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[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

Iranian F-5 pilot who bombed US Buehring base in Kuwait:

We were flying at an extremely, extremely low altitude.

From a flight-standard perspective, the standard training altitude is around 500 feet, but we were below 50 feet.

We knew that Patriot systems were deployed in the area, and that this base had multi-layered air defense. Given Kuwait’s cooperation, they were protecting this base, and scrambled F-18s were monitoring it.

Even though we knew AWACS aircraft were up there and surveillance/listening sites were active, the entire flight was conducted under complete radio silence.

I should mention here that there were 2-3 ships, we were flying so low that we passed between 2 ships, and their decks were higher than us. In other words, the sailors were looking down at us from the deck.

We passed through there, and thank God, entered Kuwaiti waters, and from there entered Kuwait itself.

When we entered Kuwait, the high-voltage power lines suddenly became 10x times more numerous. Their refineries and forces were along our route, all of them were within our reach.

We could have bombed them immediately without any problem. But our target was Camp Buehring.

We carried out this route at very high speed and very low altitude. And then, when we reached the base, we bombed it successfully.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Today, during the “ceasefire”, Israel destroyed my home in southern Lebanon. A lifetime of memories and stories is now rubble. They think this barbarity will break our spirit, but it only reinforces our stand. With the resistance until the very last breath. We will rebuild

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Reference to this despicable Israeli practice is one of the sections that were censored from my speech at the @OxfordUnion. How ironic.

[The Iran Observer @tv_ir_X]

🚨 BREAKING ‼️

​Iran warned that if Palestinian prisoners are executed, Israeli and American prisoners held in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq will be executed in the same manner.

[Mark Weisbrot @MarkWeisbrot]

Trump’s intervention in Colombia’s Sunday election is yet another example of how he – and the US government – intervenes and causes grave political and economic damage in Latin America. US intervention in Brazil helped put Lula in jail in 2018, thus Bolosonaro as president.The US-backed coup in Bolivia in 2019 that overthrew Evo Morales led to the right-wing, anti-democratic government there today. And the tens of billions of dollars that Argentine President Javier Milei got from institutions dominated by Washington: The IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank have been essential to his political survival.

These are just a few examples from recent years. And now Trump, complete with threats – as he successfully used in Honduras 6 months ago– is trying to choose the next President, in Colombia. https://t.co/GhMzjysXoi

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Israel got the war.

America got the bill.

The U.S. fired more than 200 THAAD interceptors defending Israel during Operation Epic Fury. That's roughly half of the Pentagon's entire inventory of that system. We also fired more than 100 SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors from Navy ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel fired fewer than 100 Arrow interceptors and about 90 David's Sling interceptors.

One U.S. government official told the Washington Post that America fired roughly 120 more interceptors than Israel did and engaged twice as many Iranian missiles.
Each THAAD round costs $13 million. Lockheed Martin makes 96 of them a year. Replacements won't arrive until 2028 at the earliest.

Now here's the part that should make you stop.
Israel's defense budget is roughly $44 billion. That sounds like they're pulling their weight. What that number doesn't tell you is that the United States provided nearly $18 billion in military aid to Israel in a single fiscal year. Much of what Israel "spent" on this war was bought with American money, on American weapons systems, made by American defense contractors.

We funded their military. We burned through our missiles defending them. And now Congress is writing a $10.6 billion check to replace what the war consumed.
And while you were watching the war, Congress quietly passed Section 224 out of committee. It now goes to the full house. It would permanently merge U.S. and Israeli defense research, production, and procurement into a single structure, permanently, buried in the must-pass NDAA, shielded from the annual vote that currently gives Congress any leverage at all.

Israel got the war they lobbied for.

America got the bill.

And Congress is making sure we keep paying it forever.

That's not where I want my tax money going. How about you?

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Iranians Defy The US With Pledges Of Remaining On The Path Of Imam Hussein

The people of Iran gathered for the first night of Muharram, where they commemorated the martyrdom of Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s Grandson, who was killed for refusing to bow to the tyrannical ruler of the time. It is the memory of Hussein that drives Shia resistance against US-Israeli tyranny, with the idea of standing for justice even in the face of insurmountable odds.

[Potato Fan @nosoyyo7]

#4 is insane since it says immediate and permanent. It doesn’t say when the final agreement is reached.
They can never agree to give up killing.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israel views the now revealed MOU as a massive strategic defeat. Here is what Jerusalem is actually afraid of and why each fear is real:

1) Clause 10 issues oil waivers the moment the MOU is signed, before Iran gives up anything concrete. Israel watched the Iranian economy approach collapse during the war. Now it gets crude sales, banking access, and eventually the frozen assets under Clause 11. Iran can now rebuild its economy.

2) Clause 8 lets Iran dilute its enriched stockpile on its own soil under IAEA supervision rather than ship the uranium out. Israel always assessed Tehran would refuse to surrender the material or the enrichment right, and the text confirms it. Trump declining to rule out low-level enrichment tells Israel the US baseline has moved.

3) The theaters are now linked. Clause 1 ties a permanent end of fighting in Lebanon to the broader Iran deal. Israel fought to keep Hezbollah and Iran as separate files now there will be pressure on them from the US to restrain.

4) Israel reads the text as requiring no pullback before a final agreement, which buys time. But the Americans want to accelerate, with a fifth political and military round in Washington next week. The expectation in Jerusalem is mounting pressure to halt operations in south Lebanon.

5) Iranian prestige is way up. Iran defeated both America and Israel and announced Tehran will charge for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, which will not return to its prewar state. The narrative matters because it shapes deterrence, and right now Iran owns it.

6) One senior Israeli source told Ynet, "Iran emerged a global power, and Israel went from a regional power to the world's punching bag. In such a situation it will be very hard for Netanyahu to oppose a withdrawal from Lebanon. The pressure will grow."

Israel is worried that this opens the road to a more stable Iranian regime, with a path to nuclear weapons, a revived resistance axis and Israeli options in Lebanon blocked. A strategic disaster for Israel.

[Genghis Khan @GenghisMFKhan]

8 people dead.
No wreckage or remains.
Impossible.

Explanation:

Way more USA military have been killed in the Iran war than the Trump admin have said.

How can they explain the missing personal without admitting Iran killed them?

Stage crashes like this and they “die” in it.

[Garland Nixon @TheGarlandNixon]

BREAKING NEWS: Angry Mossad insiders leak that the false flag attack on the White House UFC event fell apart because "Bibi only gave us 72 hours to set the damn thing up."

[Garland Nixon @TheGarlandNixon]

BREAKING NEWS: Tel Aviv insiders leak that US leaders must accept that Israel is an independent sovereign nation. Also, the US must continue to provide massive amounts of military & economic aid or their country will likely go broke and collapse.

[Potato Fan @nosoyyo7]

Wtf?

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

Being a journalist in Ecuador is so hard because no one’s gonna believe you if you tell them how THE DICTATORSHIP IS MAKING STUDENTS PRAY AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE FOR BLACKWATER MERCENARIES AND ERIK PRINCE HIMSELF 😭😭😭 If this was Iran, western media would have a fucking field day

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC threatens a "harsh response" against Israel, accusing it of violating the ceasefire and Lebanon clause of the US-Iran agreement 84 times in just the past two days since Trump announced the end of the war, warning it will attack if any further violations occur, per Tasnim.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇺🇲🇮🇱 U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee angry at Trump’s deal with Iran:

"Without Israel, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land."

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: IRAN WILL NOT SIGN A FINAL DEAL WITH THE US IF ISRAEL DOESN'T WITHDRAW FROM LEBANON

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Gennaro Carotenuto @GenCar5]

All’aereo della Celeste, che a mezzanotte (tra 16 ore) deve affrontare l’Arabia Saudita, non è stato permesso di entrare negli USA. Al di là dei rimpalli di responsabilità, il mondiale di Trump e Infantino è un’intollerabile pagliacciata.
#Uruguay

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

💥URGENT

Press TV correspondent in Lebanon @HadiHtt was struck by an Israeli drone today while reporting and wearing a press vest.

He has undergone surgery for injuries sustained in the attack and is currently receiving medical care.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

We are the nation of martyrdom. We are the nation of Imam Hussain. We will never forsake the Palestinian and Lebanese children.

Where do you stand?

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

👁️ Looks like a normal electrical box, right?

It even has an electricity bolt symbol on the side as a decoy. But it’s fake, inside is a camera. This isn’t a one‑off either, it’s showing up in cities nationwide.