Seth nel.

[Seth nel. @Seth_Nel]

Iran has the right to defend itself.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

America has brilliantly mastered the psychological warfare of creeping normality, manufactured consent, and strategic gaslighting.

The relentless bombardment of Southern Lebanon by Israeli troops has somehow successfully convinced the public that it is strictly Israel that is aggressively violating the ceasefire, while the United States is working tirelessly, selflessly, and around the clock to reach a diplomatic deal, broker a ceasefire, and end the war.

First, understand that assembling a massive armada of nuclear warships, advanced carrier strike groups and marine expeditionary units to aggressively blockade another sovereign nation's ports, airspace, or trade routes is itself a direct, unambiguous declaration of war under international law, the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Convention. So, factually speaking, it is America that has been actively, violently violating the ceasefire from day one.

Secondly, completely ignore the ridiculous narrative being aggressively pushed in public that all of a sudden, American politicians, who stood unilaterally and unconditionally behind Israel when they leveled every single residential building, hospital, school, and refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, are now suddenly attacking Israel, crying on television, and complaining about how they are handling the situation in Southern Lebanon and knocking down buildings. This is a highly staged, meticulously scripted theatrical act cooked up purely so that you channel all of your righteous anger, political frustration, and explosive aggression away from the genocidal, resource-grabbing empire sitting in Washington D.C. and redirect it toward a highly disposable, heavily armed colonial military outpost in the Middle East.

Notice that even as American politicians are relentlessly, hypocritically complaining about Israel's kinetic attacks and artillery barrages in Southern Lebanon, they are still actively loading up heavy bunker-buster bombs, tank shells, and millions of rounds of ammunition into military cargo vessels and shipping them straight to Israel to enable them to continue the onslaught. This is the exact, inconvenient truth that the corporate media completely refuses to talk about because they desperately want to maintain the ridiculous, highly comforting conspiracy theory that Israel somehow controls America, using AIPAC lobbying, campaign donations, and the Epstein files to blackmail and force a supposedly helpless, innocent, and peace-loving United States into endless foreign wars.

Everything Israel does in the Middle East, it does so strictly on behalf of, and for the benefit of, the American empire. Israel is absolutely not attacking Southern Lebanon to force America into a hostile, endless war scenario in the Levant. Rather, Israel is executing these precise attacks because America actively provides them with massive shipments of 2000-pound bunker-buster bombs, real-time satellite telemetry, advanced military coordinates, continuous electronic warfare support, direct naval logistics, and the ultimate, non-negotiable green light from the Pentagon and the CIA to engage in such violence. The reality is that Israel does not possess the sovereign capital, the domestic industrial base, the deepwater naval transport, or the long-range military logistics required to engage in a full-scale, prolonged invasion of a foreign nation without the complete backing of America. It is the United States doing all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, and they are currently engaged in the exact same proxy war theater against Russia in Europe, Venezuela in South America and preparing to initiate another against China in Asia.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇱🇧 MORE IOF CASUALTIES!!

Hezbollah detonated an explosive device against Israeli Occupation forces advancing into the Ali al-Taher area, wounding several IOF troops.

The Ali al-Taher hill is one of the most prominent strategic high points in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon, with an elevation of about 700 meters above sea level — giving it broad oversight over several towns, most notably the city of Nabatieh itself. The occupation army seeks to take it for the major tactical advantage it offers in observation and surveillance, as well as its ability to detect movement across a wide area.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇮🇱🇱🇧 The Israeli Occupation Army denies the existence of a ceasefire and says: "We are operating according to directives from the political level, and so far there has been no change in directives or in activity."

[Unscripted @Unscripted_PTV]

💥 "It would amount to SUICIDE"

Senior Iranian military commander Brigadier General Sheikh explains why the enemy did not initiate a ground invasion against Iran during the 40-day war.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING

Iran's Foreign Ministry confirms that no negotiations will happen on missile issues:

"Our Missiles don't like it when people talk about them. They are intended solely to be fired, not to be used in negotiations"

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 Iran will file a COMPLAINT against FIFA for their treatment at the 2026 World Cup. 🇮🇷⚖️

❌ Visas were refused.
❌ The team was only allowed to arrive one day before the match.
❌ They were forced to return immediately to Mexico. 🇲🇽

The Iranian Football Federation believes it has been treated unfairly and claims the conditions imposed on the team were not equal to those faced by other nations at the tournament. 😤

(Source: L'Équipe)

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

I cannot believe Hezbollah killed four innocent 'israelis' who were simply taking their tank for a spin in southern Lebanon last night and handing out more footballs disguised as bombs for little kids to play with.

We will never understand why they hate Jews so much 😥.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israelis Invaded Lebanon And Then Cried Victim When Their Soldiers Got Killed

From all this melodramatic garment-rending and victim-LARPing you’d assume the four Israelis were killed in their beds in Tel Aviv, not traveling by tank through a foreign country they’d invaded.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The sharing formula for the multi-billion-dollar revenue extracted from the deep offshore oil wells between Nigeria and the massive International Oil Companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ENI, and TotalEnergies is actually a laughable 20% - 80% in favor of the IOCs.

This brutally exploitative, legally sanctioned, and neocolonial arrangement was actively in place from 1993, through decades of systemic economic stagnation, up until 2019. Even after the highly celebrated 2019 legislative amendment, this lopsided formula has still not changed much in reality. It was merely pegged, calculated, and strictly tied to the cumulative number of barrels pumped.

For example, if the yearly cumulative production, the actual volume of oil extracted, or the total annual yield from the deepwater wells is merely 50 million barrels, the split remains 40% - 60% in favor of the IOCs.
If the production climbs above 50 million and comfortably sits below 100 million barrels, it becomes a marginally adjusted 45% - 55%, which is still heavily in favor of the IOCs. Only in the highly unlikely, mathematically engineered, and virtually impossible situation where the cumulative production reaches a massive 750 million barrels, does the sharing formula finally tilt towards an 80% - 20% split in favor of Nigeria.

To make matters worse, these same greedy IOCs still have the absolute audacity to claim that tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil, gas, and condensate are lost daily due to local oil theft, pipeline vandalism, and community sabotage. So clearly, the crude oil, the natural gas, and the subterranean wealth may technically belong to Nigeria, but the entire country is being systematically milked, drained, and looted into absolute oblivion by these parasitic Western oil majors.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Trump regime is in non-compliance. Iran will not implement the MOU under these circumstances. The US economy is destined to fall over the cliff and the Zionist regime will be severely punished.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

The US-Israeli regime is dropping mines disguised as food items in Iran!!!

Recall that the mines they dropped in Donbass looked like children’s toys. The evil of the west has NO LIMITS.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Iranian IRGC-QF Commander Warns Israel Over Lebanon & Gaza Attacks

Ismail Qaani just stated: “When we said that Hezbollah was watching, you didn't listen, and you fell into the trap. Who will be held accountable for the 100 deaths? Gaza is also in a storm. If you act according to the wishes of your politicians, you will be caught in the storm. Be careful."

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: Hezbollah Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem:

“The project to destroy Hezbollah has failed, Israel’s plans have reached a dead end, and the final victory meaning the complete and definitive expulsion of the occupiers from every last inch of Lebanese territory is inevitable.”

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

President of South Korea, Lee Jae-myung:

Unfortunately, the reality is that all communication channels with North Korea have been cut off.

Now, North Korea claims that we are the most hostile state in the world. We are no longer a single national community.

We are two hostile states.

Even the emergency communication lines have been completely disconnected.

[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

Iranian Army Soldier affirms they are in control of the Strait of Hormoz, not the gentlemen in suits and ties in Tehran or Washington.

He says: “Behind me is the Strait of Hormoz: The closest point to the mouth of the strait. This is our Persian Gulf. We are still here, in 55 degree humid heat, standing with our flesh, blood, and soul, far from our wives and children, and we will never abandon this place.”

He bravely says: “We are the ones who decide who passes through here, not the suit-wearers in Tehran sitting under air conditioners, and not those in Washington. We are here, and we say who goes and who comes.”

He says they will not let the blood of fallen comrades be wasted, urges people to stay in the streets, and promises that as long as the people don’t give up, they won’t abandon the Strait either.

“We have stood here until the last drop of our blood. As long as every one of us, the boys of the IRGC and the Army, are here, no one has the right to pass through. We will not make ourselves indebted to the blood of the boys and girls of Minab, and we will not allow their blood to be trampled.

People, stay in the field. Stay in the streets. We are here. If you do not abandon the streets, we will not abandon this place either. Rest assured.

By God, we are not regretful. By God, none of us is upset that we have been standing here for 100 days now. I am saying this: with our flesh and soul, with our blood, and as long as there is blood in our veins, we will stand here.

And we will firmly defend this Gulf and the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, by the permission of Lady Fatimah Zahra, and by the permission of my leader, Imam Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei.

The traitors to the homeland should know: we are here as long as there is life in our bodies.”

[RT @RT_com]

'If you're going to withdraw anyway, why be the last to die?'

Hezbollah publishes video featuring photos of IDF troops killed in southern Lebanon

The release dropped just after Israeli media labeled deaths of four IDF soldiers today a 'disaster'

https://t.co/XcpzT4XXaQ

[RT @RT_com]

Iranian state media DEMANDS government CLOSE Hormuz Strait over Israel's intensified bombardment of Lebanon

'Block the Strait. CANCEL ALL upcoming negotiations'

Hormuz staying 'open is completely unacceptable & doesn't align with promises of government & negotiators' — Tasnim

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇱🇧 More than 150 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since midnight.

At least 20 civilians killed, the majority women and children.

Since the supposed ceasefire took effect, Israeli forces have targeted 11 towns and villages in southern Lebanon, many struck multiple times.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧 "The entire first line of Lebanese villages has been destroyed. We are destroying all the houses. The residents will never see them standing before their eyes again." - Israeli Occupation Minister Katz bragging about war crimes on TV.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇱🇧🇮🇱 BREAKING! Ceasefire Lasted 5 Minutes — Israel Strikes Nabatieh Right After It Started

Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire starting at 4 p.m. Friday, a senior US official told Reuters, with the US and Qatar brokering the deal and Iran assisting. Right before it kicked in, Israel carried out a massive wave of strikes. About five minutes after the deal was supposed to start, Israel hit Nabatieh al-Fawqa anyway (pictured).

Israel signed a ceasefire and broke it before the ink dried.