Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/2040935140415639617

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...on-ground-deep

It's Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses

The morning broke with news of a large-scale US operation to supposedly extract the second downed pilot (WSO - Weapons Systems Officer) from Iran, who had ejected from his shot-down F-15E on Thursday. The scale of losses for this operation alone turned out to be massive, as the US lost hundreds of millions worth of planes allegedly getting the airman back to safety.

The operation involved all kinds of Special Forces units which amounted to “boots on ground” inside Iran for the first time—at least officially.

The story is roughly as follows:

The F-15E went down over “southwestern Iran” on Thursday, with the second crewman reportedly making first radio contact around noon on Friday, wherein he had climbed a mountain to transmit his emergency signal.

From Fox News’s chief national security correspondent:

Fox News can confirm that the 2nd crew member of the downed F15E fighter jet has been rescued and he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran. That according to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources in the region. The Weapons Systems Officer ejected along with the pilot when their F15E Strike Eagle they were flying was struck Thursday night (early Friday local time) in southwest Iran.

The WSO used the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon.) US Special Operations rescue forces to include PJs (United States Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs) and many layers of elite rescue forces took part in the complex, layered mission to both find the crew member and also keep the Iranian forces who were hunting the American weapons system operator at bay. There are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appear to have been injured and dead Iranian members of the IRGC and Basij who were looking for the downed American crew member. Fox has learned there was fighting on the ground but no Americans killed during the operation. “It was a very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member,” a well placed source briefed on the operation told me. Many different branches of the US military were involved in the rescue.

Fox News can confirm the A10 Warthog that crashed Friday was involved in providing cover for the rescue teams searching for the pilot. That A10 crashed in Kuwait (first reported by ABC Friday) but the A10 pilot managed to eject safely and was rescued. There was destruction of aircraft which have sensitive equipment on board, I am told, all part of this complex CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) mission.

The F15E was pretty much destroyed on impact. Two rescue helicopters were hit by enemy fire on Friday and crew members onboard were injured by enemy fire but managed to make it out of Iran.

There were a lot of elements to this rescue, I am told.

The various US Special Forces teams, which included the Air Force’s Pararescue, allegedly engaged in gun battles against Iranian Basij militias in order to keep them under cover fire while the airman was extracted.

There are reports that the U.S. Air Force Pararescue teams are currently conducting an operation to extract the last remaining F-15 pilot inside Iranian territory.

HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters are reportedly active over Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, where heavy fighting is ongoing.

In the last hour, the IRGC’s ‘Saberin’ Unit and the “65th (NOHEN)” Airborne Special Forces engaged with US Pararescuemen and Special forces in the area.

The US allegedly flew in two HC-130 transport craft as well as several different types of helicopters and other craft (Dash-8s, MH-60s, Reaper drones, etc.).


The rest here,

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...on-ground-deep

[Ravenlocke]

Peter Cronau

🚨UPDATE🚨 Australia is now legally in the war against Iran.

Australia is by legal definition a “belligerent” in the war against Iran — and therefore legally targets of Iranian forces.

“Prof Emily Crawford of Sydney University & Donald Rothwell of Australian National University said: Australia is now a “belligerent” under international law because it has provided military personnel to defend one side, a legal distinction that permits Iran to attack Australian military personnel.” - The Nightly.

🚨Updated List 🚨 Australia now has over 300 military personnel in the Persian Gulf area — as well as several devoted joint military intelligence bases assisting the US in their illegal war on Iran.

▪️Pine Gap spy base in the NT intel being used by the US for targeting of missile and bomb strikes in Iran

▪️NW Cape communications base in WA assisting US killer subs including against Iranian shipping

▪️ Australia has a military base at ADF Middle East Headquarters at Al Minhad Airbase in UAE serving as a logistical hub

▪️90+ SAS special forces soldiers now conceded as deployed to UAE, and other unstated locations in Persian Gulf area.

▪️100+ military personnel of Joint Task Force 633 stationed at the ADF Middle East Headquarters at Al Minhad Airbase in UAE

▪️50+ RAN personnel serving on US nuclear submarines, including in Middle East area

▪️Australian ADF personnel (number not disclosed) are embedded in the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) of the forward headquarters of CENTCOM, the US Central Command at the Udeid Airbase in Qatar.

▪️ ADF personnel (number not disclosed) embedded at HQ of CENTCOM, the US Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida USA.

▪️85 personnel deployed to support the E-7A Wedgetail battle management aircraft operating out of Al Minhad base

▪️16+ personnel deployed with US’s Combined Maritime Forces at the US Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain

▪️ASIS intelligence agents (number not disclosed) deployed in Middle East area

▪️ADF personnel deployed to support the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) given to UAE for use with UAE F-16 fighters against Iranian retaliatory attacks

▪️E7-A Wedgetail battle management aircraft deployed to UAE, and conceded by the Defence Minister as integrated with US military operations against Iran

▪️C-17A Globemaster transport plane deployed to UAE

▪️KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker midair refueler deployed to UAE

👉This is how it all works:
Australia is providing intelligence architecture, intelligence collection, communication systems, military intelligence specialists, and the political cover that helps support the illegal war.

In a globally networked world, it is the satellite feed, the launch detection, the target identification, the command post, the battle management platform, the submarine signals, the refuelling base, the overflight corridor, the embedded officers inside the US and coalition forces.

The country that provides those things is not outside the war, but is an intricate part of it.

More -> http://declassifiedaus.org/2026/03/08/ira…

If you are concerned at these developments, make your voice heard and stay informed by following:
@ICAN_australia

@NuclearBan

@IPAusNet

@WagePeaceAU

@BaseWatchAU

@OzAntiBases

@LabAgainstWar

@MAPW_Australia

@WarPowersReform

@DeclassifiedAus

https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/2040957458659844119

[Szymon]

This is insane, if not AI.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5SizFdGH1w8

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

"The biggest problem of the material world in the West is that people have cut off their connection to God, that is why they fall into spiritual decline."

— Martyr Sayed Ali Khamenei

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2040992641601486977

[shaberon]

Well, I can believe Fox News is transmitting some official U. S. version.


Maybe they did retrieve the second person. Apparently there is more to it.


During that time frame, things got broken elsewhere:

The army said in a Sunday statement that it had carried out successful attacks on a petrochemical complex and oil products storage facility in the southern Israeli-occupied territories, as well as on a makeshift facility used by the United States military for keeping its equipment and satellite communication units in Kuwait.

It said that the Israeli petrochemical and oil products site targeted in the attacks included underground emergency storage installations that played a key role in energy supply to the southern occupied territories controlled by the Israeli regime.

The statement added that the US military facility on Kuwait's Bubiyan Island has been used as a major command and control center for American forces operating in the West Asia region and has hosted munition depots, key missile systems like HIMARS, as well as communication and supervision equipment.

The Iranian army said that the United States had created the new camp in Bubiyan after its Arifjan military base in Kuwait came under extensive missile and drone attacks by the Iranian military in the early days of the US-Israeli aggression in early February.

It said the US was seeking to use the new camp for management of its continued “mischievous operations” against Iran.

[gini]

´How U.S. Wins Economically By Losing Iran & Ukraine Wars! – w/ Richard Medhurst ´

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VZGKSR-VIjo

--56 min---5 Apr 2026 The Jimmy Dore Show PODCAST
´Jimmy interviews journalist Richard Medhurst, who explains the U.S. "pirate strategy" of transitioning from land bases to naval blockades to control global energy supplies, noting that the U.S. is now the world's top oil and LNG exporter and actually profits from high prices even as Americans pay more at the pump.

Medhurst reveals that the U.S. has quietly taken out 40% of Russia's oil export capacity and threatened China's supply while keeping Europe de-industrialized and subservient. He calls the Gulf monarchies "spineless" for betting on the wrong horse, noting they were created by the UK and have no strategic sense. Medhurst concludes that as long as America fights wars on other people's turf, it "implicitly wins" because the military-industrial complex is never threatened, and that Iran must neutralize U.S. naval power to truly end the threat.´

[grapevine]

Financial Crash Expert: In 3 months We’ll Enter A Famine! If Iran Doesn’t Surrender It's The End!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PUO51DoSEqk

1:33:48
I've placed this video here because it's all about Iran and what-ifs. Taking the recent comments about forum presentation into consideration, it's very hard to add anything to the extensive description that came with this video which includes a timestamp.

"Professor Steve Keen is the world's first rebel economist to predict the 2008 financial crisis years before it happened, based on his proprietary data software, Ravel©. He has spent over 30 years as an academic, and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam.

He explains:
◼ Why your food prices could double and the one resource nobody is talking about
◼ The 5 ways this war could end and which scenario keeps you safest
◼ How one 20km gap controls your phone, your heating, and your food
◼ Why nobody around Trump will tell him he's losing and what that means for you
◼ How AI could wipe out half of all jobs and what you should do right now

00:00 Intro
02:35 Why Does Your Perspective Matters Now
03:01 What’s Really Driving Tensions Between The US, Israel, And Iran
07:46 Why Israel Might See Iran As An Existential Threat
12:46 The Strait Of Hormuz—And What Happens If It Closes
16:40 Where Fertilizer Comes From—And What A Shortage Would Trigger
18:27 Why Oil Still Controls Everything—And The Cost Of Running Out
21:29 What Happens If This War Doesn’t End Quickly
22:13 The Real Cause Behind The Global Cost Of Living Crisis
25:38 Do Wars Widen The Gap Between Rich And Poor
29:58 Five Scenarios That Could Shape What Happens Next
30:10 Scenario 1: What Happens If Iran Is Destroyed
33:21 Scenario 2: The Fallout If Gulf Infrastructure Collapses
37:51 Scenario 3: The Samson Doctrine—And When It’s Used
44:53 Scenario 4: Could Iran Neutralize Israel’s Nukes
51:41 What Trump Really Wants—And The Fear Behind It
53:32 Will The US Put Troops On The Ground
56:31 What The Best-Case Scenario Actually Looks Like
59:23 Scenario 5: What Changes If Iran Goes Nuclear
01:01:00 Why Self-Sufficiency Might Be The Only Safety Net
01:03:59 What Could Trigger The Next Financial Crash
01:08:17 How To Survive Another Boom-And-Bust Cycle
01:09:45 Universal Basic Income—And Who It Really Helps
01:12:45 How AI Is Quietly Rewriting The Job Market
01:21:46 Is Bitcoin Headed To Zero
01:26:35 What Kind Of Leaders Do We Actually Need
01:28:34 What A Better System Could Look Like
01:30:37 What’s Broken In Capitalism—And Can It Be Fixed"

[Tintin]

"Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling..." - Arnaud Bertrand

Here's a useful critical summary of the crackpot fantasy world occupying Donald Trump's mind (and brain) courtesy Arnaud Bertrand on X :

Source: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2040995918192005310
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So, if I got that right, here's the narrative:

- A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...d95d650bda56a9)

- The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...51956955900185)

- He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/...ntain-crevice/)

- U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (https://x.com/ByChrisGordon/status/2...539602101?s=20)

- To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vpz1kwreo), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfaha...esearch_Center)

- They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/0...p-inside-iran/) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/...ntain-crevice/)

- Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/0...p-inside-iran/)

- They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/0...p-inside-iran/)

- There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (https://x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli/status/...412518323?s=20)

- Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (https://turkiyetoday.com/region/wrec...ge-3217509?s=1). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft.

- Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (https://nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/...1-6c4a9dc988e7). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued."

- In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...50133044957842).

- And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is.

So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous.

Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...50133044957842), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky.

Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling...

[Tintin]

Posted by shaberon (here)

Rescue II was fake because the "abandoned airport" didn't happen to be too conveniently close to the crash site........

.........But, yes, as a harsh judge of speculation, the idea that Rescue II is a cover story for a failed commando insertion seems the most likely explanation here.

At the moment absent any actual footage to back up the American 'claims' I think your deduction here is correct.

UPDATE: provided this isn't yet another (yawn) misattribution/legacy footage shenanigans, I'm assuming this is bonafide footage:

"Stuck in sand"

Source: https://x.com/hippyygoat/status/2040905019545866395

[Tintin]

Posted yesterday on X, more helicopter footage (Gerry Nolan aka The Islander is not prone to histrionics and click bait so I think we can trust these images):

Source: https://x.com/AvalonForum/status/2040781502171033649

[Tintin]

Posted by Chip (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
Somebody not a Christian and not literate wrote that post, if that is any help.

And maybe also this one.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...51998782539414

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Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

If this is authentic, then something is badly wrong. This is reckless, immoral, and sounds less like a president than a man coming apart in public while holding the machinery of war in his hands. It is no longer unreasonable to question his mental fitness.

(in bold) Tell me about it

It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to suggest an AI construction but, as we have seen, he doesn't type these himself, he has an assistant who acts as a stenographer.

These are the words of a person under spiritual and mental occupation, by demonic forces. If reports about him being admitted to Walter Reed are confirmed, and there's no discernible improvement he may well be 'retired', and replaced, and sooner than anyone may have predicted possible.

This is also what happens to some people who spend too much time around Netanyahu.

Related: (See the case of Moshe Yatom, here)

[Bill Ryan]

DD Geopolitics' best guess as to what really happened:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180929
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180930

So what the hell happened over the weekend?

So now that the dust has settled a bit, we’ve spoken to people and had time to analyze the sequence of events. Here are the two most likely scenarios (albeit very similar) for what happened over the weekend in Iran with the so-called “Search and Rescue Operation” to retrieve the downed F-15E crew.

It’s now fairly clear that the weekend events by the Americans were a Joint Special Operations Command attempt to establish a FOB (Forward Operating Base) in Isfahan. The question remains whether the F-15E was part of that operation, or whether the downing of the jet triggered it.

We lean toward the theory that the F-15E was the “first wave” of the operation. Why? We’re fortunate that Trump isn’t particularly careful with his messaging. In one of his post-rescue posts, he said the rescued WSO (Weapons Systems Officer) was a “respected Colonel.”

That immediately raises a red flag. It’s not common for a colonel (O-6) to serve as a WSO in an F-15E Strike Eagle. WSOs are typically mid-career officers—captains (O-3) or majors (O-4)—paired with pilots of similar rank. However, a colonel could serve as a WSO if designated as the mission commander (MC) for a larger, multi-aircraft operation. U.S. Air Force doctrine allows a senior officer like a colonel to occupy the WSO seat as MC, overseeing all mission phases regardless of the pilot’s junior rank (e.g., captain). That, paired with what we know happened later, points to a broader mission.

The other element is the scale of the operation. The U.S. military didn’t just “find an abandoned airstrip south of Isfahan.” The airstrip where we believe the U.S. attempted to establish the FOB was likely surveyed months in advance. U.S. Special Forces don’t just “wing it” on operations like this. The narrative being presented—such as the claim that the MC-130J “got stuck”—suggests something that Special Operations planners simply don’t do.

As far as we know, the MC-130J Commando II aircraft that transported the troops—and likely the “Little Bird” helicopters—sustained damage from Iranian attacks, which prevented them from taking off. The shrapnel damage seen in images supports that. We don’t believe they crash-landed or were shot down. The only evidence cited for that is the bent rotor blades on one of the engines in aftermath photos.

But the MC-130J is not a standard C-130, which uses four-blade steel propellers. The Special Forces variant uses six-bladed Dowty R391 composite propellers, built with a carbon-fiber structure rather than metal. The bent propellers are most likely the result of the resin matrix softening—effectively “melting”—under extreme conditions. Other images support this, as the propellers appear to shred and snap rather than cleanly break.

Why Isfahan? The obvious explanation is the collection of nuclear material, as the region hosts multiple facilities such as Natanz, where enriched uranium is believed to be stored. But there are other factors. Isfahan hosts a large Jewish community, which would likely be influenced by Mossad and CIA operations. The airstrip was not chosen at the last minute to rescue a WSO, with massive assets assembled on the fly. It’s rumored the airstrip had previously been surveyed by Israeli Shaldag (Unit 5101), an elite Israeli Air Force special operations unit.

As for staging: at roughly the same time, Iran struck Camp Buehring in Kuwait, which is believed to have been the staging ground for the operation. This suggests Iran had prior knowledge—and reinforces the idea that the base was tied to the American operation.

There are several other inconsistencies in the U.S. narrative: how a badly injured WSO managed to climb a mountain, why the extraction point was established in Isfahan when evacuation to Kuwait or Iraq was possible, and so on.

One final point—and this is a bit of a tinfoil-hat moment, as usual: who, or rather what, shot down the F-15E? One detail that went largely unnoticed on Saturday evening was a report from Iranian sources that fighter jets had taken off. We didn’t pay much attention at the time, but in hindsight it may be significant. Maybe earlier reports were missed, or simply not made.

But if Iran had intelligence that the Americans were planning something, it would make sense to risk deploying the Su-35s they “don’t have,” using long-range radar and data-linked missiles to target an F-15E carrying a colonel as mission commander. - This, of course is pure speculation ☝️

One thing is certain: whether the CSAR mission prematurely triggered a larger Special Operations effort to retrieve uranium stockpiles, or whether this was all part of a single planned operation, it failed. The Iranians have now learned a great deal about how the U.S. plans to infiltrate—and the U.S. has likely lost access to an airstrip it intended to use for a high-profile raid.

The U.S. narrative, of course, is one of “we leave no man behind”—and it reads like the outline of a Hollywood blockbuster.

[shaberon]

This is what the invasion looks like:

The elite Iranian military force also said the American amphibious helicopter carrier LHA7, transporting more than 5,000 sailors and marines, came under Iran’s attack and was forced to retreat deeper into the southern Indian Ocean.

There is a lot of barking about the XXV Amendment. The president has dementia. Although this has the same tough standards as impeachment, the difference is that it is much faster.

Those against it would be religious fanatics, and those who profit, even when the military was defeated.

I don't see any better details on Rescuing the Colonel, and yes, such a thing only makes sense if one were the CO of something like commando insertion, which may or may not be clued by Iranian attack on the force gathering point. They do that anyway.

I haven't heard any psycho statements about their missiles in hotels or other "hideouts". I mean, that's the first thing you'd use to try to spin it that "Iran kills civilians" and use it for Grade-B propaganda, several steps above the current failure. It would have a semblance of plausibility. If I had to guess, Tuesday or Wednesday is the last point they can hide all the bodies, hence the desire for cover by additional war crimes.

What a ham-fisted way to disintegrate fifty years of American investment in Occupy Other Places. It went poof like a blancmange losing its airy appeal. Strike everything from that remaining base in the UK.

Israeli chemical plants and factories have been targeted, presumably civilian ones, which will only continue to increase. The amount perhaps depends on if the Baboon really tries to make good on the Stone Age remark -- as you know, Gulf infrastructure is one-dimensional, every tiny little pockmark endangers millions of Asian immigrant workers.

[Ravenlocke]

Ali Saeedi | علی سعیدی

Translated from Persian
Those who have closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep can never be awakened, even if you play that little gambler's words for them!

https://x.com/saeedy_ali/status/2041199207969927386

[Ravenlocke]

Sina Toossi

The same man who threatens to bomb all of Iran’s power plants, who has already bombed its universities, medicine factories, steel plants, even pistachio industry, who explicitly talks about taking Iran back to the “stone age,” now says the Iranian people want to be bombed.

https://x.com/SinaToossi/status/2041193643051044882

[Ravenlocke]

-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 --

"fortified IRGC base" = university

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/2041188039481856297

[Ravenlocke]

Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی reposted

Max Blumenthal

The US-Israeli terror coalition attacked pistachio warehouses in Iran - a deliberate economic strategy

The largest producer of pistachios in the world is Wonderful, owned by Zionists Lynne and Stewart Resnick

The Resnicks are top donors to Friends of the IDF

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2041186427581395059

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 BREAKING: Iran has submitted its response to the U.S. 45-day ceasefire proposal relayed through Pakistan – IRNA

Iran rejects a temporary ceasefire and demands the following:

– A permanent end to the war on all theatres in the Middle East, including Lebanon and Gaza, with guarantees.

– Implementation of a new transit protocol that recognizes Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz and allows Iran to collect tolls.

– The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran.

– Acknowledging Iran’s right to peacefully enrich uranium as per its inherent right under the NPT and UN charter.

– The paying of reparations for economic damages suffered during the war.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2041165485757391076

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷 Moscow has seen Trump's statements on the Strait of Hormuz addressed to Tehran but prefers not to comment on them - Peskov

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2041104409136898105

[Ravenlocke]

Sputnik


🚨Iran strikes US warship LHA7, forcing it to retreat

"The helicopter carrier and amphibious ship LHA7 of the US Army, with over 5,000 sailors and marines on board, came under Iranian attack, after which it was forced to retreat deep into the southern Indian Ocean," Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement published by Iran's state broadcaster

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2041135836071121152

https://x.com/A7_Mirza/status/2041153672487264483

https://x.com/GBX_Press/status/2041166349289095267