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BREAKING 🚨 Mojtaba Khamenei to the White House: “You begged for a ceasefire to reload — we allowed it to expose your weakness.” “Whatever you bring in two weeks, we’ll wipe out in two days. Our missile and drone power won’t run out for 10 years. For every loss, we replace it a thousand times over.” “We won’t wait. Tel Aviv will be hit with full force — no energy center will remain operational.” ⚠️ Final warning: “No more truces. No negotiations. It’s victory or martyrdom.” Reports claim up to 10,000 missiles ready for major targets. “If you return, we return — and God is with us.”

@IRTruePromise Iranian State Media Press TV Exclusive: “US destroyers' Strait of Hormuz transit stunt failed, came close to destruction”.

@IRTruePromise Cowards had to be escorted in by Pakistan, disgraceful. These are not men. These are fearful little girls.

@IRTruePromise Lmao that's what happens when you do not have an airforce anymore. You kept poking the bear... don't cry because you got mauled.

OMGAWD 🤣

@DemzDeliver I lived in Albuquerque for 38 years. It is a cesspool of liberal failures. Schools at or near the bottom, income same. The only changes I ever saw were on a downward trajectory

@DemzDeliver Republicans didn't vote for it because they didn't want to pay for it. Those degrees will now be worthless. Congratulations, NM.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz with the support of Oman and other Gulf nations may have two objectives: 1) Block Iran's exports and inflow of hard currency. 2) Make China force Iran to negotiate in realistic terms, being a strategic partner of Iran and the most impacted by any shutdown. The reason to do it now and not before? This may be because 80% of the crude supply of the Strait of Hormuz has already been replaced or rerouted, as @thejbullmarket rightly pointed out in the post below, so the impact on supply and demand for most OPEC+ partners and customers is as small as possible with the highest negative impact for the Iran regime. Furthermore, OPEC has already agreed to lift quotas by exactly the amount that Iran exports (206kbpd per member) x.com/thejbullmarket…

The United States and Israel, long cast in Arab political culture as the twin engines of regional oppression, are being processed by a significant and growing portion of Arab opinion as something closer to liberators, not in the language of gratitude, which Arab dignity would resist, but in the language of relief. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War: Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position: The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks. What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought. Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies. The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world. The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does. This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice. The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with. The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…

Some French and British vessels reportedly paid up to $2M to the Islamic regime in Iran to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. They should be held accountable for enabling terrorism. The U.S. Navy is identifying who is paying Tehran. The UAE does not negotiate with terrorists or give in to threats.

دو حالت آماده‌باش متفاوت: مسئول شناسایی رزمی ما در تهران تأیید می‌کند که تمام پرسنل وظیفهٔ ارتش به‌زور به مرخصی فرستاده شده‌اند. در حالی که کل ارتش اسرائیل، به‌ویژه نیروی هوایی، در آماده‌باش فوق‌قرمز عملیاتی و کاملاً ساکت قرار دارد. یک اتفاق بزرگ نظامی در حال رخ دادن است؛ در همین حال، گروه رزمی ما در ایران تلاش می‌کند از فعالیت نیروهای مشترک نظامی و اطلاعاتی آمریکا و اسرائیل سر دربیاورد که مدت کوتاهی پیش از آتش‌بس، تحت پوشش ادعای «نجات خلبان»، با نیرویی در حد حدود دو گردان و تجهیزات کامل در ایران و در محور جنوب اصفهان پیاده شده ، و توسط سرپلهای سیا ، موساد ، و اومون ، بلافاصله و همان شب ، به سراسر ایران تزریق عملیاتی شدند. نه، ما فکر نمی‌کنیم مأموریت آن‌ها صرفاً به ۴۵۰ کیلوگرم اورانیوم غنی‌شده محدود باشد

It is estimated that the aircraft carrying the Iranian negotiating delegation, which had turned off their transponders upon entering Iranian airspace while en route back to Iran, landed in Mashhad a few hours ago and have come under the pursuit and surveillance of Mossad's special forces within Iran. These individuals now have no means of concealing their location and will remain directly in Mossad's crosshairs until the day of the final strike. - @rezasadx

BREAKING: The last two flyable transport aircraft of the Iranian Air Force—a C-130E and a C-130H Hercules—have been flown to Pakistan to protect them from incoming Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. Due to the negligence and incompetence of Iranian Air Force commanders, almost all airworthy transport aircraft were destroyed during the war (26 out of 31). Based on satellite images I captured and analyzed on a daily basis, the IRIAF has lost the following airworthy transport and support aircraft during the war: 1- Fokker F27 × 2 2- C-130E/H × 10 3- Boeing 747-2J9F × 2 4- Boeing 747-270C × 1 5- KC-747 × 1 6- KC-707 × 2 7- RC-707 × 2 8- Il-76TD × 4 Only two C-130E/Hs now remain flyable for the IRIAF. This is the result of the incompetence of unqualified commanders appointed by terrorist Ali Khamenei before his elimination. In addition to these, the IRIAF also lost all of its grounded and non-operational Il-76MD/TDs and C-130E/Hs in Shiraz. Unfortunately, the history of the Iraqi Air Force and Iraqi Airways were destroyed too. All of those Il-76s and that Boeing 747-270C were former Iraqi Air Force/Airways aircraft. Saddam's regime was more competent than the Ayatollahs to have them saved, but these terrorists were not. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@MCCCANM Here's an old, but pertinent video. youtu.be/L0m6UEFaWvE?t=…

@BishopBarron The statements made by the Pope Leo were entirely inappropriate. That is NOT catholic doctrine, it’s woke leftism. Trump is Right.

@BishopBarron @PaxAeterna The WOKE Pope met with Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod last week, and the next day this political hack attacked President Trump After 59 years of being a Catholic this charlatan is why I left the church!

Why do they pope meet with David Axelrod? We know you all are upset cause funding was cut to catholic NGOs importing millions of illegals into our country. Once again the Catholic Church proves it turns an eye to what they don’t want talked about……. You all seem like hypocrites.

@BishopBarron @BasedMaryKay I have zero respect for this @Pontifex. As a Catholic, it’s people like you who cause me to want to renounce my Catholic faith.

@BishopBarron I'm Catholic and I find your defense of the Pope offensive. The Pope is leading as a Chicago politician. Here we go AGAIN with not my Pope. You're destroying the church. Grow a pair and stop with the politics.