Mark Ames

🚨🚨NEW @RadioWarNerd - As Israel launches another invasion of Lebanon, we talk to Beirut-based guest Cyrus about why Hezbollah entered the US-Israel war on Iran now, Hezbollah capabilities, Lebanon politics + Iraqi pro-Iran militias, Syria's regime & more. [link👇]

The chemical industry simply can’t turn plants off and on again, the design basis is to run at high utilization to make even a breakeven return.

The U.S. F-35 apparently didn’t take a direct hit, which allowed it to escape and make an emergency landing at the nearest regional base. However, the jet may have sustained damage from the SAM blast. It looks like the Iranians employed an infrared-guided (IR) surface-to-air missile with optical or electro-optical tracking to engage the jet. In this scenario, the F-35’s stealth features wouldn’t offer much protection against a missile homing on heat and visual signatures.

By my estimate, Al Jazeera Arabic is now 20% useful reporting, 80% anti-Iran “analysis.”

It's encouraging to see powerful genocide enablers are losing their shit, it's getting to them x.com/sunrisemvmt/st…

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🚨🚨NEW @RadioWarNerd up. Bahraini-born @IbnKulthum returns to discuss the US-Israel-Iran "situation" from the vantage of the smallest & perhaps most poorly ruled of the GCC feudal states, Bahrain. Home to the US Fifth Fleet. [link⬇️]

Providing an update on the damage from the missile attacks on Ras Laffan Industrial City H.E. Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi: The missile attacks reduced Qatar’s LNG export capacity by 17% and caused an estimated loss of $20 billion in annual revenue - Extensive damage to our production facilities will take up to five years to repair and will compel us to declare long-term force majeure QatarEnergy expects the damage to its Ras Laffan Industrial City caused by missile strikes, which occurred on Wednesday 18 March 2026, and in the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2026, to cost about $20 billion a year in lost revenue and to take up to five years to repair, impacting supply to markets in Europe and Asia. Providing an update on the damage to the facilities at Ras Laffan Industrial City, His Excellency Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, said “I am relieved to confirm that no one was injured by these unjustified and senseless attacks, which weren’t just an attack on the State of Qatar but attacks on global energy security and stability. This was an attack on all of us who stand for development and human progress that is sustained by a fair, reliable, and secure access to energy.” The attacks damaged two liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing Trains 4 and 6 totaling 12.8 million tons per annum (MTPA) of production, representing approximately 17% of Qatar’s exports. Train 4 is a joint venture between QatarEnergy (66%) and ExxonMobil (34%), and Train 6 is a joint venture between QatarEnergy (70%) and ExxonMobil (30%). His Excellency Minister Al-Kaabi said: “The damage sustained by the LNG facilities will take between three to five years to repair. The impact is on China, South Korea, Italy and Belgium. This means that we will be compelled to declare force majeure for up to five years on some long-term LNG contracts.” The attacks also targeted the Pearl GTL (Gas-to-Liquids) facility, a production sharing agreement operated by Shell, that converts natural gas into high-quality cleaner burning drop-in fuels and produces base oils used to make premium engine oils and lubricants, and paraffins and waxes. “The damage caused to one of the two trains at Pearl GTL is being assessed and is expected to be offline for a minimum of one year” His Excellency Minister Al-Kaabi added. It should be noted that there will be a loss of associated product production due to this outage as follows: · Condensates: 18.6 million barrels which is around 24% of Qatar’s exports · LPG: 1.281 MT which is around 13% of Qatar’s exports · Naphtha: 0.594 MT which is around 6% of Qatar’s exports · Sulfur: 0.18 MT which is around 6% of Qatar’s exports · Helium: 309.54 MCFA which is around 14% of Qatar’s exports His Excellency the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy paid tribute to the Qatari military and security forces and to the energy sector emergency response teams whose courage and extraordinary professionalism ensured the situation was contained quickly and safely. #Qatar

They're admitting that they're running out of interceptors.

Italy’s defence minister confirms our reporting today that Europe’s biggest naval powers won’t begin escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz until the conflict ends: “No war mission. No entry into Hormuz without a truce and without an extended multilateral initiative.”

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

Is the UAE selling their 74+ tonnes of gold holdings for USDollars? …to defend their dirham currency = pegged to the US Dollar. The capital flight must be quite large out of Dubai on top of all the financial strains taking place.

I think that the biggest difference between the Iran war and the Vietnam war is Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam war.

I talked to two Israeli sources on why Iranian launches continue to increase, despite US-Israeli claims that they have destroyed almost all of the launchers. Here is what they said: 1) The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the "80% destruction" claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys. 2) Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran's shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches 3) Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into "Super-Hardened" facilities 4) Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike. 5) Because these launching units are decentralized, it is very hard for US and Israeli intelligence to get info on them. Israel and the United States do not have an answer to this problem. That is why they are trying escalation on energy sources instead. But that is backfiring.

The hits on Bazan refinery, the most important one in Israel, and on Ben-Gurion airport, are hits on the most important infrastructure Israel has. Israel is deeply vulnerable because it’s small and does not have adequate backups like Iran does.

Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.

Trump has been boasting about his own Pearl Harbor deceptions/surprise attacks on Iran - last June and Feb 28 - so this is his deranged way of throwing a compliment to a real one. Maybe she can enlighten him about what to expect after the brilliant surprise attack.

The Iranians are learning fast against America's gold-plated weapons. x.com/NatashaBertran…

🔴 Qatari PM says Iran attacks are ‘a very dangerous escalation’, but war was ‘started by Israel’

Trump Family corruption shoved in our faces while he makes everyone poorer & blows up the world. Antiwoke politics at its most essential.

Israelis knew exactly what the consequences of bombing South Pars would be, and the outcome for them is good: Saudis radicalized against Iran, the hated Qataris damaged for years. Trump on the other hand is just Brandonmaxxing, an old maniac surrounded by corrupt sycophants.

This is not bluster, something very hard for a senile lunatic like Trump to grasp. As we’ve been saying on RWN the IRI has barely begun to cause the sort of catastrophic havoc they’re capable of. It’s a marvel the Iranians are still restraining themselves, smart & strategic.