
Stephen Kalil🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Stephen Kalil🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Muhammad Ali: "Me,We." Previous life on Bay & Wall St. Retired young. Not a fan of tribalism. Atheist. Wife & I, car-less empty nesters in Downtown Vancouver




Buried in Iran’s five-point counterproposal to Trump’s 15-point peace plan is the single most consequential sentence of the entire war. Iran’s fifth ceasefire condition, via Press TV citing a senior political-security official: “Iran’s exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is and will remain Iran’s natural and legal right, and it constitutes a guarantee for the implementation of the other party’s commitments, and must be recognized.” Read that again slowly. Iran is not asking for sanctions relief. It is not asking for reconstruction funds. It is demanding that the international community formally recognize Iranian sovereignty over the waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil, one-fifth of its LNG, and one-third of its helium must transit. If any version of this condition survives into a ceasefire, the IRGC toll regime at Hormuz becomes permanent. Not as an ad hoc wartime measure. As an internationally recognized sovereign right. Iran’s parliament is already drafting the legislation. MP Mohammadreza Rezaei Kouchi told Iranian media: “We provide its security, and it is natural that ships and oil tankers should pay such fees.” The bill is in the Civil Affairs Committee. Bloomberg reported it could be finalized within a week. Iran has signed but never ratified UNCLOS. Its 1993 domestic law requires prior authorization for warships and hazardous cargo transiting the strait. Some legal scholars characterize Iran as a “persistent objector” to the transit passage regime. The US maintains transit passage is customary international law. The legal question is unresolved. The physical question is not: Iran controls the northern shore and is enforcing a selective corridor at the point of a gun. GCC Secretary General al-Budaiwi called it “an aggression and a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” on March 26. He is correct on the law. He may be irrelevant on the outcome. The Suez precedent: Nasser nationalized in 1956. Reopened under Egyptian control in 1957. Excluded British pounds and French francs from the toll. The Suez Canal Authority has collected tolls in its chosen currencies for nearly seven decades. Crisis lasted months. Architecture lasted forever. Trump’s energy strike deadline is April 6. If the toll survives the war, the dollar loses its first chokepoint. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Σοκαριστικές εξελίξεις για το #Ισραήλ.Ολόκληρο τάγμα του IDF παραδόθηκε στην Λιβανική Αντίσταση Χεζμπολάχ - αιχμάλωτοι στρατιώτες καταγράφηκαν σε κάμερα εντός του 🇮🇱 στην περιοχή της Γαλιλαίας. (Πηγές: Channel 13 Israel, Al-Jazeera On Ground Reports, Hazubullah Military Media

Video: Iranian state TV is showing the exact locations targeted by the Iranian military in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and several other Gulf countries , today morning ( 28/3/2026) — Translated from Persian into English by Kurd Alarm via Telegram (t.me/KurdAlarm)






🚨 Learning NATO didn’t pull troops out of Iraq for “safety” reasons. There is a rapidly evolving situation on the US relationship with the current Iraqi government 👀

🚨 THE AXIS RESISTANCE IS NOW COMPLETE: - 🇱🇧 HEZBOLLAH. - 🇾🇪 YEMEN HOUTHIS. - 🇮🇶🇸🇾 ISLAMIC RESISTANCE GROUP. ALL HAVE JOINED WAR AGAINST 🇮🇱 ISRAEL.

BREAKING: According to this satellite image taken by Landsat 8/9, it appears that, in addition to the KC-135R Stratotankers of the U.S. Air Force, at least one or two E-3G Sentry AWACS has also been destroyed in the ballistic missile strike carried out by the IRGC Aerospace Force at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, on March 27, 2026. In fact, it appears that, the primary target of the IRGCASF was the E-3Gs of the USAF parked there, not the KC-135Rs. However, they also managed to destroy several KC-135Rs. What makes this even more personal for me is that I had previously met and photographed those E-3G Sentry AWACS aircraft weeks before start of this war for my book on Op. Epic Fury. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar


Canada shares its condolences with the UAE following the latest Iranian attack that took the lives of two civilians in Abu Dhabi. We strongly condemn Iran’s unprovoked attacks on the UAE and across the region, and reiterate the importance of opening secure access through the Strait of Hormuz. Canada supports efforts to safeguard international shipping and ensure freedom of navigation.







