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JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says he is "ready to sacrifice" his life for Iran.
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🚨JUST IN: New video shows human chains being formed around several power plants in Iran.
“These are the most vulnerable members of Iranian society and those who are targeted most and that is who you are circling around your plants, your women and your children?” - @kayleighmcenany
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Ro Khanna reveals his strategy to end the conflict with Iran
1. "Immediate ceasefire"
2. Give Iran an "ironclad guarantee" that the U.S. & Israel will not attack again and "involve China & Russia in that"
3. "Look at some of the sanctions and have a diplomatic solution"
"That’s the only way, in my view, that we get the Strait of Hormuz open. If we don’t give Iran a guarantee that they’re going to be safe, they’re going to think, well, Israel is saying they want to mow the lawn."
Anderson Cooper follows up: “Is it acceptable to you if Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz?”
Khanna says "No," and does not elaborate on how he will take away the Islamist nation's control of the Strait.
"The only way we’re going to get out of it is to have some kind of diplomatic solution, and that would require us to stop the bombing and to figure out how we convince Iran that we’re not going to continue to bomb them.”
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Neep the Sheep, son of Turnip and owner of a teaspoon-sized brain, is now under maximum security in the glamping paddock.
On Friday I put a new extra thick chain on his gate. Neep spent two full days staring at it, thinking very hard.
By day three he decided subtlety was for cowards, charged the hedge, blasted a Neep-shaped hole and gallumphed down the road in triumph.
Wilbur and Thrusty Clappernuts followed.
(Thrusty, an elderly gentleman got tired halfway through the jailbreak celebrations and fell asleep in the middle of the road.
On a blind corner.)
I tracked them by following a trail of mud and sheep poo, found Thrusty impersonating a traffic bollard, Wilbur standing guard in the ditch, and Neep casually eating someone’s bedding plants.
So now they’re in the glamping paddock, which has high stone walls, an outdoor library, tents and children’s toys.
We are hoping this will keep Neep’s ADHD brain busy while we remortgage ourselves to re-fence the farm.
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@HaroldWren22 @johnkonrad @USNavy @SECNAV @USNavyCNO Interesting idea. Any still any where near being in operating condition?
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You know what would be great right about now, @johnkonrad ? If the @USNavy @SECNAV @USNavyCNO re-activated a single Iowa class (BB-62, NJ) & had her steam right into the strait of hormuz, and started conducting shore bombardment with her 16” & 5” guns of every Iranian regime position on those islands in the strait, & the Iranian shore line.
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@OrcianiRiccardo @obretix You need some kind of equipment to build a runway. Usually heavy equipment. The kind that might make a c130 wheels sink in soft sand.
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In 1946, at the age 21, he was arrested for a youthful night of "making trouble" during a night of drinking at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Recognize him?
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BREAKING: Speculation is rising that Brian and Ed Krassenstein are at Walter Reed Medical Center to complete their gender reassignment surgery.
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@MyLordBebo The propellers were made of composite. They melted.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 How do you randomly crash like that?
Looks like a perfect parking job … before the fire.
Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸🇮🇷 ANALYSIS ON THE CRASH THEORY: The bent propellers are a sign of crash landing? Yes, but then you have all of them bent backwards and to the side. When the plane hits the earth and skids forward, the propellers bend backwards while spinning. Here, not all propellers are bent. What is weird is that even one motor has the upper propellers bent and the lower ones straight. How is this possible? Pretty simple: the fuel tank is in the wings and it was full. The whole plane burned to ashes and the middle motors got more heat, so that some propellers melted and bent down… but not backwards. Looks like one is even bend forward and down, what is impossible during a crash landing. No it was not a crash. 1/
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@GaryHaubold @sethjlevy We don’t have to take it or hold it. Just prevent ships from docking there.
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@sethjlevy I think it's widely understood that the US can take Kharg Island. The miserable part would be holding it in static positions while Iran marshalls missile & drone attacks.
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You still think we are incapable of taking Kharg Island?
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@rdd147 The distance e he travelled depends on where he ejected. And where he landed. Not where the plane crashed.
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The rescue of the second pilot gets so much more interesting when you realize he walked 110 miles in a single day to get to his location from crash sight and other pilot.
C Schmitz@chrisschmitz
With the Airfield Geolocated by @andynovy , we can now have significant confidence that the area of rescue was in the Kolah Ghazi National Park, South-East of Isfahan, Population 2.2m
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran is claiming the U.S. “pilot rescue” may have been a cover to steal enriched uranium.
Their foreign ministry says the story does not add up.
They claim the pilot was reportedly down in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province.
But U.S. forces allegedly tried to land somewhere else entirely in central Iran.
Now Tehran is openly suggesting the whole operation may have been a deception.
“The possibility that this was a deception operation to steal enriched uranium should not be ignored at all.”
Source: Al Jazeera
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇵🇰🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Pakistan is trying to force a ceasefire before this escalates further Its army chief, Asim Munir, has been in nonstop contact through the night with JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Iran’s FM Araghchi to push a deal. The proposal is straightforward: an immediate ceasefire, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and a 15-20 day window to finalize a broader agreement, with final talks planned in Islamabad under what’s being called the “Islamabad Accord.” But Iran is not agreeing under pressure. Tehran has received messages through Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt, yet its position is clear: it will not reopen Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire, it rejects imposed timelines, and it wants guarantees that it will not be attacked again by the U.S. or Israel. Iran maintains that those guarantees are not currently on the table. So the situation is stuck. A deal exists, negotiations are active at the highest level, but one key condition remains unresolved: a temporary pause versus permanent security guarantees. Reuters
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@glcarlstrom No they should surrender. Give up their nuclear material. Give up their rockets. Commit to only a defensive military. And then wait for the people to kick them out.
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This underscores the central dilemma in trying to get Iran to a deal: "Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but the US and Israel can attack again whenever they want to."
For now, Iran believes its control of Hormuz is the thing that will prevent such an outcome: that the ability to cause chaos in the global economy will serve as a deterrent in the future. Plus it wants to use the strait as a revenue stream.
Yet for America (and Gulf states) there is no acceptable deal in which Iran retains such control.
So for the American negotiators, Hormuz looks like a point of leverage that Iran should trade for security and economic benefits; for the Iranians, Hormuz itself is a security and economic benefit. axios.com/2026/04/06/ira…
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Injured US pilot in Iranian territory.
Pilot escapes and hides in the mountains.
Hunted by Iran's military for 2 days.
CIA throws IRGC off with fake intel.
US sets up remote base inside Iran.
Special forces locate and extract him.
0 US casualties, heavy IRGC losses.
God bless the USA 🇺🇸
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@Arrogance_0024 Or, was there something else going on? And the rescue mission was a cover…..
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The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue.
Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot.
You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic.
Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier.
The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen.
That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons.
A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
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@wretchardthecat Or , perhaps, it was actually a special forces mission to remove nuclear material from one of the sites storing enriched fuel for bombs.
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How long before the theory emerges that the US deliberately ordered the F-15 crew to bail out over Iran so they could rescue them dramatically.
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