John Baxter

One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran. I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation.

Iran today threatened the Bab al-Mandeb (10 percent of seaborne trade). Predictable and not new. Iran spent years building a missile and drone proxy force in Yemen able to threaten global commerce—and fired anti-ship missiles at US Navy vessels in ‘23 and ‘24. Hormuz & Mandeb ⬇️

"Instead of a power plant strike, a plague of the firstborn - tomorrow evening, eliminate the children of Vahidi, Araghchi, and Ghalibaf. If we can't get to the parents, hit their children" Israeli analyst Orit Perlov, of the INSS think-tank, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, calls to murder children in Iran. She later deleted this tweet. Here's a translation of the full tweet: "Please replace the state approach with a cruel religious approach. Instead of a power plant strike, a plague of the firstborn - tomorrow evening, eliminate the children of Vahidi, Araghchi, and Ghalibaf. If we can't get to the parents, harm their children (it took us two years to do it in Gaza. We haven't done it in Lebanon yet). These are religious patents. No state rationality is working right now. Instead of a "mad landlord" approach, we need a cruel landlord. Trump can't promise hell - that's exactly what they want. Hitting power plants would be counterproductive If they drag us into a boxing match and ping-pong games - We lose."

Yesterday, once again, I had to explain on national television in Belgium that the right to freedom, sovereignty, and armed resistance against occupation is not reserved for Europeans alone, but applies equally to non-European peoples.

PETE HEGSETH: “We negotiate with bombs.” That’s not a meme, it’s what the U.S. Secretary of War is proudly saying in public while American aircraft “loiter over Tehran,” as if diplomacy is something you do with a trigger in your hand. In this segment, I break down why the decapitation strike strategy failed: it was supposed to trigger panic and an uprising, but instead it pushed many Iranians — even opponents of the system — to rally around the nation once they connected the dots that this was a war of aggression, not “liberation.” Then Washington tried the familiar playbook: ethnic fracture — pushing Kurdish militias to break into Iran and spark civil conflict. Even they refused, basically saying: last time we fought alongside you in Syria, you dumped us — we won’t be cannon fodder again. And when the “inside destabilization” failed, the war logic shifted toward the only leverage left: energy and power points. But Iran’s message is: hit our energy infrastructure, and we hit the Gulf’s, and the world economy feels it immediately. If “negotiations” fail, how long before the blowback hits every U.S. base in the Gulf Monarchies?