Spark News Analysis

The E-3s are big kills. Perhaps even bigger than the Ford. There may be 5 in theater. If they got 2, that degrades 40% of US eyes in the sky.

Mehdi Hasan spent years crusading for regime change from Syria to China based on phony State Dept human rights reports that were easily debunked. He zealously celebrated the Al Qaeda takeover of Syria, and has kept quiet ever since about Israeli troops occupying the country while prisons full of ISIS fighters were emptied along Iran's borders. Mehdi is now hyping a bunk regime change narrative to discredit Iran's leadership as they face down a campaign of state destruction imposed by Israel and the US. His source is Amnesty, the EU-backed NGO which legitimized the Kuwaiti incubator babies hoax that enabled the US to launch the First Gulf War on Iraq. On January 8 and 9, Mossad-backed rioters murdered hundreds of police officers, guards and civilians across Iran, while burning down government buildings and mosques. The extensively documented regime change riots provided a bridge between the 12-day-war and the current assault on Iran, and form the blueprint for Israel's stalled plan to destabilize the country from within. At the time, Amnesty described the rioters as "largely peaceful protesters," as though they were staging a lunch counter sit-in. Amnesty also held rallies in Europe throughout January which supported the toppling of Iran's government. Mehdi confidently echoes Amnesty's deceptive language in order to browbeat his interview subject, presenting him as a criminal while his colleagues at Iran's Foreign Ministry face the threat of assassination by Israel. With his deployment of yet another shabby regime change narrative, and his characteristic refusal to acknowledge any facts which might undercut his pre-packaged argument, Mehdi has joined the US-Israeli information war against Iran. None of his virtue signaling about Palestine can deflect from the insidious role he's playing.

"Why should we believe your government and not Amnesty?" I asked the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman about Amnesty International accusing the Iranian government of "massacres" of Iranian protesters, based on "verified videos & eyewitness accounts":

🚨I asked a senior Iranian official about Trump’s claim Iran requested an extension on Trump’s threat to bomb energy infrastructure: “[Trump] is not being truthful. We have not submitted any request regarding potential U.S. attacks,” the official said.

WATCH: Iranian citizens in Tehran share their perspectives on their country's resistance against US-Israeli Imperialism and the political road forward.

In the border areas of the Tirah Valley connected to Afghanistan, Pakistani security forces are withdrawing and abandoning positions to create space for Lashkar-e-Taiba, ISIS, and so-called local peace committee militias to take control. According to local sources, this retreat is not driven by militant pressure, as attacks lack the scale and intensity to force such a move. Instead, it reflects a calculated policy of enabling proxy groups with safe havens and using them against others, particularly pitting Lashkar-e-Taiba and ISIS against the Pakistani Taliban. This underscores a long-standing and controversial strategy of advancing military objectives by destabilizing the tribal areas and turning them into launching pads of violence in Afghanistan. Consequently, Pakistan aims to establish ISIS strongholds in the Tirah Valley to export terrorism to Afghanistan and Central Asia.