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Prince Turki al-Faisal's oped has some choice words for Iran...but also for Israel.

Iran is humiliating the US: Donald Trump is waiting every day for an answer that is taking time to reach him. Iran is not in a hurry while Trump is under tremendous pressure.

BREAKING: Iran’s IRGC navy has warned that any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial ships will be met with a large attack on one of the US bases in the region and its naval ships, according to Iran’s state-run IRIB News agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/lftq8y

اين در واقع يکی از جنبه‌های کمتر مورد بحث بحران هرمز است. فراتر از نفت و LNG، کابل‌های زيردريايی اينترنت لايه ديگری از اهرم فشار راهبردی هستند که در پس‌زمينه اين تقابل قرار دارند. حتی بدون قطع فيزيکی آنها، صرفِ نشان دادن توانايی برای نظارت، فشار، تنظيم يا تهديد زيرساخت‌های ديجيتال حياتی می‌تواند بخشی از ديناميک بازدارندگی و ديپلماسی اجبار باشد. به بيان ديگر، تنگه هرمز ديگر فقط يک گلوگاه انرژی نيست؛ بلکه يک گلوگاه اطلاعات و اتصال جهانی نيز هست. از ديد تهران، اين موضوع می‌تواند دامنه ابزارهای فشار نامتقارن را بسيار فراتر از موشک‌ها و قايق‌های تندرو گسترش دهد. #تنگه_هرمز #ايران #خليج_فارس #جنگ_شناختی #زيرساخت_ديجيتال #ژئوپليتيک

One of the more interesting aspects of today’s front page from the IRGC-linked newspaper Javan (which I add here) is not the usual propaganda tone, but the narrative structure behind it. - As you can see below, the paper essentially argues that the sudden US media focus on UFOs and “flying saucers” is serving as a distraction from the real story unfolding in the Persian Gulf: a costly and unresolved confrontation in which, from Tehran’s perspective, the US failed to impose full strategic control despite its overwhelming military superiority. - Even the imagery looks carefully constructed. Trump is shown escaping inside a flying saucer while IRGC fast boats dominate the waters below. One can read the message: when conventional pressure fails to produce a decisive outcome, attention shifts toward media cycles and psychological framing. - The satirical cover offers a useful window into how the Iranian hardline establishment currently interprets the confrontation with Washington: not as an American show of strength, but as a struggle over perception, narrative management, and political optics after a strategic stalemate in the Persian Gulf. #Iran #IranWar

Israel killed 40 Lebanese today and the world barely notices, it’s not even second-tier news. To hell with this broken world

Rajiv Menon was my barrister when I appeared before the Tribunal investigating police surveillance of left and women's groups. His opening speech was brilliant. He is on of this country's most gifted barristers, a descendant of Mike Mansfield. His prosecution is an appalling instance of some judges prostrating themselves before the needs of the state as they did a number of times against Irish and Muslim prisoners. One hope they might have learnt from how they treated the Irish. Doesn't seem to be the case.

New @WSJ scoop by @jmalsin and Anat Peled: Israel built a clandestine base in Iraq's desert to support its Iran campaign — then struck Iraqi troops who nearly found it, killing one. Why this is Israeli paramountcy in action 🧵 wsj.com/world/middle-e…

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Makhrour area of the Christian town of Beit Jala in the West Bank, raided the land of the Kisiyah family — a Christian family from Beit Jala — and vandalized Christian symbols and crosses. savewestbankchristians.com

Pakistan steps up to mediate peace between the US and Iran, and the UAE - the close Israeli ally who claims to be a force for peace and a force against sectarianism - punishes Pakistan for its peacemaking by expelling Shia Pakistani workers. nytimes.com/2026/05/08/wor…

‼️ 13 civilians from the same extended family were killed in the Israeli massacre in Al-Saksakieh. Three generations of IDPs wiped out in a single strike. Among the dead were brothers Ghaleb & Youssef Fahs, along with their wives, children, relatives and parents. Also killed were 24-year-old Jana Fahs, her two-year-old daughter Mariam, six-month-old Hani Ghalib Fahs, two teenage boys, an 11-year-old girl, and 70-year-old Khadija Awadah. Families displaced from Jebsheet fled to Al-Saksakieh believing it would be safer there. Instead, the building sheltering them was turned into a mass grave.

“The people who spat at me when I was a young monk are now part of the government.” — Fr. Nikodemus Schnabel, Abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. A chilling warning about the growing hatred against Christians in the Holy Land, following attacks on a French nun and repeated desecrations of Christian symbols in Jerusalem and southern Lebanon. (Source: Abouna.org)

نقاش الساعة | واشنطن وطهران بين الضغط وإعادة هندسة المشهد التفاوضي youtu.be/MpL5U7itHso?si… via @YouTube

At the time I wrote of Rajiv Menon KC's closing speech for the defence of Charlotte Head: "This is the one of the greatest legal speeches – including historical speeches – I have ever read." He now faces loss of career and two years in jail for it. craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

Just talked to a 50-year-old UN employee in central Gaza who was recently freed after Israeli forces kidnapped him from his neighbourhood during the genocide. He spoke of frequent beatings, utter less than-animal humiliation, starvation, electrocution, and shackling.

BREAKING: 'No justification', EU crisis chief says of Israeli attacks on hospitals and journalists in Lebanon 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/b1q0x1?update=…

BREAKING: Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli army are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh and the village of Dayr Jarir in the West Bank right now. savewestbankchristians.com

Israeli drone tries to kill 12-year-old girl three times in south Lebanon. She later died from her wounds. UK anti-genocide activists were recently convicted for breaking into the Israeli factory where these type of drones are made.

NEW: Israel built a clandestine military outpost in Iraq's western desert just before its air campaign against Iran — with U.S. knowledge — to house special forces and search-and-rescue teams supporting strikes 1,000 miles away. In early March, an Iraqi shepherd reported unusual helicopter activity, and when Iraqi troops moved to investigate, Israeli airstrikes killed one soldier and wounded two others to keep the base hidden. Iraq blamed the U.S. in a UN complaint, but Washington says it wasn't involved; the base was never officially discovered. Outgoing Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar had hinted at the operations in a March letter referring to "special missions which could ignite the imagination." Source: WSJ

A Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank has been forced by Israeli settlers, reportedly under military protection, to dig up their father’s grave and rebury him, which the UN is condemning as “appalling and dehumanising.” 🔗: aje.news/3mu5e2