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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷The American press reports on how Trump is being briefed on the US war in the Middle East.
The Pentagon shows him a two-minute montage of “successful US strikes on Iran” every day - mostly explosions and victories.
From this, in fact, he gets the overall picture.
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That explain a lot of things
They’re probably afraid he’ll go off on / fire them if they are too honest about how it’s going. A self-defeating aspect of narcissism in charge and rule by fear.
Looks like more countries could break rank with the USA and import Russian oil
🇦🇺🛢 Sydney petrol stations are running dry.
Nearly 250 service stations across New South Wales and Queensland are out of diesel. Those who can get fuel are paying a dollar a litre more than three weeks ago.
Unions are demanding government intervention to compensate truck drivers.
The war has come to Australia.
Video in https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/179245
This is what is coming for every Western country that depends on the Hormuz. Things are going to get wild.
🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — As of this moment, Hezbollah has targeted and destroyed 9 tanks, two Humvees, and a bulldozer today alone, and also attempted to intercept a warplane.
@SimurghRes
Iran strikes Israeli chemical complex linked to white phosphorus production
The Islamic Republic has escalated its retaliatory drone and missile operations against Israel in the last few days
❗️Israeli forces back settler takeover of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem
Israeli occupation forces moved into the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, clearing the way for the eviction of 11 Palestinian families and the seizure of multiple apartments. Police escorted settlers linked to the Ateret Cohanim organization into the Palestinian village, where footage showed furniture being thrown from windows and Israeli flags raised over the confiscated homes. Local sources and rights groups say at least 13 apartments were taken in the operation.
Human rights group B’Tselem warned that thousands of Palestinians in Silwan now face the threat of forced displacement, describing the evictions as part of a wider policy to reshape the area’s demographic balance. The group accused Israeli authorities of exploiting the US-Israeli war on Iran to accelerate settlement expansion in occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, under legal frameworks that discriminate against Palestinians.
The developments come alongside a surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank, where homes and vehicles have been torched in multiple villages. Palestinian emergency services reported injuries following assaults by settlers, while Israeli authorities acknowledged a wave of arson attacks but made no arrests. Local observers say the escalation reflects a broader pattern of coordinated pressure on Palestinian communities in order to further ethnically cleanse them from their land.
❗️Public Relations of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announces that a US military F-18 fighter jet was hit by fire from Iranian air defenses.
❗️Highlights from Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s latest speech:
• “It is no longer hidden from anyone that there exists a dangerous US–Israeli project known as ‘Greater Israel,’ based on occupation and expansion from the Euphrates to the Nile, including Lebanon.”
• “The US-Israeli aggression against Lebanon has not stopped since 27 November 2024, and the Israeli enemy has not adhered to any agreement, continuing its aggression uninterrupted for fifteen months.”
• “We face two options: either surrender and give up our land, dignity, sovereignty, and the future of our generations, or engage in the inevitable confrontation to resist the occupation and prevent it from achieving its goals. The resistance chose the timing to respond to aggression and defend Lebanon, depriving the Israeli enemy of the chance to surprise us, preventing it from isolating Lebanon, and invalidating all pretexts.”
• “The resistance has prepared appropriately, proving its effectiveness and competence. The young fighters have demonstrated heroic sacrifice, honor, patriotism, and dignity. They are determined to continue without limits, ready to make boundless sacrifices, and now stand as symbols of national pride and the forthcoming liberation.”
• “Aggression is the problem and the danger; resistance is the hope and the path to liberation.”
• “The responsibility to confront aggression is national, encompassing the government, the people, the army, political and sectarian forces, parties, and every citizen. US-Israeli aggression seeks to strip Lebanon of its strength, control its policies, and determine the future of its children. It seeks to undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty and independence through internal strife, legitimizing the Israeli occupation, and preventing the army from arming and defending the nation. Responding is a national duty.”
• “When the exclusivity of weapons is submitted to meet Israel’s demands while occupation and aggression continue, it is a step toward Lebanon’s demise and the realization of the ‘Greater Israel’ project. Negotiating with the Israeli enemy under fire amounts to surrender, depriving Lebanon of its capabilities, and is fundamentally unacceptable against an occupying force that attacks daily.”
• “We are engaged in a defensive battle for Lebanon and its citizens. Those who are martyred are among the choices of our men, youth, women, and children. What we liberate is the land of Lebanon.”
• “National unity frustrates our enemy from occupying our country. It enables us to endure this painful stage in solidarity, helping us to rebuild the country together. It prevents government decisions that serve the Israeli project, even if unintentionally, and ensures the government retracts any decision criminalizing resistance or resistance supporters. We call for national unity for all of us: together we are stronger, together we shorten the duration of aggression.”
• “Look at the US-Israeli aggression against Lebanon: it kills civilians, destroys buildings, displaces villages and towns, and works to annihilate both people and resources. Yet it is cowardly in facing courageous resistors.”
• “This resistance cannot be defeated, alongside its people, citizens, and honorable individuals. We are confident that we will not be defeated, no matter the sacrifices.”
• “As for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s confrontation with global US–Israeli aggression, it is a lesson to be learned. Iran has stood firm against the world’s oppressors and aggressors, and God willing, it will prevail. Know that every victory against the US and Israel brings benefits for all.”
From Sony Thang on the changes to the world inspired by Iranian resistance:
Here is what multipolarity actually means, because it gets thrown around as an abstraction until it becomes meaningless.
Multipolarity does not mean the United States is no longer powerful.
It does not mean the U.S. military is weak.
It does not mean America’s economic weight has evaporated.
It means the ability to translate that power into political outcomes in every corner of the world is no longer universal.
The ability to issue ultimatums and have them obeyed.
To threaten sanctions and watch governments capitulate.
To draw red lines and have adversaries stop at them.
That ability is no longer universal.
There are now actors who can say no and make the no stick.
Not many. Not on every issue. Not without cost.
But structurally, consequentially, in ways that change the calculus for every government watching.
Iran is demonstrating, in real time, that a regional power with the right combination of geographic leverage, military investment in specific capabilities, and political will to absorb punishment can deny the United States escalation dominance in its own neighborhood.
That is the definition of a pole.
Not a superpower. Not an equal.
A pole. An actor that cannot be submitted.
Every country that has been told for thirty years that the choice is between American alignment and American punishment is watching what Iran is doing and asking:
Is that possible for us too?
In some cases the answer is no.
In some cases it’s maybe.
In some cases the question alone, the fact that the question can now be seriously asked, is already changing behavior.
That is the earthquake.
The Strait of Hormuz is just the visible shaking.Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2036510387856875943#m
Iran rejected the American 15-point plan to end the war and proposed its own plan to Washington. It contains only five points.
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An end to “aggression and assassinations”;
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Provision of specific mechanisms to guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again;
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Payment of war damages and reparations;
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An end to the war on all fronts;
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International recognition and guarantees of Iran’s sovereign right to control the Strait of Hormuz.
The 5 modest demands of the party winning the war v. the 15 absurd demands of a dying power desperately trying to convince people it hasn’t lost its edge.
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Iran launched a missile strike near the Ogni Rabin Thermal Power Plant near the Israeli city of Hadera.
This power plant is Israel’s largest, providing 20-25% of the country’s total electricity generation.
Video in https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159792
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/25/iran-war-latest-news-trump-ceasefire-plan-hormuz/
Iran claiming they struck the USS Abraham Lincoln with a cruise missle
The NYT reports total confusion in the White House. Trump is desperately begging for a way out of the war to save the markets. Now Türkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan are stepping in to mediate because Trump’s disastrous war is threatening the entire global economy.
Video in https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159785
I belive Iran already laid out the terms, total withdrawal of the empire from the region
Europe could experience fuel shortages as early as April due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Shell CEO Wael Sawan said, according to The Guardian.
“South Asia was the first to feel the full brunt of the situation. Then it spread to Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and as April approaches, it will spread even more to Europe,” Sawan said at an oil industry conference in Texas.
Sawan noted that the crisis has already impacted aviation fuel supplies, with the price doubling, and diesel will be next, followed by gasoline.
So you are saying that I gotta wait another week for the good time to start?
