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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Record $1.33 million a day to send a tanker through Hormuz
The cost of chartering an oil tanker for a passage through the Strait of Hormuz has hit the highest level in history, $1.33 million per day, the Financial Times reports.
Shipowners are now paying crews like soldiers of fortune to make the run past Iran:
➡️Tanker captains are being offered $100,000 a month, plus bonuses of up to $50,000 for each passage
➡️Ordinary sailors are being offered four to six times their usual pay
➡️Normally, captains working the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman earn about $15,000 a month, and crew members from $1,500
One industry representative said seafarers are now “almost viewed as combat mercenaries” because of the risks involved.
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Today, Yemen once again targeted various ARAMCO facilities in Saudi Arabia, including in Jeddah
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❗️England and Wales Greens recognize Zionism as racism and back single Palestinian state
The Green Party of England and Wales has voted to recognise Zionism as a form of racism and support the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all ethnic and religious groups.
The motion was passed at the party’s conference in Brighton on Sunday, with 1,022 members voting in favour and 813 against, making the Greens the first major UK party to adopt the position.
Green Party Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali told Middle East Eye he strongly supported the motion, while Green MPs Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay criticised it.
“As defined in the motion, Zionism is an ethno-nationalist state. Zionism is resulting in ethnic cleansing, in the belief that one group of people is superior to another,” Ali said.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/68876
UK Green Party declares Zionism a form of racism, backs single democratic Palestinian state
I swear Iranian embassies are amazing shit posters
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — The Pentagon has instructed U.S. Central Command to finalize preparations for a possible resumption of major combat operations against Iran, according to Axios, citing U.S. officials.
No date has been set, and President Trump has not made a final decision. However, U.S. and Israeli sources say renewed strikes could begin before the November 3 U.S. midterms, potentially even before Israel’s elections a week earlier.
Any renewed campaign is expected to involve large-scale U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iranian energy facilities, infrastructure and nuclear sites, with both militaries likely participating.
We will probably see oil at $150 a barrel next month if these dolts are stupid enough to start up the war again, and Iran will pull out their most effective anti-ship missiles. Guarantee they sink at least 1 USN vessel.
They definitely won’t have sink a ship! The USN will have just given a ship an emergency retirement and a bunch of sailors will mysteriously show up on the casualty list weeks later.
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority announces that 12 people were killed and 309 people were injured as a result of the Yemeni strike against King Khalid International Airport today
Among the dead are 4 Saudis, 2 Bangladeshis, and 1 American, Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, Palestinian & Sudanese.
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37590
I’m convinced at this point that the Saudis purposefully kept their air sirens off in order to maximize civilian casualties. Very Israeli of them I must say.
Not to mention, western media is harping on about this as if Ansarallah is some barbaric force that targets civilians, but not a peep has been made about the countless air strikes in Sanaa. Yemen is responding to the brutal Saudi aggression against their people.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemeni ballistic missiles just targeted Riyadh International Airport, KSA
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🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 A hangar protected by earth and concrete berms was hit at the Saudi Air Force base in Khamis Mushait.
The Yemeni Ansarullah strike took place between October 4 and 6.
The hangar’s fortifications suggest it housed high-value weaponry.
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The entire pocket of Bani Quds has collapsed; Ansarallah forces are now moving in, PLC have surrendered their weapons
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37431
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 USS Abraham Lincoln limps home after 10 months off Iran
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has arrived in San Diego after more than 10 months away, one of the longest US carrier deployments since the Vietnam War. Its aircraft were among the first to strike Iran on 28 February.
➡️The crew spent more than 260 consecutive days at sea without a port call.
➡️Eight service members in the strike group attempted suicide, the acting Navy secretary told Congress.
➡️After Iran destroyed the main US supply base in Bahrain, sailors went without fresh food, hygiene products and mail.
Defense Secretary Pete Kegsbreath, who extended the deployment twice, blamed the media for portraying the ship as a symbol of dysfunction.
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blamed the media for portraying the ship as a symbol of dysfunction.
This the one where they couldn’t get the shitters to work, yeah?
believe it or not, that’s a whole other ship, the Ford (which already limped home some weeks ago)
I thought they both had shitter problems. lol
Could be! The Ford in particular had the new “vacuum toilets”, the big story on the Lincoln IIRC is the attempted suicides
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah (the Houthis) targeted the Saudi military headquarters at Aden Airport, southern Yemen, with ballistic missiles
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Videos: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37466
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Impacts at the Saudi officers headquarters at Aden Airport
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Videos: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37469?single
— 🇾🇪/🇸🇦/🇵🇰 NOTE: At least 4 Pakistani military aircraft landed at Aden Airport today
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NOTE: At least 4 Pakistani military aircraft landed at Aden Airport today
Wtf are they doing in Yemen at all. No way Pakistan starts airstriking too.
—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ BREAKING: Significant new activity has been detected at the Minzadayi site, a highly secure compound east of Tehran that was alleged by the IDF in March 2026 to be involved in the research and development of nuclear warheads
After Israel attacked the compound during the recent war, the IDF officially stated that a group of nuclear scientists operated covertly at this location to advance ‘a key component in nuclear weapons development’, including the means to produce cores of enriched uranium and the explosive material required to cast them into the detonation chain.
According to the Institute for Science and International Security, a think-tank specialized in nuclear proliferation, recent satellite imagery from the Minzadayi site indicates a return to regular vehicle activity around the site following an extensive cleanup operation that included the clearing of rubble and debris and repair of damage on the hillside. Cars are parked outside in the parking lot, and many passenger vehicles and trucks can be seen inside the security perimeter.
The current effort underway at this highly secure compound suggests that the work being conducted here is of top priority.
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Images: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37459?single
—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran has resumed excavation and development at one of its largest dormant projects, the Abyek underground complex, codenamed ‘Site 311’ by Western and Israeli intelligence agencies
The site is located along the Tehran-Qazvin corridor, roughly 100 km from Tehran. The facility is excavated into mountainous terrain and includes several tunnel portals, likely connected to an extensive underground network including dozens of halls and bunkers, one of the largest of its kind in Iran.
Satellite imagery indicates a major project, with large volumes of excavated spoil, supporting infrastructure, and substantial rock overburden providing protection for facilities inside the mountain.
Most of the excavation work at this site took place between 2007 and 2016. Work largely ceased afterwards for unknown reasons.
Immediately following Operation Epic Fury, however, satellite imagery showed a clear change: Iran has returned to the project and resumed excavation at a rapid pace not seen at the site in roughly a decade.
The site attracted international attention in 2010, after it was accused of being a secret uranium-enrichment facility. The claim was never independently verified, and there is still no conclusive public evidence that uranium enrichment has taken place at the site. Its precise purpose remains unknown.
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❗️Israel says invading officer killed during operation in south Lebanon
The Israeli military claimed Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, a combat engineering officer from Haifa, was killed during an operation in southern Lebanon after the military Humvee he was traveling in reportedly overturned in the Litani sector.
According to the Israeli military, three other soldiers were lightly wounded in the incident and were evacuated for medical treatment.
No independent confirmation or additional details about the circumstances of the “incident” are available.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/69087
Settler down 🎉
#Damascus: An Alawite Doctor Who Spent His Life Studying and Working, Only to Disappear After Being Kidnapped by General Security!!
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The case of Dr. Basel Ramadan al-Numaily, 29, continues to spark reaction on social media and outrage among Syrians, as it stems from sectarian incitement and the Salafist extremist mindset that the terrorist Jolani regime is working to spread throughout Syria.
Recent evidence has emerged showing that the young doctor faced several sectarian incidents because of his Alawite background. One doctor, whose infected by the sectarian ideas spread by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s regime, described him as “an animal from a criminal sect” in a WhatsApp group of hundreds of doctors, simply because of his Alawite identity, despite the fact that the young doctor had committed no wrong in his life other than being born Alawite, having spent his entire life studying and pursuing an education to become a cardiac surgeon in Damascus hospitals.
After the doctor made public what the extremist doctor had said about him and sent a message to the Minister of Health and the head of the Damascus Doctors’ Syndicate, neither they nor any other responsible authority took any action.
Days later, Dr. Basel al-Numaily was physically assaulted by the same doctor, “Baraa,” a third-year postgraduate resident, inside the Damascus University Children’s Hospital, in full view of everyone, with no one intervening, simply because he was Alawite. Despite Dr. Basel al-Numaily filing another complaint, especially after receiving threats via Telegram from allegedly HTS-led General Security personnel threatening to kill and “disappear” him within days, there was no response to his appeals.
The doctor was then kidnapped on October 4, 2026, from inside the National Hospital in Damascus by a detachment of the #HTS-led General Security militias. When his family asked members of the detachment, they denied knowing his whereabouts.
On October 8, his father received a call from a security officer telling him that the doctor was “being held” by them and would be released within three days, without allowing him to speak to Dr. al-Numaily to confirm this. Today, the three-day deadline has passed with no word on Dr. Basel al-Numaily’s fate.
https://t.me/syriajusticearchive/9936?single
I really hope that these stories demonstrate why I’m so adamant about my hatred for Wahabbism, and why I completely refuse to take people who complain about “Assadist tyranny” seriously.
Shi’ites knew this would happen. We made no exaggerations when you argued that Bashar’s fall would lead to this. Yet Western Leftists still refuse to acknowledge that their opposition to Assad was incorrect. Sunni Arabs have been conditioned to salivate over murdering Shi’ites and groups related to them.
Al-Jazeera alone has a massive amount of blood on their hands for fueling this sectarian strife.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Current situation on the northern Taizz front:
– Ansarallah are pushing northward and have almost captured Al-Misrakh and Al-Aqroodh
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37437
