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War on Iran

  • Israel kills Iran’s intelligence minister: Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was killed in an overnight strike. Iranian President Masoud Pazeshkian confirmed Khatib was killed in a “cowardly assassination” in a post on X. Khatib previously served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and in the judiciary. He was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2022 over alleged cyber operations targeting Washington and its allies. “On this day, significant surprises are expected across all arenas that will escalate the war we are conducting against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon,” Katz said during a briefing with military officials, according to Israeli media. “The intensity of the strikes in Iran is increasing,” he added.

Continue reading “Israel strikes largest Iranian gas field, central Beirut; What AIPAC got for $22 million in Illinois; U.S. hits Iran missiles sites near Strait of Hormuz”

By Wyatt Reed – The Grayzone

Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him. Continue reading “IDF threatens ‘elimination’ for Russian leaders who ‘wish Israel ill’”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

Summary

  • Trump dials up threat, seeking leverage, denies approving Israeli Pars strikes: however, reports from The Wall Street Journal and Axios say the White House was aware. US sending more troops to region.
  • Energy war hits breaking point: tit-for-tat strikes are now directly targeting Gulf energy infrastructure, with Qatar’s Ras Laffan damaged, KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain sites attacked; Saudi trust in Iran “completely shattered.”
  • Europe pushes off-ramp, refuses entry into conflict: Macron urges direct talks  “reckless escalation,” while Friedrich Merz signals support for de-escalation—Brussels’ stance: “This is not our war.”
  • Iran signals not done exacting revenge: IRGC warns retaliation “not yet finished,” vowing escalating strikes across region as Gulf states, Iraq, and shipping lanes absorb widening fallout.
  • Strait of Hormuz a de facto economic war zone as prices rise at the pump with oil spiraling higher: Iran’s parliament is floating tolls on shipping – weaponizing control.

Continue reading “Tit-For-Tat Gulf Attacks Spark Energy Market Chaos; Trump Distances US From Israeli Actions, Macron Urges Direct Talks”

By Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com

The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights is warning that Israel’s deliberate attacks on civilian targets across Lebanon may amount to war crimes, because international law demands a distinction between military and civilian targets. Continue reading “UN Rights Office Warns Israeli Attacks on Lebanon May Amount to War Crimes”

By Drop Site News

BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Through two improvised checkpoints, men filed into Al-Ummah Park in central Baghdad’s Al-Tahrir Square on Friday to mark the celebration of Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day). Behind the artist Jewad Selim’s Monument to Freedom, a relic from a secular society that seemed so out-of-place and obsolete, a few hundred mourners gathered underneath a sea of paramilitary flags. A succession of defiant chants came in unison, condemning the U.S. and pledging loyalty to the Supreme Leader in Tehran. Projected on a giant screen before them were the smiling faces of Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor, the recently murdered Ali Khamenei. The image soon gave way to another, with Ali’s son, the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, flanked by his elders and crowned with the words “fa‘azazna bi thalithin,” a cursive allusion to a Quranic verse from Surat Yasin: “We sent them two messengers, but they rejected both. So We reinforced the two with a third.” Continue reading “As the Gulf Burns, Political Uncertainty Looms Over Iraq”

By Josh Walkos – Zerohedge

We have all experienced it, you’re scrolling through social media and a post catches your eye, it makes a claim or shows you something that makes you say to yourself, “there is no way that’s true,” or it invokes an immediate emotional response and before you know it, you have begun typing a comment laced with vitriolic outrage.

But pause there for a moment. Before your fingers hit the keys, before you share it, before you screenshot it and send it to three friends who you know will be just as furious as you are.

Ask yourself: Why that post? Why right now? Why you? Continue reading “Weapons of Mass Distraction”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Iran’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that US-Israeli strikes in the country have killed at least 223 women and 202 children since the US and Israel launched the war on February 28. Continue reading “Iran Says US-Israeli Strikes Have Killed More Than 400 Women and Children”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

In recent days, senior Trump administration officials have increased their criticism and complaints about negative coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran, with President Trump even suggesting certain media outlets could face “charges for treason.” Continue reading “Trump Administration Goes After the Media for Negative Coverage of the Iran War”

By Drop Site News

Story by Nabil Salih

BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Through two improvised checkpoints, men filed into Al-Ummah Park in central Baghdad’s Al-Tahrir Square on Friday to mark the celebration of Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day). Behind the artist Jewad Selim’s Monument to Freedom, a relic from a secular society that seemed so out-of-place and obsolete, a few hundred mourners gathered underneath a sea of paramilitary flags. A succession of defiant chants came in unison, condemning the U.S. and pledging loyalty to the Supreme Leader in Tehran. Projected on a giant screen before them were the smiling faces of Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor, the recently murdered Ali Khamenei. The image soon gave way to another, with Ali’s son, the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, flanked by his elders and crowned with the words “fa‘azazna bi thalithin,” a cursive allusion to a Quranic verse from Surat Yasin: “We sent them two messengers, but they rejected both. So We reinforced the two with a third.” Continue reading “As the Gulf Burns, Political Uncertainty Looms Over Iraq”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

Summary:

  • Israel claims major decapitation strike: Says Ali Larijani and Basij chief Gholamreza Soleimani were killed, but Iran disputes.

  • Iran rejects ceasefire, vows escalation: Leadership says it’s not “the right time for peace” until the US and Israel are “brought to their knees,” while denying any negotiations.

Continue reading ““Not Our War”: ‘Allies’ Shun Trump Coalition; Iran Security Chief Allegedly Killed As Oil Infrastructure Attacks Escalate”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday told all US citizens to leave Iraq due to drone and missile attacks launched by Iran and its Iraqi allies, which continue to target US assets across the country, as the US-Israeli war against Iran expands across the region. Continue reading “US Tells Its Citizens To Leave Iraq as Drone and Missile Attacks on US Assets Continue Across the Country”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

President Trump officially fired Catholic activist Carrie Prejean Boller from the White House Religious Liberty Commission on Thursday in the wake of her powerful testimony opposing Zionism and the genocide in Gaza. Continue reading “Trump Fires Catholic Activist Carrie Prejean Boller From Religious Liberty Commission”

By mahmoud aslan – Drop Site News

TEHRAN, IRAN—Less than an hour before a deadly airstrike tore through a residential neighborhood in Resalat Square in eastern Tehran late Monday evening, Hassan Sharifi was walking through the area on his way home. He passed by the mid-rise apartment buildings that housed bakeries, shops, cafes, and small grocery stores on their ground floors. When the missile struck, he immediately ran back to the square. Continue reading “Rescue Efforts in Tehran After a Triple Strike Hit Apartment Buildings, Killing 40”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

Summary:

  • Trump declares ‘victory’ while simultaneously urging coalition help: President Trump claimed the US has “essentially defeated Iran” and vowed “we will finish the job,” while pressing NATO allies and other countries to join a naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Continue reading “Allies Balk As Trump Pushes Joint Military Action To Reopen Hormuz – Iran Says No Ceasefire On Table”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US is responsible for bombing an elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, during the opening hours of the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, a strike that massacred 175 people, the vast majority being young schoolgirls and schoolboys, according to a preliminary US military investigation.

People briefed on the investigation told The New York Times that it appeared that US Central Command had created target coordinates for the strike using outdated information from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Continue reading “US Responsible for Bombing Iranian Elementary School and Massacring Over 100 Children: Preliminary Investigation”

By Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com

While Israel has been issuing more and more evacuation orders against various locations in Lebanon, that hasn’t stopped them from attacking targets well outside of those locations. Today, central Beirut’s residential district is in their sights, even though no evacuation order was issued before the strikes began. Continue reading “Israel Attacks Central Beirut as Death Toll Rises to 570”

By Ryan Grim – Drop Site News

There has been no shortage of surveys of the American public’s attitude toward the war on Iran, and the polls have all found broadly the same dynamic: Democrats are strongly opposed, independents lean against, and Republicans are broadly supportive.

But all of this polling, done by reputable survey companies and paid for by mainstream media outlets, has conspicuously avoiding asking tough questions about the motivations behind the war. Or, at least, we found it conspicuous. Continue reading “NEW POLL: Majority of Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal”

By Armageddon Prose – Zerohedge

(Barely) closeted power-bottom Lindsey Graham, who has suffered since adolescence from repressed homosexual urges that manifest in warped wargasms whenever he voyeuristically consumes scenes of state violence*, recently took to X to issue threats on behalf of the administration to Gulf States for their apparently insufficient enthusiasm for the war on Iran, warning of “consequences” if they don’t get on board. Continue reading “Lindsey Graham Threatens Gulf States With ‘Consequences’ if They Don’t Join the War Effort”