By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

Summary: 

  • Kharg Island heavily bombed in preparation for potential US Marine/Special Forces ground siezure.
  • Israel has begun attacking Iran’s railway infrastructure, telling civilians to not take trains, cancelations across country.
  • IRGC still defiant – announces new retaliatory attacks on petrochemical plants in eastern Saudi Arabia.
  • Iran’s 10-point counter to the US 15-point ceasefire shows signs of willingness to compromise (‘reparations’ from US dropped as a demand). Vance says war will end “very shortly”. Tehran Times: All communications with US side suspended.

Continue reading “​​​​​​​Trump Warns “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”; State-Linked Media Says ‘All Diplomatic Comms With US Suspended’”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Kamal Kharazi, an 81-year-old advisor to the Iranian government and former Iranian foreign minister, was severely wounded by a US-Israeli strike on his home on Wednesday that killed his wife, Iranian media has reported. Continue reading “Senior Iranian Official Involved in Attempt at Peace Talks Severely Wounded by US-Israeli Strike”

By Drop Site News

War on Iran

  • U.S. and Israel target civilian infrastructure in Iran:
    • President Donald Trump celebrated a double tap strike on a highway bridge linking Tehran to Karaj on Thursday, sharing video of the attack that killed eight people and wounded 95. The second strike occurred as rescue workers responded to the initial attack, according to the Fars news agency. Iranian officials told state media the casualties were civilians who had gathered beneath the bridge and along the riverbank to celebrate Nature Day in Iran. The unfinished bridge intended to connect Tehran to the Caspian Sea. “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!” Trump wrote on social media. Trump told Time magazine in an interview on Thursday that U.S. forces destroyed three major bridges in Iran.

Continue reading “U.S. destroys major bridge in Iran; IRGC claims strike on Amazon data center; Trump imposes 100% tariff on brand-name drugs”

By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone

Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria.

Continue reading “His Majesty’s head-chopper: Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles”