US strikes Iran for sixth consecutive night, Iran retaliates

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The #US hit #Iran for the sixth consecutive night, as vital infrastructure in the country's southern provinces were targeted. Iran responded by launching missiles on US #military assets in the region, including in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrein, Oman, Jordan, and Syria.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps stated the US is “terrified” of Iran’s “sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz,” as it accused Washington of destabilising the security in the critical transit corridor.

Despite having struck Iran repeatedly, the White House stated that US President #Trump is still “open to diplomacy”.

Meanwhile, Iran has asked #Yemen's #Houthis to close the #BabAlMandab July 17, 2026 strait if the US continues to attack power infrastructure.

#NoWarOnIran #news #politics
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding with Iran aimed at ending the conflict was over, describing Iran's leaders as "liars and scums" and saying he no longer wanted to negotiate with them.

June 23, 2026

Le lobby sioniste recule aux USA.

La guerre en Iran très impopulaire aux USA

https://europalestine.com/2026/06/23/la-guerre-en-iran-tres-impopulaire-aux-usa/

> Trump ne semble pas voir le choix. Il faut que les négociations avec l'Iran aboutissent, à voir la levée de boucliers, tous partis confondus, contre cette guerre. Le sénateur Jon Ossoff vient de déclarer: « C'est un désastre pour la politique étrangère américaine, pour l'économie américaine, pour la sécurité nationale américaine et pour la présidence de Trump" (Vidéo [...]
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Un très bon article sur l'Iran et sa politique internationale.
L'ouest, comme on dit, refuse de voir son rôle pour la paix dans la région et la fin de l'impunité d'Israhell.

> Iran Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare as Regional Order is Rewritten

Whatever one thinks of the Iranian government, Iran’s pursuit of a durable peace based on sovereignty, security and international law deserves the support of governments and people around the world.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/iran-challenges-us-doctrine-of-low-intensity-warfare-as-regional-order-is-rewritten/
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Professor Marandi on the nature of Iran's role in Lebanon's 'de-confliction cell'

https://youtube.com/shorts/UxT5uc-vTmM

> Speaking to Al Mayadeen on Monday, Professor Mohammad Marandi, discussing the "deconfliction cell" related to Lebanon, affirmed that Iran will deal with the ...
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Les US ne respectant pas leur part du mémorandum, le détroit d'Ormuz est refermé

> BREAKING | Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announces the closure of the Strait of Hormuz:

"Given the United States' blatant violation of its commitments and its breach of the agreement regarding the non-implementation of the first clause of the ceasefire understanding, and in response to the continuous and ongoing violations of the ceasefire by the entity in southern Lebanon, which have resulted in brutal killings and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of this oppressed country's citizens, as well as due to the failure of the occupation forces to withdraw from the territories of southern Lebanon, we announce the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to ship traffic and maritime navigation.

We confirm that this is the first step in response to the enemy's breach of its commitments. In the event of continued aggressions, further steps will be planned and implemented to compel the enemy to abide by and implement its obligations."
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Les conditions pour que les pourparlers US Iran démarrent ne sont pas remplies

> ⭕️ Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed today that the meeting scheduled to take place in Switzerland has been postponed to a later date.

Baghaei said that, under Article 13 of the memorandum of understanding, negotiations on a final agreement can only begin once Articles 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 are implemented and continue to be upheld.

Article 1 calls for the immediate and permanent end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon.

Articles 4 and 5 outline the reciprocal lifting of US and Iranian restrictions and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Article 10 commits the United States to immediately issuing waivers for Iranian oil exports and related services, while Article 11 requires Washington to make Iran's frozen and restricted funds and assets fully available for use.

He added that consultations through mediators are ongoing and that Iran will announce a new date for the talks once the necessary conditions for negotiations have been met.

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We lost the war with Iran. This statement was made by the former deputy director of Israeli intelligence Mossad Ehud Lavi, the Pars agency reports, citing Israeli media. 2nd_LINK

"The war against Iran is strategically lost. Regime change has failed. The nuclear issue — their capabilities have not decreased, enriched materials have not been destroyed — even this has failed. On the front of the Strait of Hormuz, which appeared at the height of the war, we were also defeated. Israel will never recover from this situation because we have not achieved any results in Iran," the ex—intelligence officer said.

Trump’s risky gamble to stop Iran from exporting oil shows no signs of succeeding, experts say.

Murtaza Hussain May 01, 2026

The U.S. has been racing against the clock to see whether the Iranian economy can be brought to a breaking point before the rest of the world—much of which is already beginning to feel economic pain from the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. The administration’s claim that the blockade could destroy Iranian infrastructure, trigger immediate economic collapse, hyperinflation, or shortages, has also been echoed by the New York Times, which recently reported claims from U.S. officials stating that oil wells “cannot be turned on and off, and they would be damaged if they are forced to shut down,” and arguing that these risks would force Iran to “make a deal to avoid such long-term problems.”

But numerous experts inside and outside of Iran strongly disputed the claim that causing a production shutdown on Iranian oil wells would trigger serious harm to the country’s infrastructure, with one expert calling the claim reported in the Times “egregiously false.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has entrusted Ali Larijani, the top national security official, to ensure the Islamic Republic endures any military attacks and targeted killings.

Feb. 22, 2026

https://archive.ph/pqYtP

“We are ready in our country,” Mr. Larijani said in an interview with Al Jazeera when he visited the Qatari capital, Doha, this month. “We are definitely more powerful than before. We have prepared in the past seven, eight months. We found our weaknesses and fixed them. We are not looking for war, and we won’t start the war. But if they force it on us, we will respond.”

Ayatollah Khamenei has instructed Mr. Larijani and a handful of other close political and military associates to ensure that the Islamic Republic survives not only American and Israeli bombs, but also any assassination attempts on its top leadership, including on Ayatollah Khamenei himself, according to the six senior officials and the Guards members.

Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and Murtaza Hussain
Feb 20, 2026

Sources with knowledge of internal White House deliberations told Drop Site that Trump is emboldened by what he sees as a phenomenal success in his Venezuela strategy—issuing sweeping demands for capitulation under threat of removing the ruling government and then abducting President Nicolás Maduro when he refused to obey.

But, the sources said, Trump and his aides have pressed war planners for assurances that chaos produced by any U.S. military action would calm down in time for the midterm election season to kick into high gear.

Trump has suggested to aides that he would make a deal with Iran if its leaders bend to his central demands but he stands ready to unleash a massive military operation—potentially including one aimed at assassinating Iran’s leadership—if they do not. Trump has said he may consider an initial round of attacks in an effort to push Iran to submit. In that event, the massive firepower in the region would remain if he decided to move forward with a broader war. Iranian officials say they are currently working on a formal response to the U.S. position laid out in Geneva on Tuesday during indirect talks, but have cautioned Iran has its own red lines. Tehran, meanwhile, told the United Nations it would consider U.S. bases “legitimate targets” if attacked, putting U.S. servicemembers at serious risk.

Ryan Grim
Jan 17, 2026

Her account does not claim to be comprehensive; no single account could be. She is not part of a professional activist network, but she was visiting Iran in order to spend time with family. The interview presents a first-hand perspective of a person directly involved with the protests—from someone who is opposed to the government there, but is also opposed to the bombing of Iran and is not a supporter of the U.S. or Israel, countries that have played a role in the unrest and have made no secret of their designs toward Iran. The New York Times has reported that “a ragtag network of activists, developers and engineers pierced Iran’s digital barricades” and with the help of the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA-adjacent American funding mechanism, managed to build a transnational network that smuggled some 50,000 Starlink devices into Iran, which is about $40,000,000 of hardware for that “ragtag” band.

Jan 13, 2026

Published date: 12 January 2026 22:32 GMT
Last update: Jan. 13 2026 12:00 EST

The protests gripping Iran are fuelled by immense economic pressures and frustration with the government, but with Iranians having felt Israel's wrath and also seen what the US did in Venezuela, their demands are not for foreign intervention, a slate of regional experts have said.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC on Monday, the experts said that whilst there may be some voices that are outliers, most Iranians were looking for the international community to help lift crippling US sanctions and begin a new path forward.

Hind Hassan
Dec 11, 2025

In an interview with Al Jazeera on June 19, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said that, while the agency had warned about the level of Iran’s uranium enrichment, it had found no evidence that Iran was building a nuclear bomb. “We said very clearly in that report that preceded the dramatic events and the attack that we did not find in Iran elements that indicate there is an active and systematic plan to develop nuclear weapons,” Grossi said.

This echoed previous assessments by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who stated in March that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized a nuclear weapons programme, which he suspended in 2003. The IC [intelligence community] continues to monitor closely if Iran decides to reauthorise its nuclear weapons program.”

Les gars de @tsahal_idf ou les autres sont dingues, n'ont aucune morale ni une once d'humanité !

Ecoutez bien cette interview faite par deux journalistes l'un Israélien et l'autre Palestinien...

C'est édifiant de profonde bêtise dogmatique religieuse...
@israel n'a rien à envier à l' @iran ....

I just learned about taarof (the extreme politeness of repeatedly saying you want the opposite of what you actually want). So many people online say they made a mistake in interpreting what was happening, it made me wonder:

How do Persian autistic people navigate that interaction?

By Oscar Rickett
Published date: 24 June 2025 12:54 BST
Last update: ~10:15 EDT

"Speaking to reporters before getting onto his helicopter to go to the Nato summit in The Hague, Trump said he was unhappy with both Israel and Iran for breaking the ceasefire agreement he brokered.

Reserving his harshest criticism for Israel, he said: "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load we've seen.

"I'm not happy with Israel. When I say 'OK now you have 12 hours', you don't go out in the first hour and drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either.""