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BREAKING:
The leader of the democratic opposition in Venezuela María Corina Machado has just returned to the country from exile.
¡Hasta el final! 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪
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“We know exactly what’s going on at Pickaxe Mountain.” -@POTUS
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BREAKING: Netanyahu says Israel has fresh intelligence that Iran will launch attacks to disrupt the Israeli elections on Tuesday, and that Iran now poses a "real and tangible existential danger."
"This is the window of time we have left to complete the necessary work to ensure our physical existence for the coming years. All the required resources of the state must be invested in this mission," Netanyahu adds.
It comes after Netanyahu yesterday said that Iran has restarted its nuclear program and "wants to destroy us within a short time."
The IDF Chief of Staff warned yesterday that restarting the war this close to the vote would force it to be postponed indefinitely.
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Breaking: Conservative Party wins in British Columbia for first time in almost 100 years justthenews.com/world/canada…
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🔴🇮🇷🇺🇸UPDATE: According to local sources, the explosion was “airstrike-like”, with a huge blast.
My tentative assessment is that this might be the start of a SEAD campaign, given the two separate blasts on radar installations in Tabriz.
More to come.
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🔴🇮🇷🇺🇸BREAKING: Another explosion was just heard in Western Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province of Iran.
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Politicians pretend they don't understand. We have said it for 3 years: it is Islamic jihad. Look at the Italian politicians. They are asking what this new phenomenon of violence is. They say social media. They say cyber war. They say Russia is behind it. They make a thousand assumptions. And then they say: we need to understand what is happening. We at RadioGenoa have said it for three years. It is simple. It is Islamic jihad. It is not a mystery. It is not Russia. It is not the internet. It is Islamic jihad. Period.
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BREAKING: Iran is now threatening to strike Israel's Sorek, Hadera, Ashdod and Ashkelon desalination plants; Haifa oil refineries; the Orot Rabin and Eshkol power plants; Ashdod oil refineries and fuel storage; the Dimona nuclear research center; and critical bridges and highway interchanges if Israel and the U.S. launch another attack on Iran, according to head of Iran's parliamentary National Security Commission.
Desalination facilities supply around 80% of Israel's municipal drinking water. Orot Rabin (2,590 MW) and Eshkol (912 MW) anchor the national grid. The Haifa refinery processes roughly 197,000 barrels per day, while Ashdod adds 110,000 bpd. Highway 6, the country's main artery, carries 260,000 vehicles daily. And Dimona sits just 13 kilometers from the city. Tehran is threatening to paralyze Israel's water, power, fuel, and mobilization routes in one blow.
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I highly recommend reading this article by Michael @McFaul.
The former U.S. Ambassador to Russia makes a point I fully agree with:
"Helping Ukraine as it fights for its independence and against Russian occupation is not just the right thing to do; it’s also the pragmatic thing to do.
Let’s be realistic. Putin is not going to abandon his autocratic partners in China, Iran, and North Korea just because Trump offers him concessions. That is a naïve reading of Putin. He sees the United States as his enemy, no matter how many gifts he gets from Trump.
By trying to appease Putin, Trump is also weakening America’s relationships with our democratic allies and partners in Europe. In this new era of great power competition with China and Russia, our democratic allies are America’s greatest comparative advantage. Together, the free world has far greater economic power and military strength than autocracies, and our democratic values and ideals have significantly more global appeal than those of autocracies. But Trump’s embrace of Putin and his abandonment of Ukraine are weakening these ties."
“Trump is finally backing up his words with actions–actions that are both immoral and contrary to America’s national interests.” | @McFaul
thedispatch.com/article/trum…
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To all the snowflakes upset about police brutality: if you don’t want to see violence in the streets, don’t instigate violence in the streets.
Don’t go around looting businesses. Don’t go around burning down shops. Don’t go around waving foreign flags and promoting “intifada” and terrorist groups while violently attacking police and state institutions.
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FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water.
The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable nuclear reactors, massive battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures."
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/inside-…
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“I didn’t have to fire a missile.” - President Obama on Iran.
That’s right, Mr. President. You didn’t.
Not when Iran-backed militias in Iraq killed American service persons there.
Not as the IRGC deepened ties with the Taliban (but also al-Qaeda and the Haqqani network) as it killed Americans in Afghanistan.
Not when the IRGC-QF plotted to kill the Saudi Ambassador to Washington in a Georgetown restaurant via Mexican drug cartels
Not as Iran began enriching uranium to 20 percent purity, which is highly enriched.
Not as Iran began enriching uranium in centrifuges in its highly fortified underground Fordow facility for the first time.
Not as Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Not as IRGC-Navy fast attack craft routinely harassed American Navy vessels and commercial traffic in and around the Persian Gulf.
Not as Iran tested medium range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear payloads with genocidal phrases against Israel written in Hebrew.
Not as Iran continued to work on space launch vehicles with the ultimate goal of developing longer-range strike platforms that could one day threaten the European continent and the US homeland.
Not as Iran beefed up its drone program.
Not as the regime successfully co-opted the Houthis in Yemen and began to provide them with material support as the group entered the Axis of Resistance.
Not as the Islamic Republic backed Assad’s slaughter of Syrians to the hilt and intervened decisively, later along with Russia, in that theater and created a security and humanitarian catastrophe I the Middle East and refugee crises that has thrown a massive curveball into European politics and demographics.
And last but certainly not least, not as Iranians whose calls for support you ignored during the Green Movement were killed, arrested, beaten, and tortured.
Former US President Barack Obama accused President Donald Trump of launching an unnecessary war with Iran that had left Tehran in a stronger strategic position, killed American troops and pushed up prices.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Michigan on Saturday, Obama challenged the administration’s claims of victory, saying the conflict had exposed US allies and bases to attacks while giving Iran greater control over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
“The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions,” Obama said. “The most important of which was he decided to start an unnecessary war nobody asked for and nobody voted for.”
He contrasted Trump’s decision to go to war with his own administration’s nuclear diplomacy, saying Iran did not possess nuclear weapons and that the 2015 agreement reached during his presidency had curbed its nuclear program.
“I didn’t have to fire a missile. I engaged in diplomacy,” Obama said.
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🚨 IRAN’S “DEAD HAND”: IRGC COMMANDERS GIVEN RETALIATION AUTHORITY
Iran reportedly authorized regional IRGC commanders to strike preselected US military, political and economic targets if central command collapses.
The “mosaic defense” doctrine aims to ensure retaliation even if Tehran’s leadership is eliminated.
Target lists remain unconfirmed.
…or escape?
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Israel could be made uninhabitable in less than an hour if it takes action against Iran, Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, threatened Saturday.
In two separate X posts, the hardline lawmaker shared a map identifying Israeli energy facilities, desalination plants and major bridges, warning of attacks on the country's infrastructure.
“A single miscalculation is all it takes: the occupied lands rendered uninhabitable in under an hour,” Azizi wrote.
iranintl.com/en/202610243157
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🚨 BREAKING: Barcelona just erupted. Fires in the streets. Looting. Barricades burning in Plaça Catalunya.
Hooded crowds smashed shops, torched trash, and trapped people inside stores while police pushed them back.
Spain now has OVER 10 MILLION foreign-born residents. That is more than ONE IN FIVE people in the country.
Europe keeps importing chaos, then acts shocked when the streets catch fire.
Open borders have a cost. Barcelona just paid it. America, wake up.
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Acquiring a nuclear bomb is essential to this regime’s survival; so long as it remains in power, it will never abandon this ambition—with or without negotiations. However, if diplomacy merely continues a policy of concession, it will only embolden the regime’s nuclear pursuits.
Now is the time to stand with the Iranian people, who demand the overthrow of this regime, rather than engaging in futile attempts to preserve it.
In any event, the immediate cessation of executions and the killing of Iranian protesters must be a non-negotiable prerequisite in all diplomatic talks, trade relations, and international agreements.
#StopExecutionsInIran
