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BREAKING: Three things happened within hours on March 28 that nobody has connected. First. Iran’s IRGC claimed it destroyed a Ukrainian anti-drone system depot in the UAE. Ukraine’s foreign ministry immediately denied it: “This is a lie. We officially refute this information. The Iranian regime frequently carries out such...

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JUST IN: An Indian seafarer is dead on a US-owned oil tanker burning in the Persian Gulf. The IRGC claimed the kill. Brent crude hit $96.72. And the weapon that did it cost less than a used car. The SafeSea Vishnu, Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned, was struck in the northern Persian Gulf near Basra on 11 March. Footage shows the moment of impact: either a suicide drone boat or an anti-ship missile, consistent with IRGC Navy’s Ghadir-class arsenal. One Indian crewmember killed. Thirty-eight rescued. The IRGC issued a public statement through Tasnim: “The oil tanker was struck this morning in the northern part of the Persian Gulf and is currently burning.” This is the first confirmed death from a claimed IRGC tanker strike since the war began. Not debris from an interception. Not collateral from a near miss. A weapon aimed at an American-owned vessel, fired by an Iranian military unit, claimed publicly, with a named nationality among the dead. The Indian seafarer who died was working on a ship owned by an American company, registered in the Marshall Islands, carrying cargo through a strait that his own country’s Foreign Minister had to call Tehran to request permission to use, permission that Iran denied granting the following day. The SafeSea Vishnu was one of five vessels attacked in the Gulf overnight. Five ships in twelve hours. The Tanker War of 1984 to 1988 averaged one ship every 2.7 days over four years. The IRGC has compressed that pace by an order of magnitude. And the weapons achieving it cost between $20,000 and $50,000 per Shahed drone, a fraction of the $117 million per hour the United States is spending to prosecute the war that provoked them. Brent surged 10.16% to $96.72 on 12th March. WTI surged 5.66% to $92.19. Heating oil surged 17.9%. Natural gas surged 7.23%. Gasoline surged 9.67%. The IEA’s 400 million barrel reserve release, the largest in history, was approved the day before. The price went up anyway. The market is not pricing a shortage of crude. It is pricing the mathematical certainty that a $20,000 weapon aimed at a tanker carrying $150 million in crude produces a return on investment that no defence system can overcome through interception alone. Iran’s ballistic missile launches have dropped 86 to 92% from their peak as stockpiles deplete. But the IRGC does not need ballistic missiles to close a strait. It needs suicide boats, Shahed drones, and sea mines that cost less per unit than the fuel burned by the destroyer sent to intercept them. The stockpiles that matter are not the ones being depleted. They are the ones that were always cheap enough to be inexhaustible. The war has cost the United States $11.3 billion in six days, excluding munitions. The weapon that killed the Indian seafarer on the SafeSea Vishnu cost less than the catering budget for a single day on the carrier strike group that failed to prevent it. Three carrier strike groups. Combined firepower exceeding most nations. And a man from India is dead on a burning tanker because a drone boat that cost $20,000 reached a ship that three carriers could not protect. Col. Razmjou predicted $200 oil. Brent is at $97 and accelerating. The arithmetic is simple: if the weapons cost nothing and the targets are worth everything, the price has only one direction. Up. Until the Strait reopens or the tankers stop sailing. Neither is happening. Full analysis below.
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JUST IN: An Indian seafarer is dead on a US-owned oil tanker burning in the Persian Gulf. The IRGC claimed the kill. Brent crude hit $96.72. And the weapon that did it cost less than a used car. The SafeSea Vishnu, Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned, was struck in the northern Persian Gulf near Basra on 11 March. Footage shows the moment of impact: either a suicide drone boat or an anti-ship missile, consistent with IRGC Navy’s Ghadir-class arsenal. One Indian crewmember killed. Thirty-eight rescued. The IRGC issued a public statement through Tasnim: “The oil tanker was struck this morning in the northern part of the Persian Gulf and is currently burning.” This is the first confirmed death from a claimed IRGC tanker strike since the war began. Not debris from an interception. Not collateral from a near miss. A weapon aimed at an American-owned vessel, fired by an Iranian military unit, claimed publicly, with a named nationality among the dead. The Indian seafarer who died was working on a ship owned by an American company, registered in the Marshall Islands, carrying cargo through a strait that his own country’s Foreign Minister had to call Tehran to request permission to use, permission that Iran denied granting the following day. The SafeSea Vishnu was one of five vessels attacked in the Gulf overnight. Five ships in twelve hours. The Tanker War of 1984 to 1988 averaged one ship every 2.7 days over four years. The IRGC has compressed that pace by an order of magnitude. And the weapons achieving it cost between $20,000 and $50,000 per Shahed drone, a fraction of the $117 million per hour the United States is spending to prosecute the war that provoked them. Brent surged 10.16% to $96.72 on 12th March. WTI surged 5.66% to $92.19. Heating oil surged 17.9%. Natural gas surged 7.23%. Gasoline surged 9.67%. The IEA’s 400 million barrel reserve release, the largest in history, was approved the day before. The price went up anyway. The market is not pricing a shortage of crude. It is pricing the mathematical certainty that a $20,000 weapon aimed at a tanker carrying $150 million in crude produces a return on investment that no defence system can overcome through interception alone. Iran’s ballistic missile launches have dropped 86 to 92% from their peak as stockpiles deplete. But the IRGC does not need ballistic missiles to close a strait. It needs suicide boats, Shahed drones, and sea mines that cost less per unit than the fuel burned by the destroyer sent to intercept them. The stockpiles that matter are not the ones being depleted. They are the ones that were always cheap enough to be inexhaustible. The war has cost the United States $11.3 billion in six days, excluding munitions. The weapon that killed the Indian seafarer on the SafeSea Vishnu cost less than the catering budget for a single day on the carrier strike group that failed to prevent it. Three carrier strike groups. Combined firepower exceeding most nations. And a man from India is dead on a burning tanker because a drone boat that cost $20,000 reached a ship that three carriers could not protect. Col. Razmjou predicted $200 oil. Brent is at $97 and accelerating. The arithmetic is simple: if the weapons cost nothing and the targets are worth everything, the price has only one direction. Up. Until the Strait reopens or the tankers stop sailing. Neither is happening. Full analysis below.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

78,292 views • 3 months ago

What you see is literally a dog fight between two drones. One is a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone and the other is a Russian FPV counter reconnaissance drone. After spotting the Ukrainian drone, the Russian FPV operator rams itself where the propeller is and downs the Ukrainian reco drone. Not just it, the Russian drone could be seen safe and it was asked to RTH.
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What you see is literally a dog fight between two drones. One is a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone and the other is a Russian FPV counter reconnaissance drone. After spotting the Ukrainian drone, the Russian FPV operator rams itself where the propeller is and downs the Ukrainian reco drone. Not just it, the Russian drone could be seen safe and it was asked to RTH.

Abhijeet Tripathi

57,348 views • 1 year ago

🚨 WATCH: PM Netanyahu: “Citizens of Israel, before the Sabbath begins, I want to announce to you a great achievement for the State of Israel. You know that we are conducting negotiations in Washington between representatives of Israel, Lebanon, and the United States. Prolonged negotiations, and today they bore fruit. The most important thing is that, first of all, Israel remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a great achievement, and we are maintaining it as long as Hezbollah does not disarm, as long as there is a danger to the State of Israel. This is also a great blow to Iran. Iran is trying to force us to withdraw from southern Lebanon by force. And in essence, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them - this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon—neither you nor Hezbollah nor any terrorist organization. The other thing, of course, is that we are allowing the Lebanese army to begin organizing to seize territory. We are creating two pilot zones. Both are on the IDF's recommendation. And one is outside the security zone altogether, it's south of the Litani, and the other is north of the Litani, a small part of it in the expanded security zone that we achieved in the last two weeks, and that the IDF doesn't need it - he says it most clearly. We are constantly maintaining the original security zone outside the range of anti-tank missiles. We are not allowing Hezbollah to enter there, nor the population. That is being maintained. And the most important thing is that Israel says, "Our security comes first."
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🚨 WATCH: PM Netanyahu: “Citizens of Israel, before the Sabbath begins, I want to announce to you a great achievement for the State of Israel. You know that we are conducting negotiations in Washington between representatives of Israel, Lebanon, and the United States. Prolonged negotiations, and today they bore fruit. The most important thing is that, first of all, Israel remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a great achievement, and we are maintaining it as long as Hezbollah does not disarm, as long as there is a danger to the State of Israel. This is also a great blow to Iran. Iran is trying to force us to withdraw from southern Lebanon by force. And in essence, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them - this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon—neither you nor Hezbollah nor any terrorist organization. The other thing, of course, is that we are allowing the Lebanese army to begin organizing to seize territory. We are creating two pilot zones. Both are on the IDF's recommendation. And one is outside the security zone altogether, it's south of the Litani, and the other is north of the Litani, a small part of it in the expanded security zone that we achieved in the last two weeks, and that the IDF doesn't need it - he says it most clearly. We are constantly maintaining the original security zone outside the range of anti-tank missiles. We are not allowing Hezbollah to enter there, nor the population. That is being maintained. And the most important thing is that Israel says, "Our security comes first."

Raylan Givens

334,448 views • 7 days ago

🚨 JUST NOW: Iran just HELPED broker the new Israel-Lebanon/Hezbollah ceasefire with President Trump and Qatar, seeking to stop the firing on all sides "A U.S. official says it was brokered by Qatar, the United States and with help from Iran." "This is not a retreat for Israel from these established security zones in southern Lebanon and the IDF said that this is not a retreat for Israel."
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🚨 JUST NOW: Iran just HELPED broker the new Israel-Lebanon/Hezbollah ceasefire with President Trump and Qatar, seeking to stop the firing on all sides "A U.S. official says it was brokered by Qatar, the United States and with help from Iran." "This is not a retreat for Israel from these established security zones in southern Lebanon and the IDF said that this is not a retreat for Israel."

Eric Daugherty

432,869 views • 14 days ago

BREAKING: Video captures an Iranian Shahed-136 suicide drone striking an oil storage facility at the Port of Salalah in Oman. THIS IS A MAJOR ESCALATION! 🚨 Iran is now hitting targets outside its own borders. Oman — a country that has historically served as a neutral mediator between the U.S. and Iran — just had its critical energy infrastructure struck. This is escalation. This is the war spreading beyond Iran’s borders exactly the way every analyst warned it would. And it raises immediate questions. Was this retaliation? Was Oman facilitating U.S. or allied operations through its port? And what happens to global oil markets when shipping infrastructure in the Gulf of Oman is no longer safe? The FBI warned California about Iranian drones hours ago. Now we’re watching them hit oil facilities in a neutral Gulf state in real time. This war is not contained. It was never going to be.
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BREAKING: Video captures an Iranian Shahed-136 suicide drone striking an oil storage facility at the Port of Salalah in Oman. THIS IS A MAJOR ESCALATION! 🚨 Iran is now hitting targets outside its own borders. Oman — a country that has historically served as a neutral mediator between the U.S. and Iran — just had its critical energy infrastructure struck. This is escalation. This is the war spreading beyond Iran’s borders exactly the way every analyst warned it would. And it raises immediate questions. Was this retaliation? Was Oman facilitating U.S. or allied operations through its port? And what happens to global oil markets when shipping infrastructure in the Gulf of Oman is no longer safe? The FBI warned California about Iranian drones hours ago. Now we’re watching them hit oil facilities in a neutral Gulf state in real time. This war is not contained. It was never going to be.

Brian Allen

69,420 views • 3 months ago

BREAKING: The IDF gave it a name. Operation Eternal Darkness. Read the name as a capability statement, not a codename. Fifty fighter jets. One hundred and sixty precision-guided munitions. One hundred targets. Ten minutes. Three geographic zones spanning 170 kilometres from Beirut’s southern suburbs to the Beqaa Valley to southern Lebanon. Simultaneous impact. Zero warning to the targets. Defence Minister Katz said it was the largest concentrated blow Hezbollah has suffered since the pager operation in September 2024. The pagers were hardware infiltration. This was something else entirely. In September 2024, Israel compromised Hezbollah’s supply chain, embedded explosives in pagers, and detonated them simultaneously. It required months of physical engineering, covert procurement, and logistical insertion. It killed approximately 40 commanders. Operation Eternal Darkness killed over 200 operatives in a single ten-minute window without touching a single device in advance. The penetration was not physical. It was informational. The IDF confirmed that the operation was planned several weeks in advance and was going to proceed regardless of whether the Iran ceasefire was reached. The timing was driven by what the military described as optimal operational conditions. Translated from military language into plain language: the intelligence picture was complete. Every target’s location was known. Every target’s location was current. And every target’s location was known to be current at the same moment. That simultaneity is the revolution. It is not possible to strike 100 dispersed command nodes across 170 kilometres in ten minutes unless you have real-time positional data on all of them continuously. Not yesterday’s data. Not this morning’s data. Live data, updating faster than any human can relocate, verified across multiple intelligence streams, and fed into a strike package that executes before the first target can warn the second. Israel has built what military doctrine now calls a “data factory”. The system originated in Gaza where Unit 8200’s AI platforms, known internally as Gospel for infrastructure targeting and Lavender for personnel identification, compressed target generation from 50 per year to 100 per day. Haaretz confirmed on March 31 that this data factory is now active in the Lebanon and Iran theatres, creating a single operational picture from satellite imagery, drone feeds, signals intelligence, cellular metadata, and human sources fused through machine learning algorithms that identify patterns faster than any analyst corps on earth. The name Eternal Darkness is not poetic. It is literal. When you strike every command node, every intelligence headquarters, every missile coordination centre, and every elite unit’s operational hub simultaneously, the lights go out across the entire organisation at once. There is no fallback node to activate. There is no secondary command to assume control. There is no communication channel to issue the order to disperse because the communication channel is what revealed the location in the first place. Hezbollah’s options after Eternal Darkness are binary. Go digital and be found. Go analogue and be slow. An organisation that abandons digital communications to survive surveillance becomes an organisation that cannot coordinate distributed operations, which is the definition of a degraded force. The IDF does not need to destroy every fighter. It needs to destroy every connection between fighters. And on April 8, in ten minutes, it demonstrated that it can do exactly that across an entire country. The pagers changed the supply chain. Eternal Darkness changed the definition of command and control. In 2026, your signal is your coordinates. Full analysis -
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BREAKING: The IDF gave it a name. Operation Eternal Darkness. Read the name as a capability statement, not a codename. Fifty fighter jets. One hundred and sixty precision-guided munitions. One hundred targets. Ten minutes. Three geographic zones spanning 170 kilometres from Beirut’s southern suburbs to the Beqaa Valley to southern Lebanon. Simultaneous impact. Zero warning to the targets. Defence Minister Katz said it was the largest concentrated blow Hezbollah has suffered since the pager operation in September 2024. The pagers were hardware infiltration. This was something else entirely. In September 2024, Israel compromised Hezbollah’s supply chain, embedded explosives in pagers, and detonated them simultaneously. It required months of physical engineering, covert procurement, and logistical insertion. It killed approximately 40 commanders. Operation Eternal Darkness killed over 200 operatives in a single ten-minute window without touching a single device in advance. The penetration was not physical. It was informational. The IDF confirmed that the operation was planned several weeks in advance and was going to proceed regardless of whether the Iran ceasefire was reached. The timing was driven by what the military described as optimal operational conditions. Translated from military language into plain language: the intelligence picture was complete. Every target’s location was known. Every target’s location was current. And every target’s location was known to be current at the same moment. That simultaneity is the revolution. It is not possible to strike 100 dispersed command nodes across 170 kilometres in ten minutes unless you have real-time positional data on all of them continuously. Not yesterday’s data. Not this morning’s data. Live data, updating faster than any human can relocate, verified across multiple intelligence streams, and fed into a strike package that executes before the first target can warn the second. Israel has built what military doctrine now calls a “data factory”. The system originated in Gaza where Unit 8200’s AI platforms, known internally as Gospel for infrastructure targeting and Lavender for personnel identification, compressed target generation from 50 per year to 100 per day. Haaretz confirmed on March 31 that this data factory is now active in the Lebanon and Iran theatres, creating a single operational picture from satellite imagery, drone feeds, signals intelligence, cellular metadata, and human sources fused through machine learning algorithms that identify patterns faster than any analyst corps on earth. The name Eternal Darkness is not poetic. It is literal. When you strike every command node, every intelligence headquarters, every missile coordination centre, and every elite unit’s operational hub simultaneously, the lights go out across the entire organisation at once. There is no fallback node to activate. There is no secondary command to assume control. There is no communication channel to issue the order to disperse because the communication channel is what revealed the location in the first place. Hezbollah’s options after Eternal Darkness are binary. Go digital and be found. Go analogue and be slow. An organisation that abandons digital communications to survive surveillance becomes an organisation that cannot coordinate distributed operations, which is the definition of a degraded force. The IDF does not need to destroy every fighter. It needs to destroy every connection between fighters. And on April 8, in ten minutes, it demonstrated that it can do exactly that across an entire country. The pagers changed the supply chain. Eternal Darkness changed the definition of command and control. In 2026, your signal is your coordinates. Full analysis -

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

478,547 views • 2 months ago

The Israeli strikes at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea last night destroyed several vessels of the Iranian Navy, as well as naval infrastructure, the military says, publishing footage of the attacks. According to the IDF, the strikes destroyed an Iranian Navy corvette, four missile boats, several auxiliary ships and guard boats, along with a command center and a shipyard. Some of the vessels were located at the port, while others were out at sea. The military says that the missile boats were targeted to cause a blow to the Iranian military, despite the fact that they do not pose a direct threat to Israel from the Caspian Sea. Still, the IDF adds that the missile boats have anti-aircraft capabilities and could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft operating over Iran, as well as anti-submarine capabilities. Preparations for the strike only began days ago, and it was not among the military's initial bank of targets in Iran. Researchers at the Naval Intelligence Division located the ships and worked with the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Air Force to plan the strike. It marks the first time that the IDF had struck in this area of Iran, both in this war and the previous rounds of conflict, according to the military.
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The Israeli strikes at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea last night destroyed several vessels of the Iranian Navy, as well as naval infrastructure, the military says, publishing footage of the attacks. According to the IDF, the strikes destroyed an Iranian Navy corvette, four missile boats, several auxiliary ships and guard boats, along with a command center and a shipyard. Some of the vessels were located at the port, while others were out at sea. The military says that the missile boats were targeted to cause a blow to the Iranian military, despite the fact that they do not pose a direct threat to Israel from the Caspian Sea. Still, the IDF adds that the missile boats have anti-aircraft capabilities and could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft operating over Iran, as well as anti-submarine capabilities. Preparations for the strike only began days ago, and it was not among the military's initial bank of targets in Iran. Researchers at the Naval Intelligence Division located the ships and worked with the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Air Force to plan the strike. It marks the first time that the IDF had struck in this area of Iran, both in this war and the previous rounds of conflict, according to the military.

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian

65,732 views • 3 months ago

⚡️⭕️ Benjamin Netanyahu announces his achievements over the Lebanese state: "Citizens of Israel, before the Sabbath I want to announce to you a major achievement for the State of Israel. You know that we are conducting negotiations in Washington between Israeli, Lebanese, and American representatives. A lengthy negotiation, and today it has borne fruit. The most important thing is that first and foremost, Israel remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a major achievement, and we will maintain it as long as Hezbollah is not disarmed, as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel. This is also a significant blow to Iran. Iran is trying to force us to withdraw by force from southern Lebanon. And in effect, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them - this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon. Neither you nor Hezbollah nor any terrorist organization. The additional thing is, of course, that we are allowing the Lebanese army to begin organizing to take control of the area. We are creating two pilot zones. Both are at the recommendation of the IDF. One is entirely outside the security zone, south of the Litani, and the second is north of the Litani, a small part of which is in the expanded security zone that we achieved over the past two weeks, and which the IDF does not need - it says so in the clearest way. We are always preserving the original security zone outside the range of artillery fire. We do not allow Hezbollah to enter there, nor do we allow civilians to enter. This is preserved. And the most important thing is that Israel says: our security comes first."
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⚡️⭕️ Benjamin Netanyahu announces his achievements over the Lebanese state: "Citizens of Israel, before the Sabbath I want to announce to you a major achievement for the State of Israel. You know that we are conducting negotiations in Washington between Israeli, Lebanese, and American representatives. A lengthy negotiation, and today it has borne fruit. The most important thing is that first and foremost, Israel remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a major achievement, and we will maintain it as long as Hezbollah is not disarmed, as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel. This is also a significant blow to Iran. Iran is trying to force us to withdraw by force from southern Lebanon. And in effect, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them - this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon. Neither you nor Hezbollah nor any terrorist organization. The additional thing is, of course, that we are allowing the Lebanese army to begin organizing to take control of the area. We are creating two pilot zones. Both are at the recommendation of the IDF. One is entirely outside the security zone, south of the Litani, and the second is north of the Litani, a small part of which is in the expanded security zone that we achieved over the past two weeks, and which the IDF does not need - it says so in the clearest way. We are always preserving the original security zone outside the range of artillery fire. We do not allow Hezbollah to enter there, nor do we allow civilians to enter. This is preserved. And the most important thing is that Israel says: our security comes first."

Middle East Observer

29,576 views • 7 days ago

🇱🇧 BREAKING: A second Israeli soldier has been killed near Beaufort Castle since Israeli forces seized the site this weekend. According to Israeli journalist Guy Elster of Walla News, an Israeli officer was killed in a drone attack in the Beaufort area. Seven other soldiers were wounded, including three reported to be in serious condition. The incident comes as Hezbollah has increasingly relied on FPV drones to target Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Jad Melki, Professor of Media Studies at the Lebanese American University, argued that Israel is “stuck” militarily in south Lebanon, with Hezbollah’s guerrilla tactics and drone warfare steadily increasing the cost of holding positions inside Lebanese territory, and the IDF incapable of advancing. Melki also questioned the military significance of Israel seizing Beaufort Castle. The fortress was one of the strongest Crusader strongholds in the Levant before falling to Saladin in 1190. Meki remarked that “unless we’re living in the 12th century, it’s not a strategic military location anymore.”
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🇱🇧 BREAKING: A second Israeli soldier has been killed near Beaufort Castle since Israeli forces seized the site this weekend. According to Israeli journalist Guy Elster of Walla News, an Israeli officer was killed in a drone attack in the Beaufort area. Seven other soldiers were wounded, including three reported to be in serious condition. The incident comes as Hezbollah has increasingly relied on FPV drones to target Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Jad Melki, Professor of Media Studies at the Lebanese American University, argued that Israel is “stuck” militarily in south Lebanon, with Hezbollah’s guerrilla tactics and drone warfare steadily increasing the cost of holding positions inside Lebanese territory, and the IDF incapable of advancing. Melki also questioned the military significance of Israel seizing Beaufort Castle. The fortress was one of the strongest Crusader strongholds in the Levant before falling to Saladin in 1190. Meki remarked that “unless we’re living in the 12th century, it’s not a strategic military location anymore.”

Drop Site

65,340 views • 1 month ago

BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Minister just told CBS the war will last “as long as it takes.” The Supreme Leader behind him owns £200 million in London real estate. Abbas Araghchi appeared on Face the Nation on 15th March and delivered the clearest statement of the war: “We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war, that people are being killed only because Trump wants to have fun.” He rejected talks entirely: “I don’t think talking with the Americans would be on our agenda anymore. Very bitter experience.” He expanded the threat: Iran will attack “any energy infrastructure in the region which belongs to an American company or an American company is a shareholder.” The endurance is not powered by ideology. It is powered by money. And the money has an address. The IRGC’s economic empire, centred on Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, controls an estimated 20 to 50% of the Iranian economy through 5,000 subsidiaries, 250,000 workers, and tens of billions in contracts spanning oil, construction, telecommunications, and banking. Fortune reported in March that the IRGC’s foundations control over half the country’s GDP by some estimates. This is not a military with a side business. It is a business with a military attached. The business funds the drones. Every Shahed that hits an AWS data centre, every mine on the Hormuz seabed, every proxy rocket fired by Hezbollah and the Houthis is financed by an economic empire that the IRGC built specifically to survive sanctions and fund operations without state budgets. When Araghchi says “as long as it takes,” he is not describing willpower. He is describing a cash flow. The cash flow has a second address. Bloomberg and the Financial Times report that Mojtaba Khamenei, the wounded Supreme Leader who cannot appear on video, is linked to a property empire of £200 million in London, including mansions on Bishops Avenue and flats in Kensington, plus an estimated €400 million in European hotels in Frankfurt and Mallorca, all channelled through IRGC-linked financier Ali Ansari. The man whose father considered him unfit, who was installed by a military junta, who communicates through a television anchor, maintains a real estate portfolio in the capital of a country that is part of the coalition bombing his. Iran’s demands for ending the war, as outlined by Araghchi and echoed by Rezaei, are: full cessation of hostilities (not a ceasefire, a complete stop), full reparations for all damages, recognition of Iran’s rights, future security guarantees, and complete US military withdrawal from the Persian Gulf. These are not negotiating positions. They are the opening demands of a regime that believes its economic empire can sustain indefinite asymmetric warfare because the empire was built for exactly this scenario. The Khatam al-Anbiya spokesman confirmed the escalation on 11th March: the “enemy left our hands open to targeting economic centres and banks” linked to the US and Israel. The threat extends to oil and gas infrastructure that American companies hold shares in across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The regime that owns property in London is threatening to burn the energy infrastructure that funds the Gulf economies its Supreme Leader invested in. “As long as it takes” is not a vow. It is a business model. The IRGC built a parallel economy to survive sanctions. It built offshore property to survive regime change. It built the Shahed to survive conventional inferiority. And it installed a wounded figurehead to survive decapitation. Every layer is designed for endurance. The question is not whether Iran means it. The question is whether the $100 billion empire that funds it can survive the 15,000 strikes that are systematically destroying the country it operates in.
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BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Minister just told CBS the war will last “as long as it takes.” The Supreme Leader behind him owns £200 million in London real estate. Abbas Araghchi appeared on Face the Nation on 15th March and delivered the clearest statement of the war: “We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war, that people are being killed only because Trump wants to have fun.” He rejected talks entirely: “I don’t think talking with the Americans would be on our agenda anymore. Very bitter experience.” He expanded the threat: Iran will attack “any energy infrastructure in the region which belongs to an American company or an American company is a shareholder.” The endurance is not powered by ideology. It is powered by money. And the money has an address. The IRGC’s economic empire, centred on Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, controls an estimated 20 to 50% of the Iranian economy through 5,000 subsidiaries, 250,000 workers, and tens of billions in contracts spanning oil, construction, telecommunications, and banking. Fortune reported in March that the IRGC’s foundations control over half the country’s GDP by some estimates. This is not a military with a side business. It is a business with a military attached. The business funds the drones. Every Shahed that hits an AWS data centre, every mine on the Hormuz seabed, every proxy rocket fired by Hezbollah and the Houthis is financed by an economic empire that the IRGC built specifically to survive sanctions and fund operations without state budgets. When Araghchi says “as long as it takes,” he is not describing willpower. He is describing a cash flow. The cash flow has a second address. Bloomberg and the Financial Times report that Mojtaba Khamenei, the wounded Supreme Leader who cannot appear on video, is linked to a property empire of £200 million in London, including mansions on Bishops Avenue and flats in Kensington, plus an estimated €400 million in European hotels in Frankfurt and Mallorca, all channelled through IRGC-linked financier Ali Ansari. The man whose father considered him unfit, who was installed by a military junta, who communicates through a television anchor, maintains a real estate portfolio in the capital of a country that is part of the coalition bombing his. Iran’s demands for ending the war, as outlined by Araghchi and echoed by Rezaei, are: full cessation of hostilities (not a ceasefire, a complete stop), full reparations for all damages, recognition of Iran’s rights, future security guarantees, and complete US military withdrawal from the Persian Gulf. These are not negotiating positions. They are the opening demands of a regime that believes its economic empire can sustain indefinite asymmetric warfare because the empire was built for exactly this scenario. The Khatam al-Anbiya spokesman confirmed the escalation on 11th March: the “enemy left our hands open to targeting economic centres and banks” linked to the US and Israel. The threat extends to oil and gas infrastructure that American companies hold shares in across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The regime that owns property in London is threatening to burn the energy infrastructure that funds the Gulf economies its Supreme Leader invested in. “As long as it takes” is not a vow. It is a business model. The IRGC built a parallel economy to survive sanctions. It built offshore property to survive regime change. It built the Shahed to survive conventional inferiority. And it installed a wounded figurehead to survive decapitation. Every layer is designed for endurance. The question is not whether Iran means it. The question is whether the $100 billion empire that funds it can survive the 15,000 strikes that are systematically destroying the country it operates in.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

184,999 views • 3 months ago

#Breaking: The U.S. Navy has targeted multiple military sites in #Konarak, southeast of #Iran. One of them is the 10th Tactical Fighter Base of the #Iranian Air Force, which is also used by the #IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force for two drone units based there—the same units that recently attempted to fly a Shahed-129 MALE armed drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. #IranRevolution #IranRevolution2026 #IranProtests #IranProtests2026
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#Breaking: The U.S. Navy has targeted multiple military sites in #Konarak, southeast of #Iran. One of them is the 10th Tactical Fighter Base of the #Iranian Air Force, which is also used by the #IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force for two drone units based there—the same units that recently attempted to fly a Shahed-129 MALE armed drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. #IranRevolution #IranRevolution2026 #IranProtests #IranProtests2026

Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch

15,739 views • 4 months ago

🚨NEW: The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has officially confirmed that the drone which struck the RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus on March 2, 2026, was not launched from Iran. Cypriot officials suggested the drone—an Iranian-designed "Shahed-type" model—was most likely launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei suggested to Drop Site that Israel was engaging in “false flag” attacks in the Gulf in an effort to further draw other nations into the war against Iran. He told Jeremy Scahill in an exclusive interview that “Israel has already used this during the past eight decades in many cases.” He also referenced Tucker Carlson’s recent claim that Saudi Arabia and Qatar recently arrested Mossad agents plotting to bomb sites in those countries. “Right now, the situation is very complicated and the probability, the likelihood of abuse by such actors is very high,” he said. (The clip is linked below)
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🚨NEW: The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has officially confirmed that the drone which struck the RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus on March 2, 2026, was not launched from Iran. Cypriot officials suggested the drone—an Iranian-designed "Shahed-type" model—was most likely launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei suggested to Drop Site that Israel was engaging in “false flag” attacks in the Gulf in an effort to further draw other nations into the war against Iran. He told Jeremy Scahill in an exclusive interview that “Israel has already used this during the past eight decades in many cases.” He also referenced Tucker Carlson’s recent claim that Saudi Arabia and Qatar recently arrested Mossad agents plotting to bomb sites in those countries. “Right now, the situation is very complicated and the probability, the likelihood of abuse by such actors is very high,” he said. (The clip is linked below)

Drop Site

146,871 views • 4 months ago

The US carried out a strike on Iran using drones that were copied from the Russian 'Gerani', which was taken from Ukraine, - retired colonel Steve Ganyard. 'The US observed Russia using similar drones with devastating effect in Ukraine. But the drones that Russia uses are purchased from Iran. The US never had anything like this before. These long-range disposable strike drones are highly accurate. The Pentagon received a sample - one of them was found in a field in Ukraine and reverse-engineered. It was copied. Thus, the drone that the US is now using to strike Iran is based on Iranian technology. The irony is that Iran is being destroyed by its own technology.' - SK
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The US carried out a strike on Iran using drones that were copied from the Russian 'Gerani', which was taken from Ukraine, - retired colonel Steve Ganyard. 'The US observed Russia using similar drones with devastating effect in Ukraine. But the drones that Russia uses are purchased from Iran. The US never had anything like this before. These long-range disposable strike drones are highly accurate. The Pentagon received a sample - one of them was found in a field in Ukraine and reverse-engineered. It was copied. Thus, the drone that the US is now using to strike Iran is based on Iranian technology. The irony is that Iran is being destroyed by its own technology.' - SK

Zlatti71

25,198 views • 4 months ago

⭕️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Lebanon Agreement: 🔹“The most important point is that Israel will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a major achievement, and we will maintain our presence there as long as Hezbollah is not disarmed and as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel.” 🔹”This is also a major blow to Iran. Iran has been trying to force us to withdraw from southern Lebanon through pressure. In effect, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them: this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon…” 🔹”We are allowing the Lebanese Army to begin deploying and taking control of territory. We are implementing two pilot zones, both recommended by the IDF: One is entirely outside the security zone, south of the Litani River, and the other is north of the Litani. A small part of that lies within the expanded security zone that we secured over the past two weeks, and which the IDF has made clear it no longer needs.” 🔹”We will continue to maintain the original security zone… We will not allow Hezbollah or civilians to enter it. That remains unchanged.” 🔹”Most importantly, Israel is making one thing clear: our security comes before everything else.”
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⭕️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Lebanon Agreement: 🔹“The most important point is that Israel will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon. This is a major achievement, and we will maintain our presence there as long as Hezbollah is not disarmed and as long as there is a threat to the State of Israel.” 🔹”This is also a major blow to Iran. Iran has been trying to force us to withdraw from southern Lebanon through pressure. In effect, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them: this is none of your business. You have no role in Lebanon…” 🔹”We are allowing the Lebanese Army to begin deploying and taking control of territory. We are implementing two pilot zones, both recommended by the IDF: One is entirely outside the security zone, south of the Litani River, and the other is north of the Litani. A small part of that lies within the expanded security zone that we secured over the past two weeks, and which the IDF has made clear it no longer needs.” 🔹”We will continue to maintain the original security zone… We will not allow Hezbollah or civilians to enter it. That remains unchanged.” 🔹”Most importantly, Israel is making one thing clear: our security comes before everything else.”

Drop Site

218,778 views • 7 days ago

In June 1982, the IRGC deployed between 800 and 1,500 Revolutionary Guards to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Their mission was to recruit, train, and unify Lebanese Shia militants into a single organization under Iranian ideological guidance. The organization that emerged was Hezbollah. Its 1985 founding charter pledged allegiance to Iran’s velayat-e faqih doctrine and described the Iranian regime as the “vanguard” of a global Islamic state. This is not contested history. It is documented in a declassified 1984 CIA report, in Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem’s own memoir, and in the charter itself. In November 2024, after a ceasefire ended the previous round of fighting, Iran sent approximately 100 IRGC officers back to Lebanon to retrain Hezbollah fighters, reorganize them into small decentralized units, and oversee a full rearmament program funded at $50 million per month, most of it from Tehran. Reuters confirmed this through six sources briefed on Hezbollah’s finances. By March 2 2026, when Hezbollah launched its first rockets into Israel in solidarity with Iran after the killing of Khamenei, the group had been rebuilt from the inside out by its creator. Since March 2, at least 1,953 people have been killed in Lebanon. Over 1.2 million have been displaced. Nine bridges over the Litani River have been systematically destroyed, isolating the south from aid, food, and medical supply. On April 8, Operation Eternal Darkness hit over 100 targets across Beirut, the Beqaa, and southern Lebanon in ten minutes, killing at least 303 people in the deadliest single day of the war. Hospitals were overwhelmed. The Red Cross described the situation as “severe.” Lebanese authorities called it Black Wednesday. Hezbollah still has an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 rockets and 300 to 400 launchers remaining. On April 9 it claimed 72 operations including 36 rocket launches into Israel. On April 10 it hit homes in Misgav Am and Safed and fired a missile at Ashdod. The group is degraded. It is not broken. Its leader Naim Qassem declared resistance “to the last breath.” And Iran’s delegation, sitting tonight at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, has made Hezbollah’s survival the precondition for peace. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei stated that halting the war in Lebanon is “an inseparable part” of the ceasefire framework. Ghalibaf arrived with two demands: full Lebanon ceasefire and release of frozen assets. The IRGC issued a statement affirming it has launched nothing during the ceasefire. Iran is not fighting. Hezbollah is fighting. And Iran is negotiating on behalf of the weapon it built, funded, and rebuilt while the country that weapon operates inside is being destroyed. The costs of Iran’s proxy are denominated in Lebanese casualties, Lebanese bridges, Lebanese hospitals, Lebanese displacement. The benefits of Iran’s proxy are collected in Islamabad, where the precondition buys clock time, extracts sanctions leverage, and preserves Hormuz toll revenue. Iran created Hezbollah to resist Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982. In 2026, Iran is using Hezbollah to resist American pressure on Iran while Lebanon absorbs the strikes that Iran’s precondition ensures will continue. Every day Iran insists on a Lebanon ceasefire as its condition for talks, Israel strikes Lebanon harder under the explicit carve-out. The precondition does not protect Lebanon. It prolongs the war in Lebanon. And the organization that was built 44 years ago to defend Lebanese sovereignty is now the mechanism by which Lebanese sovereignty is consumed.
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In June 1982, the IRGC deployed between 800 and 1,500 Revolutionary Guards to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Their mission was to recruit, train, and unify Lebanese Shia militants into a single organization under Iranian ideological guidance. The organization that emerged was Hezbollah. Its 1985 founding charter pledged allegiance to Iran’s velayat-e faqih doctrine and described the Iranian regime as the “vanguard” of a global Islamic state. This is not contested history. It is documented in a declassified 1984 CIA report, in Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem’s own memoir, and in the charter itself. In November 2024, after a ceasefire ended the previous round of fighting, Iran sent approximately 100 IRGC officers back to Lebanon to retrain Hezbollah fighters, reorganize them into small decentralized units, and oversee a full rearmament program funded at $50 million per month, most of it from Tehran. Reuters confirmed this through six sources briefed on Hezbollah’s finances. By March 2 2026, when Hezbollah launched its first rockets into Israel in solidarity with Iran after the killing of Khamenei, the group had been rebuilt from the inside out by its creator. Since March 2, at least 1,953 people have been killed in Lebanon. Over 1.2 million have been displaced. Nine bridges over the Litani River have been systematically destroyed, isolating the south from aid, food, and medical supply. On April 8, Operation Eternal Darkness hit over 100 targets across Beirut, the Beqaa, and southern Lebanon in ten minutes, killing at least 303 people in the deadliest single day of the war. Hospitals were overwhelmed. The Red Cross described the situation as “severe.” Lebanese authorities called it Black Wednesday. Hezbollah still has an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 rockets and 300 to 400 launchers remaining. On April 9 it claimed 72 operations including 36 rocket launches into Israel. On April 10 it hit homes in Misgav Am and Safed and fired a missile at Ashdod. The group is degraded. It is not broken. Its leader Naim Qassem declared resistance “to the last breath.” And Iran’s delegation, sitting tonight at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, has made Hezbollah’s survival the precondition for peace. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei stated that halting the war in Lebanon is “an inseparable part” of the ceasefire framework. Ghalibaf arrived with two demands: full Lebanon ceasefire and release of frozen assets. The IRGC issued a statement affirming it has launched nothing during the ceasefire. Iran is not fighting. Hezbollah is fighting. And Iran is negotiating on behalf of the weapon it built, funded, and rebuilt while the country that weapon operates inside is being destroyed. The costs of Iran’s proxy are denominated in Lebanese casualties, Lebanese bridges, Lebanese hospitals, Lebanese displacement. The benefits of Iran’s proxy are collected in Islamabad, where the precondition buys clock time, extracts sanctions leverage, and preserves Hormuz toll revenue. Iran created Hezbollah to resist Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982. In 2026, Iran is using Hezbollah to resist American pressure on Iran while Lebanon absorbs the strikes that Iran’s precondition ensures will continue. Every day Iran insists on a Lebanon ceasefire as its condition for talks, Israel strikes Lebanon harder under the explicit carve-out. The precondition does not protect Lebanon. It prolongs the war in Lebanon. And the organization that was built 44 years ago to defend Lebanese sovereignty is now the mechanism by which Lebanese sovereignty is consumed.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

42,188 views • 2 months ago

JUST IN: A drone just hit a fuel tank at the busiest airport in the Middle East. The Dubai Media Office confirmed it 23 minutes ago. “A drone incident in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport (DXB) affected one of the fuel tanks. Dubai Civil Defence teams are currently working to bring the fire under control. No injuries have been reported so far.” That is the official statement from Dubai Media Office, posted in English and Arabic, with thousands of views in the first half hour. The fuel tank is burning. Civil Defence is on scene. The airport that processed 87 million passengers last year, the global hub that connects 260 destinations across six continents, the physical embodiment of everything Dubai built over three decades, has a fuel tank on fire because a drone that costs less than a business-class seat through Terminal 3 reached the aviation fuel supply that keeps the hub operational. This is the third confirmed drone incident at or near DXB since the war began. On 11 March, two drones struck near the airport, injuring four people. On 1 March, drones hit AWS data centres in the same corridor. Today, the target was not a server farm or a residential tower. It was aviation fuel. The escalation is vertical: from data to shelter to the liquid that makes the airport function. Fuel tanks at international airports are not incidental targets. They are the circulatory system of aviation. DXB operates on jet fuel stored in tank farms adjacent to the runways. A sustained fire in a fuel tank does not merely delay flights. It grounds the refuelling infrastructure that determines whether aircraft depart at all. Civil Defence is containing this fire. The question is not whether this fire is contained. The question is whether the next drone reaches the next tank, and whether the insurance market, the airline route planners, and the 87 million annual passengers calculate that a 94% interception rate over an airport fuel farm is sufficient assurance to book the ticket. The cumulative toll on the UAE since 28 February: 294 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, over 1,600 drones. Six dead. 141 injured. AWS data centres struck. Creek Harbour and 23 Marina towers burning from debris. The Burj Al Arab facade hit. Jebel Ali Port targeted. Fujairah oil zone fires. The Iranian Hospital closed. Five schools shuttered. Twenty-one people charged for filming. And now a fuel tank at the airport that defines the city burning while Civil Defence teams work to contain what the air defence system intercepted everywhere except here. The $600 million daily regional tourism loss was calculated before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. The DFM Real Estate Index was down 21.4% before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. The $20 billion DFC insurance facility had zero confirmed takers before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. Every metric of economic damage that existed this morning is now being recalculated against a new data point: the airport itself is no longer outside the target set. Dubai built the busiest airport in the Middle East to prove the Gulf was open for business. Iran just proved it is open for drones. The fuel tank is burning. Civil Defence is responding. No injuries reported. And somewhere in the Gulf, a Shahed that cost $20,000 to $35,000 just imposed a repricing event on an aviation hub worth hundreds of billions by reaching the one target that converts a “drone incident” from a security event into an infrastructure crisis: the fuel that keeps the planes flying. Full analysis!
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JUST IN: A drone just hit a fuel tank at the busiest airport in the Middle East. The Dubai Media Office confirmed it 23 minutes ago. “A drone incident in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport (DXB) affected one of the fuel tanks. Dubai Civil Defence teams are currently working to bring the fire under control. No injuries have been reported so far.” That is the official statement from Dubai Media Office, posted in English and Arabic, with thousands of views in the first half hour. The fuel tank is burning. Civil Defence is on scene. The airport that processed 87 million passengers last year, the global hub that connects 260 destinations across six continents, the physical embodiment of everything Dubai built over three decades, has a fuel tank on fire because a drone that costs less than a business-class seat through Terminal 3 reached the aviation fuel supply that keeps the hub operational. This is the third confirmed drone incident at or near DXB since the war began. On 11 March, two drones struck near the airport, injuring four people. On 1 March, drones hit AWS data centres in the same corridor. Today, the target was not a server farm or a residential tower. It was aviation fuel. The escalation is vertical: from data to shelter to the liquid that makes the airport function. Fuel tanks at international airports are not incidental targets. They are the circulatory system of aviation. DXB operates on jet fuel stored in tank farms adjacent to the runways. A sustained fire in a fuel tank does not merely delay flights. It grounds the refuelling infrastructure that determines whether aircraft depart at all. Civil Defence is containing this fire. The question is not whether this fire is contained. The question is whether the next drone reaches the next tank, and whether the insurance market, the airline route planners, and the 87 million annual passengers calculate that a 94% interception rate over an airport fuel farm is sufficient assurance to book the ticket. The cumulative toll on the UAE since 28 February: 294 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, over 1,600 drones. Six dead. 141 injured. AWS data centres struck. Creek Harbour and 23 Marina towers burning from debris. The Burj Al Arab facade hit. Jebel Ali Port targeted. Fujairah oil zone fires. The Iranian Hospital closed. Five schools shuttered. Twenty-one people charged for filming. And now a fuel tank at the airport that defines the city burning while Civil Defence teams work to contain what the air defence system intercepted everywhere except here. The $600 million daily regional tourism loss was calculated before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. The DFM Real Estate Index was down 21.4% before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. The $20 billion DFC insurance facility had zero confirmed takers before a fuel tank at DXB caught fire. Every metric of economic damage that existed this morning is now being recalculated against a new data point: the airport itself is no longer outside the target set. Dubai built the busiest airport in the Middle East to prove the Gulf was open for business. Iran just proved it is open for drones. The fuel tank is burning. Civil Defence is responding. No injuries reported. And somewhere in the Gulf, a Shahed that cost $20,000 to $35,000 just imposed a repricing event on an aviation hub worth hundreds of billions by reaching the one target that converts a “drone incident” from a security event into an infrastructure crisis: the fuel that keeps the planes flying. Full analysis!

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

1,101,554 views • 3 months ago

The IDF has Launched a Preemptive Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Program, Israeli military spokesperson Effie Defrin: For years, the Iranian regime has been waging a direct and indirect campaign of terror against the State of Israel, by funding and directing terrorist activities via its proxies across the Middle East, while advancing toward obtaining a nuclear weapon. The Iranian regime is at the head of the axis responsible for all terrorist attacks against the State of Israel since the beginning of the "Swords of Iron" War, including by arming and funding the Hamas terror organization which was responsible for the October 7th Massacre. During the "Swords of Iron" War, Iran even directly attacked Israel twice, firing hundreds of missiles toward the State of Israel. The Iranian regime has proclaimed that its objective is to destroy the State of Israel. Senior officials in the Iranian regime have publicly declared their intent to destroy Israel, and are operating to achieve this together with their proxies in the Middle East. Today, Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon. Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are an existential threat to the State of Israel and a significant threat to the wider world. The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose objective is to destroy the State of Israel to obtain weapons of mass destruction. The IDF has conducted a process of preparations for a campaign on the frontline and on the home front. The resilience of Israel's citizens will be an important factor of the campaign. The IDF is ready to continue to act as required. The State of Israel has the obligation to act in defense of its citizens and will continue to do so everywhere it is required to do so, as we have done in the past.
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The IDF has Launched a Preemptive Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Program, Israeli military spokesperson Effie Defrin: For years, the Iranian regime has been waging a direct and indirect campaign of terror against the State of Israel, by funding and directing terrorist activities via its proxies across the Middle East, while advancing toward obtaining a nuclear weapon. The Iranian regime is at the head of the axis responsible for all terrorist attacks against the State of Israel since the beginning of the "Swords of Iron" War, including by arming and funding the Hamas terror organization which was responsible for the October 7th Massacre. During the "Swords of Iron" War, Iran even directly attacked Israel twice, firing hundreds of missiles toward the State of Israel. The Iranian regime has proclaimed that its objective is to destroy the State of Israel. Senior officials in the Iranian regime have publicly declared their intent to destroy Israel, and are operating to achieve this together with their proxies in the Middle East. Today, Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon. Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are an existential threat to the State of Israel and a significant threat to the wider world. The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose objective is to destroy the State of Israel to obtain weapons of mass destruction. The IDF has conducted a process of preparations for a campaign on the frontline and on the home front. The resilience of Israel's citizens will be an important factor of the campaign. The IDF is ready to continue to act as required. The State of Israel has the obligation to act in defense of its citizens and will continue to do so everywhere it is required to do so, as we have done in the past.

Joe Truzman

15,336 views • 1 year ago

Israeli-British Historian Prof. Avi Shlaim: ‘The Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is one of the most UNJUSTIFIED, SENSELESS and FOOLISH wars of the 21st century. There was absolutely no reason to go to war. This is an unlawful war. There was no Security Council resolution that mandated a war on Iran. There was no imminent threat from Iran to either Israel or America. So it was a decision taken by these two leaders to launch an attack on Iran. And the dominant personality here is Netanyahu. He’s the junior partner, but he’s the real architect of this war. He succeeded in dragging America into the war on Iran. And remember that Netanyahu was first elected as prime minister in 1996. For the last 30 years, Netanyahu has been demonising Iran and calling for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. But no American president until Trump was stupid enough to fall for it. Now, Trump went along with this plan by Netanyahu, and we have seen the consequences. It’s been a war that has caused immense damage and destruction, inflicted a lot of suffering on civilians, and not just in Iran, but on Lebanon as well. And at the same time, Israel continues the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. So what we are seeing is an Israeli success in dragging America into a war which is damaging to America, damaging to America’s Gulf allies, hugely damaging to the international economy, and undermines international law.’ -Prof. Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇
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Israeli-British Historian Prof. Avi Shlaim: ‘The Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is one of the most UNJUSTIFIED, SENSELESS and FOOLISH wars of the 21st century. There was absolutely no reason to go to war. This is an unlawful war. There was no Security Council resolution that mandated a war on Iran. There was no imminent threat from Iran to either Israel or America. So it was a decision taken by these two leaders to launch an attack on Iran. And the dominant personality here is Netanyahu. He’s the junior partner, but he’s the real architect of this war. He succeeded in dragging America into the war on Iran. And remember that Netanyahu was first elected as prime minister in 1996. For the last 30 years, Netanyahu has been demonising Iran and calling for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. But no American president until Trump was stupid enough to fall for it. Now, Trump went along with this plan by Netanyahu, and we have seen the consequences. It’s been a war that has caused immense damage and destruction, inflicted a lot of suffering on civilians, and not just in Iran, but on Lebanon as well. And at the same time, Israel continues the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. So what we are seeing is an Israeli success in dragging America into a war which is damaging to America, damaging to America’s Gulf allies, hugely damaging to the international economy, and undermines international law.’ -Prof. Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

Going Underground

32,717 views • 1 month ago

The question we need to ask ourselves isn’t whether the war continues or whether there’s an agreement. In my opinion, if we look a little further ahead than, say, a day or two, the question is: Will this war end with an agreement or a unilateral ceasefire? It must be said that there is a very interesting development behind the scenes, which is that Hezbollah is pleading with the Iranians that any agreement or ceasefire—even a unilateral one, which is, of course, just a phrase, as there is always some sort of coordination behind the scenes—will also include an end to Israeli fire on Hezbollah. That is what Hezbollah is telling Iran. Israel, on the other hand, is telling the United States that there is no chance of that happening—it will not happen—because Israel’s strategic goal in 2024 was to sever the links between the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, and it succeeded in doing so, and its strategic goal in the Lebanon sector in 2026 is to sever the Tehran and Beirut sectors. To the extent that Israel does this—separating the octopus from its tentacles, or the lizard from its tail, whichever animal metaphor one prefers—it is a significant success on the path to the goal of simply strangling Hezbollah, and therefore this is a very significant point of contention.
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The question we need to ask ourselves isn’t whether the war continues or whether there’s an agreement. In my opinion, if we look a little further ahead than, say, a day or two, the question is: Will this war end with an agreement or a unilateral ceasefire? It must be said that there is a very interesting development behind the scenes, which is that Hezbollah is pleading with the Iranians that any agreement or ceasefire—even a unilateral one, which is, of course, just a phrase, as there is always some sort of coordination behind the scenes—will also include an end to Israeli fire on Hezbollah. That is what Hezbollah is telling Iran. Israel, on the other hand, is telling the United States that there is no chance of that happening—it will not happen—because Israel’s strategic goal in 2024 was to sever the links between the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, and it succeeded in doing so, and its strategic goal in the Lebanon sector in 2026 is to sever the Tehran and Beirut sectors. To the extent that Israel does this—separating the octopus from its tentacles, or the lizard from its tail, whichever animal metaphor one prefers—it is a significant success on the path to the goal of simply strangling Hezbollah, and therefore this is a very significant point of contention.

Amit Segal

33,119 views • 3 months ago