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I am going to take a break from reporting for a while(hopefully, just 2 or 3 days). As soon as I feel well rested, I will come back!
Thank you for all your work here Comrade! It’s been extremely useful for keeping us all up to date!
Appreciate your work as well. Don’t forget to take good care of yourself.
Best wishes. Appreciate the work you put in.
❗️Israeli settler media describes a nightmare scenario in the north following a weekend of relentless rocket fire from Lebanon
A relentless barrage of rocket fire from Lebanon triggered nonstop sirens across northern settlements over the weekend, plunging local residents into what Hebrew outlets called an ongoing nightmare. Dozens of projectile launches forced thousands of Israelis to repeatedly flee into bomb shelters, leaving them in a state of constant panic.
Online social media reports emphasized that an entire sector of the north is being systematically pounded by the Lebanese resistance, forcing thousands to live under a continuous threat and absolute uncertainty.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60739
Maybe they should fuck off back where they came from.
❗️Kazakhstan offers to host Iran’s uranium stockpile
Kazakhstan has proposed hosting Iran’s uranium stockpile if Washington and Tehran reach an agreement on Iran’s disputed nuclear program, according to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in remarks to the Financial Times on Friday.
Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana earlier this week.
FT reported that Tokayev had indicated Kazakhstan’s willingness to store Iran’s stockpile.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60740
I can’t stand this idea of “hosting” another Sovereign country’s own resources. It’s just western colonial chauvinism disguised as diplomacy.
I can’t stand this idea of “hosting” another Sovereign country’s own resources. It’s just western colonial chauvinism disguised as diplomacy.
Yeah it sounds completely absurd. Like imagine if it was about a different kind of resource…
“Hey let us host your water.”
“That means you have control over our water now…”
“No, no, we’re ‘hosting’ it.”
“So we still have full control over it and can use it whenever we want?”
“Well…”
“Cause if so, why would we keep it at your place.”
“For uh, diplomatic reasons.”
“Which are?”
“Well this asshole in the neighborhood doesn’t want you to have water. So I just figured if we hold your water for you, that may calm him.”
“And it never occurred to you that he’s the problem?”
“Look, both sides are angry.”
“Fuck off.”
“Look, both sides are angry.”
Urgent / The IRGC targeted an American airbase
🔹 Following the early morning attack today by the US invading army on a point near Bandar Abbas airport with aerial projectiles, the American airbase, as the origin of the aggression, was targeted at 4:50 AM.
The IRGC Public Relations issued a statement:
▪ In the name of Allah, the Commander of the Compellers
▪ So if they attack you, attack them in the same way they attacked you▪ Following the early morning attack today by the US invading army on a point near Bandar Abbas airport with aerial projectiles, the American airbase, the origin of the aggression, was targeted at 4:50 AM.
▪ This response is a serious warning so that the enemy knows that aggression will not go unanswered and if repeated, our response will be more decisive.
▪ The aggressor bears the responsibility for the consequences.▪ And victory is only from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise
🇺🇸🇮🇷The Western media continues to portray US-Iranian talks as a means for US President Trump to end the war many portray as a “failure” even as the US continues striking Iran amid a “ceasefire.”
But the US wanting to end the war is a false assumption.
The US goals are:
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Continue weakening Iran but without triggering wider, unsustainable hostilities;
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Continue decreasing Middle East energy exports to Asia, including China by maintaining constant instability and threat of wider war;
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While preventing a rapid global economic collapse and instead using the crisis to incrementally impose dependence on US energy exports onto Asia just as the US did to Europe;
The worst part about Western reports regarding supposed US “diplomacy” is that the last 26 years alone of US aggression against Iran prove the US uses diplomacy only to further war on its own terms, not to avoid or end it!
The US is currently managing similar balancing acts of hostility just below all out direct war with both Russia and China.
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🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱| Hezbollah gave Iran’s national TV exclusive footage of a FPV drone attack to publish and tributed the attack to “our brothers from Iran.”
To FPV drone struck a military vehicle with soldiers inside.
God bless the brothers under the yellow flag.
Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21734
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA):
‘The U.S. Treasury recently imposed sanctions on the Persian Gulf Strait Authority.
While condemning this action, the PGSA considers being sanctioned by a country like the United States, which engages in piracy, as a sign of its own positive performance so far.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
❗️🇮🇷| NEW: Iran shot down 3 MQ-9 drones
What happened in chronological order:
• Yesterday, the US entered the Strait of Hormoz to attack IRGC speedboats & fisher boats, Iran’s air defenses countered the threat & shot down MQ-9 drones.
2 of these drones were shot down by the IRGC & one by the Army’s air defense.
• The downing of these drones in less than 20 minutes caused the US to become confused and disorganized, and unable to locate the air defense site, they attacked several points on Qeshm and Jask islands.
• US attacked Iranian boats again
• The IRGC responded against US navy vessels tonight.
This also explains why Trump posted the AI image yesterday.
Does this mean the war is restarting?
I don’t think so. The americans are cowards. If they were going to restart the war they would send everything they have all at once.
More likely this was just testing and probing. My guess is the us military was proving to trump that going back to war would be a massacre. This was the airforce saying “Ok look, we’ll send some drones over to test things out and if it goes well we’ll consider doing some more strikes” and now they are tying to push the “but if it goes badly we are not bombing Iran.”
I think there is a serious divide between the us military vs. trump and the bourgeoisie. The spoiled rich people are making unrealistic demands and the military are trying to show them and explain how stupid their demands are.
How does Iran react though? This seems like another escalation during negotiations and ceasefire. I hope they have a suitable retaliation in mind. I see senior officials have flown to Moscow im hoping this is preemptive to avoid their assassination whilst they plot a suitable response. Way I see it they have a free hit now. If they can’t hit a us target there’s a giant bullseye just south of Lebanon.
Shooting them down is a pretty reasonable retaliation for invading their airspace.
There is no cease fire and never was. usa never held up to its side of the agreement. usa fled and Iran chose to stop firing because they had done all they needed to to the bases in the area.
Fighting isn’t in Iran’s interests. They have won as much as they can militarily. All they want is usa to leave them alone. Their best weapon to get that is choking the gcc and usa by not letting them transit the strait.
I don’t fully know what occured yesterday, but what I saw was multiple boats blown up and missile systems on the coast. Is that not your understanding? If all that happened was some drones invaded their air space and got downed then I’d be inclined to agree with you.
Allowing themselves to be consistently attacked during negotiations is also not in Irans interest. Appetite for war in the US has never been lower (ever), so the opportunity is there to retaliate.
Yes it’s obvious to anyone with eyes Iran just wants to be left alone. And also the same for Lebanon. Thing is that doesn’t appear to be happening does it.
Iran doesn’t need to escalate because what they are doing is working. The american drone incursion did not achieve any strategic success. Why would Iran change tack?
usa sent those drones because the strait is still closed, gas prices are rising, and trump looks like a loser. This was not a show of strength by usa. This was a desperate attempt to change the situation because they are losing.
Maybe usa destroyed some boats, there aren’t any reports of martyrs that I have seen but MQ-9 reapers cost well over $30 million each.
Even if Iran wanted to hit back what could they do? There are no more american targets in range.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgzzn4y1n8o
What you’re claiming does not accurately reflect what I’m seeing on telegram. Hell even my corrupt Zionist media is acknowledging what happened.
Honestly feels a bit like talking to a wall here but let me restate the same points again if it helps.
Why would they change tack? As previously stated once again aggressed upon during ceasefire and negotiations.
Even if Iran want to hit back what could they do " If they can’t hit a us target there’s a giant bullseye just south of Lebanon."
These were all in my comments. It would be nice to engage with points, rather than restate the same things over and over again. Feels like a serious waste of both our time.
This has the exact same energy as when I was treated like an idiot for pointing out a non aggression pact with Saudi did very little for Iran. I was told how incredible it was and I was an idiot for thinking it provided very little because US needs a close geographical location to conduct strikes from. Never minding the other 10 countries in the area still completely on the table.
Whatever man, agree to disagree.
🇮🇷 Mossad/CIA-backed armed seditionists are posting videos of themselves doing drive-by shootings in Iran
Which narrative will they choose? Are they pure, innocent, peaceful, unarmed lambs being slaughtered by the regime? Or are they brave armed insurgents engaging in acts of terrorism?
Since they aren’t really pure innocent peaceful protestors, then they shouldn’t cry when these heavily armed seditionist terrorists get eliminated by Iranian security forces.
This is glorified on X by treasonous accounts (such as this one) yet they never get flagged by X’s so-called “community standards.”
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 The Kremlin has published a joint statement by the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan on the situation surrounding Armenia’s desire to join the EU.
➡️The leaders support holding a referendum in Armenia on whether to join the EU or remain in the EAEU
➡️A report on the possible consequences of Armenia’s withdrawal from the EAEU will be presented in December 2026
➡️Armenia’s preparations for EU accession pose significant risks to the economic security of EAEU member states.
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🇷🇺🇦🇲 Russia will raise energy prices for Armenia if it withdraws from the EAEU - Putin
An increase in energy prices will result in a loss of at least 14% of its GDP for Armenia
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Europe promises to invest 2.5 billion euros in Armenia someday, and Russia has already invested significant funds in the country
- Putin
Putin recalled the advantages of cooperation in the EAEU - a common market, duty-free trade, simplified logistics, low energy prices. The accumulated investments in Armenia are about 4.9 billion dollars, 86% of which are of Russian origin, he emphasized.
The transition to the EU will lead to the full restoration of customs control and customs duties, a reduction in trade and tourism.
“We will have to restore the permissive order for Armenian carriers. This is inevitable. And we will have to increase tariff levels for railways,”
added the President of Russia.
According to Putin, Pashinyan said that he considered it right to hold a referendum, and the EAEU asked that this be done as soon as possible.
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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/185277
Importance of Armenia’s future
Armenia has little to actually gain from joining the EU, not even considering how impractical a suggestion it is. All this would do is give the West the ability to set up military architecture right next to Iran and much closer to Russia (as well as Türkiye, which I think the west will turn on in the coming years). It only serves western political interests over Armenian economic ones, isolates Armenia from regional partnerships, and actively puts Armenia in danger, by making them a target by putting them in Iran and Russia’s firing line if the EU decides to push a redline.
Pashinyan winning the Armenian elections is basically a death sentence for Armenia as a sovereign project of any regard. Securing security from Iran/Russia is a significantly more effective strategy, especially with Azerbaijan breathing down Armenia’s neck. The biggest threats to Armenia is Azerbaijan and Türkiye. It’s not Russia, it’s not Iran, and it’s not the Armenian church. Yet Pashinyan and his supporters seem to only speak on dangers of the latter 3, and underplay the severity of the former 2.
⏺Does the negotiation process harm us or not?
❗Many concerned people have asked; well, we know the enemy will definitely attack, so why do we negotiate? First of all, I want to confront them with this question; so what should we do? Naturally, a country under naval, economic, political, and military siege by the enemy must think of a strategy—yes, both military, economic, diplomatic, and political strategies. Fundamentally, the negotiation process does not depend on our offensive or defensive capabilities; so do not worry about this. I don’t understand why after the war the negotiation team is blamed? What should they do? Stop negotiating? So basically, in a hybrid war, should we confront the enemy with only one approach? Actually, this is also a battlefield!
Secondly, it is not that we want to accuse every member of the negotiation team and separate their line from the leadership. I have repeatedly emphasized that Trump’s goal in entering the war was 4 or 5 major elements, none of which were achieved. Yes, they had detailed operational objectives, but that overarching plan for entering such a war was never realized. Trump is definitely moving towards identifying these issues, so he pursues them in both negotiation and war. Therefore, in both arenas, we must act revolutionary and intelligently, not abandon the field.
In my opinion, the upcoming war is currently being monitored with these military assessments as certain but within an unpredictable timeframe. Yes, this analysis might be wrong; I am not a prophet. But the same pattern that helped us somewhat categorize the start and end periods of the wars of 12 and 40 tells us that such movements, exercises, and transports indicate a short but deep and intense operation; an operation aiming to gain superiority in four major American objectives. Within this framework, repelling or canceling the enemy’s initial wave of attacks is very necessary because it itself prevents shock and then disrupts their planning. Fundamentally, the Islamic Republic’s defense must be prepared with the concept of mission cancellation and disrupting enemy operations. Do not necessarily think about destroying fighters; just canceling their mission is a good start.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| ❗️ Bloomberg reports that Iran’s attacks on the US Ali al Salem Army air base in Kuwait 3 days ago, “injured” 5 American soldiers.
Additionally, a US MQ-9 drone was completely destroyed and another MQ-9 was seriously damaged.
FAFO! I bet pete kegsbreath is getting an ear full for this.
🇮🇷| BREAKING: IRGC confirms it shot down a MQ-9 drone, and fired upon a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet
The statement says Iran reserves the right to respond to ceasefire violations.
The statement also says the IRGC shot down one MQ-9 drone and fired at a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet forcing them to flee the country’s territorial airspace.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| WATCH: Footage has been released for the first time showing Iranian air defenses shoot down an American fighter jet on the 20th day of the war, captured during a wedding.
Considering the accent and dialect, which sounds like luri / Bakhtiari, meaning it’s captured in the west & southwest Iran - this increases the likelihood that this is indeed the F-15 that Iran shot down.
@FotrosResistancee
Hahahah fuck yeah
Eleven Lebanese children killed, injured every day by Israeli military: UN
Tehran insists that any peace agreement with Washington must include an end to Israel’s brutal war in Lebanon
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60697
Mag Bar Israel. Mag Bar Amerika.
