— 🇨🇳/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The Chinese Foreign Ministry says it does not recognize U.S. sanctions against Iran and that China will not comply with the ‘economic warfare’ campaign initiated by President Trump this week

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❗️Knesset reports steep 53% decline in Israeli settler migration and surging outbound migration

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The days of the Settler colony are numbered. As the empire collapses, more of them will scurry away like rats.

VIDEO | "I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her … We were praying for her to faint ... She stayed awake the whole amputation."

During a recent interview, Dr. Mark Perlmutter shared a harrowing account of performing an emergency amputation on a five-year-old girl in Gaza without any proper medical anesthesia, relying solely on an anesthesiologist singing to keep the conscious child calm through the procedure.

Describing emergency rooms overflowing with children missing limbs, the orthopedic surgeon stated he directly appealed to a US senator to urge President Trump to intervene and halt the relentless Israeli attacks.

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VIDEO | "I don't serve Israelis, I don't serve baby killers."

A fitness center owner on the Indonesian resort island of Bali refused service to and expelled three Israeli tourists from his facility over their ties to the Israeli military and poor treatment of local staff.

The confrontation occurred at Ayenda Gym in the Ubud district of Gianyar Regency, where footage captured 32-year-old owner Samir ordering the men to leave the premises.

During the exchange, Samir questioned the individuals regarding their service in the Israeli military before telling them they were not welcome.

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❗️In response to a post by US President Donald Trump describing the Strait of Hormuz as "new US territory," the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad, India, published a satirical map depicting the state of California as new territory of the Islamic Republic.

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First it was commiefornia, now it's the CAliphate. God that joke was horrible, but I know I got a couple comrades with it.

BREAKING | A jury has failed to convict Palestine Action activists Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Alexandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova in the latest Filton 25 trial, over allegations of criminal damage and violent disorder at Elbit Systems’ Filton site in 2024.

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VIDEO | 'I never understood why Israel didn't expel all the Palestinians.'

Israeli settler and online personality Rivka Lafair has publicly criticized Israel for failing to forcibly ethnically cleanse the entire Palestinian population during the 1948 Nakba and 1967 war, framing their survival and demographic growth as "unfinished business" that still needs to be addressed.

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The actual video is so much worse than this description in my opinion.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has issued an ultimatum to the United States; return to serious diplomacy and remove the naval blockade, or face an expansion of the war

The deadline, which is said to be several weeks at most, has been communicated to the United States through Pakistan and Qatar, according to Reuters.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian leaders have used the period following the June Memorandum of Understanding not to prepare for deescalation, but for a larger conflict with the United States – Wall Street Journal

In Iran’s view, the MoU was just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the economy and buy time for a larger attack in the future.

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VIDEO | 'Israel still occupies the Golan against UN resolutions, against the entire international order.'

United States Ambassador to Turkiye and Special Envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack publicly broke with official US foreign policy by stating that Israel's continued occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights violates both international law and United Nations resolutions.

The remarks directly contradict the 2019 decision by former US President Donald Trump to formally recognize so-called Israeli 'sovereignty' over the strategic plateau.

The Golan Heights is currently occupied by roughly 20,000 Israeli settlers alongside an indigenous population of approximately 26,000 predominantly Druze residents who maintain their Syrian identity.

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This was over a podcast interview.

❗️Georgia refuses to adopt latest EU sanctions against Iran citing strict national interests

Georgia has formally declined to adopt the latest wave of restrictive measures imposed by the European Union against Iran.

According to reports from the Georgian news agency Interpressnews, Tbilisi asserted that its foreign policy decisions and participation in international political initiatives are governed exclusively by domestic priorities rather than bloc alignment.

Tengiz Sharmanashvili, a leading member of parliament from the ruling Georgian Dream party, emphasized that the government evaluates every international resolution through a single criterion of whether it directly serves Georgian state interests at any given moment.

Sharmanashvili bluntly noted that if an external policy measure runs counter to those national objectives, authorities remain entirely indifferent to whose broader geopolitical agenda the measure otherwise supports.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.

Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread.

Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are. This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat.

These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!’

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❗️Australian judge slams envoy's antisemitism definition as tool to silence anti-Israel protest

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❗️Syrian Kurdish leader announces complete integration into US-backed state institutions

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Hmmmm, would you look at that, the SDF folding into the Syrian state, something they completely refused to do during Assad.

"What were they supposed to do?! They lost all arms support from the US!"

Says the western leftist, in a pitiful attempt to justify their support for an imperialist proxy.

In response I say:

THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE OUTCOME FROM DAY ONE!

"Assadists" made this clear every single time the topic of Rojava came up. That their project was predicated on the Assad government existing, and without it, the US would dissolve them immediately, having got what it wanted. Their political project was reliant on how it benifeted US imperialism, therefore making their struggle against the interest of the global working class.

This, according to a basic leninist analysis, should have disqualified support from principaled Communists. Yet, reeking of moralism and chauvnism, western leftists plugged their ears and still expressed admiration for a literal imperialist occupation of a sovereign global south country.

It would be less infuriating if these folks just admitted that our analysis was correct with hindsight at this point. However they still cling on to this notion of Kurdish national liberation eventual ethnonationalism being this thing that every leftist must support. They even go so far into justifying how Kurdish factions in Iraq (who are significantly more aligned with the US and Israel) undermine the core of anti-imperialism in West Asia, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

They are so enamored by the aesthetics of class struggle, that they can not see the material reality of how it is occurring at this very moment!

Truly this fantasy, is a completely maddening display of revolutionary voyeurism.

🇮🇱💬🇹🇷 Israel Hayom, an outlet close to the Israeli security establishment, published an analysis arguing that Jerusalem has effectively developed a legal doctrine for striking Turkish assets in Syria without triggering NATO's Article 5 collective defense clause.

The piece, titled "The Abu al-Duhur strike: denial before emplacement," follows Israel's August 18 strike on the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib, roughly 70 kilometers from the Turkish border, eight hits on the runway and facilities, no reported casualties. Israel says the strike was meant to prevent Syria from allowing a Turkish military deployment there; Ankara denies any such deployment was planned.

The core argument: NATO's Article 5 protects Turkish territory, not Turkish troops wherever they happen to be standing. Since the treaty is territorial, Israeli planners reportedly assess that hitting Turkish forces or infrastructure on Syrian soil would not constitute an attack on a NATO member's territory, and therefore would not obligate an Alliance response, even though NATO could still act by consensus if it chose to.

US envoy Tom Barrack criticized the strike as an unnecessary escalation and pointed to the lack of advance warning to Turkey.

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Honestly, we all know that NATO wouldn't lift a finger to protect Türkiye against Israel if it came down to it.

Pentagon says over 750 US troops wounded during war on Iran

A US official said the Pentagon's counting method aimed to hide the true number of wounded, with estimates reaching 900

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf:

‘The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. naval blockade is lifted, our frozen assets are released, oil sanctions are removed, threats and military operations on all fronts end, and all terms of the Memorandum of Understanding are fulfilled.’

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❗️Iran to construct world's largest solar power plant in Isfahan to tackle severe grid deficits

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As someone whose been on the bus drive between Isfahan and Qum, I think solar power is a perfect fit for Iran. There's absolutely loads of potential for it, and I can see Iran being a model of transition from an oil economy to a renewable giant.

🇮🇷 Iran has shifted from a defensive to an offensive military doctrine, said Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces.

Akraminia said the shift does not mean Iran will conduct preventive operations, but that any act of aggression against Iran will now draw an immediate response, and that response could be far larger in scale than the original act of aggression. He added that Iran has fully restored military systems damaged by US and Israeli strikes and brought new weapons systems into service, and that Tehran does not trust its enemies, remaining on guard since the ceasefire was declared.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PSGA) announces that any vessels that violate the Iranian arrangements for crossing the Strait of Hormuz will be placed on a ‘non-compliance’ list

These vessels will not receive easy permission to transit the Strait in the future, and will be subject to fines, seizure, or confiscation by the IRGC.

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— The non-compliance list has been established, and the majority of vessels are Emirati or Qatari-owned

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❗️Iran and Russia near formal signing of executive contract for railway project

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❗️Key points from senior Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qamati's recent interview on Al-Manar TV:

▪️ The Lebanese resistance is exercising tactical patience, remains fully capable, and will confront any new Israeli territorial advances. It categorically denied the presence of Iranian fighters in southern Lebanon.

▪️ Hezbollah keeps the door open to direct US communication if conditions serve its interests, but strongly rejects linking land liberation to its weapons.

▪️ Sanctions will not deter the party from supporting its base. Hezbollah remains committed to ongoing reconstruction efforts, fostering national coexistence among all Lebanese sects, and keeping public protests as a future option dependent on security and political conditions.

▪️ Qamati revealed that Yemen's AnsarAllah offered to close the Bab al-Mandab strait if Lebanon's resistance is heavily cornered. Ultimately, the resistance is relying on patience and steadfastness to achieve full liberation and return forcibly displaced residents to their villages.

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🇮🇶🇮🇶❌🇺🇸🇮🇶— The security official for the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, Haj Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, stated:

"We expect our elders and wise leaders to work on rectifying the security imbalance caused by the designated prime minister, so that no one has any excuse, and to ensure stability, preserve dignity, and avoid being drawn into anything that pleases our enemies."

The security official for Kataib Hezbollah also outlined the Islamic Resistance's conditions for any engagement with the government: the withdrawal of American occupation forces from Iraq and a guarantee against their return; the liberation of political and economic decision-making from American hegemony; the withdrawal of Turkish forces from northern Iraq; and the disbanding of the Peshmerga forces.

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❗️Iran finds 212 billion cubic meters of gas in new field

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'Conditions have been met': US prepares to remove Syria from terror list

A state department official said Rubio ‘assessed’ that Syria met its requirements, despite thousands of sectarian killings and government ties to ISIS

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❗️IRGC commander warns adversaries to prepare for strategic surprises

A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has cautioned Iran's adversaries to prepare for strategic surprises as Iran prepares to transition its military posture from a primarily defensive stance to a proactive offensive orientation.

Speaking to IRIB, IRGC Political Deputy Brigadier General Yadollah Javani emphasized that the country's armed forces will no longer be caught off-guard by hostile maneuvers. Instead, he stressed that regional foes must anticipate unexpected retaliatory developments moving forward.

Javani further underscored that the military establishment will implement all necessary measures at the opportune time to safeguard national sovereignty, reinforce regional security, and decisively neutralize any lingering external threats.

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Pentagon weighs leaving Persian Gulf after Iran 'exposed vulnerabilities': Report

Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have been floated as 'safer ground' for US military bases

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israel’s Minister of Defense, Yisrael Katz, says that kites being launched by Gazan children constitute an ‘act of war’ and that anyone flying these kites will be ‘dealt with forcefully’ (i.e. killed)

Katz declared that kites, balloons, and even paper planes are considered national security threats to Israel, and will be considered the same as drones or missiles.

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🇮🇷🇶🇦| The condition of the Iranian pilots held captive in Qatar is not good.

According to Brig. General Bagherzadeh, the location where the captured Iranian pilots are being held, apparently on water, does not provide suitable conditions for maintaining their health.

The Qatari government should transfer the Iranian captives to land and to a well-equipped hospital as soon as possible.

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VIDEO | Protected by Israeli occupation forces, Israeli settler children targeted a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance with stones and harassed first responders as they attempted to evacuate a patient in the Tel al-Rumeida neighborhood of central Hebron, located in the southern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent, which released the footage yesterday, described the incident as "a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law."

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Wretched soceity that teaches children at their youth to replicate the behavior of ethnic supremacy.

😌🇮🇷一 IRGC spox Brigadier General Hossein Mohebi:

• We are advancing day by day in all areas of weapons and combat equipment, and we are working to produce our weapons with greater precision, destructive power, and technological advancement.

• If war breaks out again, our weapons will certainly be different from those of the past. This difference may manifest in the generation of warheads, accuracy, missile range, or other areas.

• Iran has never ceased producing and developing weapons, and we are making progress every day. All possibilities in this field remain open.

• Israel has entered its third year of war on Gaza, yet it has not been able to inflict significant damage on Hamas. How, then, can Saudi Arabia, whose military capabilities are less than Israel's, confront Ansar Allah and the Yemeni fighters? It is impossible.

• Saudi Arabia will not be able to contain Yemen and Ansar Allah, nor will it be able to remain immune from their attacks.

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Israel moves ahead with illegal E1 settlement bloc in bid to 'erase' Palestinian state

The EU and UK condemned the Israeli decision, which will help divide the occupied West Bank in two and make a future contiguous Palestinian state impossible

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❗️Diplomat confirms ongoing communications between Russia, Hamas, and Hezbollah

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Israeli military opens 'criminal probe' into 2024 murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab

The announcement is a reversal of the Israeli army’s previous position that no 'unethical' action was taken during the deliberate attack that murdered the child

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Yet another example of the imperialist playback. Commit an atrocity, deny it while committing many more until people forget about their original outrage, then quietly reveal that you were lying through your teeth. Yet, in the case of Israel, no one of any genuine posture believes their lies anymore. The world is already aware of what happened to Hind Rajab, we all know who killed her and that it was intentional.

—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Yemen’s Armed Forces announce carrying out two military operations in Saudi Arabia with drones

The first targeted a sensitive target at Najran Airport, and the second targeted Aramco facilities in Najran.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸— Israeli media: An Israeli man was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack near the village of Auja in the Jordan Valley.

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🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱— Hamas praised the stabbing attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen near the village of Al-Auja, north of Jericho in the West Bank, which resulted in the injury of a settler and the safe withdrawal of the heroic perpetrator.

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🇮🇷 Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:

We’ve received numerous messages from neighboring countries about shaping new security arrangements and economic cooperation in the region.

The United States put the security of every single one of its allies at such risk through bullying and pure disregard for their interests for the sake of Israel that they briefly saw their entire existence on the line.

A homegrown, independent order is what will actually deliver peace and security.

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Qatar slashes govt budget by 30 percent as LNG income collapses: Report

Iranian strikes on Ras Laffan knocked out 17 percent of export capacity, and repairs are expected to take as long as five years

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—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇱 BREAKING: At least 4 airstrikes against a military airport in Idlib, Syria, marking the first Israeli strikes in many months

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❗️Workers’ strike brings Ben Gurion Airport operations to a halt

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Gotta scan 'em all: How Pokémon Go turned its players into Pentagon cartographers

Pokémon Go players supplied billions of street-level scans to Niantic’s mapping systems. Years later, the technology they helped build is being adapted for drones operating beyond the reach of GPS.

By Anis Raiss

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I'm posting this due to the military implications of it. Though frankly, I think this will have a larger effect on western populations then anything else. The imperial tactics are coming home.

❗️Raytheon secures massive multi-billion dollar contract to scale Tomahawk missile production for US Navy

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