BREAKING: Iran Suspends Negotiations with U.S. says Iranian Media

Iran's latest decision to suspend indirect negotiations with the United States marks yet another reminder of a central truth about the Islamic Republic. It has never viewed diplomacy as a process of compromise. Rather, it treats negotiations as an extension of conflict by other means, a venue in which leverage is accumulated, demands are expanded, and concessions are expected from others rather than offered by itself.

On Monday, Iran announced that it was halting all exchanges with Washington conducted through mediators. The move, reported by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, was justified on the grounds of what Tehran described as Israel's "continuing crimes" in Lebanon.

"Considering that Lebanon was one of the preconditions for the ceasefire and that this ceasefire has now been violated on all fronts, including Lebanon, the Iranian negotiating team is suspending dialogues and exchange of texts through mediators," Tasnim reported.

In a separate statement, the agency raised the stakes considerably.

"Furthermore, Iran and the Axis of Resistance have resolved to pursue the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, including the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as part of efforts to punish Israel and its supporters," Tasnim said in a separate post on X.

Tehran has also demanded the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, adding yet another condition to an already fragile diplomatic process.

Whether this suspension represents a temporary pause or a more comprehensive breakdown in communications remains unclear. Yet the broader significance is unmistakable. Iran is not narrowing the field of dispute. It is widening it.

The Islamic Republic has once again escalated its demands while simultaneously portraying itself as the aggrieved party. What began as negotiations concerning the ceasefire and the future of the conflict has now expanded into an attempt to hold Washington directly accountable for every Israeli military action in Lebanon. Tehran's position is that American influence over Israel must be exercised according to Iranian expectations before meaningful talks can resume.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made that point explicitly on Monday.

"Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation," Araghchi wrote on X.

Likewise, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the parliament speaker and lead negotiator, accused the United States of violating the ceasefire through its continued blockade of Iranian ports and by failing to restrain Israeli operations in Lebanon.

Behind these statements lies the enduring reality of Iran's regional strategy. The so-called Axis of Resistance is not a spontaneous coalition of like-minded movements. It is a network painstakingly constructed over decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force. From Hezbollah in Lebanon to Hamas in Gaza, from the Houthis in Yemen to Shia militias in Iraq, these organizations serve as instruments of Iranian influence and power projection throughout the region.

The current conflict traces its origins to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, strikes that reportedly resulted in the death of Ali Khamenei. Hezbollah's subsequent missile attacks against Israel transformed an already dangerous confrontation into a wider regional conflict.

A ceasefire between the United States and Iran took effect on April 8, with Pakistan acting as the principal mediator. A separate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon followed on April 16. Yet Iran has consistently argued that these agreements are inseparable, insisting that Israeli military actions in Lebanon constitute violations of the broader Iran-US truce.

What effect this latest development will have on negotiations remains uncertain.

The talks have covered issues of enormous strategic consequence, including the future of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles, sanctions relief, and the framework for a permanent settlement. Both sides had reportedly been working toward a 60-day memorandum that would extend the ceasefire and create space for further nuclear discussions.

According to reports, draft provisions included the reopening of Hormuz to unrestricted shipping, the removal of Iranian naval mines within thirty days, proportional easing of the American blockade, and sanctions waivers permitting Iran to resume oil sales.

The agreement was said to be awaiting final approval from both US President Donald Trump and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

Trump projected confidence early Monday.

"Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us," he wrote. "Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end, it always does."

Yet optimism has repeatedly collided with reality. Only last week Trump warned that Iran needed to finalize an agreement or "we'll have to finish the job," after the White House rejected reports of a draft accord as a "complete fabrication." The president has previously estimated the ceasefire's chances of survival at only one percent.

That skepticism appears increasingly justified.

The truce has been tested repeatedly through military incidents and competing narratives. The United States and Iran continue to offer conflicting accounts of engagements in the Persian Gulf, including strikes near Bandar Abbas, disputes involving drones and tankers, and claims surrounding an Iranian retaliatory attack on a US airbase.

The broader lesson is difficult to ignore. Every ceasefire in the Middle East creates a brief window in which diplomacy might succeed. Yet such agreements endure only when all parties accept that compromise is preferable to escalation. Iran's latest actions suggest that, at least for now, Tehran believes pressure and confrontation remain more useful tools than peace.

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Iran's Supreme Leader, Looking Super Healthy and Totally in Charge, Vows to Keep Nukes and Missiles, Because Reasons

Supreme Leader Khamenei Jr. issues warning to US

TEHRAN — Despite persistent rumors that he might be one strong breeze away from meeting his 72 virgins, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei signaled on Persian Gulf Day that the Islamic Republic is digging in on its cherished nuclear and missile programs. This comes as President Donald Trump continues his controversial and highly provocative efforts to pursue peace.

While reportedly in "questionable health," the ailing cleric took to the internet from what sources describe as a heavily fortified hospital bed to issue a bold statement vowing to protect the regime's "nuclear and missile capabilities." Tensions remain sky high over the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran bravely confronts the United States by occasionally yelling at passing cargo ships. Khamenei escalated his trademark rhetoric against Washington, declaring the only suitable place for the American military in the Persian Gulf is "at the bottom of its waters."

"By God's help and power, the bright future of the Persian Gulf region will be a future without America, one serving the progress, comfort and prosperity of its people," a translation of the statement read.

"We and our neighbors across the waters of the Persian Gulf and the (Gulf) of Oman share a common destiny. Foreigners who come from thousands of kilometers away to act with greed and malice there have no place in it – except at the bottom of its waters."

The Junior Supreme Leader cast the U.S. as a meddling outsider with zero legitimate business in the region and insisted the Gulf’s future must be “without America.”

Before photo

"Two months after the world's biggest military campaign and aggression in the region and America's shameful failure in its plan, a new chapter is dawning in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz," the statement read.

Among the strongest quotes from the Iranian leader, as translated: "The foreigners who greedily commit evil in it from thousands of kilometers away have no place in it except in the depths of its waters."

"Ninety million brave and honorable Iranian compatriots . . . consider all the capacities of identity, spirituality, humanity, science, industry and basic and new technologies, from nano and bio to nuclear and missile, as their national capital and will guard them like water, land and air borders."

"With practical gratitude for the blessing of implementing management of the Strait of Hormuz, Islamic Iran will secure the Persian Gulf region and eliminate the hostile enemy's abuses of this waterway."

Analysts noted that while the statement was fiery, the only thing Iran appears ready to launch successfully these days is strongly worded social media posts from a leader who may or may not still have a pulse. Iran's Islamic gay community is holding its collective breath.

Trump, meanwhile, is reportedly still open to a deal if the Ayatollah can just stop threatening to sink the world's navies from his sickbed.

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IDF readies for immediate return of high level fighting

The officials are clear, even if the diplomats are not: despite the much-vaunted official truce, the United States continues to quietly amass undisclosed forces across the Middle East. They are preparing, coldly and methodically, for the moment when force is not merely an option but the only one left.

With the peace talks in Islamabad collapsing without so much as a scrap of agreement, the Israeli security establishment is steeling itself for a rapid and uncompromising return to full-scale military operations.

Senior officials have made plain that the Israel Defense Forces now stand at their highest state of alert, braced for what one described as the “immediate collapse” of the entire diplomatic charade.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has summoned an emergency session of the small security cabinet for 7:00 PM this evening, to confront the latest grim developments and align next steps with Washington.

According to well-placed defense sources, the cooperation between Israel and the United States has reached a level of intimacy and seriousness without modern precedent. The two nations now maintain a joint “target bank” of staggering scope, encompassing a vast array of maritime and land-based Iranian assets.
The Israeli military’s gaze is not fixed solely on the northern front. It is also immersed in meticulous planning for what could become a full-scale naval war in the Persian Gulf.

“The IDF is ready for the immediate collapse of the negotiation process and a return to intense fighting in both defense and offense,” a security source told reporters with characteristic Israeli bluntness.

This state of readiness rests upon a deep, almost seamless synchronization with U.S. Central Command, and a shared, clear recognition that a naval blockade may now be the only realistic means of strangling the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.

Israeli officials understand with cold clarity that a total maritime siege would do far more than merely halt oil exports. It would cut off the very “oxygen” that sustains the Revolutionary Guard's iron grip on the country.

Though the ceasefire between the United States and Iran remains technically intact for the moment, the Israeli cabinet meeting tonight is expected to grapple with a harsher truth: that the so-called “diplomatic bridge” is not merely under strain, but actively crumbling before our eyes. Officials note that despite the official truce, the U.S. military is continuing to build up undisclosed forces in the Middle East, preparing for a scenario where force becomes the only option.

The Israeli leadership is sending an unmistakable signal to the world: it does not believe a genuine deal is anywhere in sight. It is therefore preparing both its military and its people for the grim likelihood that this war will reignite with a ferocity even greater than before.

With the Saturday summit in Pakistan ending without signature or substance, the “high tension” now palpable in Jerusalem leaves little room for doubt: the window for diplomacy has narrowed almost to the point of vanishing.

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Search for missing pilot of downed F-15E jet now in second day

The ejector seat

The desperate search for the missing American pilot of an F-15E that was shot down over Iran stretched into the second day after his co-pilot was rescued in a daring search and rescue mission that saw other US aircraft targeted.

Crews were racing against time to find the second pilot of the Strike Eagle, which is believed to have gone down Friday in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in the southwestern part of the country near Iraq, The New York Times reported. Iranian officials quickly placed a bounty on the pilot’s head, calling on civilians to help capture him or her.

Retired Marine combat pilot Capt. Ron Alvarado told The Post the timing of the attack may bode in the US’s favor in terms of finding the pilot because of better night vision and infrared communication technology than Iranian combatants.

“We own the night,” Alvarado said. “Hopefully, he or she will be rescued by morning.”

By early Saturday local time there were no updates on the status of the missing pilot.

Both pilots reportedly ejected from the plane, with one located and rescued by US forces hours later. That pilot was being medically treated.

The Strike Eagle has an emergency locator beacon as part of a survival kit that can be activated automatically or manually, Alan Diehl, a former investigator for the Air Force Safety Center, said.Other US aircraft were caught in the crosshairs as crew members rushed into action after the first plane plunged to the ground.

Another US aircraft was also targeted after the initial attack that took down an A-10 Thunderbolt [aka Warthog]. 

The Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf area after it was struck by Iranian forces, but the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to US officials.

The A-10 Warthog was able to reach Kuwaiti airspace, where the pilot ejected and the plane crashed, an official told liberal network NBC News.

Iran terrorists using rifles also struck a pair of US military helicopters involved in the F-15E rescue, but all crew members are safe, a US official told NBC News.

Some of the crew were injured, but the choppers safely returned to their base, the Washington Post reported.

The F-15E is the first US aircraft to be shot down in Iran during Operation Epic Fury, in which the US and Israel have launched 20,000 strikes on the evil regime as the war stretched into its sixth week.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed its “newly developed and advanced air defenses” had downed the jet, which was “completely destroyed and crashed,” Tehran’s Press TV reported. 

A photo circulating online appeared to show one of the ejected seats seen at the top of the post.

The anchor of a local affiliate of the state TV broadcaster earlier urged Iranians to hunt down the downed “enemy” pilots and the regime is offering a reward for his capture.

“If you capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police, you will receive a precious prize,” the anchor said, according to the Associated Press.  Sources at Brain Flushings believes the reward to be 72 virgin goats.

President Trump, in a brief NBC News interview Friday afternoon, declined to discuss the specifics of the ongoing search for the outstanding pilot but insisted the series of strikes against US jets and choppers won’t sidetrack negotiations.

“No, not at all. No, it’s war,” he said. “We’re in war.”

The good news is that the pilot has not been captured and is likely using tactics to avoid detection, giving him a good chance of escape and return to friendly forces.

Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have boasted about how the operation against Tehran has knocked out much of Iran’s capabilities.

Hegseth said in early March near the start of the war that the US was “establishing total dominance over the skies we fly over and seas we fly over.”

Meanwhile, President Trump, in a primetime address to the nation Wednesday, said thanks to progress made during the war, his administration was “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly.”

More than 90% of Tehran’s missile and drone capacities have been eliminated in the month-long war, US officials have said. Still, Trump has refused to rule out putting American boots on the ground during the conflict.

On Friday, Iran used the successful attacks to taunt the US, reminiscent of Monty Python's "Black Knight."

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf criticized the US in an X post Friday that its “no-strategy war … has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”

A US F-35A was also damaged over Iran on March 19 during a combatmission, and 16 MQ-9 drones have been shot down. Three American F-15 fighter jets were also shot down over Kuwait in a friendly fire incident.

Hegseth revealed in a Pentagon news conference that the six downed crew members in those jets had “never left the theater” and returned to drop bombs on Tehran Tuesday.

Since the start of the war, 365 US service members have been wounded in action while the death toll is at 13, according to the Pentagon data available online.

It’s unclear if Friday’s incidents have been included in those figures.

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BREAKING: Israel Assassinates Iranian Regime Official

Israel assassinated an Iranian official, Iran hijacked a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, and today is Boxing Day.

Sixteen foreign crew members have been kidnapped by the Iranian regime, but this has not been broadcasted by the mainstream media. Islamic State TV proudly broadcast a video of the illegal attack and all the media can say is "Lah-dee-dah."

Both Arabs and the Iranian Islamic regime have increased their presence in the Persian Gulf while the West twiddles their thumbs.

Meanwhile, Israel was able to eliminate a member of Iran's Quds forces outside of Beirut. He was blown to convenient bitesize pieces by what appears to be a drone. The IRGC is struggling to keep control of internal strife and isn't doing a great job.

Five Iranian Christians have been sent to prison for ten years each for distributing Bibles, Christian literature, and praying. The United Nations Human Rights Council has done squat.zilch to do anything about this. 

Several Bibles have been confiscated and destroyed, while nothing is being done to stop this, and Qur'ans are not being burned by Christians or others. This has to stop.

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Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman

Pants of fire

The largest warship the Iranian navy had caught fire for reasons unknown, and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman, and oh man, are the Iranians upset. This is one of Iran's latest screwups as tensions grow with the West.

Fortunately for the terrorists, nobody was killed from the blaze that began at 2:25 a.m. and firefighters tried to contain it but failed, the state-controlled Fars news agency, an agency similar to CNN and MSNBC reported.

Happily for us, but sadly for them, the 679-foot Kharg sank. It was used to resupply other ships in the fleet at sea and conduct training exercises. Apparently their naval trainers didn't teach the part about fire prevention. 

Fars reported that 400 sailors and trainee cadets abandoned the sinking ship like rats on a, well, sinking ship. If the 400 Iranian crew, 33 suffered injuries.

The ship became a non-functioning submarine near the Iranian port of Jask, about 790 miles southeast of Tehran on the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. 

Photos circulated on Iranian social media showed sailors wearing life jackets, clearly scared with some seemingly weeping, abandoning the boat as a fire burned behind them. 

Fars published video of thick, black smoke rising from the ship early Wednesday morning. Satellites from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that track fires from space detected a blaze near Jask that started just before the time of the fire reported by Fars.

Iranian officials offered no cause for the fire aboard the Kharg, though they said an investigation had begun and they are currently looking for ways to blame the Jews, although none were sighted near the vessel at the time the fire roared.

And then there was this massive fire on Wednesday night at the oil refinery in Tehran sending plumes of black smoke over the capital city. It was also unclear in this case what caused the inferno at the Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co., as the temperatures reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit from the summer heat, and this had historically caused fires to burn.

Somehow, however, Iran will find a way to blame, who else, the Joooze!

Interestingly, the Wednesday fire aboard theKharg comes after a series of unexplained explosions began in 2019 targeting commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Navy had accused Iran of using limpet mines to target these ships with timed explosives usually attached by divers to a ship's hull.

Naturally Iran denied the allegations put forth by the United States but U.S. Navy footage shows Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard terrorists removing one of the unexploded limpet mines from a ship. 

So don't believe your lying eyes--it was those Joooze!

The sinking of the mighty Kharg marks the latest naval cluster***k for Iran. In 2020, during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near Jask, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15. Also in 2018, an Iranian navy destroyer sank in the Caspian Sea.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer group of scumcrumpets.

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B-52 Stratofortresses fly over Persian Gulf as Iran threatens "complex attacks" and we threaten to make them toast

Two B-52 bombers, [aka Stratofortresses] flew over a 30-hour nonstop round-trip sortie from the U.S. to the Middle East as a clear warning to Iran as new warnings from that country have been detected, described by a military official as a sign that potential "complex attacks" against Americans are being prepared. This comes on the one-year anniversary of the blowing away of Iranian  terrorist Gen. Qassem Soleimani by a drone attack in Baghdad.

Happy anniversary in Hell, General.

The U.S. Central Command said in a statement that the bombers launched from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota on Tuesday morning. This marks the third time in the past month and a half U.S. Air Force bombers have flown deterrence missions over the Persian Gulf under fighter escort. The bombers flew through without incident, and Iran had not reacted publicly as of Wednesday morning because they would do so at their own peril.

General Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command said, "We do not seek conflict, but no one should underestimate our ability to defend our forces or to act decisively in response to any attack."

A recent U.S. intelligence report says, referring to the Soleimani, that Iran wants to "avenge that killing," as stated by a senior U.S. military official spoking to a small group of reporters ahead of the bomber flight. The official requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive information. 

[H/T Fox News]

This latest intelligence is the "most concerning" since Soleimani got toasted.

The current bomber flight comes one week after President Trump threatened to retaliate against Iran after 21 rockets were launched at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Dec. 20, the largest attack against the sprawling diplomatic compound in the past decade. So far we've done nothing more than grab our crotch and flex our muscles.

The same senior official said they also saw the "potential for other more complex attacks" against Americans in Iraq: "I think it is likely that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad would be attacked again in some manner."

While there is a range of potential attacks against Americans in the Middle East, the "most worrisome is within Iraq," he, or maybe she, said.

"We see a fair amount of advanced conventional weaponry of different types that has been flowing over the border into Iraq," he or she added. "The threat streams are very real."

Just two days before Christmas, Trump posted photos of what he described as three rockets that failed to launch in the embassy attack and said they were from Iran. Then he laughingly added, "Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over." 

The official explained that all of our planning against Iran is "defensive," just as a precaution in case they get froggy and plan to jump. 

But if they do jump, we will unleash a devastating fury, a violent and overwhelming response.  

Funny thing, last month Iran's top nuclear scientist hell-bent on creating a weapon to destroy the United States and Israel, was himself destroyed by a remote-controlled machine gun. The mucky mucks in Tehran blamed Israel for the assassination and because we are close allies with Israel, the official said that "[T]here's a chance that we could be, you know, caught in the middle.

Last year on New Year's Even, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked. While no Americans were hurt, a quick reaction force of U.S. Marines were flown in from Kuwait to provide security to the embassy. It was three days later, Jan. 3, that a U.S. drone orbiting Baghdad's international airport that Soleimani along with the Iranian-backed militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were terminated. 

Soleimani was the scum responsible for killing hundreds of American troops in the Iraq War, and he was also responsible for a number of rocket attacks against U.S. bases and the embassy in Iraq.

A week ago, the USS Georgia, a guided missile sub, capable of carrying over 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles entered the Persian Gulf. They had aboard a number of Navy SEALs, according to the Navy's Fifth Fleet. The Obama days of sailors on their knees in front of the Iranian sailors were over with President Trump.

Now we will have to wait and see if Biden is wearing knee pads.

As this is being written, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean but could come back north to the Arabian Sea to launch attacks from its dozens of F-18 Super Hornets, if needed. We also have a squadron of F-16 jet fighters from Germany at Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE ready and standing by if things get froggy.

All of this is simply a deterrent and a clear message that if they jump, they will not enjoy the landing.

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U.S.S. Nimitz strike group sent to Persian Gulf as Iran vows retaliation for killing their nuke scientist

The United States isn't waiting for something to hit a fan, they are sending the U.S.S. Nimitz strike group back to the Persian Gulf as a defense strategy as our forces in the region drawdown now that the Trump administration appears to be coming to a close, unless things change with the election outcome.

The strategy coincides with growing tensions between U.S. allies and Iran after a top Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a military-style, highly coordinated hit this week.

“There were no specific threats that triggered the return of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group,” Commander Rebecca Rebarich, spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, said in a statement. “This action ensures we have sufficient capability available to respond to any threat and to deter any adversary from acting against our troops during the force reduction.”

So it's a cautionary move to show Iran that the days are over when they can make our sailors kneel and cry as happened during the Obama administration. But perhaps they'll get their hopes up again if Biden, God forbid, is declared the winner of the presidential election.

“The official said the move was decided before news came of the assassination of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist. But the movement of the US forces is an increased deterrence message to Iran regardless the official noted,” the Compromised News Network (CNN) reported. 

“The movement puts increased American military firepower and thousands of personnel into the region through the end of the Trump Administration. It may be up to President-elect Joe Biden to decide when to withdraw them,” CNN incorrectly said, as Biden is not officially anything but a mentally challenged old man until he is officially declared the winner.

The military action comes after the evil scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh [aka "The F Word"] was sent to Jannah [paradise] in a well-coordinated strike on Friday as he rode in a car through the Iranian countryside. [As this post is being written, Fakhrizadeh is being introduced to his 72 brown-eyed girls.]

Iran had been lying to the world for years that Fakhrizadeh was merely a university professor when, in reality, he was the main honcho behind Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons program aimed at destroying Israel and America.

The program, code named “Project Amad,” pretended to be disbanded in 2003, but work on the nuclear weapons program continued in secret.

The former newspaper New York Times reported:

He stayed out of sight for years. But an Israeli operation in early 2018 that stole a warehouse full of Iranian documents about “Project Amad,” what the Iranians called the nuclear weapons effort 20 years ago, included documents about Mr. Fakhrizadeh, and at least one handwritten by him, the Israelis contended.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Netanyahu singled out Mr. Fakhrizadeh in a televised presentation, when he described the secret Israeli operation to seize the archive. Iran had lied about the purpose of its nuclear research, he charged, and he identified Mr. Fakhrizadeh as the leader of the Amad program. …

Israel supported American intelligence official's claim that Fakhrizadeh kept parts of the program operational and according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it was being run in secret by an organization that's part of Iran's defense ministry known as S.P.N.D. ["Sometimes People Need Death???"]

Bibi explained that “You will not be surprised to hear that S.P.N.D. is led by the same person who led Project Amad, Dr. Fakhrizadeh.”

The seizure of Iranian nuclear secrets yielded nearly 55,000 pages of documents in all, [about the same length of an Obama autobiography introduction] with an additional 55,000 files recovered on hundreds of CDs.

Some experts believe that Iran already has a nuclear weapon and may be in the final stages of readying it to be capable of reentering the earth's atmosphere without prematurely exploding upon reentry. That's the tricky part.

Meanwhile, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is still alive and busy protecting the lives of himself and his family by killing people in his country infected with COVID-19. 

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Iran again threatens Britain over 'vicious' oil tanker seizure

The screws around the symbolic gonads of Iran are tightening, causing them to make irrational threats as the Royal Navy sends a third warship to the Gulf.

IRAN’s supreme Islamic leader and grand poobah has threatened Britain with retaliation over the “vicious” seizure of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar.

As tensions escalate over the tanker incident, it was revealed that the Royal Navy is set to send a third warship to the Persian Gulf this summer to protect their own ships from Iran's past illegal boarding and kidnapping of seamen.

It comes as an Iranian bomb boat was cruising in the path of a second British warship – the HMS Duncan – which is currently racing to the flashpoint.

Iranian leader for life whether the Iranian citizens like it or not, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [aka "Breakfast Beard"] accused Britain of “piracy” after the Royal Marines seized a supertanker believed to be carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria on July 5. He needs to look in the mirror.

He called for the immediate release of the oil tanker Grace 1, which was detained on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria, which dollars to Dunkin Donuts it was.

In a TV speech, immediately following the religious anti-Israel, anti-America station break, the Ayatollah said: “Evil Britain commits piracy and steals our ship and gives it a legal appearance.

“Iran and those who believe in our system will not leave such vicious deeds unanswered.”

Personally, the Ayatollah doesn't want to get his own hands dirty so he send others to do the wet work.

The comments were made as concerns grow about a UAE-based Gulf oil tanker, the MT Riah, which went missing in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

Tracking data from the MT Riah last showed it heading for Iranian waters.

A US defense official said on Tuesday the US “has suspicions” the tanker has been seized by Iran.

Tensions between Iran and the UK have spiralled since the Iranian Grace 1 oil tanker was seized by the Royal Navy earlier this month off the coast of Gibraltar.

Sounding like the black knight in the Monty Python skit, Iran has threatened to seize a British tanker in retaliation if the Grace 1 is not released.

Three tiny Iranian boats also tried to seize a BP oil tanker as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday July 10, but the HMS Montrose, which was escorting the tanker through the flashpoint region sailed in front of the boats.

The Royal Navy ship immediately training its 30mm deck guns on the enemy boats, prepared to make the little crafts resemble Kraft Swiss Cheese, and it deployed its Wildcat helicopter and issuing a radio warning. 

The Iranian boats scampered away like roaches when the lights go on.

HMS Duncan has since been deployed to patrol the busy shipping lane as all UK flagged vessels were put on the highest security alert level over fears of retaliation from Iran's Revolutionary Guard. But an unmanned Iranian bomb boat, luckily spotted by Saudi forces, was in its path, which could have destroyed HMS Duncan.

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Iran warns US: if you attack us, Israel is toast

"Mo Jo"

Iran operates like the Mafia: "If you mess with us, we're coming after your family."

Mojtaba Zolnour [his friends call him "Mo Jo"], chairman of Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, warned the US that if we attack them, Israel will be destroyed in half an hour--just enough time to get your pizza delivered.

“If the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan,” Zolnour said, in comments carried by the Mehr news agency. 

Not if Israel has something to say about it.

Iranian Negotiators 

Iran admitted Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord. It's like they're daring us to do something about it and testing President Trump.

The bravado comes as tensions run high between the US and the Islamic Dirtbag Republic after they shot down a US military surveillance drone and bombed foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Also, Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen launched bomb-carrying drones into Saudi Arabia.

The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad [named after the prophet of Islam, may peas be up in him] Javad Zarif as making the uranium announcement. IRNA reported that Zarif, answering a reporter’s question whether Iran had broken the limit, said: “Yes” rather than going the old taqiyya route of lying for the sake of Islam.

“If Europeans do what they have to do, our measures are reversible,” Zarif said, according to IRNA, which is bull crap. They will never relinquish their nuclear capability nor any of the development already carried out.

Zarif did not say how much low-enriched uranium Iran had on hand, IRNA reported, but it's enough to destroy Israel, they believe--if Israel just sits there and takes it without firing any of their nuclear weapons in a counterstrike.

On Monday, Yossi Cohen, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, said Iran was behind a string of recent attacks on targets across the Persian Gulf. No big surprise.

Speaking at an annual security conference in Israel on Monday, Cohen said, “I can tell you, with certainty, from the best sources of Israeli and Western intelligence, that Iran is behind the attacks.”

Mossad head Yossi Cohen at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University, June 24, 2019.

"The Yosster"

Cohen mentioned recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf, oil fields in Saudi Arabia and in Baghdad. He said the attacks “were approved by the Iranian leadership, and were carried out, at least mostly, by the Revolutionary Guard and their surrogates.”

Israel has long seen Iran as its greatest threat. Iranian officials regularly threaten to destroy the Jewish state. Hopefully, Israel will do a preemptive strike on their nuclear facility and stop Iran in its tracks.

It is practically an Islamic requirement, as per the Koran, for Muslims to hate Jews. The only question is, why do they call it the religion of peace?

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Iran acting like a tough guy

Let's be clear, Iran is trying to act like the schoolyard tough guy. They are bouncing on the balls of their feet, grabbing their collective crotch, making hand gestures signifying, "C'mon, c'mon, I'll take yiz all on."

The Islamic Republic of Iran is warning the U.S. that our bases in Afghanistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and our aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf are within range of its missiles, which makes Iran, its nuclear reactors, its infrastructure and Revolutionary Guard, President and Ayatollah in range of our Cruise Missiles, Tomahawk missiles, Sea Sparrow and Patriot missiles, the war aircraft on those carriers and a whole bunch of angry military folks who saw what Iran did to our sailors.

Not that I advocate war. But all they're doing is grabbing their nuts and acting tough because they're scared.

The Tasnim news agency, Reuters reports that the comments were made on Wednesday by Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, Amirali Hajizadeh [pronounced: Ayatollah Ali Khameini]. He said: "They are within our reach and we can hit them if they (Americans) make a move."

The commander said the missiles are more accurate than the old ones and could hit the Kandahar base in Afghanistan, the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar and Al Dhafra base in the UAE.

If we don't shoot them down first.

And then when we do, Iran will begin to understand the power of the greatest military force on earth. Sure, there would be casualties on both sides, but Iran will no longer look like it did.

Iran will look like a gas explosion combined with a plumbing accident.

The sanctions must be doing their job.


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U.S. Navy's warning shot in Gulf 'unprofessional' terrorist says

It's time to kick butt and take dog tags, except Islam hates dogs and Iran is Islamic, so maybe we have to take pussycat tags from those miserable terrorists.

The USS Nimitz, accompanied by another U.S. vessel, fired a warning shot Friday as a helicopter hovered over the Iranian ships near an Iranian oil-drilling platform in the Persian Gulf, Iran's state fake news agency said Saturday.

The U.S. ships left the area afterward, according to that report, making it sound like our Navy has nothing better to do than to harass Iran's ships.

Three days prior to this incident, a similar incident took place with the USS Thunderbolt and an Iranian vessel that ignored repeated radio calls, a warning flare, the wild, frantic waving of arms to turn, turn,  and finally a warning shot as the Iranian vessel ignored us.

It would be laughable to think that they, a bonafide terrorist nation, has the audacity to call the U.S. Navy's response "unprofessional," but they are too crazy and we need to take their craziness seriously, as we do with North Korea.

There have been about 60 unsafe interactions with Iranian ships in the Gulf since 2015, when they first knew they could get away with it on Obama's watch.

On Friday, we imposed new sanctions on Iran, targeting six Iranian subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, known to torture puppies and hit girls.

The catalyst for these sanctions was Iran's missile launch on Thursday, which happily failed miserably, but shows that when they chant "Death to America! Death to Israel!" they're not kidding. It's believed Iran plans to build an intercontinental ballistic missile with nuclear carrying capability.

Hopefully, POTUS will continue to be tough on the Islamic nation of Iran. If they continue harassing our naval vessels, we need to show them a strong, uncompromising reaction.

Maybe we need to do some serious chanting ourselves.


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U.S. Navy fires warning shots at Iranian vessel in Persian Gulf

Developing -- A U.S. Navy ship was forced to fire warning shots at an Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, according to U.S. defense officials.

The U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship, the USS Thunderbolt, was fast approached by an Iranian vessel. The Navy ship fired warning flares but the Iranian vessel ignored them and continued on course.

When the Iranian vessel came within 150 yards, the U.S. Navy ship fired its .50-caliber machine gun, which got their freaking attention.

The incident occurred Tuesday as a formation of U.S. Navy warships were involved in a military exercise in the Northern Persian Gulf.

The last time a U.S. Navy warship had to fire warning shots at an Iranian vessel was in January when it approached too close.

This is a developing story so please follow the updates.


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Iran conducts 'war-games' and threatens to shoot down trespassing aircraft

In a final "flip-off" to Barack Obama before he leaves office, Iran began conducting 'war-game' exercises. This is a five-day large scale military event in the country's southern region and they warn civilian and military alike, that they risk being shot down if they stray into Iranian airspace occupied by the exercise.

The code name for the exercises is Modafe'an-e Aseman-e Velayat 7 or Defenders of Velayat Skies 7. It will include air defense drills and various missile, artillery and radar equipment exercises as well as cyber and electronic warfare exercises designed to re-elect Donald Trump, according to The New York Times and Salon. (Just kidding.)

Phantom II

Iran's air force commander Brig. Gen. Farzad Esmaili made it clear that foreign aircraft trespassing the airspace covering the drill area would be shot down right away.

"We are witnessing the presence of a number of trans-regional planes outside the air and sea borders of the country but we emphasize that these planes should know their limits and know that we will take action in less than one second," Esmaili said.

Iran got their advanced missile system last year after UN sanctions were lifted after we made our brilliant nuclear deal that was aimed at curbing Tehran's missile program long enough to get Obama out of office after which they could proceed to make a bomb to destroy Israel. 

This may not be necessary however, after what Obama did to the Jewish state by not vetoing the anti-Israel UN resolution.

Raptor

The Iran drill features the U.S.-made F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, by McDonnell Douglas. The Phantom is an aircraft that saw much use in Vietnam and can fly 2,370 km/h in afterburner with a cruising speed of 940 km/h.

Peek at ordnance

But the Phantom is no match for our F-22 Raptor mede by Lockheed Martin with its top speed of 2,410 km/h and its Pratt & Whitney F119 engine that cruises comfortably at 1,963 km/h.

The Iranians will also test-fire the Russian made S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missile defense system.

There will be more than 17,000 military forces in the exercise including their Revolutionary Guard and Basij forces, along with their army in an area covering over 300,000 square miles including the Persian Gulf provinces Hormozgan and Bushehr.

Barack Obama will be golfing in Hawaii.


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Iran stages massive military exercises

Iran has grabbed its symbolic crotch, rolled its symbolic shoulders and conducted a series of symbolic war-drills designed to scare us in the West with their military "supremacy." They are showing us that they are prepared to attack forces stationed in the Persian Gulf region, according to Iranian military leaders and their state-run media reports.

The war drill began on Sunday in southeastern Iran and went into Monday. Ground and air forces along with unmanned drones were part of the forces. The war exercises coincided with the public release by the largest state sponsor of terrorism, of a new unmanned drone.

The Iran military leaders grabbed their collective crotches and warned that if the US took any provocative action in the region they would counter with a swift military response.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran's military forces enjoy supremacy over the Persian Gulf region more than any other time," Brig. Gen. Massoud "Jazzy" Jazzayeri, the deputy chief of staff of Iran's Armed Forces said. "The military and security conditions of the Persian Gulf are in a way that the enemy's forces and equipment are fully within the range of the Iranian military men."

The drills are expected to go until Wednesday. Iran is introducing a new jamming system they claim is capable of bringing down enemy drones.

Iran fired "several rockets" at two targets stationed in the Sea of Oman.

John Kerry and Barack Obama remain in hiding.


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Trump-scared Iran violates the plan

So Iran demands the U.S. adhere to the Iran nuclear deal the same day it violates its limits--how cute.

According to a report from UN monitors on Wednesday, Iran violated one of the terms of the nuclear deal--they exceeded a limit on their heavy water stockpile. Ironically, the terrorist funding nation demanded that the US stick to the deal, under all circumstances.

The confidential report was seen by the Associated Press, coming right on the heels after the rogue nation actually issued a warning to us once the our elections results were in. President elect Trump had repeatedly said that the Iran deal was "the worst deal ever negotiated," leading one to surmise that the Ayatollah is worried that Trump may actually quash the deal.

Tehran had announced plans to export 5.5 tons of heavy water to an unspecified country (probably a country that specializes in terrorism) bringing it back under the limit, but didn't say which country would get the shipment.

It's noteworthy that this is not the first time Iran has failed to meet its part in the deal--they blew it back in February and they will likely blow it again.

Iran's armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Mohammad (Mo) Hossein Bagheri, criticized Trump's harsh words about confronting Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf [after all, they're just taking our sailors hostage] Fars news agency reported.

"The person who has recently achieved power, has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Persian Gulf is just a joke" [like those celebrity fools who claim they're going to move to other countries because Trump got elected], General Mo said. 

Gen. Mo also said that American presidential candidates during their campaigns "eat too much sugar," a Farsi proverb referring to people who speak nonsense.

Trump made it clear in September, after Iran provoked us on several occasions, that Iranian ships that provoke the U.S. "will be shot out of the water."

It's clear to most of us that the real nonsense is coming from Iran thinking they can do what they will to our military without an equal or greater response.


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Iran flexes its mouth, again

There is nothing in the Koran that forbids foreign planes from flying in international airspace.  But Iran, nevertheless, has threatened to shoot down two U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft that have done just that. Our military has broken no international laws but Iran continues to provoke us.

The two planes, a Navy P-8 Poseidon and an EP-3 Eries admittedly flew close to Iranian territory, but they were clearly within international air over the Persian Gulf this weekend.

On September 10th the Poseidon with a crew of nine, and the Eries with a crew of two dozen, were flying a reconnaissance mission 13 miles off the coast of Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. International waters extends 12 miles and we were within our right to be there.

During the flight, Iranian military warned both aircraft to change course or risk getting shot down.

Our planes ignored the warning and continued to fly in international airspace. "We wanted to test the Iranian reaction," a US official told the media when asked about why the jets came so close to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

"It's one thing to tell someone to get off your lawn, but we weren't on their lawn," the official said. "Anytime you threaten to shoot someone down, it's not considered professional."

Another official said the incident wasn't considered "unsafe" [for him] because there were no Iranian missile launchers in the area, according to the latest intelligence reports.

This is just the latest incident whereby Iran has harassed us, but this time we used our two 'birds' to flip them the bird.

Last month, Iranian vessels harassed US Navy warships in the Persian Gulf at least 5 times. In one case the US fired 3 warning shots by a US Navy coastal patrol craft, when an Iranian vessel ignored repeated radio calls to change course. Another incident was when an Iranian craft stopped 100 yards from the bow of a US Navy ship forcing it to take evasive action.

A senior Iranian military commander dismissed our claims that his vessels harassed our ships in the Persian Gulf, saying his nation acted in accordance with internationally recognized maritime law, sounding a bit like a Clinton campaign official.

"Iranian boats continue to act based on defined standards and are well aware of the international laws and regulations, so the claims are not only untrue, but stem from their fear of the power of Iran's soldiers," claimed Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of Iran's armed forces.

It is believed that if the United States had a president who was not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, the chances are excellent that incidents such as these would dramatically decrease.



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Iran bad-mouths USA and threatens to block Persian Gulf trading lane

The terrorist nation of Iran is threatening to block a vital Persian Gulf access route because of our "meddling approach and tone." They must realize that all we seem to have left in our arsenal is our tone and perhaps a wagging finger.

The Iranian admonition by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (pronounced "core," Mr. Obama) and by the Foreign Ministry came just days after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader for life yadda yadda, expressed their testiness with the USA and questioning our longstanding deployment of the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf.

The ayatollah said, "It is Americans who should explain why they have come here from the other side of the world and stage war games."

It's what we do, you stupid terrorist scumcrumpet. Like most world powers and Santa Claus, we are everywhere. But I forgot, if you had your way, you'd behead Santa Claus.

We know Iran hates America. That's why we've been so nice to them regarding the nuclear deal--we don't want to upset them because they might continue the national chant of "Death to America." 

Although we've lifted sanctions on Iran, (which proves that liberals are politically schizophrenic and anti-American) they haven't yet benefitted economically by the lifting. In order to save face, the ayatollah is blaming the United States of obstructing their ability to do business and attract investments, but it's hard to attract foreigners to get involved with a bunch of crazy jihadists, and there remain other US financial restrictions that have nothing to do with the nuclear deal.

Iran thought they'd be rolling in dough by now but miscalculated it.

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Breaking: 4 released from Iran prison for 7 Iranians and $100 billion

Iran is allegedly releasing four American hostages, including pastor Saeed Abedini, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, and United States Marine Amir Hekmati. 

The fourth hostage is unknown at this time but in return, Obama is releasing  over $100 billion to Iran to help fund terrorism as they develop a nuclear weapon, along with seven Iranians being held in U.S. prisons for acts of terrorism, or, to be more politically correct, acts of extremism that have nothing to do with the religion of peace and have everything to do with criminal behavior.

Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting in Vienna with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif and five other world leader representatives involved in the agreement. 

Zarif plans to take advantage of Kerry's ineptitude as he has in the past, and will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Iran supposedly didn't identify the prisoners they want back in the fight, and the Obama administration would rather not discuss it with American citizens, but they are claiming the prisoner swap has nothing to do with the nuclear deal and everything to do with Obama's incredible negotiating abilities.

LOL.

The Washington Post cannot confirm Rezaian's release, but facts often don't stop them from a story.

Iranian State TV reported that the fourth person to be released is Siamak Namazi, the son of a politician from the days when Iran was led by a shah. However, IRNA news, the only place to get your news in Iran if you know what's good for you, said that the prisoner to be released is Nosratollah Khosravi.

Update: The Guardian just announced that Rezaian has been released and corroborates IRNA saying that Hekmati and Khosravi will be released and Namazi is still in prison.

So now that Iran has humiliated us with the ten sailors they captured in the Persian Gulf, boarded their two boats and made and made them, at gunpoint, monkey squat with their hands in the air, they are freeing our hostages in exchange for seven of theirs.

If you believe Obama and Kerry are good negotiators, you probably also believe that global warming is the cause of terrorism.

But I know you're too smart to fall for that line of Obamabull.

What a deal. This should have happened years ago.


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