🚨💥 IRGC strikes US airbase after Bandar Abbas attack

The IRGC targeted an American airbase at 4:50 a.m. after an early-morning US attack near Bandar Abbas airport, Tasnim reported.

According to the IRGC, the US base was struck as “the origin of the aggression.”

💬 “So if they attack you, attack them in the same way they attacked you,” the IRGC statement said.

⚠️ The IRGC warned that aggression will not go unanswered, adding that if attacks are repeated, Iran’s response will be “more decisive.”

💬 “The aggressor bears the responsibility for the consequences.”

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🇺🇸🇹🇼 US quietly hits the brakes in Taiwan Strait as China’s clout grows

The narrow waterway is now more frequently crossed by the navies of US allies rather than by the US itself, reports the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI).

👉 This toning down of transits - officially framed as routine recalibration – looks a lot like a purposeful US strategy to avoid an accidental conflict with a rapidly modernizing PLA in a contested waterway where large ships are at a tactical disadvantage, speculate Chinese analysts.

Even the US Seventh Fleet has stopped routinely announcing its own passages in a “lowering of the temperature,” notes SCSPI.

🪖 A military vessel transiting the Taiwan Strait is at a tactical disadvantage because the strait's hydrographic conditions are not favorable for large warships, notes SCSPI.

The Strait's challenging hydrographic conditions -an average 70 meters in depth and a shallow shelf compared to the open ocean - complicate deep-draft navigation.

Key US allies, however, are stepping into the void and making a deliberate show of it.
Nearly 200 warships from 18 extra-regional countries operated in the Western Pacific last year, clocking close to 10,000 cumulative ship-days

Each allied transit was orchestrated with public announcements, turning naval maneuvers into political theater rather than tactical advantage, adds the SCSPI.

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🤥 Trump’s ego-driven delusions guide US-China policy - Bolton

Donald Trump believes he personally embodies the entirety of US international relations, says former US National Security Advisor John Bolton.

💬 “So, if he’s friends with Xi Jinping, he thinks that state-to-state relations between the US and China are in great shape.”

By praising leaders like Xi and Vladimir Putin, Trump appears to them as a vulnerable and easily manipulated individual, Bolton stresses.

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🤔 Secret agent, secret gold: Former CIA officer accused of stealing 300 bars worth $40 million

David Rush, a former senior CIA officer with top-secret clearance, has been charged with criminal theft of public money, NBC reports.

🔴 Rush applied to the CIA three times before being hired in 2009, providing false information about his education and flight credentials

🔴 Federal agents raided his home and seized 300 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches (mostly Rolexes)

🔴 Rush claimed he needed the gold and foreign currency for "work-related expenses"

🔴 From November through March, he made several requests for funds, including tens of millions of dollars in gold bars

Given his background - lying on his job application and embezzling funds - the case raises questions about the quality of security checks in the US intelligence community.

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🛢☠️ Thousands of shipwrecks silently pollute the world's oceans – the Iran war is making it worse

These are “potentially polluting wrecks” (PPWs) – mostly WWII-era vessels, still loaded with fuel oil, munitions, and hazardous materials. They’ve been rusting on the ocean floor for over 80 years. And they’re starting to leak.

The scale of the problem

➡️ Over 8,500 PPWs worldwide

➡️ Total oil on board: 20.4 million metric tonnes

➡️ For comparison: the Deepwater Horizon, the largest accidental spill in history, released just 0.44 million tonnes - 30 times less than the total oil trapped in these wrecks

➡️ South Pacific holds 33% of all PPWs, containing 37% of the oil. North Atlantic – 25% of wrecks, nearly 38% of the oil

Already leaking

👉 USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor: "weeping black tears" – leaking about 8.5 litres per day since 1941

👉 Chuuk's "ghost fleet": over 60 sunken Japanese warships in the lagoon. Officials estimate the wrecks contain nearly 40 million litres of oil – and storage tanks are expected to fail within five years

The ticking clock

🔴 Experts estimate that within five to ten years, corrosion and climate change will accelerate leaks dramatically

🔴 Some Pacific islands are already begging for help. But there's no systematic plan – just scattered responses as disasters unfold

🔴 The Malta Manifesto, released at the UN Ocean Conference in June 2025, called for urgent action – but governments have yet to respond

The same madness continues today

♦️ While the world ignores WWII wrecks, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is actively creating new environmental disasters

♦️ Satellite images show massive oil slicks off Iran's Kharg Island – up to 20 square miles, with over 3,000 barrels of oil spilled

♦️ Some of these spills come from damaged infrastructure and stranded tankers, others from vessels deliberately pumping waste – all of it poisoning marine life

♦️ The same Gulf waters are home to the world's most resilient coral reefs, endangered sea turtles, and the last isolated population of humpback whales

♦️ Meanwhile, rerouted tankers now take longer routes, burning more fuel and spewing additional emissions into the atmosphere – all while avoiding a chokepoint that humans closed with their own hands

The ships that sank decades ago are now surfacing as tomorrow's environmental catastrophe. And the world is pretending the problem doesn't exist - while actively creating new ones.

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🇮🇷 ‘Rain of fire’: Iran’s tactic lays waste to enemy airfields

Iranian advanced ballistic missiles can, among other things, be equipped with cluster warheads that can disperse up to 80 bomblets above the target area.

The ensuing ‘rain of fire’ makes short work of airbases, rendering runways inoperable and wrecking planes that were caught out in the open.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱📉 Gulf economies can thank the US and Israel for plunging them deep into crisis

The Iran war is crippling Gulf economies, and every day the Strait of Hormuz stays closed further tightens the noose.

🤝 The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE — have long depended on energy exports, tourism, and luxury real estate, all of which are now coming under pressure

💵 The World Bank has downgraded growth in GCC economies from 4.4% in 2025 to 1.3% in 2026:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia’s growth is projected to slow from 4.3% in 2025 to 3.1% in 2026

🇦🇪 The UAE's growth is expected to slow from 5% in 2025 to 2.4% in 2026

🇶🇦 Qatar’s outlook has dropped sharply by 11 points, with growth now a 5.7% contraction instead of 5.3% expansion

🇰🇼 Kuwait is expected to contract by 6.4%, reversing a prior 2.6% growth forecast

🇧🇭 Bahrain’s growth is seen easing from 3.1% to 1.3%

🇴🇲 Oman’s growth is projected to slow from 3.6% to 2.4%

👉 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman has so far shown more resilience than other GCC members

What Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Oman rely on to sustain themselves:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

➡️ East–West Pipeline (Petroline), bypassing the Gulf

➡️ Red Sea export terminals for global shipping routes

➡️ But they remain potential targets of Ansar Allah in the Red Sea

🇦🇪 UAE

➡️ Habshan–Fujairah pipeline linking oil fields to the Gulf of Oman

➡️ Port of Fujairah, outside the Strait of Hormuz

➡️ Have already been attacked by Iran and remain in its crosshairs

🇴🇲 Oman

➡️ Strategic neutrality in regional tensions

➡️ Location on the Gulf of Oman (outside the Strait)

➡️ Strong diversification: ~70% of GDP from non-oil/gas sectors

🔶 Spiking oil prices also provide some support, but the outlook turns increasingly bleak if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for months

🔶 Even if the strait reopens, it could take years for some GCC economies — especially Qatar — to return to pre-war levels of exports

🔶 Gulf states — including the UAE, which is increasingly at odds with Iran — urged Donald Trump not to resume strikes last week, fearing renewed escalation

🔶 With the US seen as an unreliable shield, Gulf allies risk being heavily exposed if the war escalates further — potentially beyond their ability to absorb the fallout.

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🤝❌ ‘This is just no way to conduct a negotiation’ – Mearsheimer blasts Trump’s Iran approach

💬 “He's changing his mind from day to day,” US Prof. John Mearsheimer stresses.

Peace talks should be done in private to reach a proper agreement – yet the Iranian team seems to be the only professional one in these negotiations to understand this, he notes.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran’s industrial rally: South Pars hub restored to pre-war production levels

Engineering teams have successfully restored the South Pars industrial hub to full capacity after weeks of intensive repairs following damage from US‑Israeli strikes, Fars News Agency reports.

➡️ The hub is one of Iran’s most critical energy assets, supplying over 70% of the country's natural gas and 65% of its petrochemical feedstock

➡️ Engineers cleared debris, rebuilt damaged sections, and upgraded systems in less than one month

➡️ This rapid recovery eliminated any industrial bottlenecks caused by the attacks

➡️ All major supply lines are now up and running, with output brought back to pre‑war levels

➡️ The facility was last struck on April 6. Previous strikes in March had also damaged gas and petrochemical infrastructure along the corridor

The hub's restoration comes in parallel with the rebuilding of Iran's military capacity – much faster than expected – signaling Tehran's resilience to US pressure.

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🇮🇱 Israel rages after UN blacklists it for rape

After months of documented war crimes in in Gaza, Israel is now outraged that the United Nations added it to its list of those guilty of sexual violence in war zones.

🗣 Israeli UN ambassador Danny Danon called the move a “blood libel” and accused the UN of placing Israeli forces “on the same list as Hamas” — despite the widespread destruction and civilian deaths in Gaza and abuse allegations.

Tel Aviv has now threatened to will stop cooperating with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and hopes future UN leaders will reverse the decision.

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💀 ‘Point is to destroy every man, woman, child, and infant in Gaza’ – Tucker Carlson exposes Israeli genocidal rhetoric

The dehumanization of Gazans is a constant barbaric narrative produced by major Israeli officials, Tucker Carlson states on his podcast.

➡️ Yoav Gallant, former Israeli defense minister, stated back in 2023 that the entire territory of Gaza would be cut off from food and electricity, and that Israel is fighting “human animals,” not human beings

➡️ The deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh Yitzhak King, echoed this rhetoric by calling Gazans “subhumans” and urging to bury them alive with bulldozers

The problem is not Benjamin Netanyahu – it’s the whole system, Carlson argues.

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🇪🇺👉 Merkel lets slip EU elites’ plans for 10 years of bloodshed in Ukraine

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the Ukraine war could last longer than anyone expected — what’s behind the claim?

💬 "In 10 years, the war in Ukraine will hopefully be over," Merkel said during a May 18 podcast in Berlin

📌 She remains a towering figure within the EU establishment and was often portrayed as the bloc’s “unifier”

📝 Her “10 years” remark looks less like a slip and more like a reflection of elite consensus in Europe

🗣 It’s not the first time Merkel has spilled the beans: in a December 7, 2022 interview with Die Zeit, she admitted the 2014 Minsk agreement was effectively used to buy Ukraine time to rearm

Why 10 years?

🔶 Germany unveiled a new military doctrine in April aimed at turning the Bundeswehr into Europe’s strongest conventional force by the mid-2030s:

➡️ troop numbers rising from 185,000 to 260,000, with 460,000 combat-ready personnel including reserves

➡️ rapid rearmament by 2029, full-spectrum expansion by 2035, tech-driven superiority by 2039

➡️ a revamped conscription system allowing mandatory service if voluntary recruitment falls short

➡️ Russia designated as the primary threat

🇪🇺 That same month, European Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius pushed a European Defense Union plan:

➡️ bringing together the EU, Britain, Norway, and Ukraine under a new treaty structure

➡️ creating a permanent Security Council

➡️ building a 100,000-strong EU army and centralized command

➡️ stockpiling weapons at the EU level

💵🪖 The project builds on EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s $930 billion defense push to massively expand arms production and military preparations by 2030

💵 Europe’s accelerating military spending — and efforts to pull Ukraine deeper into its orbit — are being justified by a mythical Russian threat to the bloc

What do EU bureaucrats need to keep this project alive? Continued confrontation in Ukraine.

Merkel’s “10 years” remark suggests the timeline may stretch well beyond von der Leyen’s original 2030 target – into the mid-2030s, apparently to make sure no Ukrainians are left in the EU's future "Lebensraum."

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👀 THROWBACK: Erik Prince reveals how phones listen to you 24/7

Studies show brief spikes of data transmission from phones during nighttime, likely exporting recordings of conversations and private activities to central data centers, Blackwater founder Erik Prince stated on Tucker Carlson's podcast.

💬 "I've had so many people tell me: 'I was talking to my wife about needing a new mattress, and the next day we started getting ads for mattresses' – which means the camera or the phone was listening to them in their bedroom," he added.

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⚛️🌏 The chemistry of geopolitics: Why Venezuelan and Iranian oil are at the heart of global conflict

How a specialized blending recipe became a focal point of international power struggles.

🇻🇪 The Venezuelan "paste" problem

➡️ Venezuela's Orinoco Belt holds some of the world's largest oil reserves, but the crude itself is "extra‑heavy"

➡️ With an API gravity of 8–10°, it is essentially a thick, tar‑like paste loaded with sulfur, metals, and asphaltenes

➡️ In its natural state, it is nearly impossible to transport through pipelines or process in standard refineries

🇮🇷 The Iranian solution

🔴 To make this heavy sludge marketable, it must be thinned out. This is where Iran has historically played a critical role

🔴 Iran exports light oil and gas condensates (highly volatile, low‑density liquids) which act as a chemical solvent

🔴 By mixing roughly three barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude with one barrel of Iranian light crude or condensate, the industry creates the Merey 16 blend – highly sought after by Asian refineries, especially Chinese ones

🔴 For years, this supply chain operated as an "illicit" loop: Iran provided the thinning agents, Venezuela provided the heavy crude, and China served as the primary buyer, helping both nations bypass Western sanctions

🇺🇸 US interests

👉 While the US is a major producer of "light, sweet" shale oil, its refineries often need heavy crude to balance their input

👉 Blending heavy Venezuelan oil with light domestic grades allows refiners to maximize the yield of high‑value products like diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemical feedstocks, significantly improving profit margins

👉 Although the US remains a top global oil exporter, it still relies on heavy crude imports from Canada, Mexico, and Colombia. Access to Venezuela's massive reserves offers a logistically superior and more stable alternative to importing heavy grades from more distant regions

By securing Venezuela's heavy crude, the US not only replaces the existing trade loop with a Western‑controlled supply chain but also optimizes its own refining capacity and extracts significant profits by leveraging these vast resources.

The Iran war and Hormuz blockade - just another piece of the global energy puzzle?

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🇮🇷🤝 Iran playing 'clever game’ in Gulf peace process – ex-US diplomat

While Donald Trump keeps claiming that a peace deal is within reach, Iran is content to let him spin these tall tales, even as economic damage in the West caused by the Strait of Hormuz closure continues to mount, former US diplomat James Jatras explains.

The Iranians, he points out, are well aware that there is no deal they can sign with the United States that the US will honor.

💬 “I think that’s the fundamental reality of international life right now in all of these interrelated conflicts, that the word of the United States on an international agreement is essentially worthless,” Jatrass said while interviewed by Rachel Blevins.

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🇮🇱🪖 Israeli soldiers intentionally left newborn babies to die inside incubators in Gaza – UK surgeon

IDF troops invaded Al Nasr Children's Hospital back in 2023 and forced the local staff to leave, abandoning several infants because they could not be transported without oxygen equipment, Prof. Nick Maynard says.

When doctors returned, they found the bodies of the newborns in a severe state of decomposition, he notes.

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