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An 18 year old girl got arrested in Australia for wearing a shirt that said 'from the river to the sea'

Everything is so fucked

Iran has officially agreed to grant safe passage to Bangladeshi oil and LNG vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. Under the new agreement, Bangladeshi ships must notify Iranian authorities before entering the strategic waterway to ensure secure transit.

The move comes as the Bangladesh government intensifies efforts to stabilize the national fuel supply. A shipment of 27,000 tonnes of diesel recently arrived at Chattogram port, with four more vessels expected soon. To meet April’s demand, the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources is also procuring 300,000 tonnes of diesel from alternative sources. These strategic measures aim to mitigate supply risks caused by regional instability and shipping uncertainties.

https://xcancel.com/MiddleEastMnt/status/2031648185853055180

For those not aware, Bangladesh is one of the few nations that does not recognize Israel as a country.

Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the oil cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official tells CNN.

: Sorry but the petrodollar WILL be stopped

https://xcancel.com/yaakovkatz/status/2032009842894786608

At the end of the 12-day war in June, the @IDFSpokesperson said the military had destroyed about 80% of Iran’s missile launchers, leaving roughly 100-150. Two weeks ago, when this war began, the estimate again was that Iran had about 100-150 launchers. Eight days into the war, after nonstop bombing, the IDF was still saying Iran had around 150 launchers. Now, on day 13 of this campaign, we are told Israel has destroyed about 75% of the launchers and that Iran still has 100-200 remaining. So what exactly is happening here?

Iran has discovered the "infinite missile launcher" glitch

Every war starts with the same number. Halfway through the war the number is the same. And now the number is… the same. And when the next war begins - magically - we will be back to the same number again. There are only two possible explanations: either the numbers never change or the numbers were never real to begin with. What we should expect from the media is not to regurgitate figures that clearly have no basis in reality. These numbers are not indicative of success. What will be the measure of success is the realization of the objectives of the war and as long as we do not know what those are, missile launchers do not tell us much.

CW SA

spoiler

Never let anyone bully you into sympathy for the Jewish supremacist israeli settler society.

Iran warned the Kiev regime that it has become a party to the conflict and is now a legitimate target:

The head of the national security commission of the Iranian parliament took to X on Saturday, warning that Kiev’s decision to send anti-aircraft assets to the region to prop up the attackers gives Tehran the right to strike Ukraine in self-defense.

“By providing drone support to the Israeli regime, failed Ukraine has effectively become involved in the war and, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, has turned its entire territory into a legitimate target for Iran,” Azizi wrote.

https://www.rt.com/news/635001-iran-ukraine-legitimate-target/

Unleashing 100 missiles, Hezbollah announces Operation Devoured Straw al Mayadeen

Amazing footage.

It's gotta be fucking miserable to live in Israel right now. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people.

Looks like Spain kicked out the ambassador.

Thinking about the recent news that Iran is supposedly going to allow tankers through the strait as long as they are trading in Yuan, and it reminded me of this piece by Michael Hudson.

The war that began on February 28 can realistically be deemed to be the formal opening of World War III because what is at issue are the terms on which the entire world will be able to buy oil and gas. Can they buy this energy from exporters in currencies other than the dollar, headed by Russia and Iran (and until recently, Venezuela)? Will the present U.S. demand to control of the international oil trade require oil-exporting countries to price it in dollars, and indeed to recycle their export earnings and national savings into investments in U.S. government securities, bonds and stocks?

That recycling of petrodollars has been the basis of America’s financialization and weaponization of the world’s oil trade, and its imperial strategy of isolating countries that resist adherence to the U.S. ruler-based order (no real rules, but simply U.S. ad hoc demands). So what is at issue is not only the U.S. military presence in the Middle East – along with its two proxy armies, Israel and ISIS/al Qaeda jihadists. And the U.S. and Israeli pretense that it is about Iran having atomic weapons of mass destruction is as fictitious an accusation as that levied against Iraq in 2003. What is at issue is ending the Middle East’s economic alliances with the United States and whether its oil-export earnings will continue to be accumulated in dollars as the buttress of the U.S. balance of payments to help pay for its military bases throughout the world.

He identifies Iran's three aims to prevent future wars started by the US:

1 - A total withdrawal of the US from its bases in the Middle East.

2 - The end of OPEC's economic ties to the US, including both oil and data centers.

3 - That OPEC must disinvest in their petrodollar holdings.

From what I can see, all of these goals are absolutely within Iran's reach, and that would absolutely not have been the case if the Epstein Coalition had not started this war. I think from the very beginning, even last year, we all had this notion that Iran had the wherewithal to do a lot of damage to the US and israel, but I hadn't realized that there was a realistic path to dedollarization within the context of this war. Reading this article was a real eye-opening experience.

Another casualty of this war is, to anyone who's paying close attention to what's going on, any semblance of belief that the people in the upper echelons of the US/israeli government are there because they are shrewd and competent. US propaganda is such an all-encompassing cultural behemoth that we often fail to see the gaps in the imperial core's armor. The beast can be tamed.

I think, as materialists, we feel, quite rightly, that we should never underestimate the enemies of humankind. We understand that their power is all-encompassing and that there's barely anything we can do as individuals. This has led to demonstrably false notions that not only are these ghouls powerful, they're also clever and aware of their role in sustaining the status quo of US imperial power. I no longer think that is the case.

What I think now is that the people in power are willing to take reckless bets in their thirst for even more power than they already have. In their hubris, they ignore the very real dangers and the very real fragility of a global hegemony that hinges on a very small number of factors, such as military power and a huge economic lever in the shape of the petrodollar. I believe that after more than half a century of nearly uncontested rule, the ruling classes have grown complacent and too entertained by playing with their financial toys to understand how tenuous their grip on the world has become.

What I mean to say by all this is that I'm... optimistic? I don't know, is that what being an optimist feels like? Materialist pessimism has been my way of thinking for so long I don't even know what it feels like to see a light at the end of the tunnel anymore. But as long as Iran does not loosen its grip on the strait I sincerely do not see any other plausible outcome for this debacle. It's essentially a stranglehold on the entire world economy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is any historical precedent for one country to wield as much power as Iran is wielding right now, and they seem to be on the right side of history.

No matter how hard I try I cannot see this whole war as anything other than the greatest strategic blunder by the US in my entire lifetime. Maybe even longer than that. I think we're living through a pivotal moment in world history right now.

https://xcancel.com/gonglei89/status/2031467342702719342

One of the deepest ironies in this war with Iran is that Iran cares the least about the global economy because it’s been isolated from it by sanctions for decades now. A massive political burden has been turned by circumstance into an overbearing strategic advantage.

Alireza Tangsiri, Commander of the IRGC Navy: We guarantee the security of any oil tanker, under any flag, that can convince an American destroyer to escort it through the Strait of Hormuz.

https://x.com/PressTV/status/2031768360866677240

Iran's new Supreme Leader stated that all US imperialist bases should be closed and that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed:

The lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must continue to be used, he said.

"However, we will obtain compensation from the enemy by any means necessary. If they refuse, we will seize their assets to the extent we deem appropriate. Should that not be possible, we will destroy an equivalent amount of their property," Khamenei said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260312/irans-supreme-leader-all-us-bases-should-be-closed-we-will-continue-to-attack-them-1123815017.html

???

US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth "The only thing prohibiting transit in the strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open to transit should Iran not do that"

??? "Yeah we opened the strait, it's fine, if Iran doesn't do the one thing that's stopping the strait from being open it would be open, so we're winning. Thank you for your attention in this matter."

So are we an echo chamber or is the US getting owned? Total lack of coverage makes me think it's the latter

JUST IN — 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱The Iranian Head of the National Security Council, Ali Larijani:

“Tonight we received messages from the U.S. president, through the Omani mediator, requesting that we negotiate a ceasefire. Our response is that we will not accept any negotiations as long as an entity called Israel exists.”

https://x.com/UK_REPT/status/2031684761249354086

This is an unbelievable story right now in France: there are upcoming mayoral elections and the incumbent mayor of Nice - Christian Estrosi - appears to have staged an antisemitic hate crime against himself to play victim days before the vote.

A pig's head marked with a Star of David was found at his doorstep, he cried antisemitism (he's not Jewish but very pro-Israel) and blamed his rival, Eric Ciotti (who is even more to the right than he is).

But investigators now believe the whole thing was orchestrated by his own camp. The suspects' phones led straight back to one of Estrosi's closest collaborators - a woman already caught in a previous scandal for calling into a radio show pretending to be a random listener to praise his tax policy. A retired French counterintelligence agent and a close associate of the mayor have also been taken into custody.

It'd be immensely ironic if it turned out that Estrosi, a mayor who placed the Israeli flag on Nice's town hall throughout the Gaza genocide, was also the one who put the Star of David on a pig's head to win an election...

BTW Israelis are still getting alerts every hour.

With the very few videos we've seen, and given that those videos show intercepted being pretty much ineffective, it's fair to say these guys are getting pummeled.

Remember what that one guy said during the 12-day war:

https://xcancel.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/2033266292849852594

American reporter: "Are our citizens safe in your Iranian prisons?"

Araghchi: "Are you planning to bomb those prisons?"

Reporter: No.

Araghchi: "Then they are safe."

US embassy in Baghdad just got Shaheded

Updates indicate that an air defense radar and a helipad have been wrecked.

🇮🇷| Iran's IRGC says the "unknown fate" of Netanyahu, whether killed or having fled, exposes Israel's internal crisis.

The IRGC says that if Netanyahu is still alive, they will continue their pursuit to eliminate him with full force.

@FotrosResistancee

Jordan arrests three Communist Party members without charge

The Jordanian Communist Party (JCP) announced on Monday, March 9, that two of its leaders, Dr. Omar Awad and Osama Zain Aldin, were arrested the day before by Jordanian authorities.

The party noted that the arrests were carried out “in a crude manner and through arbitrary procedures, without any legal justification or grounds.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/13/jordan-arrests-three-communist-party-members-without-charge/

GUYS THE EU HAS FINALLY DONE SOMETHING

THEY SANCTIONED….

…iranian officials. source

Apologies for not participating in the comments so far for this conflict, but I genuinely don't have anything to contribute yet this time around other than calling the Zionists murderous childkillers, being extremely angry at journalists, and getting into arguments in the megathread with other posters over things that none of us could truly know (like how attrited Iran truly is, etc). Events are moving fast enough right now that I'm just gonna let events play out rather than with somebody here about the state of Iran's missile and drone stockpiles and production rates.

I would also post more minute-by-minute news, but trying to figure out what's real and what's AI or propaganda has proven challenging for me, so I'm already giving almost all media claims/events at least a few hours before they can be somewhat verified and I begin to believe them. Massive claims are made and then withdrawn minutes later, as we just saw with that comment by the US Energy Secretary that the US has helped a tanker transit the Strait, and major statements are assigned to various figures by random OSINT accounts without being verified. And I thought early 2022 was bad.

A few of my observations:

• I feel very vindicated for believing that Hezbollah wasn't disarmed and destroyed by the post-Nasrallah combat pause and were probably preparing and training instead.
• I cannot physically express how little sympathy I feel for these Gulf monarchies and the rich people who willingly travel to them.
• I'm glad that Iran's leadership has finally, finally, attained the requisite seriousness for the situation they've found themselves in. Here's hoping we finally escape the seemingly endless cycle of negotiating into war into ceasefires a week or two later into letting the Zionists regroup, then repeat from the beginning. If your winning strategy is attrition and your enemy's winning strategy is shock and awe, don't make peace immediately unless you absolutely have to!
• To engage in a little Great Man Theory, as a treat, there's a chance Sinwar is gonna be seen in retrospect as the man who wiped away the US's footprint in the Middle East. What a chain of dominoes he triggered.

Al Jazeera

Iran could allow a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz if the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, CNN has reported, quoting an unnamed Iranian official. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the claim. The proposal forms part of a broader plan Tehran is reportedly developing to manage tanker traffic through the strategic waterway following the Israeli-US war on Iran.

Most global oil sales are conducted in US dollars, though sanctioned Russian crude has increasingly been traded in roubles or yuan.

The boys are coming back

⚡️⭕️ Mohammed Al-Bukhiti, a member of the Ansar Allah movement's political council:

A decision has been made to stand militarily with Iran, and zero hour will be announced at the right time.

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2032580691595026591#m

Reporter: Why are you sending 5,000 Marines to the Middle East?

Trump: You’re a very very obnoxious person

Five U.S. Air Force refuelling planes hit and damaged on the ground at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan air base following Iranian missile strike in recent days, according to two U.S. officials - WSJ

https://x.com/Faytuks/status/2032597871493587426

Guardian - ‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump

The turning point for Amir was the Israeli strikes on fuel depots in Tehran last week, with one attack on the Shahran oil depot overshadowing the capital with black smoke. A rain shower later covered trees, homes and cars with layers of toxic oil.

“I genuinely believe now they [the US and Israel] didn’t have a plan. I was still hoping I was wrong, but the Shahran attack changed the way I look at this war right now,” he said. “If the regime is what you want to hit, even if you think these depots were used by the regime, where do you draw the line? What about us, the ordinary Iranians? We rely on this civil infrastructure. Why take away our ability to govern in the future? Who can rebuild utter ruins?”

Another student, based in Karaj, a city about 30 miles west of the capital which has been under heavy bombardment this week, said: “I want this regime gone. I asked for help from Trump.” But the student said he thought the strikes would target the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its volunteer militia, the Basij. “When did this plan change and why are they hitting our infrastructure?”

many others in the anti-regime movement are hearing reports of newborn babies being killed by the US and Israeli strikes, and conclude simply that now three governments, rather than one, are killing Iranians.

A protester in Tehran said: “A significant portion of the people I’ve been speaking to, after witnessing the killing of civilians, have altered their perception of military intervention.”

Earlier this week, they said that for the first time in Tehran, they had experienced “something resembling the idea of carpet bombing. Several neighbourhoods in the city centre were attacked in a sequential, wave-like manner.”

Trump's latest post on Truth Social:

What I'm taking from this is that Iran did indeed land a successful hit on the Lincoln.

A Bluesky post attributed this to the WSJ.

President Trump told his White House team before the war that he thought Iran would likely capitulate before it would close the Strait of Hormuz, and even if Iran tried, the US military could handle it.

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Edit. CriticalXipport's comment has the link

Russians say Iran attack shows U.S. can’t be trusted in Ukraine talks (archive: Washington Post)

Fyodor Lukyanov, a prominent Russian foreign policy analyst who advises the Kremlin and Russian diplomats, told a Russian radio station that the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran “marks a transition to a different type of international relations” where “at any moment, you can move from being a person sitting across the table to becoming a victim.” Lukyanov added, “How can negotiations even be conducted in such a situation, if you know that at any moment the other side may shift to a direct personal attack against you?

I don't wanna jinx this, but this very well could be the first time Trump cannot wriggle his way out of a jam. All his "we won in the first hour" speeches are his attwmpt to manifest this wriggling, but I don't think it's gonna work this time.

I get the feeling that it's real 'Nazis not letting on just how hard they're getting beaten' hours for the US.

That delusional 'fake it until you make it' bravado of America is going to bite it in the ass.

YouTube - Richard Medhurst - HUMAN SHIELDS? Israel Limits Flights to Stop Colony Collapsing

Iranian think tanks have purported for years that: when Israel comes under pressure - a critical portion of their population will leave - and the colony will begin to collapse.

I've had my suspicions about the quality of such an assessment.

But between the 12 day war and Israel's banning of anyone leaving, and this again, it seems that the Israeli leadership is also afraid of this exact dynamic planned out by Iran.

The Sudanese army is advancing to recapture towns from the UAE-backed terrorist group, the RSF.

Arms supplies from the UAE to the RSF have dried up since Iran began its Operation True Promise IV.

Sudan must crush those genocidaires.

Video: https://xcancel.com/Sentletse/status/2031672786750521504

Iran is liberating the world.

🇮🇷🇺🇸| The IRGC says it targeted & struck the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with missiles and drones, and is apparently retreating.

According to CBS, the aircraft carrier tried to shoot at a IRGC vessel nearby but missed several times, forcing it to send a helicopter towards it.

Situation remains largely vague what truly happened, we’ll have to wait for more updates.

@FotrosResistancee

Source: https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19864

16 second video clip

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3mgxalkfn2c2y

Another post

Denial of quarter - even the declaration of no quarter - is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions. [screengrab]

The IRGC confirmed that Iraqi resistance forces' air defenses shot down the KC-135 "Stratotanker":

Iraq's resistance groups have struck down a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, a symbol of American overreach and aggression.

The Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) also said in a statement that the air defense systems of the Resistance Front succeeded in targeting a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker tanker while it was refueling an aggressor fighter jet, killing six of its crew members.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/12/765315/Iraq-s-resistance-groups-strike-down-US-Air-Force-KC-135-aircraft

https://xcancel.com/Reuters/status/2031655114134401058 "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test launch of strategic cruise missiles from a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, the country's state media said" - Reuters.

The day after all those US assests got pulled out of south korea

lol get owned losers, Americans stationed overseas need to have some fear struck into them https://archive.ph/Bqzm0

US struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq: Officials

Some U.S. staff were flown out by the British air force, officials said.

Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island. Our Weapons are the most powerful and sophisticated that the World has ever known but, for reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.

They're gonna take Kharg Island, no question. This attack is to soften up the defenses so that expaditionary force can seize it. Won't stop anything, and the strait will remain closed. If anything, seizing Kharg Island gives Iran reason to mine the strait and make things even more difficult, because without the oil infrastructure there Iran can't really export much oil.

Per https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116224324444349237

Seeing more people pack rice, flour, and other nonperishables at the till.

No need to instigate, it's starting and panic buying might cascade on its own.

In good news, Iran has let fertilizer reach Bangladesh - which is a major rice exporter. So the mass starvation I was anticipating might not actually happen.

We were looking at half of the world's food disappearing at the most extreme - assuming no one readjusted to produce more food without West-Asian fertilizer.

tfw you find out Netanyahu is still alive because his Twitter account blocks you after joking about how he's fucking dead:
https://xcancel.com/SrPeters/status/2032627315994173606