The first picture shows damage to a warehouse at the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, contradicting the statements of the Qatari MoD which claimed a full interception rate.
The 2nd picture shows damage to a drone control & command center at the Juffair airbase and lastly, the 3rd picture shows the destruction of several antennas and a command & control center at the Ali al-Salem airbase in Kuwait.
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The immunity will last until after the 2026 Knesset elections scheduled for October 27th.
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The Times of Israel, citing the Israel Airports Authority, reports that the tankers continue to occupy parking space needed for civilian operations, potentially putting up to 50,000 airline tickets at risk of cancellation during the peak summer travel season. The aircraft had begun departing earlier this month after a temporary easing of tensions, but that process has now reportedly been suspended.
At the height of Operation Epic Fury, close to 70 U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft were based out of Ben Gurion.
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social: ‘The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other…
The president has long flirted with the idea of charging a toll, wondering back in April “why shouldn’t” his administration do so and threatening to impose fees in June if a deal with Iran was not completed within a 60-day period. But Trump doesn’t always follow through with his musings, and until this week, he resisted formally announcing that plan — in part due to opposition from some in his orbit.
“This is what he’s always wanted to do, but people tried to talk him out of it,” the White House official said. “To him, this was his instinctual decision always, and he’s sort of just come back around to it.”
It’s not yet clear how such a fee system, which Trump has tied to a renewed naval blockade in the strait, would work, or whether the US has even consulted with Gulf states about the idea. Details of the plan are still being ironed out, according to the official. But Trump sees the 20% payments as a reimbursement for “costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Importantly, Trump’s announcement on Monday also contradicted pledges by some of his top officials not to charge tolls in the strait. Vice President JD Vance has said the administration believes “international waterways should be free of tolls,” and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was part of a joint statement with the Gulf Cooperation Council that rejected “any tolls, fees or attempts to assert control over the strait.”
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Lastly, he also claimed "oil is flowing" despite very little visible traffic on the U.S. backed Omani lane, with most of the oil going through the Hormuz in the past month being of Iranian origin and headed for China.
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Puheenaihe podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.
Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.
This makes it troublesome.
Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.
Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.
The particular episode remains available in the EU on Apple Music and Spotify.
Note that this is not automated YouTube copyright take down system or other automated system, because then the video would be blocked globally.
Because it is blocked only inside the EU the request to take down must have come from EU truth flaggers that speak Finnish.
The video does not contain hate speech or any questionable material.
In Finland political speech is protected, even more than regular speech. Discussing about the EU legislation is very political.
There is literally no reason to take it down except for 1) you are a butthurt politician who voted for chat control 2) you are an overzealous EU Digital Services Act truth flagger.
In both cases it is a crime in Finland, and a punishable offense, because you use authority and power to suppress legal political speech.
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In 2019 the Houthis hit the Abqaiq oil stabilization facility and Khurais oil field with drones. The attack did ~$2 billion in damage and spiked Brent by 20% on market open, the largest spike in history. It knocked out half of KSA's oil output (5% of world supply) and delayed Aramco's IPO.
The spike was brief because there were no follow-up attacks, but if the Saudis keep pushing AnsarAllah that's the road we're headed down.
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The crew of the third chemical tanker (Stolt Magnesium) had to abandon ship. Like the other tankers, it was struck directly in the engine room.
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Multiple impacts likely.
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U.S. airstrikes against Iranian targets are, however, largely performative as they have been revealed to target previously attacked locations or other targets without any military value, instead of targeting Iran's missile cities.
The extent of the damage is still being assessed according to Tasnim, who said that power outages will be inevitable.
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▪️ پارامترهای فنی دچار خسارت شد
شرکت مهندسی آب و برق کیش:
🔹 در پی انفجار پرتابه آمریکایی در مجاورت سایت تولید آب و برق جزیره کیش و در محل استقرار واحدهای تولید برق، برخی از پارامترهای فنی این واحدها…
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شرکت مهندسی آب و برق کیش:
🔹 در پی انفجار پرتابه آمریکایی در مجاورت سایت تولید آب و برق جزیره کیش و در محل استقرار واحدهای تولید برق، برخی از پارامترهای فنی این واحدها…
One is an Emirati supertanker while the other is flying the flag of Liberia.
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📖 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump shared his own 1988 quote about Iran on Truth Social:
"I'd be harsh on Iran. They've been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools.
One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I'd do a number on KHARG ISLAND. I'd go in and take it.
Iran can't even beat Iraq, yet they push the United States around, It'd be good for the world to take them on."
Trump's had it out for Iran for 40 years, yet we wonder why he doesn't just end the war and move on.
This isn't Venezuela, or Cuba... Iran holds a special significance for him. Perhaps blindingly so.
Source: Truth Social / Writer: Michael
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"I'd be harsh on Iran. They've been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools.
One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I'd do a number on KHARG ISLAND. I'd go in and take it.
Iran can't even beat Iraq, yet they push the United States around, It'd be good for the world to take them on."
Trump's had it out for Iran for 40 years, yet we wonder why he doesn't just end the war and move on.
This isn't Venezuela, or Cuba... Iran holds a special significance for him. Perhaps blindingly so.
Source: Truth Social / Writer: Michael
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Iran is turning up the pace.
Daytime attacks without prior warning.
Daytime attacks without prior warning.
Forwarded from Tabz - Alternative Media (Mister Iowan)
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Several commercial aircraft are now flying in standby patterns over Saudi Arabia, to avoid becoming collateral casualties in Kuwaiti airspace.
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