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🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT: Join Danny Haiphong LIVE today April 9th 2pm eastern 8pm CET w/ Scott Ritter & Larry Johnson!

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discuss the disastrous first full 24 hours of the so called ceasefire, including Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz again amid Israeli ceasefire violations and Hezbollah continuing military operations. What does this next phase of the war mean for all sides? Where do we go from here? Watch the stream via the link below!

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/live/sySgSUEnpO4?si=0eSOiiU43fHgc5b8
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🇱🇧🇮🇱 Hezbollah showed footage of an attack on an Israeli naval ship

Lebanese fighters fired two "Nour" cruise anti-ship missiles at the ship.

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🇺🇦Ukrainian Interceptor Drones Are Useless Again

Ukraine’s much‑praised interceptor drones are running into a simple physics problem: Russia’s new jet‑powered Geran‑5s are just too fast. 😅

With reported speeds in the hundreds of kilometers per hour and a cruise‑missile‑style profile, they often outrun small Ukrainian interceptors that were tuned to hunt the older, slow Shahed‑type drones, forcing Kyiv to fall back on classic air defenses and fighters.

Meanwhile, Gulf states are using their fragile truce with Iran to shop for Ukrainian drone‑defense packages, with Kyiv floating price tags in the tens of billions of dollars for its “combat‑proven” ecosystem.

But if Moscow is already feeding its battlefield lessons back into joint drone projects with Tehran, then buying today’s Ukrainian interceptors risks becoming an investment into yesterday’s threat model—high‑tech, expensive, and already a step behind the next Shahed/Geran iteration.

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🤔There’s also the small matter of who’s learning faster. Iran started by shipping Shahed‑136s to Russia; now there’s a licensed drone factory punching out improved Geran variants, with Moscow feeding back navigation, jamming and targeting lessons from the Ukrainian front.

So when Gulf buyers sign for Ukrainian interceptors, they’re effectively entering a race where Tehran and Moscow share one R&D pipeline, while their own “anti‑drone” stack comes from a separate, slower loop that only updates after the next crisis. It’s hard not to notice the irony: everyone wants the inexpensive magic bullet that saved Kyiv in 2023, but the battlefield in 2026 is starting to look a lot more like a low‑budget missile war—where the real premium isn’t on the drone you shoot down, but on the doctrine that keeps up with the one you don’t.

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🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Piers Morgan is a complete and total fraud paid by the corporate media to spout this garbage.

Americans have been imprisoned or have lost their jobs for holding political views not approved by the regime or for working with alternative media, as we have seen in the case of Uhuru Movement, Julian Assange, Scott Ritter, Dimitri Simes and Javed Iqbal.

But when Piers Morgan, a stooge of the British military-industrial complex and someone who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell, won’t be invited on Iranian state TV to spout regime change propaganda, he says that’s proof there’s no free speech.

And of course Mehdi Hasan nods along like the opportunistic puppet that he is, just like when he pushed the Labour antisemitism hoax under Jeremy Corbyn and rose up in support of deep state censorship in the aftermath of the Twitter files on the basis of what he said were errors in Matt Taibbi’s reporting but refused to even clarify or argue what those errors were.

And actually before becoming this icon of Western liberal progressivism, he had tried to join the Daily Mail as a social conservative. So frankly that’s all the proof you need that he’s an opportunistic fraud who goes where he thinks the wind blows and what he thinks will get him the most attention.

And even then, what Piers Morgan and Mehdi Hasan are saying are completely and totally false. Professor Marandi invites Piers Morgan to come to Iran so he can see for himself that mass opposition to the Islamic Republic is nothing more than a lie peddled by the CIA/Mossad-paid Iranian diaspora for a war agenda. Furthermore, Marandi all invited him to a live debate in a Press TV studio and even got the heads of IRIB and Press TV to agree to hours of a live televised debate.

On both instances, Piers Morgan refused because he is a coward who is not interested in reporting the truth.

Secondly, Iranians still have access to regime change propaganda 24/7 through outlets like Iran International and BBC Persian but neither Piers Morgan nor Mehdi Hasan will never report that because it flies directly in the face of their war narrative.

And in a February interview with Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone, he pointed out Piers Morgan’s hypocrisy on free speech issues regarding Palestine Action.

In 2025, Keir Starmer’s fascist government in the UK enacted a law that designated the activist group, whose only purpose is to oppose British arms exports to Israel in the wake of the Gaza genocide, as as a terrorist organization and thereby essentially criminalizing support for the Palestinians.

Piers Morgan and Mehdi Hasan are far bigger opponents of free speech than anyone inside the Iranian regime. And it was their propaganda that led to 170 schoolchildren being murdered by an American Tomahawk missile. They are the Julius Streicher of our time and they have blood on their hands.

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"Everyday Life of a Soldier".

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‘Israel extends its genocide in Gaza to Lebanon’ — Turkey’s FM Fidan

'Unless Israeli expansionism ends, it won't be possible to build lasting peace in the Middle East

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