🚨 Tel Aviv is alarmed by a Gulf-Iran reconciliation.

❗️A summit aimed at mending ties between Iran, Gulf countries, and other regional neighbours is expected to be held in Saudi Arabia, according to AFP. The meeting will take place independently from Iran-US talks and will aim to improve regional relations in the aftermath of the war.

📌 Key Considerations:

⚪️ Before the US-Israeli war on Iran:

• The presence of US military bases across the Gulf was regarded as "a guarantee of protection," able to deter rivals from contemplating any act of aggression.

• Tel Aviv was viewed as a strategic partner, with normalization once again placed at the center of the table by the Trump administration as a pillar of "Middle East peace."

⚪️ After the US-Israeli war on Iran:

• Gulf states have been reduced to collateral damage by the US. Despite their alliance with Washington, they received no timely warning of the war, nor was any effort made to shield them from Iran's retaliatory strikes.

• Gulf countries are now focused on charting a new framework for regional stability — one that accounts for all neighbors, Iran included.

❗️Iran's Vision for Regional Gulf Cooperation:

• Former FM Kamal Kharazi formulated a proposal known as "The Strong Region" — an economic and political bloc conceived as an alternative to US and Israeli interference in the region.

• Iran has always sought solid channels of dialogue and diplomacy with Gulf countries, based on respect and cooperation. FM Araghchi said the war has helped fortify these channels — and forge new ones with unexpected countries.

🗣 "The war struck a blow against any [Arab-Israeli] normalization path. The Israeli path toward the Gulf is no longer as smooth as before. If the gamble on the Americans has failed, then the gamble on Israel is ultimately a failed one too."

Fatima Alsmadi, Senior Researcher in Iranian Studies

👉 A Gulf-Iran alliance could prove to be a political, economic, and military partnership capable of counterbalancing Israeli and US dominance and plans in the region.

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❗️ New satellite imagery exposes the scale of Iran's retaliatory strikes on US base in Bahrain.

📌 Why is US military presence in Bahrain significant?

⚪️ The US Navy base in Bahrain — known as Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain — has been regarded as "the anchor of US naval power in the Middle East" for more than three decades.

⚪️ NSA Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, the backbone of US maritime operations across the Persian Gulf and surrounding waters. Its location underpins Washington's efforts to sustain a permanent naval presence in the region.

📌 How has Iranian retaliation altered the US presence in the region?

⚪️ The extensive damage inflicted on at least 20 US military and logistical sites across the region has forced Washington to re-evaluate its entire regional footprint, according to US officials.

⚪️ The US is now considering revamping the base in Bahrain, scaling down its presence in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and relocating some bases westward, farther from the reach of Iranian missiles and drones — with Israeli-occupied territories being weighed as one possible site for basing.

⚪️ The Pentagon continues to deny the extent of the damage to US military bases and has restricted commercial satellite providers to keep it from being revealed.

⚪️ Latest estimates place the damage to US bases between $2.2 billion and $5.1 billion.

👉 Iran struck all three sections of NSA Bahrain, showing remarkable precision and detailed knowledge of both the base's layout and broader US military positioning in the region.

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▶️ Thousands of people filled the streets of Beirut's Dahieh to mark the commemoration of Ashura.

As Israeli warplanes and drones continue to fly over Lebanese skies, people gathered in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, honoring the legacy of the Battle of Karbala.

Imam Hussein’s revolt is seen a symbol of unwavering justice and moral resistance in the face of oppression. His stand as he choose the sword over humiliation, became the foundational martyrdom narrative of Shia Islam.

Today many resistance groups opposing Israeli and US aggression draw parallels with the Karbala narrative, in which a strategy of patience and endurance and not weakness in the face of oppressor is championed as the path to victory.

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🚨 For the first time, Africa and the Caribbean are demanding slavery reparations as one bloc.

📌 A new joint manifesto has been drawn, what does it demand?

⚪️ A formal apology from the nations that profited off the transatlantic slave trade.

⚪️ The creation of a Global Reparations Fund.

⚪️ Comprehensive debt relief and cancellation for affected countries across Africa and the Caribbean.

⚪️ Reform of international financial institutions — the IMF, the World Bank — to give the Global South fairer representation.

⚪️ Restitution of looted cultural property and ancestral remains: artworks, monuments, museum pieces, documents, archives.

⚪️ Climate justice financing, framed as inseparable from slavery reparations.

⚪️ Redress for the specific brutalities inflicted on African women and girls during slavery, who made up roughly a third of those trafficked.

⚪️ A support plan for Indigenous Caribbean peoples, who were subjected to genocide following European arrival.

⚪️ Right of return and citizenship pathways for diaspora Africans in African countries.

⚪️ Preservation of the coastal forts and castles used in the slave trade, as permanent memorials.

📌 What is the difference with previous plans?

⚪️ Until now, CARICOM and the African Union were running parallel reparations campaigns. This is the first time those two tracks have been merged into a single, shared document.

⚪️ It's the first reparations framework to explicitly link slavery to the climate crisis, arguing the wealth extracted from Africa and the Caribbean is directly tied to the climate costs those same regions now bear.

⚪️ It's also the first to center gender, naming the specific sexual violence inflicted on enslaved women and girls as a distinct line of redress, not folded into the general demand.

⚪️ Indigenous Caribbean peoples, wiped out by genocide after European arrival, are named for the first time as owed their own repair.

🗣 "We have equally come to say that there should be no retreat on repair."

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados

👉 What it doesn't include is a number. No dollar figure, no named debtor states, just, as the drafters put it, "a collective vision" still waiting on governments to sign off.

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Hezbollah honors Lebanese martyrs as Israeli bombs keep falling.

In a funeral procession in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, Hezbollah honored more than 60 people, including civilians and resistance fighters, killed in Israeli attacks.

Israeli bombardments of Nabatieh, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon, continued over the weekend, with forced displacement recorded among residents.

Nabatieh lies above the Litani River, and Israeli forces are seeking to fold the city into the so-called "yellow line," the boundary unilaterally drawn by Tel Aviv to designate the territories it wants to indefinitely occupy in Lebanon.

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The terms of Lebanese government’s surrender to Tel Aviv.

❗️The US- and Saudi-backed Aoun government has signed a framework deal with Tel Aviv, legitimising Israel's occupation of Lebanon and relinquishing its sovereignty.

👇Here are the major concessions within the 14-clause deal.

⚪️ "Israeli withdrawal" appears nowhere in the text. Israeli forces may only "redeploy" from specific territories, contingent on US-Israeli verification that the Lebanese army has disarmed "armed non-state groups", specifically Hezbollah, and dismantled its infrastructure.

⚪️ Tel Aviv has designated two "pilot zones" for redeployment in favour of the Lebanese army. Israeli media and officials have mocked the clause, dismissing the zones as worthless given Israeli forces' minimal presence there.

⚪️ Aoun has requested support from international, particularly Arab, partners, under US leadership, to disarm "armed non-state groups." This risks opening the door to foreign interference, with concern surrounding Syria's al-Sharaa, who could join efforts to dismantle Lebanese resistance, as demanded by Trump.

⚪️ Lebanon has agreed to cease all hostile action in international political or legal fora, barring victims of Israeli crimes from pursuing justice in international and domestic courts.

⚪️ Israeli aggression is defined as "solely a consequence of the attacks, threats, and hostile intent of non-state armed groups, particularly Hezbollah," a framing that erases over 70 years of Israeli crimes and the emergence of Lebanese resistance as a response to occupation

⚪️ A Washington-Tel Aviv-Beirut military coordination group will oversee implementation.

⚪️ Reconstruction and assistance funds will be withheld from any entity affiliated with "armed non-state groups", with Washington and Tel Aviv unilaterally deciding who is barred from funds or military and security roles.

👉 Tehran made a total Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon a non-negotiable condition of any US-Iran agreement. Washington, in turn, pushed normalization between Beirut and Tel Aviv to fracture the Iran-Lebanon front.

With protests in the streets and at least 20 Lebanese parties rejecting the deal, the agreement stands exposed as the work of a political elite estranged from its own people.

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