U.S. OFFERS $10 MILLION FOR INFORMATION ON 5 IRGC LEADERS — BUT ONE IS ALREADY DEAD/MARTYRED
But there is a glaring problem with Washington’s list.
So what exactly is Washington offering a $10 million reward for?
🎯 A live target?
📋 An outdated intelligence file?
♻️ Or simply a recycled sanctions/rewards list that nobody bothered to update?
If a supposedly high-value U.S. intelligence target was already eliminated months ago, the episode raises serious questions about the accuracy, coordination, and credibility of Washington’s intelligence apparatus.
$10 million for information on a man who may already be dead.
That is either a remarkable intelligence failure—or a remarkably careless bureaucratic one.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 WASHINGTON’S CARRIER TRAP: BILLIONS AT SEA, NO EXIT IN SIGHT
🚨 The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is preparing for a Middle East deployment expected to last more than seven months, as Washington continues rotating carriers into the region amid its war with Iran.
⚓ The numbers tell the story:
• 👥 ~5,000 sailors aboard the Theodore Roosevelt.
• ✈️ Carrier Air Wing 11 includes nine squadrons operating F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
• 🚢 The USS Abraham Lincoln has just completed almost 7 months in the Middle East before leaving the region.
• 💰 A previous U.S. Naval Institute estimate put the cost of operating a carrier strike group at around $5 million per day, or nearly $1 billion for six months—before accounting for the full maintenance burden.
• 🇺🇸 U.S. national debt has now surpassed $40 trillion, according to Treasury data reported by Reuters.
And the strategic problem is even larger.
Washington is spending enormous sums to maintain carrier power in waters increasingly exposed to drones, missiles and asymmetric warfare, while extending deployments and stretching crews and ships.
A CSIS estimate earlier this year found that the broader U.S. naval force involved in the Iran campaign was costing approximately $15.4 million per day to operate at its then-current scale.
🚨 This is the paradox: the more Washington deploys, the more resources it must spend simply maintaining the deployment.
The Theodore Roosevelt may project enormous firepower—but seven-plus-month rotations, exhausted crews, mounting operational costs and a $40 trillion national debt raise a harder question:
Is this strategic dominance—or an increasingly expensive strategy of containment with no clear exit?
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THE EMPIRE IS BLEEDING OUT — AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING
Every empire eventually arrives at the same brutal truth:
Power can continue to project strength long after decay has begun from within.
For the United States, the reckoning is not coming as one spectacular collapse.
Instead, it is arriving as an accumulating series of failures — economic, military, political, and institutional — exposing the decay at every level.
The mechanics of imperial decline are already in motion.
And there appears to be no reverse gear.
As Marxian economist Richard D. Wolff puts it:
“We are living through the end of the empire.”
Here is the brutal reality — in his own words.
💰🔥 ECONOMIC BLOWBACK: WHEN SANCTIONS COME BACK TO THEIR CREATOR
Washington turned sanctions into a weapon against its adversaries.
The assumption was simple:
Economic pressure would force them to bend.
But sanctions were supposed to be the “artillery of fools.”
And the result?
They spectacularly backfired on their creators.
🇮🇷 Iran did not retreat — but Japan did.
🇯🇵 To purchase oil, Tokyo dumped U.S. Treasury securities, pushing yields above 5%.
🏚️ The housing market collapsed.
🏗️ Construction slowed.
💵 And the United States now pays one trillion dollars annually in interest alone.
This is the price of arrogance:
A debt trap choking domestic stability.
Wolff warns:
“The US national debt has exceeded $39 trillion, and the budget deficit for 2027 alone is expected to reach between $2 trillion and $3 trillion.”
And here lies the great imperial paradox:
🇺🇸 The United States borrows from the rest of the world — particularly China, Japan, and the Gulf states — to finance its wars.
Read that again.
The supposed financial superpower of the world is borrowing from its geopolitical rivals and partners to finance its military ambitions.
This is not strength.
It is:
“the desperation of a falling empire, breathing its last.”
⚔️💥 THE MILITARY MYTH IS SHATTERED
For decades, Washington’s greatest asset was supposed to be overwhelming military superiority.
But look at the record:
🇻🇳 Vietnam.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan.
🇮🇶 Iraq.
🇺🇦 Ukraine.
And now the USS Abraham Lincoln — a carrier that has become an object of global ridicule.
Institutional degradation is no longer merely a rumor.
It has become a public spectacle.
Wolff states:
“The United States failed to achieve victory in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and is now suffering defeat in Ukraine.”
But the deeper problem is even darker.
The military-industrial complex does not necessarily need victory.
It needs war.
Wolff exposes the mechanism:
“US military-industrial complexes are indifferent to the outcome of wars (whether victory or defeat); their profitability stems from replacing outdated weapons with modern equipment. Indeed, the more destructive and exhausting a war is, the greater the profits these companies reap.”
💣 Weapons are destroyed.
💰 Weapons are replaced.
🏭 Contracts multiply.
⚔️ Wars become longer.
And the machine continues to feed itself.
Victory becomes optional. Profit does not.
🇺🇸🪖 WHEN POWER TURNS INTO NARCISSISM
Then comes something even more revealing:
Imperial power turning inward.
Trump erases the name of Black American war hero Doris Miller to put his own name and vanity on a warship.
At the same time:
🎓 “Head Start” — a lifeline for poor children — is undermined for the sake of internal plunder.
This is not leadership.
It is something darker:
“levels of craziness that are part of the decline… when empires consume themselves.”
When an empire can no longer distinguish between the national interest and elite narcissism, the decay has moved from the battlefield into the bloodstream of political life.
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THE WEST IS FRACTURING FROM WITHIN
And the cracks are no longer confined to Washington.
🇩🇪 Germany is experiencing a political earthquake.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht coalition are gaining momentum.
Their platform?
🔻 Cut aid to Ukraine.
🔥 Restore cheap Russian gas.
🚧 Close the borders.
Then come the geopolitical complications:
🚀 With the backing of Elon Musk, this momentum threatens to blow NATO apart from within.
The Atlanticist consensus — once treated as untouchable — is beginning to crack.
The West is no longer necessarily moving as a single bloc.
☢️💵⚔️ THE FINAL VERDICT
Put the pieces together:
⚔️ Military impotence.
💵 Financial chaos.
👑 Elite narcissism.
☢️ And a desperate rush toward nuclear saber-rattling against Iran.
Wolff cuts through the noise:
Then comes the verdict:
And what about the timeline?
Then comes the statement that may carry the greatest significance:
Gone.
Not threatened.
Not temporarily weakened.
Gone.
🌎 THE UNIPOLAR ERA IS DEAD
This is the endgame.
The unipolar era is dead.
And history offers a warning.
Wolff reminds us:
But the uncomfortable truth is:
Empires rarely collapse because the outside world suddenly becomes stronger.
They collapse because the inside becomes weaker.
Because they lose the ability to govern themselves.
Because debt becomes weaponized against their own people.
Because allies become liabilities.
Because institutions deteriorate.
And because the ruling class chooses narcissism over responsibility and stewardship.
This is how hegemony dies.
Not necessarily in one final battle.
But through the accumulation of failures.
🔥🫀 THE OLD ORDER IS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Stay vigilant.
Stay informed.
Watch the numbers.
Watch the wars.
Watch the debt.
Watch the alliances.
And above all:
Watch what is happening inside the empire.
Because the old order is on life support — and its time is running out.
And perhaps the most devastating description of all comes from Wolff:
The empire is still moving.
It is still threatening.
It is still bombing.
It is still borrowing.
It is still flexing its power.
But movement is not strength.
Sometimes, the loudest gestures come from systems that have already begun to lose control.
🔴 The question is no longer whether the old order is weakening.
The question is: What will replace it?
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THE WEST IS FRACTURING FROM WITHIN
And the cracks are no longer confined to Washington.
🇩🇪 Germany is experiencing a political earthquake.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht coalition are gaining momentum.
Their platform?
🔻 Cut aid to Ukraine.
🔥 Restore cheap Russian gas.
🚧 Close the borders.
Then come the geopolitical complications:
🚀 With the backing of Elon Musk, this momentum threatens to blow NATO apart from within.
The Atlanticist consensus — once treated as untouchable — is beginning to crack.
The West is no longer necessarily moving as a single bloc.
☢️💵⚔️ THE FINAL VERDICT
Put the pieces together:
⚔️ Military impotence.
💵 Financial chaos.
👑 Elite narcissism.
☢️ And a desperate rush toward nuclear saber-rattling against Iran.
Wolff cuts through the noise:
“The position of the United States in the world, economically and politically, is the weakest it has been in my lifetime.”
Then comes the verdict:
“The American empire is over. We’re done.”
And what about the timeline?
“We peaked about 12 years ago and have been in decline ever since.”
Then comes the statement that may carry the greatest significance:
“It’s not a question of maintaining your dominance. That’s gone.”
Gone.
Not threatened.
Not temporarily weakened.
Gone.
This is the endgame.
The unipolar era is dead.
And history offers a warning.
Wolff reminds us:
“Every empire that went down—the Greek, the Roman, the Spanish, the Dutch, the British—they’ve always had a debate between those who want to believe that the cause of the decline was external.”
But the uncomfortable truth is:
Empires rarely collapse because the outside world suddenly becomes stronger.
They collapse because the inside becomes weaker.
Because they lose the ability to govern themselves.
Because debt becomes weaponized against their own people.
Because allies become liabilities.
Because institutions deteriorate.
And because the ruling class chooses narcissism over responsibility and stewardship.
This is how hegemony dies.
Not necessarily in one final battle.
But through the accumulation of failures.
🔥🫀 THE OLD ORDER IS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Stay vigilant.
Stay informed.
Watch the numbers.
Watch the wars.
Watch the debt.
Watch the alliances.
And above all:
Watch what is happening inside the empire.
Because the old order is on life support — and its time is running out.
And perhaps the most devastating description of all comes from Wolff:
“These are the wild gesticulations of a sinking enterprise.”
The empire is still moving.
It is still threatening.
It is still bombing.
It is still borrowing.
It is still flexing its power.
But movement is not strength.
Sometimes, the loudest gestures come from systems that have already begun to lose control.
🔴 The question is no longer whether the old order is weakening.
The question is: What will replace it?
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Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan have signed a comprehensive agreement on joint defense and military cooperation in Islamabad, in the presence of Kuwait’s Minister of Defense, Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, and his Pakistani counterpart, Khawaja Muhammad Asif.
🔹 Operational Coordination: Strengthening field cooperation and security readiness between the armed forces of both countries.
🔹 Exchange of Expertise: Focusing on military training, technical support, and advisory services.
🔹 Enhancing Capabilities: Developing joint training programs to build capabilities and strengthen self-defense.
Although both agreements reflect a broader trend among Gulf Cooperation Council states toward expanding security partnerships with pivotal regional powers in South Asia, there is a fundamental difference in terms of their legal weight and strategic commitments.
🔹 Nature and Scope of the Agreement:
The Kuwait–Pakistan agreement is a bilateral arrangement focused on operational coordination and capacity-building, whereas the Mecca Agreement represents a trilateral defense alliance bringing together Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye.
🔹 Commitment to Collective Defense:
The Kuwait–Pakistan agreement lacks a collective-defense clause, meaning there is no legal or automatic obligation to intervene militarily if either party comes under attack.
By contrast, the Mecca Agreement explicitly provides for mutual defense, under which an attack against any member state is considered an attack against all.
🔹 Strategic Objective:
The Kuwait–Pakistan agreement is limited to advisory and training support and the exchange of expertise, while the Mecca Agreement aims to establish strategic deterrence, defense integration, and a unified security architecture linking the three military powers.
🇰🇼 KUWAIT’S STRATEGIC APPROACH
Kuwait is pursuing an independent approach based on leveraging Pakistani military expertise and training to enhance the readiness of its national armed forces, without becoming part of binding, multilateral collective-defense alliances such as the arrangements established under the Mecca Agreement.
BUT THE BIGGER QUESTION REMAINS
Does an Arab and Muslim citizen have the right to ask whether these agreements and defensive hedging strategies are genuinely intended to build strategic autonomy and regional deterrence—
or whether they are offensive mechanisms designed to launch an attack against Iran or Israel?
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Euronews reported this morning that German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has proposed the creation of a force under a European Union mandate in Lebanon, aimed at preventing a security vacuum after the end of the UNIFIL mission.
The future of security arrangements in southern Lebanon is moving to the forefront of international debate as the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) approaches its scheduled end at the close of 2026.
Against this backdrop, Germany is proposing discussions on establishing a European force that would prevent a security vacuum following the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers, while Lebanese-Israeli negotiations continue over the implementation of the latest security understandings.
🇩🇪 Berlin Calls for a European Mandate
In this context, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called on EU member states to discuss establishing a force operating under a European mandate after UNIFIL’s mission ends.
He argued that such a force could ensure that no security vacuum emerges in southern Lebanon following the withdrawal of UN forces.
Speaking to Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), Wadephul said the proposed force could create the conditions for the withdrawal of the Israeli military,
“without Hezbollah returning with its terrorism,”
in his words.
He also described the existence of a stable government in Lebanon as “one of the most encouraging developments in the region at the moment.”
But What Exactly Does Berlin Mean by a “Security Vacuum”
Does the German foreign minister mean that the vacuum should be filled by European forces?
Has southern Lebanon now become a geopolitical arena over which European powers are competing for influence — and perhaps an opportunity to revive the ghosts of their colonial past?
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MOHSEN REZAEI: “WITHOUT HEZBOLLAH, ISRAEL COULD HAVE REACHED BEIRUT”
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But the most significant part of his remarks was not a diplomatic formula. It was a blunt assessment of what he believes prevented Israel from pushing deeper into Lebanon:
⭕️ “If Hezbollah had not entered the confrontation with Israel and inflicted heavy losses on it, Israel could have reached Beirut.”
That is more than praise for Hezbollah.
It is a strategic argument: the existence of an effective deterrent in southern Lebanon altered the cost-benefit calculation of an Israeli advance.
Rezaei also paid tribute to Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem, thanking him for what he described as his leadership of the Resistance Front and his ability to fill the vacuum left by the loss of senior Hezbollah figures.
He separately praised Speaker Nabih Berri, describing him as a tireless political actor who has played an important role in Lebanon’s political arena, particularly during the recent negotiations and the memorandum of understanding with Washington.
🏗️ AND WHAT ABOUT LEBANON’S DESTROYED HOMES?
Rezaei’s answer was short:
⭕️
“The destroyed homes will be rebuilt, God willing.”
He also expressed pride in what he called the resistance of the Lebanese people, saying that he understood the scale of the difficulties facing them.
The significance of Rezaei’s remarks lies in the combination of military deterrence + political negotiations + reconstruction.
Tehran is effectively presenting three interconnected positions:
🔹 Hezbollah’s military role is framed as a factor that prevented a deeper Israeli advance.
🔹 Lebanon’s political track is being watched closely by Iran, particularly the negotiations involving Washington.
🔹 Reconstruction is being presented as part of the post-war equation rather than as an afterthought.
And there is another message beneath the surface:
Iran is signaling that Lebanon is not merely an arena in which others negotiate Lebanon’s future.
The real question now is whether the emerging security arrangements in Lebanon will preserve the deterrence that Rezaei credits with stopping Israel — or whether external pressure will attempt to dismantle that equation first and deal with its consequences later.
For Tehran, the Lebanese battlefield and the Lebanese political battlefield remain two sides of the same strategic equation.
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🔴 America’s Hidden Confrontation with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
🗃 An Analysis of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
💬 INTRODUCTION
It is no secret that the issue of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has long remained at the center of political and security controversy in Iraq. Washington’s calls for reforming, restricting, or restructuring the PMF are not new; they have echoed for years through decision-making circles in both Baghdad and Washington.
What is particularly striking about the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) update of August 26, 2026, however, is the degree of transparency with which it describes U.S. demands toward the Iraqi government—not merely as advice or an abstract call for reform, but as a fundamental condition for Washington to “put the Iraq file to rest” and focus more freely on striking Iran, without having to worry about the PMF moving against U.S. interests from the rear.
In its daily update, the institute cited statements by Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akrami-Nia, an Iranian military spokesman, who outlined Iran’s emerging offensive doctrine based on rapid retaliation, multiple and preemptive strikes, and the expansion of the theater of conflict, with the objective of restoring deterrence against Washington and Tel Aviv.
But the core of the report—and its most significant section—concerned Iraq. The institute closely tracked Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s efforts to bring the Popular Mobilization Forces under greater state control. If successful, the report argues, this could potentially move Iraq closer to the U.S. camp in the region by reducing Iranian influence and bringing armed factions—the PMF—more firmly under state authority.
This is precisely why the report deserves careful scrutiny. It is not simply an academic analysis; it provides a potential roadmap for what Washington wants from Baghdad in the next phase.
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🗃 An Analysis of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
💬 INTRODUCTION
It is no secret that the issue of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has long remained at the center of political and security controversy in Iraq. Washington’s calls for reforming, restricting, or restructuring the PMF are not new; they have echoed for years through decision-making circles in both Baghdad and Washington.
What is particularly striking about the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) update of August 26, 2026, however, is the degree of transparency with which it describes U.S. demands toward the Iraqi government—not merely as advice or an abstract call for reform, but as a fundamental condition for Washington to “put the Iraq file to rest” and focus more freely on striking Iran, without having to worry about the PMF moving against U.S. interests from the rear.
In its daily update, the institute cited statements by Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akrami-Nia, an Iranian military spokesman, who outlined Iran’s emerging offensive doctrine based on rapid retaliation, multiple and preemptive strikes, and the expansion of the theater of conflict, with the objective of restoring deterrence against Washington and Tel Aviv.
But the core of the report—and its most significant section—concerned Iraq. The institute closely tracked Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s efforts to bring the Popular Mobilization Forces under greater state control. If successful, the report argues, this could potentially move Iraq closer to the U.S. camp in the region by reducing Iranian influence and bringing armed factions—the PMF—more firmly under state authority.
This is precisely why the report deserves careful scrutiny. It is not simply an academic analysis; it provides a potential roadmap for what Washington wants from Baghdad in the next phase.
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🔴 AMERICA’S HIDDEN CONFRONTATION WITH THE POPULAR MOBILIZATION FORCES
🗃 Reading the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
🔨 THE CORE ISSUE: THE ATTEMPT TO BRING THE PMF UNDER CONTROL
Against this increasingly tense Iranian backdrop, the report highlights a dangerous internal Iraqi development: Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s attempt to implement a fundamental reform of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
The report portrays the move as an attempt to strengthen al-Zaidi’s personal authority—but one with significant regional and international implications.
⭐️ KEY POINTS RAISED BY THE REPORT ON IRAQ:
1. RESTRUCTURING THE PMF
• Al-Zaidi has reactivated the office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, placing the PMF under his direct authority.
• The PMF legislation was amended after the original draft had been withdrawn by former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani in 2025 under U.S. pressure. The revised draft:
🔹 Removes provisions that could allow the PMF to function as a competitor to the Iraqi Army.
🔹 Sets the retirement age at 60, potentially forcing senior figures such as Faleh al-Fayyad into retirement.
🔹 Allows al-Zaidi to appoint officers from the Iraqi Army and Counter Terrorism Service to senior positions within the PMF.
🔹 Seeks to disperse fighters in order to break up what the report describes as the “factional blocs” associated with Iran-backed militias.
2. 🇺🇸 U.S. OBJECTIVES
• According to the report, these reforms align with Washington’s objective of disarming militias, particularly by removing heavy and strategic weapons from the PMF, and ending attacks against U.S. interests.
• Al-Zaidi reportedly discussed the legislation with U.S. officials during his visit to Washington in July 2026, securing political backing to pressure the factions within the PMF.
3. ⚠️ DOMESTIC OBSTACLE: THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT
• The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee includes lawmakers affiliated with Iran-backed militia wings—what the report characterizes as political blocs supporting the resistance—making passage of the legislation extremely difficult.
• These lawmakers are expected to oppose any attempt to reduce the privileges and influence of senior PMF commanders.
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🗃 Reading the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
🔨 THE CORE ISSUE: THE ATTEMPT TO BRING THE PMF UNDER CONTROL
Against this increasingly tense Iranian backdrop, the report highlights a dangerous internal Iraqi development: Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s attempt to implement a fundamental reform of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
The report portrays the move as an attempt to strengthen al-Zaidi’s personal authority—but one with significant regional and international implications.
⭐️ KEY POINTS RAISED BY THE REPORT ON IRAQ:
1. RESTRUCTURING THE PMF
• Al-Zaidi has reactivated the office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, placing the PMF under his direct authority.
• The PMF legislation was amended after the original draft had been withdrawn by former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani in 2025 under U.S. pressure. The revised draft:
🔹 Removes provisions that could allow the PMF to function as a competitor to the Iraqi Army.
🔹 Sets the retirement age at 60, potentially forcing senior figures such as Faleh al-Fayyad into retirement.
🔹 Allows al-Zaidi to appoint officers from the Iraqi Army and Counter Terrorism Service to senior positions within the PMF.
🔹 Seeks to disperse fighters in order to break up what the report describes as the “factional blocs” associated with Iran-backed militias.
2. 🇺🇸 U.S. OBJECTIVES
• According to the report, these reforms align with Washington’s objective of disarming militias, particularly by removing heavy and strategic weapons from the PMF, and ending attacks against U.S. interests.
• Al-Zaidi reportedly discussed the legislation with U.S. officials during his visit to Washington in July 2026, securing political backing to pressure the factions within the PMF.
3. ⚠️ DOMESTIC OBSTACLE: THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT
• The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee includes lawmakers affiliated with Iran-backed militia wings—what the report characterizes as political blocs supporting the resistance—making passage of the legislation extremely difficult.
• These lawmakers are expected to oppose any attempt to reduce the privileges and influence of senior PMF commanders.
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🔴 AMERICA’S HIDDEN CONFRONTATION WITH THE POPULAR MOBILIZATION FORCES
🗃 Reading the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
4. 🇮🇷 THE IRANIAN OBSTACLE
• Iran has shown less flexibility in recent weeks regarding the disarmament of the militias—the PMF brigades.
• Iranian officials, including Quds Force Commander Ismail Qaani and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, have reportedly sought to persuade the Iraqi government to postpone the September 30 deadline for placing weapons under state control.
• Iran has proposed alternatives, such as transferring heavy weapons to Iran or placing them under the PMF itself, but opposes any measure that would weaken its influence over the PMF structure.
5. ⚠️ THE REPORT’S ASSESSMENT OF OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
🔹 The opportunity: If al-Zaidi succeeds in appointing professional officers—particularly those aligned with the United States—and implementing the proposed [U.S.-backed] reforms, Washington could achieve its objective of weakening the militias within the PMF and reducing Iranian influence.
🔻 The risk: Iranian, Iraqi, and parliamentary resistance could derail the entire project, as reportedly happened during the previous administration of Haider al-Abadi.
• The report cites former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s experience in reforming the Iraqi Intelligence Service as evidence that institutional reform is possible when there is sufficient political will and professional personnel—particularly personnel with pro-U.S. orientations.
📌 FINAL ASSESSMENT
Al-Zaidi is walking a political tightrope.
He is attempting to exploit U.S. pressure to restructure the PMF in a way that strengthens his own authority, while simultaneously facing joint Iranian-Iraqi opposition both inside and outside parliament.
His success will depend on his ability to impose the proposed reforms and appoint professional cadres with pro-U.S. orientations.
Failure, however, could mean the continued dominance of armed factions—and the further strengthening of the PMF—over Iraq’s security landscape, with significant consequences for domestic stability and Baghdad’s relationship with Washington.
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🗃 Reading the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Update — August 26, 2026
4. 🇮🇷 THE IRANIAN OBSTACLE
• Iran has shown less flexibility in recent weeks regarding the disarmament of the militias—the PMF brigades.
• Iranian officials, including Quds Force Commander Ismail Qaani and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, have reportedly sought to persuade the Iraqi government to postpone the September 30 deadline for placing weapons under state control.
• Iran has proposed alternatives, such as transferring heavy weapons to Iran or placing them under the PMF itself, but opposes any measure that would weaken its influence over the PMF structure.
5. ⚠️ THE REPORT’S ASSESSMENT OF OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
🔹 The opportunity: If al-Zaidi succeeds in appointing professional officers—particularly those aligned with the United States—and implementing the proposed [U.S.-backed] reforms, Washington could achieve its objective of weakening the militias within the PMF and reducing Iranian influence.
🔻 The risk: Iranian, Iraqi, and parliamentary resistance could derail the entire project, as reportedly happened during the previous administration of Haider al-Abadi.
• The report cites former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s experience in reforming the Iraqi Intelligence Service as evidence that institutional reform is possible when there is sufficient political will and professional personnel—particularly personnel with pro-U.S. orientations.
📌 FINAL ASSESSMENT
Al-Zaidi is walking a political tightrope.
He is attempting to exploit U.S. pressure to restructure the PMF in a way that strengthens his own authority, while simultaneously facing joint Iranian-Iraqi opposition both inside and outside parliament.
His success will depend on his ability to impose the proposed reforms and appoint professional cadres with pro-U.S. orientations.
Failure, however, could mean the continued dominance of armed factions—and the further strengthening of the PMF—over Iraq’s security landscape, with significant consequences for domestic stability and Baghdad’s relationship with Washington.
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🚨 MOST CONTRACTORS FROM THE ‘48 PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEMOLISHING SOUTHERN LEBANESE VILLAGES AND TOWNS
(PART ONE)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Investigations by major media outlets, including Haaretz, The Guardian, and local news sources, have confirmed that the Israeli Ministry of Defense relies heavily on private civilian contractors to carry out structural demolition operations in Southern Lebanon.
Given the significant concentration of Arab citizens of Israel—i.e., Palestinians of the ‘48 community—in the construction, excavation, and earth-moving sectors, Arab-owned private companies, Arab subcontractors, Bedouin contractors, and members of the Druze community are directly involved in operating heavy machinery, including excavators and bulldozers, as part of demolition and clearance operations conducted by the Israeli Ministry of Defense across the border.
KEY DOCUMENTED CASES AND PERSONNEL
Although government procurement records identifying the contracted private companies remain classified under Israeli national security laws, specific names, entities, and operational locations have emerged through official casualty notices, military statements, and journalistic investigations.
1. The Hujairat Family and Subcontractors — Shefa-Amr
🔹 Identified individual: Amer Hujairat, 44, a heavy-machinery owner and private contractor from the Arab city of Shefa-Amr in northern Israel.
🔹 Company/subcontracting model: Hujairat owned and operated excavation equipment and heavy machinery under a direct subcontracting agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
🔹 Town targeted for demolition: Aitaroun, Bint Jbeil District, Southern Lebanon.
🔹 Documented incident: On April 29, 2026, while operating an excavator to demolish homes and infrastructure in Aitaroun, Hujairat was killed in a direct FPV drone strike targeting the heavy machinery he was operating.
His 19-year-old son, who was working alongside him as a machinery operator for the same family business, was also injured in the attack.
(PART ONE)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Investigations by major media outlets, including Haaretz, The Guardian, and local news sources, have confirmed that the Israeli Ministry of Defense relies heavily on private civilian contractors to carry out structural demolition operations in Southern Lebanon.
Given the significant concentration of Arab citizens of Israel—i.e., Palestinians of the ‘48 community—in the construction, excavation, and earth-moving sectors, Arab-owned private companies, Arab subcontractors, Bedouin contractors, and members of the Druze community are directly involved in operating heavy machinery, including excavators and bulldozers, as part of demolition and clearance operations conducted by the Israeli Ministry of Defense across the border.
KEY DOCUMENTED CASES AND PERSONNEL
Although government procurement records identifying the contracted private companies remain classified under Israeli national security laws, specific names, entities, and operational locations have emerged through official casualty notices, military statements, and journalistic investigations.
1. The Hujairat Family and Subcontractors — Shefa-Amr
🔹 Identified individual: Amer Hujairat, 44, a heavy-machinery owner and private contractor from the Arab city of Shefa-Amr in northern Israel.
🔹 Company/subcontracting model: Hujairat owned and operated excavation equipment and heavy machinery under a direct subcontracting agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
🔹 Town targeted for demolition: Aitaroun, Bint Jbeil District, Southern Lebanon.
🔹 Documented incident: On April 29, 2026, while operating an excavator to demolish homes and infrastructure in Aitaroun, Hujairat was killed in a direct FPV drone strike targeting the heavy machinery he was operating.
His 19-year-old son, who was working alongside him as a machinery operator for the same family business, was also injured in the attack.
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2. Raad Abu al-Qi’an — Hura, Negev
🔹 Identified individual: Raad Abu al-Qi’an, a heavy-machinery operator from the Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev region.
🔹 Company model: He worked for a private heavy-machinery contractor hired by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to provide excavation crews for structural clearance operations on the front lines.
🔹 Scope of operations: He was deployed with heavy earth-moving equipment alongside Israeli combat engineering units to carry out building demolitions and structural clearance operations in Lebanese villages and towns along the border front.
3. Bedouin and Druze Private Contractors
🔹 Reporting source: Investigations published by Haaretz cited testimonies from Israeli military reservists who confirmed that civilian contractors—particularly Bedouin and Druze workers and business owners—were deployed to border villages to carry out systematic demolition and leveling operations.
🔹 Financial data: According to investigative reports, the Ministry of Defense pays private contractors fixed daily rates or incentive-based fees ranging from 5,000 to 12,000 Israeli shekels (approximately $1,350–$3,200 USD) per day for each piece of heavy machinery, or based on the volume of structures being demolished.
2. Raad Abu al-Qi’an — Hura, Negev
🔹 Identified individual: Raad Abu al-Qi’an, a heavy-machinery operator from the Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev region.
🔹 Company model: He worked for a private heavy-machinery contractor hired by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to provide excavation crews for structural clearance operations on the front lines.
🔹 Scope of operations: He was deployed with heavy earth-moving equipment alongside Israeli combat engineering units to carry out building demolitions and structural clearance operations in Lebanese villages and towns along the border front.
3. Bedouin and Druze Private Contractors
🔹 Reporting source: Investigations published by Haaretz cited testimonies from Israeli military reservists who confirmed that civilian contractors—particularly Bedouin and Druze workers and business owners—were deployed to border villages to carry out systematic demolition and leveling operations.
🔹 Financial data: According to investigative reports, the Ministry of Defense pays private contractors fixed daily rates or incentive-based fees ranging from 5,000 to 12,000 Israeli shekels (approximately $1,350–$3,200 USD) per day for each piece of heavy machinery, or based on the volume of structures being demolished.
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AFFECTED SOUTHERN LEBANESE TOWNS
The involvement of private civilian contractors operating fleets of heavy machinery obtained through commercial distributors—including Hyundai, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Volvo, and Doosan excavators—has been documented in several border towns, including:
🔹 Aitaroun: Extensive residential clearance operations were carried out by civilian contractors, including the Hujairat family’s excavation crew.
🔹 Mays al-Jabal: Commercial excavators operating under military protection were photographed leveling residential homes and municipal facilities.
🔹 Qantara: The town was subjected to extensive structural leveling operations using a combination of explosive charges and excavators operated by civilian contractors.
🔹 Debel: Civilian excavators were documented removing civilian infrastructure, solar-energy arrays, and water lines.
🔹 Kfar Kila, Yaroun, and Mhaibib: Border towns subjected to systematic clearance operations aimed at establishing buffer zones, using mixed fleets of military and privately owned civilian machinery.
CORPORATE AND OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE
🔹 Dealerships and Equipment Sourcing: Arab contractors in Israel typically purchase or lease commercial excavators through major Israeli importers and commercial dealers, such as Zoko Enterprises, the official distributor of Caterpillar equipment in Israel.
🔹 Subcontracting Chains: The Israeli military’s Logistics and Engineering Directorate rarely contracts individuals directly. Instead, the work is generally tendered to major Israeli construction companies, which in turn subcontract the work to contractors from the ‘48 Palestinian community who own local fleets of excavators and heavy machinery and employ family members or local drivers and workers.
🔹 Internal Tensions: The participation of Arab contractors in Israel in the demolition of towns in Southern Lebanon has sparked strong condemnation within Arab communities inside Israel. Critics argue that accepting military demolition contracts constitutes a direct form of economic complicity in the destruction of Arab communities on the other side of the border.
While economic pressure, reliance on government tenders, and market realities are often cited to explain their participation, turning heavy machinery against Arab populations in neighboring countries places private profit above shared identity, solidarity, and basic ethical standards.
By operating excavators and bulldozers to demolish homes, civilian facilities, and livelihoods on the other side of the border, these contractors become direct economic accomplices in military operations that inflict devastating harm on local communities across the region—and particularly in Southern Lebanon.
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AFFECTED SOUTHERN LEBANESE TOWNS
The involvement of private civilian contractors operating fleets of heavy machinery obtained through commercial distributors—including Hyundai, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Volvo, and Doosan excavators—has been documented in several border towns, including:
🔹 Aitaroun: Extensive residential clearance operations were carried out by civilian contractors, including the Hujairat family’s excavation crew.
🔹 Mays al-Jabal: Commercial excavators operating under military protection were photographed leveling residential homes and municipal facilities.
🔹 Qantara: The town was subjected to extensive structural leveling operations using a combination of explosive charges and excavators operated by civilian contractors.
🔹 Debel: Civilian excavators were documented removing civilian infrastructure, solar-energy arrays, and water lines.
🔹 Kfar Kila, Yaroun, and Mhaibib: Border towns subjected to systematic clearance operations aimed at establishing buffer zones, using mixed fleets of military and privately owned civilian machinery.
CORPORATE AND OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE
🔹 Dealerships and Equipment Sourcing: Arab contractors in Israel typically purchase or lease commercial excavators through major Israeli importers and commercial dealers, such as Zoko Enterprises, the official distributor of Caterpillar equipment in Israel.
🔹 Subcontracting Chains: The Israeli military’s Logistics and Engineering Directorate rarely contracts individuals directly. Instead, the work is generally tendered to major Israeli construction companies, which in turn subcontract the work to contractors from the ‘48 Palestinian community who own local fleets of excavators and heavy machinery and employ family members or local drivers and workers.
🔹 Internal Tensions: The participation of Arab contractors in Israel in the demolition of towns in Southern Lebanon has sparked strong condemnation within Arab communities inside Israel. Critics argue that accepting military demolition contracts constitutes a direct form of economic complicity in the destruction of Arab communities on the other side of the border.
While economic pressure, reliance on government tenders, and market realities are often cited to explain their participation, turning heavy machinery against Arab populations in neighboring countries places private profit above shared identity, solidarity, and basic ethical standards.
By operating excavators and bulldozers to demolish homes, civilian facilities, and livelihoods on the other side of the border, these contractors become direct economic accomplices in military operations that inflict devastating harm on local communities across the region—and particularly in Southern Lebanon.
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AL-DIYAR EXCLUSIVE | U.S. “ASSURANCES”: A COVER FOR ESCALATION AND A RETURN TO THE OLD DECEPTION SCENARIOS
The U.S.
“assurances”
delivered to Beirut regarding the Israeli escalation being limited to a
“restricted”
strike are causing serious concern among relevant circles, amid growing doubts that they may simply be a misleading cover intended to lull Lebanese officials into complacency and pave the way for a much broader assault.
The United States’ political record suggests that promises by its officials not to invade or escalate can sometimes point in the opposite direction. Talk of “assurances” has repeatedly been accompanied by preparations for military action:
▫️ IRAQ (2003): U.S. officials repeatedly spoke of maintaining stability and pursuing diplomatic solutions, before Washington launched the invasion and occupation of Iraq—under claims that critics argued were misleading.
▫️ IRAN: U.S. calls for diplomacy have repeatedly coincided with sanctions, pressure campaigns, and military escalation, reinforcing concerns that diplomatic rhetoric can also serve as a tool of strategic maneuvering.
According to sources, the Americans are now speaking of a
“surgical” military operation targeting the Ali al-Taher hills,
while claiming they can contain its scope. But the reality on the ground raises fears of a U.S.
“green light”
for heating up the southern front, alongside increased pressure on Iran.
⚠️ There are no guarantees that the situation will remain contained or that escalation will not serve Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political objectives.
The concern extends beyond the southern border. There are also fears of high-profile targeted assassinations being carried out ahead of Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections on October 27, potentially reshaping the political and security landscape.
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SÁNCHEZ TO TRUMP: YOUR SANCTIONS MEAN NOTHING
🚨 While China and Russia have announced their rejection of the sanctions imposed by Donald Trump on Iran, following Washington’s failure to achieve its military objectives, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez took an even more embarrassing step for Trump: he did not merely reject the sanctions politically, but moved in practice to undermine the effects of the economic blockade on Iran.
📍 It was announced that a Spanish company had obtained a license to operate in the extraction and processing of minerals in South Khorasan Province, raising a broader question:
What remains of the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions when European countries and companies begin doing business with Iran despite American pressure?
⚡️ But Sánchez’s confrontation with Trump did not begin here.
Throughout the months of war and escalation against Iran, the Spanish prime minister adopted an openly critical position toward the war, refused to participate in supporting it, and maintained that Iran has the right to defend itself—while simultaneously taking increasingly critical positions toward Israel and the war in Palestine.
And this is where the real message lies:
Sanctions do not become powerful simply because Washington announces them.
Their power depends on the United States’ ability to enforce them on others. When major powers or European companies begin circumventing them, sanctions gradually stop being merely an instrument of pressure and become a test of the credibility of American influence itself.
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Sánchez has demonstrated, at least politically, that confronting Washington does not require aircraft carriers.
Sometimes, all it takes is saying:
NO.
And refusing to submit.
📌 That is why history may remember the Pedro Sánchez experience for a long time: he chose to pay a political price for opposing the war, challenging U.S. and Israeli policies, defending Iran’s right to protect itself, and defending the Palestinian people’s right to live.
As for those who run toward Washington at the first threat…
They should learn something from Madrid about the meaning of political dignity.
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SÁNCHEZ TO TRUMP: YOUR SANCTIONS MEAN NOTHING
What remains of the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions when European countries and companies begin doing business with Iran despite American pressure?
Throughout the months of war and escalation against Iran, the Spanish prime minister adopted an openly critical position toward the war, refused to participate in supporting it, and maintained that Iran has the right to defend itself—while simultaneously taking increasingly critical positions toward Israel and the war in Palestine.
And this is where the real message lies:
Sanctions do not become powerful simply because Washington announces them.
Their power depends on the United States’ ability to enforce them on others. When major powers or European companies begin circumventing them, sanctions gradually stop being merely an instrument of pressure and become a test of the credibility of American influence itself.
🇪🇸
Sánchez has demonstrated, at least politically, that confronting Washington does not require aircraft carriers.
Sometimes, all it takes is saying:
NO.
And refusing to submit.
As for those who run toward Washington at the first threat…
They should learn something from Madrid about the meaning of political dignity.
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SHOCKING ASSESSMENT FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: TRUMP FACES STRATEGIC DEFEAT IN THE IRAN WAR
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)—one of the United States’ leading foreign-policy think tanks—has published a striking assessment marking six months of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, warning that Washington is drifting toward a
“strategic defeat”
as a result of miscalculations and confusion over its objectives.
Key points from the center’s experts:
▫️ A major miscalculation:
“President Donald Trump did not expect Iran to resist U.S. military power,”
turning that assumption into both a battlefield and political setback.
▫️ Allies left exposed:
After six months, Washington’s Gulf partners have become increasingly vulnerable to Iranian strikes, while Tehran’s incentive to preserve or pursue a nuclear option has reached its highest levels.
▫️ The illusion of economic pressure:
Trump is relying on
“economic ostracism”
to either bring down the Iranian government or force it into negotiations. But Cook argues that Trump
“may be overstating the impact of economic pain,”
particularly because the Iranian population was already suffering economically and has developed mechanisms to adapt.
▫️ A crisis of confidence:
Trump expected a
“quick victory.”
Instead, Washington now faces the possibility of defeat, while regional allies are increasingly questioning whether the United States has the capability—and the willingness—to guarantee their security.
▫️ A widening domestic divide:
The war has generated diplomatic disagreements and fierce criticism from both the far right and far left within the United States.
▫️ Conflicting objectives with Israel:
Washington seeks to force a
“change in Iran’s behavior,”
including regarding its nuclear program and its activities around the Strait of Hormuz. Israel, however, views
“regime change”
as the only viable option—making any settlement or memorandum of understanding a persistent source of disagreement between Washington and Tel Aviv.
▫️ Declining public support:
Polling has shown a notable decline in support for Israel among both Republicans and Democrats, alongside growing editorial and political voices accusing Israel of
“dragging the United States into war with Iran.”
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The Observer
FINANCIAL TIMES: U.S. SANCTIONS TARGET EGYPT’S SECOND-LARGEST STATE-OWNED BANK OVER IRAN
The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed strict financial restrictions on branches of Banque Misr in the United Arab Emirates, citing the facilitation of financial transactions linked to Iran and violations of the limits imposed under the sanctions regime.
KEY IMPLICATIONS:
▫️ Targeting a sovereign banking institution:
The measures target Egypt’s second-largest state-owned bank, putting direct diplomatic and economic pressure on Cairo.
▫️ Tightening financial surveillance in the Gulf:
The move reflects the expansion of Washington’s financial monitoring of banking hubs in the UAE, aimed at closing potential channels through which Tehran could circumvent the financial blockade.
▫️ Consequences for cross-border transactions:
Arab banks are increasingly being forced into difficult choices between complying with U.S. Treasury requirements and maintaining their regional commercial relationships.
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Summary of Israeli Attacks on Southern Lebanon
(From midnight until this hour — Saturday, August 29, 2026)
• Al-Mansouri: Airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town in the Tyre District.
• Nabatieh al-Fawqa: Repeated strikes by drones, including two consecutive strikes this morning.
• Ali al-Taher Hill and its surroundings
• Duhairat Kfar Rumman
• Wadi al-Salouqi
• Outskirts of Yater
• Aita al-Jabal / Haddatha: Two controlled/field demolitions were carried out on the outskirts between the two towns.
• Beit Yahoun: A number of homes and facilities were set on fire and destroyed.
• Kfar Shuba: A force affiliated with the Israeli military advanced toward the eastern neighborhood of the town and raided a house under construction, where it reportedly installed an Israeli flag inside the building. This coincided with intensive sweeping operations using medium- and heavy-caliber machine guns around the area.
• Illumination flares were fired over the Tyre and Bint Jbeil sectors, accompanied by intensive drone activity along the course of the Litani River, from Al-Qasmiyeh to Al-Qaqaiyeh Bridge.
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CRACKS IN THE JUNTA: COUP ATTEMPT IN NIAMEY CONTAINED
Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked the Nigerien capital overnight as internal power struggles within the armed forces reached a breaking point. Despite initial reports attributing the chaos to jihadist insurgents, intelligence confirms this was an internal coup attempt launched by disgruntled regional military units and junior officers against General Abdourahamane Tchiani’s ruling junta.
Tactical Sequence of Events
The Geopolitical Engine Behind the Unrest
This mutiny is not an isolated incident; it is the direct outcome of systemic pressures collapsing on Tchiani’s regime:
While the junta claims the coup has failed and downtown Niamey has stabilized, the situation remains fluid. Heavy security cordons remain around the palace and airport. Regaining physical control of barracks does not fix the fractured chain of command. The threat of secondary mutonies remains high.
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