This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
🇺🇸🇮🇷| According to Fars News, US has given Iran 5 conditions in response to Iran’s proposal:
• No war compensation from US.
• Give up 400kg of HEU to US.
• Iran can only have 1 nuclear facility to remain active.
• Not more than 25% of frozen assets to be unfreezed.
• Halting war on all fronts depends on negotiations
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21640
I must say, this is beyond even wishful thinking 😂
Clown shit from a clown regime.
🇾🇪🇺🇸| BREAKING: Yemeni air defenses shot down an American MQ-9 drone in Safer, Marib.
"breaking" heh heh
Ted Postol says Iran's uranium centrifuges are 3-4x as efficient as assumed based on IAEA reports. He also says that using a different design Iran could turn their current stockpile into up to 20 warheads in a matter of weeks to months and produce another 1 or 2 warheads every year from then on.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
"Hurry up and let me out of the chokehold that I put my own neck into!" Lmao
He already did a more strongly worded letter when he said the thing about a civilization that would be destroyed some time ago (I can't remember when, time moves weirdly these days) and then I think it was not long after that the ceasefire was negotiated.
Guy has really fallen off with his threats. What is he gonna say next, that he's going to count to 3 and Iran better be in the same room by the time he's done?
Dude, please stop delaying the inevitable. Either follow through with your threats or be the big guy like you claim to be by admitting your empire lost and was fucked from the beginning. It's not that hard, Don.
Or keep being you, I guess.
🇮🇷🇨🇳| According to PressTV, Qalibaf has been appointed as Iran’s special representative for China’s affairs
🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸🇮🇱 一 The NYT, citing Iraqi security officials, reports that the United States ordered Iraq to shut down its radar systems during the two confrontations with Iran "to protect American aircraft." According to the report, the base that operated in Iraq during the war with Iran in June 2025 proved "highly effective." Iraq says it has long suspected that Israel operates a base in the area and has sought answers from the U.S. military, but has received no response.
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ICC issues secret arrest warrants for five additional senior Israeli officials: Report
The Hague-based court previously issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant
❗️New York Times: Israel established not one, but two secret bases in Iraq for attacks against Iran
The New York Times reported, citing Iraqi officials, that Israel established not one but two covert bases in Iraq to support the war on Iran.
The report follows an earlier The Wall Street Journal investigation that revealed a secret Israeli base in Iraq’s western desert used during the recent war on Iran.
According to the New York Times, one of the bases was built before Israel launched its war on Iran in June, while construction on a second facility began in late 2024 and it is not yet operational.
The newspaper added that the United States was aware of at least one of the installations.
The extremely Zionist paper NYT being forced to acknowledge first the rape in Israeli prisons then the Israeli bases in Iraq seems like a nod to how the public opinion in the US really is moving away from their imperial outpost state, despite the lobby money stranglehold said outpost has on their political class.
Iran launches crypto-based insurance platform for safe Hormuz passage: Report
❗️Hormuz Safe: Iran launches digital insurance platform for Strait of Hormuz cargo with premiums paid in Bitcoin
Iran has launched a new insurance platform called “Hormuz Safe” to provide coverage for maritime cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The platform offers marine insurance policies and financial liability certificates for shipments moving through the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and surrounding waterways, effectively creating an Iranian mechanism to guarantee safe passage through one of the world’s most strategically important shipping routes.
WANA reported that documents reviewed by journalists show Iran’s Ministry of Economy has been developing the initiative since early April, seeking to establish a framework in which parts of the strait’s maritime management would be handled through insurance-related services.
Officials involved in the project estimate that the platform could eventually generate more than $10 billion in revenue for Iran.
Under regulations published on the platform’s website, insurance policies are issued rapidly and include encrypted verification features. Premiums are paid in Bitcoin, and cargo is covered immediately upon payment confirmation, with a digitally signed receipt provided to the owner. The launch comes as the Strait of Hormuz remains a critical artery for global energy shipments and maritime trade.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59783
🇦🇪| The UAE says 3 drones “from the west” entered its territory and one drone struck the electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, in the Al Dhafra Region.
West region can mean Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or Yemen.
Could also mean Israel perhaps.
🇸🇦🇮🇶| The Saudi MoD announced they intercepted 3 drones after they entered its airspace from Iraq, this morning.
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https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21651
My Speculation
I think this might be relavent to the UAE attack as well as the discovery of two Israeli bases within Iraq.
My current theory is that Israel and the US are attempting to goad Saudi Arabia and the UAE into reigniting conflict with Iran. I think they're performing false flags with the idea that they can blame those attacks on Iraqi resistance groups.
They may also be using it so that Israel had some bullshit pretext it can use for Hasbara to day that Iran's allies don't respect the ceasefire so everything they're doing in Lebanon is actually fine.
Basically, I don't think the attack on the UAE is from Yemen like some believe, and that it's actually an attack from Israeli assets in Iraq.
Hadn't actually made this link with the Iraqi bases in my mind at all but this makes sense. Probably a nice little spot to set up in and conduct your false flags from.
My guess is saudi. I think they have the most to gain from an end to the fighting while the uae seems to be the most willing to restart the conflict in Iran. This could be their way of explaining that if uae start things they will not just be fighting Iran.
❗️Iraqi witness to secret Israeli base in Iraq found dead in Najaf desert
The assassination of Awad Hadi al-Shammari has ignited a firestorm across Iraq after the shepherd was found dead in his burned-out vehicle in the Najaf desert on 13 May. According to reports from Al-Araby TV and The Palestine Chronicle, Shammari was killed just days after his amateur footage of a secret military installation went viral. The footage provided the first visual evidence of a clandestine Israeli base operating deep within Iraqi territory, a facility later confirmed by a 9 May exposé in the Wall Street Journal.
The clandestine site was reportedly established with US knowledge to serve as a forward operating hub for the Israeli Air Force during its ongoing war against Iran. Iraqi security officials who initially investigated al-Shammari's report in March were met with Israeli airstrikes, confirming that the base was being protected by active kinetic force. While the Iraqi government initially blamed the US for the violation of sovereignty, recent journalistic investigations have identified the site as an Israeli special operations outpost used for pilot recovery and drone launches.
Local resistance factions and political leaders have branded the killing of Shammari as a blatant act of war and a failure of the state to protect its citizens from foreign intelligence agencies. By silencing the whistleblower on Iraqi soil, Israel has underscored its intent to maintain a military footprint in the country through the use of force.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59567
🇮🇷 Iranian MFA Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei:
To every decent human being—regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, or any other distinction,
To Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others of faith,
And to those who follow no formal religion but hold deeply to the universal values of peace, justice, and human dignity:
The U.S. - Israel launched this war of aggression on 28 February 2026, for a second time in less than a year, while Iran-U.S. were engaged in diplomatic negotiations.
This is not merely a war over land, resources, or geopolitics. This is a war that will determine the very meaning of 'good' and 'evil' in our time and for future.
What has been unleashed upon our peace-loving nation is not just another conflict. On one side stand those who delight in violating every law of war and basic human decency—those who murder for sport, who slaughter children to torment their families, who fire newest missiles at women’s sports halls simply to test their destructive power.
This is a war between those who boast of torpedoing unarmed vessels “for more fun,” and those who go to extraordinary lengths to protect innocent lives.
This is a war between professional liars who fabricate justifications for atrocity, and a proud people who defend their homeland and human dignity relying solely on their own strength and resolve.
This is a war between those whose decisions are shadowed by moral compromise, and those who act with a clear conscience.
This is a defining struggle for the future of humankind. It will decide whether civilization’s hard-won achievements—human rights, the rule of law, and basic morality—will survive or be swept away.
We must choose:
Do we accept a world ruled by modern slave masters—arrogant, domineering, and unaccountable—who govern through coercion, lies, and extortion? Or do we stand for a world grounded in respect, justice, peace, and human dignity?
Humanity’s conscience is not yet dead. But in times like these, silence is complicity with evil.
If you reject the path of barbarism and domination, then find the moral courage to speak, to act, and to stand on the right side of history—before the world descends into an abyss of lawlessness and subjugation.
The choice is yours. And history will remember.
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Iran's messaging continues to be exceptional throughout the war, and for the first time in a long time it feels like Iranian perspectives are widely known and often appreciated even in the west.
I'm fascinated to see this: "And to those who follow no formal religion but hold deeply to the universal values of peace, justice, and human dignity:"
It aligns with the tolerant, inclusive tone I've been seeing from their official messaging and through non-official channels like Prof. Marandi and others. I've also yet to see any anti-LGBTQ insults from any of these channels, it's been helping people get past their preconceptions about Iran and about Muslims in general to engage with the core messages. They often address the western public too, appreciate the pro-palestine, anti-zionist movements and protests, and draw a distinction between Zionists and Jews.
I'm impressed at how they've shaped all this and I admit, my opinion of the Iranian system as it stands now has gone up although of course I can never fully support a non-socialist theocracy. The Islamic revolution has mellowed out significantly compared to the early years and has shown flexibility and the ability to prioritize the needs of the general public and to make good strategic moves.
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: One of Iran’s underground missile bases, located near Esfahan, was bombed almost 20 separate times during the war, an average of once every two days, with bunker busting ammunition and smart bombs, including from B-2s and B-52s
Despite the immense amount of firepower used, the base never stopped firing for more than half a day, before returning back to operations.
One Esfahan resident said:
‘This mountain, we see it get bombed almost every night, we see the smoke rise. Yet when we wake up in the morning, it’s from these very same mountains that we see missiles rising into the sky’
@Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇷🇨🇳🇺🇸| The Chinese satellite company MizarVision, who shared satellite images of US bases, says they don’t give a flying damn about US sanctions against their company.
They are teaching how to handle a gun on Iran’s national TV.
This could mean that Iran is expecting a ground war and is therefore teaching the general population the basics.
PS: The anchor, while being taught to handle a gun, did a live shot aiming at the UAE flag :)
❗️After 13 hours of deliberation, British jury fails to convict activist for posts supporting Palestinian resistance
A Birmingham jury has failed to reach a verdict in the high-profile trial of Majid Freeman, an activist accused by the British state of supporting Hamas through his social media advocacy. After more than thirteen hours of deliberation, the court was forced to order a retrial as jurors could not agree that Freeman’s posts on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram constituted a criminal offense. The prosecution attempted to paint the thirty-eight-year-old as an effective propagandist for proscribed groups, but the defense successfully argued that his content was a legitimate expression of support for the right of an occupied people to resist genocide.
During the two-week trial, the Crown focused on Freeman’s use of specific symbols and his amplification of videos showing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, claiming these were tools used to humanize armed resistance. However, Freeman maintained that his posts were intended to raise awareness of the ongoing war crimes being committed against Palestinians rather than incite violence. He told the court that while he does not support any specific group, he believes every Palestinian has the inherent right to defend themselves against Israeli aggression through the use of force, a position grounded in the context of the broader liberation struggle.
Outside the court, Freeman welcomed the prospect of a 2027 retrial, noting that it provides another opportunity to place the evidence of Israeli war crimes before a jury of the British public. The activist, who was previously acquitted of charges related to the 2022 Leicester riots, slammed the state for exhausting massive resources to prosecute him over emojis and religious prayers.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59407
❗️Israeli soldier/illegal settler killed by resistance in southern Lebanon, bringing admitted-to total to 20 since March
Israel's military identified yet another soldier killed in south Lebanon as Captain Maoz Israel Recanati, 24, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion from the illegal settlement of Itamar.
He was killed on Friday, 15 May, in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon.
He is the seventh Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon since the so-called “ceasefire,” and the 20th admitted-to killing since the start of Israel’s ground assault in Lebanon.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59768
— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Hezbollah announces that if Lebanon and Israel reach a comprehensive ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah will not consider Israeli bases and troops occupying Lebanese territory to be a part of it
@Middle_East_Spectator
Major Scandal of Hidden Ties Between Zionism and the UAE Revealed with the Exposure of Samuel Shay
In one of the most significant cyber operations of recent years, Samuel Shay, the mastermind behind Netanyahu’s trip to the UAE and the chief architect of the Abraham Accords, has been completely hacked, and his clandestine network has been dismantled.
This individual is not only the main coordinator of all backchannel agreements between the Zionist regime and Persian Gulf states, but also serves as a key facilitator of covert economic, political, and security relations between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.
Through companies like Gulf Technology Systems, Samuel Shay created a complex web of joint projects in technology, energy, investment, agriculture, and strategic infrastructure between Israel, the UAE, and even other Arab countries.
While “normalization” was widely promoted as a bridge of friendship, the real network behind these ties is nothing but corruption, money laundering, the transfer of Israeli security technologies for the suppression of regional peoples, and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
All secret contracts, financial transfers, training of security forces, and even economic and intelligence espionage against the Resistance Axis were managed directly by this individual and his team.
Samuel Shay’s role in blocking Hezbollah’s assets and assisting in the weakening of the Resistance in Lebanon is fully documented and indisputable.
And most notably: Samuel Shay introduced Epstein to Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and through Sultan, many corrupt Emirati rulers were ensnared in the Epstein network. Mossad used this very path to coerce them into accepting its demands.
Today, 265 pages of Shay’s contacts, financial partners, and secret communications have been published in full on the Handala website, and all information related to his financial network in Resistance countries has been sent to the intelligence services of friendly nations.
Samuel Shay is the pillar of normalization and the main link between the Zionist regime and the UAE at security, economic, and political levels. Without him, none of these infiltration and betrayal projects could have succeeded
A Message to the People of America and Europe:
Know that the truth is not as it has been portrayed by lavish spending, corrupt media, and joint projects.
Epstein and Kahanist cult leaders have spent billions trying to present regional lackeys and cowards as “honorable models and champions of prosperity” under the banner of the Abraham Accords.
But all this money has simply lined the pockets of these same corrupt leaders, resulting only in more poverty, corruption, repression, and betrayal in Muslim lands.
Be aware:
The true leaders of the world’s free and Muslim peoples are those who stand, body and soul, for justice until the very end: Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and the great mujahid Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
Today, in honor of the eminent leaders of the Resistance, Handala’s cyber team has exposed a treacherous agent and key figure in the Zionist and Epstein infiltration project, so that the world knows:
Behind the façade of Israeli-Emirati friendship lies only corruption, collusion, espionage, and betrayal, not peace and prosperity.
Source -> https://handala-hack.tw/handala-hacks-reveal-samuel-shays-key-role-in-netanyahus-uae-mission/
🇮🇷| Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf:
There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.
Any other approach will be completely inconclusive.
🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️ — Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf: The world stands at the cusp of a new order.
As President Xi said “The transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe,” and I emphasize that the Iranian nation’s 70-day resistance has accelerated this transformation.
The future belongs to the Global South.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32134
❗️Another Israeli soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack near Lebanon border
According to Israeli Army Radio, the soldier was killed after Hezbollah launched several explosive-laden drones that penetrated into the Galilee at around 16:00 on Saturday and detonated near the border with Lebanon.
The report said the soldier was struck directly by one of the drones. The drones were not detected by Israeli military systems, no warning sirens were activated in the area, and the soldier was unable to defend himself.
The Israeli military later identified the soldier as Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, a driver in the Transport Center’s 6924th Battalion from Petah Tikva. His surname suggests Russian or Eastern European origins.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59322
Another Settler Down. Hopefully more to come.
— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal confirms, based on informed sources, that the UAE has been carrying out strikes on Iran
One of the strikes back in April targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery Company (LORC) on Lavan Island.
The UAE had long been suspected of carrying out the attack, but it was unconfirmed until now. At the time, Iran responded by targeting an Emirati refinery.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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VIDEO | Knesset Member Tzvi Sukkot recently disrupted a Nakba commemoration event at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was filmed issuing threats to Palestinian students marking the 78th anniversary of the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59405
The day these fuckers are strung up by a free Palestine, I'm celebrating.
— 🇦🇪/🇸🇦/🇰🇼/🇧🇭/🇶🇦/🇮🇷 NEW: During the recent war, UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed personally called the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, proposing to form an Arab coalition against Iran, but every country refused – Bloomberg
This genocidal sionist trash now dreams of attacking Egypt and Turkey...
I'm quite busy today so I can only offer so many reports unfortunately:
VIDEO | From the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir dancing provocatively with Jewish settlers under police protection.
Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59579
Thia ghoul deserves the absolute worst fate imaginable.
💠 Israeli Regime's Channel 12: Identifying Hezbollah's fiber-optic drones is very difficult
🔹 Early detection or tracking of these micro-drones is extremely challenging, making their interception highly complex.
🔹 The threat of suicide micro-drones has had a widespread impact on the "army" of Israel's operations inside Lebanese territory.
🔹 Hezbollah has used the ceasefire period to develop suicide micro-drones; tools that we still do not know how to effectively counter.
🔹 The nature of the Israeli army's operational activities has fundamentally changed due to the threat of suicide micro-drones.
— 🇮🇱/🇦🇪 NEW: Israel stabs the UAE in the back for a second time, now revealing that not only Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi, but also the IDF Chief of Staff, the head of Mossad, and the head of Shin Bet
Israel’s arrogance and their need to brag is destroying the very relationship they are so proud of.
Emirati officials are reportedly ‘outraged’ with the new revelation.
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21630
Funny how the Zionist ditch their gulf slaves.
🇸🇦🇮🇷| Things are happening behind the curtains, interesting things.
Amidst all the news, suddenly Saudi Arabia has reportedly proposed a non-aggression pact with Iran.
🇮🇷🇰🇼| Iran’s FM demands Kuwait to release the 4 kidnapped Iranian nationals or else expect a response from Iran.
❗️Trump says Kurdish groups only 'fight when they get paid', rebukes them for refusing to join US-led campaign against Iran
US President Donald Trump openly rebuked Kurdish factions from the White House on Monday, accusing the groups of "staling" weapons and failing to mobilize against the Iranian state. Amidst the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign, Trump expressed deep dissatisfaction with Kurdish leaders who he claimed failed to facilitate an internal uprising despite receiving US support.
"The Kurds take, take, take," Trump told reporters, dismissing their favorable standing in Congress by stating that while they have a reputation for fighting hard, "they fight hard when they get paid."
These comments follow widespread reports that the US attempted to funnel weaponry to Kurdish opposition groups to trigger internal instability within Iran. While Iranian Kurdish leaders have officially denied receiving such arms or agreeing to serve as a ground force for the western led campaign, the White House is increasingly vocal about their lack of cooperation.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59415
Wake me up when the Kurdish political factions actually start fighting Imperialism.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| According to senior Al Jazeera correspondent in Tehran, the US has rejected Iran’s proposal in its entirety.
Iran’s proposal reportedly included:
And the US rejected all of them.
Any recent developments of resistance (armed resistance to be specific) in the West Bank? I feel like 98% of what I hear about is zionist insects gobbling up Palestinian land and acting like mosquitoes.
— 🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iranian and Omani officials held a joint meeting today about the future of the Strait of Hormuz
Oman’s position has apparently shifted since last time, and they have recognized joint Iranian-Omani control over the Strait as sovereign territory.
Iran promised the Omani side that there will be revenue sharing between both sides, as part of good neighbourly relations and Islamic friendship.
❗️Israeli finance minister vows permanent annexation during mass settler incursion into Joseph's Tomb
In a move that signals the accelerating annexation of the occupied West Bank, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich led a massive raid of hundreds of settlers into Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on Wednesday. Under heavy military escort, Smotrich conducted morning prayers in the heart of the Palestinian-administered city, declaring that the Israeli presence at the site—and across the northern West Bank—must become "permanent."
The incursion, which reportedly included up to 5,000 settlers overnight, involved Israeli forces raiding residential neighborhoods and sealing checkpoints to facilitate the deliberately provocative visit. Smotrich, who also holds the defense portfolio overseeing the West Bank's civil administration, framed the raid as a "historic correction."
Smotrich called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to officially transfer control of the compound to the Israeli government, effectively demanding the formal re-occupation of a site that has been under Palestinian Authority (PA) jurisdiction since the early 2000s.