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Found on an Iranian Telegram. Let me know your thoughts.
"As for people betting "Trump" won't use nuclear weapons - they still don't get "Trump" isn't in charge of anything.
This is an all-or-nothing bid by the US to maintain primacy over the planet before losing it permanently.
The unelected US corporate-financier establishment - pushing for wars since the inception of America as a nation - have ALREADY USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS - TWICE!!!
They considered using them on Korea, Vietnam, and even as recently as Afghanistan.
DO NOT let the US pin this solely on a single politician, or an administration or a US proxy. Make sure EVERYONE involved is blamed and held accountable.
This is called compartmentalization - dividing up your political fronts when dirty work is required so you can flush the consequences down with one or more of these fronts while keeping the political whole more or less intact.
The US literally does this every 4-8 years with presidents and scores of wars of aggression and other horrible foreign and domestic policies - and they will do it with this time as well.
It wasn't "Clinton," "Bush," or "Obama's" wars (although they are accomplices and equally guilty) - they are Wall Street and Washington wars - every single one of them - no matter who is picked to sell them and take the fall for them.
If you never expose and hold Wall Street and Washington as a whole accountable, they will continue their compartmentalization game forever without end."
🇮🇷| Seen at Tehran’s metro station:
“Iran does not abandon Lebanon.”
This show of solidarity, its so heartening to see that there are places that still have a we are in this together mentality
Btw, I had finally got my permaban on Reddit by stating that it is time for a retaliation on Israel's logistics railway.
May Israel, the US and their colonial lackeys suffer every bit of torment they have inflicted upon this world.
—❗️🇬🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: BBC is manufacturing consent for genocide in Iran, faking quotes of alleged ‘Iranian citizens’ from Tehran saying they would be ‘OK’ with an atomic bomb being dropped on Iran
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30469
Woke up to a ceasefire
Israel fucks up again
Strait of Hormuz is closed again
Boy, it was a good... hour? Maybe?
🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, which was partially open for around 10 minutes this morning, until further notice due to Israel’s attack on Lebanon – Fars
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇪 NEW: An Irish man broke into Shannon Airport, getting on top of an American C-130 cargo plane and smashing it with a hammer
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30849
https://www.thejournal.ie/us-aircraft-shannon-attacked-7009833-Apr2026/
Edit THERE IS VIDEO!
Video in https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181680
The man was arrested by Gardaí and the Armed Support Unit.
Shannon has been used as a key US military transit hub throughout the Iran war, despite the Irish government's insistence it is not being used for war operations.
Edit 2
The guy was able to take the aircraft out of service by damaging the fuselage!
Don't fall for them. This is not new and it has happened several times before.
Don't let them demoralize you or your comrades.
Don't let them antagonize allies of the resistance.
Patience is key. Trust in the resistance and trust in the courageous people fighting the Usraeli beast.
Trump really out there saying a whole civilization will die today like it's a normal thing
🇮🇷| Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti:
As predicted, the enemy immediately violated the ceasefire, and Qalibaf correctly stated that with the violation of the ceasefire, further negotiation is no longer logical.
But merely declaring a position is not enough. Israel and the US bases must again come under fire on the ground to show that Iran's response is balanced.
The 10-point plan, which America was supposed to agree to as a basis for negotiation in Islamabad, has apparently NOT been agreed to.
The inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire, which was explicitly stated in the Pakistani readout, has apparently also NOT been agreed to.
So the situation is that America and Israel have both backtracked on the only promises they made yesterday.
In turn, Iran has continued to close the Strait of Hormuz and is preparing a possible retaliation against Israel.
Anyway, back to the war it seems.
I’m looking at the pentagon pizza index and there’s increased activity (400%) on papa John’s pizza.
Highly likely they’re planning a strike.
I won’t link the site because it’s disgusting.
From Sony Thang:
You know what keeps the empire running more than any aircraft carrier?
The American who knows something is wrong but has decided it's too big to fight.
The resignation.
The learned helplessness.
The "what am I supposed to do about it."
They manufactured that feeling deliberately.
Make the system feel permanent.
Make alternatives feel impossible.
Make dissent feel futile.
A population that has given up is cheaper to manage than a population that is afraid.
And they have both.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2041147551236465001#m
This is a pretty accurate assessment of the core issue about organizing in the US. Few are willing to commit to radical action and it's not hard to see why.
For example, I'm sure many here are aware of that one video from the recent demonstrations, where protesters managed to break the door of an ICE facility. Then they simply walked backwards and cheered, not one person choosing to actually go into the facility and escalate.
Many online comrades scoffed at this, noting how neutered the American left is. They were correct in their suggestion that the US left self terminates radical action, which is mind numbing to say the least.
However I'd like to perhaps explain the headspace that these protestors likely had.
For one, there's the pretty good chance that if they went into the facility, they'd just get shot.
well risk has to exist in every action, so the problem is that Americans still have too much to lose
This works to explain some of the inertia but there's more.
When those protesters think about getting shot, it's not just what they have to lose that influences them. It's the thought of "what would giving my life actually accomplish?" Which I feel is a more paralyzing thought, as he answer is quite simple.
"Not much" is what the protesters will determine.
And it's for good reason.
I want you to think about how the US public reacts to crackdowns broadly. How they react to their own state suppressing them let alone how it suppresses the Global South.
Americans would see a protestor, or even a score of protesters, getting mowed down in an ICE facility, and frankly, I know they wouldn't do shit about it.
They'd declare their outrage, but they'd just take it as evidence that this is the result of fighting back.
That thought of "what would giving up my life acheive" followed by "I know my fellow countryman wouldn't do a damn thing about it" basically completely holds you back from doing something radical.
Americans have no sense of actual community. We're so atomized and utterly disconnected from eachother that someone could drop dead in our own neighborhood and most of us wouldn't even know that person's name.
How the hell do you organize that?! No matter how much time you put into your organization, how do you grow anything on such salted soil?
It's why the only meaningful organizing that's happened recently, in my opinion, is the Minisoda/Minneapolis community defense organizations. We saw Americans nanage to run ICE forces out of their neighborhood, burn their vehicles, and seize their weapons. Yet, we didn't see the mainstream Media say a peep about it.
That to me signals that the US regime found this organizational trend to be very concerning. I want other parts of the US to learn about that recent local shift, learn from it, and adopt its succesful methods. However the issue is that the conditions which bred such a response aren't being applied to the rest of the US.
🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱| ❗️ Iran is finalising plans to respond to Israel's ceasefire violations on Lebanon
A security-military informed source told the official Fars News outlet:
Following Israel’s continued violation of the temporary ceasefire against Lebanon and Hezbollah, Iran is in the process of finalising to carry out deterrent operations against Israeli military positions in ‘Israel’.
This source emphasized:
In Tehran, the notion is being strengthened that the continuation of attacks by the regime despite agreements on all fronts indicates that either the US cannot control Netanyahu or the US Central Command has granted freedom of action to the Zionist regime.
That's more like it. Israel have a history of taking ceasefires as an opportunity to kill even more civilians. It's about time they stopped getting away with it. Hit these fuckers with everything you can.
Apparently Trump is threatening to withdraw troops from NATO countries if they refuse to get involved and please God just once let us have this win please
The Wall Street Journal: The White House warns its employees against betting in the markets amid the Iran war.
Source -> https://t.me/naya_foriraq/71464
And Original source -> https://www.reuters.com/business/white-house-warned-staff-not-place-market-bets-amid-iran-war-wsj-reports-2026-04-09/
🇮🇷 Personal belongings left behind by the children, stained with their blood, were taken by the Iranian delegation “Minab 168” to Pakistan as evidence of a U.S. war crime against Iran, and as a symbol of their demand for justice in potential upcoming negotiations.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181634
Reporter: Iran is not listening to your threats about reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump: How do you know that?
Reporter: Because it’s still blocked.
Trump: Why do you say that? You don’t know anything. Who are you with?
Reporter: NBC News.
Trump: NBC? That’s fake news.
Video in https://t.me/LebUpdate/59816
— 🇮🇷 NEW: Dr. Alireza Zarei, Mathematics Professor and Head of IT Center at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, holds his ‘Randomized Algorithms’ class for his students in his destroyed office
‘I won’t leave this place, this is our university. They can destroy the building but not the spirit.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30493
Whenever I see these genocidal sionists get a little taste of the suffering that they have done to Palestinians, I feel joy.
Before and after an Iranian missile
Context: To the fortune of everyone, this zionist suffered a fractured skull and burns to her head after being struck by shrapnel from an Iranian missile near. She will not be able to do Tiktok videos abusing Palestinians.
From Brian Berletic:
🇺🇸/IRAN - US is Already Undermining Fake Ceasefire It Never Had any Intention of Upholding
The US and its Israeli proxies (who are incapable of conducting military operations without complete and constant US support, meaning Israeli transgressions are also US transgressions) have already violated the ceasefire agreement along multiple points.
As was 100% predictable.
The sort of people who started such an outrageously unwarranted, illegal, and murderous war of choice are INCAPABLE of agreeing to a just and lasting peace.
These violations include the continued punitive bombing of Lebanon and the US again demanding no uranium enrichment which Iran is and has always been entitled to under international law.
The point on uranium enrichment in particular, which never was any of Washington's business and only made an issue by the US to impede Iranian development and as a means of falsely justifying an otherwise indefensible war, demonstrates how fundamentally in bad faith the US has and continues to act.
After yet another extremely predictable betrayal from a verified agreement-incapable nation, I find it amazing there are still people allowing themselves to be strung along by this very deliberate process of political compartmentalization and buying time and space for continued death and destruction.
Believing the US will change its fundamental character without fundamentally changing its system first is like expecting one day to find water no longer being wet and up becoming down.
Images below: Here is US President Trump openly saying after the ceasefire was announced, there will be no uranium enrichment.
In other messages Trump has threatened nations arming Iran.
The purpose of that threat is to prevent Iran from arming and defending itself against INEVITABLE aggression the US and its proxies are already planning and preparing for.
The US = agreement incapable.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic/status/2042041959666348459#m
No, saying "Hitler was right" is not a proper way of showing support for Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. It only shows that you are a historically illiterate fascist piece of shit, regardless of your religion.
Go check your facts about the Nazi-Zionist coalition and how Nazis mostly oppressed the regular Jewish people like you and me instead of the deranged Zionist Jews.
🇮🇷🇮🇱| Iranian Jewish Rabbi standing on top of the ruins of a bombed synagogue in Tehran by ‘Israel’
🇮🇷🇺🇸| ❗️Iran’s SNSC (security council) in a statement said
Iran defeated the enemy in the war, and forced the US to accept a 10-point plan, with secured commitments including:
• No further aggression (including against Iranian allies)
• Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz.
• Acceptance of enrichment.
• Removal of all sanctions.
• Cancellation of UN resolutions.
• Compensation.
• US military withdrawal from the region.
• and a halt to fighting on all fronts.
This is according to the statement by the SNSC.
Diplomatic sources told CBS that Trump personally agreed to include Lebanon in the ceasefire agreement, and that Israel also agreed to the terms of the agreement.
⚡️ 🚫 American Law Professor James Sample: The situation in the war on Iran has deteriorated to the point that Trump's wife brought up the Epstein case to distract.
https://t.me/me_observer_TG/907336
🤣
Iran has informed regional states that if Iranian energy infrastructure is struck, the entire region will be plunged into darkness and all options are on the table.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Trump is begging Iran not to impose a tax on ships entering the Strait of Hormuz.
🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱| It’s official: Iran will retaliate against Israel for violating ceasefire on Lebanon
Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force:
Attacking the proud Hezbollah is an attack on Iran. The field is preparing a heavy response to the regime's brutal crimes.
🇺🇸🇮🇱‼ The hidden picture behind the ceasefire; US and Israel preparing for the next phase of the attack!
🔺Assessments show that the US military and the Zionist regime, following the ceasefire and concurrently with negotiations, have launched an unprecedented logistical operation in the region.
📡 From April 3 to April 8, coinciding with the days leading up to the ceasefire and after it, over 70 heavy transport aircraft, including C-17 and C-5 models, have arrived at military bases across the region. These flights, mostly concentrated in recent days, reveal a systematic plan to rebuild combat and military capability.
👉 A notable point is the dispersion of these shipments across six countries and dozens of airbases, stretching from Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Greece, and occupied Palestine. The landing of transport aircraft at "Nevatim," "Ovda," and "Ben Gurion" airbases in occupied Palestine indicates that Tel Aviv is directly stockpiling ammunition and advanced equipment for the next round of confrontation with the Axis of Resistance.
In short, it can be said that the United States is using the opportunity provided by ceasefire negotiations to fill the gaps that have been created; Washington and Tel Aviv are making maximum use of this tactical breathing space!
Source -> https://t.me/iswnews_en/18552
Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, issues a statement on the U.S. and Israeli violation of Iran’s 10-point plan
He says the U.S. has clearly violated at least 3 points:
The statement concludes: ‘In such situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiations are unreasonable.’
LOL
🇺🇸🇮🇷| Trump attacks CNN after they aired the full statement of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which said Iran had achieved a "great victory" and forced the US to accept its 10-point plan.
He called the network a fraud and said he would sue them.
Expand article
The Israeli regime is facing its worst strategic crisis following the 40-day war against Iran amid unsustainable economic burdens, eroding international support, and a deepening military manpower crisis, according to an American-Israeli analyst.
Shaeil Ben-Ephraim, a US-based geopolitical analyst and former diplomat, said with the protracted war in Lebanon looming and no resolution so far in the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel's “security reality” has deteriorated.
"Israel now faces a worse security reality than before the war," Ben-Ephraim wrote on X.
He noted that the US-Israel ceasefire deal could restrict Israel's future ability to act against Tehran, while Iran has demonstrated its capability to strike deep inside the occupied territories with its ballistic missiles.
Perhaps most alarmingly, Ben-Ephraim warned that US -Israeli relations are eroding too.
"Chances are that future rounds against Iran and other potential enemies will be fought with decreasing, and eventually no, American support at all. That is unsustainable," he said.
He said the regime’s military budget currently stands at $45.7 billion, having already been expanded by nearly $9.6 billion in a recent top-up. However, it sees even that insufficient, requesting an additional $10.9 billion before year's end just to cover existing commitments.
"For context, that additional $10.9 billion ask alone is roughly equivalent to the entire annual defense budget of a mid-sized European nation," Ben-Ephraim noted.
Each confrontation with Iran carries a price tag of $16 to $19 billion, he stated, and if such rounds become recurring, Israel “would be spending the equivalent of a small war every year or two, not as an emergency but as a structural cost of existence."
At that pace, cumulative spending over a decade could reach $160 to $190 billion in direct military costs alone, before factoring in economic disruption, lost productivity from reserve mobilization, or deferred civilian infrastructure.
Israel's formerly robust relations with some Persian Gulf states are now under severe stress following the war against Iran and the Iranian retaliation, the analyst noted.
"Israeli machinations have put them in serious danger with Iran and caused severe damage to their tourism and energy prospects," Ben-Ephraim said.
"They will be looking to lessen dependence on the US and possibly move away from normalization with Israel, leaving Israel isolated in the region."
To counter the lack of diplomatic resolution, Israel has shifted toward a strategy of creating permanent buffer zones in southern Lebanon, Gaza, and parts of Syria, adding to mounting responsibilities in the occupied West Bank.
"The Zionist entity is now on its last stand"@TadhgHickey says that we are witnessing the closing chapter of a bloody, shameful period of history led by the Zionist entity and its supporters. pic.twitter.com/R9Gv7N1qEC
— Press TV 🔻 (@/PressTV) April 9, 2026
"Patrolling these vast, hostile areas simultaneously will place an unsustainable long-term strain on IDF (Israeli military) personnel and the domestic economy," Ben-Ephraim said.
The convergence of record-high reserve call-ups, a significant brain drain in the high-tech sector, and a nearly total loss of the Palestinian labor force has created a critical manpower crisis, he added.
Israeli regime leadership recently warned the situation could cause the military to "collapse in on itself," Ben-Ephraim said.
While standard deployment for combat reservists has shifted from ad-hoc emergency calls to a structured 60 days per year in 2026 — a one-third reduction from peak burdens in 2025 — constant deployments have caused turnout rates in most reserve battalions to drop to just 60 to 70 percent.
Ben-Ephraim warned that the regime now faces a severe, unsustainable strategic crisis characterized by a permanent war economy, mounting financial strain, and increasing international isolation.
From Brian Berletic
How does it go?
"Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan."
In the beginning - the US administration and military leadership were all beating their chests.
As operational momentum turned to a stand-still - politicians and political military leaders did what they always do - blame others, distance themselves from failure, and try to preserve themselves and their respective institutions.
The fact the US media, US officials etc. are openly blaming Israel - after all, that is what proxies are for - only further proves the role Israel actually plays - as a criminal extension of US aggression - vs. the outsized role people imagine it does.
They're all responsible. They're all guilty. Not just those in office now, but everyone who set the stage for this throughout past decades.
Stop allowing the US establishment to compartmentalize and manage its failures - affording them clean slates ever 4-8 years.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic/status/2042096834102096022#m
For years, Handala has silently and invisibly been right inside the system of General Herzi Halevi, the former Chief of Staff of the Zionist Army, a place no one ever imagined possible.
During all this time, more than 19,000 confidential images and videos from the most secret meetings of the Zionist military’s Chief of Staff have been extracted and archived—material your top generals never dreamed would see the light of day.
An army that now nervously pixelates every public image never realized that its own Chief of Staff’s files and photos have been fully accessible and uncensored to Handala, every moment, for years. Every face, every commander, every criminal pilot, clear and unblurred, are in our hands, and will be revealed one by one when the time is right.
All your top-secret facilities, crisis rooms, maps, and even the tiniest details of your command centers have long been like an open book to us. Even now, Handala has access to all your senior commanders. Every moment, every decision, every conversation is being watched, only the time to expose them has not yet arrived.
And for the sake of irony: as one of our videos shows, this very so-called “general” was once caught hiding under a table, trying to scare his wife—and failed even at that! Are these the same criminal commanders who think they can intimidate the lion cubs of Haidar al-Karrar or the warriors of Hezbollah? What a delusion!
Remember: We are the shadow in the heart of your command; And everything you have will one day be exposed for all the world to see.
❗️Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:
• “There will be a final diplomatic round in Gaza that will expand our borders.”
• “There will be a final diplomatic round in Lebanon that will expand our borders up to the Litani River, making them defensible.”
• “There will be a final diplomatic round in Syria… in Quneitra, Mount Hermon, and Hauran… at a minimum.”
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/57171
My general thoughts
I took a break from posting for today due to other responsibilities.
Regardless, Israel continues to dig its own grave, and I await the day to celebrate their final destruction.
I'm still not entirely sure what the US is going to do. They're obviously not abiding by the ceasefire but it's not as if anything has changed to make the field of war more favorable for them.
The simplest solution would be to cut their losses and leave Israel to its fate but the empire has clearly shown its unwillingness to abandon the zionist entity. A ground invasion is obviously going to be a slaughterfest disaster, which only really threatens to worsen the current situation further. A nuclear weapon is an option but it doesn't actually help achieve any of the goals that the US has while also threatening response from other nuclearly capable states. There isn't really a way out for the US that doesn't eitheir humiliate them or accelerate their decline.
Iranian oil is now being sold at a higher premium than Brent crude oil
Iran is making more profit from oil sales than in the past 48 years, and has almost exclusive access to the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran is blowing a lot of my assumptions abt the timetable on which antiimperialism as an actual strategy will begin to saturate international relations discourse out of the water, by forcing ppl to accept the distruption of petrodollar recycling, manufacturing, shipping etc as a precedent. Cool, well fuck the UN as usual
Source -> https://xcancel.com/IsraeliPM/status/2042343856910258614#m
Lol, so what now? Are the zionists planning to bomb Pakistan in the middle of negotiations?
