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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.
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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.
🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸🇮🇱 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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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
🇾🇪🇺🇸| BREAKING: Yemeni air defenses shot down an American MQ-9 drone in Safer, Marib.
“breaking” heh heh
🇺🇸🇮🇷| 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 negotiationshttps://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21640
I must say, this is beyond even wishful thinking 😂
Clown shit from a clown regime.
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.
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?
“Hurry up and let me out of the chokehold that I put my own neck into!” Lmao
🇮🇷🇨🇳| According to PressTV, Qalibaf has been appointed as Iran’s special representative for China’s affairs
🇦🇪| 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.
🇸🇦🇮🇶| The Saudi MoD announced they intercepted 3 drones after they entered its airspace from Iraq, this morning.
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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.
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.
Could also mean Israel perhaps.
❗️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
🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️ — 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
❗️Hezbollah announced 12 more operations on Saturday, 16 May, in response to ongoing Israeli violations, bringing the total to 17 so far:
• Between 17:00 and 18:00, shelled gatherings of Israeli troops and vehicles at Khillet al-Raj in Deir Siryan with artillery and repeated rocket barrages.
• Targeted an Israeli bulldozer at Khillet al-Raj in Deir Siryan with an attack drone, scoring a direct hit.
• Targeted an Israeli surveillance camera in Taybeh with an attack drone, scoring a direct hit.
• Conducted a large-scale fire assault on all Israeli military positions in Bayyada using artillery and repeated rocket salvos.
• Targeted an Israeli command post in Bayyada with an attack drone, scoring a direct hit.
• Targeted an Israeli Humvee on the Bayyada–Naqoura road with an attack drone, scoring a direct hit.
• Detonated an explosive device against an Israeli bulldozer advancing from Rshaf to Haddatha; a rescue force that arrived to recover the vehicle entered a minefield and was also hit.
• Detonated a second explosive device against another Israeli bulldozer advancing from Rshaf to Haddatha.
• Targeted a Merkava tank in Bayyada with a guided missile, scoring a direct hit.
• Targeted the Ya’ra barracks with a swarm of attack drones.
• Targeted an Israeli command post in Bayyada with two attack drones, scoring a direct hit.
• Detonated a cluster of explosive devices against a third Israeli bulldozer advancing from Rshaf to Haddatha.
VIDEO | Circulating footage shows alleged explosion in Beit Shemesh
Hebrew reports indicate a huge explosion was heard a short while ago in the Beit Shemesh area west of Jerusalem. The cause of the blast remains unknown.
The prevailing account circulating in Hebrew media is that the explosion was linked to an Israeli military activity, such as a controlled detonation of unexploded detonation, while other outlets noted that controlled detonations are typically announced to the public in advance.
—❗️🇮🇱 NEW: After initially reporting that it was a controlled explosion, Hebrew media now begin to speculate that an explosion took place in Sdot Micha Airbase, around the area where surface-to-air Arrow-3 missiles are stored
It is reporter that one of the storage areas caught on fire and exploded due to mishandling of rocket fuel, and possibly a large amount of interceptor missiles were destroyed in the incident.
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— 🇮🇱 NOTE: There is also a rocket motor testing facility at Sdot Micha Airbase, which has seen explosions in the past due to engine testing
This is also a possibility, as Tomer (the defense contractor) said the explosion was part of a ‘pre-planned experiment’.
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Looking at the video, that ain’t no controlled explosion surely. There must be a few cooked Zionists from that one. Although knowing those evil bastards theres probably no Israelis anywhere near anything dangerous.
Considering it happened at a factory that manufacturers rocket engines, I think it’s pretty obvious this was not a controlled blast. Now, whether it was sabotage or an accident is up for discussion, but personally I think it was the latter.
Agreed. Probably a fuck up. A hilarious one though. Especially if it took out a load of interceptors too.
You do have to wonder how much appetite these Zionist fucks can truly have for getting pissed on and being told it’s raining. There’s literal mushroom clouds going off and they’re being told 'nothing to see here, just some controlled explosions". Surely even those genocidal dumb fucks can see through this shit now.
Israeli media: An explosion occurred at the Israeli Tomer company’s factory.
-The company develops and manufactures heavy and light rocket engines, including propulsion engines for Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 rockets, the Silver Anchor target rocket engine, Horizon satellite engines, and Barak 8 and Barak MX rocket engines.
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