Nobody disputes that Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen is a skilled and seasoned prosecutor.
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[EnergyGov] In a win for America, Venezuela, and the world, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), working with partners, completed the removal of all remaining enriched uranium from a legacy research reactor in Venezuela.
“The safe removal of all enriched uranium from Venezuela sends another signal to the world of a restored and renewed Venezuela,” said Brandon Williams, NNSA Administrator. “Thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership, the dedicated teams on the ground completed in months what would have normally taken years.”
President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio’s three-phase plan for Venezuela fast-tracked the retirement of this nuclear risk, marking another historic milestone for DOE. Following DOE Secretary Wright’s visit to Venezuela in February, in a matter of weeks, NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN) worked with Department of State personnel in Washington and Caracas alongside experts from the United Kingdom, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prepare for a site assessment to inform removal planning.
For decades, the RV-1 reactor supported physics and nuclear research. Once that work finished in 1991, its uranium, enriched above the crucial 20 percent threshold, became surplus material.
To secure this surplus material, the DNN team and technical experts from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research safely removed 13.5 kilograms (about 30 pounds) of uranium from the RV-1 reactor less than six weeks after their initial site visit. Working in close cooperation with the IAEA throughout, the team securely packaged the uranium into a spent fuel cask.
The group then escorted the material 100 miles overland to a Venezuelan port. There, they transferred the cargo to a specialized carrier supplied by the U.K.’s Nuclear Transport Solutions. The vessel carried the material to the United States arriving on U.S. shores in early May. Upon arrival, U.S. teams unloaded the casks and transported them to the Savannah River Site (SRS) for processing and reuse.
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It’s 30 pounds of uranium enriched to 20% for use in a university reactor that ceased operation in the early 90’s when their government was reasonable. It wasn’t a secret weapons program. Removing the material from a currently failed state with vast petroleum reserves and myriad drug cartels seems reasonable.
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[Breitbart] The Greek government has warned that there are over half a million migrants waiting in Libya to cross the Mediterranean and land in Europe, sparking concerns of another migrant crisis.
Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said this week that Athens estimates there are approximately 550,000 migrants waiting in Libya, the African hub, for the opportunity to cross to Europe.
Pelvris said that Athens is working closely with Libyan authorities as well as the European Union’s external border force Frontex to prevent migrant boats from taking off from the coastline of the Maghreb nation.
"Those who are not entitled to asylum will be detained," the migration minister said, per Greek news outlet Voria. "Now, when it is likely that someone will not get asylum, they are not placed in a freedom status but in a detention status, so that with the rejection of asylum, they can be returned."
The official defended the hardline approach taken by the conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to reduce illegal immigration, saying that "there is no reason for Greece to open its borders and accept people" and therefore Greece "will operate within the legal framework, but will also reach its limits in order to protect the borders."
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The multicultural, feuding, genocidal enriched people of the African continent nations and tribes. Having screwed up their areas. Now seek to transfer their successes to the EU.
The EU Leadership is welcoming them with OPEN ARMS & BORDERS.
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The Spanish police are right. And even if not connected jihadis, just entitlement-culture Moslems helping themselves to the uncovered meat is just as bad.
Manipulation of Birth rates
Sarah Hoyt long ago stated that Third World countries have been lying about their birth rates for decades, and that for quite some time birth rates have been lower than claimed.
[IsraelTimes] Over 40 nations to attend Tuesday confab; Paris and London are sending military vessels to area of blockaded strait, as Tehran asserts only it can establish security in waterway
The UK and La Belle France will on Tuesday host a multinational meeting of defense ministers on military plans to restore trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz, the British government said.
The announcement came hours after Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... warned London and Gay Paree against sending warships to the region.
"The Defence Secretary John Healey will co-chair a meeting of over 40 nations, alongside his French counterpart, Minister Catherine Vautrin, for the multinational mission’s first Defence Minister’s meeting," a British defense ministry statement said Sunday.
The virtual meeting follows a two-day gathering in London in April of military planners who thrashed out the practicalities of a multinational mission led by the UK and La Belle France to protect navigation in the key waterway following a sustainable ceasefire.
"We are turning diplomatic agreement into practical military plans to restore confidence for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz," Healey said.
It comes as La Belle France and Britannia dispatched warships to the Middle East.
La Belle France has sent its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, to the region, and the UK on Saturday said it was sending a destroyer, HMS Dragon.
Both countries said the deployments were a "pre-positioning" ahead of any international mission to help protect shipping.
IRAN’S WARNING
HMS Dragon’s deployment was part of "prudent planning" that would ensure the UK was ready to help secure the strait when conditions allowed, a ministry spokesperson told AFP.
But Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, earlier Sunday warned Britannia and La Belle France their warships — "or those of any other country" — would meet "a decisive and immediate response."
"Only the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran can establish security in this strait," Gharibabadi said.
Macron said later Sunday that La Belle France had never envisaged" a naval deployment in the Strait of Hormuz, but rather a security mission that would be "coordinated with Iran."
Speaking to journalists in Nairobi, he said he was sticking to his position opposing a blockade from either side, and to "reject any toll" to ensure ships are able to pass through the strategic waterway.
Britannia and La Belle France said last month that plans to secure the strait were coming together.
The British defense ministry said deploying HMS Dragon would strengthen the confidence of commercial shipping and support mine clearance efforts once hostilities end.
Before the US-Israel war on Iran started on February 28, about a fifth of the world’s oil was shipped through the strait.
But that has been throttled since the war as Iran largely closed the strait, throwing global markets into turmoil and driving up oil prices. The US later imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports in response.
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Who hit the Europeans in the head with the clue bat?
Having the morons in Iran insist that only they can establish security is one of the few things that would get the Europeans to react and maybe even do something.
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They need to get past the meeting stage and on to the strongly worded letter phase.
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^ A sternly worded letter and single national ships with no ROE?
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I'm particularly fascinated by the idea that "We'll join the war after it's over." It's an odd combination of creativity and stupidity.
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Red State: But if all that wasn't feckless enough, you wouldn't believe what happened on Sunday.
Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said earlier that any French or British naval deployment in or around the strait would face a “decisive and immediate response” from the Iranian armed forces.
So what was French President Emmanuel Macron's response to that Iranian threat? This is next-level, even for long-term surrender monkeys.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday ruled out any unilateral French military deployment in the Strait of Hormuz without consultation with Iran, while reaffirming Paris’ readiness to support efforts aimed at restoring maritime traffic in the strategic waterway.
“A French deployment was never considered,” Macron told a press conference in Nairobi alongside Kenyan President William Ruto.
Macron reiterated, however, that France “stands ready” to help allow the resumption of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz “in coordination with Iran.”
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UK, France to host defense ministers meeting on Hormuz, amid Iran threats
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The girls have been waiting to sync up their periods
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The European game is essentially to pretend the US isn't involved. Hard to imagine how utterly foolish they look, even to themselves. But they do have a media moment to look like they are doing something and are relevant, which is really all that matters to them at this point!
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"help secure the strait when conditions allowed"
Trans: Allow us to get in the way.
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A violent band of desert bandits blockades an important international trade route and the EU reaction is to stand around with their hands in their pockets?
Despite their fecklessness, the EU actually has a lot of leverage here. You could call up whoever you know in the IRGC faction and say, "Open up the Straits or we let Trump go crazy. You know how he gets! In exchange, we'll get him to postpone the nuke stuff for later."
It will not happen of course. The EUros are whipsawed between their need to get the oil flowing and their fear that Trump will get the credit. Right now, fear is winning.
It will be interesting to see where they position the UK and French ships when they arrive on station.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
Pardon my ignorance, but the "secret airfield" for use by the Israelis was announced some days also: no secret at all.
We still don’t know exactly where it was and what was done there…
[ColonelCassad] Satellite images of a desert area in southern Iraq have been released, showing the creation of a dirt runway during the aggression against Iran, despite the fact that it did not exist before the aggression. According to The Wall Street Journal, special forces and rescue teams were stationed in the area to intervene in the event of Zionist and American aircraft going down over Iran or Iraq. An Iraqi shepherd reported suspicious activity, prompting Iraqi forces to move in for reconnaissance; Zionist aircraft struck the deployed Iraqi unit, killing an Iraqi soldier.
There is a price to be paid for allowing Iranian agents to wage war against Israel from your soil, guys. Next time fix the problem so Israel doesn’t have to.
Two days earlier, an E-11A aircraft was observed circling the same area for three consecutive days (31.6673207, 42.4396675). This aircraft's unique feature is that it acts as a communications hub between air, sea, and ground forces, which is why it's called "the Wi-Fi of the sky."
It's likely that this same airfield could have been used to prepare for the failed operation near Isfahan. Regarding the question of where they could have flown from... This also demonstrates how weak Iraq's control over its own territory is under the presence of US and NATO occupation forces, who have yet to fully withdraw from the country.
The open-source intelligence people have already identified the dry lake bed, 40 miles from the nearest road, deep in the Iraqi desert, that the Israeli Air Force used as a forward operating base. It was clearly more than an emergency strip; it was a full refueling and rearming… https://t.co/6zwXdUU7gDpic.twitter.com/saJ0pzAKdL
According to the publication's source, the base, created for search and rescue teams and special forces, was almost discovered at the very beginning of the conflict in March.
"Israel has established a secret military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and has carried out airstrikes against Iraqi forces," the report says.
The base also serves as a logistics hub for the country's air force. Sources claim this outpost was established shortly before the outbreak of military action against Iran.
Search and rescue teams are also stationed at the base. Their mission is to locate Israeli pilots who eject from downed aircraft. According to one unnamed source, the facility is also home to Israeli Air Force special forces trained to conduct sabotage operations in enemy territory.
The United States, along with Israel, launched a military campaign against Iran on February 28. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Islamic Republic's military potential has been destroyed, and on April 7, he agreed to negotiations based on the Islamic Republic's terms and declared a ceasefire. On April 11, US and Iranian delegations held talks in Pakistan but were unable to reach an agreement due to disagreement over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. On April 25, Trump announced that the Iranians had submitted a new, better proposal.
On May 3, Trump asserted the United States' refusal to accept Iran's three-stage plan to end the military conflict. He called the Islamic Republic's proposal "unacceptable."
On May 8, the American leader claimed that Iran could soon convey its response to US peace proposals.
[IsraelTimes] Recent meetings between businessman Yasser Abbas and top PA officials, along with upcoming Fatah vote, stir angry speculation that president wants to keep power in his family
A series of announcements by official Paleostinian Authority institutions this month have ignited speculation that Yasser Abbas, the millionaire son of PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> , may be being positioned to vie for his aging father’s post.
The younger Abbas, 64, holds no formal position within the PA, has never participated in Paleostinian politics and spends most of his time outside the West Bank.
Yet official statements in recent days have detailed meetings Abbas recently held with the commander of the Paleostinian police, the governor of the Paleostinian central bank, and the leadership of the Paleostinian Pension Authority, which oversees pensions for public-sector employees, among other sit-downs.
The communiques name Abbas as "special presidential envoy," though the PA presidential office never formally announced appointing him to such a role.
The sudden thrusting of the elder Abbas’s son into the center of Ramallah’s politics and policy has stoked angry suspicions that the 90-year-old Paleostinian leader is seeking to groom him as the next leader of Fatah — the party that controls the PA — after 20 years of holding onto power by refusing to hold elections.
The son, who spends most of his time in Canada, has made a fortune in recent decades via a number of companies he owns in the telecommunications, contracting, and finance sectors.
His critics have long accused him and his brother Tarek Abbas, also a businessman, of using public funds to fuel their businesses, allegations both men reject. Mahmoud Abbas has also faced years of corruption allegations.
Online commenters have pilloried Mahmoud Abbas for what they see as another misuse of state powers, describing the PA as "the Abbas state" and accusing him of acting like an emir in a Gulf monarchy where power is transferred by heredity.
On May 4, the independent Paleostinian anti-corruption watchdog Aman demanded the PA clarify Yasser Abbas’s appointment as a special presidential envoy, arguing that in light of the "broad criticism" surrounding the move, clear criteria for such appointments should be made public.
So far, neither the Paleostinian Authority nor the PA president’s office has addressed the criticism.
The PA did not respond to a request for comment from The Times of Israel.
In what some see as a first step toward a leadership role, the younger Abbas is expected to seek one of 18 seats on Fatah’s Central Committee being contested during a party conference in Ramallah on May 14-16, its first such gathering in almost 10 years, sources familiar with his plans said.
In recent weeks, he has held meetings with party factions representing the PA’s security establishment as well as groups representing prisoners held by Israel, an influential constituency whose support could bolster him when Fatah’s estimated 2,500 voting members cast ballots for the committee.
Samer Sinijlawi, a Paleostinian activist and commentator critical of the elder Abbas’s control of Fatah, told The Times of Israel that even if Yasser Abbas’s foray into Ramallah’s power center is not intended to install him as the next PA head, it could still be an attempt by the elder Abbas to ingratiate his son with those who will eventually hold power, in order to ensure the family’s business interests remain protected and unchallenged by regulators.
"It is just an exercise to try to strengthen his control and to pave the way for his son also to find himself in a spot in the leadership that might later enable him to continue in, if not in leading, then at least in keeping the family’s business alive," said Sinijlawi, who lives in East Jerusalem.
Sinijlawi said the attempt to elevate Yasser Abbas within the Paleostinian political sphere amounted to "political suicide," predicting that Paleostinian society and the international community would both reject any such move.
"Even the Arab leaders around, who are not very much sensitive to democracy, have advised him [not to do it] in the past," he said, adding that Abbas had been reminded that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... ’s attempts to promote his son Gamal Mubarak had helped fuel protests that led to his downfall. "He doesn’t listen."
Mahmoud Abbas has sustained criticism for clinging to power well beyond 2010, when his five-year presidential term was slated to end. Abbas has repeatedly scheduled and canceled elections, while consistently cracking down on public displays of dissent.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... his advanced age has led to worries of a violent mostly peaceful power struggle once he dies or retires, along with hopes that his exit will clear the way for a younger, more popular leadership that can re-energize Fatah and the PA.
Yasser Abbas’s promotion has the potential to expand that succession fight, while some Fatah officials have expressed concern that he would be unable to unify Paleostinians or help them chart a new political future.
"He is retirement age," said Sinijlawi, calling for new blood in Paleostinian political life.
Over the years, Yasser Abbas has participated in official meetings alongside his father, though not on a regular basis.
In recent years, he had largely disappeared from public diplomatic activity, though his name surfaced in several Paleostinian diplomatic efforts. In September 2023, he was reported to have participated in talks with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... regarding the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
In 2025, he was reported to be serving as his father’s representative in talks between the Paleostinian Authority and the Lebanese government over the transfer of heavy weapons held in Paleostinian refugee camps in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... to the Lebanese army.
SUCCESSION CONFERENCE
The Fatah gathering, in which party members elect representatives to the movement’s smaller governing bodies — most notably the 21-member Central Committee — is meant to take place every five years according to the movement’s bylaws.
In practice, however, repeated delays by the movement’s leadership have pushed it off multiple times, and this will only be the eighth conference since Fatah’s founding in 1959.
Arab media reports have claimed that Abbas called the conference at this time in a bid to install loyalists in Fatah’s key institutions before he is too old to govern. Abbas has already replaced the overwhelming majority of Paleostinian security chiefs in recent years with figures who previously served in the Presidential Guard, a force considered personally loyal to him.
One senior Fatah official who spoke anonymously to Rooters described a possible role for Yasser Abbas on the Central Committee as "the beginning," adding that he would later likely seek a seat on the Paleostine Liberation Organization Executive Committee, giving him further influence over the Paleostinian Authority.
Another senior Fatah official, also speaking anonymously, said: "Abbas is trying to make holes in the Fatah ship before [his death] by installing his son as heir to the crown. This should be confronted and rejected by all Fatah men."
Alongside his son, reports have also claimed that Abbas is attempting to promote spy chief Majed Faraj, the only senior security chief not replaced in recent years.
"This is not a conference of unity [within Fatah], this is a conference about Mahmoud Abbas’s succession," Samir Khalaf, an opposition Fatah figure from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , said of the meeting.
Faraj is considered close to Mahmoud Abbas but does not currently hold a senior role within Fatah itself. He had been seen as a possible successor before Abbas last year appointed Hussein al-Sheikh as PLO vice president, after the position had remained vacant for decades, in what was widely seen as an attempt to position him as a possible successor.
Sinijlawi suggested that the current effort to promote Yasser Abbas may be intended to balance al-Sheikh’s growing influence.
Reham Owda, a Paleostinian political analyst, said that while Abbas may be able to help promote his son within Fatah, there is no guarantee that holding a position within the party would translate into success at the polls if and when elections are held.
"This does not resolve the frustration of the Paleostinian people, as no democratic elections have taken place since 2006," he said. "Rather, it increases frustration, since the public is looking forward to democratic elections, legislative and presidential elections."
[IranIntl] Iran’s water crisis is not only about scarcity or drought. It is also about where the Islamic Republic chooses to spend the country’s money, and what it leaves unfunded at home.
In a system where political and ideological objectives consistently outweigh environmental sustainability and public welfare, even severe and widely recognized crises fail to trigger meaningful correction.
In this sense, Iran’s water crisis is not a failure of resources, it is a consequence of deliberate choices. The impact of decades of misguided water engineering and policy decisions is already visible across Iran’s water systems.
Major lakes and wetlands such as Urmia Lake have shrunk. Groundwater has been depleted across more than half of the country’s plains, land subsidence is accelerating, and per capita water availability has fallen to near or below 1,000 cubic meters.
At the same time, access to reliable drinking water has become increasingly uncertain. Water quality is declining because of inadequate wastewater treatment and aging infrastructure, while policy still emphasizes large-scale agricultural self-sufficiency despite mounting environmental constraints.
It would be easy to assume that these failures could stem partially from financial limitations. But this is not a story of absolute constraint. Even under sanctions, Iran has continued to generate substantial revenues, particularly from oil exports, over the past decade.
The water crisis is not necessarily due to a lack of resources, but how those resources are allocated. Based on Iran’s FY1404 (2025-2026) public budget, significant funding is still directed toward religious and ideological institutions, amounting to roughly $750 to $860 million annually, depending on exchange rates.
At the same time, Iran’s regional activities, including support for groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and allied militias, are widely estimated, based on publicly reported figures, to cost an additional $1.1 to $1.5 billion each year.
These estimates reflect direct financial transfers and likely understate total support, which also includes substantial non-cash assistance such as weapons, equipment, and logistical backing.
In total, nearly $1.8 to $2.4 billion per year is allocated to priorities that do little to address Iran’s most urgent domestic challenges. Even redirecting a portion of these resources toward water management and infrastructure could support large-scale, practical solutions. Over a five-year period, such a shift would mobilize roughly $10 billion, enough to move beyond short-term fixes and begin addressing some of the structural drivers of Iran’s water crisis.
Based on order-of-magnitude cost benchmarks for standard water infrastructure projects, a reallocation of roughly $10 billion over five years could finance a coherent national water program. This would include a full-scale effort to reduce water losses in Tehran’s aging distribution network, where non-revenue water (NRW), water lost before it reaches consumers due to leaks, aging infrastructure, and inefficiencies is estimated at roughly 25 to 30 percent.
It could also support the deployment of potable reuse facilities across major urban centers such as Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, and Ahvaz, helping relieve pressure on overstretched freshwater supplies.
In parallel, a targeted desalination and conveyance package could be implemented for Sistan and Baluchestan province, designed specifically to secure drinking water in a region facing chronic shortages, rather than to support inland agriculture.
Such an investment could also enable the construction of dozens of wastewater treatment plants nationwide, depending on facility size and treatment level, addressing both water quality degradation and reuse potential in regions struggling with untreated discharge.
Beyond urban infrastructure, even limited investments in agriculture could deliver measurable benefits. For example, modernizing irrigation in a single province such as Isfahan, where more efficient systems can reduce water use by roughly 30 to 60 percent, could significantly lower demand in one of Iran’s most water-stressed regions.
Even at the current economic development and growth, over a five-year period, roughly $10 billion directed toward ideological priorities could instead finance a nationwide water recovery program: upgrading Tehran’s water distribution system to reduce losses, building 10 potable reuse facilities for major cities, developing seven coastal desalination plants for southern Iran, and constructing a strategic water transfer system to Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchestan.
It could also fund eight large wastewater treatment plants, dozens of mid-size facilities across the country, and modernize irrigation in Isfahan. Instead, those resources are being directed elsewhere. Now imagine how the country’s water infrastructure can be overhauled if the regime is gone and Iran is back on the path to growth and prosperity, with access to the latest technologies the world has to offer, to tackle this issue.
These figures are illustrative, not precise. They highlight both Iran’s potential capacity to invest in water infrastructure and the scale of resources currently misallocated, without even accounting for additional spending on missile programs, and nuclear development, which further underscores the magnitude of available resources.
Ultimately, the constraint is neither technical nor financial: it is political. As long as the current regime remains in power, resources that could stabilize and modernize Iran’s water systems will continue to be diverted toward non-productive ideological ends.
[IsraelTimes] According to New York Times, business leaders warn 3.5 million industrial jobs at risk, several tech firms shut down due to internet blackout, with others laying off hundreds.
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[Regnum] Iran has rejected US proposals that would amount to subordination to excessive demands. This was reported on May 11 by Press TV. Okay. The siege continues, by their choice. And every time drones and speed boats emerge, their launch site is revealed to be attacked.
"Iran rejected the US plan, which would have meant Tehran's submission to the excessive demands of (US President Donald Trump. - Ed.) Trump," the journalists clarified.
Yes, that’s exactly what it means when you lose a war.
According to the TV channel, Iran's response plan requires the US to pay war reparations to the Islamic Republic.
Hahahahaha! Sooooo funny! Oh wait - you’re serious?? Oh darling. Sit right here and I’ll explain again that Allah let you lose the war. He just doesn’t love you as much as he loves Israel and America.
The United States, along with Israel, launched a large-scale military campaign against Iran on February 28. Trump repeatedly claimed that the republic's military potential had been destroyed, and on April 7, he agreed to negotiations based on Iran's conditions and declared a ceasefire.
On April 11, during talks in Pakistan, US and Iranian delegations failed to reach an agreement due to differences over Tehran's nuclear program. On April 25, the US president announced that the Iranians had submitted a new proposal, significantly better than the previous one. On May 10, IRNA reported that Iran had sent a response through Pakistani mediators to US proposals on ending hostilities in the region.
On May 10, Islamic Republic Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia stated that Iran is prepared to escalate military action in the event of renewed US aggression. He stated that during the ceasefire with the US, Iran had strengthened its military, updated its target list, adapted combat training to the new conditions, repaired defensive and offensive weapons, and carried out the necessary troop redeployment.
[IsraelTimes] State media says Tehran rejected proposal that would mean ‘surrender,’ demanded reparations, control of Hormuz; PM tells ’60 Minutes’ conflict will continue until uranium removed from country.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Sunday handed over its response to the latest US peace proposal, causing US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... to quickly declare it a nonstarter, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that the war is "not over" despite Trump’s apparent desire to end hostilities and insistence that Iran had been roundly defeated.
Days after the US floated an offer in the hopes of reopening negotiations, Iran released a response focused on ending the war on all fronts, especially Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... , and on the safety of shipping through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state TV said. Within hours of the Iranian proposal’s release, Trump dismissed it with a post on social media.
"I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE," Trump wrote on Truth Social, without giving further detail. Oil prices rose $3 a barrel after the United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement.
Iran’s proposal includes a demand for compensation for war damages and an emphasis on Iranian illusory sovereignty over the strait, state media said. It also calls on the US to end its naval blockade, guarantee no further attacks, lift sanctions and end a US ban on Iranian oil sales, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
The US had proposed an end to fighting before starting talks on more contentious issues, including Iran’s nuclear program.
The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources saying Iran proposed diluting some of its highly enriched uranium and transferring the remainder to a third country.
The US proposal, had Iran agreed to it, would have formally ended the war and reopened the Strait of Hormuz before beginning talks on more contentious issues, including the Iranian nuclear program.
Earlier, Trump accused Tehran of "playing games" in negotiations with the US for decades.
NETANYAHU SAYS WAR ’NOT OVER’
Netanyahu, in an interview with the CBS newsmagazine program, "60 Minutes," insisted that the war is not over, as there remained in Iran’s possession enriched uranium that "has to be taken out" of the country, and broader "work to be done" against its military capabilities.
"There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there, and there’s work to be done," he said in a clip previewed from the interview, which was set to air in full later Sunday night.
Netanyahu did not initially specify whether he referred only to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched near-weapons-grade uranium — believed to be buried underground in Isfahan — or its full supply of enriched uranium. Asked how the highly enriched material should be removed, he responded: "You go in, and you take it out."
The premier suggested that the uranium can be physically removed with or without an agreement with Tehran, and that the US is on board with either option, though he declined to discuss any military plans or timeline for such an operation.
"What President Trump has said to me: ’I wanna go in there.’ And I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement and you go in and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way," he said. But the "reporter" was being deliberately more stoopid than usual...
Asked if it can be taken out by force if no agreement is reached, Netanyahu replied: "Well, you’re gonna ask me these questions, I’m gonna dodge them, because I’m not gonna talk about our military possibilities... I’m not gonna give a timetable to it, but I’m gonna say that’s a terrifically important mission."
While Netanyahu is publicly insistent that the conflict with Iran will continue as long as the enriched uranium remains in the country, Trump has suggested otherwise, saying in an interview aired Sunday that Iran was "militarily defeated" and insisting that the uranium could be removed "whenever we want."
"We’ll get that at some point, whenever we want," he told independent television journalist Sharyl Attkisson in an interview apparently recorded earlier.
"We have that very well surveilled. If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up," he said.
However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Trump reserved the possibility of resumed strikes, saying that the US military could "go in for two more weeks and do every single target. We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70 percent of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit."
"But even if we didn’t do that, you know, that would just be final touches," Trump said.
Iran has some 440 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%, according to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA believes roughly 200 kilograms (about 440 pounds) is stored in tunnels at the Isfahan site.
The Iranian stockpile could allow the country to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program, the head of the agency said last year.
“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes about the war in Iran. Netanyahu says highly enriched uranium must be removed from Iran and believes “it can be done physically.” pic.twitter.com/N5XbvzpYa0
#4
^ Wrong. It was started in 1979. By the Mullahs and IRGC. End it now.
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1979? It is well-known that the CIA overthrew Mossadgh's democratic government in the 1950s.
The files were declassified long ago. We KNOW this. Stop pretending this started in 1979 for no reason.
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There is a button, Pic-a-Nic, which is, as far as anyone can tell, SUPPOSED to be used to change your "nym", whatever that is.
Precisely right, my dear, but that’s not website security. It’s just the option to accept an anonymous identifier or type in your own. In the old days we were Anonymous0001, Anonymous0002, Anonymous9996, etc, until we chose a permanent identifier, whether a nickname/nym or a proper name. Then Fred wrote a little bit of code that picked one randomly from a lengthy and silly column A and another randomly from an equally lengthy and silly column B to attach to the anonymous numeric identifier, and here you are: Uninens Thromonter9996.
Website security is handled at the back end, Fred having been in the programming biz after he retired from being an intelligence analyst for the Army. badanov has been building websites even longer than Fred, and the two of them have been having fun improving it over the years. DDOS attacks and suchlike rarely make it across the threshold anymore, and nobody has ever stolen information about our posters — so we’re doing much better than most sites. But because Rantburg doesn’t make people log in or share financial information, there is no data base of sellable information for bad guys to steal.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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