[MEForum] When Saudi forces attacked Yemen’s southern forces, they left a vacuum into which Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula resurged
In Southern Yemen on February 5, 2026, the Saudi-backed Yemeni Army deploys security checkpoints in the streets of Hadramawt.
A year ago, southern Yemen was the most stable and secure part of the country. Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the president of the Southern Transitional Council and the vice president of Yemen, had not only restored security, but also had created a climate conducive to investment. Yemeni diaspora, Saudis, Indians, and especially Emiratis were investing in the region. The Emiratis were building civilian airports in every province. In Ataq, capital of the southern Shabwa province, a huge solar farm was about to come online.
Both the portion of Southern Yemen that Zubaidi controlled and nearby Mocha, a part of the former North Yemen controlled by Tareq Saleh, nephew of the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, were the only truly secure and prosperous regions of Yemen. Zubaidi and Saleh coordinated closely, though Zubaidi declined to hold territory across the former border, a diplomatic signal that Yemenis welcomed but spurred Saudi paranoia.
Riyadh was upset because Southern Forces had recently pushed into the interior of the Hadramawt after internal tribal unrest.
On December 30, 2025, the Saudi Air Force bombed Mukalla, the capital of southern Yemen’s Hadramawt Province. Saudi authorities justified the strikes with the accusation that the United Arab Emirates had shipped military goods to Zubaidi’s Southern Forces. Riyadh was upset because Southern Forces had recently pushed into the interior of the Hadramawt after internal tribal unrest.
The Southern extension into Hadramawt improved regional security; the Hadramawt is key terrain through which smugglers sought to transfer Iranian weaponry through Oman or directly from small fishing boats along the Hadramawt’s coast into northern Yemen. With the Houthis seeking to take over the Marib oil fields, stopping the weapons flow was important.
[IsraelTimes] A man jailed in the United Kingdom for spying on the offices of anti-regime outlet Iran International has said he was offered €50,000 (approximately $58,000) by his handlers, Britain’s Sunday Times reports.
Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, a 33-year-old Austrian national of Chechen origin, is thought to have been freed last week and deported to Austria.
The report says that he disclosed the payment offer at a recent parole board hearing.
According to the newspaper, police were unable to prove that Dovtaev received his orders from Tehran, but strongly suspected it to be the case.
The parole board disclosure comes amid a string of attacks on Jewish targets in London in recent weeks which are thought to be tied to Iranian security services. British police have warned “thugs for hire” against carrying out attacks.
There have also been a growing number of cases of Israelis hired by Iran to carry out espionage and vandalism.
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[REGNUM] A beauty queen has been murdered again in Mexico. This time, oddly enough, it wasn't organized crime figures involved, but her mother-in-law, who shot the girl multiple times in the head.
The police's fragmentary explanations portrayed the tragedy as the result of a domestic dispute. However, certain details transform the case into a political case that could be thrown back at the current Mexican authorities.
"SHE STOLE YOU"
27-year-old Carolina Flores Gomez was shot on April 15, but videos of her with her mother-in-law have only just surfaced online.
Flores is not a national celebrity, but she is still quite well known: in 2017, she won a beauty pageant for teenagers in the state of Baja California and entered the modeling business.
Then she got married, had a child, settled in one of the most prestigious and carefully guarded areas of Mexico City - and all this time she was active on social media and starring in videos.
Police officers found her husband, Alejandro, and her mother-in-law next to the dying girl. It was the husband who claimed his mother was responsible for her death, claiming she had shot her daughter-in-law for "stealing her son."
But then things get strange. First, no one in the elite complex, brimming with security, heard the gunshots. Second, the police have yet to make any arrests, and the whereabouts of the ill-fated mother-in-law, according to some media reports, remain unknown. Also, no one knows where she got the gun in the first place.
Thirdly, everyone is wondering why her husband waited almost 24 hours to contact law enforcement. And fourthly, information has emerged that Carolina Flores Gomez's murder occurred the day before her planned divorce.
Feminist groups were the first to react, demanding that the murder be classified as "femicide" and that a thorough investigation be conducted. The governor of the victim's home state also joined in.
Femicide in Mexico means the murder of a woman, either in which a man is involved, or committed out of patriarchal interests, such as jealousy or the desire to punish for inappropriate behavior (inappropriate clothing or makeup), or it is the taking of life associated with rape.
The identification of such crimes as a separate group in these parts has become relatively recent, and this is largely due to the increase in the number of violent crimes against women during the escalation of the war with the cartels.
In the context of local politics, accusations of femicide serve to further highlight the violent actions of a particular group, as well as to channel the discontent of certain groups in a particular direction.
As for victims, anyone can become one. Random victims of shootouts, killed in revenge for their fathers' activities; crime reporters; prostitutes; girlfriends, lovers, and wives of cartel members killed because of their close ties to organized crime. Those commonly referred to as influencers have also been added to the list.
DANGEROUS LIAISONs
In January 2026, a Sinaloa social media star named Nicolette Pardo Molina was kidnapped while broadcasting her blog. Given that her name had been mentioned several times in ballads dedicated to the Sinaloa cartel, and she herself had become famous for videos of herself shooting into the air while wearing rather skimpy clothing, the state prosecutor's office almost immediately opened a kidnapping investigation.
Nevertheless, Nicolette was returned alive just a few days later. Rumor has it that this was primarily due to her having relatives among the organized crime group members.
Other girls close to the criminal world were less fortunate.
In May 2025, Valeria Marquez was shot dead during a live stream while sharing makeup trends with her followers. The killer claimed to be a courier who "brought her a gift."
Not long before, Márquez had received death threats, mostly motivated by jealousy. It turned out she had been in a relationship with Ricardo Ruiz Velasco, aka Double R, an active member of the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
At one time, he was the main suspect in the murder of Venezuelan model Daisy Ferrer Arenas, who was dating one of the regional leaders of the cartel and was guilty of something.
Valeria Marquez, through carelessness, began accepting gifts from other members of the group – and did not go unpunished.
In February 2026, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho," was assassinated. According to one popular theory, he died because he couldn't resist inviting the woman of his heart over, which is how his location was tracked.
Social media users immediately identified female influencers associated with the cartel and began publicly speculating which of them was the mistress. The most likely candidates began receiving death threats from organized crime supporters.
A telling incident occurred in 2012. Sinaloa beauty queen María Susana Flores Gámez died in a street shootout between military personnel and drug cartel members. An assault rifle was found near her body.
According to the official version, Maria was peacefully walking with her fiancé and they both became accidental victims.
But the unofficial version is more intriguing: Maria herself took part in the shootout and helped her bandit fiancé.
"KIM" AT MINIMUM WAGES
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, members of the fledgling Mexican drug gangs gained access to truly large sums of money for the first time. Many of these individuals had spent their childhoods in poverty and decided to live it up, acquiring the finest of everything—watches, houses, cars, and, of course, women.
The criterion for a woman's "first-class" status for them is, first and foremost, her appearance, and, moreover, an appearance that is recognized by many "respected people."
Hence the interest in beauty pageant winners, models, actresses, and then other famous women. The popularity of TikTok, OnlyFans, and other video platforms has made "bride shows" widely accessible to criminals of all stripes.
For example, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera —El Chapo—met his last wife, Emma Coronel, when she participated in a regional beauty contest and won (possibly with El Chapo's help).
Incidentally, Coronel is now successfully monetizing not only her husband's biography but also her own appearance, participating in advertising campaigns and starring in documentaries.
Seeing this trend, many girls began to seek out drug gang members. Many did so to improve their standard of living, some out of vanity, and some simply by accident.
The image of these women—the "buchones"—has gradually become a fashion trend. They resemble a modified version of Kim Kardashian, only with even more dramatic curves. This "beauty" is created by plastic surgeons, who are currently thriving in Mexico.
Many women save money for "improvement," sacrificing their education and health. The practice of "scamming" men for money to undergo plastic surgery is also widespread.
In the public consciousness, the image of the buchona is inextricably linked to the tastes of the nouveau riche drug lord and is associated with crime. Crime continues to be seen in the death of every prominent woman: stereotypes from the turbulent Mexican 1990s and 2000s are at work.
Naturally, politicians are taking full advantage of this state of affairs.
OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE
The situation in Mexico has been tense over the past few days.
First, two US embassy employees, who turned out to be CIA agents, were murdered in the mountains of Chihuahua. Then, at a popular tourist destination in Teotihuacan, a madman opened fire on foreign tourists, citing a destructive ideology as the motivation for his actions. Now, a former beauty queen has been murdered in Mexico City.
After all, the entire current security cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum rose up to ensure security in the capital – the very people who helped eliminate the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel and are negotiating with Donald Trump’s people about the further fight against drug traffickers.
All of these cases negatively impact President Sheinbaum's image and are already being actively used by the opposition to destabilize the situation within the country.
For example, the aforementioned feminist groups have repeatedly staged pogroms in Mexican cities, expressing dissatisfaction with the work of security forces and directly accusing them of collaborating with organized crime groups.
To be fair, there is some truth to these accusations, but with the World Cup looming and further security controversies looming, the last thing the ruling powers need right now is the last thing they need.
On the other hand, it's also not worth exaggerating the opposition's potential. Claudia Sheinbaum once achieved popularity, in part, thanks to her work on "gender issues," and she could very well use the situation to demonstrate the prompt and transparent work of law enforcement agencies. In the case of a crime stemming from a domestic dispute, this shouldn't be too difficult.
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[Regnum] One of the perpetrators of the Crocus City Hall attack, Saidakram Rachabalizoda (an individual designated as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation), who was sentenced to life in prison, admitted that he enjoyed watching videos with scenes of violence. This was reported on April 25 by a participant in the trial for the terrorist attack at the Moscow region concert hall.
"During interrogation, he stated that he generally enjoyed watching videos of people being executed and various methods of reprisal against the unarmed and helpless," TASS quoted the source as saying.
According to Rachabalizoda's testimony, he became interested in radical Islamic ideology back in 2018 in his native Tajikistan. In the second half of 2023, he was recruited into the extremist Khorasan movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) and offered a flight to Turkey. In Aksaray, along with other adherents of the terrorist ideology, he was trained to commit terrorist attacks and received instruction in the use of firearms. He was then transferred to Afghanistan, where he joined a cell of the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
The Crocus terrorist attack occurred on March 22, 2024. The attackers broke into the building, opened fire, and then set the building on fire. The attack left 150 people dead, one missing, and 609 injured.
The suspects were detained in the Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine. During interrogation, the perpetrators admitted that the attack was organized by Ukrainian intelligence services. The Investigative Committee stated that the terrorist attack was planned and carried out in the interests of the current Ukrainian leadership, with the aim of destabilizing the political situation in Russia.
[FreeBeacon] Duke Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter Over Illustration Depicting ’Zionism’ as Pig Holding Star of David. The image, originally published in a Black Panther Party newspaper in 1970, included another pig labeled 'U.S. Imperialism' and holding the Statue of Liberty's torch
Duke University suspended and froze funding for its campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter after the anti-Israel organization shared an illustration flagged for "antisemitic imagery," the Duke Chronicle reported Wednesday.
The student organization advertised an event last month in an Instagram post featuring an illustration of two pigs, one labeled as "Zionism" and depicted holding a Star of David, and the other as "U.S. Imperialism" holding the Statue of Liberty’s torch.
A university official informed SJP leadership that the university's Office of Institutional Equity received 10 student complaints about the image, which was originally published in the Black Panther Party's newspaper in 1970. The university's Student Affairs office suspended the group and revoked its funding over "alleged harassment under the Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct," the Chronicle reported.
SJP officials told the Chronicle that the illustration "was never intended to be antisemitic" and that anti-Zionism is "not the same as targeting Jewish people."
Once upon a time that might have been true, although repeated psychology studies going back to the 1970s show that the delay between expressed hated of Israel and open Jew-hate is six months. Regardless, SJP as an organization and individual members have been observed gleefully organizing and enjoying physically attacking Jews as well as Israel supporters since 10/8/2023. As a result, somd have even been stripped of visas and green cards preparatory to sending them back home as persona non grata. So give it up, O SJP officials, do. Your lies are pathetic.
Noah Hamid, a leadership member of Duke's Students Supporting Israel chapter, told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement that "the suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine feels like a long-overdue acknowledgement of what many of us have been experiencing for years."
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Zero tolerance for antisemitism.
Expel them all. Record their names, none of them will ever get a job the rest of their lives.
Make an example of them.
[IsraelTimes] Would-be immigrants to the United States could now have their green card applications rejected for expressing anti-Israel sentiment on social media or participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, according to a New York Times report, which cites internal documents distributed within the Department of Homeland Security.
We don’t need to import troublemakers — we grow enough of our own..
According to the Times, the documents include updated training material that instructs agency employees to reject applications for a green card — a US permanent resident visa — if the applicant is found to have expressed opinions or beliefs deemed by the administration to be “anti-American.”
The report notes that although ideology has always played a part when vetting a green card applicant, it had previously only impacted people belonging to Communist or other totalitarian parties, or who had supported calls to overthrow the US government.
Now, however, the report says immigration officers have been instructed to reject applications from anyone with a history of “endorsing, promoting or supporting anti-American views” or “antisemitic terrorism, ideologies or groups.”
One example cited as potential grounds to reject an application was a mock-up of a social media post demanding to “Stop Israeli Terror in Palestine,” the Times says.
Another example seen by the Times showed a map of Israel with the country’s name crossed out and replaced with “Palestine,” while another is said to have called for revenge on Israel for the war in Gaza.
DHS also told immigration officers to pay particular attention to anyone who took part in the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel campus protests in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and subsequent war in Gaza, the report says.
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How's that anti-American? We have free speech here.
This just feeds into the "a foreign country controls us" narrative of Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and the other far right nazis.
#3
Americans have free speech. Foreigners here on sufferance are not permitted to agitate and physically attack others in exercise of prejudices that are de rigueur at home.
For that matter, physically attacking (battery) or verbally threatening (assault) people you assume are members of a group you loathe, no matter your nationality, is illegal every where in this country — not a freedom of speech issue at all.
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^ I think the difference is that anti-semitism is now in the open and politically acceptable.
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I certainly agree that participating in a protest, assaulting people, etc. should be grounds for rejecting a green card application. However, just not liking Jews or Israel should not be a reason. People should be allowed to hold opinions we don't like, as long as they don't act out.
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Plenty of people want to come here for variety of reasons, Rambler. I think we are entitled to reserve the gift of permission to those who do not loathe our culture. Just like during the Cold War, when we tried to keep out Communists and old Nazis.
[IsraelTimes] Only 21.2% of registered voters cast ballots in Strip’s Deir el-Balah area, with first vote there since 2006 seen largely as a test for possible future polls
Only 21.2% of registered voters cast ballots in Strip’s Deir el-Balah area, with first vote there since 2006 seen largely as a test for possible future polls
Paleostinians in the West Bank and part of central 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... voted on Saturday in municipal elections, the first since the Gaza war erupted, marked by low turnout and a narrow slate of contenders.
Nearly 1.5 million people were registered to vote in the West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah area, according to the Ramallah-based Central Elections Commission (CEC).
"We are very pleased to exercise democracy in spite of the many challenges we face, both locally and internationally," Paleostinian Authority 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....> told journalists after voting in al-Bireh, according to the official Wafa news agency.
Early Saturday, a steady trickle of voters headed to polling stations in the West Bank, as foreign diplomats observed the process.
By 5 p.m., turnout in the West Bank reached 40.62 percent, the CEC said. But participation in Deir al-Balah was significantly lower, at just 21.2 percent, by the time polls closed there at 6 pm.
In the previous municipal elections in March 2022, turnout was 53.7 percent in West Bank cities. Voting in the West Bank ended at 7 pm, with a notable late surge of women voters in Jericho, an AFP journalist said.
"We will elect someone who can improve the local community... things like water and repairing the streets," said Manar Salman, an English teacher in the city. "We don’t receive much support from outside, and the occupation affects us in many ways... it limits what the municipality can do."
Some questioned the election’s timing.
"We didn’t want elections at this time — not with war in Gaza and settler attacks ongoing in the West Bank," said Ziad Hassan, a businessman from Dura al-Qaraa village. "The decision was imposed on us, and so we are compelled to elect an administrative body for the village council."
Israeli settler attacks have surged across the West Bank in recent months.
"The main thing is security from settlers. That’s why we need new faces, young people willing to fight for our rights," said Abed Jabaieh, 68, former mayor of Ramun village.
Most electoral lists were aligned with Abbas’s secular-nationalist Fatah movement or composed of independents. Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , Fatah’s bitter rival and the ruling power in Gaza, which took control of Gaza in a violent mostly peaceful coup against Fatah in 2007, was absent from the race.
In many municipalities, Fatah‑backed lists faced off against independents supported by smaller factions such as the Marxist‑Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, designated a terror group by Israel, the US and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Municipal councils oversee water, sanitation, and local infrastructure but do not enact legislation. Still, with presidential or legislative elections frozen since 2006, councils have become one of the last remaining democratic mechanisms under the Paleostinian Authority.
The PA faces widespread criticism over corruption, stagnation and declining legitimacy. Western and regional donors have increasingly tied financial and diplomatic support for the PA to reform, particularly in local governance.
The European Union called the vote an "important step towards broader democratization and strengthened local governance... in line with the ongoing reforms process."
The polls closed earlier in Deir al-Balah to allow for counting in daylight because of the lack of electricity in the war-devastated Strip, the CEC told AFP.
Public infrastructure, sanitation and health services in Gaza are all struggling to function after two years of war left swaths of Gaza destroyed.
Under Hamas control since 2007, Gaza experienced its first vote since the 2006 legislative elections that the Islamist terror group won.
The PA is holding elections only in Deir al-Balah to test its "success or failure, since there are no post-war opinion polls," said Jamal al-Fadi, a political scientist at Cairo’s al-Azhar University.
It was chosen as one of the few areas where the population has not been massively displaced.
After voting there, Mohammed al-Hasayna, 24, said that although the elections were largely symbolic, they served as a sign of people’s "will to live."
"We are an educated people with strong determination, and we deserve to have our own state," he told AFP. "We want the world to help us overcome the catastrophe of war. Enough wars — it is time to work towards rebuilding Gaza."
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[Regnum] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to strike Lebanon. Netanyahu's office announced this on April 25.
"Powerful strikes" are to be carried out against Lebanese Hezbollah targets, according to an order from the Israeli Prime Minister.
Ah. Not Lebanon — Hezbollah. Fair enough, given Hezbollah rejects the ceasefire with Israel, has been doing its best to rebuild war-fighting infrastructure south of the Litani River, ie. within easy shooting distance of civilian Israeli communities beyond the border, and has continued attacking IDF soldiers, Israeli civilians, and UNIFIL as opportunity presents.
On February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations against Iran. Tehran responded with strikes against American and Israeli targets in the Middle East. On March 1, Hezbollah entered the conflict against Israel. The following day, Israel launched a ground operation in Lebanon.
On April 14, the US State Department announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to begin direct negotiations. The meeting marked the first high-level interaction between the two countries since 1993. A 10-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon officially took effect on April 17.
Shortly after the ceasefire was announced, Lebanon accused the Israeli army of violating the ceasefire. Meanwhile, on April 24, US President Donald Trump announced that the ceasefire in the conflict zone would be extended for another three weeks, until May 18.
On April 8, a ceasefire between the US and Iran took effect. Iranian authorities stated that the ceasefire would only hold if the ceasefire also held in Lebanon. A second round of talks between Washington and Tehran was expected on April 22, but the Iranian side rejected it, claiming that since US representatives had not dropped their excessive demands, the negotiations were a waste of time.
[IsraelTimes] None hurt as terror group targets Israeli communities; military says it killed several gunmen who posed a threat to troops in southern Lebanon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the IDF to go after Hezbollah targets "with force" on Saturday, as the terror group and the Israeli military continued to trade fire in northern Israel and southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , despite the extension of the tenuous ceasefire between the warring sides by several more weeks.
The premier’s order to "strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon by force" was published in a terse statement by his office after two rockets and a drone were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel on Saturday afternoon, activating sirens in several towns.
The Israel Defense Forces said it intercepted the drone and one of the rockets, while a second rocket struck an open area. No injuries were caused.
The military also said it intercepted a "suspicious aerial target" over an area of southern Lebanon where Israeli troops are deployed. It said the target was suspected to be a Hezbollah drone.
In another incident, Hezbollah launched several explosive-laden drones at Israeli troops stationed in southern Lebanon. The IDF said the drones went kaboom! near the forces, but did not cause any injuries.
The terror group has made use of small first-person view (FPV) drones in its attacks on Israeli troops. Some of the drones are guided using a spool of fiber optic cable, which mitigates efforts to electronically jam their signal.
"The Hezbollah terror organization has again blatantly violated the ceasefire agreement," the military said in a statement.
At the same time, the IDF said it struck and killed several Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon.
In one incident, the military said it struck and killed "three Hezbollah bandidosgunnies who were traveling in a pickup truck armed with weapons." The strike took place in Yohmor, just north of the Israeli-held security zone.
In another case, in the security zone, the military said it struck and killed a "terrorist riding a cycle of violence." Two more Hezbollah armed operatives, who were identified by troops in the security zone, were killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , the military said.
The IDF said all the operatives "posed a threat to IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon."
Additionally, the IDF said it struck several buildings used by Hezbollah, including the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, in the southern Lebanon security zone. The buildings were used by Hezbollah for storing weapons and carrying out attacks, the IDF said.
"The buildings were struck to remove a threat to IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians," the military said in a statement.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes in the south had killed four people.
The Israeli Air Force also struck Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon overnight, the military said. The launchers were struck in the towns of Deir ez-Zahrani, Kfar Reman, and Sammaaiyeh, all north of the IDF-held security zone. The military said the launchers "posed a real threat to IDF troops and Israeli civilians."
The incidents came despite an ongoing ceasefire in Lebanon, which US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... said Thursday night would be extended by three weeks, while noting that Israel could carry out strikes in Lebanon in self-defense.
The IDF has said that since the truce took effect on April 17, it has killed over 30 Hezbollah operatives who posed a threat to troops, and destroyed hundreds of the terror group’s sites. Hezbollah, meanwhile, has been carrying out multiple attacks per day on Israeli forces stationed in southern Lebanon amid the cea
stions of the truce.
[Jerusalem Post] Iran has begun barricading the entrances to the Isfahan underground nuclear facility in an attempt to prevent the potential seizure of Iran’s enriched uranium, according to a report released by the Institute for Science and International Security on Thursday.
The institute analyzed high-resolution satellite imagery captured on Wednesday that shows relatively newly constructed makeshift roadblocks consisting of earthen berms, piles of rubble, and what appeared to be fencing outside all three entrances to the facility.
The roadblocks were created on or after March 18, the institute noted, as no such roadblocks were observed in imagery captured on that date.
The tunnel entrances, which lead to an underground facility suspected to hold the majority of Iran’s enriched uranium, have been filled and covered with dirt, and no apparent effort has been made to restore access to them.
ALL ENTRANCES TO ISFAHAN OBSTRUCTED BY BLOCKADES
The institute stated that the road leading to the southernmost entrance of the Isfahan facility was obstructed by two possible roadblocks: one made of unidentified material and the other a two-meter-wide pile of dirt. Two parked cars were spotted on that road, indicating ongoing security monitoring.
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A genius move! This will prevent the fiendish Americans from flying in heavy construction equipment under the cover of darkness, excavating the entrances for a week, and then flying out with the uranium before anyone notices.
Researchers at MIT have discovered a faulty circuit deep within the brain that prevents a person from updating their beliefs when the world around them changes.
The findings could help explain why some sufferers become 'detached' or trapped in false ideas and delusions even when faced with clear evidence that those beliefs are wrong.
[RedState] The U.S. blockade is putting a chokehold on the Iranian economy.
Their economy was already bad before the war, which was one of the reasons they had people in the streets against the regime in January. But it's gotten even worse as they're losing an estimated $435 million in revenue a day because of the inability to ship things in and out from their ports.
Kharg Island oil production is a vital part of their economy, particularly for supporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). But because they haven't been able to ship oil out, they are now, according to reports, about to run out of storage. That means they would have to stop pumping, and that could cause permanent damage to their system, and as well as deliver a big hit to their economy and the IRGC.
One way we know that's true is is that the regime has now had to pull an old tanker out of mothballs into service to operate as floating storage. But that only buys them two days' worth of storage, and the clock is ticking.
It's not just the blockade, either. Then there's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's "Economic Fury" part, where he will be going after the regime's money wherever he can.
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[Regnum] Iranian diplomats left Islamabad after talks with Pakistani representatives without meeting with the US delegation. This was reported on April 25 by a correspondent for the Arabic television channel Al Jazeera.
According to him, the Iranian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, held talks with their Pakistani counterparts throughout the day, but did not meet with US representatives.
Also, according to these reports, before leaving, the Iranian delegation handed over to Pakistan its official list of demands for ending the conflict with the United States.
Demands? An interesting approach, under the circumstances….
Shortly after, US President Donald Trump announced that he had canceled a trip by his special envoy, Steven Witkoff, and businessman Jared Kushner to the Pakistani capital.
On February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations against Iran. Tehran responded with strikes against American and Israeli targets in the Middle East. On April 8, Trump announced an agreement with Iran on a two-week ceasefire and the beginning of dialogue.
Following the first round of talks, Iranian and US representatives failed to reach an agreement. Iranian authorities refused to participate in the second round of talks, scheduled for April 22 in Pakistan.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt stated that Trump is "seeking a response" from Iranian authorities and, while that response is pending, the ceasefire remains in effect. Levitt also noted that Trump did not set a specific timeline for the ceasefire with Iran, but the conflict has dragged on longer than the US president had anticipated.
US president claims Iran submitted a better but not good enough proposal minutes after he canceled his negotiators’ trip; Iran’s FM departs Pakistan after meeting local leaders
US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... canceled a trip to Islamabad by two envoys to meet 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... war mediator Pakistain on Saturday after Iran’s foreign minister flew out of the Pak capital following talks, dealing a new setback to peace prospects.
Trump said in a social media post that he had called off the planned visit by his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, citing what he said was tremendous confusion in the Iranian leadership.
"Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ’leadership,'" he wrote on Truth Social. "Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!"
Speaking to Fox News, Trump said: "I’ve told my people... ’Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there... We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing."
Trump further told the Axios news site that this didn’t necessarily mean the war was restarting. "It doesn’t mean that," he said in response to a question from the outlet. "We haven’t thought about it yet."
Later Saturday, Trump claimed Iran submitted a response to Washington’s latest proposal for a nuclear deal minutes after he announced that Witkoff and Kushner would not be making the trip to Pakistain. He said the latest Iranian proposal was much better than the previous one, but still not adequate.
"The Iranians gave us a paper that should have been better and interestingly, the minute I cancelled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better... They offered a lot but not enough," Trump told news hounds.
After holding talks with Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other brass hats, Araghchi and his delegation departed Pakistain’s capital with a military jet escort, government sources said. Details of the talks were scant.
Araghchi said it remained to be seen whether the United States was "truly serious" about diplomacy. In a post on X, he said he had "shared Iran’s position concerning [a] workable framework to permanently end the war."
It was not immediately clear if or when Araghchi would return to Pakistain. Iran previously ruled out a new round of direct talks with the United States.
Washington and Tehran are at an impasse as Iran has largely closed the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, while the US blocks Iran’s oil exports.
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