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[Regnum] The Iranian army struck ammunition depots and logistical equipment of the US Armed Forces at Camp Doha in Kuwait. This was reported on July 22 by the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
The Iranian army announced that it had launched massive drone strikes against US military facilities at the Al Doha air base in western Kuwait. The attack targeted ammunition and equipment depots, as well as a US Army ground forces logistics center.
It is noted that Al Doha is one of the most important and primary US military bases in western Kuwait. It houses a large number of US ground, naval, and air force personnel and equipment.
Earlier, the US Central Command reported the beginning of another, 11th consecutive, round of attacks on military facilities in Iran.
The Iranian military's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters stated that Iran is attacking all "interests" of the United States and its allies in the region in response to possible American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Tensions in the Middle East escalated three weeks after the US and Iran signed a memorandum ending the conflict. In early July, the US announced the end of the ceasefire and resumed attacks on Iran. Washington also announced the resumption of a naval blockade of Iranian ports. Iranian forces began retaliatory strikes against US targets in the Middle East.
On July 18, the Pentagon announced that American forces had completed the eighth wave of strikes on Iran. According to the military, coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, missile depots, and drones belonging to the Iranian army were successfully hit. The Pentagon command clarified that more than 50,000 American troops are involved in the military operation in the Middle East.
That same day, in response to the US actions, Iranian forces launched several missile strikes on a troop deployment area at a US airbase in Jordan. CENTCOM reported the deaths of two soldiers, and another was missing. US President Donald Trump expressed condolences over the deaths of the servicemen, stating that their deaths would be for the good of the country. He stated that the primary goal of the war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The War Department confirmed the identities early Monday of two soldiers who were killed in an Iranian missile attack on a Jordanian military base last week.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, and First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, died after Friday’s missile strike on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base east of Amman, according to a Pentagon statement.
Officials previously announced that a third service member, who has yet to be publicly identified, was killed in Iraq on Saturday during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone.
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[Regnum] The Houthis, part of the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah, announced that they had struck two oil tankers in retaliation for violating Saudi Arabia's naval blockade. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sariyeh told the Tasnim news agency on July 23.
As Saria clarified, Yemeni Houthi forces attacked two Saudi oil vessels that violated the blockade imposed in the Red Sea. One of the vessels was named "ENCELIA," and the other, "LAYLA."
The operation involved the use of several ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. A Houthi spokesman noted that the attacks resulted in fires on both tankers. Additionally, approximately 10 vessels were forced to abandon their route and turn around.
Earlier, Yemen's Houthis announced the beginning of a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia. In their statement, the Houthis warned that they reserve the right to a comprehensive escalation in response to Riyadh's actions.
On July 17, Iran asked Yemen's Ansar Allah movement to prepare to shut down key oil arteries in the Red Sea in the event of a US attack on the country's energy infrastructure.
Last week, Yemen's Houthis attacked Abha International Airport in retaliation for the Saudi air force's attack on Sana'a Airport. This breached the ceasefire between the Saudis and the Iran-backed Houthis, which had been in effect since 2022.
[IsraelTimes] Ship broker says Yemeni rebels’ announced blockade on Saudi ports ‘has begun to have an overall effect on tanker activity,’ further straining regional shipping amid Hormuz conflict
[IsraelTimes] Performer says attackers threw objects including glass bottles that shattered near her DJ console in Grenoble on Saturday; local far-left party official doubles down on boycott call.
The popular French Jewish DJ Barbara Butch is striking a defiant tone after pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists disrupted her concert in Grenoble, France, vowing not to be cowed from performing.
Butch has also drawn support from Jewish activists who demonstrated outside the office of the far-left party whose top Grenoble official called for her performance to be canceled and has since doubled down, drawing support from anti-Zionist French Jews in the process.
Butch, who came to prominence after appearing at the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris, had to be escorted off the stage at the Cabaret Frappé festival on Saturday, barely 20 minutes into her set.
The City of Grenoble filed a complaint against what it called “persons unknown” following the incident. Mayor Laurence Ruffin said authorities had evidence of violence and sabotage of electrical equipment. She rejected arguments that the protest was peaceful.
“There were actions that are unacceptable,” Ruffin said, adding that while Grenoble has consistently supported the Palestinian people, demonstrations “must be peaceful and democratic.”
According to Butch, protesters shouted insults and threw objects, including glass bottles that shattered near her DJ console. In a video statement posted to social media on Monday, she said she had been frightened and described the attack as “the next stage in a campaign” that, she said, had sought for months to exclude her from artistic and public life. She added that legal complaints had been prepared and she vowed: “I will return to the stage.”
The attack on Butch came after anti-Israel activists called to boycott or cancel her appearance, citing her support for legislation widely viewed as pro-Israel and her travel to Tel Aviv.
Leader and founder of the far-left French political party, La France Insoumise (LFI), or ‘France Unbowed,’ Jean-Luc Melenchon, speaks at a pro-Palestinian protest in front of the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, February 3, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
A leader of the effort was Allan Brunon, the Grenoble chair of the far-left party France Unbowed, which has a pro-Palestinian platform. (Its leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, has been accused of echoing antisemitic stereotypes and dismissing the threat of antisemitism.) After politicians from other parties called for him to be sanctioned over his calls, Brunon tweeted ahead of the concert, “What a pleasure it would be for me to be sanctioned for calling on activists supportive of the Palestinian people to organize against the arrival of B. Butch.”
After its disruption, he posted a video of pro-Palestinian activists rallying in Grenoble and said he would next take aim at the city’s formal relationship with the Israeli city of Rehovot.
The legislation, known as Yadan after the French lawmaker, Caroline Yadan, who proposed it in 2024, aimed to combat “new forms of antisemitism” by expanding terrorism-related offenses and criminalizing calls for the destruction of a state recognized by France — a provision widely understood to be aimed at calls for Israel’s destruction, although the bill did not explicitly name Israel.
Supporters argued the legislation was a necessary response to the rising antisemitism following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. Critics said the bill risked restricting freedom of expression by blurring the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
French DJ and artistic director Barbara Butch poses during a photo session in Paris on March 5, 2026. (Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
The proposal divided public opinion and the bill was withdrawn in April, a month after a group of artists signed a March 2026 essay in Le Point supporting it. Butch, who has cited her participation in the French Jewish scouting movement as formative, was among the signatories.
Following the Grenoble incident, Butch and her lawyer, Audrey Msellati, co-authored an op-ed in Le Monde arguing that the protest had crossed the line from political disagreement into intimidation and violence — “the one separating protest from coercion, disagreement from intimidation, speech from violence. We were no longer responding to an artist: we were chasing her off the stage.”
They wrote that while people are free to criticize an artist or disagree with Butch’s views, “one cannot organize her disappearance,” arguing that campaigns to pressure venues into canceling performances threaten artistic freedom and democratic principles.
Yonathan Arfi, the president of CRIF, France’s communal Jewish body, said in a statement that the demonstration against Butch is part of a worrying pattern, which he attributed to France Unbowed, of intimidation of Jewish artists that he said was “turning cultural stages into political tribunals.” He called on the French government to “urgently” create a plan to combat boycotts in the arts.
The European Jewish Congress, too, expressed support for Butch, saying, “We stand in full solidarity with Barbara Butch. No one should be intimidated, threatened or targeted for being Jewish or for speaking out against antisemitism.”
The Union of French Jewish Students, along with a handful of other liberal Jewish groups, rallied near France Unbowed’s Paris headquarters on Monday in support of Butch. Brunon has drawn support, on the other hand, from anti-Zionist French Jews who say the Yadan bill represents an exploitation of antisemitism concerns to silence criticism of Israel.
Allan Brunon at city hall in Grenoble, March 27, 2026. (Maxime Gruss/AFP)
The Grenoble incident is the latest in a series of controversies involving Butch, who became internationally known after performing in drag during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
She filed criminal complaints after receiving death threats and online abuse after the ceremony. Four men were later convicted in connection with the online harassment campaign against her.
The latest incident has also drawn attention from abroad, eliciting support for her from fellow artists and followers on social media.
One widely shared Instagram post by @YiddishFeminist described Butch as “a proud, loud queer Jewish woman” who had faced “antisemitism, homophobia and fatphobia.”
“No one should ever be forced to leave a stage because a hateful crowd resorts to intimidation and violence,” the poster said. “Today, we are all Barbara Butch.”
Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistain (IMP) appeared in the second quarter of 2025 as competition for TTP, comprising the Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. Group (HBG), Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP... , and the newly emerged Harkat Inqilab-e-Islami Pakistain (HIIP) …
[Jpost] Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... has repeatedly attacked food distribution points in the 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... Strip, hijacking aid and threatening locals, Paleostinians told The Telegraph in a report published on Saturday.
In one instance, according to one anonymous Gazook civilian, armed Hamas turbans had been waiting near a shelter containing displaced women, children, and elderly people, when a group of men asked them to move away so that the shelter would not become a target.
"The group left, only to return with greater numbers. They stormed the shelter and opened fire, causing panic and terror among the women and kiddies, and proceeded to arrest several people."
The source also told the Telegraph that the Hamas turbans had refused to release the civilians they'd arrested until they were compensated for the ammunition they had expended - around NIS 24,500.
Another source said that Hamas had been smuggling various goods inside trucks belonging to aid organizations, as well as commercial ones, in order to generate funds.
"While the exact method of concealment remains unclear, it is believed that these items are often loaded at warehouses in the countries of origin, while merchants bribe officials to include illicit goods during the packing process," the source told the Telegraph.
HAMAS ATTACKS WFP HUMANITARIAN AID SITE
Last week, Hamas turbans invaded the warehouse at the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, operated by the World Food Programme (WFP), and assaulted two drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies, according to the UN.
Asserting that he "strongly" condemned the incident, United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov acknowledged there was a "dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction, including smuggling attempts, targeting and abusing humanitarian operations" being carried out by the "de facto authorities."
Though Hamas went unnamed in the statement, Alakbarov labeled Israel’s expansive control of the territory as a major threat to humanitarian supplies in the Paleostinian territory.
BREAKING: U.S. Air Force B-1B heavy bombers operating from RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom are now striking Iranian weapons-production facilities, including ballistic missile plants in the Khojir district of eastern Tehran.
— Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) July 21, 2026
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BREAKING: U.S. Air Force B-1B heavy bombers operating from RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom are now striking Iranian weapons-production facilities, including ballistic missile plants in the Khojir district of eastern Tehran.
At approximately 02:50 local time, residents in Pardis reported the sound of distant explosions and intense air-defense activity. Witnesses near the Babaei Expressway and Shahrak-e Emam Khomeini said Iranian air defenses were actively engaging aerial targets, while the sound of aircraft was also heard. Several reports suggested the intended targets could be the Khojir and Parchin military complexes.
Between 02:50 and 02:55, additional reports from Pardis, Hakimiyeh and eastern Tehran described repeated air-defense fire and five to six explosions. Residents in Phase 11 of Pardis also reported sustained air-defense activity as the strikes continued.
According to a Wednesday report in Hebrew media, the US informed Israel that it will soon deploy heavy bombers for strikes on Iran, presumably targeting fortified nuclear sites, in what would be a major escalation.
"Any time the Islamic Theocratic Republic of 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... shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT," Trump wrote on social media.
In response to Trump’s threat to Iran’s infrastructure, an Iranian military source cited by Tasnim news agency said Tehran would retaliate against infrastructure in the region.
Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf expanded on the threats, saying no one will be able to sell oil in a region where Iran is not able to do so, and adding that if Tehran’s security is not ensured, no infrastructure will be safe.
"The equation of this war is clear: either all or none," Ghalibaf said in a post on X.
"Our defense doctrine is clear: eye for an eye. Any aggression against Iran, including our infrastructure, will compel a powerful and decisive response," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X.
In addition, Iran’s state broadcaster quoted the military as saying that US threats "will have no result other than the expansion of the war."
Iran on Wednesday fired missiles and drones at several Arab regional countries, including at Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba, the interceptions of which could be heard in Israel’s southern city of Eilat.
Missile alerts also sounded in Kuwait and Bahrain. The Iranian military said it targeted US assets in both small Gulf countries, including air defense systems, radar installations and administrative buildings.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... 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... warned residents of the Gulf city of Dammam to seek shelter. Saudi authorities later said the danger had passed, without elaborating.
On Wednesday afternoon, a US missile hit Larak island in the strait, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported, saying the extent of the damage was being investigated.
The US military said earlier Wednesday that it had completed an 11th night of strikes on Iran, with targets including aircraft hangars and drone storage sites.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported explosions across several provinces. Iran’s Health Ministry says US strikes over the past 11 days have killed 53 people, including six women and three children, and maimed nearly 600 people.
Trump had said earlier that the next US target could be an underground complex known as Pickaxe Mountain, or Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La in Persian, a site in the Natanz area where Western intelligence agencies suspect Iran is building an undeclared nuclear enrichment facility. Reports this week have quoted Israeli sources saying Iran moved thousands of centrifuges and part of its stockpile of 60-percent enriched uranium to the Pickaxe Mountain facility after the June 2025 war.
Iran threatened reprisals, with the Khatam al-Anbiya military command saying it would "consider it as an expansion of war" if such an attack were carried out, threatening strikes on "all the interests of America, the allies and supporters," the state broadcaster reported. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... it again denied the existence of any secret nuclear complex at the site, calling it a "fabricated pretext for aggression."
The US military said earlier that it had completed an 11th night of strikes on Iran. The state-run IRNA news agency reported that explosions rocked Bushehr, East Azerbaijan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Khuzestan and Sistan and Baluchistan provinces. The US said its targets included aircraft hangars and drone storage sites.
US Central Command said it launched strikes with the aim of further degrading the Islamic Republic’s “ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”
“Over the past three months, Iran has attacked more than 30 commercial vessels transiting the international waterway vital for regional and global trade,” CENTCOM said in a statement. “The unwarranted attacks have endangered hundreds of innocent mariners and undermined freedom of navigation.”
CENTCOM insisted that the Strait of Hormuz remains open to commercial shipping despite these attacks, touting the number of vessels and barrels of oil that have transited the key waterway since early May.
U.S. Central Command has identified the soldier it had previously reported as missing as Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, who is now believed to have been killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an Iranian attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan.
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Eleven days into the US strikes on Iran the targets appear to be: 1. Iranian coastal targets; 2. Probable command and control centers and weapons sites
There isn't enough publicly available information to infer an implied purpose to these attacks. However their very anonymity…
…very anonymity suggests the targets are not symbolic, but rather obscure installations with an unpublicized military value. It would make sense but only if we had the secret map, which alas, we do not.
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Based on what I've read on X/twitter so far, we are hitting a lot of targets every night, mostly IRGC, along with damaging the IRGC logistical support and logistical transportation.
It also seems the IRGC grasp on Iran is not as firm as the MSM is making it out to be and there appear to be a lot of angry Iranians who do NOT support the IRGC.
Also Iraq based pro Iranian militias are apparently heading toward Iran to reinforce the IRGC. I'm sure they'll make good targets for the A-10's
Israel “would join in two minutes if I asked them to,” Trump said, adding that “we don’t need anybody.” He also said there would be “consequences” if Israel joined in, likely referring to Iranian attacks on Israel.
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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...
