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[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago
[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 1 week ago

I am going to take a break from reporting for a while(hopefully, just 2 or 3 days). As soon as I feel well rested, I will come back!

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Thank you for all your work here Comrade! It's been extremely useful for keeping us all up to date!

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[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

Best wishes. Appreciate the work you put in.

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 week ago

❗️🇮🇷| NEW: Iran shot down 3 MQ-9 drones

What happened in chronological order:

• Yesterday, the US entered the Strait of Hormoz to attack IRGC speedboats & fisher boats, Iran’s air defenses countered the threat & shot down MQ-9 drones.

2 of these drones were shot down by the IRGC & one by the Army's air defense.

• The downing of these drones in less than 20 minutes caused the US to become confused and disorganized, and unable to locate the air defense site, they attacked several points on Qeshm and Jask islands.

• US attacked Iranian boats again

• The IRGC responded against US navy vessels tonight.

This also explains why Trump posted the AI image yesterday.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21717

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[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱| Hezbollah gave Iran’s national TV exclusive footage of a FPV drone attack to publish and tributed the attack to “our brothers from Iran.”

To FPV drone struck a military vehicle with soldiers inside.

God bless the brothers under the yellow flag.

Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21734

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Urgent / The IRGC targeted an American airbase

🔹 Following the early morning attack today by the US invading army on a point near Bandar Abbas airport with aerial projectiles, the American airbase, as the origin of the aggression, was targeted at 4:50 AM.

The IRGC Public Relations issued a statement:
▪ In the name of Allah, the Commander of the Compellers
▪ So if they attack you, attack them in the same way they attacked you

▪ Following the early morning attack today by the US invading army on a point near Bandar Abbas airport with aerial projectiles, the American airbase, the origin of the aggression, was targeted at 4:50 AM.

▪ This response is a serious warning so that the enemy knows that aggression will not go unanswered and if repeated, our response will be more decisive.
▪ The aggressor bears the responsibility for the consequences.

▪ And victory is only from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise

https://t.me/Tasnimnews/418428

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| According to Iran’s national TV (IRIB):

Iran’s demands are:
• A permanent ceasefire.
• US withdrawal from the region.
• No interference in Iran.
• Full sanctions relief.
• Release of blocked funds.
• +$300B in reconstruction compensation.
• Control/management of maritime traffic.

In return, Iran would also take reciprocal steps.

Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21741

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 week ago

❗️Israeli settler media describes a nightmare scenario in the north following a weekend of relentless rocket fire from Lebanon

A relentless barrage of rocket fire from Lebanon triggered nonstop sirens across northern settlements over the weekend, plunging local residents into what Hebrew outlets called an ongoing nightmare. Dozens of projectile launches forced thousands of Israelis to repeatedly flee into bomb shelters, leaving them in a state of constant panic.

Online social media reports emphasized that an entire sector of the north is being systematically pounded by the Lebanese resistance, forcing thousands to live under a continuous threat and absolute uncertainty.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60739

Maybe they should fuck off back where they came from.

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷 Mossad/CIA-backed armed seditionists are posting videos of themselves doing drive-by shootings in Iran

Which narrative will they choose? Are they pure, innocent, peaceful, unarmed lambs being slaughtered by the regime? Or are they brave armed insurgents engaging in acts of terrorism?

Since they aren't really pure innocent peaceful protestors, then they shouldn't cry when these heavily armed seditionist terrorists get eliminated by Iranian security forces.

This is glorified on X by treasonous accounts (such as this one) yet they never get flagged by X's so-called "community standards."

https://t.me/basirapress/14111

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago

69 Criminals of “Zahar al-Fasad fi al-Bahr” Now Wanted by Handala

Handala announces:
The full names and details of 69 Israeli Navy officers who recently attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla have now been revealed and are available for public viewing. As a decisive act of Resistance, a $100,000 bounty is set for each of these individuals.

We are the thunder and lightning after which you must always expect a rain of retribution. These are the very individuals who embody “Zahar al-Fasad fi al-Bahr”, those who spread corruption and devastation across the seas and the earth, leaving no refuge for the innocent.

Handala explicitly declares its solidarity and unwavering support for the Sumud Flotilla and all the mujahideen of the sea, pledging to stand by them until the very end.

This is our promise,
“اللهم اجعلنی من انصاره و اعوانه و الذابین عنه و المسارعین الیه فی قضاء حوائجه و الممتثلین لاوامره و المحامین عنه و السابقین الى ارادته و المستشهدین بین یدیه”.
Handala, until the advent of the True Avenger, will defend the blood of the innocent and the rights of the oppressed.

And this is a direct message to Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security:
Know that no crime, on land or at sea, will go unanswered.
You and all the corrupt and bloodthirsty in this cabinet will be pursued by the shadows of the Resistance everywhere. After every thunder, expect a rainstorm of our wrath.

Source -> https://handala-hack.tw/handalas-most-wanted-69-israeli-navy-officers-exposed-after-attack-on-sumud-flotilla/

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷| BREAKING: IRGC confirms it shot down a MQ-9 drone, and fired upon a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet

The statement says Iran reserves the right to respond to ceasefire violations.

The statement also says the IRGC shot down one MQ-9 drone and fired at a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet forcing them to flee the country’s territorial airspace.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21721

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s MFA, in an official statement, says the US violated the ceasefire by harassing Iranian commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz in the last 48 hours.

The statement says Washington is acting in bad faith despite diplomacy, and warns that Iran will respond to ceasefire violations and defend its interests.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21724

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 week ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷The Western media continues to portray US-Iranian talks as a means for US President Trump to end the war many portray as a "failure" even as the US continues striking Iran amid a "ceasefire."

But the US wanting to end the war is a false assumption.

The US goals are:

  1. Continue weakening Iran but without triggering wider, unsustainable hostilities;

  2. Continue decreasing Middle East energy exports to Asia, including China by maintaining constant instability and threat of wider war;

  3. While preventing a rapid global economic collapse and instead using the crisis to incrementally impose dependence on US energy exports onto Asia just as the US did to Europe;

The worst part about Western reports regarding supposed US "diplomacy" is that the last 26 years alone of US aggression against Iran prove the US uses diplomacy only to further war on its own terms, not to avoid or end it!

The US is currently managing similar balancing acts of hostility just below all out direct war with both Russia and China.

https://t.me/brianlovethailand/4904

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🇱🇧🇮🇷🇮🇱 WATCH | Exclusive to Iranian television: Scenes from the targeting of an Israeli military vehicle carrying soldiers in the city of Bint Jbeil today by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah did this operation for the martyred girls of Minab.

Video in https://t.me/SimurghRes/4981

🇱🇧🇮🇱 The Hezbollah fighter who hunted down the occupation army soldiers was one of the wounded from the pager massacre that Israel carried out in Lebanon.

@SimurghRes

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| WATCH: Footage has been released for the first time showing Iranian air defenses shoot down an American fighter jet on the 20th day of the war, captured during a wedding.

Considering the accent and dialect, which sounds like luri / Bakhtiari, meaning it’s captured in the west & southwest Iran - this increases the likelihood that this is indeed the F-15 that Iran shot down.

@FotrosResistancee

Video: https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21735

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[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago

❗️Kazakhstan offers to host Iran’s uranium stockpile

Kazakhstan has proposed hosting Iran’s uranium stockpile if Washington and Tehran reach an agreement on Iran’s disputed nuclear program, according to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in remarks to the Financial Times on Friday.

Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana earlier this week.

FT reported that Tokayev had indicated Kazakhstan’s willingness to store Iran’s stockpile.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60740

I can't stand this idea of "hosting" another Sovereign country's own resources. It's just western colonial chauvinism disguised as diplomacy.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

I can’t stand this idea of “hosting” another Sovereign country’s own resources. It’s just western colonial chauvinism disguised as diplomacy.

Yeah it sounds completely absurd. Like imagine if it was about a different kind of resource...

"Hey let us host your water."

"That means you have control over our water now..."

"No, no, we're 'hosting' it."

"So we still have full control over it and can use it whenever we want?"

"Well..."

"Cause if so, why would we keep it at your place."

"For uh, diplomatic reasons."

"Which are?"

"Well this asshole in the neighborhood doesn't want you to have water. So I just figured if we hold your water for you, that may calm him."

"And it never occurred to you that he's the problem?"

"Look, both sides are angry."

"Fuck off."

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[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| CENTCOM just confirmed what I wrote here above:

US is NOT assisting ships through the Strait of Hormoz.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21730

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago

🇾🇪🇺🇸| An image of the landing gear of the downed drone by Yemen, which is clearly a MQ-9.

Confirmed: Yemen shot down a MQ-9 drone, this morning.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21759

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 The Kremlin has published a joint statement by the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan on the situation surrounding Armenia's desire to join the EU.

➡️The leaders support holding a referendum in Armenia on whether to join the EU or remain in the EAEU

➡️A report on the possible consequences of Armenia’s withdrawal from the EAEU will be presented in December 2026

➡️Armenia’s preparations for EU accession pose significant risks to the economic security of EAEU member states.

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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/185264?single

🇷🇺🇦🇲 Russia will raise energy prices for Armenia if it withdraws from the EAEU - Putin

An increase in energy prices will result in a loss of at least 14% of its GDP for Armenia

...

Europe promises to invest 2.5 billion euros in Armenia someday, and Russia has already invested significant funds in the country

  • Putin

Putin recalled the advantages of cooperation in the EAEU - a common market, duty-free trade, simplified logistics, low energy prices. The accumulated investments in Armenia are about 4.9 billion dollars, 86% of which are of Russian origin, he emphasized.

The transition to the EU will lead to the full restoration of customs control and customs duties, a reduction in trade and tourism.

"We will have to restore the permissive order for Armenian carriers. This is inevitable. And we will have to increase tariff levels for railways,"

added the President of Russia.

According to Putin, Pashinyan said that he considered it right to hold a referendum, and the EAEU asked that this be done as soon as possible.

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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/185277

Importance of Armenia’s future

Armenia has little to actually gain from joining the EU, not even considering how impractical a suggestion it is. All this would do is give the West the ability to set up military architecture right next to Iran and much closer to Russia (as well as Türkiye, which I think the west will turn on in the coming years). It only serves western political interests over Armenian economic ones, isolates Armenia from regional partnerships, and actively puts Armenia in danger, by making them a target by putting them in Iran and Russia's firing line if the EU decides to push a redline.

Pashinyan winning the Armenian elections is basically a death sentence for Armenia as a sovereign project of any regard. Securing security from Iran/Russia is a significantly more effective strategy, especially with Azerbaijan breathing down Armenia’s neck. The biggest threats to Armenia is Azerbaijan and Türkiye. It's not Russia, it's not Iran, and it's not the Armenian church. Yet Pashinyan and his supporters seem to only speak on dangers of the latter 3, and underplay the severity of the former 2.

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 week ago

Small diagram showing a timeframe where Mossad Axios has been hyping an "imminent deal" to calm down markets.

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Telegram channels are going loco on the reporting, calm down. There are many conflicting and unconfirmed reports being thrown as “news”.

There are no new explosions in Bandar Abbas, new reports are related to the explosions from earlier.

The situation right now is calm.

Unconfirmed reports say a couple speedboats were hit, although we’re waiting for more confirmation.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21711

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s MFA spokesman:

• “We do not collect tolls; one must be careful in the use of words. We are not seeking to collect tolls. The actions of Iran & Oman to draft a protocol for the safe passage of ships are responsible measures. Naturally, in this process, the services that we’ll provide [for the passage of ships], as well as the protection of the environment, require the collection of fees.”

• Q: “Why don’t you respond to Trump’s tweets?” Baqaei: “We have much more important work to do than responding to tweets with AI caricatures.”

• No nuclear talks at this stage

• Messages between Iran-US are taking place through Pakistan.

• My advice to American officials is not to talk about international norm-setting.

• China 🇨🇳 has a very good relationship with us, and we have a strategic partnership; it has played a constructive role in all processes to stop the war.

• The President of China announced a 4-point plan for security in the region, which was valuable to us.

• Lebanon must be one of the elements in the MoU.

• Negotiations have made progress, but the imminence of an agreement depends on the Americans.

• It is true that we have reached a consensus on many issues [with the US], but no one can claim that the signing of the agreement is imminent.

• Politics in the US has become somewhat chaotic. Facing contradictory views from their officials within hours disrupts the course of any negotiation.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21695

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷| Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf:

  1. We gain concessions not through dialogue, but through missiles. In negotiations, we only make them understand those concessions.

  2. We have no trust in guarantees or words, only actions are the measure. No step will be taken before the other side acts first.

  3. The winner of any agreement is the one who, from the day after it, becomes better prepared for war.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21760

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| According to a prominent Iranian journalist

The US is unwilling to lift the naval blockade & even after a MoU & reopening of the Strait of Hormoz, Iranian ships must coordinate with the US military & obtain its permission to exit the region.

This is really bad and Iran will not be accepting this agreement on these terms.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21723

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🇮🇷🇺🇸| The IRGC published footage showing the successful interception of an American MQ-9 drone, yesterday.

Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21732

🇮🇷🇺🇸| The IRGC also published footage of the tracking and targeting of an American F-35 yesterday, with Iranian air defenses, after it violated Iranian airspace, south Iran.

Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21732

— While the F-35 successfully fled the attack, Iran can succesfully track and lock the stealth F-35.

@FotrosResistancee

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

⏺Does the negotiation process harm us or not?

❗Many concerned people have asked; well, we know the enemy will definitely attack, so why do we negotiate? First of all, I want to confront them with this question; so what should we do? Naturally, a country under naval, economic, political, and military siege by the enemy must think of a strategy—yes, both military, economic, diplomatic, and political strategies. Fundamentally, the negotiation process does not depend on our offensive or defensive capabilities; so do not worry about this. I don’t understand why after the war the negotiation team is blamed? What should they do? Stop negotiating? So basically, in a hybrid war, should we confront the enemy with only one approach? Actually, this is also a battlefield!

Secondly, it is not that we want to accuse every member of the negotiation team and separate their line from the leadership. I have repeatedly emphasized that Trump’s goal in entering the war was 4 or 5 major elements, none of which were achieved. Yes, they had detailed operational objectives, but that overarching plan for entering such a war was never realized. Trump is definitely moving towards identifying these issues, so he pursues them in both negotiation and war. Therefore, in both arenas, we must act revolutionary and intelligently, not abandon the field.

In my opinion, the upcoming war is currently being monitored with these military assessments as certain but within an unpredictable timeframe. Yes, this analysis might be wrong; I am not a prophet. But the same pattern that helped us somewhat categorize the start and end periods of the wars of 12 and 40 tells us that such movements, exercises, and transports indicate a short but deep and intense operation; an operation aiming to gain superiority in four major American objectives. Within this framework, repelling or canceling the enemy’s initial wave of attacks is very necessary because it itself prevents shock and then disrupts their planning. Fundamentally, the Islamic Republic’s defense must be prepared with the concept of mission cancellation and disrupting enemy operations. Do not necessarily think about destroying fighters; just canceling their mission is a good start.

https://t.me/Iranian_Militarism

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA):

‘The U.S. Treasury recently imposed sanctions on the Persian Gulf Strait Authority.

While condemning this action, the PGSA considers being sanctioned by a country like the United States, which engages in piracy, as a sign of its own positive performance so far.’

@Middle_East_Spectator

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32588

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🇮🇷| BREAKING: Alleged footages of air defense activity in Qom.

Videos in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21707

[From Fotros] — Note: My contacts in Qom informed me they did not hear or see anything in the sky.

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

🇱🇧🚀🇮🇱— Israeli army radio: Announcing the death of an Israeli soldier from Sayeret Givati and the injury of 4 others as a result of the explosion of a booby-trapped drone last night in the Zawtar area of southern Lebanon.

@SimurghRes

https://t.me/SimurghRes/5058

Settler Down.

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

❗️EU expands sanctions to Hamas politburo members

The European Union has widened its sanctions against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad by adding members of Hamas’s Politburo to the list.

On Friday, the bloc announced that ten members of Hamas’s senior political leadership body had been subjected to travel bans and asset freezes, preventing any funds or economic resources from being made available to them, whether directly or indirectly.

A press release said: “In their capacity as decision-makers of the organisation, the members of the Politburo have knowledge of the planning, preparation and execution of violent actions by Hamas.”

“They actively defend and justify such violent actions, often publicly warning and threatening future attacks,” it added.

The bloc reaffirmed its commitment to supporting efforts toward a “lasting peace” in Gaza. “The disarmament of Hamas is an essential prerequisite for progress in this direction,” it said

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60717

Eurocucks at it again.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 week ago

They stopped fighting, they have been abiding by the terms of the ceasefire, and the eu sanctions them. Meanwhile the genocidal settlers have not followed through on a single point they agreed to. Those eu epsteinites belong in the barbara pit.

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

❗️Statement by Hamas:

“We condemn the decision by the European Union Council to broaden sanctions against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements and to include a number of their political leaders on its lists. We consider it unjust and entirely biased in favor of the occupation's narrative, reflecting a policy of double standards in dealing with the Palestinian cause.

This decision comes as the occupation government continues to commit crimes of genocide, starvation, and forced displacement against our people and violates the ceasefire agreement, while the European Union turns a blind eye to these documented violations of international law and chooses to sanction political leaders who defend their people's legitimate rights.

The attempt to criminalize the Palestinian resistance will not change the fact that our people are under occupation, their resistance is a legitimate right guaranteed by all laws and humanitarian norms, and the occupation is the root of the conflict and source of instability. Additionally, the targeting of political leaders confirms that these sanctions come as a response to pressure from the occupation and are not based on standards of justice.

We call on the European Union to review its biased policies, cease providing political cover for the occupation, and work to hold its leaders accountable instead of prosecuting the victims. We affirm that these measures will not undermine the will of our Palestinian people or their commitment to their legitimate national rights, especially freedom, self-determination, ending the occupation, and establishing the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.“

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60718

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷| Trump openly threatened Oman:

The Strait of Hormoz will be open to everyone and no one will control it.

Oman will behave like everyone else, otherwise we will have to blow them up.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21740

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[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

❗️Russia signs military & technical cooperation agreement with Taliban

Russia and the Taliban have reached an agreement on military and technical cooperation.

Russian news agency Interfax reported on 27 May that the deal was concluded during the “International Security Forum” held in Moscow.

According to the report, Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob held talks with Secretary of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu on the sidelines of the event.

During the meeting, Yaqoob said that engagement with Russia is important for the Taliban and that both sides have been expanding their bilateral relations.

He added that Afghanistan and Russia share historic ties and that the Taliban aims to maintain and strengthen those relations.

Shoigu, in turn, urged Western countries to release Afghanistan’s frozen assets and take responsibility for the country’s reconstruction.

One day later on 28 May, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Vasily Osmakov met with Yaqoob in Moscow to discuss regional security and potential bilateral military cooperation.

According to the ministry, the two sides addressed security issues in Central and South Asia, as well as the outlook for cooperation between their armed forces, including areas of military collaboration.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60653

Russia, Afghanistan sign military cooperation deal in Moscow

[-] vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

[2026-05-29] PressTV – Iran strongly condemns US threat of sanctions against Oman

Say the line bart!! What's that? You are announcing new unilateral sanctions??? Wypipos so good at maths!! More sanctions = fix everything 🤩🤩👍 Please sanction everyone and invent more viruses that make you stupider tbqh🙏

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The Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the United States' threat of targeting Oman with sanctions after Washington warned it would attack the country if it cooperated with Iran towards exercising control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks on Thursday after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued the threat.

Baghaei described the menacing rhetoric as "an attempt to blackmail an independent UN member state and yet another sign of the moral bankruptcy of the American system of governance and policymaking."

Threatening to impose sanctions on Oman under a baseless pretext is an absolutely unlawful act and contrary to the fundamental principles of the UN Charter and international law, he asserted.

The official added that the international community had to respond responsibly to such conduct in order to prevent the growing normalization of violations of international legal norms.

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump had said he would "blow up" Oman if it agreed to work with Iran to share control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Reacting to those remarks, Baghaei had expressed solidarity with the friendly and brotherly country of Oman, noting how the threat had been issued against a state, "which has always played a constructive, effective, and responsible role in regional peace and security, spent many years as a mediator in diplomatic processes, and made endeavors to serve regional peace and stability."

Such threat, the spokesman noted, "not only violates the principle on the prohibition of threat or use of force, but is another dangerous sign of the normalization of lawlessness and bullying in international relations.”

Iran and Oman are negotiating a new framework for maritime transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

Remarking on the negotiations on Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Bagheri Kani said passage through the strategic waterway would no longer follow previous arrangements.

Iran shut down the strait to enemies and their allies following the launch on February 28 of the United States' and the Israeli regime's latest bout of unprovoked aggression targeting the Islamic Republic.

It began exercising far stricter controls after Trump announced an illegal blockade of Iranian vessels and ports in continuation of the aggression and in violation of the terms of a ceasefire the US president, himself, had declared earlier.

On May 20, the Iranian authority controlling the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf defined the supervisory management zone of the waterway.

So far, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)'s Navy has issued passage permits for scores of vessels for transit through the waterway in line with the Islamic Republic's instructions.

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

Trump 'hit the breaks' on Israeli plan for Kurdish invasion of Iran: Report

Israeli intelligence reports say Kurdish groups were 'eager' to join the operation with US and Israeli air support

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60753

Speculation

I think this is full of shit. I've given the Kurds a massive amount of criticism for consistently siding with imperialism, but from what I've seen, they've been relatively restrained this entire conflict. I think a combination of Rojava's destruction and the abject failure of the uprising in Iran has tempered the Kurdish political factions to a certain degree.

Iran is not a nation to be trifled with. It's not a disintegrating state without a foundation of popular revolution like Syria. Nor is it an occupied failed state like Iraq. Iran is the most industrially developed countries in the region and is one of the most sophisticated military powers in the world. A Kurdish invasion would be a blood bath, and one that could very easily completely collapse the minimal chances for an established Kurdistan.

I'm willing to believe that Türkiye also warned against this option for obvious reasons, but I think it's a lie to say that's the major reason it didn't materialize. I think it's more likely that the Kurdish political factions in Iraq were hesitant to go through with it, and the opinion was split enough to where no operation could reliably occur.

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

Eleven Lebanese children killed, injured every day by Israeli military: UN

Tehran insists that any peace agreement with Washington must include an end to Israel's brutal war in Lebanon

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60697

Mag Bar Israel. Mag Bar Amerika.

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸| ❗️ Bloomberg reports that Iran's attacks on the US Ali al Salem Army air base in Kuwait 3 days ago, “injured” 5 American soldiers.

Additionally, a US MQ-9 drone was completely destroyed and another MQ-9 was seriously damaged.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21769?single

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[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

❗️Brooklyn food co-op votes to boycott Israeli goods following years-long pressure campaign

The prominent Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn has voted to remove Israeli products from its shelves, transforming the New York grocery landmark into a central battleground over economic pressure against Israel. During a three-hour virtual meeting, nearly 7,000 members cast ballots, with 67 percent backing the measure. The vote succeeded after members first approved a rule change lowering the required boycott threshold from a 75 percent supermajority to a simple majority.

The directive commits the cooperative to stop stocking goods produced within Israel and its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank until Israel complies with international law. The decision physically impacts fewer than a dozen items—including select brands of tahini, olive oil, produce, and snacks.

The vote concludes years of bitter internal friction that escalated sharply during the genocide in Gaza. Opponents and pro-Israel advocacy groups condemned the initiative as discriminatory antisemitism, while proponents countered that the campaign targets state policy rather than religious identity, noting that numerous Jewish members supported the boycott.

The cooperative is already facing immediate legal retaliation over the decision. The National Jewish Advocacy Center has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the organization, and a formal complaint has been submitted to the New York Division of Human Rights alleging, baselessly, that the boycott violates state anti-discrimination laws.

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/60701

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

🏴‍☠️⚔️ Hezbollah pro

All Hezbollah clips are documented in one place, and this clip is in another place; the clip indicates that Hezbollah is starting to adapt to the circumstances of the battle and is developing drones that were previously criticized for being unable to carry out night strikes, as cameras and clips have proven that they are not thermal cameras and do not have night vision capabilities; after this clip, the so-called Israeli Defense Army is facing a real dilemma of moving and maintaining the positions occupied in the previous round in southern Lebanon, which have now become killing zones and a war of attrition from which it is difficult to exit; we are living in the exact circumstances of the Russian-Ukrainian war in terms of the nature of the confrontation, but Hezbollah started from where the war of the Slavic races on the cold continent ended. It used optical fibers to a player about 25 km away from the target, smoked "Tobacco Menthol", which is the favorite bait in Lebanon, and caught its targets through a TV screen..

https://t.me/naya_foriraq/76058

🌟🏴‍☠️Scenes from the targeting operation of the Islamic Resistance on Saturday, 23-05-2026. Israeli enemy soldiers gathered in the town of Al-Bayada in southern Lebanon, using their Ababil attack drones.

Video in https://t.me/naya_foriraq/76057

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

💠Hezbollah announced the downing of drones and targeting of the Israeli regime's army equipment.

Hezbollah of Lebanon stated in separate statements:

🔹It has shot down two drones of the Israeli regime's army in the airspace of the cities of Sarifa and Deir Kifa in southern Lebanon.

🔹It targeted an "Namra" armored vehicle belonging to the Israeli army with a drone in the city of Bint Jbeil, and the attack was successful.

🔹It also targeted another "Namra" armored vehicle with a drone in the town of Zoutar al-Sharqiya.

🔹It targeted the communication equipment of the Israeli regime's army at the Al-Asi site opposite the city of Mays al-Jabal with a drone attack.

https://t.me/sepahnewsir403/14804

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷| IRGC specialists in Iran’s Lorestan neutralized an unexploded 1,000-pound MK-series bunker-buster bomb in Chegeni.

The bomb (dropped by the yankees) fell near a hospital & a medical center, disrupting their activities. Thankfully it was successfully detonated.

https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21698

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷| Newly published footage shows moment when a JASSM (AGM-158) cruise missile was intercepted by Iran's air defense during the recent war.

Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21742

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

🇮🇷 Documentation showing the Iranian AD-08 Majid short-range air defense system, which was displayed during the Yerevan exercises on May 25 in Armenia.

https://t.me/naya_foriraq/76170

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