This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
Quick update: Newsweek and other sources have retracted parts of their articles citing Domg Jun saying “Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and it is open for us” and other such things. In regards to China’s position, they have released statements through the foreign ministry encouraging deescalation
⚡️ Al-Diyar: Diplomatic sources expected the next twenty-four hours to be crucial regarding the possibility of reaching a limited truce on the Lebanese front, in light of the accelerating international and regional communications to contain the escalation. They noted that Hezbollah’s steadfastness in Bint Jbeil, despite significant military pressure, will have direct repercussions on the course of tomorrow’s anticipated meeting in Washington between the Lebanese and “Israeli” ambassadors, which is being held under American patronage.
The sources affirmed that the city’s resilience constitutes an additional element of strength for the Lebanese position, which insists on the necessity of reaching a ceasefire as a fundamental prerequisite before discussing any subsequent negotiating framework. They pointed out that the balance of power on the ground still plays a pivotal role in determining the ceiling of negotiations, making field developments in the coming hours a decisive factor in shaping the features of the upcoming political phase.
Nasrallah
It’s crazy how something as inevitable as Israel being bombed again soon can be so uncertain in the moment. Time is so beautiful. Thank you time
Yes, I’ve reckoned with my viewing the war as entertainment. I’ve come to Engelsus, as they say. Doing it deliberately as a joke doesn’t make any sense. I don’t have a sense of humor. It’s always some kind of excuse. Settler protestantism, you never want to pretend to be cured without deprogramming. The default settler protestant is an atheist now, and He worships White
[2026-04-14] @Osinttechnical: A U.S. blockade on Iranian ports is set to rapidly hit food imports to the Islamic republic, according to commodities provider Kpler - WSJ
The blockade is set to affect almost 983,000 tons of grains and oilseeds already underway.
Iran actually exports food, so if the blockade was hypothetically real they could work it out. I hope you see the pattern in misleading trade reporting. Always be heavy-handed when salvaging information from these people
[2026-04-14] @ME_Observer_: ⚡️ Al-Diyar: Arab diplomatic sources warned Lebanon of the consequences of not obtaining a clear explanation for a ceasefire, should the “Israelis” agree to one. According to information, the Americans informed mediators that what the “Israelis” want is a return to the situation before the outbreak of the recent war, meaning maintaining freedom of military action and selective targeting, while keeping Lebanese villages and towns occupied until a peace agreement or security arrangements are signed, the conditions of which remain extremely difficult for Lebanon.
dawg
Wow, I have always found Boltzmann to be an intransigent nutjob (that may mean more or less coming from me), but this is a truly wild allegation. Anyone want to do a voice comparison? I fucking despise podcasts that aren’t just professors talking. I am listening to 17 hours of vaporwave mixtapes. I will do it soon.
The supporting social links make it very credible to me. I have seen some crazy shit with podcaSSters, like Secret Sun debating Bhante Varrapanyo, who once raided the Chapo server to ohm at people & explain he was the most qualified person imaginable to be a high-ranking monastic official in Myanmar, being monolingual and a former white nationalist (still an anticommunist btw, and he later fled to the UK). I digress. It’s a small world for these people, I’m saying. You’re a part of it tho
[2025-07-05] @radiosalamandra: will the real professor booty please stand up
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you would know better than anyone, right? since you worked for the weizmann institute, like recently… @/BoltzmannBooty
[2] that’s right, your favorite parapolitics conspiracy poster worked for a top secret zionist weapons lab. not to mention he’s been research partners with a racist (dorian abbot) for a decade. did boltzmann get his oct 7th narrative shaping marching orders in the entity?
[3] id forgotten about this scumbag. typical for the parapolitics crowd gathered around army cointel clown matt farwell et al. The fmr NYT at war blogger lol 👍
[4] if you doubt what i’m saying is true do your own voice comparison
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Highly related to this war as it pertains to an overriding anti-AoR “pro-Palestine” stance implanting Haaretz stories in leftoid communities, anti-Iran & paranoid about Hamas, comparing 10/7 to 9/11 always struck me as deeply Israeli. The Weissman Inst. tho? No way dawg. Can it be that everyone who clams up online when I prove them wrong is in fact an evil skinwalker? (Not that I ever doubted it for a second.)
What is happening? I have no idea who any of these people arguing are…
Yeah its a bit too “online” for me too.
Oh good federation is kinda working better. This guy got big on Twitter & was boosted by a lot of left alt media figures over saying October 7th was basically a false flag. I know that sounds unthinkable but stupid people were much louder before the missiles.
Strategic provocation and the October 7th attack – Nuts and Boltzmann [2024-04-29]
See he gets it completely wrong here. Sinwar won, we can see that now, undeniably. Also, Hamas had foreknowledge of an Israeli offensive! It’s bullshit pulled from Haaretz. This guy is like, one degree of separation from True Anon
Iranian strikes on the Weizmann Institute of Science – Wikipedia [2025-06-15]
Secret Sun and Bhante Varrapanyo have nothing to do with this, other than being examples of CIA podcaSSters, and no, I will not stop “talking like a doctor bronner’s bottle label” to quote an anonymous source
I just find it quite amusing that this guy may have finally gotten a real 9/11 of his own when they blew up the evil Mengele laboratories hahahaha not to do the vulgar comparison again but a missile is a lot closer to a plane than a paraglider ffs
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: Less than a day in, Saudi Arabia is pressuring Trump to drop the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it could push the Houthis to escalate in the Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandab – WSJ
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30964
Abbas Araghchi: “Why We Insist on Uranium Enrichment”
“Why have we insisted, and continue to insist, on uranium enrichment? Why won’t we surrender it, even under the threat of war? Because no one has the right to dictate what we may or may not possess. This is rooted in a fundamental principle: the rejection of domination.
Enrichment is our right under international law, and whether we choose to exercise it is our business alone. For years we’ve been told, ‘You have no right to enrich; enrichment must be zero.’ Why? ‘Because we’re concerned,’ they say. If you’re concerned, we’re prepared to address that. Have questions? We’ll answer them. Is trust lacking? We’ll build it. But no one has the right to say, ‘You cannot have this because we don’t want you to.’
This is the heart of our resolve: we have stood firm in defense of our own rights. Enrichment matters, but what matters even more is demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran takes orders from no one and submits to no domination.
If there are doubts about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, we are ready to answer them. The only path forward is diplomacy. Every other path has been tried and has led nowhere. Negotiations will only succeed when the rights of the Iranian people are recognized and respected, not granted, because our rights are already legitimate in and of themselves. What we ask is simply that they be respected.”
In my view, Araghchi’s statement is more than a dignified reply to the United States. It is a rebuke of the condescending posture the West has held toward Muslims for nearly a century. It is a declaration that the era of bullying and imposed values is over. If Iran emerges from this with its honor intact, God willing, neither the United States nor the Muslim world will be what they once were.
https://xcancel.com/FrameTheGlobe/status/2043432051106558319
🌟Hezbollah announces: The status of Islamic resistance operations on 13-04-2026
🇺🇸 According to USNI News—the media arm of the U.S. Naval Institute—the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is operating off Namibia, taking an unusual route around Africa to join a growing U.S. naval buildup in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Instead of transiting the Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean, the strike group—escorted by USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), USS Mason (DDG-87), USS Ross (DDG-71), and supported by USNS Arctic (TAOE-8)—is bypassing the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb.
ℹEarlier today, some reports said it had crossed Gibraltar; however, this now appears not to be the case.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181857
Cowards… They are clearly afraid of Ansar Allah
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful,
Press Release
We salute, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the participants in the “Steadfastness 2” flotilla to break the siege on the Gaza Strip, which sailed from the city of Barcelona towards the Gaza Strip.
We also salute the brave activists participating in this great flotilla for their heroic positions that uphold the values of justice and humanity, and their insistence on rejecting the crime of the siege imposed by the terrorist occupation on more than two million of our Palestinian people.
The participation of about 1,000 volunteer activists from dozens of countries in the flotilla, and their insistence on challenging the occupation’s measures and its terrorism that it has faced against successive flotillas of freedom and steadfastness at sea; confirms the failure of the Zionist terrorism strategy to stop attempts to break the siege, and demonstrates the justice of the Palestinian cause and the right of our Palestinian people to a dignified life.
We call for escalating the international movement rejecting the siege on the Gaza Strip, especially in light of the continuation of the humanitarian catastrophe created by the fascist occupation, and we call on the international community, the United Nations and its institutions to protect the flotilla, prevent the criminal occupation army from targeting it, and take clear measures to stop the crime of the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip.
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
Monday: April 13, 2026 Corresponding to: Shawwal 25, 1447 AH
🇮🇱 Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brik aka Israel’s “prophet of wrath” who warned of vulnerabilities before October 7th, assessed the strategic situation as “very bad.”
“On the morning of April 4th he says he will destroy their civilization to the ground. At eight o’clock in the evening, he says ceasefire, negotiations. Essentially Trump surrendered.”
The goal of overthrowing the Iranian regime failed. As long as they remain in power, they can rehabilitate themselves. Netanyahu wants to finish off the whole world, but he doesn’t have an army capable of doing what he claims.
“We never had absolute victory. There won’t be absolute victory, certainly not in these conditions. We didn’t defeat Hamas. We didn’t defeat Hezbollah. We didn’t defeat the Iranians.”
Video in https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181859
🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — For the first time, Hezbollah has launched an FPV drone towards Kiryat Shmona.
It is reported that the drone is resistant to electronic warfare, difficult to detect, and has the ability to maneuver inside buildings.
This drone is capable of carrying 5 kg of explosives and can reach a range of tens of kilometers.
— KAN
@SimurghRes
I wonder if they using fiber optic drones.
The European Union’s member states must coordinate on energy prices amid a 22 billion euro ($25.70 billion) increase in fossil fuel bills since the start of the Iran war, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.
“We’re also looking into … coordination of member states’ gas storage filling to avoid that many member states go to the market at the same time,” von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels.
“And we will coordinate oil stock releases, to achieve the largest possible effect, and we will ensure that member states’ emergency measures will not impact the single market.”
The EU Commission is planning to publish proposals for energy price measures on April 22, to be discussed by EU leaders at their informal summit next week, according to Reuters.
Separately the EU’s executive arm will present an electrification strategy before the summer, von der Leyen said as she stressed the need for structural measures to lower energy prices as well.
“We are paying a very high price for our global dependency on fossil fuels, and the grim reality for our continent is fossil fuel energy will remain the most expensive option in the years to come,” von der Leyen said.
🇺🇸 According to USNI News—the media arm of the U.S. Naval Institute—the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is operating off Namibia, taking an unusual route around Africa to join a growing U.S. naval buildup in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Instead of transiting the Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean, the strike group—escorted by USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), USS Mason (DDG-87), USS Ross (DDG-71), and supported by USNS Arctic (TAOE-8)—is bypassing the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb.
ℹ️Earlier today, some reports said it had crossed Gibraltar; however, this now appears not to be the case.
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Aww poor babies are scared of Yemenis? One of the poorest nations on earth and big bad usa can’t even get withing eye shot of them without their laundry rooms bursting into flames.
🇰🇲 Elpis, a Comoros-flagged oil and chemical “shadow fleet” tanker sanctioned by the U.S. in 2025 for handling Iranian petroleum, appears to be challenging Trump’s blockade.
