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Jul 12

Updated on the war thread.  It looks like war is raging again.

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Today, a first in human history, the flags at Grindr headquarters have been lowered to half-staff.  😉

I don’t care where he died, or how, I just care that he shuffled off his moral coil.  May this be the start of a trend for those that are gay for war!

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause

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As a companion piece to Peter Koenig’s A World of Impunity with a Reflection of What Happens ‘When the World Sleeps’ —

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz openly speaking for the destruction of Lebanon:

“I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model.

We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way.

And that is what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed.

Homes in 24 villages along the border, villages that had existed for hundreds of years and were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel have been demolished.

The army systematically flattened the villages with bulldozers and explosives.

Ninety percent of the houses are gone.

Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed.”

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Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, July 12 – TASS:

Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered the following losses:

◾️ In the Battlegroup North responsibility zone: 185 servicemen, an armored fighting vehicle, 13 cars, an electronic warfare station

◾️ In the Battlegroup West responsibility zone: more than 220 servicemen, 5 armored fighting vehicles, 17 cars, and one artillery piece

◾️ In the Battlegroup South responsibility: 155 servicemen, 6 armored fighting vehicles, 30 cars, 2 artillery pieces, an electronic warfare station

◾️ In the Battlegroup Center responsibility zone: more than 355 soldiers, one tank, one armored fighting vehicle, seven cars, two electronic warfare stations

◾️ In the Battlegroup East responsibility zone: 495 soldiers, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 8 eight cars, one artillery piece

◾️ In the Battlegroup Dnepr responsibility zone: 55 soldiers, 17 cars, one artillery piece, and three electronic warfare stations.

Jul 11

Iran is under attack.  War on Iran.

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Sanctions, Trade and Economics

More sanctions on Iran by the US – individuals and enterprises.
More sanctions incoming on anyone doing business with Russia.
China has announced a temporary export ban on helium due to escalated tensions in West Asia.

Alliance of Sahel States announced economic growth: The economies of the three AES member states (Niger, Burkina Faso & Mali) expanded by a combined 5.5% in 2025. They are planning a unified military force.

Captain Traoré vs the Others : The others, the friends of France, the so-called elected presidents who ruled Burkina Faso for nearly 40 years after killing Thomas Sankara, did nothing significant for the country, infrastructure-wise.

For over 60 years, by year 2023, people who have access to electricity in Burkina Faso was around 21% only! Imagine, this percentage is even lower in Niger in 2023 while France was there looting the uranium which is used to produce nuclear energy that provides electricity for the French population meanwhile the Niger population lived in the dark!

After the arrival of Captain Traoré, he made access to electricity one of his priorities. In a year and a half, that’s by mid 2025, Burkina Faso started producing 51% of its electricity needs which raised the access to electricity to 26%. This new $300 million energy plant will significantly increase the percentage.Two more thermal plants are near completion and should be inaugurated before year end. By 2030, according to the National Development Plan adopted two months ago, the entire country will have access to electricity before even the construction of the nuclear power plant.

This is one reason the Burkinabè people love Captain Traore. He came to power and found the country in ruins infrastructure-wise. But he is fixing things in a record pace.

Jul 10

Trump declares ceasefire ‘over’ while claiming to maintain diplomatic dialogue with Iran
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US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US has agreed to continue formal talks with Iranian officials, even as he reiterated that the ceasefire between the two nations is no… pic.twitter.com/G6ovX1oc3s

— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) July 10, 2026

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The Mediators:   (Also see on the theme of mediators, Mr Hunzi: Iran and India and then, the gaslighting by Pakistan)

Israeli minister drops bombshell claim Trump envoy called Gazans ‘two million Nazis’

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has stated that US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, privately referred to Gaza’s population as “two million Nazis.” The conversation reportedly took place on January 30, 2025, in Jerusalem, a day after Witkoff toured the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza and reviewed footage of the October 7 attack.

👉 According to Smotrich’s account, Witkoff told him: “Bezalel, I will not let two million Nazis live next to your children along the border fence.” Smotrich further quoted Witkoff as saying that “there is only one thing that hurts the enemy: land.” The meeting was also attended by then‑Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.

Smotrich’s remarks came just days before Trump publicly unveiled a plan to “take over” the Gaza Strip and relocate its population. The initiative—later dubbed the GREAT Trust—proposed so‑called “voluntary relocation packages” for Palestinians, offering $5,000 per person. Developed without any Palestinian involvement, the plan effectively formalized a foreign presence in the Gaza Strip.

🗣 Smotrich’s own expansionist agenda

Smotrich himself has repeatedly used similar rhetoric and actively promotes territorial expansion. In November 2023, he stated that “there are two million Nazis in Judea and Samaria” and that Palestinians “hate us just like the Hamas-ISIS Nazis in Gaza”.

In July 2026, the minister announced that planning had been completed for three new Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, declaring that Israel would “return to all of Gaza on a large scale.” He also called for Israel to “erase” the Oslo Accords and expand its borders into Lebanon and Syria.

Witkoff has not responded to Smotrich’s account. The Trump envoy, who played a key role in brokering the Israel–Hamas ceasefire which is not a ceasefire in January 2025, has remained silent on the matter.

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A historic day in China’s space program!

China’s Long March-10B has successfully completed its maiden flight—and recovered its first stage via a sea-based net. This marks the country’s first-ever controlled rocket recovery. A major leap toward reusable launch capabilities.… pic.twitter.com/FWuQXLltaD

— Mao Ning 毛宁 (@SpoxCHN_MaoNing) July 10, 2026

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Maria! 😂

Hop on the Bus Gus!

‘German Embassy suggests we should stop what it called an ‘aggressive war’ and informs us about fuel shortages’ — Zakharova

‘We agree it’s time for Berlin to stop waging an aggressive war through the Kiev regime’

‘In the meantime, the concerned German diplomats can take public transport’

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Jul 9

The week long burial ceremony for Ayatolah Ali Khaminei is completed and he and his family are now laid to rest at the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad.

‘Largest in human history’: Over 43 million join funeral ceremonies for Martyr Leader in Iran, Iraq

Tens of millions of Iranians and devotees from across the world turned the funeral ceremonies for the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, into the largest procession the world has ever witnessed – a funeral but also a peaceful protest.

Muslim Shias must be the most polite, politically active and disciplined group to ever exist on this planet.  Image that number of people elsewhere and the property damage, theft, harassment and chaos, mayhem, etc?

Today the final chants were for revenge.  https://t.me/presstv/197996

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Russia will NO LONGER take West’s statements at face value — Lavrov

West’s hypocritical calls to start Ukraine talks continue despite their consistent LIES

‘This assumption of good faith is OVER’

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According to Lavrov, the West is simulating a willingness to negotiate on Ukraine, but is now openly issuing ultimatums to Russia.

After these days of extreme activity, action and words, where are the balls?

Russia – Moving to a different war footing.  We will see a further expression of this change.  Dmitry Peskov noted in two interviews, one local and one for Swiss media, that the SMO is no longer a SMO, but is now a war.  Russia wants a new European security doctrine to replace the one that failed for them, and will not let go until they have it.  Peskov did not leave the US outside of his words as to who is fighting Russia.  We also have clear indication that the US is still fully involved with targeting the strikes deep into Russia.  The NATO summit confirmed most everything that Peskov and over the past months, Dmitry Medvedev said, and I have no doubt that these are thoughts fully cleared with President Putin.  For the short term, we can expect continual terrorist attacks on civilians and power structures on Russia from Kiev, major attacks by Russia on Kiev will continue until an event like a  proverbial assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, or until there are no more troops in Ukraine to fight.  President Putin said on various occasions that the more Russia gets attacked, the bigger the security cordon to stop these attacks will be.  Russia will continue escalating in Ukraine.        

NATO Summit – We have a surfeit of Trump singing all the songs that he has been singing over the past year and a half: Greenland, Panama Canal, Who he hates and who he loves, Playing the world Emperor, Disgusting insults to Iran and the Iranian people, How he has won the war against Iran and support for Kiev.  He does make me think of Hitler or Pol Pot or Bloody Netanyahu with his boorish bully killer talk.  In fact, he says if he was a communist, he would have been a better one than Lenin.  Trump bellowed that he will speak to President Putin at the moment ..

Putin and Trump did not speak on phone yesterday – Kremlin..
“Russia proceeds from the understanding that the US continues to supply weapons to Ukraine, while at the same time maintaining efforts to facilitate a peace process,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

At this stage the US Administration is creating their message for mid-terms on the basis that the rest of the society are communists and they are not.  I do not know if the Americans still believe this hackneyed message.  At NATO he was entertaining with full time braggadocio a bunch of European Nazis and their only business was the business of flattering him to ensure his support for this alliance that should be dead.  To pay up in full, these NATO members supported the US in their war on Iran.   The rest of NATO is gathering resources and arms, to supposedly attack Russia in what they hope will be a massive win for them, without a word to a possible conflagration in the next few years.   They also did not say a word about the ongoing genocide in West Asia.  I’ll use a ‘Trumper’:  These are BAD people.

Russia holds the cards and the ball here, on the basis of military strength.  Do not forget the DPRK.  At the NATO summit, of course Erdogan was flattered as having the 2nd biggest and fiercest military in the bloc.   Erdogan will not attack Russia – not in a million years, but then again, on our world it is ‘a million years’.  The DPRK will join to attack whoever attacks Russia.  China is still trying to teach the world how to live civilized and productive lives, but nobody listens.

NATO is now moving to an attrition warfare mode instead of thinking they have a win.  As we’ve said from the outset, to the last Ukrainian and now to the last poor Latin American or African that they can recruit to toss onto front lines of death.

On Ukraine, they are very busy in Africa trying to attack the Sahel region.   Mr Lavrov on his Africa trip and the Sahel Alliance condemned the activities of France and their support for warfare in the region.  We will pick up on that in the coming days.

The EU – Changing from an economic organization to a political war footing, still eyeing Russia and really irritating China.

West Asia – The document that was dead on arrival has now been announced dead by Trump.  Iran will increase the cost to the US of continual strikes.

There is no more Memorandum of Understanding.  It needed to be there at the outset, for Iran to list their requirements.  The US (chat goes that Israel participated) shot of 90 strikes (by their counts) on the South of Iran, mainly port cities and published a series of AI photos of large explosions on Trump’s Truth Social.  We do not yet have clear indication of damage.  Iran shot of a series of drones and missiles into key infrastructure and facilities at four US bases in Kuwait (Arifan and Ali al-Salem) and Bahrain (Jafair and Sheikh Isa) were targeted – this is the first phase of a “punitive response”.  Just moments ago the Islamic Republic of Iran Army launched fresh attacks on US military installations in regional countries in retaliation for deadly American strikes against the nation in flagrant violation of the war-ending deal between the two sides.

We will remain in a War/No War situation for the foreseeable future.  The US is trying to build up their war materials and Iran is continually improving.  The Black Swan here is Israel.  Iran is completing the epic,  and massive funeral for Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.and then we will hear formal statements.  So far, we have statements mainly from the IRGC and the Iranian army.

It is interesting that a short statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry quotes the UN Charter, and not the Memorandum of Understanding.

🔹Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned US strikes early Thursday on coastal provinces and railway bridges to Mashhad, calling them war crimes.

🔹”These attacks violate UN Charter Article 2(4) and flagrantly breach paragraphs 1 and 5 of the ceasefire MoU,” the ministry stated.

🔹The US acted under the false pretext of responding to incidents in the Strait of Hormuz.

🔹”The US has resorted to lies and aggression to compensate for its inability to grasp Iranian unity and patriotism,” the ministry added.

Economy:  I will wait for the experts to tell us the level of DIRE problems.  The middle-countries will suffer and should seriously attend to their own affairs.

Jul 8

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The NATO Summit reads like a declaration of war. The Europeans got what they wanted: diplomacy is dead & this is now Trump’s war. How to fight and defeat the world’s largest nuclear power in a fight for its survival? We will now see massive escalation as we move toward total war

— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) July 8, 2026

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We need further sources on this:  Iran cancels MoU agreement with the U.S., state-linked Tasnim reports

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This will be a massive open thread and I’ll break it apart if it becomes too messy.  I’ll just keep putting short updates here as the level of world noise and hysteria is tremendous.  I feel there is a second shoe to drop but clarity so far is that many seek war.  It is immaterial if it is possible today, or not.  We need to understand the trajectory.

I expected some truth to break through the muck beneath with the NATO summit, albeit disturbing.  The release of their declaration (summarized by The Cradle) contains:

The NATO Ankara Summit Declaration has been released. It focuses on Iran as a key ‘security concern’ for West Asia, reiterating that Iran “must never have a nuclear weapon” and calling on Tehran to fully respect freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Other issues addressed at the summit included support for Ukraine, increased ‘defense’ spending, expanding military production, and strengthening NATO’s capabilities against Russia, ‘terrorism,’ cyber threats, and emerging technologies.

And then APPLAUSE!  A new entity enters the Arena. Trump’- ‘The Islamic Republic of Japan’ attacked our aircraft carrier — Trump

‘I told this story yesterday, two months ago we had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan’.  https://t.me/rtnews/157931   (Note Mr P’s comment in the comment stream.).

Trump is saying fantastical nonsense:  “we may capture Kharg Island”

US to give Ukraine license to make Patriots (note: Of course this is to fire at Russia – it may not work, Russia may neutralize this before it starts.  Nevertheless we see clear objectives)

“So one of the things we’re going to be talking about is — we’re going to give you a license to make Patriots. That’s pretty cool, right? This way, you can’t complain that we’re not giving them enough,” Trump said ahead of his meeting with Zelensky.

Trump on Iran:  “We’ll probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give them a little warning. We’re gonna hit them hard tonight.” – Trump

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Trump on Iran earlier today:

To me, I think the ceasefire over

‘I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum. They’re sick people’

‘There’s something wrong with them.
They’re cuckoo. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over’

https://t.me/rtnews/157895

I don’t care if the talks with Iran don’t resume — Trump

‘They’re a bunch of lying guys’

‘They’re liars. They’re cheats. They’re sick people’

‘They’re bad people. And frankly I don’t want to waste my time with them’

https://t.me/rtnews/157896

We need to listen to Trump’s complete speech as well as the one that he promised for later today.  I don’t want to say it, but this may mean that the NATO countries may have agreed to join war in West Asia.  Or best case, they may have decided that they will be sore and miserable losers.  Trump did not manage to use the funeral to sneak some oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.  I’ve only seen snippets of Trump’s speech.  He also called ‘them’ a cancer.  “And you know what we have to do? We have to eradicate this ‘cancer’ in its early stages.”

Watch – number one on TikTok with his chihuahua Rutte provoking war.

BREAKING: Intelligence reports indicate Iran is preparing for battle.

— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) July 8, 2026

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The final funeral ritual will take place July 9 in the holy city of Mashhad, coinciding with the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Sajjad (AS), also known as Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia imam and a great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Cuba

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
@DiazCanelB
Translated from Spanish
On behalf of the people of #Cuba, I thank the 136 nations of the world that voted in favor of bringing the #BloqueoGenocida against an entire nation, and the threats of military aggression, to the debate of the United Nations General Assembly.

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After yesterday’s US strikes on Iran, there is a noticeable change in language from the west.  The western media talks about Iran’s violation of the ‘ceasefire’, but nobody talks about the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’, as if it is a dead letter and never happened.  This goes right through the short speeches at NATO.   The western trope is that Iran is violating the ‘Ceasefire’, and that is where it stops.  The ‘Understanding’ part is completely ignored.  The western spin machine is in top form.

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China – Satellites stacked like bookshelves full of books

238 satellites in orbit! This is China’s answer to Starlink pic.twitter.com/mIzVT3oxEw

— CGTN Frontline (@Frontlinestory) July 8, 2026

Another piece from China and this is a biggy:  Beijing considers restricting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models The U.S. calls this “authoritarian control,” while doing exactly the same thing with a better PR team, a bigger navy and a global kill chain If China locks down frontier models, it’s basically saying: you don’t get to use and download our productivity for free while sanctioning our hardware

Expect a new era of AI geopolitics: not just chips as strategic goods——but model weights as the next sanctioned export.

Jul 7

Wow, not even a full hour since I said this:  “Now, who is going to fire first?”

Major General Rezaei: America is looking to pass its ships through the Strait of Hormuz.  (Playing up big for the NATO summit?).  Strikes on southern province of Hormozgan, including at the ports of Bandar Abbas and Sirik, as well as on Qeshm Island.

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🚨 US revokes Iran oil license — because American “deals” expire whenever US feels like it

Sputnik International – The US Treasury is revoking its authorization for operations with Iranian oil from July 7, banning new transactions and allowing existing deals to be wound down only until July 17.

📄 Just two weeks ago, the US issued General License X, authorizing the production, delivery and sale of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and petroleum products through August 21, 2026.

That license was part of the US-Iran memorandum framework, under which the US was supposed to provide sanctions relief, including waivers for Iranian oil exports.

But the US was never planning to honor the deal it begged for.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent already admitted the trick out loud:

💬 “It is a carrot that we can always pull back.”

Now the US is pulling it back.

This is US diplomacy in its purest form: sign a memorandum, demand concessions, keep the sanctions loaded, then revoke the relief before the ink is dry.

I would say this pretty much cements the death of the MoU.  Now, who is going to fire first?

MoU 10 — The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MOU and until the termination of sanctions, US Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.

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Iranian flights broke the blockade on Yemen.  Flights to Sana’a International Airport continue this week.  The Iranian aircraft landed despite Saudi threats.  While the Iranian planes were landing to transport patients from Sana’a Airport, Saudi aircraft carrying bombs were present and attempting to prevent the Iranian planes from landing.  The Saudi enemy, along with the Zionists, will be punished, God willing.

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So, why am I posting NATO?  Oh there is always a reason.  We will see during this summit how Europe wants to fund their planned war against Russia.

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⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two… https://t.co/GD8zDg3MEz

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) July 7, 2026

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Iran has targeted a third tanker:  A new attack reported by the UKMTO: A third tanker transiting the US-designated Omani route was struck (by Iran).   The ship sustained minor structural damage and its allegedly continuing its sailing to the “next port”.

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Al Mayadeen: In pictures: An aerial view of Qom, Iran, as millions fill the streets for a historic farewell to the martyred leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei and several members of his family, with funeral processions continuing for the fifth consecutive day: https://en.mdn.tv/9FdO

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Trump’s intervention to revoke the Red Card from the US striker didn’t help. The USA lost to Belgium and were eliminated from the World Cup after a scandal involving the cancellation of their player’s disqualification. The “top scorer of the Americans”, Folarin Balogun, who was saved from disqualification, did not score. The lego movies are taking over the internet. Satire abounds – This is satire: “So anyway, the US has declared war on Belgium citing ‘Belgium is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon’”

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The IRGC Navy struck a vessel that attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz via the Omani maritime route without Iran’s permission. Iran most likely struck the Qatari-owned LNG Tanker ‘AL REKAYYAT’. The tanker was hit by an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, 8 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman.

The tanker received multiple warnings, but decided to ignore them and instead called the U.S. Navy for assistance.

Jul 6

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This YouTuber that we on Sovereignista sussed out from the very beginning is now repenting. He feels ‘lied to’. (Reportedly I am not rolling on the floor laughing). He does not even have the honesty to say he got it all wrong. This kind of dishonesty is such a clear indicator of just being in a very strange place.

Of course, I wasn’t surprised in the least. Every time I present factual context to a Western audience, I’m met with attacks and accusations – called a propagandist, mouthpiece, or worse. Yet what strikes me is this: why are the predictions of these accusers always wrong? https://t.co/SRsDRZjbgS

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) July 6, 2026

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The massive funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is continuing for another day or two. The crowd numbers are not reducing – The Iranians are not leaving the streets, the gathering points and the squares. Increasing judging from the footage is the very huge display of Red Flags of Revenge and what one cannot see, is the red wrist and other armbands. From Iran, we hear talk that this is not only an emotional reaction, but based on current reason and logic with the history of the recent wars and the overt assassinations and threats to current leadership, including Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. Imam Mojtaba has not been seen and it is reported that the Iranian security services would not allow him to be in public because of the immense level of threat. It really is not hard to see the threats coming from Israel and the US and this is not a ‘secret reported by the Pakistani secret services’.

Countries as far as Mexico and Sri Lanka are holding public gatherings or gathering in Mosques. This is the biggest funeral in our human history and the biggest story that I know of. Numbers of reported attendees currently stand at +- 10 million, surprisingly reported in the US main stream media. Today, the funeral procession will continue in Qom, where around 10 million mourners are expected. It will then proceed to Iraq, where attendance is expected to surpass 13 million, before continuing to Mashhad, where another 10 to 12 million people are expected to participate. This does not include television or live streams.

So far, Tasnim, Al-Jazeera and Al-Mayadeen had investigative journalists on the job all all report that the funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Khamenei is officially the largest in recorded history.

An interesting but rough comparison: The current Fifa fútbal world cup has a baseline for a successful World Cup between 3 million and 3.6 million total spectators. This does not include television or live streams. I am not making this comparison as spectacle to spectacle because the mourning ceremony is sacred and deeply felt. Marwa Osman: “Please remember that you are not attending a party, a carnival, or a cultural festival. You are witnessing one of the most sacred and emotionally profound moments in the lives of millions.”

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Quote Zakharova: “… the methodology of persuasion has changed”.

Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in response to terrorist attacks launched by the Kiev regime against civilian infrastructure on the territory of the Russian Federation, carried out a massive strike with long-range ground-, air-, sea-launched precision weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit enterprises of the military industry, fuel and power facilities in Kiev and Kiev region as well as infrastructure of military airfields in Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, Chernigov, and Kiev regions.

And more from the Russian MoD: Yes, the methodology of persuasion has changed materially:

On the night from 5 to 6 July 2026, the Kiev regime attempted to launch a massive attack on the territory of the Russian Federation by 625 long-range strike drones against facilities outside the special military operation zone. Six hundred thirteen aerial threats were shot down over the Russian regions.

▫️ The aim of the attack was to demonstrate to sponsors from European countries, including the UK, the readiness of Ukraine to hit civilian facilities in the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine on their money on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara.

▫️ The main efforts of the enemy during the strike were focused on delivering damage to facilities and logistics sections of the civilian fuel and power infrastructure in the Russian regions including in Leningrad, Bryansk, Belgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, and Kursk regions, and in the Republic of Crimea.

▫️ Thus, while repelling air raids, the Russian Armed Forces downed 147 UAVs over Bryansk region, 43 UAVs over Belgorod region, 48 UAVs over Leningrad region, 72 drones over Yaroslavl region, 64 UAVs over the Republic of Crimea, 31 drones over Kaluga region.

▫️ The anti-aircraft missile crews, mobile fire teams, fighter jets, and helicopters thwarted the massive attack planned by Zelensky to coincide with the NATO summit. The vast majority of Ukrainian drones were shot down or jammed. However, individual civilian facilities that have been damaged as a result of the attack will be recovered in the near future.

▫️In response to the terrorist attack of the Kiev regime, on the night of 6 July 2026, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike with long-range high-precision ground-, air-, sea-launched weapons, and strike drones against defence industry enterprises as well as fuel and power facilities supporting the AFU in Kiev and Kiev regions.

▫️ The pursuit of Western sponsors of the Kiev regime to increase supplies of unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, and ammunition manufactured on the territory of European countries and Great Britain as well as to use Zelensky to deploy them against civilian facilities in Russia, will not go unnoticed and will be repelled by an adequate increase in the amount and might of counter-attacks launched by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.

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Dmitry Medvedev:

The US turned 250 years old. Are they a role model or an “evil empire”?

In my view, neither one nor the other. But here is what most countries on the planet agree on: America has no right to make decisions for others. Any state, whether small or huge, can sort out its own problems on its own. The US and the White House have no right whatsoever to impose their will on others. Let them sort out the mess in their own house first.

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Deeply weird https://t.co/SFlvGm4YKE

— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) July 6, 2026

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