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Ilie Bolojan merge duminică în Republica Moldova. Premierul interimar participă la Congresul Partidului Acțiune și Solidaritate. tinyurl.com/ytm9bsnd

How many more stabbing attacks are we going to see in the UK? 17 year old girl was stabbed in the neck by a 30 year old man. She is being treated at the hospital.

🚨 The Islamic Republic keeps lashing out at the UAE because the UAE became one of the regime’s biggest sanctions-evasion hubs -and a safe haven for massive amounts of stolen elite wealth moved out of Iran. But that dependence also became a trap. By concentrating so much of its financial activity in Dubai and the UAE, the regime exposed key parts of its sanctions-evasion system to a country deeply tied to the U.S.-led global financial system. American pressure and financial monitoring increasingly turned those same networks into vulnerabilities. For years, the regime used the UAE - especially Dubai - to move oil revenue, bypass sanctions, operate front companies, recycle money, conduct shadow banking, transfer illicit funds through currency exchanges, and park enormous wealth outside Iran. The United States understood this dynamic for years. Rather than immediately shutting every channel down, U.S. sanctions policy often focused on tracing, monitoring, and tightening pressure over time. The more dependent Iran became on UAE-linked financial infrastructure, the easier those networks became to identify, sanction, pressure, and disrupt. Milad Torabi Fard, an international economics researcher, openly acknowledged this inside Iran. He said the regime’s dependence on the UAE had become a strategic vulnerability because major parts of Iran’s economy were tied to a country heavily exposed to U.S. and Western financial pressure. Now, after Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Fujairah, that escape route appears to be narrowing even faster. Put simply: the UAE is reportedly cracking down on many of the same financial networks that helped the regime survive sanctions for years. Reports indicate the UAE has already started targeting: ⚪️ IRGC-linked accounts and entities ⚪️ Front and shell companies tied to Iranian oil sales ⚪️ Money changers and sarraf networks used for illicit transfers ⚪️ Shipping and trade routes linked to sanctions evasion Dozens of IRGC-linked money changers were reportedly arrested, offices shut down, and companies dismantled. Analysts describe this as one of the most serious blows to Iran’s sanctions-evasion infrastructure in years because these trust-based networks took decades to build. And the scale is enormous. Before the escalation, Iran reportedly moved around $43 billion annually in crude exports, much of it flowing through UAE-linked channels. U.S. Treasury-linked reporting allegedly identified $8.6 billion in Iran-related financial flows in 2024 alone, with more than 70% involving UAE-based entities, most of them in Dubai. Now, reports suggest the UAE is considering - or has already begun - freezing billions of dollars in Iranian-linked assets. Estimates of regime-connected exposure inside the UAE run into the tens of billions, including real estate, bank accounts, shell companies, and investment networks tied to regime elites and the IRGC. In other words, the regime attacked one of the very countries that helped it financially survive. And in doing so, it may have accelerated the collapse of one of its most important sanctions-evasion and wealth-protection systems outside Iran.

“This is crazy” Any honest Meteorologist’s out there who know when this roughly started happening everywhere?

Daca tembelul Nicusoros il lasa pe refugiatul basarabean bagat de Base in politichie sa mearga la Casa Popoului pentru validare poate fi acuzat de tentativa de lovitura de stat si ar trebui sa-si faca valiza. Nu faci reforma inlocuind Democratia cu o Tehnocratie iresponsabila.

Who is brave enough to write ‘The Feudalist Manifesto’?

Tembelismul cu guvern tehnocrat impus de panarama Nicusoros e de fapt o tentativa de lovitura de stat. O reforma politica in Romania se poate face doar printr-o o Lege a Competentei Publice cu praguri minimale de educatie, pregatire si experienta in toate structurile Statului.