The major Western countries' order of preference for outcomes for Iran: 1. Libya model - Total state collapse 2. Syria model - Partial collapse, weak central government 3. Western pliant strongman 4. Current gov survives 5. Actual democracy

The point was to give the US the ability to stop most oil to China (except Russian) & make Israel the "lawn mowing" hegemon of West Asia. It failed, happily, but fruitless isn't the same as pointless.

No. We stole $25 billion from Iran and are returning it. That’s what ‘releasing frozen assets’ means.

💢 According to a report by Iranian outlet Khabar Fori, the first tranche of Iranian funds released under a Reuters reported financial understanding with the UAE has arrived in Tehran, despite repeated public denials by U.S. and Emirati officials. The Iranian outlet claims a private Emirati aircraft landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport after bypassing regional flight restrictions, carrying an initial $3 billion transfer of Iran’s foreign currency assets. Flight tracking data reportedly shows an Emirati Boeing 737-7JZ BBJ (registration A6-RJF) flew directly from Abu Dhabi to Tehran on June 8. Citing what it describes as reliable regional and international sources, Khabar Fori says the transfer is part of a broader agreement under which the UAE would release between $10 billion and $20 billion in Iranian funds, with the reported $3 billion shipment representing the first installment.

Israeli Telegram channel with 180K members is in mourning and fury: "God will curse Trump." "The first war in Israel's history that we lost." "We have to admit the facts: Iranians taught America a lesson." "Hopefully in 10 years we won't be dependent on American idiots."

Naval Blockade on Iran is lifted tonight. The Strait of Hormuz will open Friday.

Don’t believe there is a deal until: Attacks on Lebanon stop and Regular traffic resumes through the Strait of Hormuz

Two-thirds of you say southern Lebanon will be explicitly covered. I doubt it. But maybe. Even if it is, I am confident that it will be honored in the breach. Moreover, the Iranians did not draw their line below Beirut in haste. That is the line they will impose, not southern Lebanon, which has been written off like Palestine by everyone, including the Iranians.

Truly a concentration camp now, if anyone doubted it was that before.

RT @dwdavison: hm no, the correct analogy here would be getting very rich while constantly promising to cure cancer while never actually cu…

If Netanyahu does not abide by the agreement, there will be no implementation and the world will know who and which entity, to blame for the imminent economic catastrophe.

How odd that the Iranian government hasn’t negotiated to ‘create the conditions for its collapse’

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister has confirmed to Iranian state TV that the MOU has been finalized and it will be signed on Friday, with the understanding that the regional war will end on all fronts, including in Lebanon, tonight.

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public. For 20 years he did it quietly. Then Monsanto came knocking. A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow. The file landed on Chopra's desk. He started reading the science. He started finding holes. The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans. If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk? His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data. His managers had a different idea. Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off. He refused. So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments. He kept refusing. Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer. In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada. Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken. It made headlines around the world. In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world. Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won. Then his own government fired him for winning. July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country. The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy. He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone. But here is what they could never take back. rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign. And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now. He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border. So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

BREAKING: Iran is now moving large amounts of missile launch platforms across the country, in preparation for imminent launches at Israel, with flights in western Iran canceled until further notice, per Iranian media. The response to Israel's strikes on Beirut will also be "multi-fronted."

Possibly a clever taunt at Trump. Iran reportedly has professional psychologists advising their leaders how to talk to him.

Channel 12 first claimed that Trump was bribing Iran with money in exchange for their promise not to attack israel in response to the Beirut attack. Now they’re reporting that Iran refused the bribe and plan on attacking.

I'm only allowed 4 images but Axios alone had 6 or 7 stories in 2024 of Biden being mad at Netanyahu that amounted to nothing. Just spin.

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC threatens an "imminent and devastating response" against Israel before dawn tomorrow after three Israeli strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh district today, warning Israel to "prepare its shelters" and saying "the era of acting without consequence has passed." The IRGC says Beirut's southern suburb is Iran's red line that Israel was warned through "multiple channels" not to cross, with the strikes now derailing any remaining negotiations and no deal being signed today or in the near future as Trump claimed.