Israel genocide Gaza, expanding in West Bank, holds parts of Syria and Lebanon, has offensively struck other countries… yet somehow on defense. Levin in meltdown a good sign. Israel Firsters will spoil and stab Trump in back

Huge if true.

Twisted logic. You could change Iran for Israel in a lot of these sentences and would be more accurate. That’s what they do, project onto others what they do.

RT @vali_nasr: I told @nytimes that Iran is inclined to make a deal with US because it faces more dire economic conditions but at the same…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas @Araghchi gave a lengthy interview to Iranian state television yesterday offering Tehran's framing of the prospective agreement with the United States. Much of his presentation appeared aimed at the domestic political debate surrounding the deal, where deep distrust of Washington is widespread and hardline critics are already mobilizing against any compromise. Araghchi framed the agreement as a means of consolidating what he described as Iran's battlefield success. He argued that Iran had "achieved a strategic victory" and "shattered" the notion of a "weak Iran," but said those gains now needed to be "stabilized" through a memorandum of understanding. Seeking to defend the deal against domestic criticism, Araghchi acknowledged that compromise was unavoidable, arguing that "there is no agreement where one side wins 100 and the other side zero" and that "one must consent to give and take." He also sought to discredit opponents of the agreement by arguing that its foremost enemy is Israel. According to Araghchi, the memorandum itself will be "less than 2 pages" and initially signed through a "digital" and "remote" process. Echoing previous reporting in Iranian state media, he said the nuclear issue has been deferred to a subsequent 60-day negotiating period. If a broader agreement is not reached during that window, he said the talks could be extended or ultimately fail altogether. Importantly, Araghchi repeatedly stressed that progress toward a final agreement will be contingent on the memorandum being fully implemented first. He presented this sequencing as a key safeguard against future American noncompliance. On substance, Araghchi said the memorandum includes the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade and provides not merely for a regional ceasefire, including in Lebanon, but for Israeli "withdrawal." He also stated that Iran's frozen assets blocked under U.S. sanctions would be released under the agreement. Perhaps the most notable element of the interview concerned the Strait of Hormuz. Araghchi said management of "transit in the Strait of Hormuz will not be like the past" and indicated that Iran is working with Oman on a new legal framework governing the waterway. While ruling out "tolls," he suggested that "service fees" would be collected under the new arrangement. Throughout the interview, Araghchi repeatedly emphasized that the 60-day negotiations and any broader agreement would not proceed if the memorandum is not implemented by the United States. He also repeatedly defended the negotiating process as having been approved through consensus by Iran's decision-making institutions, particularly the Supreme National Security Council, which he said has maintained oversight of every stage of the process. Summing up the government's position, Araghchi argued that "the result of the understanding will be good for the national interests of Iran and will stabilize the field achievements."

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The merger between the U.S. and Israel has a third piece almost nobody is talking about. While Section 224 fuses the militaries, Section 622 moves to fuse the intelligence services... Buried in a 192-page intelligence authorization bill from Sen.Tom Cotton, Section 622 would legally require the president to "expand and enhance intelligence sharing" with Israel across nearly every topic of intelligence interest in the Middle East. It would prohibit any reduction in that sharing except for a "specific and identifiable national security concern," then force a detailed report to Congress within 15 days justifying it. Read that mechanism again carefully. It strips the president of the ability to limit what America tells Israel, then makes any attempt to do so a political fight the Israel lobby can frame as being "against Israel's security." It welds the intelligence spigot open by law. Now stack the three pieces moving through Congress at once: -The Stutzman resolution phases out visible aid. -Section 224 integrates the militaries. -Section 622 mandates intelligence sharing. Each one is less publicly accountable than the last. Aid is a line item voters can see. Intelligence liaison happens in the dark, where no price tag ever appears. The strategy is to move the relationship out of public view precisely as public support collapses. And the timing is the most scandalous part. The Pentagon just rated Israel a "critical" espionage threat. Congress's response to all of it is to legally mandate that America share more secrets with the country its own spy agencies say is robbing it. Source: Responsible States Craft / Writer: Daniel

RT @hmousavian: The New Yorker: Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace. By Robin Wright, June 12, 2026 “Hormuz from now on i…

Administration has settled on "no money will exchange hands" as way to paper over unfreezing assets and Iranian oil sales, and "at an appropriate time" as way to paper over lack of agreement to remove HEU. This deal is going to test Trump's salesmanship even with his own base.

Iran didn’t take world hostage, US & Israel did my launching a regime change war and trashing deals

This is what happens when you advocate failed policies from JCPOA exit to strikes during negotiations to attempts at regime change.

Spoilers out

I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me. At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran. Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place. So here’s what I think happened. Read the full piece on my Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/so…

The Laura Loomer regime fears someone who can speak to the Left and the Right at the same time.

It is true that Iran used its power over the strait to assume leverage over the US and eventually compel a favorable settlement. But this obscures what may be the more significant achievement: that after 40 days of bombing, Iran never lost the ability to both keep the strait closed and threaten regional infrastructure. Its missile cities still stand, its launchers survived, its drone/missile arsenal were depleted but, thanks to careful management, remain potent. In the end, Iranian missiles and drones proved more effective at accomplishing their mission than US TLAMs, F-35s, and strategic bombers.

Vaez: “Si rischia lo scenario di Gaza e che l’intesa non arrivi alla fase due” repubblica.it/esteri/2026/06…

Netanyahu has decided to accept the Iranian deal. Security officials are despondent and see it as a disaster. Ynet brings some high level quotes from them: 1) A senior Israeli official said "Nobody is happy with this. We understand it is not good for us, and that it harms Israeli interests. What is troubling is that Israel cannot influence it. Its voice is not being heard." 2) The anger at Trump is palpable.: "Trump screwed us, we took the hit. We're no longer in the loop and can't really influence anything." 3) Israelis fear Iran will be economically revived: "They've blown money on the Iranians, who are getting everything they want. They'll build a missile corps, and we'll have to pour money into interceptors." Israel sees oil revenue flowing back into the exact capabilities the war was meant to degrade. 4) They don't believe a deal will adequately deal with the nuclear issue: "The real test of the deal is removing the uranium and destroying it. If that doesn't happen, the sense of a bad deal will turn into something more concrete." 5) They fear this will embolden Iran: "Iran has smelled that it can achieve things by force, and it will use that against its neighbors and against us." 6) The deepest worry is not military. It is perception. After months of direct fire, Iran is seen across the region as the side that took the pressure and did not fold: "the regional working assumption will be that it was signed under Iranian pressure and American capitulation, rather than the reverse." Israel is concerned that Iran will be stronger, the US will be weaker and that the future for it will be bleak in the region. This war has been a disaster for Israel.

⭕️ NEW: Hours after U.S. Central Command claimed it had intercepted multiple Iranian one-way attack drones allegedly launched toward commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says a tanker was struck by an “unknown projectile” about 6 nautical miles east of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz. According to the advisory, the vessel was hit in the port bow, but the crew is safe, no environmental damage has been reported, and the tanker is continuing to its next port of call. Authorities are investigating the incident

RT @ed_fin: “The situation around Hormuz has shifted: recent developments indicate that Iran is losing some of its leverage, while the US i…

🎥 University of Tehran professor Hassan Ahmadian predicts another round of war between Iran and its allies and Israel is likely. And rather than allowing Israel to separate Iran’s support for Lebanon, Tehran’s strategy will be to “decouple” Israel from the United States by focusing future confrontation on Israel. “What can it alone, with solely its own power, achieve by attacking Iran and its allies? I think that would be another losing bet for the Israelis,” Ahmadian said. @hasanahmadian | @jeremyscahill

🎥 Top Iranian analyst @hasanahmadian spoke with Drop Site’s @jeremyscahill to break down how US President Trump, after failing militarily, grew desperate for a diplomatic exit — and ended up capitulating to the very framework Iran had been pushing all along. Ahmadian says a deal covering two core Iranian demands was within reach. It included an end to the war, including Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and the unfreezing of Iranian assets and lifting of the oil embargo. In return, the U.S. was promised freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. But Trump tried to revise the agreed framework after it had already been finalized with mediators, pushing Iran to walk away from direct talks entirely. When the U.S. escalated militarily, Iran struck back harder. “The Iranians not only didn’t respond to President Trump — they actually showed that they are willing to engage in another war if need be and not succumb to what he was demanding.” That’s when Trump realized he couldn’t turn a military failure into a diplomatic win, and ultimately capitulated, Ahmadian told Drop Site. 🔗 Watch the full interview on Drop Sites’ YouTube channel