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Lol even BBC news (tv) is saying that the 500% tariffs against anyone trading with Russia are not going to happen because it would mean Russian oil/gas would have to completely come off the international market and it would cripple supply globally.

Iranian president injured in June [zionist] airstrikes

The IOF struck Masoud Pezeshkian’s underground bunker during last month’s war, Fars News Agency reports

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was slightly injured during "israeli" airstrikes on a bunker last month, according to Iranian state-affiliated outlet Fars.

The June 16 strike reportedly involved six bombs targeting access points to a secret underground facility in western Tehran, where Pezeshkian and other top officials were attending a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

Fars said on Saturday the blasts cut power to the facility, forcing the president to flee through an emergency shaft, during which he sustained leg injuries.

The outlet claimed the operation was modeled after the September 2024 strikes in Beirut that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson he claimed the zionists tried to assassinate him. The zionists have not commented. It's likely IMO they did and only failed because of their lack of ability to get close with larger bombs. Also they were totally serious about killing Khomeini and Iran is so incredibly compromised by zionist/US intelligence that the only reason they weren't able to attempt that is he went totally off-grid, his own top government people unable to get in direct contact with him during critical hours because of this.

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Iran says IAEA inspectors planted spy chips in their shoes

Iran has accused inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of espionage, saying they planted hidden surveillance chips in their shoes during inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.

The accusation was made by Mahmoud Nabavian, Deputy Chair of Iran's Parliamentary National Security Committee, who said the discovery of the chips proved the inspectors’ involvement in intelligence activities.

Nabavian also held IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi responsible for leaking confidential Iranian reports to Israel.

In an interview with Fars News Agency, Nabavian asserted that IAEA agents are “undoubtedly spies,” and that confidential documents were leaked to US and Israeli media even before being reviewed within the agency.

He stressed that Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA will remain limited and under the supervision of its Supreme National Security Council

Trump to announce "aggressive" Ukraine weapons plan tomorrow - Axios

Key takeaway:

Two sources told Axios they had reason to believe the plan was likely to include long-range missiles that could reach targets deep inside Russian territory, including Moscow. However, neither was aware of any final decision.

Trump told reporters Sunday evening that the weapons he would send Ukraine through European countries would include "various pieces of very sophisticated military (equipment)... Video here

Missiles with the range to hit Moscow from Ukraine means missiles with more than 500km range. That excludes a lot of weapons if this happens. The four potential missiles in the US arsenal are:

• Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM). Subsonic low altitude surface to surface cruise missile. Range 1300-2500km, depending on variant.
• Standard Missile-6 (SM-6), surface to air and surface to surface supersonic missile. Range of 500km possible in a surface to surface role.
• AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range (JASSM-ER), Stealthy high altitude air to surface cruise missile. Range of around 1000km.
• Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). Surface to surface ballistic missile. Range of over 500km.

If this goes ahead and if it refers to US made weapons (I have significant doubts), a possibility is Typhon launchers with TLAM and SM-6 missiles, which are set to be deployed to Germany next year. The first TLAMs were used over three decades ago during the Gulf War, not exactly new technology. SM-6 missiles would also give Ukrainian air defence the capability to engage Russian aircraft at much longer ranges then they currently can, (SM-6 max range is 370km in a surface to air role), and an ability to engage time sensitive targets in the ground at long range due to the high speed of the missile (3.5 Mach). The Typhon launcher can launch both of these. TLAMs can also be launched from the "ROGUE-Fires", a 4 wheeled unmanned ground vehicle capable of launching a single TLAM.

If JASSM is included, it would be quite concerning as it's a stealth cruise missile that can fly at high altitude, the only known missile with this capability. (most stealthy cruise missiles use a combination of low altitude and stealth to radar and IR sensors). Russian and Syrian air defences (using Russian equipment) failed to shoot down a single JASSM stealth cruise missile during US attacks on Syria. PrSM could also be concerning given the range and ballistic vector. Again, I have significant doubts, but unlike the SM-6 and TLAM, Ukraine already has the equipment needed to launch these missiles, F-16 fighter aircraft and M142 HIMARS trucks.

More likely I can see other weapons which have already been delivered, like ATACMS ballistic missiles and Storm Shadow subsonic stealth low altitude cruise missiles, being delivered again.

However, no one should be surprised if we see TLAMs and JASSMs flying into Russian military bases in the coming weeks. This is very much a possibility.

Russian forces recently liberated the Donetsk People's Republic settlement of Karl Marx. Note, the Kiev regime, as part of its anti-communist propaganda campaign, renamed this settlement "Mirnoye" in 2016, but now it is once again Karl Marx. The DPR does not recognize the Kiev regime's name changes: https://tass.com/defense/1988953

A combat video showing the settlement's liberation: https://vkvideo.ru/video-213181913_456431968

Trump confirms that more PATRIOT air defence batteries are on the way to Ukraine, likely financed by Germany and Norway. So Germany and Norway buy US military equipment, and send it to Ukraine. A sign of things to come. A lot more of this on the way.

Video source.

Germany is also financing the Ukrainian production of a "high three digit number" of cruise missiles and drones, likely the already existing Ukrainian systems like Long Neptune cruise missile, Bars cruise missile, AN-196 one way attack drone, and the Ukrainian equivalents of German/Shaded and Harop/Harpy one way attack drones. The first batch of these systems will finish production at the end of July. As they are Ukrainian made and operated, no restrictions on striking deep into internationally recognised Russian territory. Some of these systems have ranges between 1000-2000km. In response to Russian air raids, NATO seeks to give Ukraine it's own significant long range strike capabilitiy.

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In other news, after Germany acquired the joint Israeli-US developed Arrow 3 exoatmospheric ballistic missile defence/intercept system, Germany is also interested in acquiring the Arrow 4 system, the replacement of Arrow 2. Arrow 4 is set to offer improved performance against ballistic targets (more altitude and range) and capability against hypersonic threats, likely similar to the performance jump S-500 offers over S-300V. Germany is seeking to protect itself, and Europe, against ballistic missiles from Russia. (That's the only possible perceived threat).

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The Caracas Stock Exchange has seen a much higher than usual rise. Defying catastrophic analyses of the Venezuelan economy, the CSMI (Caracas Stock Market Index) has risen 232% in the first half of 2025 and more than 300% in the last 12 months. According to the platforms that monitor stock market movements around the world, this was the biggest rise recorded in the financial market this year.

Roughly speaking, the general value of assets traded on the stock exchange is increasing. This is a very positive sign for the market and refers to different factors: economic growth, company performance and investor confidence.

The growth is even clearer if we consider another important Latin American stock exchange. Argentina's ultra-liberal president, Javier Milei, prides himself on managing to “recover” investor confidence in Argentina. That's not what the country's stock market shows. In 2025, the Merval index fell 18.35%, far worse than its regional political rival, Venezuela.

The investments also reflect a rapprochement between Nicolás Maduro's government and Venezuelan businessmen Since last year's presidential elections, the Chavista has met a number of times with business owners in the country to make a gesture and announce measures to support this sector.

The main one was the elimination of the Large Financial Transactions Tax (LFTT) in bolivars. The opening up of capital has also been a Chavista policy that helps in this regard. The creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for foreign companies to operate in the country demonstrates Maduro's concern with attracting private investment, which is further boosting the Venezuelan stock market.

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Why is there this atmosphere of "the coming war with China"?

Unless they mean Taiwan — and maybe even then — it just seems absurd.

Reuters reporting IOF missile strike kills children collecting water, blames malfunction.

Kourittenga: 35 actors equipped on feminism and gender-based violence - Agency for Information of Burkina Faso

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Trump toughens US policy on Cuba and orders restrictions on tourism and financial transactions. A memorandum signed by the US president on the 30th calls for a review of US policy on the island; a US economic embargo in force since 1960 is reinforced.

In the memo, Trump states that the reviews should focus on Cuba's treatment of dissidents, policies targeting dissidents and restricting financial transactions that “disproportionately benefit the Cuban government, military, intelligence, or security agencies at the expense of the Cuban people”. The prohibitions apply to direct or indirect financial transactions with entities controlled by the Cuban Army, such as Gaesa and its subsidiaries. The exception is for transactions that benefit the United States or “support the Cuban people”.

In a possible significant change, the order said the US should look for ways to shut down all tourism on the island and restrict educational tours to groups organized and run by US citizens only. Tourism to Cuba was banned, but was relaxed in some cases during the Biden administration.

The move comes as no surprise, given that Trump had already stated that he plans to revoke sanctions relief and other penalties on Cuba, instituted during the terms of Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In the days before he left office, Biden had moved to revoke the US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Trump's memo “supports the economic embargo on Cuba and opposes calls in the United Nations and other international forums for its end,” according to the administration.

The Trump administration also added Cuba to the list of seven countries facing tighter visitor restrictions and revoked temporary legal protections for some 300,000 Cubans that shielded them from deportation. The White House also announced visa restrictions for Cuban and foreign government employees involved in Cuban medical missions, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio called “forced labor.”

In an interview with the Associated Press this month, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossio, accused the United States of trying to discredit the medical missions and criticized the reversal of the policy of welcoming Cubans to the US. Rubio, whose family left Cuba in the 1950s, before the communist revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, has long been an advocate of sanctions on the communist island.

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I haven't seen it talked about much here but on July 4th a large group of black military-garbed people lured ICE agents out of a detention facility using fireworks then opened fire on them with AR-15s.

10 people have been charged.

https://archive.is/nKdFC

The US seems on the verge of something very big.

Church shooting

Richmond Baptist Church, Lexington Kentucky. Multiple injuries, including a cop (who is stable). Shooter was killed near Blue Grass Airport.

really don't understand why they even release that memo on Epstein, couldn't they have stayed quiet?

Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari dies at age 82 - CNN