Head of Snake chopped off.

[sinkov]

"China announced an immediate halt to all rare earth exports to the United States — triggered the moment the attack began."

Did it ? If it did, the news of it doesn't seem to have filtered through to the world's media yet.

[ClaretinBudapest]

[QUOTE=sinkov;40806608]"Trump reportedly asked Iran for a ceasefire. The same man who promised to ?destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,? who told the IRGC to ?lay down your weapons or face certain death,? who called this a ?noble mission? ? was reaching, through back channels, for an exit. Hours in. Not days. Hours. He has never looked weaker in his life, and given the competition, that is quite a statement."

Social media drivel, Trump has not asked for a ceasefire. Iran's interim leadership has asked for talks, Trump has said he'll talk to them, but not said when. That's it.

https://newsarenaindia.com/internati...equences/71200

[sinkov]

[QUOTE=ClaretinBudapest;40806622]

"Trump reportedly asked Iran for a ceasefire. The same man who promised to ?destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,? who told the IRGC to ?lay down your weapons or face certain death,? who called this a ?noble mission? ? was reaching, through back channels, for an exit. Hours in. Not days. Hours. He has never looked weaker in his life, and given the competition, that is quite a statement."

Social media drivel, Trump has not asked for a ceasefire. Iran's interim leadership has asked for talks, Trump has said he'll talk to them, but not said when. That's it.

https://newsarenaindia.com/internati...equences/71200

I'm a bit dubious about the source of that story, look at the dateline, 'News Arena Network, Tehran'.

[sinkov]

"Al-Busaidi said peace was “within reach.” These were not diplomatic pleasantries — these were the actual terms of an agreement taking shape in real time. What followed was aggression and perfidy in the technical sense of both words: attacking a country during active negotiations in which that country was demonstrably willing to make significant and lasting concessions."

Any 'agreement' was a million miles away, the US wanted 4 conditions met, after weeks of negotiations they hadn't even agreed on the first one, nuclear, the 2nd one, giving up their ballistic missiles, Iran said they wouldn't even talk about it, not on the table.

[sinkov]

"Patriot systems failed to intercept the majority of the latest Iranian missile wave."

The overwhelming majority of missiles have been intercepted, very few have got through.

[Balan]

Yes,we are from time to time heading for the air raid shelters, here in Israel.

[Swissclaret]

Yes,we are from time to time heading for the air raid shelters, here in Israel.

Keep safe, Balan. My friends in Tel Aviv spent most of the weekend in the shelter. It is nightmare for them with the children.

[Balan]

The I D F is hitting Tehran at this moment

[outwoodclaret]

I watched the blubbing announcement of the demise of the Ayatollah on Iranian State TV and thought good riddance. I don’t like Trump as a person but he gets things done. Unlike our very own windbag PM. What comes next? I don’t know. Many Iranians would like nothing better than to get the Islamic monkey off their back and reclaim their very own Persian culture. I completely sympathise with that.

[warminsterclaret]

I watched the blubbing announcement of the demise of the Ayatollah on Iranian State TV and thought good riddance. I don’t like Trump as a person but he gets things done. Unlike our very own windbag PM. What comes next? I don’t know. Many Iranians would like nothing better than to get the Islamic monkey off their back and reclaim their very own Persian culture. I completely sympathise with that.

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