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Israeli opposition leader says Israel must continue Iran war even if US withdraws

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Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a meeting at the parliament, Knesset, in Jerusalem on March 20, 2023. [Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images]

Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman called Monday for continuing the war with Iran even if the US withdraws, following remarks by US President Donald Trump about “constructive talks” with Tehran.

“If the US exits the war, we must continue. From our perspective, toppling the regime is essential,” Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, said at the opening of his party faction’s meeting, as reported by the daily Yedioth Ahronoth.

Lieberman sharply criticized the Israeli government, saying it was focusing on internal legislative issues while security threats persist.

“While residents of the north hear an air raid siren every few minutes, the Knesset will discuss the fate of the people of Israel and the expansion of the powers of rabbinical courts—this is absolute madness,” he said.

Trump said Monday that he has ordered a 5-day postponement of all strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, citing “very good and productive” talks with Tehran over the past two days.

READ: Trump pauses strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure for 5 days after ‘productive’ talks

“I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social.

Trump added that based on the “tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which [sic] will continue throughout the week,” he has instructed the Department of Defense to postpone all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period.

The pause is subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions, he added.

Regional escalation has continued to flare since the US and Israel launched a joint offensive on Iran on Feb. 28, killing so far over 1,340 people, including then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Tehran has retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel, along with Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf countries hosting US military assets, causing casualties and damage to infrastructure while disrupting global markets and aviation.

READ: Iranian president says threats will strengthen national unity

Keir Starmer explains that UK is participating defensively in Trump and Israel's criminal war for Israel's genocidal expansion in Iran and states that he supports Zionism "without qualification".
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HE’S ACTUALLY DOING IT: Trump, Israel, and the End of the Global Economy

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Donald Trump warns against following the https://onaquietday.org blog, says that it's easy atm, she only needs to report war crimes supporting Israel's genocidal expansion.
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Keir Starmer explains that UK is participating defensively in Trump and Israel's criminal war for Israel's genocidal expansion in Iran and states that he supports Zionism "without qualification".
Keir Starmer explains that UK is participating defensively in Trump and Israel’s criminal war for Israel’s genocidal expansion in Iran and states that he supports Zionism “without qualification”.
Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Some Sunday thoughts

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When Rotting Brain comes for you, you’re inconsistent not as a strategy but because your brain has rotted away. You can’t remember what you had for lunch. You’re vulnerable to manipulation of course and I would be concerned about such manipulation being illegal, unlawful. Even done by relatives, such manipulation can’t be legal can it?

Keir Starmer explains that UK is participating defensively in Trump and Israel's criminal war for Israel's genocidal expansion in Iran and states that he supports Zionism "without qualification".
Keir Starmer explains that UK is participating defensively in Trump and Israel’s criminal war for Israel’s genocidal expansion in Iran and states that he supports Zionism “without qualification”. Starmer said it here:  https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/

And then there’s Starmer. By supporting Trump, isn’t he also supporting Trump’s Fascism at home and abroad? Covering-up – participation and complicity really – Fascist murders in the States, human rights abuses, mass-murders on the sea, amassing wealth in secret, hidden, obscure accounts, Fascist genocide for Israel – there’s no doubt that Starmer fully supports that at least. Ed: plutocracy, the filthy rich … Starmer is supporting it all.

Later Ed: Climate? While we need action urgently Trump, Farage and other right-wing denialists are doing the opposite. By supporting Trump, isn’t Starmer also supporting climate crime? In many ways, it’s the ultimate genocide through destroying the climate, the planet, everything.

Starmer, Mahmood and the UK Labour Party are doing their own version of neo-Fascism of course relentlessly prosecuting protesters and the latest one arresting someone for being polite while Iranian.

5.15pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80mej47xz0o

An Iranian man has been arrested with a woman after trying to enter the Faslane naval base, home to the UK’s nuclear-armed submarines.

Police Scotland said a 34-year-old man and 31-year-old woman were arrested at HM Naval Base Clyde at about 17:00 on Thursday.

The woman’s nationality is unknown, but it is understood she is not Iranian.

The Royal Navy said the suspects “unsuccessfully attempted” to enter the base, near Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute.

A spokesperson added: “As the matter is subject to an ongoing investigation, we will not comment further.”

It is understood that the pair did not try to force their way into the base.

They asked if they could enter but were refused permission and were arrested shortly afterwards. Police Scotland said its inquiries were ongoing.

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The woman is reported to be Romanian in later news reports. So there you are, an Iranian man asks to enter the base, was refused and they were arrested. Iranian man arrested for being polite. Such nonsense. I wonder if it happened at all or is just total war BS like what comes out of Trump, Netanyahu and Starmer’s holes.

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IAEA Chief Calls for ‘Military Restraint’ After Reported Strike on Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Facility

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Original article by Jessica Corbett republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

A satellite image shows the Natanz nuclear facility and adjacent underground tunnel complex in a mountainous area of Iran on September 16, 2025. (Photo by Vantor/Getty Images)

After Israel’s military suggested that the United States bombed the enrichment complex, Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on an Israeli city that’s home to a nuclear research center.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog issued a fresh demand for restraint on Saturday after the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan uranium enrichment complex in Natanz “was subjected to a renewed attack” as the United States and Israel continue to bomb the Middle Eastern country.

The Iranian agency said that “technical assessments indicate that no radioactive material leakage has occurred and there is no danger to residents of the surrounding areas,” but the attack was a “violation of international laws and commitments,” including the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency “has been informed by Iran that the Natanz nuclear site was attacked today,” the UN watchdog confirmed on social media. “No increase in off-site radiation levels reported. IAEA is looking into the report.”

“IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reiterates call for military restraint to avoid any risk of a nuclear accident,” the agency added.

The Times of Israel reported that “in response to a query… the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities.”

The Israeli newspaper also noted that “Israel’s Kan news reported that the US had indeed struck the facility, using ‘bunker buster’ bombs to target the site. It cited unspecified sources.”

Later Saturday, The Times of Israel reported that at least 20 people were wounded in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Israeli city of Dimona, home to Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.

The United States previously bombed Iran’s Natanz facility last June. The Associated Press highlighted Saturday that satellite images also suggest the site was damaged during the first week of the current war, which President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched on February 28.

Condemning the Saturday strike on Iran’s complex, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that “this is a brazen violation of international law, the charters of the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and the agency’s General Conference.”

Russia has notably also generated fears of a nuclear accident with its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.

Trump has sent mixed messages about the US-Israeli war on Iran, both sending thousands more troops to the region this week while also saying on his Truth Social platform Friday that “we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran.”

According to the AP: “Iran’s capital saw heavy airstrikes overnight and into the morning, residents said, as thousands of worshippers converged on Tehran’s grand mosque for prayers marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said attacks would ‘increase significantly’ next week.”

Original article by Jessica Corbett republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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US Kills at Least 2 More People in Yet Another Illegal Boat Bombing

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Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

US Southern Command shared on social media a 16-second clip of a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific that killed three people on February 20, 2026. (Photo: screen grab/SOUTHCOM/X)

“This lawless killing for content cannot become mere background noise,” said one critic.

The Trump administration isn’t letting its unconstitutional war with Iran stop its illegal boat-bombing campaign in Latin America.

US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said on Friday that it had conducted yet another lethal boat strike on a suspected drug boat traveling in what it described as “known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific.”

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While SOUTHCOM initially said that three men survived the Thursday strike, a spokesperson for the US Coast Guard subsequently told CNN reporter Zachary Cohen that two of the men on the boat were killed, while a lone survivor was rescued and taken into custody by authorities in Costa Rica.

According to Cohen, at least 160 people have so far been killed by the Trump administration’s boat strikes, which several legal experts have described as illegal acts of murder.

The latest strike on a suspected drug vessel came on the same day Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the commander of SOUTHCOM, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Trump administration’s boat-bombing spree is “not the answer” to the drug addiction crisis in the US.

As reported by The New York Times on Thursday, Donovan told lawmakers that the strikes are “probably not the most effective” tool to combat illicit drug trafficking, and said he was developing a more comprehensive plan to stop the flow of drugs into the US.

Human rights group Amnesty International slammed Donovan for carrying out another strike even while acknowledging their negligible impact on the drug trade.

“Congress must take action against these strikes!” the group said in a social media post.

Brian Finucane, senior adviser at the International Crisis Group, expressed concern that the Trump administration’s Iran war was distracting from the other illegal killing it is carrying out.

“This lawless killing for content cannot become mere background noise,” he wrote.

A coalition of rights organizations led by the ACLU last year sued the Trump administration to demand it release documents that provide legal justification for its boat-bombing campaign.

The groups said that the Trump administration’s rationales for the strikes deserve special scrutiny because their justification hinges on claims that the US is in an “armed conflict” with international drug cartels akin to past conflicts between the US government and terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda.

The groups argued there is simply no way that drug cartels can be classified under the same umbrella as terrorist organizations, given that the law regarding war with nonstate actors says that any organizations considered to be in armed conflict with the US must be an “organized armed group” that is structured like a conventional military and engaged in “protracted armed violence” with the US government.

Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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