Israel Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud


I was intending to ignore Tony Blair with his fantastic hypocrisy at calling the Labour Party self-deluded. That would be Tony “Saddam has weapons of mass destruction that can be set-off in 45 minutes, they’re here somewhere, I just know that it’s true, I can feel it in my water despite being warned by my own security services that they don’t exist” Blair. He’s been divorced from reality for decades. Him and Alastair Campbell and many others are war criminals who should rightly be rotting in a shitty prison. Why are they not is the proper question rather than any of his deluded Fascist BS. We should align closer with an obviously insane and demented Fascist president? FO Tonee, you’re a total assole, nobody should take you or anything you say seriously.
Anyway,

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Carlyle’s Currie had an even grimmer message for the U.S. government. “Every day that goes by, Iran’s negotiating leverage compounds. Why? Because inventories of oil … continue to drop,” he said, as quoted by CNBC. “The minute you think you won, that’s exactly when you know you probably lost, and their negotiating position at this point has never been stronger in the last 47 years.”
Some analysts are warning that once the full extent of the supply shortage becomes felt, prices will rise and stay high, likely for years. The reason, in addition to the immediate crunch of Middle Eastern supply, is a prolonged period of underinvestment in new supply from other parts of the world—something that OPEC+ has been warning about for at least three years now, to no avail. With estimates that it would take at least a month before Hormuz reopens, even with a peace deal in place, the prospect of an oil shortage in Europe has become all but a certainty, and the U.S. will likely see higher gas prices.
By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com
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Iranian state television, citing a local official, reported that a US aircraft had been destroyed in Iran’s Jam governorate in Bushehr, although there has been no confirmation from the United States.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday that the Iranian armed forces had launched missiles from southern parts of the country towards specified targets.
The agency said “the Iranian armed forces launched missiles minutes ago from the south of the country towards certain targets”, adding that the exact targets remained unclear, while some sources suggested there may have been clashes in Gulf waters.
It added that reports circulating about explosions being heard in the Gulf coastal provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan had not yet been confirmed.
Separately, the Iranian Army’s Air Defence Monitoring Centre denied reports of explosions in the city of Bandar Abbas.
The centre said: “So far, no explosions have occurred in Bandar Abbas.”
It added that the sounds came from the sea, explaining that warning shots had been fired at vessels attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without coordinating with the Iranian navy.
Earlier on Thursday, clashes were reported between Iran and the United States near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Israel on Thursday launched a new electronic system called the “Land Registry and Settlement of Rights” in the occupied Palestinian territories, in a move specialists described as part of a legal and administrative annexation project in the West Bank, particularly Area C.
They said the move marks a shift from what they described as “silent gradual annexation to declared annexation through digital and administrative tools”.
The launch follows a decision by Israel’s security cabinet in May 2025 to begin a comprehensive settlement of land ownership across the West Bank, with the aim of completing land registration under Israeli administration.
According to available information, the project officially began on 15 February 2026 after powers related to land registration were transferred to the Israeli Justice Ministry and the Survey of Israel authority. A budget of 244 million shekels (US$ 79 million) was allocated to the project.
The project aims to register nearly 58 per cent of land in Area C, equivalent to around 35 per cent of the occupied West Bank, excluding occupied East Jerusalem, as part of what Israel describes as a “settlement of property rights” process.
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