The war has brought a new Iranian regime into power—one that's harder, harsher and more extreme https://on.wsj.com/4vlGNvw
Iran has been working to remove debris blocking entrances to its underground missile bases during the ceasefire, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing satellite imagery.
The images show heavy machinery clearing tunnel entrances that were previously targeted in strikes by the United States and Israel to disrupt missile operations.
US intelligence previously assessed that roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers remained intact after a month of fighting, CNN reported, adding that some may have been buried following strikes on tunnel entrances.
Experts cited by CNN said the activity reflects the design of Iran’s underground “missile cities,” built to survive attacks and allow forces to re-emerge and resume operations.
Israel Ambassador to the US @yechielleiter: "We certainly don’t want the French anywhere near these negotiations with Lebanon. We’d like to keep them as far away as possible from pretty much everything, particularly peace negotiations."
A few more weeks of "no war, no deal, no oil", and this is how Iran's banknotes will look like 👇
New satellite images show Iran has been working to remove debris blocking the entrances to its underground missile bases during the ceasefire. In the images, front-end loaders can be seen scooping up rubble and loading it into nearby dump trucks 📸: Airbus
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/world/live-news/iran-war-blockade-us-trump?post-id=cmnz313vt0000356tb4nyiior
Mehdi Hasan can’t stop lying.
He just lied on air that Israel’s nuclear program is bound by UN Security Council Resolution 487 under Chapter VII, the only framework that creates binding enforcement.
Resolution 487 literally does not invoke “Chapter VII”. You know which does? Resolution 1737, which requires the Islamic Republic of Iran to suspend its nuclear activities.
He’s understandably upset Israel and the US stopped his Islamist friends getting nukes, but that’s no excuse to lie to me, to Piers, and most importantly to the audience.
@piersmorgan, fact check your guests. Your audience deserves better.
@mehdirhasan
Pezeshkian knows that the Iranian economy is facing collapse. He knows that could mean millions of Iranians on the streets. He knows that could mean the end of the Islamic Republic.
The Strait of Hormuz is fully blocked, and oil prices are dropping 👇
The regime in Iran played with fire, and is now the only one that got burned.
A few more weeks of "no war, no deal, no oil", and the regime will collapse.
No reason to rush into a deal!
To translate to French: "Go f*ck yourself useless pathetic terrorism-sympathizing Emmanuel Macron"
Remember, it was a financial crisis that led to protests earlier in the year
According to @aimendean, within 10 days the blockade would devalue the rial from 1.5 million/USD to 2 million/USD...a disaster
Reports that the country is on the verge of economic collapse are accurate
POTUS is breaking the Iranian regime
Keep up the pressure.
Stay the course.
It won’t be much longer.
And where is @Pontifex? @antonioguterres? @EmmanuelMacron? @Keir_Starmer?
No Jews, no news.
Treasury is moving aggressively with Economic Fury, maintaining maximum pressure on Iran. Financial institutions should be on notice that the department is leveraging the full range of available tools and authorities and is prepared to deploy secondary sanctions against foreign financial institutions that continue to support Iran’s activities. The short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil already stranded at sea is set to expire in a few days and will not be renewed.
The Iran Echo Chamber is telling you the regime in Iran can survive a blockade — so don’t impose a blockade. @FDD @miadmaleki, who until recently led the Iran sanctions campaign at Treasury, explains in this point-by-point rebuttal, why a world of hurt is coming.👇
1. "Oil exports have been a constrained source of FX"
If oil was already a constrained source of FX, then cutting it to zero via blockade isn't manageable. The rial lost 60%+ post-war, food inflation hit 105%, and Iran is printing 10-million-rial notes worth ~$7. You don't get to argue "oil didn't matter much" and then claim a 6-month runway.
2. "War depresses import demand"
War doesn't eliminate import need, it shifts it. Iran imports ~$159M/day in industrial inputs, machinery, medicine, and raw materials. Depressed consumer demand for smartphones doesn't offset the collapse of supply chains keeping factories, refineries, and hospitals running.
3. "Non-oil trade with Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan is significant"
These exports are mostly petrochemicals and metals, already down 13% in value befoire the blockade. Production facilities have been hit by strikes, and Iran can't import the catalysts and industrial inputs needed to keep what's left running. Also, lower production needs to address domestic need. Don't forget about gasoline shortage. 90%+ of Iran's $109.7B in annual trade flows through now-blockaded southern ports. Alternative routes via Jask, Chabahar, and the Caspian handle less than 10% of volume.
4. "Iran has $100B+ in international reserves"
These are in restricted/frozen/blocked accounts and inaccessible, that's exactly why the regime made unfreezing them a non-negotiable precondition in Islamabad. Even if a host country made the risky decision to release funds, good luck finding a bank willing to touch them. Obama had to fly pallets of cash to Tehran because no bank in the world would process the transfer. "China might oblige"? Under what mechanism, and through which correspondent bank? These aren't reserves.
5. "6-month window before the economy unravels"
Iran's economy was in freefall before the blockade, inflation at 47.5%, currency in collapse, largest bank failed in December, mass protests since January. Every day of blockade accelerates the unraveling. There is no 6-month cushion.
6. "Iran was at the negotiating table in good faith"
Iran still hasn't reopened the Strait per the ceasefire. 230 loaded tankers are waiting. That's not good faith, that's leverage Iran tried to hold and is now losing.
7. "The blockade isn't really enforceable"
The U.S. Navy is physically present and CENTCOM declared it would interdict all maritime traffic to and from Iranian ports. This isn't a sanctions regime requiring bank compliance, it's warships.
A blockade doesn't need to be permanent to be devastating. No oil revenue means no imports, no imports means hyperinflation, and Iran's "diversified" economy runs on inputs it can no longer get.
🚨 Breaking: Channel 14's @DBalazada reports that President Pezeshkian had a nervous breakdown after the delegation returned from Islamabad without a deal, as the economy is on the verge of collapse and he believes everyone will blame him 👇
🚨🇮🇹 Italy just betrayed the free world, sold out Israel and the US to Iran for a few more barrels of cheap oil and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Sad!
🚨 BREAKING - PRESIDENT OF IRAN IN PANIC MODE
Islamic Republic President Pezeshkian almost had a nervous breakdown when the Iranian delegation returned from the Islamabad negotiations with @VP JD Vance empty-handed, and President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) decided to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
Senior Iran Analyst Dror Balazada (@DBalazada) brings an Earth-shattering quote from the seemingly mentally unstable Pezeshkian:
“Our economy was already just weeks away from total collapse. Now that they, the Americans, are cutting off our almost sole source of income, I don’t know where we’ll get the money to pay salaries.”
Uber's CTO told @LauraBratton5 that AI coding tools—particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code—has already maxed out its 2026 AI budget 📈
“I'm back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,” Neppalli Naga said.
https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets
Literally nobody cares what this idiot says.
To those arguing we should concede enrichment so the regime in Iran can “save face” or “get a win.”
The regime wants enrichment because it wants to build nuclear weapons. You do not absorb $1.5 trillion in economic damage, face economic collapse, risk repeated massive protests, get battered in two wars, lose your supreme leader, top military and political leadership, half your missile arsenal, and your navy and air force — all for civilian nuclear energy you could obtain for free (see U.S. offer in Feb.) from foreign suppliers.
Everyone is talking about uranium enrichment, oil prices, and the Strait of Hormuz.
No one is talking about the Iranian people
Everything makes sense now
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca https://buff.ly/MMwWneF
تصویری از «بچههای تهران» هنگامی که با قطار از ایران راهی سرزمین اسرائیل شدند. این گروه از کودکان یتیم یهودی که از دست نازیها نجات یافته بودند، از خاک شوروی وارد ایران شده و در کمپهای ویژه از آنها مراقبت شد تا ترتیبات سفرشان به اسرائیل مهیا شود. این هزار نفر بچههای تهران نام گرفتند.
Meloni proved that she is as pathetic as Starmer and Macron
Six facts that make the Holocaust a singular event in human history, based on Prof. Yosef Ben-Shlomo z"l, one of Israel’s outstanding philosophers.
1.Judenrein - a goal without precedent.
For the first time in history, a government made the annihilation of an entire people a supreme national objective, even though the overwhelming majority of that people did not even live within its borders.
A people that had no historical, political, or territorial conflict with Germany.
Jews constituted less than one percent of Germany’s population.
Yehuda Bauer distilled the Holocaust to its defining core: an unprecedented form of genocide, driven not by territory, power, or circumstance, but by pure ideology - global in scope and total in intent.
No other genocide in human history, not the Armenians, not the Tutsis, not Cambodia was driven by a systematic, explicit ambition to eradicate an entire people everywhere on earth.
For the first time in history, every Jew, everywhere, was marked for death solely for being born.
The difference was not in cruelty or suffering, but in the absolute nature of the aim: nothing less than complete eradication.
How it started vs. How it's going
David Barnea, Director of the Mossad, at today's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony:
“We have plans for continued operations inside Iran even after the war. Our mission will be accomplished only when the ruthless regime in Iran is removed.”
Stay out of it you coward.
If reports of a 20 year ban on Iran’s enrichment are accurate, and I doubt it, that would be a terrible concession.
There’s no need for any concessions. The Iranian regime will collapse if we keep the pressure on.
MOSSAD: REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN IS THE GOAL 🔴
Mossad chief David Barnea:
“Our commitment will be fulfilled only once the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.”
He signals the campaign continues beyond the strikes:
“We did not think the mission would be completed immediately… we planned for it to continue even after the strikes in Tehran.”
And no internet connection, because you decide to become North Korea.
Announced on the Holocaust Remembrance Day 👇
Shame on you @GiorgiaMeloni!
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I was about to say that the regime should focus on making AI videos instead of nuclear weapons, but I learned that they stole this video and posted it without giving credit to the creator 🤡
کدام دیپلمات ایرانی در دوران هولوکاست برای نجات جان یهودیان تلاش کرد؟
عبدالحسین سرداری دیپلمات مسلمان ایرانی در پاریس بود که در دوران هولوکاست با به خطر انداختن جان خود بیش از ۲۳۰۰ یهودی را نجات داد.
سرداری برای محافظت از یهودیان در پاریس اشغالشده چه اینها یهودیان ایرانی بودند و چه نه، تلاش میکرد .