-- "Anyone who kills or captures and hands over an invading American military personnel will receive a reward equivalent to $30,000 or 5 billion tomans from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army,' Army chief Amir Hatami said, using an informal unit equivalent to 10,000 Iranian rials." --If you have anything you want to say to Amir Hatami, best not put it off for too long.
-- "In addition to previously leading the elite IRGC paramilitary, Mohsen Rezaei, 71, is wanted on an international arrest warrant for his role in one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks of recent decades, the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994." --
-- "Tehran said the strait would remain closed until Washington ends its hostile behavior. The six demands include an end to U.S. threats and military action, a permanent end to the war, withdrawal of U.S. naval and air forces from around Iran, compensation for war damages, sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian assets." --Israel is fed up with the constant bullshit...
-- "Israel remains in discussions with the United States over the disarmament of Hamas but insisted any agreement would have to result in the terror group surrendering its entire arsenal, according to Netanyahu. 'It needs to be genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament.'" -- "Trump sure talks a good game...
-- "US President Donald Trump has been weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran without achieving a nuclear deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing US officials." --
-- "'As long as the United States and Israel possess nuclear weapons, we will continue working on them for our national security,' IRGC commander-in-chief Ahmad Vahidi said. 'If they disarm, we will disarm.'" --He's not much of a warmonger, after all.
-- "Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei claimed Monday that no negotiations with the US were in prospect and Tehran had no plans to host any foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days. The only talks under way, Baghaei added, were discussions with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz." --
-- "Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that Iran remains firmly in control of the Strait of Hormuz and has no interest in negotiating with the United States, which he compared to 'a mafia gang that adheres to no rules or laws.'" --
-- "Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Sunday that Tehran would maintain its support for Hezbollah as a strategic policy in a letter to the terror group's secretary-general, while declaring there was no path forward except 'jihad and resistance.'" --
-- "The source said that messages published in Khamenei’s name are not written by him but by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief, Ahmad Vahidi, and other senior IRGC officials, who are effectively running the country." --Where does Trump go from here?
-- “We’ve already won militarily. They have very little left. And they want to make a deal so badly. They called a little while ago. They want to make a deal so badly. I just don’t know if they’re worthy… I don’t know that they’re going to honor the deal, that’s the problem.” --
-- "Created to kill Russian tanks in Central Europe in case the Cold War turned hot in the 1980s, the Hellfire remains an effective anti-armour air-to-ground weapon but both in terms of capability and cost per unit, but is considered overkill for taking out converted speedboats." --Apparently, the Mad Mullahs have some sort of learning disability.
-- “'What we’re seeing is a direct result of the wording in the US-Iran MoU. The deal lifts the US blockade in phases (‘fully within 30 days’), so the US is mid-process by design,' he said. 'Iran is using that gap: It says the strait stays closed until the blockade is ‘completely lifted,’ so it can claim the lift isn’t done and call this a re-closure.'” --IT'S ALL PART OF THE ISLAMIC TERROR STRATEGY...
-- "According to the report, Hamas continued to send deceptive and pro-negotiation messages to Israel even in the days leading up to October 7." --It gets better...
-- "The first round of technical talks under the new US-Iran memorandum of understanding will not take place on Friday. 'The Iranians have demanded guarantees that hostilities in Lebanon will end.'" --It's time to warm up the F35s.
-- "Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic regime, Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini, hailed the Memorandum of Understanding as a 'major victory for Tehran', promising that the 'greater jihad would now begin.'" --Elusive, reportedly homosexual Supreme Leader weighs in...
-- "Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Wednesday he 'held a different view' on the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the presidents of Iran and the United States." --
-- "'To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided. Dealing with this regime will fail, and we will all face the consequences. The regime's 47-year war against the Iranian people continues." --This MOU with Iran is more about Trump coveting the Nobel Peace Prize than the welfare of the Iranian people.
-- "This comes a day after a senior Trump administration official told reporters that the US and Iran are close to a deal requiring Iran to relinquish its uranium, which has been enriched to near-bomb grade, to the US." --Trump, 80, on Sunday, is running on fumes for Nobel Peace Prize...
-- "Netanyahu, who is not directly involved in US-Iran talks, was caught off guard by the pending agreement." --
The unvarnished reality is, without the enriched uranium, any peace agreement is a joke.
Meanwhile, Israel does the real slogging.
-- “At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.” --
Oh, yeah... Kharg Island processes about 90% of Iran’s crude oil for export.
UPDATE: Iran buys itself even more time...
-- "President Donald Trump says he has canceled plans to carry out further attacks against Iran on Thursday, claiming to have made progress in talks with leaders in Tehran." --
-- "Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sent a letter to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's office submitting his resignation, based on the fact that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had effectively taken over large portions of the government. Pezeshkian stated that he was unable to run the government or fulfill his responsibilities under the circumstances, and as such, requested to resign." --
-- "Khamenei further praised what he described as the 'power of Allahu Akbar,' claiming Iranian forces and allied jihadist groups had delivered 'a hard slap' to the United States while leaving Israel “gasping its final breath.'" --
What alternative candy-floss universe is this madman living in?
Israel says enough 'argle-bargle'... assassinates fourth Hamas military chief...
-- "The Hamas statement does not say who would succeed Odeh as head of Hamas’s military wing." --I bet it doesn't.
-- "In the startling broadcast on the state-run Ofogh channel, host Hossein Hosseini fired an AK-47 rifle inside the studio after instructions from a masked member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 'I’ll aim at that,' he said as he pointed the rifle toward a United Arab Emirates flag displayed behind the anchor desk." --
Video is here... Another day... another akbar.
-- "US forces sank six Iranian small boats deployed to harass traffic in the Strait of Hormuz Monday, shortly before President Trump warned the Islamic Republic will be 'blown off the face of the earth' if it interferes with efforts to reopen the crucial waterway.'" --
-- "Synagogues, schools and other Jewish community centers in the United Kingdom have begun hiring former British soldiers for protection amid a wave of antisemitic violence in the UK that London’s top police officer called 'an epidemic.'" --You can count on Muslims for one thing... senseless violence.
