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War on Iran: – Another Hold Of Direct Action While The War Proceeds Elsewhere
On Friday the 24th the U.S. unexpectedly stopped its bombing campaign on Iran. My hunch was that this was a sign of negotiations. However – Iran later denied that any negotiations with the U.S. were happening.
But it has joined the U.S. at this moment in not firing its weapons:
Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States does the same, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday. The development comes as the United States pressed pause on its bombing campaign after President Donald Trump’s advisers told him they were running out of targets and expressed worries about depleting the U.S. arsenal.
After 13 nights of intensifying U.S. airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon suspended the campaign late on Friday, with no U.S. attacks reported on either Saturday or Sunday. Iran, which had been following each night of U.S. attacks with its own strikes on neighbouring countries that host U.S. bases, has also so far held fire for two days.
The Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Tehran’s position “remains ‘attack for attack’: if the attacks stop, Iran will also halt its operations. That message has already been conveyed to the United States.”
U.S. sources claim that the stop was initiated because the military was running out of air defense missiles. That may well have been the case. But the larger reason is that the U.S. strikes on Iran have not been effective. They did not induce Iran to change its position on its effective control of the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait is blocked, oil can not flow, and higher prices at the pump will diminish votes for Trump’s party in the upcoming elections.
The U.S. military has only stopped for a moment – it has not ended its war on Iran. There are still more than 100 U.S. tanker airplanes in the Middle East together with additional fighter jets and special operations units. The U.S. could any time be back at full escalation.
Meanwhile the war continues on other levels.
On Sunday, in response to Saudi Arabian strikes on Hodeidah harbor in Yemen, Ansarallah forces attacked two Saudi refineries:
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis say they carried out operations targeting Saudi Aramco oil facilities in the southern cities of Jizan and Yanbu, according to a statement by the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Sare.
There is no immediate Saudi confirmation, though footage shows plumes of black smoke rising into the air from the Aramco refinery in Jizan.
Saudi Arabia earlier issued brief warnings to residents in Jizan and Yanbu after the Houthis vowed to retaliate against the kingdom for attacks this week.
Both refineries are currently still burning. While the Yanbu refinery is an older one, the new Jizan (also Jazan) project, at the Red Sea cost near the Yemeni border, is a very valuable asset:
In 2006, Saudi Arabia drew up ambitious plans to build a new industrial city in Jazan, in the far south-west of the Kingdom. The main aim of this initiative, the Jazan Economic City Project, was to expand the economic development of the region.
At the heart of the project is Aramco’s fully integrated Jazan Refinery and Petrochemical Complex — the result of an estimated $21 billion of investment — which, when operational, is expected to produce both high-value products, and power, in a more sustainable way.
Today Saudi Arabia said it was additionally attacked by drones from Iraq which were aimed at its east coast petroleum assets. Fire was detected at the ARAMCO processing facility at Abqaiq in the eastern Saudi desert. This is the world largest crude oil processing facility.
The Saudis will see these attacks as coordinated by Iran and executed by its proxy assets. The attacks come on top of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran and the Bab al-Mandeb outlet of the Red Sea by Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s oil output is severely diminished. It is in for a very big squeeze.
Another sideshow happened in the Caspian Sea where a Ukrainian drone attack damaged an Iranian ship that was transporting goods to Russia. No such attack could have happened without U.S. intelligence information. Its effects though will be nothing more than a PR stunt for Ukraine’s acting president. Iran will, when time comes, retaliate against him.
Where is the U.S. going from here?
The USrael has lost its war on Iran. It does not have the will and means to defeat the country. Geography is Iran’s asset. It can control the Strait and the oil flow through it no matter what the U.S. or Israel try to do.
Trump had already acknowledged that when he, in mid June, had signed the Memorandum of Understanding. He however immediately ignored several of the agreed upon clauses: Trump continued to threaten Iran, there was no ceasefire in Lebanon, Iran’s exclusive right to control the Strait was ignored and Iranian assets withheld by the U.S. had not been released.
Soon thereafter the U.S. reinstated its blockade of Iranian traffic and resumed its bombing campaign. Iran again blocked the global oil flow by closing the Strait.
Trump may now try to reinstate the MoU as it had been agreed six weeks ago. Iran will of course reject such a proposal. It will at least demand that the U.S. fulfills ALL clauses of the MoU down to the letter BEFORE it will reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
To get out of his current dilemma Trump will have to push Israel out of Lebanon. He will have to remove his forces from the Middle East and will have to pay out Iranian assets.
It is hardly conceivable that he will do any of this.
This week the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity Bibi Netanyahoo will again be in Washington and meet with Trump. His aim will be to again push for regime change:
“We see that Trump is interested in reaching an agreement,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence commander and an Iran specialist at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. “Israel doesn’t want to hear about an agreement, so there is no alignment of interests,” he said.
Israeli leaders view returning to war as preferable, he said, because any U.S. peace agreement with Iran will strengthen the regime in Tehran that they want to see toppled.
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What goes on behind the scenes between the two leaders, however, has proved to be inscrutable and surprising at times. Mr. Netanyahu has managed to influence Mr. Trump in the past, analysts say, and it can be impossible to know if the pair are at loggerheads or in cahoots.
My current assumption is that Trump, under Israeli influence, will soon try for another military intervention. Only when that fails, as it is likely to do, will he finally be ready to concede defeat.
@184
“For how long and for how much does Germany … stay in the game?”
Already over 100 years. The goal is “to integrate the East European peoples”(VPR 1992).
“In the German consciousness, the Russians, who were described as “semi-Asian” and who, in contrast to the rest of the population of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, were themselves denied the ability to absorb culture and civilization, were a step below the “Slavs” in general. With his “strongly pronounced nomadic traits,” “the Russian” is not even useful as a farmer (Die Grenzboten, No. 3/1866: 226). He repeatedly appeared in German writings in the second half of the 19th century as a “greedy, bloodthirsty, conquest-hungry and fanatical barbarian” who had to be pushed back to Asia (Lammich 1978: 97ff.).
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Frantz advocated a preventive war against Russia to push her back towards Asia (Droz 1960: 121).”
https://archive.is/fFjbo#selection-6419.0-6427.206
“Instructions of August 11, 1914, from the Chancellor to the German embassy in Vienna, drafted by Jagow, are revealing on this point. They define the aims of German policy in the following words:
To produce revolution, not only in Poland but also in the Ukraine, seems to us very important:
1. As a means of warfare against Russia,
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Berchtold told the Bulgarian government on October 17, 1914, and the Turkish at the beginning of November:
‘Our main aim in this war is to weaken Russia enduringly, and for that reason we should, in the event of our victory, welcome the establishment of an independent Ukrainian State’.”
https://archive.org/details/FischerFritzGermanysAimsInTheFirstWorldWar/page/n161/mode/2up?view=theater
“Top Secret
Führer’s Headquarters, July 16, 1941
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Never again must it be possible to create a military power west of the Urals, even if we have to wage war for a hundred years in order to attain this goal. All successors of the Führer must know: Security for the Reich exists only if there are no foreign military forces west of the Urals; it is Germany who undertakes the protection of this area against all possible dangers.”
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English59.pdf
Posted by: p3t3r | Jul 28 2026 11:08 utc | 277
~ ‘Draft Dodger’ ~
“This is the reality that soldiers are faced with, that the people of Iraq and Afghanistan are faced with, that the children are faced with, that the people living inside those houses are faced with every single day at the hands of my brothers and sisters (footage of ‘surgical-strike’ bombing screens overlayed over targets being bombed). We saw the murder of those civilians; what you can’t see is the hundreds of civilians all around that area inside their homes cowering under their tables, under their beds. What you can’t see is the children that, after these troops leave, can’t sleep at night. What you can’t see is the raw sewage flowing into the streets from where the tanks have run over sewage lines. This is real. And it’s happening every single day. And this is but one example in a mountain of crimes that are being done in all of your names– that I was complicit in– that I am less of a man for having not resisted while I was in the military on active duty. I’ll say that again, because I think a lot of people in this country feel like the US army is some place to go and make a man of yourself: I am less of a man today for having served in the US Military. These wars are racist. They’re genocidal. The kinds of trainings that soldiers are going through to be capable of these horrors are real, are systematic, are well thought-out, have been researched for over 200 years. Because this is nothing new to the United States of America, folks… We have been doing this since our foundation. Everything we have we’ve stolen. You know, it took me a really long time to grasp this– especially having gone through the military and been traumatized by it, and then to come home and be wrapped in an American flag, and told that I’m a hero… I can’t ever get back what I gave to the army. It is dehumanizing, physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually. Our soldiers are being trained as predators, and they are being set loose on civilian populations that never even attacked us in the first place. I can’t live with this… I don’t know how people in this country live with it. I don’t know how the Iraqis and Afghans live with it every single day. The mission statement of the US Army is ‘To engage and destroy’. To engage, and destroy. There is no nation-building, there is no humanitarian operations. The mission statement of the US Army is to engage and destroy, and that’s what we are doing. And when you turn that force loose on a civilian population as we have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is called genocide, and it is a war crime. And the people of Iraq and Afghanistan have had their country gutted by our force– absolutely gutted. This is real, people, and it’s not going to stop. It is not going to stop until we do something about it, until we liberate ourselves from our subservience… We have had our wills subverted over and over again, but we can force the kind of movement capable of ending these crimes now and forever. We got to do something. I feel we have not built the kind of movement the government finds to be threatening. You go to peace rallies, you go to peace marches, and you see people marching around with American flags. That makes me sick. The American flag to me is a very particular brand of slavery. I was property of the US government, and that flag was my master, and that’s one of the reasons why, about a month and a half ago in front of 5000 people in Washington DC in front of the White House, I burnt that symbol of slavery. You go to peace rallies and you see people holding up signs that say, ‘Support the troops’. Can you really support the troops and not support the war? No, you cannot, and I say this to you as a former troop. You know why these soldiers are over there doing this– beyond the fact that they’ve been dehumanized to the point where they are capable of doing this? It’s because they think that you support them, because all they hear from the American population is, ‘Don’t worry about it, G.I., we support you.’. This is a recipe for endless war. If the troops knew that they were not supported, they would stop deploying and committing war-crimes. This is a message that takes a lot of courage to represent in our current society, but knowing the realities– [points presumably to images of child victims of war] children … we have a responsibility– not just to the Iraqis and Afghans– but to the young men and women who are going to carry this out. They don’t want to be there. War’s not a fun place. It’s not… kicks. It’s horrible. It’s hell. But they’re doing it because they think people support them.” ~ Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War Veteran (You Tube video)
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“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.” ~ Edward Abbey
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Jul 28 2026 11:40 utc | 281
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