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August 13, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-174
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@sakineh bagoom
You have all the characteristics of a Mossad agent. Infiltrator.
The rest of the bar here have absolutely no knowledge of the Middle East, they are quite uneducated about the world, and silly. Look how they have come to your aid while you play the victim card ( typical mossad behavior).
Real Iranian would destroy me with arguments, not you, you cry like little israeli bitch, and old little bar bitches come to your defense. Crying love and understanding. Oh, poor you, while we bomb you and kill you all, but give us more iranian food recipes.
Share your culture, we love you.
And you bask in it.
While they shut up about Gaza, Lebanon, Minab schoolgirls ( have you addressed this ever, but you regurgitate white old men on your country, because Iran is not your country, impostor).
I see you. Know what you are.
By the way, I am too busy in the real world, punishing the bitches like yourself who brought our world to this level of disaster.
I am not going to reply, so you can collectively hug and jerk off in your stupidity and ignorance.
Exiting the poisonous bar full of self righteous blind idiots.
You all are too far gone.
Posted by: stranger | Aug 14 2026 9:54 utc | 101
“Still, it recounts the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 and all the dirty tricks that were used to put the Shah in absolute control, so it’s a good backgrounder for those who don’t know.”
Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 13 2026 12:20 utc | 1
Are You kidding? From 1985 and not a word about how the US/UK in 1979 repeated the coup, this time against the Shah who had annoyed the evil colonialist powers in US/UK France and more because Iran no longer was bringing the larger proportion of the profits to the west. Thinktanks like the Club of Rome and other imperialist parts of academia planned the dismantling of Irans industry in the 70s but all you know is what happened in 1953.
Wake up!
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 14 2026 10:05 utc | 102
Dan Kelly | Aug 14 2026 9:26 utc | 95
Trade in national currencies. China is one of the big ones there. Oil and gas. One of the main commodities traded. 20% of that trade is the Persian gulf. Next big supplier of export oil and gas is Russia.
Caspian oil. Still in $US but Yuan usage increasing. Due to the attacks on the Black Sea outlet, Kazakh oil to China is increasing. Apparently, increased capacity of the Kazak – China line is being increased and feeder lines from other Caspian producers are being hooked in. Most of the Caspian oil will in the end be sold to China in Yuan.
Oil futures – paper oil, like paper gold is sold in dollars. A money making trade was US military junk. A military paper tiger with paper gold and paper oil….
Here in Australia, an outpost of Anglo imperialism, the big miners are moving to Yuan. The likes of Twiggy Forest, sells in Yuan and borrows in Yuan. In countries that have not yet moved away from the dollar to national currencies, many of the large companies who trade with China will move to the Yuan.
South America will likely remain US dollar. Brazil is a big exporter but US will take control of it at the next election.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 10:11 utc | 103
https://indi.ca/in-deep-ship/
Read it.
Yalla, see you, maybe, later…
Posted by: stranger | Aug 14 2026 10:14 utc | 104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCgJElpQEQ
Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 13 2026 12:20 utc | 1
Grateful that you reposted it, Dirty tricks, greed, and a staggering sense of entitlement from most of the Emglish and then American actors working the coup. So nothing’s changed since. Trump’s recent attempt at a quick kill of Iran was similar in most respects except he got the brute force bit wrong.
One thing has changed. You’d not get the funding to make an expensive documentary like that for national TV, not today. If you did it’d be supressed.
Only few years back the BBC part funded an expose of the destabilisation of Syria. No less than 14 countries sending Jihadists and weapons across the Turkish border, some of the Jihadists hard cases from as far away as Xinjiang, some of them naive young Germans who believed IS offered a better and more moral way of life.
It was all there, the whole of it. I submitted a link to Colonel Lang’s site and then to an English site. The documentary was taken down and it’s not been possible to get to it since. That was quite a recent documentary but even so, it’d be impossible for the BBC to fund such work today.
The documentary you have linked to shows that forty years ago it was at least possible to get such documentaries funded and then kept on the record. In that respect we’ve gone further downhill. Information control is so much tighter these days.
Posted by: English Outsider | Aug 14 2026 10:19 utc | 105
China can continue to do bilaterals backed by gold or whatever but the heavily integrated world markets require ease of transaction
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Aug 14 2026 9:26 utc | 95
That sentence alone Dan – the US has to a good extent destroyed that with its sanctions and wars. Look at the number of big multi-nationals that lost billions with the sanctions of Russia.
US needs to sell ever more debt to cover its ever increasing debt, yet the world needs less and less US dollars to settle international trade.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 10:22 utc | 106
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 14 2026 10:05 utc | 102
Great way to miss the point. Still, you got to show off some knowledge that I’m sure nobody in bar had any idea about :-\
Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 14 2026 10:35 utc | 107
stranger 101
I know nothing about Iran , but I have understood recently that the leadership are better scholars of the Qur’an than the USUKIS Salafis.
I know nothing about Karbala, Hussain, and Shi’a martyrdom doctrines.
But do you not think that it is inappropriate to accuse a Shi’a Muslim who is exercising religious Patience about Israeli bombings, of not protesting about these atrocities, and of condoning them.
Nobody can tell me I condone something which I am exercising patience about.
At least not without getting an ear-full of insults back.
You may not like Shi’a Patience, but if it is their religious culture, you have no right to turn your dislike into a personal attack.
It’s possible that Iran’s Islam has been , like every sect of Islamic, shaped by Talmudic Judaism off the Sirat al Mustaqeem / Straight Path.
You should apologise for turning your disagreement with Iranian culture into a personal attack. Imo
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 14 2026 10:37 utc | 108
Posted by: stranger | Aug 14 2026 9:54 utc | 101
Stranger behaving like a stalker, complete with performative flounce.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 14 2026 10:42 utc | 109
Posted by: stranger | Aug 14 2026 10:14 utc | 104
https://indi.ca/in-deep-ship/Read it.Yalla, see you, maybe, later…
Nice, concise tract on the decline of US imperialism, but it included this…
Meanwhile, Russia has defanged NATO conventionally
which kind of runs askew of your usual prognostications regarding Putin and his constellation.
Posted by: john | Aug 14 2026 10:51 utc | 110
English Outsider 105
The current PTB, USUKIS+RUSSIA+SALAFISM, is the same Mutual Benefit Society , backscratching load of crap it always was.
Just expanded membership.
They will persecute opposition exactly as always before, but with an extended list of proxy assistants.
I think Iran is genuinely unique in opposing the Current enlarged list of PTB wonks.
I think Russia and Salafi Islam are cringing weakling grovellers to USUKIS supremacy.
However , I think it’s conceivable that Iran or Afghanistan might destroy Israel, if the superpowers US and China decide to do it.
Israel , the AngloViking’s best friend , might end up in Kissinger ‘s “” Fatal “” trap.
Hope so anyway.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 14 2026 11:00 utc | 111
After the defenestration of the peacenik generals (as happened under FDR in preparation for entering the long planned ww2 for the Ziolords then) we have the gung-ho ziowariors – the General J D Rippers of this day (Dr Strangelove) on the one hand supposedly talkinf down DJT47 and on the other going to their prime colonial outpost in West Asia to promise the delivery of their long planned Greater USrael.
There are going to be some stretched necks on the lampposts by mobs or the gallows after trial. Only good natzios are dead nazios.
They have no reverse gear. And thousands of naval sacrificials to burn at sea in the neo pearl harbour/ WTC to push the millions of boots in the ground. Consisting mainly it seems of dumb PAK/Egyptian/ and Natzio TURKISH proxies
What an idiot.
@FaytuksNetwork
17h
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper told Israeli officials he is pushing for renewed strikes inside Iran and believes a resumption of the war could shift Tehran’s position in negotiations, Channel 13 reportsAug 13, 2026 · 5:59 PM UTC
End the illegal apartheid entity.
P4P
R2S
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 14 2026 11:13 utc | 112
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper told Israeli officials he is pushing for renewed strikes inside Iran and believes a resumption of the war could shift Tehran’s position in negotiations, Channel 13 reports
Aug 13, 2026 · 5:59 PM UTC
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 14 2026 11:13 utc | 112
Recalling that Israelis have said aloud, “‘Best For Us’ If US Fights Iran While Israel Sits Out New Round of War”.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 14 2026 11:55 utc | 113
Gaze upon the features of The Entanglement aka ‘the antichrist’. https://www.starkrealities.net/p/join-us-military-kill-die-for-israel
No Iran thread is complete without an illustration of The Entanglement.View the cover illustration at the top of the article.
The article itself is excellent too.
The Entanglement. The Genocidal, racist, thieving, warmonger Entanglement. Truly, an antichrist by any measure.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 14 2026 11:59 utc | 114
@Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 14 2026 11:59 utc | 114
Archive for article
https://archive.ph/18uih
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 14 2026 12:01 utc | 115
Ukraine and World Affairs (including Iran/ME): Weekly Update, 14th August: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update
Posted by: The Busker | Aug 14 2026 9:45 utc | 71
Dr Campbell – blockbuster of a summary. And as with “b”, mercifully in text, all sourced, and not in the increasingly fashionable but impossibly time consuming video format. Am at once overawed by and grateful for the huge amount of work that must go into it.
I don’t know whether this declaration is just more smoke and mirrors, but even so the very fact that it has been made publicly by the Defence Minister is significant:-
“Some inspiration from Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif:
“When it comes to Israel, all Muslim countries should come together. There is absolutely no ambiguity in my mind about that.
“Given Israel’s current conduct, as well as the historical evidence of what it has been doing—at one stage, in 1948 or 1947, what I consider an illegitimate state came into being; it was, I believe, a product of the Balfour Declaration.
“During that period as well, fighting continued and the Palestinians continued to resist. So, in my view, this is at the very least a situation that the entire Islamic world will have to come together and confront.
“In my view, there is no room for disagreement on this. And until the issue of the Palestinian people is resolved according to their aspirations—until there is a permanent solution—the issue will remain.”
Any “permanent solution” would include the right of return in some form or other. This is not acceptable to the Americans, nor to the current EU/UK leaders, so the conflict is set for the long term.
Posted by: English Outsider | Aug 14 2026 12:07 utc | 116
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35888#
Middle East Spectator — MES
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah (Houthi) forces are rapidly advancing and surrounding the city of Marib, currently held by Saudi-backed forces
Sources on the ground report that an offensive to capture the city is possible within the coming hours and days, if Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi orders it.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35892#
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Ansarallah (Houthi) forces have initiated an offensive against Saudi-backed forces in Mokha, a strategic port city on the Red Sea
The Houthis have managed to advance along several sectors and captured multiple strategic positions. Clashes are currently still ongoing.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Saudi-backed forces are running away from some of their defensive positions around Hays
———————
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/2087995160298729652
— GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 — @GeromanAT
Most of pro Israeli clowns love collective punishment – now taste your own medicine.
You reap what you sow.
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/2087802821572022730
The Resonance @Partisan_12
An Israeli family were denied entry to Samui Exotic Park in Thailand, after staff learned they were from Israel..😂😂
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 14 2026 12:15 utc | 117
https://archive.ph/18uih
Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 14 2026 12:01 utc | 115
A very forthright article. Just this section might be disputed:-
“… a Gulf diplomat bluntly told the Guardian, “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”
I don’t think Trump needed any dragging. Nor Washington as a whole.
Posted by: English Outsider | Aug 14 2026 12:22 utc | 118
Reuters –
“Indefinitely the United States Navy can maintain a blockade like that because we’ll rotate ships in and out, as we have, and we’ll continue to,” Hegseth told reporters during a trip to Panama.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States planned to inflict more financial damage on Iran.
“Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country,” he said in an interview on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” programme.”
The mighty sanctions…..
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 14:04 utc | 119
The largest prop aircraft that can land on a A/C is the C2 retired in 2026 and replaced by Osprey CMV 22B. Both can’t carry much and definitely not fresh produce for a population of 5000. Range appox 2, 400km with full load of 4500 kg (CMV 22B – range is under 1000 km under full load).
Appox 1,500 to 2000 kg are typically consumed on a supercarrier in a single day.
The nearest US naval replenishment centre now that Bahrain is kaput is roughly 5,800 to 6,400 km (NSF Diego Gracia).
So, short answer is Math.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 14 2026 5:52 utc | 82
and
They concluded that while it is possible to resupply at a distance using a C-130, the size of the aircraft disrupted all other flight deck ops, therefore it was not practical.
Posted by: Mazatlan | Aug 14 2026 5:59 utc | 85
and
Ship to ship is the only reliable way to get stuff aboard!
I suppose heavy drones could be used nowadays..
That does not deal with a spooked and suspicious crew that’s suffering from stir craziness. Especially if they suspect they are merely expendable pawns in a bigger war.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 14 2026 9:38 utc | 98
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Thanks Suresh, Mazatlan and DunGroanin for taking the time to answer my query.
I appreciate all you barflies so much. Thousand thanks.
There is often high noise interference on these threads but winnowing away the noise to detect signal with meaning yields treasure.
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Stranger, cause and effect is so complex that karma in the buddhadharma teachings are perhaps the most difficult phenomena to comprehend, even more so than “emptiness” or the nature of reality.
Having faith in causality is fundamental to the buddha’s path to enlightenment.
Thus patience, often misunderstood as weakness, is often used as an invincible iron sword delivering justice.
One of my favorite quotes used recently by indi ca is:
“”‘It was, ‘says an English writer, ‘a system of fattening allies, as we fatten oxen, till they were worthy of being devoured.'”
(indi ca quoting marx quoting an englishman on the topic of empire)
Posted by: suzan | Aug 14 2026 14:08 utc | 120
Stranger,
dosta Raikja. Ide tvjo Radi. Zvio Kumovi
Po sumama i goramahttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJpd9lX5Bac&list=RDnJpd9lX5Bac&start_radio=1&pp=ygUOcGFydGl6YW4gcGVzbWGgBwE%3D&ra=m
SFSN
Posted by: Exile | Aug 14 2026 14:18 utc | 121
Stranger – drugs pesma
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJMM4eonvU&list=RDnJpd9lX5Bac&index=5&pp=8AUBoAcB&ra=m
Posted by: Exile | Aug 14 2026 14:23 utc | 122
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Posted by: Jjk | Aug 14 2026 14:23 utc | 123
An Israeli family were denied entry to Samui Exotic Park in Thailand, after staff learned they were from Israel..😂😂
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 14 2026 12:15 utc |
notice how dad the IDF genocider goes bananas when the locals NOTICE
Posted by: Exile | Aug 14 2026 14:35 utc | 124
Journalist Youssef Fares
” Islamic Jihad:
Islamic Jihad Movement: The Minister of War’s announcement in the government of the usurping entity about what he called “the transfer of law enforcement powers in civil cases in the West Bank settlements to the police” means practically canceling the “Green Line” administratively and legally for the settlers, integrating the settlements into the occupied interior, and effectively confirming the annexation of the occupied West Bank and extending the occupation’s control over it.
This decision ignores the Fourth Geneva Convention and all UN resolutions, most notably Security Council Resolution No. 2334, which reveals the illusions of those who bet on a settlement with the usurping entity, and who promoted normalization with it under the claim of protecting Palestinian rights”
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 14:44 utc | 125
@69 malenkov
“False binary”
Any conclusion is going to be only theory without facts…a conclusive theory :-/
That speculation is amped and directed in a certain direction is sort of medieval but probably reinforces the beliefs of some.
Similar, just now:
“A Greater Anglia train has derailed near Wickford, Essex. It’s the second derailment in southern England in the past 24hrs”
(Not sure of site orientation, just landed there)
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 14:56 utc | 126
Ornot 126
There is a long, straight stretch of Rail track which runs between Telford and Shrewsbury, where I was living 30 years ago.
A railway engineer told me that just by looking at the tracks outside routine checks, he could visibly see that the tracks were buckling , due to expansion due to hot weather conditions.
Yesterday evening my car told me it was 36 degrees outside.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least, in these Labour Tory times when we are funding a US-created war against Russia in Ukraine, that the money, time and skills to monitor railway tracks has been reduced to a skeleton.
Question is, is the US secretly changing UK weather, as Trump’s punishment for not allowing British troops to help the IDF trash West Asia?
100% likely, Starmer’s last curse.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 14 2026 15:30 utc | 127
@97 BitterGrapes
The last I heard of that ship in the med was that it was being towed away because an explosion near any population or shipping would be catastrophic … I didn’t know it had eventually exploded (if so possibly on purpose due to its instability).
The wreck in Oman is over a month sat there, sinking further and continuously releasing oil. They talk of weather conditions etc. for not having pumped out its tanks or similar … that is hard to figure except that it is a lot of oil, plus incorrectly done could lead to disintegration of the ship. There are technicians though who kniw all of this and how to approach such a scenario.
So my impression is that no-one could assign responsibility, given Russian shadow tanker abandoned by crew after being struck by Ukrainian limpet mine, and that caused bureaucratic delay … for whatever reason Oman did not (want to ?) take full national responsibility and pay for clean up out of own pocket. In theory the cargo is worth the cleanup cost, ship is abandoned so it normally can be claimed by salvor…so even that doesn’t make proper sense.
I don’t know, but it is all very odd.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 15:37 utc | 128
Ornot 125
GooGoo;
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a radical Islamist militant group founded in 1981 by Palestinian students in Egypt. Its main goal is the military destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state. It is designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, and the European Union.Origins and IdeologyFormed by Fathi Shaqaqi and Abd al-Aziz Awda as a split from the Muslim Brotherhood.Influenced by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.Rejects peace talks, political compromise, and the Oslo Accords.Focuses primarily on armed struggle rather than social welfare or civil administration.
Structure and OperationsMilitary Wing: Known as the al-Quds Brigades.Tactics: Operates via rocket attacks, shootings, and past suicide bombings.Geographical Presence: Centered primarily in the Gaza Strip, with an active and growing network in the West Bank (such as Jenin) and external leadership based in Syria and Lebanon.
Alliances: Heavily funded, trained, and backed by Iran, and operates closely with other regional groups like Hezbollah and Hamas within the Axis of Resistance.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 14 2026 15:40 utc | 129
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 10:11 utc | 103
Here in Australia, an outpost of Anglo imperialism, the big miners are moving to Yuan. The likes of Twiggy Forest, sells in Yuan and borrows in Yuan.
Peter, always good to hear your perspective, and as I retired geologist, my ears always perk up when anyone mentions mining. Can the same thing be said for BHP Biliton, the world’s largest diversified mining company, based in Oz, if I recall correctly?
As a side note, I keep seeing references to Canada based mining companies in Mexico selling their ore concentrate directly to China, and by passing the crooked US Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (COMEX) Silver does not get the same attention as the Rare Earth elements, but it has a global supply deficit that keeps growing, more is consumed every year than is produced.
Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Aug 14 2026 15:51 utc | 130
@127 Giyane
That might do it on a weak line or if trains weren’t run slow during hot conditions.
Like the recent rail disaster in Spain, the Baltimore bridge, the Iberian power outage and many more ‘events’, we are not likely to be given a credible clear answer at all… usually the opposite or all just ‘forgotten’ over time.
Building systems that cannot be maintained, privatisation and cost cutting, through to sabotage, it is not possible to be sure usually.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 15:57 utc | 131
“not a word about how the US/UK in 1979 repeated the coup, this time against the Shah who had annoyed the evil colonialist powers in US/UK France and more because Iran no longer was bringing the larger proportion of the profits to the west.”
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 14 2026 10:05 utc | 102
Repeatedly repeating nonsense does not convert it to sense. Iran’s revolution was one of the most people-centered revolutions the world has seen. Tens of millions participated in it; I was a child and a witness. Your POV takes agency away from the people and conveys unearned influence and power to shadowy groups and really in the end argues for hopelessness and resignation to fate. After all, if the USUK are that powerful and all-knowing, what can be done? Iranians are not going to fall for it, I hope.
Posted by: Caliman | Aug 14 2026 16:11 utc | 132
Btw, petergrfstrm’s POV here was first aired by the remnants of the Shah supporters in the US in the 80’s … kind of a modern “stab in the back” story a la Germany in the ’20s or Hillary’s “Russia, Russia, Russia” in 2017.
Posted by: Caliman | Aug 14 2026 16:16 utc | 133
Mahmood OD: ‘Iran Thwarts Ground Invasion’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
“Ground op dismantled: attack on US soil?| Red Sea coalition: serving who?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 14 2026 16:34 utc | 134
Harmonic Resonance | Aug 14 2026 15:51 utc | 130
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3351333/will-chinas-deal-australian-mining-giant-bhp-boost-yuan-internationalisation
“Australian mining giant BHP’s decision to adopt a yuan-denominated index for a major Chinese buyer poses a challenge to the US dollar’s long-standing dominance in iron ore pricing, delivering a hard-won victory for Beijing, analysts said.”
And this one from the Jew institute (Murdoch).
“On 6 August, reports emerged that China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) instructed Chinese steel mills to stop negotiating with Rio Tinto over shipments from September. With CMRG serving as the central purchaser for more than half of China’s annual iron ore imports – and China absorbing nearly 75% of global seaborne iron ore trade – its conduct threatens even the largest mining companies.
Fortescue has been squeezed since June, its Super Special Fines product blacklisted at Chinese ports and buyers told to avoid new US dollar cargoes. BHP settled in April, after months of pressure, accepting a yuan-denominated Chinese portside index. Hancock Prospecting reportedly ended over a year of restricted spot sales by granting CMRG exclusive rights to sell Roy Hill ore into China. Staggered renewals let CMRG concentrate its full weight on one supplier while the others keep shipping, so each faces pressure alone with immediate revenue exposure. Half the major producers have already conceded.
When CMRG came for BHP, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese characterised it as a commercial disagreement. In June, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Senate estimates the matter was best dealt with at the commercial level, describing CMRG as one importer among others.”
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-offers-australia-coercion-not-commerce.
A thought that has come to mind is mining equipment. The two big names are Caterpillar and Komatsu. Behind them is Liebherr. China is fast catching up in the mining equipment. Its now a very big world supplier in the small to mid weight range. Wont be long before its right up there with the ultra class stuff. Once China can provide that, it will be a one stop shop for the big miners. Currently, sell in Yuan, borrow in Yuan at low interest rates and once China can supply that ultra class equipment……
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 16:45 utc | 135
Danny Haiphong: Alastair Crooke: ‘Strikes on US Next?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZl6PBfKcRI
“Iran goes on the offensive; US deploys aircraft carrier.”
Iran vows to Free Palestine! Victory to Iran and the Resistance – Death to USrael & Empire!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 14 2026 16:49 utc | 136
@132 Caliman
A very coherent and valid reply to petergrfstrm.
My own view is based on that any side will play any event to own advantage, that includes claiming authorship or sowing dissent.
As counter argument:
“Tens of millions participated in it”
…does not guarantee anything. Tens of millions paticipate in wars and other extreme events knowing little, meaning the question still returns to if the revolution was seeded or co-opted, for example.
I do not like to place doubt on the authenticity or meaning of others, but from a critical perspective (only) it is essential.
Personally I see some hand at work, and it could not be otherwise given British and US presence during the period. i.e. even if the revolution was to remove that hand, it would still be part of that reality for its presence to that point.
Whatever, I take the subsequent leadership as Iranian or it would not have flourished, would not have been kept, would not have been allowed to be by the Iranian people.
The west still uses Iranian opposition to western colonialism as tinder for any enterprise, by converting Iran into an enemy of that (which it is) and so the west (which it isn’t) .
Current events in fact just show the western structure of morality to be empty, Iran did not do that, it has been pretty much an own goal.
That that does not or is not allowed to interfere in western material conquest is besides the point, equally it is part of that and equally is a purposeful spin off or objective of the whole approach. That would also then beg the question of just who is behind this kind of western (and international) erasure.
Which is kind of a heavy topic.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 16:58 utc | 137
Ornot – I partially agree. That western elements try to influence events is not to be doubted. However, there’s a long series of leaps from misadvising the shah or later Saddam versus an conducting an actual active coup like Iran 1953 or Chile 1973. Riding on top of popular sentiment in 1979 Iran and taking credit for outsized results is something elements of western agencies can use to make themselves seem even more powerful (and thus deserving their $$$$) and something the shah’s supporters can use to claim legitimacy … not something we should let either of them get away with.
Posted by: Caliman | Aug 14 2026 17:27 utc | 138
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 14 2026 16:45 utc | 135
The important part about the articles you posted is that it more-or-less represents a textbook case of monopsony organization. (Heh, I forgot how that was spelled, had to look it up.) Meaning, pool all the individual purchasers together and act as a state bloc. This is perfectly applicable to other sectors, and it’s one giant advantage of the Chinese system. It wouldn’t be unthinkable at all for China to simply issue a ban on private imports of certain metals, food and commodities – either for certain nations or world-wide – only for the state to handle the negotiations and then transfer the actual sale of goods to the interested domestic purchasers.
Posted by: Tichy | Aug 14 2026 17:33 utc | 139
Journalist Youssef Fares
– “Secretary General of Hezbollah: The Lebanese authority has begun to target the resistance instead of focusing on Israel’s non-compliance with the agreement”
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
– “In another step to annex the West Bank
Defense Minister Katz orders the transfer of law enforcement powers in the West Bank from the Israeli army to the Israeli police under the rule and orders of Ben Gvir.”
– “Ali Al-Taher Heights in southern Lebanon is subjected to continuous bombardment as part of a “hidden” military operation conducted with the aim of controlling the height”
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/148852
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 17:44 utc | 140
Cold War 2.0, #81: Tarik Cyril Amar: ‘They’re Leaving’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csCOvRPI_Tk
“The exodus Israel can’t ignore.”
Also USS Lincoln, Zelensky’s visit to Serbia, North Korean combat operations in Kursk, and more.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 14 2026 18:03 utc | 141
@138 Caliman
Exactly, or as you stated very clearly:
“Your [to petergrfstrm] POV takes agency away from the people and conveys unearned influence and power to shadowy groups and really in the end argues for hopelessness and resignation to fate. After all, if the USUK are that powerful and all-knowing, what can be done? Iranians are not going to fall for it, I hope”
In other words, there is hardly a greater form of legitimacy to a particular rule than the kind of revolution that occurred in Iran, and the subsequent acceptance of the new status quo.
That marginalises intrigue and doubt to a status of virtual irrelevance, because those hypothesis are not actually what the grounded public movement was about. The hypothesis are also an attempt to chisel away at the credibility of existing leaders. Without those the public sentiment and position would still be similar, only under a different mantle of some kind.
The current US efforts are to continuously disrupt forms of representation and create dissent, confusion and argument in the population, or even to push Iranian leadership to unwanted extremes.
So the restraint and moderation shown by Iran is exemplary, because there is simply no ‘good’ or more certain reaction available when continuously harrassed or attacked.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 18:04 utc | 142
JF: Prof Mohammad Marandi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3joju6P62Q
“Trump’s war has achieved nothing for the US.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 14 2026 18:12 utc | 143
The hypothesis are also an attempt to chisel away at the credibility of existing leaders.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 14 2026 18:04 utc | 142
I stopped reading his posts a long time ago after he denigrated Fidel Castro as some grade b actor installed by the British or some country. Fidel was obviously a great leader . One who is revered to this day. One who fought on the front lines with his revolutionaries. One whose accomplishments still stand in the face of unrelenting pressure.
Posted by: arby | Aug 14 2026 20:10 utc | 144
Question is, is the US secretly changing UK weather, as Trump’s punishment for not allowing British troops to help the IDF trash West Asia?100% likely, Starmer’s last curse.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 14 2026 15:30 utc | 127
Here, South Europe, Adriatic, the old city is baking since May in unbearable heat, it feels artificial and sickly, evil. ( I know heat, including the heat of Sahara, the valleys i have walked with my dog for years).
This heat is different. Poisonous it feels like.
Remember how the rains started after Iran has blown american radar units in the Persian golf.
Weather warfare, it is not new.
PS, I am not going to apologize to an obvious agent, and you know nothing really about shia. So do not talk about it.
Posted by: stranger | Aug 14 2026 23:24 utc | 145
Peter. 81.
Antes la dinamitaran los Venezolanos.
Cuando esten convencidos de que USA no les pagara un cinco por su petroleo, cuando se den cuenta que eso esta salvando la economia gringa, entonces asestaran el golpe. los mismos militares que custodian la infraestructura petrolera lo haran.
Posted by: Manuel Verdugo | Aug 15 2026 2:31 utc | 146
“Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting (posted: march 6, 2026).
For those who want to see more details can search YouTube with the words “youtube russia iran intelligence”. There are people who are horrified / shocked by this news. I am not shocked because Russia and Iran have signed a treaty to help each other in january 2025. I would be surprised if Russia wouldn’t cooperate with Iran. See also the link below.
“Iranian–Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian-Russian_Treaty_on_Comprehensive_Strategic_Partnership
Or GOOGLE these words. That will provide more details about the Treaty.
Posted by: WMG | Aug 15 2026 11:25 utc | 147
ttps://southfront.press/
Posted by: UWDude | Aug 13 2026 20:18 utc | 33
Looks like the spooky spooks took Southfront offline.
Does anybody have a workaround?
Posted by: Angelo | Aug 15 2026 15:01 utc | 148
Mahmood OD: ‘The Reckoning Gets Closer’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
“The final deployment; US military shuts Israel; Iran responds to Trump’s threat.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 15 2026 15:05 utc | 149
Posted by: Exile | Aug 14 2026 14:18 utc | 121
I do not understand you.
Stop posting primitive shots from our past.
Yugoslavia as depicted in the west which has destroyed it, is a country of primitive peasants. Thus your little clip.
I have lived there long enough, till my 20ties when I left for middle east, to know its sophistication.
SFSN
Posted by: stranger | Aug 16 2026 21:28 utc | 150