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October 1, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-216
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Israel attacked Iran, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026 because there had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.
Israel had three motives for the decapitation strike of Feb 28th, 2026. One was that Israel feared losing its major pretext – Iranian nuclear weapons – for maintaining a state of war with Iran. A second motive was that the timing was right. Israel knew that the Iranians would be gathering in Tehran to discuss the major breakthrough in nuclear talks. The third, and most important, was to draw the US into prolonged open warfare with Iran.
According to Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, the mediator of the talks:
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https://x.com/badralbusaidi/status/20270897083925795761:33 PM · Feb 26, 2026Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي@badralbusaidi
We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran. We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts the Swiss government.
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The mediator of the nuclear negotiations between the US and IranInadvertently reveals what Israel was looking for, the timing of a gathering of leaders in Tehran.Two days later the decapitation strike was on.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:06 utc | 1
Headline:
‘Iran’s Deadline Expires Today’: Tehran Threatens Renewed Attacks As Blockade Bites, Rial Collapses
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:08 utc | 2
Mahmood OD: ‘Their Days Are Numbered’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/streams
“Iran: ‘The US will inevitably be expelled & Israel’s days are numbered.”
Death to USrael & Empire – Victory to Iran & the Resistance – Free Palestine from the River to the Sea!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 14:14 utc | 3
@Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:06 utc | 1
Some context might be useful:
… on the day of the September 11 attacks, Netanyahu – who at the time was not in political office – held a press conference in which he claimed that he had predicted the attacks on the World Trade Center by “militant Islam” in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism. In that book, Netanyahu had posited that Iranian-linked “militants” would set off a nuclear bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center.
from
The Dancing Israelis: Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
Netanyahu has been at Iran for decades, plus he knew 6 years before 911 that nuclear devices would be detonated in the basements of the twin towers. That is interesting since it happened.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:19 utc | 4
I only recently heard of “9/11 coincidence theory”. Would appreciate some useful opinions on the theory. What is interesting is that search engine algorithms hide this article. https://www.unz.com/bhua/9-11-coincidence-theory/ “An incomplete list of “completely circumstantial” Jewish connections with 9/11″[He is being sarcastic here]
Regarding ‘circumstantial’ evidence:
The Legal Guidehttps://thelegalguide.org/circumstantial-evidence-versus-direct-evidence-understanding/
Circumstantial evidence can be highly persuasive when multiple independent inferences converge to a single conclusion. Courts recognize its value; many verdicts rely primarily on circumstantial evidence. The strength lies in how well the circumstantial pieces fit together and how convincingly they exclude reasonable alternatives.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:29 utc | 5
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:29 utc | 5
was in response to
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:19 utc | 4
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:30 utc | 6
@Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:29 utc | 5
I only recently heard of “9/11 coincidence theory”. Would appreciate some useful opinions on the theory. What is interesting is that search engine algorithms hide this article
You have to be a very strong believer in unlikely coincidences to go along with the official story (putting it mildly). It is a reply to the conspirators pushing the idea of “conspiracy theory” on anyone asking serious questions.
My point here was to show Netanyahu’s long standing goal of getting US to attack Iran, and 911 was central to it and only succeeded 25 years later. It will be the end of Netanyahu and Israel though.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:42 utc | 7
I remember that some Israelis were dancing on the street in Tel Aviv on 9/11 saying “now the Americans will let us kill the Arabs”
But it’s a very divided society so don’t read much into it.
Posted by: Polli | Oct 1 2026 14:43 utc | 8
@Polli | Oct 1 2026 14:43 utc | 8
They were dancing in New York on Sept 11 and were arrested. It has been common knowledge for 25 years. Read the link I provided.
The current attack on Iran ordered by Netanyahu must be seen in the light of what happened then.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:49 utc | 9
Otto Penn 1 – Absolutely correct – Bibi and the crazed War Cabinet of Katz, Gvir and Smotrich among others deliberately deep sixed the nuclear peace talks…………
—–they never wanted peace, only a continuation of the Greater Israel project which included turning Iran into a vassal state (since its logistically in capable of applying the Gaza genocide principle to Iran – too big, and too sophisicated).
Unfortunately, the war hawk faction in the DJT cabinet brought into that bankrupt initiative…….General Caine, JDV, and Tulsi lost the internal battle to let the IDF roast in its own juices…….
The end result could very well be a resounding defeat for DJT in the mid terms, all due to trusting the the untrustworthy……
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 15:12 utc | 10
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:06 utc | 1
Israel attacked Iran, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026 because there had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.
Your analysis is plausible.
But has it also occurred to you that an operation of this magnitude could not have been mounted in the short time between the breakthrough in negotiations and the attacks?
This suggests that the “decapitation strike” intended to launch the war might have been planned long in advance, a theory corroborated by the concentration of forces around Iran.
One is thus led to wonder whether the so-called breakthrough was actually a trap designed to lure the Iranian leadership into a meeting, thereby enabling the execution of a pre-planned decapitation strike.
When dealing with psychopaths who bomb funerals they themselves instigated, we need to stop believing in mere coincidences.
Posted by: Sebgo | Oct 1 2026 15:14 utc | 11
Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:49 utc | 9—
Quite. I again highly suggest watching the trio of chats Glenn Diesen had with Wilkerson, then Johnson, followed by Macgregor, and I’ll add the chat Macgregor had with Davis. I see Davis has an all-star lineup scheduled for today–Wilkerson, Mearsheimer, Marandi–in that order.
And it wasn’t just the Dancing Zionists; the rapid hauling away of the evidence by BushCo before it could properly be examined and media contamination of the American Mind by the never-ending loops showing the impacts on the WTC towers along with numerous other facts point to a self-inflicted attack to drive the goal for Full Spectrum Dominance announced four times in the 1990s beginning with the Wolfowitz Doctrine that was contemporaneous with the lies made to the Russians.
Sebgo | Oct 1 2026 15:14 utc | 11—
There most certainly was a plan. The Iranians thwarted it and continue to do so. Where the war is headed was foretold by the martyred Larijani who said it won’t end until the Americans and Zionists are expunged from the region and the Colonial Rape ended.
Massie lost his seat in Congress, MTG resigned and Nancy Mace, did not run for re-election all because they did not support the Zionist War on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon (not to mention the torture of the West Bank). And Tucker was fired from Fox News.
In the case of Massie, the AIPAC folks spent $30 million in his congressional district to defeat him, just an extraordinary amount even in modern terms in one district.
Yes – oppose Zionist expansion and this is what happens to candidates and commentators with guts…….
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 15:20 utc | 14
@karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 15:14 utc | 12
And it wasn’t just the Dancing Zionists; the rapid hauling away of the evidence by BushCo
Indeed. To China in fact. And I agree with your recommendation re. Diesen!
What we see now is a direct sequel to 911.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:21 utc | 15
@Sebgo | Oct 1 2026 15:14 utc | 11
One is thus led to wonder whether the so-called breakthrough was actually a trap designed to lure the Iranian leadership into a meeting, thereby enabling the execution of a pre-planned decapitation strike.
In hindsight this appears to me obviously correct!
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:23 utc | 16
Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:21 utc | 15—
By “sequel” are you referring to the FlyDubai incident?
@karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 15:24 utc | 17
Yes, that event can be compared to the planes of 911 and the similarities are obvious. But in a much broader sense the current war on Iran instigated by Netanyahu is a sequel to 911 as Netanyahu wanted a war on Iran then, but ‘only’ got Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria…. he had to wait 25 years for his dream of a hot war on Iran could come true. But it will be the final chapter for him.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:32 utc | 18
MR: Sulaiman Ahmed: Iran War Update
https://www.youtube.com/@MoralResistance/streams
“Israeli false-flag exposed; Iran strikes vessels in Hormuz.”
The Cradle Media, Ep 269: ‘Fly Dubai: Fact or Fiction?’
https://www.youtube.com/@thecradlemedia/streams
“Netanyahu milks FlyDubai incident for electoral points.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 15:34 utc | 19
🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷 Question: Last week, you said you might annihilate Iran. That was the word you used.
Trump: Yeah, I would do that. It’s possible.
Question: How can the president of peace be calling for the annihilation of an entire people?
Trump: Because by annihilating Iran, we’ve created peace in the world. With Iran, I don’t think you could ever have peace.
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/57416
🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡️Trump:If I weren’t president, Saudi Arabia wouldn’t be here right now. Neither would Israel. They’d be wiped off the face of the planet.
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/57417
foreshadowing…..
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:44 utc | 20
Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 15:32 utc | 18—
Thanks for your clarification. The Clean Break paper is now 30 years-old. More than enough evidence shows it to be the master template. All the preparations occurred during Clinton’s terms. IMO, the Cheney-led Neocons didn’t want to leave 911 to Gore and the Ds, thus the Florida vote count raid and UNSC decision giving the 2000 election to Bush. IMO, 911 would’ve happened under Gore, regardless. One of the main reasons the Clean Break plan failed was the Outlaw military’s weakness.
RT is providing a scrolling synopsis of Putin’s Valdai Club speech that includes the following:
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Responsibility for humanity’s future requires practical action to prevent catastrophic scenarios, he stressed.
The world has reached a decisive turning point with profound changes extending beyond politics to technology, society, climate, medicine, warfare, energy, demographics, and artificial intelligence, Putin says.
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15:10 GMT
Putin opens his Valdai address by saying that East and West, North, and South will eventually have to agree on principles for a new world order capable of supporting humanity’s development for decades to come.
The Valdai Club’s experience of frank, trusting dialogue will be valuable in that process, he says, but warns that the world currently faces more urgent and acute challenges. [My Emphasis]
Your analysis is plausible. But has it also occurred to you that an operation of this magnitude could not have been mounted in the short time between the breakthrough in negotiations and the attacks? This suggests that the “decapitation strike” intended to launch the war might have been planned long in advance, a theory corroborated by the concentration of forces around Iran. One is thus led to wonder whether the so-called breakthrough was actually a trap designed to lure the Iranian leadership into a meeting, thereby enabling the execution of a pre-planned decapitation strike. When dealing with psychopaths who bomb funerals they themselves instigated, we need to stop believing in mere coincidences.
Posted by: Sebgo | Oct 1 2026 15:14 utc | 11
Indeed!
I did not mean that the decapitation strike was planned and organized over the last two days of February. The launch date for the strike was set by the circumstances. The opportunity presented itself as well as it became an imperative because of the breakthrough in negotiations.
But I think your theory is good. A gambit. “An offer was made to the Iranians that they couldn’t refuse.” And thus the Iranian leadership gathered in Tehran. It is amazing that the Iranians put so much trust in the good faith of the negotiations with ZOG.
But your theory raises some questions. We have been told how the US (Trump) bought into Israeli pressure JUST BEFORE the decapitation strike. Your theory says that Trump was on board with the strike well before Feb 28th.
I posted about @1 quite some time ago and at that time I included the following:
The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, which culminated in a single concentrated burst of lethal violence to decapitate the Iranian regime, according to experts, veteran spies and officials in Israel and the US.Khamenei was killed along with seven “members of the top Iranian security leadership who had gathered at several locations in Tehran” and about a dozen members of his family and close entourage in near-simultaneous strikes within 60 seconds, military officials in Israel said. Forty other senior Iranian leaders also died in the attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/how-israeli-sleight-and-us-might-led-to-the-assassination-of-ali-khamenei
So ZOG had plans for the decapitation strike for quite some time. They were compeled to say, “GO!” after the breakthrough in negotiations. Whether the breakthrough itself was part of a nefarious ZOG gambit is a question, and I think your theory is a good one.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 15:52 utc | 22
https://youtu.be/XJ0dXW05kho?list=RDXJ0dXW05kho New Iranian Leggo video.
Celebrates the friendship of Iran and China, with much thanks to China for their help when Iran needed it the most. Apparently all those Chinese planes landing at Iranian airports were transporting tons and tons of rebuilding supplies. Probably passenger planes to help with manpower for rebuilding what the US blew up.
A celebration of friendship, trying to build a world where friendship is normal. Not divide and conquer, but work together to build stuff.
Very powerful video. Huge focus on education and building cities and having nice communities. And two nations, Iran and China, working together as friends.
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 15:54 utc | 23
My point here was to show Netanyahu’s long standing goal of getting US to attack Iran, and 911 was central to it. Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 | 7
OK, let’s assume you are ushered into a secure room and your interlocutor answers/confirms each of your suppositions and conjectures.
And then? Now what? Do you continue to participate and opine in the alt.media space? What’s the point?
See, here is the broader issue: those who know what’s going on lack the organization, the financing, the basic ability to do anything other than observe, comment (and complain).
On the other hand, your intellectual opponents who not only know what’s going on – after all they are the very architects who designed and implemented the system and policies – are organized, financed and trained to act, to impose, to express their will to power.
What now? Thats why I’m floating around here; lots of bitter dissent but no evidence of actual plans to action.
Bevin would occasionally point out the obvious, but he’s either busy actually organizing or perhaps has resigned himself to historical inevitability.
Posted by: Hobbes | Oct 1 2026 15:57 utc | 24
@Posted by: Hobbes | Oct 1 2026 15:57 utc | 24
“Every evil contains the seeds of its own destruction.”
The Gangster Empire is going to self-destruct.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 16:02 utc | 25
I checked the notes from the previous video. Here is the punch line:
“the boy in Guangzhou and the girl in Isfahan grow up thinking friendship is normal, and humiliation is the strange thing.”
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 16:02 utc | 26
@karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 15:47 utc | 21
IMO, 911 would’ve happened under Gore, regardless.
I think so too. Gore “half man, half bear, half pig” wasn’t a man to trust.
Other than that, thanks for keeping us up-to-date on Valdai Club. These days it is really hard to follow everything that is going on.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 16:04 utc | 27
see the 59:38 video at the second link
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37242#
Middle East Spectator — MES
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. is sending another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, to the Middle East
The carrier and its strike group left San Diego today and will arrive in the CENTCOM area of operations by mid November. In total, 3 carrier strike groups would be deployed by then.
Trump has said he is considering continuing the war against Iran after the midterm elections, which take place on November 3rd.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ybj7FBJF4
Elijah Magnier: BREAKING: Iran Confirms U.S. Proposal Received as Tankers Burn in Hormuz
Dialogue Works Dialogue Works 446K subscribers
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 16:10 utc | 28
The Valdai Club’s experience of frank, trusting dialogue. karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 1| 21
See my comment to Norwegian above. I have apparently neglected to mention a 3rd option, which is to rely on someone else.
You’re definitely one of the best analysts and commenters in the alt.media space, but your faith in a benevolent savior approaches that of a secular religion.
(A slight change in life circumstances could have resulted in you being a fervant lay preacher spreading the gospel to the masses.)
Ultimately, once we move past doubt to certainty, one is left with basically 3 options: organize and resist, hope for 3rd party intervention, or throw in with the power.
While I am obviously in the 3rd camp, I do have high respect for the Bevins; more power to them.
But I think misplaced faith in the presumed beneficence of foreign actors which have essentially zero history of respect for any kind of civil rights – if only lip service like in the West – is both misguided and potentionally dangerous.
Russia, Iran and China are not the saviors you seek to lead the world to a new era of peace and prosperity. That responsibility is squarely on your shoulders, not to be abdicated to a mythical other.
Posted by: Hobbes | Oct 1 2026 16:19 utc | 29
Dancing Israelis
Crowds CHEER and SING, waving Israeli flags as they prepare to welcome passengers on Flydubai flight back to Israel
‘Yaniv, you are a true HERO. We are a nation of lions!’
Netanyahu HUGS 1 of men who subdued ‘HIJACKER’ on Flydubai flight
Blood still covers his clothes
Netanyahu CLOSELY OBSERVES BLOODY FOOT of man who subdued FlyDubai ‘hijacker’
https://t.me/rtnews/169712
Classic deflection false flag.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 16:19 utc | 30
Meanwhile, up in space, but in near-earth orbit something kinetic has happened. A US spy satellite has apparently “fragmented”.
https://keeptrack.space/ktoc-notice/kt-20260913-19460-ann-usa-32-breakup-announced-by-space-track
Space-Track announcement, first seen 2026-09-17 14:08Z: “U.S. Space Forces-Space (S4S) confirms the fragmentation of USA 32 (#19460) in LEO on 13 Sep 2026 (JDay 256) at approximately 2113 UTC. All tracked debris are being incorporated into routine conjunction assessment screenings to support spaceflight safety. No immediate threats have been identified; further analysis is ongoing.”
Public catalog records identify USA 32 as an elint, sigint payload operated by NRO (United States), launched 1988-09-05 on a Titan II SLV.
Color commentary from ZH, but no link due to site policy here.
Exactly what happened to USA 32 remains a mystery.
A collision with an untracked object is one possible explanation for an unexpected satellite breakup. Aging spacecraft can also fragment because of failures involving batteries, pressurized tanks or other components. There is currently no public evidence establishing any of those scenarios as the cause of USA 32’s demise.
Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Oct 1 2026 16:35 utc | 31
Peace to the good people of the bar!
Your moment of zen from the WSJ:
“Stock Market News, Sept. 30, 2026: 10-Year Treasury Yield Rises to New 24-Year High”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:43 utc | 32
Death to USrael & Empire – Victory to Iran & the Resistance – Free Palestine from the River to the Sea!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 14:14 utc | 3
Spray paint it on a bank near you, scream it from the rooftops, tell your neighbors and co-workers!
Peace and prosperity to you, brother John!
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:46 utc | 33
Netanyahu has been at Iran for decades, plus he knew 6 years before 911 that nuclear devices would be detonated in the basements of the twin towers. That is interesting since it happened.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:19 utc | 4
Very useful contextualization, Norsk bror. I hope you and yours have a wonderful day today.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:48 utc | 34
launched 1988-09-05
Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Oct 1 2026 16:35 utc | 31
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Another relic mishap. 1200kg.
https://www.google.com/search?q=relic+boosters+in+orbit&udm=14
Posted by: too scents | Oct 1 2026 16:51 utc | 35
@Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:48 utc | 34
Very useful contextualization, Norsk bror. I hope you and yours have a wonderful day today.
Mange takk bror! The day was sunny and warm for a change, thank you! All the best.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 16:52 utc | 36
Yes – oppose Zionist expansion and this is what happens to candidates and commentators with guts…….
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 15:20 utc | 14
…within Capitalism at its final Imperialist stage. Also, you forgot Charlie Kirk.
Tucker has been maligned at the bar and I don’t agree with his proposed solutions to the problem, but his critique of the Dems and Israel can be quite illuminating at times. There is a good reason for his popularity.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:54 utc | 37
There is a good reason for his popularity.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:54 utc | 37
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Hungry man dinners!
Posted by: too scents | Oct 1 2026 16:57 utc | 38
lots of bitter dissent but no evidence of actual plans to action.
1) The most powerful action one can make is with one’s pocketbook – don’t buy anything connected to the Genociders and/or the Epstein Class. Starve the Beast.
2) the second most powerful action one can make is be sand in the gears. In every interaction with the state delay, delay, delay. For example, at a traffic stop, drag out the stop 4vr. Carefully read the citation front and back before signing. Spend at least 15 minutes.
3) Finally, gently, very slowly, and quietly open the Eyes of some Normies. Don’t be the crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving Dinner. Instead, quietly posit a question such as how did 2 planes knock down 3 skyscrapers ? Let the Normie digest the question for a couple of months, before going further.
Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Oct 1 2026 17:03 utc | 39
Trump looks desperate:
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Either Iran signs a deal, or they won’t exist any longer’
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37246
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 17:11 utc | 40
Alt Media would seem to be the only truthful open information source.
It may take decades for the world population majority to discover the truth but this is a necessary beginning.
Posted by: necromancer | Oct 1 2026 17:19 utc | 41
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 16:10 utc | 28
“In total, 3 carrier strike groups would be deployed by then.”
Yes, but deployed where? At least 1000 kilometres from the Iranian coast – the fly-boys will get lots of hours in, lots of tedious time flying over the featureless sea – hope they don’t get too bored, fall asleep, fly into the water, etc.
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Posted by: Jams O'Donnell | Oct 1 2026 17:22 utc | 42
FlyDubai – what sort of idiot goes to UAE if in receipt of Jewish religion and Israeli nationality?
The Emirati Royal dictators may like to play kissyface with Bibi and Mossad but the populace does not so do.
When I last worked in Dubai, some 30 years ago, there were plenty of Palestinians and Yemenis in the state. I doubt it has much changed.
Posted by: necromancer | Oct 1 2026 17:24 utc | 43
Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Oct 1 2026 16:35 utc | 31
“Meanwhile, up in space, but in near-earth orbit something kinetic has happened. A US spy satellite has apparently “fragmented”.”
Lots of things can happen up there, with ‘plausible deniability’. So much ‘space debris’, so much opportunity to introduce a little bit more. Other people besides Yanks can play ingenuous.
Posted by: Jams O'Donnell | Oct 1 2026 17:26 utc | 44
Just some questions for the folks here:
1. What with the US apparently shaping up for yet another go at Iran, how feasible do you think it would it be for Iran to hit a moving military ship, such as an aircraft carrier, and how far away?
Has Iran so far played ‘relatively-incapable’ or are they actually relatively incapable, depending on distance?
2. There has been some talk about some improvements to Iran’s military tech since last time. Do you think they may go more for the US’ moving navy hardware if they didn’t before?
3. Would Israel likely be participating this time around and, as such, be a target or more of one by Iran (and allies)? What about all those bombs to Israel recently signed off on and maybe delivered by now?
4. So we have at least 2 possible false flags within a week or so. If they are such, what might they tell us or would be trying to tell us if we accepted them as not false? Would they be run-ups to war after early November?
Thanks.
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Oct 1 2026 17:46 utc | 45
An interesting posting at MES
Tayyebeh Mahrouzadeh, the mother-in-law of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, says she saw him on the night of his father’s burial in Mashhad and he personally attended the funeral
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 1 2026 17:50 utc | 46
3) Finally, gently, very slowly, and quietly open the Eyes of some Normies. Don’t be the crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving Dinner. Instead, quietly posit a question such as how did 2 planes knock down 3 skyscrapers ? Let the Normie digest the question for a couple of months, before going further.
Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Oct 1 2026 17:03 utc | 39
I like to think of this as planting seeds. They will germinate. Movies are a very rich source of seeds and humour is a great delivery method.
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Oct 1 2026 17:53 utc | 47
Ahenobarbus@33:
Thanks, same to you! It comes straight off my protest sign…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 17:54 utc | 48
@Strange Bedfellow | Oct 1 2026 17:46 utc | 45
1. I am convinced Iran has the capability to hit the aircraft carriers in the Indian ocean, but why should they do it now? They are already winning. No reason to swallow the bait Netanyahu wants them to swallow.
2. Same answer. Do not play all the cards at once.
3. Don’t know. But Israel will become a target if there is new attacks on Iran.
4. False flags tells us that Irans enemies are desperate and time is running out.
Everybody talks about renewed war after early November. Therefore, expect it in October.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 17:59 utc | 49
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
An estimated 8,000 Palestinian bodies lie beneath the rubble in Gaza—people assassinated while sitting peacefully at home by the most immoral army in the world.
Reuters @Reuters
A mass funeral was held for 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of a Gaza residential building hit in an Israeli strike in October 2023
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https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/57418#
ResistanceTrench mirror
⚡️🇮🇷 The United States is set to send a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
More than 2,000 Marines from a Marine unit are already heading to the region aboard an amphibious assault group.
By the end of November, three aircraft carriers and two amphibious assault groups are expected to be deployed in the vicinity of Iran.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 18:00 utc | 50
@GreatLakesObserver | Oct 1 2026 17:53 utc | 47
I like to think of this as planting seeds. They will germinate. Movies are a very rich source of seeds and humour is a great delivery method.
Agreed. But it would be nice if the seeds needed less than 25 years to germinate.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 18:01 utc | 51
@Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 17:59 utc | 49
Thanks. Good points and perhaps especially your last one about things restarting earlier than November.
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Oct 1 2026 18:06 utc | 52
Israel attacked Iran, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026 because there had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 1 2026 14:06 utc | 1
Has it not occurred to you that was part of the deception?
US give the Iranians something to talk about that warrants a meeting of leaders.
Israeli intel bugs the phones of Khamenei’s family members (Israeli newspapers bragged about this), confirming meeting and location.
Iranians constantly wanting negotiations, guaranteed to fall for the bait. (Idiotic + not taking their security seriously).
Why is anyone surprised when “diplomacy” fails yet again?
This happened at least four times that I counted.
1x Kill Soleimani, bait him with the Saudis
1x Kill Raisi, bait him with Azerbaijan and have the reformists cover it up
1x Kill Khamenei, bait with fake breakthrough, setting up leader gathering for strike
1x Kill entire negotiating team while discussing terms + other leaders in March. US basically teabagging them at this point.
How does that line go again? Fool me once…? Does it go up to four times?
The more pertinent question is why Iranians are constantly fooled. (Hint: A seven letter word that starts with a T.)
Posted by: Reza | Oct 1 2026 18:06 utc | 53
The EI Livestream, Day 1091 of Usrael’s Palestinian Genocide: ‘Is Israel Truly Isolated?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpbiB0gy1Y
Former UN official Craig Mokhiber on the great gap between diplomatic condemnation & action; and Jon Elmer’s West Asia Resistance Report. Breaking news & analysis.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 18:07 utc | 54
Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 17:59 utc | 49—
He hasn’t said it directly, but Crooke has hinted that Netanyahu will do something prior to the Zionist poll, likely something that will allow the poll to be cancelled.
@ karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 18:14 utc | 55:
Yes, Israel has something earlier than the US mid-terms I seem to recall.
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Oct 1 2026 18:22 utc | 56
😀 The jargon expands!
First we have a False Flag, or FF for brevity.
Next we have a Failed False Flag
— such as the Benny Hill gang out at UK’s RAF Fairford base —
also known as FFF for brevity.
And then we’ve been gifted a third (or a turd) a Fellated Failed False Flag
— such as the FlyDubai Russian, Ukrainian and or Polish, now Indian & Omani pilots having a stabbing tiff, with an open cockpit door & 4 extra Israeli trained pilots waiting as passengers-cum-heroes, who Israel insisted need bussing out by in a military cargo plane ASAP, because reasons, fuck protocol, oh ok, fine Saudi, let’s have them on another flight, Ooh heroes! —
now shall be known as FFFF for brevity.
😉 Are you excited for the concluding final form? Are you not glued to your pre-approved TV screens, newspaper, and LLM AI “answer bots” entertained? Come now, you too can clap for Tinkerbell if you truly believe. Nothing else matters than you belief! I mean look at your ten-year bond yield, right? 😉
😀 So say it with me: FF, FFF, FFFF! (Ooh, it’s like when I eat too many pretzels and need a drink.)
🙂 Forgive me, I was in bit of a mood and had to let it out. Like a mosquito fart, which are probably said to be weaponsied by Iran now (thanks for the heads up Sakineh Bagoom), it has passed. Better out than in, though, right?
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 1 2026 18:22 utc | 57
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 18:00 utc | 50
I imagine that the Iranians have their tongues hanging out for the landing of 2000 Marines – probably 20,000 would be even better for the score card – and the PoW camps. Not so good for the hospital waiting lists though, but triage will help – friends before enemy, I suppose.
Posted by: Jams O'Donnell | Oct 1 2026 18:22 utc | 58
imperialism ……as it actively works to continue subverting Iraqi sovereignty
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/1/iran-war-live-trump-hints-us-could-strike-iran-warns-time-coming
Iraq receives new dollar shipment from US to bolster foreign currency supplies
Iraq has received a new shipment of US dollars in an understanding with Washington to bolster foreign currency reserves, Reuters news agency has reported, citing an Iraqi government spokesperson.
After the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and following the collapse of President Saddam Hussein’s regime, the country’s oil revenues were placed in a special account in the US and then transferred to Baghdad. This system allowed Washington oversight of the flow of financial resources to Iraq.
In April, US President Donald Trump halted cash shipments from the account, releasing only electronic dollars. Some reporting attributed the halt in physical cash transfers to US pressure on Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
Local media outlets have reported that Iraq’s Central Bank has faced US dollar shortages and had difficulty supplying commercial banks, leading to inflationary risks.
In July, the Trump administration began releasing some physical cash transfers but also accused Iraq of dollar smuggling operations to Iran.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 18:24 utc | 59
If indeed three US CVN CSG groups will be on station off Oman by mid November you can bet your Texas hat that they will not venture to within 1k miles of the Iranian coast, especially after the disastrous adventures of the USS Ford and USS Lincoln in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman.
The Ford was hit by a Houthi anti ship missile (not a ‘laundry fire’) and was forced to withdraw to Norfolk, and is now facing billions of dollars in repairs, and likely to be out of service by several years.
The Lincoln is approaching home port SD in need of many maintenance repairs after suffering from several anti ship missile near misses (and being away from home for close to one year) – those emergency evasion turns can be messy and costly too! Lincoln will be out of service for many months.
So the CVN carriers Washington, Bush and Roosevelt will now account for the core of USN operational carriers – no carriers will be left in Western Pacific.
Dangerous gamesmanship here…………….billions expended and wasted playing the IDF headgames……
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 18:33 utc | 60
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 1 2026 18:24 utc | 59
Not sure what games the US is playing. But whatever the US is gaining from this seems to be far outweighed by the motivation that these games give other nations to ditch the US dollar entirely.
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 18:46 utc | 61
@karlof1 | Oct 1 2026 18:14 utc | 55
He hasn’t said it directly, but Crooke has hinted that Netanyahu will do something prior to the Zionist poll, likely something that will allow the poll to be cancelled.
Yes, when you say it, I think I heard that also. Apparently, Crooke believes it is unacceptable for Netanyahu to hold elections as he is likely to end up in prison or worse. Even more reason to expect something soon. Also explains need for false flags “to get things started”.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 18:46 utc | 62
Here is just one conspiracy theory now circulating:
– the Ukronazis in consultation with the Zionist occupation government (aided by NATO) planned the Feb ’22 push into the Donbas.
– Ukronazis and the Zoinists knew full well that RF would not stand for a mass NATO genocide of Russians in the Donbas
– By threatening the massive invasion of the Donbass the Zionists forecast that RF would respond in force and make a massive commitment to rescue the Russian population
– Zionists knew that this total RF commitment would hamper RF responses in other regions, especially in Syria
– Zionists believed that the end of Assad Regime, supported for decades by RF would prove especially beneficial to the Greater Israel project. One more foe (Assad eliminated) gone for good.
– Sure enough the Assad Regime was undermined and destroyed by a combined effort of the US and Israel and Turkey.
– RF was unable to respond in force to preserve the Assad Regime due to the enormous commitment to the Ukronazi war.
– All part and parcel of Bibi group plan in co-operation with the Volo group – thick as thieves……
– Unintended consequences – RF has continued to wage war against Kieve, endangering the Zionist fascist regime in Kieve, and Israel has some temporary control over portions of Syria, but now faces its former ally in Turkey for ultimate control, and the installed regime in Damascus now faces an insurrection from Assad forces in the Catholic and Druse and Alawite regions……….
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 18:50 utc | 63
@Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:19 utc | 4
In addition it looked like several other buildings close to the twin towers hade been burned out from the bottom looking like hollow shells
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Oct 1 2026 18:56 utc | 64
Did an Israeli Plumber Really Pull an Emirati Plane Out of a Suicide Nosedive?
After subduing a knife-wielding assailant, he knew knew what to do because he watches TV
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-an-israeli-plumber-really-pull-an-emirati-plane-out-of-a-suicide-nosedive/
Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Oct 1 2026 19:02 utc | 65
Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 18:46 utc | 62—
The last three entries at Crooke’s substack merit scrutiny. IMO, the narratives have merged. India was the British Empire’s Jewel that made its empire possible. The artificial Middle East arrangement including the Zionists is the Outlaw US Empire’s Jewel and made the Empire possible. As Macgregor described, American Globalists scooped up the remnants of what the British had erected and made them their own–all of it including the region’s evil.
Kushner Profits Off USrael’s Genocide
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2105716228094620056
“Jared Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in 9 firms supplying Israel’s military, CNN reports.
Kushner sits on the Board of Peace overseeing Gaza. The White House called the conflict-of-interest concerns a ‘tired narrative…”
What ‘conflict of interest?’ Profit-making for Kushner, USrael and the Trump family is the interest. Apparently the ‘tired narratives’ of genocide still don’t disturb the sleep of far too many Americans grown accustomed to no consequences for their shameful government’s evil actions either. Hopefully Iran will change all that and soon.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 19:09 utc | 67
Sebgo 11
‘When dealing with psychopaths who bomb funerals they themselves instigated, we need to stop believing in mere coincidences.’
The only reason we are having to repeat the obvious is this wall of media tripe generated by recent USUKIS false flags.
USUKIS soft power over media is combined with absolutely lethal hard power, their control over Islamic State in West Asia, terrorists on the ground operating in Iran and every other country in West Asia.
That is why Iran and Russia have prepared themselves for active war, and one of the consequences for USUKIS will be the loss of 20% of global energy.
USUKIS believes that the Leviathan project and the Basra to Turkey pipeline through Iraq and other pipelines from Kazachstan will replace GCC oil and gas, after the destruction of the GCC.
My point is that, the madness of USUKIS far exceeds bombing funerals. Their madness encompasses the entirety of Satanist Zionism controlling not only West Asia, but all of Asia , by means of Takfiri Islam.
The epicentre of Takfiri Islam, killing people who don’t agree with you, is the Sauds and Prince Bandar who funds Takfiri mercenaries, is now likely to be taken over by the Shi’a Axis of Resistance.
The only defence that would stop that is Turkey’s military, which will demand the Caliphate as payment, which USUKIS won’t allow.
USUKIS has not got the military power , nor the economic strength to create GREATER Israel, when Russia and China are opposed to radical Zionism.
Your country in West Africa is a long away from West Asia, but Britain is flying bombing raids on the Yemenis via Crete.
In exactly the same way that Libya was destroyed by Obama and Cameron in 2011 during a crisis in aviation fuel.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 1 2026 19:12 utc | 68
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has ended down for the last 4 trading days. Wonder how often that happens. Seems to be going sideways today, barring any new developments before close.
Iran will have to pull off some sort of command economy to break the blockade. Lots of rationing, at gunpoint. Rationalization of the economy around the war effort. Take the opportunity to purge the material conditions of rural backwardness.
Posted by: fnord | Oct 1 2026 19:25 utc | 69
karlof1 66
The evil which is Talmudic Zionism was greatly reinforced in the time of the Messiah peace be upon him, by Jewish trade with polytheistic India.
The Jews asked him pbuh if he was a reincarnation of Ilyas.
It was utterly revolting today to see Modi participating in the False Flags of ScrewSScrewKNetanyahu.
Our prophet, saw, told us that the time will come when the entire non-Muslim world will be united against Islam.
Islam will be the stranger, as it was at the start of Jesus’ ministry and Islam.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 1 2026 19:26 utc | 70
Here is just one conspiracy theory now circulating
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 18:50 utc | 63
The Syrian Army surrendered. Nothing Russia could have done there if the Syrians are working with the enemy.
Kiev was invading Donbass for 10 years. At one point most of the invading Ukrainian forces defected to the Donbass side. Prime time to SMO when Kiev didn’t have the time to reconstitute the armed forces and the Nazis were still untrained militia. But Russia did not go to war when needed.
The conspiracy theory is propaganda to say Russia did something it should not have done. That Russia’s “unprovoked” invasion cost Syria.
Rather than the reality where Putin was too much of a liberal appeaser and the belated, minimalist goals and effort he put in is far short of what he could be doing.
Posted by: Reza | Oct 1 2026 19:28 utc | 71
Here’s a question the international finance freaks could maybe help me answer. Does China not conduct bilateral trade with its own currency? Are they demanding US dollars for their exports? Iraq has little need for USD except for those things which can exclusively be purchased with it, goods that come from the US or from a country that exclusively trades in US dollars. What’s stopping Iraq from saying, “fuck it, you’re weak and your supplies are exhausted, we’re going to direct oil revenues straight to our central bank, and other countries will buy our oil with their own currencies, and you’re welcome to try another quagmire to stop us”? What’s stopping Iraq from bucking the US’s authority?
Posted by: fnord | Oct 1 2026 19:29 utc | 72
Thanks all.
The Gulf countries and the House of Saud needs a war too.
These regimes are facing certain death.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 1 2026 19:45 utc | 73
What’s stopping Iraq from bucking the US’s authority?
Posted by: fnord | Oct 1 2026 19:29 utc | 72
My take on it is: like most of the other GCC nations, or maybe GCC nation-like entities as someone recently called them, what is stopping Iraq from bucking the US is that the leader of Iraq has his family’s wealth deposited in US banks.
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 19:50 utc | 74
Reza 71
Imo Russia is pro-Judaism, not pro-Western Liberalism. That ship sailed long ago. Putin’s ambition is to create a non- Zionist Israel, which means he has to protect the integrity of Israel.
It will fall to the Successors to Lavrov and Putin to understand that European Judaism and Khazarian Zionism are not the same thing. The Khazars are only interested in the Biblical title deeds to Palestine
The Hungarian Jews that Russia hosts are not Khazarian Zionists, they are European Jews.
Putin opposed the USUKIS-backed Nazi -Khazarian recapture of Khazaria in Ukraine.
He does not oppose the founding of a Jewish State, by non-Khazarian, non-Nazi, European Jews.
I don’t believe Putin or Lavrov have ever been deceived by the liberal West.
Their affiliation with European Judaism may have led them to think they could manipulate USUKIS to create a non- Zionist Israel in Palestine.
They both understand today that Anglo Vikings like Trump and are only motivated by Colonial Conquest and greed
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 1 2026 19:57 utc | 75
Re:
”Not sure what games the US is playing. But whatever the US is gaining from this seems to be far outweighed by the motivation that these games give other nations to ditch the US dollar entirely.”
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 18:46 utc | 61
Its rather the point of “reset”.
Your missing the most important factor, this is a group of international billionaire gangsters making money hands over fist, and will even more so when governments Global economy in its current form exists.
None of them care about “a country”…
Posted by: Trubind | Oct 1 2026 19:58 utc | 76
RE: Posted by: titmouse | Oct 1 2026 18:22 utc | 57
lol … here, here… To: Brevity! 🍺
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 1 2026 20:02 utc | 77
🔴 Sources to Press TV: Netanyahu conspiring ridiculous false-flag scenarios such as plane hijack to accuse Iran
https://t.me/presstv/209108
I didn’t tell them 😊
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 20:13 utc | 78
A regional source has told Press TV that new details have emerged about the alleged hijacking of an Emirati aircraft, saying the incident is part of a broader Israeli plan aimed at drawing US President Donald Trump into a new confrontation with Iran.
https://t.me/presstv/209110
That is what has been said here too.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 20:15 utc | 79
Western MSM pretty much same as was Ukraine first year…
- Collapse any moment (Rubble to Rubble)
- “Hardliners” will be driven out by their people
- ”Isolated”
- On their last leg
- Have no more of anything
- Evil
- Ready to make a deal
zzzzz…. Snooze fest
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 1 2026 20:20 utc | 80
RAF Airfield and Terror Strikes On Iran
UK filling the biggest gap …
The 25-year-old dual UK-Iranian national was arrested in London under the Terrorism Act. He’s the sixth suspect taken into custody over the air base incident in Gloucestershire.
As someone here seems to be interested in the 9/11 story:
here are 2 well sorted sources about it:
https://ic911.org
and
https://corbettreport.com/best-of-corbett/
but be careful, think twice before reading it. You won’t be the same person after!
Posted by: Aarsupilani | Oct 1 2026 20:25 utc | 82
re: Reza | Oct 1 2026 19:28 utc | 71
ah, Mr Hindsight – could’ve, should’ve, would’ve.
Posted by: tucenz | Oct 1 2026 20:29 utc | 83
“Netanyahu has been at Iran for decades, plus he knew 6 years before 911 that nuclear devices would be detonated in the basements of the twin towers. That is interesting since it happened.Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 14:19 utc | 4Very useful contextualization, Norsk bror. I hope you and yours have a wonderful day today.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 16:48 utc”
hardly a Kreskin moment, two years after the WTC basement parking bomb. Just one in a long series of bombings leading up to 9-11-01.
Two of which impacted my closest relatives.
Have there been any since, that werent directly launched by our armed forces?
Draw lines from as far back as you like through all of these “acts of terror”
and see how far removed they are from US military means and methods.
So much agency attributed to the mad dog Israelis, while implying the foolish stoogery of the United States national security state. And the luckiest industry in history, petrochemicals.
Not worth dwelling on their record. Whats a poisoned planet between friends?
Full Spectrum Dominance has been haunting my thoughts for weeks or more. Yet, message boards overrun by various obvious trolls and perhaps any and all degrees of subterfuge.
i think its plain as the nose on anyones face, who hasnt had it blown off by our munitions.
If you choose to take reality TV actors at face value, thats freedom.
If you restrict your conceptual discussions to easily found notions in this world of consolidated, censored and completely dishonest media\ums, thats your prison.
what does Full Spectrum Dominance mean to you?
Posted by: Not Ewe | Oct 1 2026 20:43 utc | 84
What’s stopping Iraq from bucking the US’s authority?
Posted by: fnord | Oct 1 2026 19:29 utc | 72
Response number 2 to this important question. https://youtu.be/Sva3PLRnJk8 Danny Haiphong AND THE TWO LARRIES (part 2).
I discussed the first half of this video elsewhere. In the second half, Lawrence Wilkerson gave his answer to this question.
Iraq (and Iran and Russia and China) want very much to remove the US from West Asia entirely and permanently. But they want to move slowly and steadily. It took months to get the US military out of Iraq, the next step is to stabilize their political situation around a Make IRAQ Great strategy rather than Make AMERICA Great. Iraq will be moving steadily – but slowly – in that direction, one step at a time. My conjecture: When they have trade deals made probably with China and India (Russia and Iran are not going to be buying much Iraqian oil) trading in Yuan or Rupees or whatever currency Iraq has, then trade in the US dollar will end.
Lawrence Wilkerson states that one of China’s big disappointments in his meeting with Trump is that China is looking for a more gradual and steady decline of the US, whereas Trump is pushing for a very fast and dramatic decline. He also conjectures that “Annihilate Iran” means “giving Israel permission to use the nukes it has against Iran.
He also has a part where he talks about domestic turmoil in Israel. Israel is NOT doing well internally. The upcoming Israeli election is making things worse.
When asked about what he thinks the future of the US is, Larry Johnson states: Russia, from the time of the dissolution of the USSR, to when Putin became President, was a ruined nation that was deteriorating even further. It took 25 years for Putin to reverse this deterioration, and to make Russia into a prosperous, strong, successful nation.
I would go so far as to say that: nations like Iraq are looking at 20-30 year timelines to make their nations great. Reducing corruption to manageable levels, building infrastructure, and creating strong durable civilian practices and habits takes time.
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 20:49 utc | 85
How can anyone not be aware if the dancing Israelis story ? unless they’re ignorant Americans born since 9-11
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
Posted by: Brian | Oct 1 2026 21:03 utc | 87
Its rather the point of “reset”.
Your missing the most important factor, this is a group of international billionaire gangsters making money hands over fist, and will even more so when governments Global economy in its current form exists.
None of them care about “a country”…
Posted by: Trubind | Oct 1 2026 19:58 utc | 76
I like your response. I’d like you to go into a bit more detail on this idea if you could. The one item that comes to mind as I ponder your narrative is:
The wealth of our billionaire gangsters is tied up in the US Stock Market. If that drops too much, they lose their power. If the dollar becomes worthless, they lose their power. If 10 year bond rates go too high, they lose their power. Their power is still very much tied to at least pieces of the US economy.
I’ll leave it at this for now. I like your narrative. Not sure how many more conclusions we can get from possibly discussing it further.
Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 21:12 utc | 88
From MES
Iran has struck a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) loaded with 2.5 million barrels of oil in the Strait of Hormuz
Is this the Iran response to the latest Trump bloviating about saying Iran better sign the deal we gave them or he will destroy them?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 1 2026 21:20 utc | 89
Posted by: Brian | Oct 1 2026 21:03 utc | 87
More on the dancing “Israelis” with their Zippo lighters out pantomiming a “surprise” celebration from across the harbor.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tag/dancing-israelis/
Funny how it seems so important to the USG to protect their identities with copious redactions while these goons went all over “Israeli” television to explain they were merely there to “document the event.” With explosives residues in their vans and having cleared out their “business suites and warehouses” just prior to and after “the events.”
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 1 2026 21:20 utc | 90
And the “Israelis” were suspected of planting the explosives that were found under the George Washington Bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhBXFly-jM
Then there were the Anthrax attacks. Those Izzies always have a contingency plan.
In Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) provides training and works as a think-tank for the “Army’s brightest officers.” According to officials there, both the Army’s chief of staff and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have asked SAMS in the past for the development of future militarystrategies. Ironically, on the day before the World Trade Center catastrophe, The Washington Times had a story that mentioned SAMS’s findings on Israel. In a 68-page report issued by SAMS, it described Israel as a “500-pound gorilla” in the Mid-East. It went on to say that Israel’s army is “well armed and trained” and “known to disregard international law to accomplish [its] mission.”
The report by SAMS also described Israel’s Mossad: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. [The Mossad has the capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 1 2026 21:24 utc | 91
@Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 1 2026 21:20 utc | 90
Funny how it seems so important to the USG to protect their identities with copious redactions while these goons went all over “Israeli” television to explain they were merely there to “document the event.” With explosives residues in their vans and having cleared out their “business suites and warehouses” just prior to and after “the events.”
Not to mention their “Urban Moving” van with an interesting mural on the side
https://nobinger.com/images/911-4B-Urban-Moving-Systems-Mural-Van.jpg
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 21:41 utc | 92
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2026 21:41 utc | 92
Would that be urban MOving SyStems incorporAteD?
LOL
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 1 2026 21:47 utc | 93
Norwegian,
Just to be clear on the moving truck, that was photoshopped.
On christconquers.wordpress.com (2011), the author of the image posted this addendum:
“It has come to my attention that some folks are trying to pass the above image off as a genuine photo of the real ‘mural van’. It is not. It is merely an approximation; a graphic representation of what the truck may have looked like, according to the available eyewitness descriptions.”
https://sites.google.com/view/debunkingurbanmovingsystemswhi/home?pli=1&authuser=0
FWIW
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 1 2026 21:54 utc | 94
Too much to note down …
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
Posted by: Ornot | Oct 1 2026 22:14 utc | 95
RE: Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 21:12 utc | 88
Agree, and it’s a lot. And I was OT for this thread.
It’s just more accurate to say it’s all one war. Just parsed out to give the illusion of many.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 1 2026 22:39 utc | 96
Mahmood OD: ‘US Withdraws Israel Enters| Iran Attacks US Ignores’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
“Israel warns Arab states as US forces leave; Iran: ‘We’re attacking and US is not attacking.”
And isn’t this interesting…
Mahmood OD: ‘First Meeting’
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
“Hizbullah & Syria meet in Turkiye…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 22:39 utc | 97
From MES
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, came to one of the rallies in Tehran two nights ago, stayed and watched for about 30 minutes, and then departed, according to the organizersThe Leader is in full health, and he has been attending specific events from the shadows, for security reasons.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 1 2026 22:48 utc | 98
@Amalek (ne Exile) | Oct 1 2026 19:02 utc | 65:
LOL “Some problems can only be fixed at 30 000 feet”
Come on, where’s your suspension of disbelief?
Posted by: Strange Bedfellow | Oct 1 2026 22:51 utc | 99
re: 97 ‘First Meeting’
Both Syria & Turkiye are denying a Reuters report of a meeting between Syrian government and Hezbollah officials.
https://x.com/timourazhari/status/2105715676795339236
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 22:53 utc | 100