The day before the decapitation strike.
 
 

Full Transcript: Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi tells “Face the Nation” a U.S.-Iran deal is “within our reach”

Updated on: February 27, 2026 / 4:14 PM EST / CBS News

Omani foreign minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, a key mediator in the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, tells “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan that he’s confident “a peace deal is within our reach” between the U.S. and Iran as negotiators meet over Tehran’s nuclear program. He also said, “I don’t think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem.”
Read the full transcript below:

MARGARET BRENNAN: And joining me now is the foreign minister of Oman Badr Albusaidi, who is the mediator negotiating a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran. Welcome to ‘Face the Nation.’ 

OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER BADR ALBUSAIDI: Thank you. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: So President Trump said Friday he’s not happy with the way talks are going, and not happy that they’re “not willing to give us what we have to have.” From your point of view, is diplomacy failing?
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I am confident, and in my assessment of the way the talks are going, I think there is, really I can see that the peace deal is within our reach. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: A peace deal?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there. Because I don’t think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem.

MARGARET BRENNAN: When you say space, does that mean you are asking for more time to continue negotiations?
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I’m asking to continue this process because we have already achieved quite a substantial progress in the direction of a deal. And the heart of this deal is very important, and I think we have captured that heart.

MARGARET BRENNAN:  When you say the heart of the deal, Iran has said this has to be nuclear only. What have you actually agreed upon? Can you give us any sense of why there should be more time?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Because if the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And I think if we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach.
  MARGARET BRENNAN: What has Iran agreed to, to you, that they have never done before? Can you give us any sense?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: The single most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb. This is, I think, a big achievement. This is something that is not in the old deal that was negotiated during President Obama’s time. This is something completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiling. And that is very, very important, because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb, whether you enrich or don’t enrich. And I think this is really something that has been missed a lot by the media, and I want to clarify that from the standpoint of a mediator.
MARGARET BRENNAN:  So explain that. So the enriched material, things that could be used as nuclear fuel for a bomb, you’re saying Iran would not keep on their own soil?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: They would give it up. 
MARGARET BRENNAN: They would give it up? 
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: They will not be able to actually accumulate that material that will enable them to create a bomb–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Where would that–
BADR ALBUSAIDI: There is no accumulation, so there would be zero accumulation, zero stockpiling, and full verification. That is also equally important achievement, I think. Full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA, which is the agency in charge of this, this file. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: The UN nuclear watchdog. So you’re saying all enriched material would be shipped someplace else, not Russia but–
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: No, no, the current stockpiles that are- still exist–

MARGARET BRENNAN: The things that are still in Iran–
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I think that there is agreement now that this will be down blended to the lowest level possible, to a neutral level, a natural level, which means- and converted into fuel, and that fuel will be irreversible.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That would be significant. 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: It is very significant. And I think we have agreement on that, in my view.
  MARGARET BRENNAN: In your view.

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because today, CBS confirmed a confidential report from the IAEA says inspectors report seeing Iran conducting nuclear- or conducting regular activity at bombed uranium enrichment sites. But Iran has refused to tell us what has happened to their stockpile, they have refused to allow UN inspectors in to look at it. Are you telling me that inspectors would be given access to these sites like at Isfahan?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: If there is a deal, an agreed deal, there will be full access. 
MARGARET BRENNAN: Iran has offered that?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So who would these inspectors be? It would be UN? IAEA?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: IAEA, IAEA. But I think you know, there is room also, if there is a deal in place, I am quite confident, from my point of view, that even United States inspectors will have access at some point in the process. If we have a deal that is respected and fair and endurable, I see no reason why there is no access to be given, even to the United States itself.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Iran has never allowed American weapons inspectors on their soil. They wouldn’t let President Obama do that. You think Iran will let President Trump send American inspectors into Iran?
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: This is why I think this is a much, much better deal, because I think Iran is open to the idea in a way that- that- that never had been the case in the past.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You met with Vice President JD Vance, does he understand the details like you have laid out here? What did he say?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I have explained to Vice President, and I really want to express my thanks and appreciation for the time and for his engagement and attention, and I have explained as much as possible and to the best possible of my ability, how I see the situation going, what is the assessment, what is our view as an independent mediator and observer and facilitator for these talks.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you get a sense that enough has been accomplished in these talks to convince America to hold off on strikes?
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I hope so. I think, I think we have, we have, we have really advanced substantially. And I think obviously there remains to be various details to be ironed out, and this is why we need a little bit more time to really try and accomplish the ultimate goal of having a comprehensive package of the deal that will, will have different components to it. And I’m not really in a position to go into the details of this, but the big picture is that a deal is in our hand, if we are only allowed the negotiators, and I believe both sides have been dead serious, very creative, very imaginative, to really to reach where we have reached so far.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you get the sense that the vice president wants this deal to succeed?
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes, I think even the president wants this deal to succeed.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: But the president has said that not enough is being done.

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Well, I don’t know what he meant by that. I mean, I would love to respond to any specific areas that, that he’s not happy about, of course. I mean, I sincerely think the President really is passionate, and he is really sincere about preferring the choice of diplomacy and have a diplomatic deal, a negotiated deal, than the alternative.
  MARGARET BRENNAN: There are technical talks scheduled for Vienna next week with the head of the IAEA. 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes. 
MARGARET BRENNAN: How much time are you talking about? How much time do you need?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I think on Monday, they have agreed to talk technicalities in Vienna on Monday, and then a few days following that, within a week, really from now, we are working on another round of talks at the level of the negotiators.
  MARGARET BRENNAN: So Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are going to sit down with you?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: That’s the idea. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, let me ask you this, because we are hearing concern that time is of the essence. Why is there an emergency right now? Do you get the sense of why President Trump feels this has to happen right now, or there could be strikes?
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I don’t know. I just think you know there is really, really, a real chance here, a very historic opportunity to really crack this issue diplomatically.

MARGARET BRENNAN: If– Are you concerned that Israel is planning to take a first strike, even though the U.S. and Iran are agreeing to talk?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I hope that is not the case.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: If Israel strikes first, will that end the diplomacy that you are trying to conduct here on the nuclear program? 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Well, we saw what happened last year. We don’t want the repetition of that. 
MARGARET BRENNAN: To be clear, you were helping with the diplomacy last summer, and in the middle of that diplomacy is when the United States and Israel carried out the bombing of the nuclear sites. The U.S. hit those three nuclear sites. Are you concerned that that’s what’s happening now? 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I’m very concerned, like you and like everyone else, the whole world is concerned about this, and I think the whole world really wants a negotiated deal out of this, and, and not to go the route of what we saw last year.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: So President Trump carried out those strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, and he said it was obliterated. What does Iran have right now? Do you believe you have a good sense of what their nuclear program still entails? Do you consider it an emergency?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I don’t know exactly the right answer for that question, but what I do know is that if we can agree tomorrow on this deal, and it can be agreed very fast, then there will be the access given to all the experts to go and assess what we have there. We will have the access diplomatically without having to go to war.

MARGARET BRENNAN: How quickly do you think you could get UN inspectors on the ground in Iran?
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: That to be- that has to be agreed. But I think according to these negotiations that I have witnessed and facilitated. I believe a lot of these questions can be addressed amicably and comprehensively inside a three months kind of cycle. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: Three months? 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Maximum, I think from what I heard by both sides, this is actually doable. And what I heard from the experts involved in these talks, that within 90 days, we can really address completely the question of the stockpiles that exists at the moment, and we can address and agree on the verification and the controls that are necessary to be put in place, access to these sites, assessment of exactly the state of affairs inside- in this program, and not only that, even determine really what are the exact and real needs. And that needs to be done to, to ensure that this program remains peaceful, remains acceptable to the United States and to the Iranians. 
  MARGARET BRENNAN: So a nuclear only deal is what we are talking about here. But Secretary of State Rubio said just a few days ago that if Iran refuses to talk about ballistic missiles with the United States or anyone, he said, that is a big problem. Will Iran negotiate about its ballistic missiles?
  MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I believe Iran is open to discuss everything.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Including its ballistic missiles, because they’ve said this has to be nuclear only.
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Everything, but that has to take its proper context, proper course, proper framework. Now, the priority number one is to get this nuclear issue resolved in a proper deal that is clear, that- that exactly specifies obligations of each side. I believe we have discussed and potentially agreed on the approach that all these other non-nuclear issues of concern can be discussed in the context of a regional dialogue between Iran and its neighbors.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So just to be clear, Iran has told you they will discuss their nu- their ballistic missile program with some of the Arab neighbors?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: We have not gone to that extent of specifics, but we have agreed, in general, to discuss economic and security cooperation between Iran and its neighbors, and set up a process of dialogue that will really start the elements of building confidence, building a rapport, building a process that can really lead us to reach an understanding on all these various areas of concern, areas of concern on the Iranian side, and areas of concern on the GCC side.
 MARGARET BRENNAN:  And the Gulf countries. So Secretary Rubio also said Iran is not enriching nuclear material right now. 

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: That’s correct.
MARGARET BRENNAN: In your view, in your country’s view, they are not. 
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: They are not.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Because Envoy Witkoff told Fox News last week that Iran is probably a week away from having industrial grade bomb making material.
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I am not an expert to judge that, but I have asked experts who know about the subject, and I think that could have been misinterpreted, since they are not enriching, and the only really facility that is operational, to some extent, is what- what is called the Tehran research reactor, which is research related. It’s a- it’s a reactor that produces isotopes, for example, for- for hospitals and medical, medical needs. But other than that, I am assured by the IAEA that there are no enrichment activities going on at the moment.

MARGARET BRENNAN: The last time that we saw a diplomatic deal, there were years of talks. There were nuclear scientists, intelligence officials and diplomats at the table. There was international pressure that was coordinated, from Russia to China to the United States to Europe. The talks you had on Thursday were just six hours with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Can you get this complicated of a deal done quickly? You said you need three months. What do you need to accomplish this in three months?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: No, I said that a deal actually can be agreed tomorrow.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: Broad terms of a deal.

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Broad terms. It’s- politics, the big main issues, components, that really are the main areas of concern, I think that can be agreed tomorrow. The technicalities will take some time to work it out with the agency, the IAEA. And then once those are accomplished, and I believe that can be done also quickly, relatively quickly, because a lot of this work, this groundwork, was done years ago, and it’s- it’s there in place. The three months period is really the implementation of what will be agreed, whether, whether it’s to- related to the stockpiling and the stockpiles issues, whether it’s related to the verification, I think within three months, that will be all in place.

MARGARET BRENNAN:  And Iran wants the United States to lift sanctions. If the United States does that, that helps the regime, a regime with a terrible human rights record, stay in power. Are human rights in any way, a part of this conversation? Is the United States raising them?
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: This conversation is completely focused on the job at hand, which is the nuclear file. I think other areas of concern are not really- we have not been mandated to discuss this, and so I think I would rather focus on this, because that is the most critical element at the moment.
 MARGARET BRENNAN: You didn’t get to meet with President Trump. He may see this interview. Do I understand that your main ask is give me more time, because you think you can close this and prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon?

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I think both sides of the equation, the American negotiators and the Iranians, are very, very serious to reach a deal, and they think they can reach a deal in my assessment. And knowing and assessing the various components of this deal, and what I have already explained to you, the great progress that we have made, the substantial progress that we have made, which is far, far more than any time before, we just need that bit of extra time to close the deal. And if I was President Trump, my only advice is just to give those negotiators enough room and enough space to really close these remaining areas that we need to discuss and agree upon.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And if Israel carries out a strike, or if the U.S. carries out even a limited strike on the ballistic missiles, do you think that you could still get a nuclear deal done?
 MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Well, diplomacy can reach a deal. I don’t think any other acts can solve this problem, really. I don’t think that will be- it will only complicate resolving this problem and delay it. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Foreign Minister, thank you for your time. 
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Thank you. 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-omani-foreign-minister-badr-albusaidi/ 
https://archive.ph/6PrEV

Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 2 2026 16:52 utc | 203

WASHINGTON: HONOR IS FOR FREIER

This is an update to post @1 based on input from Sebgo, and repeated by Reza.
Imagine a gangster movie. A “Don” of a crime family calls together a sit-down to negotiate with the bosses of other crime families. Once all the bosses are seated around a table out come the machine guns. The movie scene ends with the smoke of gunpowder framing the face of the “Don” who surveys the room littered with bodies. As the scene fades to black the only sound being heard is the diabolical laughter of the “Don”. 
  
From criminals one should not expect honor.
In the United States honor is more than a concept it is as real as something physical.Parents proudly give up their children to serve their country with ‘honor, courage and commitment’.
 
  
On Honor, Courage, and Commitmenthttps://www.museumofthemarine.org/on-honor-courage-and-commitment/
By Jim DanielsonSeptember 5, 2023

United States Marines are distinguished for many achievements, and we may reasonably say that their accomplishments follow in a direct line from the kinds of people the Marine Corps seeks to develop: men and women marked by the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. These values provide a firm foundation for the three important contributions of the Marine Corps to our country, which is to make Marines, win our nation’s battles, and return quality citizens to our society. In what follows, we will consider these core values of the Marine Corps and how they may be acquired by all Americans. We begin by quoting from the Corps itself how these values are defined and understood.
Honor
“Honor guides Marines to exemplify the ultimate in ethical and moral behavior. Never lie, never cheat or steal; abide by an uncompromising code of integrity; respect human dignity and respect others. Honor compels Marines to act responsibly, to fulfill our obligations and to hold ourselves and others accountable for every action.”

In Israel Americans are seen as ‘freier’, pronounced fray-er, which translates to sucker.
 
  
The worst thing one can be called in Israel is a freier. The opposite, one who preys upon freier, is most valued in Israeli society. 
 
  
see: Letting Oneself Be A `Freier’ In Israel Is Really Blowing It
 
  
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970727/2551615/letting-oneself-be-a-freier-in-israel-is-really-blowing-it
 
  and then: What Do Israelis think of Americans?
 
  
https://oscartgordon.substack.com/p/what-do-israelis-think-of-americans
 

If Israelis could agree on anything, it just might be that the cardinal sin is to be a freier.
 
  The ideal Israeli is clever, shrewd and tough, and a freier is a pushover – in the way that Israelis often perceive Americans to be.
 
  The fear of being a freier is a national preoccupation that has earned Israelis an international reputation as rough and gruff, more brash than New Yorkers and ruder than the French.
 
  It permeates politics, everything.
 
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beat the Labor Party’s Shimon Peres in elections last year [1996] in large part because of Peres’ nice-guy image and his view that Israel must be generous from its position of strength, giving up land now to gain long-term peace. [the margin of victory should have made one highly suspicious]”
 
  He was misperceived as someone who would make us freiers,” lamented former aide Uri Dromi, “even though he never made concessions or compromises on something important to us.”
 
  Recently Netanyahu credited his muscle-flexing for the drop in terrorist attacks against Israel. “The Palestinians have learned that we aren’t freiers,” he said in an interview.

 
On Feb 28, 2026 Israel attacked Iran, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, 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 to bring a potential plan off the shelf. 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 Iran inadvertently reveals what Israel was hoping for, the timing of a gathering of leaders – political, military and technical – in Tehran. Two days later the decapitation strike was on.
 
 
  
It was naive to not understand immediately that the “major breakthrough” was just a carrot and a trick to have the Iranian leadership gather together where they could be eliminated.
 
 
  
Donald’s treachery surrendered US honor. Netanyahu never wanted any.
 
 
  
And today, right now, US Marines are in the Mideast, they believe to ‘serve their country’. Who will tell them that they are there to serve The Greater Israel Project? The Israelis have told us, why doesn’t anyone hear Netanyahu laughing?

Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 2 2026 17:07 utc | 205

” President Trump on Operation Midnight Hammer:

‘The B-2 bombers, led by the most incredible pilots, unloaded every single bomb, went right down into the air chutes, into these drug factories.

They were doing nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs, but they were doing the nuclear.

But these drug factories and nuclear factories were hit so hard.’ ”

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37286

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 2 2026 17:40 utc | 207

– “Saudi warplanes carried out 94 airstrikes and missile attacks on civilian sites in Sana’a, Saada, Taiz, Hajjah, Amran and Ibb over the past 24 hours, leaving civilians dead and wounded” TPO

– “Reuters reports that Pakistan deployed 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to help defend the kingdom by intercepting drones and missiles; Pakistan has not decided to send forces to Yemen” TPO

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 2 2026 18:22 utc | 209

Posted by: arby | Oct 2 2026 16:23 utc | 197
 
Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 2 2026 16:26 utc | 199
 
I would like to point out that smear campaigns against leaders targeted by the West are part of the standard playbook.
 
Iranian leaders, in particular, have been targeted since the hostilities began, accused, in a jumble of contradictory claims, of opposing the war, acting as pawns of the West or Israel, or betraying their country.
 
Yet, strangely enough, they have simultaneously been targeted for assassination in multiple strikes by the very same powers they are supposedly serving.
 
A similar campaign targets Venezuela’s interim president. She is accused of betraying Maduro and acting as a pawn for Trump, even though the Empire would simultaneously like to get rid of her, preferably at the hands of the Venezuelan people.
 
Otherwise, it is hard to understand why they would so cynically expose an allied loyalist. The conciliatory Iraqi Prime Minister was dubbed “wonderful” by Trump, not a traitor.
As for the West’s true puppets, in Argentina, Iraq, Jordan, Colombia, or elsewhere, one rarely hears criticism directed at them or accusations that they have betrayed their people.
 
The Empire has lost its war against Iran and can now rely only on the discord that such campaigns can sow internally. We must be careful not to inadvertently aid the Empire in its agenda.

Posted by: Sebgo | Oct 2 2026 19:37 utc | 211

CENSORSHIP BETRAYS FEAR.
 
Source: Netanyahu plotted false-flag aircraft hijacking to drag Trump into new war against Iran
http://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/01/777415/Exclusive–Plane-hijacking,-a-UAE-Israel-plot-to-provoke-new-war-on-Iran
 
Speaking to Press TV, the regional source said the “absurd scenario” involving the hijacking of an Emirati aircraft bound for the occupied territories from the UAE, followed by its landing in Saudi Arabia, was carried out on Wednesday, three days after Netanyahu travelled to the United Arab Emirates accompanied by several senior military and intelligence officials.
 
The project, the informed source said, was discussed and finalized during the visit.
 
According to the source, during that visit, in addition to the UAE being tasked with playing a role in the Israeli regime’s regional projects, multilateral talks were held with officials from several other Arab countries to devise a false-flag operation and attribute it to Iran.
 
The source said the objective of the operation is to force Trump into a new quagmire and trigger a new round of war against Iran.
Netanyahu, the source said, is deeply concerned that if Knesset elections are held under the current circumstances, his coalition will be unable to secure a majority and form a ruling coalition.
 
“In that case, after being removed from the premiership, he would have to spend the rest of his political life behind bars,” the source said.
The source further said the criminal prime minister of the Israeli regime hopes that, through the influence he wields over the White House and Trump personally, he can once again drag him into a full-scale war against the Islamic Republic.
 
The source said Netanyahu also seeks to continue using “America’s weapons, economy, and declining credibility” to repair his own “dire political situation.”

Posted by: JOB | Oct 2 2026 20:08 utc | 213

Anyone think that the extra Marines are insufficient for a ground attack on Iran, but more than plenty to keep the small defenseless GCC countries leadership compliant?  Or possibly to put down an unarmed civilian uprising against Zio cronies?

Posted by: jopalolive | Oct 2 2026 20:30 utc | 215

“General, we must distract from the coming disaster in Taiz, send a suicide bomber to the Kabba and then blame it on Houthis, or Iran or both, I don’t care just get it done” 

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/67597

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 2 2026 21:02 utc | 217

False flags used to be convincing

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37295

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 2 2026 21:09 utc | 219

re US doing Inchon at Socotra
Your data valid and effective…and possibly  what Trump not want to hear  from the Navy brass who are being relieved. OTOH if suggested by Netty it could excite the murderer and tie Israel-US into fateful knot.

Posted by: Chu-teh | Oct 2 2026 21:17 utc | 221

High Court Ruling a Blow to Netanyahu

 
Supreme Court unanimously overturns election panel’s ban on Arab parties | TOI |
 
After rejecting Balad chief, judges say Ra’am, Joint List, its MK Ofer Cassif don’t meet criteria on racist incitement, support for armed conflict against Israel to warrant ban
 
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously overturned the Central Elections Committee’s decision to ban Arab-majority parties Joint List and Ra’am from running in the October 27 election.

 
 
Wagging the dog before elections in Israel and Mid-terms in the U.S. … annihilate Iran

Posted by: Oui | Oct 2 2026 21:25 utc | 223

dream on, fockers
 
 
 
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjxod8tcfe
Saudi Arabia plans 100,000-troop Yemen offensive to retake Bab el-Mandeb from Houthis 
Riyadh is weighing a coastal assault or synchronized attacks across Yemen after Houthi forces seized the strategic Red Sea passage; Yemeni troops would lead on the ground with Saudi air support and US intelligence 
 
Saudi Arabia is preparing a new military offensive against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, with plans under consideration ranging from a focused coastal assault to a broader attack on several fronts, regional and Western officials told Reuters. 
 
The operation, expected to begin in the coming weeks, would be led on the ground by Yemeni forces overseen by Riyadh and backed by Saudi airstrikes, according to six people familiar with the preparations…..
 
…..A central objective is to reverse the Houthis’ rapid gains last month, when they pushed down Yemen’s coast and seized control of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints…… 
 
….Pakistan has deployed between 30,000 and 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to help protect the kingdom’s borders and assist with missile and drone interceptions, according to a Pakistani official. Islamabad has not decided to send troops into Yemen for combat operations, the official said…..
 
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https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/24018#
Fotros Resistance 
 
🇮🇷🇸🇦🇾🇪| IRGC-QF Commander Qaani, addressing Saudi Arabia: 
 
“It is in your own best interest to end the blockade and cease the war against your Muslim Yemeni brothers. This is our advice to you.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 2 2026 21:33 utc | 225

from ORNOT’s 195
“Babak Zanjani says that in 2016 Bank Kunlun in China was ready to transfer about €2 billion in Iranian oil revenues from a Malaysian bank to Iran, but Hassan Rouhani (the president at that time) blocked and rejected the transfers.
 
After reading Sebgo’s post i went back to see what caught my eye and it was what Babak Zanjani said. 
 
Now I looked up who Babak is
 
“Babak Zanjani says that in 2016 Bank Kunlun in China was ready to transfer about €2 billion in Iranian oil revenues from a Malaysian bank to Iran, but Hassan Rouhani (the president at that time) blocked and rejected the transfers.
 
Babak Zanjani

Iranian businessman
babakzanjani.com
Babak Zanjani is an Iranian billionaire and business magnate. He was the managing director of the UAE-based Sorinet Group, one of Iran’s largest business conglomerates. In late 2013, he was arrested and accused of withholding $2.7 billion of government money owned by the Ministry of Petroleum, while facilitating Iran’s oil revenue, which was hindered by the sanctions against Iran Continued in Wikipedia
 
 So Sebgo nice call.

Posted by: arby | Oct 2 2026 22:04 utc | 227

So Sebgo nice call.
Posted by: arby | Oct 2 2026 22:04 utc | 227

 
Indeed, sounds like an Iranian Trump – he needs to get his heels cooled in jail for a bit longer.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 2 2026 22:17 utc | 229

“Israeli right-wing politician Avigdor Lieberman targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a new campaign poster, accusing him of being too pro-Palestinian and claiming that Netanyahu has agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian state” Tabz

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 2 2026 22:37 utc | 231

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 2 2026 22:37 utc | 231
 
Look up Effie Eitam, one of my favorite contemptible Zios….I was considering printing up some paint ball targets with his image…although Nutty holding up his cartoon bomb at the UN is another contender. 
 
https://www.jns.org/feature/allowing-arab-israelis-into-the-government-is-equivalent-to-losing-a-war
 
“The discourse taking place in Israel today is superficial,” he says. “There’s talk about identity, not substance. You’re either pro-[Benjamin] Netanyahu or pro-Bennett; a leftist or a rightist. This type of discourse is nonsense, even if said nonsense was said by an ex-president. The real, deeper debate is between what is internal and what is external. When the external takes over, you become hollow. And what we are seeing right now is a huge, existential battle between inner and outer forces, with the latter becoming the essence. We are attending this endless party of ideas and identities—a show that is threatening our inner truth.”
Q: Are you saying the country is in danger?
A: Yes. We are in danger of assimilation within ourselves. Auto-assimilation. This tsunami that I am talking about erases all coastlines. The national, territorial coastline; the names, the languages. It has swept across all democracies in the Western world, overrunning their national identities and erasing all essence. Now it is also threatening us and the wonderful thing we have built here.
 
 
 

Posted by: Harmonic Resonance | Oct 2 2026 23:24 utc | 233

Interesting video from a couple of  days ago, so apologies if already posted.
 
It seems Uncle Sam may be using armed escorts in the Straits of Hormuz:
 
W*T*H: Did the U.S. Military Turn a Civilian Freighter into an Armed Escort?
 
Speculative and thinks oil is flowing out of the Gulf at normal rates…

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 3 2026 0:55 utc | 235

A bit OT… FYI
28 countries call for end to unilateral coercive measures at UN

By Xinhua Published: Oct 02, 2026 12:55 PM

 
“China and 27 other countries, including Russia, Egypt and Iran, on Thursday called on the international community to end unilateral coercive measures, saying they interfere in other countries’ internal affairs and undermine the foundation of multilateralism.”

This means…. That 166 nations,  are fine & dandy with US unilateral sanctioning, at will,  any nation they like & playing worlds hegemony.
 
yeah… the multipolar worlds will definitely come by force….
 

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 3 2026 1:29 utc | 237

“The Flydubai co-pilot that attacked the captain and attempted to crash the Israel-bound Flydubai Flight 1073 has been identified as 29-year-old Omani national Hamam Al Hammami and has indicated that he intended to crash the plane in Israel, according to ABC News” Tabz

He was taken to UAE and questioned by “Israel”.

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 3 2026 1:37 utc | 239

Mahmood OD: ‘War Ahead’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Trump to strike Iran and save Netanyahu again.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 3 2026 2:45 utc | 241

 psychohistorian | Oct 3 2026 3:31 utc | 242—
 
So, we’re to believe he was going to flush some Zionists down the drain?

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 3 2026 3:36 utc | 243

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 2 2026 22:30 utc | 230

 
 
Thank you, ChatNPC.  That was very helpful.

Posted by: juliania | Oct 3 2026 4:04 utc | 245

After reading Sebgo’s post i went back to see what caught my eye and it was what Babak Zanjani said.
Now I looked up who Babak is
“Babak Zanjani says that in 2016 Bank Kunlun in China was ready to transfer about €2 billion in Iranian oil revenues from a Malaysian bank to Iran, but Hassan Rouhani (the president at that time) blocked and rejected the transfers.”
 
Posted by: arby | Oct 2 2026 22:04 utc | 227
 
Look deeper. Here’s the US propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe celebrating his arrest:
 
 
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-rise-and-fall-of-richest-man-zanjani/27594891.html
 
 
In 2013, when Babak Zanjani was arrested and convicted, the reformist Rouhani was in charge.
 
 
The first thing Rouhani did was to arrest Zanjani as soon as he came to power.
 
 
The US and EU hated Babak Zanjani, they sanctioned Zanjani for aiding Iran, seized his accounts and the Iranian state sales he was facilitating.
 
 
This shows Zanjani and the Islamic Republic are on the same side.
 
 
He pioneered doing ship-to-ship transfers in Malaysia and payments via crypto.
 
 
UAE previously marketed itself as a neutral freeport and crypto haven before they went full Epstein.
 
 
It was actually a facilitator in helping Iran avoid sanctions.
 
– The US steals Iranian national assets, then the traitors prosecutes Zanjani (for the US theft).
 
– The goal is the economic sabotage of Iranian avenues of operating outside the US financial system. Boosting the Reformist goals of integrating back with western liberal world order at all costs.
 
The pro-Iran commentators on the internet understimates the depths Iranian society have been infiltrated by western liberals. It goes all the way to the top.
 
That’s why Pezeshkian and his crew constantly begs abroad and sabotages at home.
 
And they’ll keep trying until Iran falls like Venezuela or the IRGC finally purges them.

Posted by: Reza | Oct 3 2026 5:25 utc | 247

see the 21-second video at the first link. Gaza before, and after…..
 
 
 
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/57449#
ResistanceTrench mirror 
 
⚡️🇵🇸 Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on October 7, 2023: 
“We will change the reality on the ground in Gaza for the next 50 years. What was before will be no more. We will operate at full force.”
 
Gaza in 2022 
 
Gaza in 2026
 
—————————-
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺  @ejmalrai 
 
Hezbollah used to spend around $50 million a month and was prepared to finance reconstruction in southern Lebanon—an injection of funds that could have revived businesses, created jobs and stimulated the wider economy. Yet the president and PM blocked i
 
 
The Cradle  @TheCradleMedia 
 
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Friday that the state lacks the capacity to rebuild areas devastated by the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon, urging international support for reconstruction during a visit to south Lebanon.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 3 2026 6:03 utc | 249

 
Patarames  @Patarames 
 
Iran demonstrating:
– Robust
– Credible
– Continuous
– Resilient
– Low-Effort
Fire-Control over the Strait of Hormuz 
 
➡️ As every expert knew it would be capable to do…
 
———————–
 
MoloMonitor 🇮🇹  @MoloWarMonitor 
 
UKMTO reports that an oil tanker has been struck by Iranian projectiles 4 nautical miles east of Oman while transiting the Strait of Hormuz through the southern route. 
This is the third confirmed hit in the last 24 hours.
 
—————————-
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/2/iran-war-live-us-moves-2000-marines-to-middle-east-tanker-hit-in-hormuz
WHO urges Israel to ease delays on medical supplies into Gaza 
 
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Israel to “release the pressure on medical supplies” entering Gaza, warning that repeated delays are putting lives at risk as winter approaches.
 
Dr Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said essential medicines “should not be considered as dual use,” a designation Israel uses to ban items it says Hamas fighters could use. “A truck full of non-priority supplies or the right supplies arriving too late doesn’t save lives,” she said, according to a statement. 
 
She said one shipment of prosthetics and assistive devices had been rejected four times in the past six months. Medicines, by contrast, “move relatively well”, she said, with almost 87 percent approved and just more than 1 percent rejected. 
 
Approved aid can enter Gaza only through the Karem Abu Salem crossing (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel). Rafah is open for limited movement of people, including patients needing treatment abroad. Van de Weerdt called for “unimpeded and predictable entry” of supplies at scale through multiple crossings. 
 
She said almost two million people need shelter against the cold and flooding and warned of heightened disease risks linked to unsafe shelter, a lack of clean water and rats. The destruction of public health laboratories has complicated the identification of outbreaks, WHO said.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 3 2026 8:26 utc | 251

The obviously guilty dual national Iranian arrested for suspicion of being involved in the RAF Fairford Fandango has now been released on bail.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6d095ygggv1o

Posted by: johnf | Oct 3 2026 11:39 utc | 253

The Hannibal Massacre of the FREIERS on Oct 7th

If you have read the links Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 2 2026 17:07 utc | 205 that was titled:

WASHINGTON: HONOR IS FOR FREIER

then you will have a better sense of the psychopathic Israeli society and understand the Israeli concept of ‘freier’ which translates to sucker.

A “national characteristic” of being Israeli is the aversion to being a Freier — a sucker. The fear of this label is so potent that it is frequently stated as the primary driver behind social interactions in Israel.

…

On the micro-social level, social actions between individuals create momentary hierarchy, with temporary freiers.

…

At the macro-social level, Israeli society is social stratified by the way in which various groups are perceived as more or less of a freier. Social groups are formed, alienated, connected, divided, levelled based on their ability to defend themselves and not be walked over. “I’m no sucker” is a common phrase to deny that you fall for scams or are easily tricked, and explains away direct and assertive speech.

October 7th was one gigantic sacrifice of the freiers. 
 
 
As you must recognize by now, the false-flag of Oct 7th was done to manipulate Israelis collectively. It gave full license to the psychopathic beast that is Israel and Genocide was the result.
The suckers (freier) have been named ad infinitum and you should know them by now. I have written about them so many times. I will jog your memory just a bit. 
At the Gaza Wall – right AT the wall – unarmed female IDF members monitored the cctv screens 24/7. 
Netanyahu, one year after Oct 7th, finally relented and met with the families of these border watchers. The families asked him why their daughters were unarmed. Netanyahu replied to these freiers that he didn’t know, he had only heard that they were unarmed an hour earlier!
 
The families related how their daughters would return from duty and the daughters would be adamant that Israel was about to be invaded by Hamas, it was imminent. They asked Netanyahu what happened to the alarming intelligence their daughters their daughters were conveying up the chain of command. Netanyahu replied that he didn’t know but that his son had told him that he had heard that their alarming intelligence wasn’t being properly entered into a database! Freiers.

‘That Amazes Me, I Didn’t Know’: Netanyahu ‘Surprised’ to Hear What Happened at Israeli Army Base on October 7

 
 
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-17/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-surprised-to-hear-what-happened-at-israeli-army-base-on-october-7/00000190-bfd0-d2f8-abdb-bff421df0000
 
archive: https://archive.ph/dXZv3
 
 
I could continue with a very lengthy list.Of special note though is the drug and sex driven Brazilian Style Trance Rave Party that was relocated just in time to be sandwiched three miles from the Gaza border and on the route to Hamas’ known primary target, the Re’im IDF base. Relocated during several days of major provocations – the invasion and defilement of al Aqsa Mosque. AND held when 50% (according to Israeli media) of the IDF were on leave because of the Sabbath and a Jewish holiday (Simchat Torah).
 
 

Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 3 2026 13:06 utc | 255

Posted by: necromancer | Oct 3 2026 13:28 utc | 256
No, at some point, it is inevitable. Barring some earth shattering earthquake or other.
 
Anyway, when Trump says, “we will annihilate them” it doesnt matter if he is telling the truth. He is advertising and boasting about the nature of the USG.
 
And mocking the US public. “Will you guillotine me for my threats?” We know the answer so far: Vote Mamdani.
 
The French children are leading us inside the west now. Unlike useless old bastards, they dont have the luxury of waiting on China and Iran to “save the economy “. From the children’s perspectives, ALL the adults not in refugee camps or homeless, all guilty. They see a bunch of gutless assholes fighting with each other over whose fault it all is. Are they right? About 99% right, so yeah.

Posted by: Duck n cover | Oct 3 2026 13:46 utc | 257

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 3 2026 16:43 utc | 258
THANK YOU!
 

Posted by: ld | Oct 3 2026 16:47 utc | 259

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 3 2026 16:43 utc | 258
THANK YOU!
Posted by: ld | Oct 3 2026 16:47 utc | 259
 
By the way, that was based on Rabbi Shmuely channeling Norman Finkelstein:
 
 
https://youtu.be/WZzNtA6LwfM?si=BtDINihI6kycEB6K
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 3 2026 16:51 utc | 261

 
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-entire-land-is-ours-ben-gvir-threatens-displacement-freer-gunfire/
‘The Entire Land is Ours’: Ben-Gvir Threatens Displacement, Freer Gunfire
 
 
Key Developments
– Ben-Gvir claimed all West Bank administrative areas belong to Israel and threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and advance Palestinian displacement.
 
– Francesca Albanese warned that 925 checkpoints and movement obstacles are fragmenting the West Bank and restricting 3.4 million Palestinians. 
 
– Settlers killed 19-year-old Bahaa Sami Amin al-Natsheh in Kobar, where Israeli forces prevented ambulances from reaching wounded Palestinians, WAFA reported. 
 
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed that the entire occupied West Bank belongs to Israel, while pledging to advance Palestinian displacement and loosen restrictions on soldiers’ use of force if he becomes defense minister. 
 
“There is no difference between Areas A, B and C. The entire land is ours. This is our country,” Ben-Gvir told Israel’s right-wing Channel 14 on Thursday, Anadolu news agency reported…….
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 3 2026 17:06 utc | 263

Yup.  My notification that I was being deplatformed by “someone” at 172 and at approximately 11:15 was itself deplatformed. I would like to be honorably informed as to cause and reason.  Was it performed by B. or has someone been fooling with this MoA platform?
 
Even though the site is located within heavily-censored Deutschland uber alles; I still hold to American First Amendment RIGHTS, even if some regimes offer no such guarantees.  My question is the identity of the guilty entity.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 3 2026 17:59 utc | 265

I still hold to American First Amendment RIGHTS, even if some regimes offer no such guarantees.
 
Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 3 2026 17:59 utc | 265

 
You have no rights on a private blog. 

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 3 2026 18:13 utc | 267

Posted by: arby | Oct 3 2026 16:53 utc | 262
 

In a few posts both Zanjani and Rouhani have gone from bad to good and back a few times.

 
Indeed.
 
For my part, I don’t know who’s who in Iran, and I hadn’t heard of this Iranian billionaire before.
 
But I do know that a smear campaign is underway against Rouhani, accusing him of being an Israeli mole, and that he was the target of at least one Israeli strike right at the start of the fighting.
 
I therefore find it suspicious that a story supposedly dating back to 2016 is surfacing now, portraying him as acting against the country’s interests.
 
This is despite the fact that the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has warned the country’s entire leadership against internal divisions that could benefit the enemy.
 
We also recall that Netanyahu vowed to have his head after he threatened to wipe Israel off the map during his presidency.
 
Just saying…

Posted by: Sebgo | Oct 3 2026 18:18 utc | 269

psycho……… and liar liar pants on fire
 
 
 
Clash Report  @clashreport 
 
Hegseth on Iran:
More oil is going through the Strait of Hormuz today than before the conflict even started, because incredible pilots control the airspace.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 3 2026 21:01 utc | 271

How can the bar get more information about Pezeshkian and his crew.. ? .. the 100,000 star link terminal incident a few weeks back revealed significant inflitration.
 
Posted by: snake | Oct 3 2026 11:51 utc | 254
 
 
Have some background knowledge of CIA regime change techniques (propaganda, economic destabilization, political infiltration, armed insurgency).
 
Go depending on your skill level
 
1. Basic: Read english language Iranian Journalists like Arya Yadegaar (AryJeayBackup) and Ehsan Safarnejad (Safarnejad_IR). 
2. Advanced: Browse Iranian Farsi information space with a translator. (If you thought english language is full of zionist propaganda, wait til you try Farsi.) 
3. Master: Fire up your own AI agent (I prefer abliterated Qwen) to do deep research of your targets with OSINT techniques.
 
Pezeshkian isn’t particularly unique, chances are you have your own blend of neo-liberal infiltrators in your country using the same playbook. I suggest you build a list. If you search their names and history, you’ll be surprised how many exhibit the same two faced controlled opposition manner.
 

Posted by: Reza | Oct 4 2026 17:10 utc | 273