Debt Rattle April 8 2026
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And then there is that little matter of Lebanon. When Israel hits Lebanon in the totally predictable effort to keep the war going then Iran has already stated that its finger is on the trigger to forcefully respond to the slightest breach and it will renew the missile barrage into Israel. What does the United States do then? Not many options and all of them bad.
I wonder when Trump and his ZioBuddies will get tired of that kind of “winning”.
And meanwhile Iran runs the Strait of Hormuz at a tidy profit.
@zerosum Ahh, but the ceasefire agreement being brokered through Pakistan DOES, very explicitly, include Lebanon. https://youtu.be/fFMwcanjO9s?si=2OCoXeX5IJRw-eqR
The only question is, what does the United States do now?
The only question is, what does
the United StatesIran do now?Will Iran stop the expansion of “Greater Israel”?
USA will rebuild their bases with money that don’t exist.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaIn violation of the ceasefire, US-Israeli forces targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery on Lavan Island. At present, safety and firefighting teams are working to extinguish the flames and secure the area. ==> https://t.me/presstv/184425
Missile and drone attacks struck the UAE and Kuwait just hours after oil facilities on Iran’s Lavan Island were targeted. ==> https://t.me/presstv/184431Posted by: too scents | Apr 8 2026 11:18 utc | 108
Israel doesn’t even use a false flag to violate the ceasefire.
https://t.me/NewResistance/47571
Mediator Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif stated that the ceasefire was “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY” in his official statementHowever the Israeli PM’s office unilaterally declared that “the two-weeks ceasefire does not include Lebanon” and the IDF stated it “is continuing to conduct targeted ground operations against Hezbollah.”Iran, in their 10-point proposal (#8), also made it clear that the ceasefire must extend to Lebanon.This move can only be seen as a deliberate breach of agreement and attempted provocation by the Israelis.Subscribe @NewResistancePosted by: Jo | Apr 8 2026 13:04 utc | 164
“Greater Israel” still on track.
The heaviest bombardment Beirut has experienced since 1982 ==> https://t.me/AhmadDarawsheh/40228Time flies when there is a ceasefire.
https://x.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/2041821664942395859
BREAKING: It is now confirmed that the UAE Air Force has conducted a large-scale operation targeting Iran’s oil and petrochemical plants in the Persian Gulf region. They have bombed refineries on the islands of Siri and Lavan and targeted multiple other petrochemical facilities using not only Wing Loong 2 armed drones, but also Mirage 2000-9 EAD fighter jets. Operations are ongoing, with reports that Emirati aircraft have also flown over southern Iran.Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee:
‘After the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, all plans to open the Strait of Hormuz must immediately cease until there are assurances that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire.The brothers in Hezbollah have fought alongside us, given martyrs for the cause, and suffered enough oppression and hardship.There is either a ceasefire on all fronts, or a ceasefire nowhere at all.’Barbaria strategically surrenders. Civilization wins. For now
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suThis was always about Civilization.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the Sun. An astonishing barbarian imprimatur, courtesy of the President of the United States, via a social media post.
In a nutshell, this was a trashy “civilization” that gave the world the Big Mac threatening to wipe out an ancient civilization that gave the world algebra; influenced art, science, governance in unparalleled ways; produced stars from Cyrus the Great to Avicenna, from Omar Khayyam to poet supreme Jalaladdin Rumi; developed serial, sublime gardens, carpets, architectural wonders and philosophical and ethical frameworks.
Crucially, there was not a single peep about this Barbaria outburst from the political leadership of the entire “civilized” collective West, not even feigning outrage, once again proving their absolute, irreversible moral and political bankruptcy.
Iranians answered Barbaria in kind. Over 14 million people registered to form human walls around their power stations all across the nation, simultaneously protecting their livelihood and confronting head on the firepower of the Epstein Syndicate.
As a hair-raising cliffhanger approached, the Baboon of Barbaria pivoted into – what else – TACO: the LEGO guys immortalized it.
There’s absolutely no way that Pakistan could have offered “guarantees” to Iran that a ceasefire was the way for the war to eventually end. As confirmed by diplomatic sources, what really happened is that Beijing, at the 11th moment, placed itself as the guarantor, assuring Tehran that the US would accept at least some of Iran’s demands included in its 10-point plan.
That was further confirmed by Iranian ambassador to China, Abdolreza Rhamani Fazili. The negotiations start this Friday in Islamabad.
POTUS, the Drooling Baboon of Barbaria, confronted with the inevitable, dire consequences of his own strategic blunder, used Pakistan for his off-ramp. That was confirmed by another epic blunder by the Pakistani Prime Minister himself: he forgot to remove the header of the tweet/X post drafted by the White House for him to publish.
The current Pakistani regime – de facto led by Field Marshall Asim Munir, who has Trump on speed dial – may have profited, and will continue to geopolitically profit, from a unique status: a Muslim nuclear nation with a significant Shi’ite minority; good relations with the GCC; neighbor of Iran, enjoying good relations; signed a defense pact with Saudi Arabia; a strategic partner of China; no US bases on its soil.
But Islamabad was always a mere go-between, never the architect of any “mediation”. Whatever obfuscation coming from the White House, it was China that had to clinch the lineaments of a possible détente.
The Epstein Syndicate begs for a break
We had arrived to a point where the death cult in West Asia was being crushed simultaneously by Iran and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon; no matter the avalanche of spin, their cries begging for help played a significant part into Trump’s pivoting to a ceasefire.
The Epstein Syndicate as a whole begged for it. Nothing to do with geopolitics, but with operational hell: the Empire of Chaos has run out of military resources.
The ultimate give away was when the USS Tripoli retreated – under fire – to the depths of the southern Indian Ocean, complete with its 2,500 Marines on board. That meant the US Navy out of the war theater – except for subs with Tomahawks, roughly half of which go off-target with staggering (non)precision.
And the problems are far from over. Financial hell looms, whatever is decided in Islamabad and beyond, with $10 trillion in Treasuries to rollover in 2026. And the petrodollar is fast on the way to the dustbin of History.
Enter, once again, the demented death cult.
No one should ever forget. The Epstein Syndicate is non-agreement capable. And the death cult doesn’t do ceasefires: it does at best loopholes that allow it to keep killing everyone in sight.
The writing is already on the wall. If the death cult blows up the ceasefire – which is already the case – Iran and Hezbollah will counterpunch, massively, without attacking American assets.
Still, it’s way too early to affirm that the Baboon of Barbaria lost his war under every possible metric: moral; legal; political; economic; strategic.
After all, the Empire of Chaos will always be, intrinsically, non-agreement capable, especially when the track record tells of two attacks on Iran back to back during diplomatic negotiations, killing everyone from Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to scores of possible negotiators.
The Big Picture song remains the same (sing it!): this is a war till the end against the Top Three proponents of a multipolar world, Iran, China and Russia.
China’s power play, plus a few established facts
Before the ceasefire, China was getting 1.2 million barrels of Iranian oil a day, essentially via 26 ghost fleet tankers with their transponders in the dark, with payment settled in the Strait of Hormuz toll booth in yuan through CIPS. All that was bypassing SWIFT, sanctions, the petrollar, and Western insurance.
Talk about a new, alternative payment settlement system de facto implemented in the most crucial chokepoint on the planet.
This complex shadow energy architecture remains unaffected under the ceasefire – assuming it holds. But the key point is that China gets an extra breather: the ominous threat to finish off with every export of Iranian oil, post the Barbaria-declared Power Plant Day cliffhanger, seems to have disappeared. That explains the rationale behind China’s last minute guarantee to Iran.
Now compare it with the Empire of Chaos’s avowed “goals”: provoke regime change; get the enriched uranium; destroy the missile program; destroy Iran’s ability to project power. They all turned into an epic strategic blunder, culminating with the new status of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran and Oman will coordinate the toll booth on every ship crossing the Strait during the ceasefire – and certainly beyond, in a detailed juridical framework. American ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz after paying their toll in yuan – there’s hardly anything more poetically intoxicating, in an Irony of History sense.
Still, it’s clear the Empire of Chaos is playing for time – even as Iran retains the initiative. This is the key take away from the Supreme National Security Council in Iran:
“It has been decided at the highest level that Iran will conduct two weeks of negotiations in Islamabad based solely on these principles [the Iranian 10-points]. This does not mean the war is over; Iran will only accept the end of the war once these principles are confirmed in detail.”
Let’s briefly review the 10 points – which, in theory, were “accepted” by Trump:
Commitment to non-aggression;
Preservation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz;
Agreement on uranium enrichment;
Cancellation of all primary sanctions;
Cancellation of all secondary sanctions;
Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions;
Termination of all IAEA Board of Governors resolutions;
Payment of compensation to Iran;
Withdrawal of American combat forces from the region;
Cessation of war on all fronts, including the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
There’s no way Iran will compromise on nearly all of these points. Payment of compensation might be metastasized into income from the Strait of Hormuz toll booth. But sanctions relief is not gonna happen; the US Congress will never allow it. Guarantee by the US they will not attack Iran again does not even qualify as a joke. Moreover, the Empire of Chaos simply cannot guarantee anything for Gaza or Lebanon.Still, that is an extremely risky play for Iran, and a huge test for China as the major guarantor. Iran has suffered horrendous damages – especially in its petrochemical industry. Even with a lot of Chinese investment, it will take years to recover.
The Three Stooges may go to Islamabad this Friday. Curly: Vance. Shifty: Witkoff. Mo: Kushner. But Iran – via FM Araghchi – will only seriously talk to one of them: Curly.
So Civilization survives – for now. A few facts too. Fact One: the US is not a superpower anymore. Fact Two: Iran is back as one of the world’s top powers. Fact Three: Most of the gutless Gulf petro-monarchies will end up kicking out US military bases for good. Fact Four: Qatar and Oman will work out a security arrangement with Iran.
The main imperative remains – and that concerns the whole planet: how to find a cure for that cancer in West Asia.\
Barbaria strategically surrenders. Civilization wins. For now
Has Wave 100 started?
IRGC statement: 100th wave of operations
The IRGC posted on X that it has launched its 100th wave of attacks targeting:
– U.S. military sites
– Israeli military and intelligence sites
– Energy and oil infrastructure across the Gulf
– Maritime targets including U.S. naval vessels✔ Targets hit in Wave 100 (as listed by IRGC)
According to the IRGC’s own published list, Wave 100 included strikes on:
– Chevron (Ras al‑Juaymah)
– ExxonMobil & Dow Chemical (Jubail)
– Yanbu oil facilities (250,000 bpd)
– Habshan–Dubai–Fujairah pipeline
– ExxonMobil in Ras Laffan, Qatar
– Bapco refinery, Bahrain (267,000 bpd)
– Das refinery, UAE (60,000 bpd)
– U.S. oil storage in Fujairah (1 million m³)
– Al‑Ahmadi refinery, Kuwait (346,000 bpd)
– Dolphin Gas pipeline (Qatar)
– Zirku oil island (750,000 bpd)
– Satroop refinery (460,000 bpd)
– Manifa oil & gas separation facility (900,000 bpd)✔ Military targets hit
The IRGC claims it struck:
– Defense tech centers in Beersheba
– Intelligence facilities in Tel Aviv
– Ben‑Gurion Airport
– Haifa refinery
– U.S. CENTCOM facilities in Jordan✔ Maritime targets
The IRGC claims:
– A U.S. amphibious assault ship (LHA‑7) was hit with cruise missiles
– The aircraft carrier CVN‑74 was targeted with drones📌 Additional confirmation: Wave 100 follows earlier waves of >100 missiles/drones
Moneycontrol reports that Iran and its allied groups recently launched over 100 heavy missiles, drones, and 200 rockets in a coordinated wave of attacks across Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf.
This aligns with the escalation pattern leading into Wave 100.Former UK ambassador and whistleblower Craig Murray explains the international law applying to Iran and the Hormuz Strait.
In international law, Tehran has every right to close the strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict. Two vital points:
1) States who permit attacks on Iran to be launched from their territory can be blocked
2) Iran can block neutral ships from trading with states with which it is in conflict.
Plainly UK ships can be blocked under 1). But it is also undeniable that Gulf states have permitted attacks to be launched from their territory.
Iran has the right therefore to close the Strait of Hormuz to ships trading with those Gulf States that are hosting US forces attacking Iran. Which effectively means an almost complete closure of the straits.
A week ago I participated in a discussion on Al Jazeera in which I was able to make some of these points. I also pointed out the hypocrisy of the Western powers’ sudden interest in freedom of navigation, when they have been supporting or ignoring illegal blockades of Gaza, Cuba and Venezuela, and illegal action against the misnamed “Russian shadow fleet”.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/04/the-strait-of-hormuz/
“Israel destroyed Trump’s ceasefire in Lebanon today.”<
the strait of Hormuz was never closed. Passage was granted through Iranian Waters for neutral shipping. Only aggressor shipping was blockaded.
/blockquote>Ships that have gone through today
According to the Strait of Hormuz Live Tracker, updated April 6, 2026:
➡️ 8 ships in the last 24 hours
This is 13.3% of normal traffic, which is typically around 60 ships per day.
➡️ 15 ships currently transiting right now
This is the real‑time snapshot of vessels moving through the inbound/outbound lanes.Ceasefire:
By now, everyone is realizing that what we really have is an Israeli ceasefire!
That is where you stop defending yourself, so Israel can more easily keep killing you.
Gold:
Even gold and silver are now giving back their ceasefire bounce.
So, it is war, as usual.
Waiting for Iran’s Wave 101.
does anyone else notice that what we have is a sophistication to our ignorance
a full bodied vintage, unctious, approachable with tertiary aromas, silky complexity and a cigar box bouquet
might we have a young jammy Ai to cleanse the pallet?
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