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“If Iran attacks, there will be no additional round, we will act to bring down the regime,” an Israeli security official told Channel 12 (N12).

🇮🇷 EMERGENCY INTERVIEW: U.S. TO STRIKE IRAN - WHAT COMES NEXT

It’s almost definite now, Trump is planning to strike Iran. The only question is: What’s his objective?

Is it a complete regime change, or a Venezuela-like goal to replace the Supreme Leader with a more lenient member of the same regime?

If it’s the former, then Iran, and the region, are in deep trouble.

My guest today, Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi, escaped Iran during the 1979 revolution, and his family has been targeted and jailed by both the current regime and the previous Monarchy.

He breaks down the repercussions of a regime change, how Iran will retaliate to U.S. strikes, and the increasing risk of a civil was in the country.

He also makes a very interesting point: Iran is at the mercy of Israeli ambitions (the destruction of the current regime and the country’s military capabilities) and American/Gulf ambitions (a stable regime with possibly a new leader more friendly to the West).

I enjoyed this interview as Trita, an expert in the region, does not take sides. He’s very critical of the current regime, not a fan of the previous one, and thinks any American strikes on the country could have devastating consequences.

We both agreed: The current regime is terrible, but a regime change may end up being worse if not executed properly and carefully.

03:25 – The protests in Iran were not the trigger for war planning; if anything, they delayed it.

04:02 – The original justification for attacking Iran came from Israeli concerns over missile threats, not internal unrest.

06:41 – The roots of Iran's current instability lie in sanctions that intentionally devastated the middle class.

09:16 – Some Iranians now view outside military intervention as the only path to regime change due to desperation.

11:32 – Gulf states are alarmed by Israeli aggression and fear instability from regime collapse, despite opposing Iran.

14:13 – A power vacuum in Iran could lead to civil war, refugee flows, and wider regional destabilization.

17:24 – Saudi, Turkey, and Pakistan may be quietly forming a bloc to counterbalance Israeli hegemony in the region.

20:11 – Iran’s fractured opposition lacks strength partly because sanctions crushed the middle class that fuels reform.

23:17 – Reza Pahlavi has grown closer to Israel, leading to division and backlash within the exile opposition.

25:07 – Monarchist support in Iran is hard to quantify—some chants back him, others reject him outright.

26:09 – Pahlavi says he wants democracy, but critics argue his conduct and followers cast doubt on that claim.

31:50 – Trita Parsi’s family fled Iran before the revolution; both the Shah and the Islamic Republic persecuted them.

34:24 – Iran’s internet blackout has cut off communications, and exact casualty numbers remain unclear.

37:10 – Hundreds of regime security forces have also been killed, suggesting an unprecedented level of resistance.

39:42 – Kurdish separatist groups may be exploiting the unrest, but aren't representative of the broader protest movement.

43:32 – Israel may see Iran’s total collapse as a strategic goal, even if it causes long-term regional chaos.

45:28 – Sanctions have historically made democratic transitions harder by weakening civil society more than regimes.

47:16 – US interests differ from Israel’s: Washington may want regime change, but not a failed or fragmented state.

50:23 – A Maduro-style solution could be attempted, but unlike Venezuela, the US has fewer internal contacts in Iran.

51:39 – Israel may push for not just regime change but destruction of Iran’s entire military infrastructure.

RT Mario Nawfal
🇮🇷 EMERGENCY INTERVIEW: U.S. TO STRIKE IRAN - WHAT COMES NEXT

It’s almost definite now, Trump is planning to strike Iran. The only question is: What’s his objective?

Is it a complete regime change, or a Venezuela-like goal to replace the Supreme Leader with a more lenient member of the same regime?

If it’s the former, then Iran, and the region, are in deep trouble.

My guest today, Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi, escaped Iran during the 1979 revolution, and his family has been targeted and jailed by both the current regime and the previous Monarchy.

He breaks down the repercussions of a regime change, how Iran will retaliate to U.S. strikes, and the increasing risk of a civil was in the country.

He also makes a very interesting point: Iran is at the mercy of Israeli ambitions (the destruction of the current regime and the country’s military capabilities) and American/Gulf ambitions (a stable regime with possibly a new leader more friendly to the West).

I enjoyed this interview as Trita, an expert in the region, does not take sides. He’s very critical of the current regime, not a fan of the previous one, and thinks any American strikes on the country could have devastating consequences.

We both agreed: The current regime is terrible, but a regime change may end up being worse if not executed properly and carefully.

03:25 – The protests in Iran were not the trigger for war planning; if anything, they delayed it.

04:02 – The original justification for attacking Iran came from Israeli concerns over missile threats, not internal unrest.

06:41 – The roots of Iran's current instability lie in sanctions that intentionally devastated the middle class.

09:16 – Some Iranians now view outside military intervention as the only path to regime change due to desperation.

11:32 – Gulf states are alarmed by Israeli aggression and fear instability from regime collapse, despite opposing Iran.

14:13 – A power vacuum in Iran could lead to civil war, refugee flows, and wider regional destabilization.

17:24 – Saudi, Turkey, and Pakistan may be quietly forming a bloc to counterbalance Israeli hegemony in the region.

20:11 – Iran’s fractured opposition lacks strength partly because sanctions crushed the middle class that fuels reform.

23:17 – Reza Pahlavi has grown closer to Israel, leading to division and backlash within the exile opposition.

25:07 – Monarchist support in Iran is hard to quantify—some chants back him, others reject him outright.

26:09 – Pahlavi says he wants democracy, but critics argue his conduct and followers cast doubt on that claim.

31:50 – Trita Parsi’s family fled Iran before the revolution; both the Shah and the Islamic Republic persecuted them.

34:24 – Iran’s internet blackout has cut off communications, and exact casualty numbers remain unclear.

37:10 – Hundreds of regime security forces have also been killed, suggesting an unprecedented level of resistance.

39:42 – Kurdish separatist groups may be exploiting the unrest, but aren't representative of the broader protest movement.

43:32 – Israel may see Iran’s total collapse as a strategic goal, even if it causes long-term regional chaos.

45:28 – Sanctions have historically made democratic transitions harder by weakening civil society more than regimes.

47:16 – US interests differ from Israel’s: Washington may want regime change, but not a failed or fragmented state.

50:23 – A Maduro-style solution could be attempted, but unlike Venezuela, the US has fewer internal contacts in Iran.

51:39 – Israel may push for not just regime change but destruction of Iran’s entire military infrastructure.

President Donald J. Trump, facing a red line of his own making in Iran, increasingly believes he must take decisive action against the regime amid a violent and deadly crackdown on protesters, according to officials familiar with the matter who spoke to CNN.

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ypKdqgYyNYGW

LUFTHANSA IS BRINGING STARLINK TO ITS FLEET

Lufthansa has signed on to Starlink for all 850 planes, high-speed streaming free for loyal flyers, full fleet wired by 2029, no European rival comes close.

Source: @Teslarati @Starlink

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists http://reut.rs/3LN2QcD http://reut.rs/3LN2QcD

🇺🇸🇮🇷 PENTAGON TO TRUMP: "SO YOU WANT TO HIT IRAN? HERE'S A TARGET LIST"

Trump’s got a list of possible targets in Iran, and taking out their nuclear program is definitely on it.

That said, the options are a bit limited right now. The biggest U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, has already left the region and is now sitting in the Caribbean.

Earlier advice from commanders? Pump the brakes and shore up defenses before pulling the trigger, in case Iran hits back.

Source: Anadolu Agency, NYT

Russia's Lavrov says the U.S. is smashing the world around with its raid on Venezuela and threats to Iran http://reut.rs/4jD5WfK http://reut.rs/4jD5WfK

🇮🇷 CITY OF URMIA STANDS UP TO REGIME CRACKDOWN IN IRAN

Even after thousands have been arrested or killed, people in Urmia are still showing up to protest.

They’re doing this under pressure that would break most people.

Every time they show up, they’re basically saying: we’re not scared of you.

Source: @NiohBerg

Iranian State TV just broadcast a picture of Trump from the Butler rally after he was shot with the words “this time, it won’t miss.”

Direct ass*ssination threat against Trump

RT Libs of TikTok
Iranian State TV just broadcast a picture of Trump from the Butler rally after he was shot with the words “this time, it won’t miss.”

Direct ass*ssination threat against Trump

The U.S. State Department today, under Secretary Marco Rubio, announced that it would be suspending the processing of immigrant visas from 75 countries whose citizens were deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States. These countries include:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

RT The British Patriot
WHAT IT IS TO BE BRITISH?

Being British isn’t something you adopt, claim, or purchase.
It’s not multicultural enrichment or “shared values”.
It’s an ancient inheritance – blood, soil, memory, and temperament – passed down through native British bloodlines.

You are either born into it or you aren’t. FULL STOP.

This is the proper British journey, the one our forefathers walked, the one still felt in the bones of those whose roots run deep in these islands:

1. Fish and chips
Wrapped in yesterday’s paper, steaming hot from the chippy on a Friday night. Salt and vinegar sharp enough to cut through the sea air. Eaten with wooden forks on the harbour wall as the sun dips behind the pier. Simple. Ours. Unchanged for generations.

2. A proper pint
Pulled in a pub that’s older than your granddad, real ale with a decent head, not the fizzy foreign nonsense. Sat in the same corner seat your dad sat in, your granddad before him. The barman knows your order before you open your mouth. That’s home.

3. Tea so strong you could stand the spoon up in it
Brewed proper in a teapot, not some weak bag-in-a-mug insult. Milk in first (the correct way), two sugars, and a biscuit for dunking. The first cup of the day, the one after bad news, the one after good news. Tea isn’t a drink – it’s a ritual of British endurance.

4. Dry, cutting sarcasm
The art of taking the piss without ever raising your voice. Calling a seasonal change “a bit damp”, a disaster “a spot of bother”, ourselves “us lot”. We mock our weather, our politicians, our teeth – but woe any outsider who joins in. It’s affection disguised as cruelty, and only we get to wield it.

5. Magna Carta
Not some dusty document in a glass case – the living spine of English liberty. The barons at Runnymede in 1215 told a king he wasn’t above the law. That moment echoes in every jury trial, every right to speak freely, every refusal to kneel to tyrants. We were born free – and we mean to stay that way.

6. Christian moral framework
Even if the churches are half-empty now, the values remain: personal responsibility, charity without fanfare, treating others as you’d want to be treated, knowing right from wrong without needing a manual. That’s the Britain our grandparents recognised.

7. Unapologetic patriotism
No cringing, no hand-wringing, no apologies for loving our country first. Flying the flag without shame. Putting Britain and the native British people ahead of every globalist fad. Loyalty to kin isn’t bigotry – it’s natural, normal, and necessary.

8.Remembering our history unashamedly
Trafalgar. Waterloo. The Somme. The Blitz. The Industrial Revolution we gave the world. We don’t rewrite it, we don’t apologise for it, we don’t tear down statues of the men who made us. We stand tall on the shoulders of giants and say: this is what we did. This is who we are.

9.Resilience
We’ve weathered Romans, Vikings, Normans, the Black Death, civil war, two world wars, rationing, the Blitz, strikes, recessions – and still made tea, cracked a joke, and got on with it. That quiet, unbreakable bloody-mindedness is in our bones.

10. We are kind and generous people – but if you upset us, we have a record to colonise
We’ll give you the shirt off our back, share our last cuppa, help a stranger in the rain. But push us too far, threaten our home, our kin, our way of life – and history shows what happens next. A small island that has survived a thousand years of invasions. We built the largest empire the world has ever seen, sailed every ocean, and planted our flag where none had flown before. Underestimate that at your peril.

This is what the native British people actually are – forged over centuries in rain, hardship, humour, generosity, and iron resolve.

Britain survives mass immigration the same way we’ve always survived invasion:

We defend our island at any cost.

Time to remember who the hell we are — and prove to the world Britain isn’t finished.

You either fight, or you die. - Elon Musk.

🇮🇷 IRAN CUTS THE INTERNET FOR OVER 6 DAYS TO HIDE VIOLENCE

The regime switched the whole country to a government-run network so they can block outside websites and spy on everyone.

VPNs like Proton aren’t working, and even phone calls into Iran don’t go through.

No one knows how many people have died in the protests because the internet blackout hides everything.

Source: CNN

RT Brian Stelter
WaPo editor Matt Murray just sent this email to the newsroom:

Early this morning, FBI agents showed up unannounced at the doorstep of our colleague Hannah Natanson, searched her home, and proceeded to seize her electronic devices.

According to the government warrant, the raid was in connection with an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. We are told Hannah, and The Post, are not a target.

Nonetheless, this extraordinary, aggressive action is deeply concerning and raises profound questions and concern around the constitutional protections for our work. The Washington Post has a long history of zealous support for robust press freedoms. The entire institution stands by those freedoms and our work.

We have been in close touch with Hannah, with authorities and with legal counsel and will keep you updated as we learn more. In the meantime, the best thing all of us can do is to continue to vigorously exercise those freedoms as we do every day.

Matt

Recent U.S. intelligence reports indicate Iran is preparing options to target American military bases in the Middle East, including those in Iraq and Syria, if President Donald J. Trump orders military strikes against targets in Iran, a U.S. official and another source told CNN.

RT Flightradar24
Airspace activity centered on Iran as of 17:30 UTC. Media reporting that some personnel have been told to leave the US military base in Qatar amid the possibility the US may launch strikes against Iran.

The German flagship carrier Lufthansa has told employees to immediately prepare to leave Israel and will cancel all flights to and from the country beginning Thursday, due to heightened tensions in the region related to Iran.

Britain is withdrawing some personnel from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar ahead of possible strikes against Iran by the United States, according to The i Paper.