Iran-Israel-U.S. developments (15-Jul-2025) (updated)

July 15, 2025

"The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog." -- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States in Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary, July 21, 1947 (source)

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UPDATE 1:

Netanyahu left in precarious position as two ultra-Orthodox parties withdraw from his coalition | Middle East Eye

A second ultra-Orthodox group has withdrawn from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition this week, leaving him holding on to power with the minimum number of seats required, multiple news outlets reported on Tuesday.
The Agudat Yisrael faction withdrew on Tuesday, leaving Netanyahu's coalition with 61 seats in the Knesset out of a total of 120 seats, while the Degel HaTorah faction withdrew on Monday.
Both groups withdrew in protest against a bill not being drafted to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
The Shas party - also an ultra-Orthodox party - is threatening to withdraw on Thursday. If this happens, it would lead to the collapse of the Netanyahu government and trigger elections.

12bytes: I don't know who would follow Netanyahu, but the collapse of the current government is not necessarily good news given that the next JiC (Jackass-in-Charge) could be worse than the current JiC.

Global coalition charges Israel with genocide, defies US threats to pursue justice

Defying the United States threats, ministers from more than 30 nations have packed Bogotá's San Carlos Palace to charge the Israeli regime with genocide over its October 2023-present brutal military assault against the Gaza Strip.
The dramatic display of international solidarity saw dozens of high-ranking officials from across the globe convene inside the stately palace on Tuesday, determined to hold the regime accountable for, what they unequivocally called, a "war of genocide."
The two-day emergency summit, organized under the auspices of The Hague Group -- a coalition co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa -- had representatives, ranging from such countries as Algeria and Brazil to Pakistan and Spain, in attendance.

'My son was an American; where is your 'America First' now?': Father of slain Palestinian-American asks Trump

Kamel Musallet, whose 23-year-old son Sayfollah was beaten to death by illegal Israeli settlers under heavy police protection last week, has said the silence from President Trump and other American officials exposes a painful double standard.
"If he'd been Israeli-American, they'd be on top of it. But because he's Palestinian-American, it's like two different worlds," Kamel told the Zeteo media outlet in an interview that was published on Tuesday.

JCPOA is dead: Ten years on, how US and its European allies killed the Iran nuclear deal

On this day in 2015, Iran and the world powers signed a landmark nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which imposed restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for partial relief from international sanctions.
The final round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (China, Russia, France, the UK, the US, plus Germany) and the European Union was held in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2015.
Key participants included Iran's then-Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, US then-Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU's then-High Representative Federica Mogherini, and other top diplomats.
The agreement, reached after two years of marathon talks, was aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions imposed by the UN, US, and EU.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to cap its uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent, reduce the number of centrifuges, and allow continued inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

U.S. hubris-driven blunders transform the entire complexion of the wider war - Global South

The big issue emerging from the U.S.' 22 June strike on Iran - second only to 'wither Iran?' - is whether in Trump's calculus he can 'rhetorically impose' the having "obliterated" Iran's nuclear programme claim long enough to both restrain Israel from hitting Iran again, yet still allow Trump to pursue his show-stopper headline, 'WE WON: I'm in charge now and everybody is going to do what I tell them'.

U.S. Preparing for WAR ON CHINA, as Trump Extends War with Russia Through Europe -Brian Berletic

President Trump has announced plans to arm Ukraine through weapons sales to Europe, as he also threatens Russia with "severe" sanctions, and reports say he is considering providing more long-range weapons to Kiev to strike deep inside Russia. In other words, so much for that promise of "ending the war" in Ukraine...
Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst and Host of The New Atlas, noted that Trump's implementation of Biden-era policies is exactly what we should have expected, as he continues to further the U.S. establishment's foreign policy, which will use strategic sequencing and division to labor to pursue war against Russia, China and Iran.

Brian Berletic: "America First" Means War on Russia, China & Iran

Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author and international relations expert. Berletic argues that America First means war on Russia, China and Iran to restore US hegemony.

Five Palestinian children killed after Israeli air strike on Gaza's Shati refugee camp | Middle East Eye

At least nine people were killed after an Israeli air strike on the Shati refugee camp, which is located west of Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.
Five of those killed were children.
An additional 25 people were left injured in the attack.

Israel kills 12 in eastern Lebanon in deadliest ceasefire breach

Israel has killed at least 12 people in airstrikes on eastern Lebanon in the deadliest breach of the ceasefire that took effect in November last year.
The regime's warplanes bombed the Wadi Fara area in the area of Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, said the region's governor, Bachir Khodr.
"A camp for displaced Syrians" also came under attack, resulting in the deaths of 12 martyrs, including seven Syrians, and eight wounded," according to Lebanon's National News Agency.

At least 30 Palestinians seeking aid injured in shots fired by Israeli soldiers | Middle East Eye

At least 30 Palestinians have been injured at an aid centre north of Rafah after Israeli soldiers fired at starving people lining up for humnaitarian aid, Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.
Nearly 900 Palestinians have been killed by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, which has been distributing food since late May, displacing human rights groups who had been working for decades in Gaza.

At least 61 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday | Middle East Eye

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Gaza since dawn on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported. This includes 23 people who were killed in the Shati refugee camp and two peopl who were fired upon near an aid centre in Rafah.

Israel bidding to 'complete colonial genocide project' against Palestinians: Iran

Iran has sharply denounced the Israeli regime for trying to "complete its colonial genocide project" against Palestinians through ever more lethal and devastating assaults.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei delivered the remarks on Wednesday after the regime slew more than 100 Palestinians as part of its October 2023-present war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.

Humanitarian aid from hell: The extermination of Palestinians is being disguised as help - RT World News

The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards.
As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence, livestreamed. No genocide before has been committed under the eyes of the world like this one. And second, the Gaza genocide is undermining and, in effect, devastating whole moral and legal orders - or at least longstanding claims to them - in an equally unprecedented way.

LIVE BLOG: Medical Crisis in Gaza as Scores Die in New Massacres - Day 648 - Palestine Chronicle

Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Mohamed Abu Salmiya, said the Public Service Hospital has stopped operating, with Al-Shifa and Al-Helou hospitals expected to shut down within hours.
Hundreds of wounded and sick now face grave danger as Gaza's last hospitals close while Israeli forces continue massacres across the Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 58,386 and injured 139,077 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

ROX• TV | Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children

Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, declared that Gaza has become a "graveyard" for children and starving civilians due to Israel's ongoing military campaign and blockade.
Reacting to the killing of nine children, Lazzarini posted on social media that Israel is orchestrating "the most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill" across Gaza.
He reiterated that Gaza is now "the graveyard of children and starving people."
His comments followed the killing of 15 civilians, including nine children and four women, in Deir el-Balah while they waited for food aid.

43 Israeli soldiers committed suicide after returning from Gaza: Reports

Nearly four dozen soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months due to the profound psychological trauma and exposure to unspeakable violence amid the regime's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah warns of 'major escalation' after deadly Israeli strikes

The Hezbollah resistance movement has issued a strong warning after Israeli airstrikes killed at least a dozen people in eastern Lebanon in the deadliest attack since a November ceasefire took hold.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Hezbollah said the attack marked "a major escalation in the context of the ongoing aggression against Lebanon and its people."
The resistance movement called on the Lebanese government to break the silence and "take serious, immediate and decisive action" to uphold the ceasefire deal with Israel.
The movement also demanded that the United States, Israel's main backer, live up to its responsibility as the guarantor of the ceasefire.
"The US, as a guarantor of the ceasefire agreement, has evaded its obligations and instead advanced initiatives that serve only the interests and security of the Israeli enemy."

Israel says wont withdraw from Syrias demilitarized zone

Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says Tel Aviv will not withdraw from the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria's occupied Golan Heights.
In a post on X, Smotrich said the military's presence in the area is "essential for the defense of the Golan Heights settlements."
There are more than 30 Israeli settlements in Syria's occupied Golan Heights, which are home to an estimated 20,000 settlers. The settlements are considered illegal under international law.

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Ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu coalition over army draft bill | Middle East Eye

One of Israel's main ultra-Orthodox parties, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), has announced it is leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government over the failure to pass legislation exempting yeshiva students from military service.
Six members of the party submitted their resignations, a month after UTJ leader Yitzhak Goldknopf stepped down. The party is made up of the Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael factions.
With UTJ's exit, Netanyahu's coalition would be reduced to a fragile 61-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset. It remains unclear whether Shas, another ultra-Orthodox party, will follow suit.

12bytes: Seem that the filthy pedophile savages calling themselves 'God's chosen people' would rather have Israel's European immigrants, who make up approximately 80% of Israel's population, fight their battles for them. Imagine my surprise.

'Iron Footprints' stumble: Israel loses 3 forces in northern Gaza

As many as three troopers from an Israeli armored brigade known for its ferocious war tactics have been killed in the northern Gaza Strip, reportedly under heavy anti-tank fire from the Palestinian territory's resistance fighters.
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The brigade has a drawn-out history of unbridled aggression -- going back as far as the 1960s -- against various West Asian nations. This includes heavy involvement in several wholesale Israeli wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
Since October 2023, when the regime began its latest genocidal military assault on the coastal sliver, the battalion has likewise been heavily depended upon for deadly rounds of aggression targeting such places as Jabalia and the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Multiple Fires Hit Industrial Zones in Israeli Occupied Territories - World news - Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A wave of unexplained fires and explosions has struck industrial areas across Israeli-occupied territories since the onset of the 12-day war, highlighting growing instability in the regime's critical infrastructure.
News outlets and illegal settlers reported dozens of fires and explosions erupting in various industrial facilities, citing disruptions in equipment as the likely cause.
The incidents have raised suspicions of deliberate sabotage targeting the Zionist entity's production capabilities.
Elad Peretz Air Services stated that a significant number of blazes occurred inside its smart air-conditioning systems, which are installed in many factories.
The company described the pattern as highly unusual and consistent with coordinated interference.
The report comes as anti-Israeli sentiment has grown worldwide while the regime's brutal war in Gaza enters its second year.

Israel's principal objective in Persian Gulf region is 'regime change' in Iran: Ex-CIA officer

The Israeli aggression against Iran was "definitely intended" to sabotage diplomacy as its principal objective in the Persian Gulf region is "to bring regime change in Iran," says an American analyst.
In an interview with the Press TV website, Philip Giraldi, an American political commentator and security consultant who previously worked as an intelligence officer for the CIA, said the Israeli regime knows that it cannot achieve that objective without American support.
"It feared that Tehran and Washington might actually come to some kind of agreement," he stated, referring to the derailment of indirect nuclear talks between Iran and the US under Oman's mediation.
The unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic in the early hours of June 13 came just two days ahead of the sixth round of nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington in Muscat.
After the large-scale attacks, which resulted in the assassination of many high-ranking Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists, US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged American support for the aggression that violated international law.
Over a week into the Israeli aggression, the US also carried out attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.

ROX• TV | Gaza War: No fuel, no food, no escape The scroll of suffering

- At least 78 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip, hospital sources told Al Jazeera, including civilians gathered near an aid distribution centre.
- Three Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting in northern Gaza, with a fourth seriously wounded, as Hamas said it "surprises the enemy daily with innovative field tactics".
- Israeli settlers and soldiers carried out a series of new attacks across the occupied West Bank, uprooting hundreds of olive trees and demolishing a four-storey residential building.
- The father of an Israeli captive held in Gaza said that there is a "reality of stagnation" surrounding ceasefire negotiations, and expressed frustration over the lack of progress.
- Senior Israeli politicians slammed Netanyahu's plan to build a "humanitarian city" in southern Gaza, calling it a "crazy idea" that would waste billions of dollars.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres said a ceasefire alone is not enough, and urged world leaders to pursue a broader political solution that includes a viable Palestinian state.

ROX• TV | Sarah of Gaza: The girl who write with her feet and dreams of fire

"Her name is Sarah al-Barsh.
She is ten years old.
She has no arms.An airstrike took them--
and took her father too.But it did not take her Spirit.In the ruins of Gaza, Sarah learned to eat, drink, write, and study using her feet.
She dreams of becoming a prosthetist--
not just to heal herself...
but to help other children who carry the same scars.Sarah doesn't ask for pity.
She asks for prosthetics.
She asks for peace.
She asks for a future.And today, ROXo TV tells her story--
not as tragedy...
but as testimony.Because when arms are gone,
and feet become hands,
and silence becomes strength--
the world must listen.This is Sarah.
This is Gaza.
This is the fire that refuses to die."

Slaughter of the Innocent: Children Among Dozens Killed in Latest Gaza Strikes - Palestine Chronicle

Despite global appeals, Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza claims dozens more lives in a new escalation, devastating families and wiping out entire neighborhoods.

Israeli raids kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn | Middle East Eye

Medical sources in Gaza tell Al Jaazera Arabic that at least 11 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids that struck multiple areas of Gaza City since dawn on Tuesday.
The latest attacks come amid an intensifying bombardment of residential neighbourhoods across the enclave.

At least 78 Palestinians killed across Gaza as Tel Aviv torpedoes ceasefire talks

Israeli regime forces have killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombardment attacks across the Gaza Strip as the regime strives to derail ceasefire talks amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory.
Palestine's Safa news agency reported on Tuesday that five people were killed and an unspecified number of others injured as a result of the Israeli warplanes targeting a house in the vicinity of the al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
The agency said the strikes by the Israeli warplanes targeting a building in the area of Zarqa in the neighborhood of al-Tuffah, northeast of Gaza City, also left individuals martyred or wounded.
The occupation army, as Safa reported, also blew up a number of homes of citizens east of the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza.

Israel escalating deadly violence against Palestinians in West Bank: UN | Middle East Eye

The United Nations has warned of a sharp rise in deadly violence by Israeli settlers and security forces targeting Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

UN: 875 killed near Gaza aid sites linked to Israeli-backed foundation | Middle East Eye

The UN has called the GHF's aid model as "inherently unsafe" and in breach of impartial humanitarian principles. The foundation, which began operations in late May following an 11-week Israeli blockade, uses private US mercenaries for delivery, bypassing the UN-led aid system Israel claims has been infiltrated by Hamas-an accusation Hamas denies.

Why do evangelical Protestants hate Palestinians? | Middle East Eye

Since April 2025, Mike Huckabee, a white evangelical American Protestant and Baptist minister, has served as the US ambassador to Israel.
A right-wing religious fanatic and former Republican presidential candidate, Huckabee previously served as governor of Arkansas.
He believes, as part of his Protestant zealotry, that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian", and that Palestinian identity is merely "a political tool to try and force land away from Israel".
Most recently, the ambassador described Palestinians in Gaza as "wicked, uncivilised savages" - in keeping with the tradition of missionaries, colonists and other "civilising" forces.
Huckabee opposes Palestinian statehood and dismisses Israeli settler-colonialism on Palestinian land as nothing more than urban development.

Israel strikes Lebanon in breach of ceasefire agreement | Middle East Eye

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that the latest wave of Israeli air raids in Lebanon was meant to send a "clear message" to Hezbollah.
Katz claimed that the group was attempting to re-establish its assault capabilities through its elite Radwan Force, which has operated near the border. Katz offered no evidence and his comments could not be independently verified.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli military said it had begun targeting positions in Lebanon's Beqaa region. Israel has continued attacking Lebanon since a ceasefire agreement was reached last year with Hezbollah.

Israeli warplanes strike multiple installations in southern Syria

Israeli warplanes have carried out airstrikes against a number of installations once belonging to the ousted president Bashar al-Assad's army but now used by the militant forces of the ruling Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime in the southwestern province of Suweida.
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Since the collapse of Assad's government, the Israeli military has been launching airstrikes against military installations, facilities, and arsenals belonging to Syria's now-defunct army.
Israel has been widely condemned for the termination of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria and for exploiting the chaos in the Arab nation in the wake of Assad's downfall to make a land grab.
The United Nations has condemned ongoing Israeli attacks inside Syrian territory and repeated violations in and around the buffer zone created as part of a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Damascus.

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Evo Morales to The Grayzone: "We are fighting the second coup d'etat"

In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone's Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show how an electoral council member took money in exchange for disqualifying him from running for president again.
As his country's first indigenous president and the leader of powerful social movements, Evo remains popular among his base. He addresses the attacks he has weathered from the current Bolivian president, Luis Arce, who relied on him to get elected, but who now seeks to end his political career.
Evo warns that the campaign to ban him will lead to a resurgence of right-wing forces which aim to sell his country's vast mineral wealth off to US oligarchs.
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A Final WARNING From ALIENS | Dr. Steven Greer - YouTube

UFO Contact Was Made in Broad Daylight - and the Message Is Still Decoding. A strange crop circle appeared in a remote field moments before a hovering alien craft was seen vanishing into the sky. Military trucks and hazmat teams responded instantly. Was this a peaceful message from advanced extraterrestrials... or a final warning? In this video, we explore real-time UFO sightings, alien communication signals, and the growing evidence that contact has already happened - and is being covered up. Is humanity being tested... or threatened?