Iran-Israel-U.S. developments - gearing up for ROUND 2! (28-Jun-2025) (update 3)

June 28, 2025

"There may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U.S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration." -- Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States, quoted by Leonard Dinnerstein in Antisemitism in America, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994, p.232-233 (source)

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UPDATE 3:

Large BBC televised concert chants: "Death to the IDF!"

Evening recap | Middle East Eye

Hospitals across Gaza report that Israeli air strikes have killed at least 60 people since the early hours of Saturday.
Gaza's Health Ministry says 81 people were killed and 422 others wounded in the past 24 hours as Israel's assault on the besieged enclave continues.
The total death toll from Israel's ongoing war on Gaza has reached 56,412 since 7 October, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. More than 133,000 people have also been wounded the ministry said on Saturday.
Israeli forces killed 13 Palestinian athletes and coaches in June, the Palestinian Olympic Committee said on Saturday.
Lebanon's Health Ministry has confirmed that three people were killed and two others wounded following a pair of Israeli drone strikes targeting two towns in the country's south.
The Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday that it has 'likely intercepted' a missile that was launched from Yemen.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that Gaza's health sector remains under intense strain, with extensive damage to medical facilities and a critical lack of fuel.
Hamas has turned down a proposed amendment by the United States to the current ceasefire framework, saying the suggested language would give Israel a green light to restart its military campaign, according to Asharq Al Awsat.
The paramilitary wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al-Quds Brigades, said on Saturday it had detonated "a highly explosive device" in an Israeli military vehicle.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called for a full withdrawal from Gaza in exchange for the release of all captives held by Hamas.
Iran has expanded access to its airspace for international overflights following a ceasefire with Israel, though flight restrictions remain in place across much of the country, an official said on Saturday.
A rap duo won praise at Glastonbury Festival after leading chants of "death to the IDF" during their Saturday performance, referencing the Israeli army, as pro-Palestinian sentiment surged among festivalgoers.
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned against a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Berlin must not risk undermining international law in light of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Netanyahu says it's antisemitic for Israeli soldiers to describe their own atrocities - Nexus Newsfeed

The more exposed Israel's criminality becomes, the more absurd the arguments made in its defense are getting.
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One Israeli soldier attests that civilians seeking aid are "treated like a hostile force - no crowd-control measures, no tear gas - just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars."
"We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces," the soldier says, adding, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons."

Russia's surprising role in the Israel-Iran conflict that you might not know about - RT World News

During a recent visit to Turkmenistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his counterparts and addressed students at the Institute of International Relations in Ashgabat. Among the central themes of his remarks was the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel - a confrontation that not only affects global geopolitics but also directly impacts the security dynamics of Central Asia.
For Turkmenistan - which shares over 1,100km of border with Iran and has its capital just miles from that border - the growing tension poses serious risks. Beyond humanitarian concerns, the prospect of a wider war could awaken dormant radical networks and destabilize fragile domestic balances. These risks extend beyond Turkmenistan to other southern former Soviet republics that maintain close political and military ties with Russia.

Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Israeli war: Haaretz - Tehran Times

Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, representing about 4% of the territory's population, the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Friday.
The death toll contradicts the number of fatalities given by Gaza's Health Ministry, which stood at over 56,300 since October 2023.
Haaretz said in addition to the high Palestinian deaths from Israeli attacks, many people also died from the indirect effects of the war, such as hunger, cold, and diseases amid a collapse of the health system in Gaza.
The daily said while Israeli spokespersons, journalists and influencers reject with knee-jerk disgust the death toll announced by Gaza's Health Ministry as exaggerated, more and more international experts "are stating that not only is this list, with all the horror it embodies, reliable - but that it may even be very conservative in relation to reality."

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC | Middle East Eye

Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign-allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.

Congresswoman slams US funding for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - Tehran Times

U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib slammed the Trump administration on Friday for approving $30 million in funding to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amid Israel's military operations, Anadolu reports.
"Nearly every day this month, Israeli forces have deliberately shot and killed starving Palestinians seeking food.
"Now, the Trump Admin has decided to support this death trap with $30 million. This is genocide-we are funding it. And the world is doing nothing to stop it," Tlaib wrote on X.

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Iran, Russia, and China are at the heart of a geopolitical storm, but why did Iran pull back from its aggressive stance? What's really going on with BRICS and global alliances? In this interview, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar helps break down the hidden dynamics that could shape the future of world politics. Watch to understand how Iran, Israel, and BRICS are navigating a complex web of power, strategy, and survival. Don't miss out on the details that are shaping today's global conflicts.

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Red Sea ships faking links to Russia and China to dodge attacks - Reuters - RT World News

Ships traveling near the Red Sea and Persian Gulf have begun transmitting false Russian and Chinese affiliations to avoid potential attacks, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing maritime risk analytics firm Windward and vessel tracking data.
Tehran, which controls the Strait of Hormuz - a key route for global oil - threatened to close it if the US joined Israeli strikes on its nuclear sites. Iran's parliament reportedly approved the move on Sunday, though the final decision lies with the Supreme National Security Council.

Military Situation In Palestine On June 28, 2025 (Map Update)South Front

The Yemeni army attacked Beersheba with a ballistic missile;
Israeli strikes targeted areas in Gaza;
Israeli strikes targeted areas in central Gaza Strip;
Israeli strikes targeted areas in southern Gaza Strip;
During the last 24 hrs, at least 81 civilians were killed and 442 others were wounded by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip;
56,412 Palestinians were killed and 133,054 others were wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health

Israeli air strike kills 20 in Gaza City, including nine children | Middle East Eye

At least 20 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed and dozens more wounded after Israeli forces targeted the al-Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.
Wafa news agency reported that the air strike targeted a group of civilians near a school on Yafa Street in the northeast of al-Tuffah, causing significant casualties.
In a separate incident, two Palestinians were killed and others injured following Israeli shelling near the entrance to al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Saraya al-Quds announces detonation of highly explosive device targeting Zionist vehicle in Khan Yunis - SabaNet

Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, announced on Saturday the detonation of a highly explosive device targeting a Zionist military vehicle north of Khan Yunis.

UPDATE 1:

MUST SEE VIDEO: IRAN THE TRUTH THEY WON'T TELL YOU

It has never really been about any uranium enrichment and everything to do about putting Iran and Middle East oil reserve control and the hands of crooked US and international oil corporations with the help of their bought out sellout sockpuppet politicians.

12bytes: Small correction: Regarding Iranian woman being required to wear a hijab, although the law (or whatever) may still exist on the books, Iran no longer enforces it and Iranian couples are apparently free to show their affection toward one another in public. This information was mentioned by Iranian Nima Alkhorshid during one of his interviews.

Senate refuses attempt to limit Trump's authorities - SabaNet

The Republican-led US Senate on Friday rejected a Democratic attempt to prevent President Donald Trump from using further military force against Iran, hours after the president announced he would consider bombing Iran again.
The vote was 53-47 against the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for further military action against Iran.

IRGC Warns of Harsher, Different Response to Another Aggression - Politics news - Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warned the "delusional" president of the US and the Zionist regime that any new act of aggression will trigger Iran's different and more severe response that would expedite the collapse of Israel.

Michael Hudson: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world - Geopolitical Economy Report

Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States.
This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and which is now threatening to engulf the Middle East in the most violent war since Korea.
That logic is so aggressive, so repugnant to most people, so much in violation of the basic principles of international law, the United Nations, and the U.S. Constitution, that there is an understandable shyness in the authors of this strategy to spell out what is at stake.
What is at stake is the U.S. attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of U.S. economic power, and to prevent other countries from moving to create their own autonomy from the U.S.-centered neoliberal order administered by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to reinforce U.S. unipolar power.
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This framing of the international economy views not only China but any other country seeking national autonomy as an existential threat to U.S. unipolar domination. That attitude explains the U.S./NATO attack on Russia that has resulted in the Ukraine war of attrition, and most recently the U.S./Israeli war against Iran that is threatening to engulf the whole world in U.S.-backed war.
The motivation for the attack on Iran has nothing to do with any attempt by Iran to protect its national sovereignty by developing an atom bomb. The basic problem is that the United States has taken the initiative in trying to preempt Iran and other countries from breaking away from dollar hegemony and U.S. unipolar control.
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Trump must have listened to the military's warnings that all game plans for conflict with Iran at this time showed the United States losing badly.
His Trumpian solution was to brag on his social media account that he had won a great victory in stopping Iran's march toward making an atom bomb.
Iran for its part evidently was glad to cooperate with the public relations charade. The U.S. missiles seem to have landed on mutually agreed-upon sites that Iran had vacated for just such a diplomatic stand-down.
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Israel is the big loser, and its ability to serve as America's proxy has been crippled. The devastation from Iranian rockets has left a reported one-third of Tel Aviv and much of Haifa in ruins.
Israel has lost not only its key military and national security structures, but will lose much of its skilled population as it emigrates, taking its industry with it.
By intervening on Israel's side by supporting its genocide, the United States has turned most of the UN's Global Majority against it.
Washignton's ill-thought backing of the reckless Netanyahu has catalyzed the drive by other countries to speed their way out of the U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military orbit.
So America's Oil War against Iran can now be added to the long list of wars that the United States has lost since the Korean and Vietnam wars, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the rest of its adventures leading up to its imminent loss in Ukraine. Its victories have been against Grenada and German industry - its own imperial "backyard," so to speak.

How Israeli regime shattered 15 innocent lives in one strike - a scientist and his family

In the early hours of June 24, the stillness of Astaneh Ashrafieh, a small town nestled in Iran's northern Gilan province, was shattered by the deafening roar of Israeli airstrikes.
Around 1.10 am local time, the Zionist regime unleashed missiles on a civilian home, reducing the modest dwelling to smouldering ruins.
Following the act of aggression, rescuers pulled 15 bodies from beneath the rubble, including grandparents, sleeping children, and entire families wiped out in an instant.
Among the killed was Dr. Seyed Mohammad Reza Sedighi Saber, one of Iran's accomplished nuclear scientists whose career had been defined by peaceful scientific progress.

WHO: 112 Palestinian children arrive at hospitals daily for malnutrition - SabaNet

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that approximately 112 Palestinian children have been admitted to hospitals in the Gaza Strip daily for treatment for malnutrition since the beginning of this year, due to the stifling Israeli blockade. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a press statement on Saturday: "The situation in Gaza, which is being subjected to intense Israeli attacks and a stifling blockade, has passed the stage of catastrophe."

Israeli strikes kill at least 23 on Saturday, including three children | Middle East Eye

Among the casualties were three children who were killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Israeli aggression on Jenin escalates for 159th consecutive day - SabaNet

Israeli aggression on the city and camp of Jenin in the occupied West Bank escalated Saturday, marking the 159th consecutive day of aggression.
The media committee in Jenin camp said that the Israeli enemy in the city and camp continues to bulldoze and burn homes, and convert a number of them into military barracks.
The committee stated in a statement that the number of martyrs since the beginning of the aggression on the city and camp has reached 42, in addition to dozens of injuries and detainees, according to the Sanad News Agency.
It noted that the aggression has resulted in the forced displacement of approximately 22,000 citizens, who were forced to leave their homes. More than 600 homes have been completely demolished, while the remaining homes have been partially damaged and rendered uninhabitable.

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Venezuelan minister exposes plot to frame Iran in Caracas synagogue 'attack'

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has laid bare a plot orchestrated by the country's opposition leaders, in coordination with the son of Iran's deposed monarch, to stage an attack on a synagogue in Caracas.
In remarks delivered on Thursday, Cabello accused opposition figure María Corina Machado and former security chief Iván Simonovis of planning the false-flag attack on a synagogue frequented by many members of the Jewish community in the South American nation.
According to Cabello, the scandalous plot - coordinated with Reza Pahlavi, the US-based son of the former Iranian dictator - involved a meeting with opposition politician Edmundo González and was intended to create a media spectacle that would "tarnish the reputations of Iran and Venezuela."
Cabello said the plan was to carry out the attack and then circulate false accusations that the Islamic Republic was using Venezuelan territory to target Jews and launch operations against the United States from Venezuela.

Houthis Show No Restraint, Launch Another Missile At IsraelSouth Front

The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen carried out another missile attack against Israel on June 28, the second in under 48 hours.

Iran's Constitutional Council approves move to suspend cooperation with IAEA

Iran's Constitutional Council has approved a parliamentary bill on suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after its report against Iran's nuclear program earlier this month became a lightning rod for the Israeli aggression on the Islamic Republic.

Michael Hudson & Ben Norton: The U.S. Empire's Plan for Global Domination - Global South

War on Iran is part of the US empire's larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson.
Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian integration with China and Russia.

Trump denies reports on providing Iran $30 bn for non-military nuclear program | Middle East Eye

US President Donald Trump dismissed media reports that said there were discussions about the possibility of helping Iran receive $30 billion to build a civilian nuclear program.
Citing officials, CNN and NBC have reported that the Trump administration had discussed possible financial preliminary proposals for Iran in return of ending its uranium activity.
Trump called the reports a "HOAX".

US splurged $800m on THAAD in 12 days to shield Israel from Iranian missiles: Reports

One of America's most advanced anti-missile systems faced an egregiously tough test, fending off Iranian missiles of diverse types and unpredictable capabilities fired during Iran's recent retaliation for Tel Aviv's unprovoked war, reports say.
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The experts also pointed out how THAAD - designed to deflect high-altitude ballistic missiles - was outmatched by the Islamic Republic's low-altitude projectiles and hypersonic ballistic missiles such as Fattah-1.

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Israeli army arrests group of settlers in occupied West Bank's Kafr Malik | Middle East Eye

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had arrested a number of Israeli settlers for attacking military reservists in a closed military zone in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Malik.
On Telegram, the Israeli army said the attack took place overnight, with the group damaging military vehicles and ramming security forces.
"Upon the arrival of the security forces, dozens of Israeli civilians hurled stones towards them and physically and verbally assaulted the soldiers, including the battalion commander," it said.
The statement added that Israeli troops dispersed the gathering, and six Israeli civilians were arrested and handed over to the police.

12bytes: Hmmm ... i wonder what this is all about?

Morning update | Middle East Eye

Here are the latest updates on Israel's war on Gaza:
- At least four Palestinian were killed early Saturday by an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, located in southern Gaza, according to medical sources
- Another two Palestinians were killed and several injured early Saturday morning in an Israeli bombing on Adnan al-Alami school sheltering displaced people northwest of Gaza City
- Israeli gunboats opened fire on the Gaza City shore early Saturday, injuring many Palestinians
- Palestinian media outlets reported that Israeli troops raided the cities of Nablus and Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, in the early hours of Saturday, carrying out multiple arrests
- Doctors Without Borders have denounced the killing of the people in Gaza while they await food distribution in sites administered by the US-Israeli led Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, calling for an end to 'these atrocities'.

At least 14 killed in Gaza since Saturday morning | Middle East Eye

At least eight people were killed on Saturday by an Israeli air strike that targeted Osama bin Zaid school in al-Saftawi area in the north of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.
Two children and a woman were among the killed.
This brings the number of those killed in the Strip since the early hours of Saturday to 14.

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"Of one thing we can be reasonably certain: any society that attracts large numbers of Jews can expect within a few years to enter a spiral of decadence. Moral anarchy sets in. Sexual promiscuity throws open its Pandora's box of evils. We saw it in Weimar Germany. We see it gathering pace in America today." -- Dr. Lasha Darkmoon in Sex and the Jews: Letter to a Jewish Correspondent, Aug. 29, 2010 (source)

"But as the Jew assimilates, acquires your languages, cultivates a certain intimacy, penetrates into your life, begins to handle your instruments, you are aware that his nature, once confined safely to his own life, now threatens yours." -- Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, 1924, p.144 (source)

"I speak OF THE DEATH OF THE WHITE RACE. The complete removal of all means of reproduction of the so-called Aryan race. Men, we now control the destiny of this race. It is now time to make sure the White race becomes extinct through miscegenation [incest] and having a virtually zero birth rate." -- Abe Foxman, former director of the Anti-Defamation League, during a speech on August 25, 1998, New York, NY. (source)

"Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out
inter- racial tensions, forbid the Whites to mate with Whites. The White Women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the White Men with black women. Thus the White Race will disappear, for the mixing of the dark with the White means the end of the White Man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory." -- Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich, during a meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, January 12, 1952 (source)

"I don't believe in western morality, i.e. don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries, don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)." -- Rabbis Manis Friedman, Ask The Rabbis in the May/June edition of Moment (source)

"If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!" -- Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev, during an interview with Diversity Chronicle, Novemner 18, 2013 (source)

"I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood." -- Joel Stein in Who runs Hollywood? C'mon, the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 19, 2008 (source)

"Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies [sic] that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive." -- Barbara Lerner Spectre during an interviews by IBA-News, 2010 (source)

"Lord God, give us the strength that we may retain our liberty for our children and our children's children, not only for ourselves but also for the other peoples of Europe, for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind." -- Adolf Hitler during a speech in Berlin, 30 January 1942, quoted in 'Voices of History: Great Speeches and Papers of the Year', 1942 ed. by Franklin Watts, p.123 (source)