Iran-Israel-U.S. developments - building with BRICS (30-Jun-2025) (update 2)
"I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief. We don't belong to the same army, or to the same state. ... We hardly belong to the same human race." -- Uri Avnery in Eyeless in Gaza: On Israeli Troops Cheering Over Shooting an Unarmed Palestinian, Apr. 16, 2018 (source)
The US is considering a potential $510m arms sale to Israel, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on Monday.
It follows a request by Israel to buy 3,845 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kits for the BLU-109 bomb and 3,280 KMU-572 F/B JDAM guidance kits for the MK 82 bomb.
"The United States is committed to the security of Israel and it is vital to U.S. national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability," the DSCA said in a statement.
"The proposed sale will enhance Israel's capability to meet current and future threats by improving its ability to defend Israel's borders, vital infrastructure, and population centres," the statement went on to say.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is set to return to the White House next week, amid reports that President Trump is "pressuring" Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. But as we just witnessed with Iran, the U.S. and Israel are always on the same team.
Sarah Bils, Co-founder of DD Geopolitics, noted that the Israeli think tank behind the "Abraham Shield Plan" is giving insight into the broader U.S. foreign policy plan for the Middle East, which is presented as a "response" to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, but in reality, it's a "regional war doctrine in waiting, framed as stability but built for escalation."
Iran's next military conflict with Israel will be the "last" one for the Jewish state, as Tehran now understands its arch-enemy's weak points, an anonymous source in the Islamic Republic has exclusively told RT. They also claimed that Iran still has numerous advanced missiles in its stocks, which can penetrate Israeli air defenses.
US President Donald Trump says Washington is "not going to stand" for the long-standing prosecution of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a host of corruption charges.
A Pakistani senator has condemned a threat by the US and Israel to target Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, saying it will trigger a response from all Muslim nations, including Pakistan.
Josh Sigurdson talks with Mark Gonzales about the upcoming BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 6th and 7th of 2025.
The latest BRICS summit expects to see the entrance of 44 more countries into the alliance and the calls for a total shift away from the US Dollar into a new world reserve currency system under BRICS+.
While Putin cannot attend due to an ICC arrest warrant and Xi cannot attend due to inner problems between China and India, the overall agenda remains in place as the alliance gains more than half the world's population.
The power shift was scripted long ago with the west falling to the east. The west of course propped up the east as the inevitable replacement system with a cashless society and a global technocracy as the goal.
The 17th BRICS Summit is sure to cause panic among the dollar maximalists but the issue remains the same regardless of the dollar falling to BRICS or not. There will still be a CBDC system as a replacement for the failed world reserve fiat currency as all fiat currencies eventually fail.
As we witness a banking crisis, the shift into a depression, a housing crisis, an employment crisis and massive inflation, the replacement system will be a digital ID with rations. That is, if you keep your money in the bank.
Russia is launching their mandated digital ID wallet and "WeChat" type application. The UK and European Union are launching their digital ID. The United States and Canada are launching their own digital IDs including corporations like XMoney owned by Elon Musk releasing their own CBDC and digital infrastructure in cooperation with 'Episodesix.'
The EU is launching their CBDC by October and the United States has passed the GENIUS Act and the STABLE Act which involves stable coins with KYC as well as the use of this surveillance technology within banks. The whole purpose of crypto in the first place was to avoid the banking system.
We are witnessing history and with chaos comes order as wars heat up.
This is exactly the scripted move the establishment wanted in the first place.
It is well known in some circles that Jews were responsible for a long list of atrocities in the Soviet Union. The sheer magnitude of the enormities committed in that era is staggering. Between 1917 and 1953, millions of Russians suffered arrest, torture and murder, millions more perished in the Gulag, and yet more millions expired in state-engineered famines. Among the people responsible for these horrors were many Jews.
12bytes: Given the timing, this appears to be a decisive move by Iran in its preparation for future aggression by Israel and the U.S.. When that happens, i don't know, but given the state Israel is in as a result of Iran's missiles and drones, it seems they'll need at least a few months to repair and re-arm. I suppose Israel might use its political power to force the U.S. to bomb Iran sooner, or Trump may decide on his own, but i would guess that this could still be months off in order to give the public time to forget about the Trump's claimed "obliteration" of Iran's nuclear program after the first strike. Of course the other scenario which people are talking about is a false-flag operation in the U.S., likely perpetrated by Israel, and blamed on Iran.
After direct aggression of the messianic West on herself, Iran blocked US-controlled GPS and switched to the more advanced Chinese BeiDou. This is more than a technologic paradigm change..
The Lebanese General Security arrested a group of Syrians in Bourj al-Barajneh, in the southern suburb of Dahieh in Beirut, after citizens reported their suspicious activities. Preliminary investigations revealed connections to the terrorist group Daesh, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). What is even more disturbing is that the group in question was found in possession of an electronic app for direct communication with Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. A security official has called this a serious threat, with ongoing inquiries focusing on the group's purpose in the area, their operations, and potential collaboration with Mossad.
TEHRAN - An Iranian source told the Tehran Times that Iran informed the United States 12 hours before its June 23 strike on Al Udeid Air Base that it intended to target U.S. installations in the region.
The source said no specific base was named in the warning.
"After our warning, they evacuated their bases in West Asia out of fear," the source added.
An Israeli air strike targeting a cafe on Gaza City Beach has killed at least 33 Palestinians, including a journalist, and injured around 50 others, according to eyewitnesses and reporting from Wafa news agency and Quds Network.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Monday that settlers set fire to an Israeli army security post in Beit El in the West Bank last night, estimated to cost three million shekels. The attack was in protest against the injury of a 14-year-old settler from Beit She'an, who they said was shot by Israeli forces over the weekend.
12bytes: I really enjoy these interviews with Jacques Baud, formerly of the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service. His opinions and commentary are some of the most careful, articulate and intelligent of all the people i'm watching regarding the Israel-Iran hostilities.
The Israeli army announced the deployment of the "Gilead 96" division on the border with Jordan, citing "escalating threats," in an escalation with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
An Israeli army spokesperson said, "Threats are expected to escalate on the eastern border with Jordan," due to what he called "Iran's efforts to undermine Jordan's stability and use it as a base for its proxies against Israel."
The city of Bat Yam in the Israeli-occupied territories looks like the destroyed areas in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the retaliatory strikes that Iran carried out against the regime, according to Israeli Hebrew-language media.
The Israeli daily Calcalist reported that, according to new data, approximately 18,000 people have been evacuated from homes destroyed by Iran's missile attacks.
Of these, 12,000 have been relocated to hotels while the remainder have been housed in rental apartments.
Analyses reveal that four cities-including Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, Rehovot, and Ramat Gan-were severely damaged by Iran's missile attacks, while a critical shortage of available housing plagues displaced settlers.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Israeli forces escalated their relentless assault on Gaza, launching dozens of airstrikes that have killed scores of Palestinians, including families searching for food and shelter, as hospitals warn of catastrophic shortages and rising casualties.
Israel carried out at least 50 air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday, concentrating firepower on the eastern districts of Gaza City after issuing forced displacement orders that have triggered widespread panic among residents.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli strikes killed at least 68 Palestinians during the day, with 47 of the victims targeted in Gaza City and the northern areas.
Ten Palestinians searching for food were killed in an Israeli airstrike that struck an aid distribution warehouse in the Zeitoun neighborhood of southern Gaza City, according to al-Ahli Hospital staff.
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Israeli warplanes attacked civilians lining up for food, killing multiple people and wounding at least 50 more, sources at Nasser Medical Complex reported.
Two more Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces near an aid distribution center in Rafah, deepening fears that Israel is deliberately targeting desperate civilians.
Hospitals across Gaza are collapsing under the onslaught.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) confirmed that the video footage of a Zionist drone targeting a Palestinian citizen in the Gaza Strip carrying a bag of flour on his back documents a crime committed daily by the Zionist enemy army.
Hamas said in a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba): "The footage broadcast by Al Jazeera of a Zionist drone targeting a citizen carrying a bag of flour on his back in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City documents a scene from a heinous crime committed daily by the fascist Zionist enemy army."
Sixteen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes targeting several areas in Gaza since the early hours of Monday, according to sources in Gaza hospitals.
The report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers are ordered to shoot into crowds of Palestinians at aid hubs, with 580 killed and 4,216 wounded, is not a surprise. It is the predictable denouement of the genocide, the inevitable conclusion to a campaign of mass extermination.
Israel, with its targeted assassinations of at least 1,400 health care workers, hundreds of United Nations (U.N.) workers, journalists, police and even poets and academics, its obliteration of multi-story apartment blocks wiping out dozens of families, its shelling of designated "humanitarian zones" where Palestinians huddle under tents, tarps or in the open air, its systematic targeting of U.N. food distribution centers, bakeries and aid convoys or its sadistic sniper fire that guns down children, long ago illustrated that Palestinians are regarded as vermin worthy only of annihilation.
The blockade of food and humanitarian aid, imposed on Gaza since March 2, is reducing Palestinians to abject dependence. To eat, they must crawl towards their killers and beg. Humiliated, terrified, desperate for a few scraps of food, they are stripped of dignity, autonomy and agency. This is by intent.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Gaza Strip, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, announced that it shelled Israeli soldier concentrations east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Israel's launching of strikes against Iran drew from the same playbook it has employed in its multiple interventions across the region in recent years. This strategy comprises assassinations and the targeting - in addition to military sites - of civilian infrastructure, such as universities and hospitals. Israel's recent strikes killed hundreds of civilians in Iran.
One need not be an expert in international affairs to see that this offensive was designed to derail the delicate diplomacy that had been taking place between Iran and the US since President Donald Trump's return to power.
Washington's participation in this conflict not only rode roughshod over Trump's promise to end costly American interventions abroad, but it also highlighted the continuing hold that Israel maintains over US policy in the Middle East.
An Israeli official has confirmed that Israeli drones worth "hundreds of millions" of dollars have gone missing in Iran, during the latter's defensive operations in the face of an unprovoked war by Tel Aviv.
