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📜 US SHIPS 115000 TONS OF WAR GEAR TO ISRAEL FOR IRAN AGGRESSION VIA 403 FLIGHTS AND 10 SHIPS Israel's Ministry of War announces the United States has dutifully transferred 115,000 tons of military equipment and ammunition since the recent war on Iran kicked off. Delivery came courtesy of 403 air flights and 10 ships, keeping the occupation machine well-stocked. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 QUINCY INSTITUTE SAYS IRAN SHATTERED US MILITARY SUPERIORITY ILLUSION OVER CHINA The Quincy Institute notes Iran has dispelled the notion of U.S. military superiority against China. The current conflict not only worsened America's existing shortcomings but exposed how utterly unprepared the U.S. is for a real war between major powers. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 AMAZON SAYS BAHRAIN AND UAE CLOUD OPS DOWN FOR MONTHS THANKS TO WAR DAMAGE Amazon admits its cloud computing in Bahrain and the UAE faces months-long outages from war-related disruptions. No quick fix for the aggression's fallout. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 LEGO VIDEO NAILS TRUMP'S GRANDIOSE NARCISSISM WITH NOBEL DEMANDS AND GOLDEN FLORIDA STATUE A fresh Lego-style animated video shows Donald Trump flaunting grandiose narcissism, spotlighting his public pleas for a Nobel Peace Prize and push for a golden self-statue in Florida. It frames these as hallmarks of psychology's "Dark Triad"—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy—tied to history's ruthless leaders. Some American clinical psychologists tag Trump with signs of grandiose narcissism. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN READY TO THWART MARITIME SABOTAGE PLOTS Head of the Containers Committee at the Navigation and Shipping Association says Iran ranks among the most prepared nations to slap down any tries at cutting its sea links. He points out 40% of Iran's trade can just flip to land routes and transit corridors, no sweat. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 FOX NEWS: CALIFORNIA GAS HITS OVER $6 A GALLON UNDER TRUMP'S "GREAT AMERICA" Fox News reports California gasoline prices have topped $6 per gallon. Trump peddled promises of a "Great America" but handed over the highest gasoline prices in history. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRAN’S OIL FIELDS POOH-POOH STRAIT BLOCKADE PANIC Lift the blockade, and Iran restarts at 70% capacity fast, rebounding to most pre-war output in months—thanks to 2018 US JCPOA pullout and post-Covid know-how. Khuzestan’s carbonate reservoirs build pressure during halts, while West Karoun fields like Azadegan, Yadavaran, and Yaran (500,000 bpd) shrug off stops like Iraqi ones. Output holds at 3.06 million bpd, with new export routes brewing. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf just mocked exploding wells talk on X. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 WESLEY CLARK ADMITS IRANIAN ATTACKS HAVE CRIPPLED ISRAELI-US MISSILE STOCKPILES Wesley Clark, ex-NATO commander, says Iranian strikes wiped out hard-to-replace radars. Tomahawk stockpiles now under 50%, one-third of ballistic missile interceptors gone, and half the high-altitude THAAD inventory depleted. Some replacements? Years away. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TUNISIAN POET REEM AL-WURIMI CHANTS IN TEHRAN'S AZADI SQUARE Tunisian poet Reem al-Wurimi, famed for her poem "Take Me to Chant in the Streets of Tehran," makes good on her words. She's in Tehran now, reciting it right in front of the Azadi Square monument. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 HEZBOLLAH FIBER-OPTIC DRONE HITS ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLE IN SHOMERA SETTLEMENT Hezbollah sent a fiber-optic drone that nailed an Israeli military vehicle in the Shomera settlement, Western Galilee, sparking a large fire. First time one of these reached Western Galilee, second detection in northern Israel, and the initial breach since that so-called ceasefire. Israeli Channel 15 passed along the news. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 DEM REP SARAH JACOBS SLAMS PETE HEGSETH AS WAR MINISTER OVER IRAN FIASCO In a US Congress session, California's Democratic Rep Sarah Jacobs tore into Pete Hegseth—her "war minister"—for bungling the Iran conflict. She jabbed straight at him:

"If you think this situation in Iran constitutes evidence of victory, perhaps we should question your mental health."

Jacobs piled on that Trump ought to swap out the war minister. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN FM PRAISES LEBANESE RESISTANCE TO ZIONIST ATTACKS, REAFFIRMS SUPPORT Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi chatted on the phone with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. Araghchi hailed the Lebanese people's exemplary resistance against those Zionist attacks. He also locked in Iran's steadfast backing for Lebanon. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN PRESIDENT DEMANDS US STOP PROVOCATIVE BS TO SHOW IT'S SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING WAR Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian laid it out plain: the US needs to quit its provocative statements and actions first, if it wants any trust or credibility in wrapping up the war. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 ISRAELI MINISTER PROUD OF GAZA RUINS, PREDICTS BABIES WILL RECALL ZIONIST ATROCITIES Israeli Minister of Social Equality May Golan announced she's personally proud of the ruins in Gaza. She claims every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell grandchildren what Zionists did when families were murdered, raped, and civilians kidnapped. The remark echoes statements from some folks 80 years back. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 UAE SQUEEZES PAKISTAN FINANCIALLY AND LASHES GULF ALLIES OVER IRAN STANCES UAE relations with fellow Gulf states and Pakistan have soured amid their softer lines on Iran. The UAE is now twisting Islamabad's arm with financial pressure while hurling rare direct barbs at its own allied Gulf monarchies. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN'S GHALIBAF: 1622 GULF VICTORY OVER EUROPEAN OCCUPIERS PAVED WAY FOR DITCHING AMERICANS TODAY Iranian Shura Council President Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf notes that in 1622, after 115 years of European occupation, Iran booted the colonizers from the Persian Gulf. The country marks National Persian Gulf Day to celebrate that win. He says Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz now delivers a sweet perk for itself and neighbors: a future sans American meddling. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

UPDATE:📜 IRS PALANTIR SYSTEM SPYING ON MILLIONS NOW TARGETS LEFT GROUPS AND DEM DONORS Taxpayer info now feeds ICE for quick deportations via a mid-2025 automated pipeline spitting out home addresses in minutes from name lists—no human review, no limits. Acting general counsel Andrew De Mello balked at handing over 7.3 million addresses to ICE over legal snags; he got the boot two days later. Engineers warn tiny code tweaks could add employer details and family ties, oversight be damned. Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel—a Trump... @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US MILITARY EXPERT SAYS IRAN PREPPING NUCLEAR WEAPON WITH PAKISTAN AND RUSSIA HELP Professor Robert Pape, US military expert, states Iran is laying groundwork for a nuclear weapon. He claims collaboration with nuclear-armed Pakistan and Russia. Iran coordinates better with allies than the US manages with its own, Pape adds. Iran positions itself as a major global power hub. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN EMBASSY IN TUNISIA DROPS VIDEO OF TRUMP'S NAVY DESTRUCTION CLAIM, GETS SKEPTICAL IRANIAN RESPONSE Iranian Embassy in Tunisia shared a video of Donald Trump boasting that Iran's Navy is destroyed. Iranian Navy deputy coordinator Jalil Madkom fires back, wondering why U.S. forces won't come within 400 to 500 kilometers of Iran's territorial waters if that's the case. @TheBabylonTimes

UPDATE:📜 IRANIAN NAVY DEPUTY CALLS OUT TRUMP'S NAVY DESTRUCTION BLUFF Iranian Army official Jalil Gholam Sadeghi, deputy coordinator of the Iranian Navy, says the United States doesn't dare approach Iran's territorial waters. He challenges Donald Trump's claim that the Iranian Navy has been destroyed, pointing out U.S. forces keep a cozy 400 to 500 kilometers away if that's the case. @TheBabylonTimes