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📜 ECONOMIST CHRIS MARTENSON WARNS US WAR ON IRAN WOULD CRIPPLE OIL SUPPLIES UNFIXABLE BY PRINTING PRESS Economist and researcher Chris Martenson lays it out: a US war with Iran triggers a physical oil crisis that the Fed's money printer can't touch, unlike those financial messes they've magicked away before. America clings to narrative control, blind to physics' hard no—oil doesn't get conjured from hot air. US brass figures messaging will sort it, but physical limits like oil production ignore the spin. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD BOATS POST UP IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ Image captures fast attack boats from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps parked in the Strait of Hormuz, right where the oil flows and tensions simmer. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN OFFERS PAKISTAN PROPOSAL TO END WAR IMPOSED ON IT AMID IRGC SHOW OF FORCE Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister says the country submitted a proposal to Pakistan for permanently ending the war imposed on it. He adds Iran stands fully prepared to confront any aggression. This follows recent displays of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fast boats in the Strait of Hormuz. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN CALLS OUT TRUMP'S UNAUTHORIZED WAR ON IRAN Democratic Congressman John Larson says the war with Iran kicked off without congressional approval, with Trump acting like he's above the law. Sixty days in since Trump launched the unauthorized strikes, 13 U.S. troops are dead and gas prices have spiked. Trump declares he'll never bother asking Congress for war permission, convinced he's unaccountable. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP-ERA STATE DEPT HAND JOINING U.S. TEAM TO WRAP UP WAR ON IRAN Two U.S. officials spilled to CBS News that Nick Stewart, a State Department holdover from Trump's first term, is hopping onto the negotiating squad with Iran. Kushner—Trump's son-in-law—put him there, after his stint at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Dude's got his nuclear issue specialty. Omanis and Pakistanis are playing middleman for these indirect chats in Islamabad, as the U.S. chases an exit from its 60-plus-day war with Iran. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRANIAN EMBASSY QUOTES LARIJANI'S FINAL MESSAGE ON 40TH DAY OF HIS MARTYRDOM On the 40th day since Ali Larijani's martyrdom, the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon dropped a statement channeling his last words:

"Unity of the front and identifying the true enemy are the actual and certain path to achieving victory."

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📜 ISRAEL'S CYBER COMMAND PLOTS IDF-CONTROLLED DIGITAL WALLET CAGE FOR GAZA In February's kickoff Gaza Board of Peace meeting, Liran Tancman, co-founder of Israel's Cyber Command, unveiled a digital platform for electronic payments in Gaza. He promised a 2G network upgrade to free high-speed access by July 2026, backed by a "secure digital backbone" from the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, plus Amazon-style logistics. The cashless setup lets the IDF throttle Palestinians' digital wallets whenever it suits. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN JUSTICE MINISTER CALLS OUT ENEMY'S DESPERATE DIVISION TACTICS Iranian Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi laid it out plain: the enemy rolled in fully equipped, bombed its objectives to dust, and still came up empty. Now they're scraping the barrel, trying to land a punch by stoking internal rifts.

"The enemy, which entered the battlefield fully equipped but failed to achieve its goals, is now seeking to deliver a blow by focusing on stirring internal divisions."

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📜 EUROPEAN AIRLINES' JET FUEL STOCKS DOWN TO SIX WEEKS AMID IRAN WAR DISRUPTIONS France 24 reports European airlines' jet fuel stocks could vanish in six weeks. The International Energy Agency warns Europe clings to about six weeks of reserves, courtesy of the war with Iran choking oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY BRUSHES OFF US SANCTIONS ON IRANIAN OIL PURCHASES China's Foreign Ministry just stated it doesn't recognize those US sanctions tied to buying Iranian oil. And they won't comply with the lot. Business as usual for Beijing, thumbing its nose at Washington's arm-twisting. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 RTX THINK TANK PATENTS DNA ANTIVIRUS TO SNIFF OUT ENGINEERED BIOWEAPONS Cooked up under the intel crowd's FELIX program, it treats DNA like TCP/IP packets to spot CRISPR-chimeric virus traces in bioweapons at over 4 MB/min. Plugs into Oxford Nanopore MinIONs for CBRN drones or bunker vents. Jacob Beal, SBOL DNA language guy turned threat hunter, and cyber-spook Daniel Wyshogrod on zero-day signatures, led the charge. Oh, and it lets virologists mutate viruses to dodge it, birthing stealth bioweapons. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ISRAELI STRIKE ON SCHOOL LEAVES TEACHER RAZIA ZAMANI UNRECOGNIZABLE, ID'D BY DNA Razia Zamani, 34-year-old teacher at Al-Shajara Al-Tayyiba School in Minab, got turned into an unrecognizable mess by an Israeli strike on the school. Conventional ID methods failed; DNA testing confirmed it was her. In the video, her voice cuts through the chaos right before the attack killed her on duty. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 HUNAZALA HACKERS BREACH ROBERT MALLEY'S ACCOUNTS AND DUMP 150,000 CONFIDENTIAL EMAILS Hacking group "Hunazala" claims it cracked the accounts of Robert Malley, the ex-U.S. presidential advisor who engineered sanctions on Iran. They dumped 150,000 highly confidential emails and thousands of private X conversations from his official account. Just the usual digital skeleton-rattling for Washington's Iran hawks. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ISRAEL SEIZES OVER HALF OF GAZA STRIP DURING CEASEFIRE Israel's grabbed more than half of Gaza amid the so-called ceasefire, per The Cradle. Beyond the Yellow Line—where the IDF was supposed to pull back under Trump's plan—they've drawn a fresh Orange Line deeper in, snagging another 11% of the territory. That bumps their occupied chunk to about 64% of the Strip. Aid groups got the updated maps in mid-March, but they only surfaced publicly just now. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US TECH GIANTS FUND DARK-MONEY CAMPAIGN TO PUSH AI AND BASH CHINA ON TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM Wired uncovers Build American AI, a dark-money outfit indirectly propped up by OpenAI, Palantir, and Perplexity, running a big influence push on TikTok and Instagram. They shell out up to $5,000 per post to influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers, peddling patriotic lines like "support domestic AI" and "AI enhances ordinary life." Posts also hype anti-Chinese warnings about data grabs and job theft. Backing comes from Leading the Future, a lobbying web flush with up to $140 million from big US tech firms. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRAN HOPES US TRIES GROUND WAR AFTER LOSING AT SEA AND AIR Brigadier General Rostam Ali Refiei Atani, commander of the Sahib al-Amr Brigade, says Iran is hopeful the United States slips up by testing its strength on the ground. That's after getting beaten at sea and in the air, he adds, practically inviting them to give ground war a shot too. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN TELLS SAUDI AND OMANI OFFICIALS RETALIATORY STRIKES WILL MAINLY HIT UAE The Wall Street Journal reports Iran gave Saudi and Omani officials the heads-up: its payback strikes zero in on the United Arab Emirates. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 YEMENI COAST GUARD SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF SHABWA, ESCORTS IT TO SOMALIA Yemeni Coast Guard grabbed an oil tanker in their own territorial waters southeast of Yemen, off Shabwa province. Speedboats pulled up, boarded the thing, and nudged it northward into Somali waters under escort. Video catches the whole routine at sea. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 ISRAELI OCCUPATION AIRCRAFT TARGET ZOUTAR AL-SHARKIYA VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON Video catches the precise instant Israeli occupation aircraft slam Zoutar al-Sharqiya village in southern Lebanon. Footage shows the strike landing right in the area. Clip offers zero hints on casualties or damage. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US MOUNTS CITY-SPYING GORGON STARE ON REAPER DRONES FOR TOTAL SURVEILLANCE The US military's Gorgon Stare system—meant to hunt insurgents—now rides MQ-9 Reaper drones. Multiple cameras feed video of entire cities from 25,000 feet, says creator Bilawal Sidhu, spatial intelligence expert. Fancier ARGUS-IS even tracks individual pedestrians on the ground. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum