https://archive.ph/sKwnI

US Quietly Moves THAAD and Patriot Batteries in Jordan as Chinese Satellites Expose Every Step During Iran Ceasefire

Chinese commercial satellite imagery has exposed the United States quietly relocating THAAD and Patriot missile-defence batteries across Jordan during the fragile US-Iran ceasefire, revealing how Washington, Tehran and Beijing are now competing simultaneously across missile warfare, surveillance and space-enabled intelligence.

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The United States has quietly used the current US-Iran ceasefire to reposition critical THAAD and Patriot missile defence batteries across Jordan, immediately transforming a temporary operational pause into a wider contest over regional survivability. High-definition Chinese satellite imagery released on April 19 has exposed the new American deployments, demonstrating that even during a fragile ceasefire, large missile defence systems remain visible to increasingly sophisticated foreign surveillance networks. The redeployment carries consequences extending far beyond Jordan because it reveals how the United States, Iran, and China are now competing simultaneously across missile warfare, operational concealment, and space-enabled intelligence collection. The movement followed Iranian strikes during March that damaged the previous THAAD deployment near Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, forcing Washington to reconsider whether its earlier defensive layout remained operationally viable. The American battery originally entered Jordan during late January, reflecting growing concern that Iranian ballistic missiles and armed drones could threaten US facilities throughout the Levant and Gulf.

The current two-week ceasefire, announced on April 8 and brokered by Pakistan, provided the first sufficiently low-risk opportunity for the Pentagon to move sensitive launchers, radars, generators, and supporting logistics equipment. Chinese commercial imagery companies rapidly identified the new deployment areas, publishing annotated photographs showing dispersed launchers, support vehicles, radar arrays, and freshly prepared defensive positions near existing Jordanian military facilities. The released images appeared to show both THAAD launchers linked with AN/TPY-2 radar components and Patriot batteries operating alongside AN/MPQ-65 engagement radars and supporting command vehicles. The resulting public disclosure has intensified concern inside Western defence circles because the imagery emerged from commercial Chinese providers rather than Beijing’s more capable classified military reconnaissance architecture. No American official has publicly confirmed or denied the redeployment, yet the visual evidence corresponds closely with earlier base layouts, known radar signatures, previous launcher configurations, and established American force posture patterns. The exposure of the new Jordanian sites also indicates that future American missile defence deployments across the Middle East may require far greater mobility, deception, camouflage, and electronic concealment than previously considered necessary. For Washington, the Jordan episode has therefore become more than a regional force-protection issue because it demonstrates that every future crisis will unfold beneath continuous Chinese overhead observation.

Ceasefire Used to Repair a Damaged Defensive Shield

The United States appears to have treated the ceasefire primarily as an operational breathing space, allowing damaged missile defence infrastructure inside Jordan to be repaired, replaced, dispersed, and reintroduced without immediate attack. Iranian retaliation during early March reportedly struck the original THAAD site, leaving visible debris, burn marks, and apparent damage surrounding the battery’s principal radar installation. That earlier deployment had been concentrated around Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, where the THAAD system protected American aircraft, logistics hubs, and command facilities supporting operations throughout the broader Middle East. Because THAAD relies heavily upon its AN/TPY-2 radar, any successful strike against that component can significantly degrade the entire battery’s detection, tracking, and interception effectiveness.

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New Positions Suggest a Shift Toward Dispersed Survivability

The newly visible deployment areas appear deliberately selected to reduce vulnerability against ballistic missiles, armed drones, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions approaching from several directions simultaneously. Rather than returning the systems to their previous, easily identifiable locations, American forces appear to have positioned launchers closer to terrain features and existing infrastructure. The fresh layout also seems more widely dispersed, making it harder for Iranian planners to destroy the entire defensive architecture through a single coordinated strike package. Several launchers appear separated from their associated radar systems, indicating an effort to complicate enemy targeting and reduce the likelihood of simultaneous catastrophic losses.

this also shows the problem with dispersal - there's a reason those launchers come together in a package with the radar systems, separate them and while they may be more survivable, they'll also be less effective

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Chinese Satellite Imagery Has Exposed a New Battlefield Reality

The Chinese imagery that exposed the redeployment reportedly originated from commercial providers using sub-meter resolution optical satellites supported by artificial intelligence-based analytical software. Those systems can automatically identify launchers, radar arrays, logistics vehicles, roads, prepared sites, and camouflage patterns before rapidly distributing annotated products across social media platforms. The imagery released publicly on April 19 reportedly came from firms associated with MizarVision, which draws upon commercial satellite constellations and automated geospatial interpretation tools. Even those publicly available systems are not considered China’s most advanced overhead surveillance assets, making the episode strategically significant far beyond Jordan. China’s classified military reconnaissance network reportedly offers far greater revisit rates, higher resolution, improved persistence, and substantially stronger all-weather observation capability through combined optical and radar satellites. That means large missile defence systems such as THAAD and Patriot can increasingly be tracked almost continuously, even when deployed rapidly during periods of crisis. The Jordan redeployment therefore illustrates how former assumptions about operational secrecy are rapidly becoming obsolete under modern commercial and military satellite surveillance. American forces may still conceal smaller mobile systems, yet large fixed assets now appear increasingly vulnerable to immediate discovery, analysis, and public dissemination.

Beijing Gains Strategic Leverage Without Direct Involvement

China’s decision to allow the imagery to circulate publicly adds a strategic signalling dimension extending well beyond the immediate question of American missile defence positioning. By exposing the redeployment during a ceasefire, Beijing effectively demonstrated that it can observe, interpret, and publicise sensitive American military activity almost in real time. That capability provides China with indirect leverage because it allows Beijing to influence regional perceptions without deploying forces or issuing direct political threats. The imagery also strengthens China’s narrative that the United States can no longer assume information dominance across the Middle East or Indo-Pacific. For regional states watching the confrontation, the satellite disclosures reinforce perceptions that China now possesses a rapidly expanding intelligence and reconnaissance advantage. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other American security partners may therefore begin questioning whether future US deployments can remain concealed during a prolonged conflict. The episode also creates potential deterrence complications because visible missile defence positions can become easier targets for adversaries planning future precision strikes. China therefore gains strategic value from merely revealing the deployments, even without participating directly in the ongoing confrontation between Washington and Tehran.

Fragile Ceasefire Masks Continued Preparations for Future Conflict

The American redeployment strongly suggests that Washington does not believe the current ceasefire will produce a lasting reduction in regional military tensions. Instead, the repositioning indicates that US commanders expect hostilities could resume quickly if negotiations collapse over Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz, or additional Iranian missile activity. The movement of THAAD and Patriot systems into less exposed locations therefore represents a hedge against renewed conflict rather than preparation for withdrawal.

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The redeployment also suggests that Washington is preparing for future attacks specifically targeting radar systems, launch vehicles, and support infrastructure rather than only personnel. The most important lesson from the episode is therefore not merely that THAAD and Patriot moved inside Jordan, but that every future movement may now occur under nearly total overhead visibility.

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Guardian update - Iranian state TV is reporting that no Iranian delegation has yet departed for Pakistan to attend peace talks with the US. It is not clear yet if they will attend the talks today despite pressure from mediators including Pakistan to do so. The country’s state broadcaster wrote in a post on Telegram that “no delegation from Iran has travelled to Islamabad, neither a primary nor a secondary, neither initial nor follow-up.”

Axios, meanwhile, is reporting that the US vice-president JD Vance is due to leave for Islamabad by Tuesday morning for talks with Iran, a day before the ceasefire expires. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy who often acts like a de facto secretary of state, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, are also expected to travel to the Pakistani capital for the talks.

Iran has been stalling because of possible pressure from the Revolutionary Guards on the negotiators to adopt a firmer line and insist there cannot be diplomacy while the US is blockading the strait of Hormuz, according to the Axios report. Iran holds a deep mistrust of the US as it has been attacked before during previous negotiations.

Why do I even bother lmao

[2026-04-21] @PressTV: 🔴 Despite reports in the American media, no Iranian delegation has entered Pakistan yet.

[2026-04-21] Al-Manar – Preliminary Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad as US delegation is already present: Pakistani diplomatic source

I think this is the most normalbrained way to format headline-only blurb articles? 🤔

From yesterday (20th): although Larry Johnson has not watched Medhurst's video yet, he has apparently heard of it. Johnson says he disagrees with the idea that this war will strengthen the petrodollar. (More bluntly, he says "Dude, what are you smoking.")

It's not exactly a rebuttal (just a flippant aside), but it's at least interesting that, at some point, when he heard "A journalist has argued that this war could actually strengthen the petrodollar," apparently no scenario popped into his head that he thought was credible.

Timestamp is 33:58 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aUIRaWUtgTA

I think Johnson is not impressed with US threats to blockade shipping at a distance, at least at this stage. Last week on Diesen's show he said the US needs to use helicopters to interdict ships, because the US lacks the political ability to threaten to sink cargo ships at sea, and therefore the ships would call their bluff. If that premise holds, it raises the issue that a carrier with helicopters can only cover so much area at sea, and then there are issues on top of that like maintenance strain on the aircraft, etc.

Timestamp is 3:08 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=78osgairBb4

I guess, by that reasoning, the central question becomes, would the US open fire on cargo ships belonging to third parties? And if so, what would happen?

Well, first off, it's fine for me to WMG post because this is a space OSINT guy who is fun. The "completely destroyed" thing seems baseless though as the drones usually hit fuel tanks & shit that isn't hard to repair. The overall trend of energy attacks well beyond Russia isn't something to ignore tho

[2026-04-21] @StarboySAR: Oops... Somebody is blowing up energy infrastructure worldwide — purely coincidentally — the targets happen to be exactly the states building non-dollar partnerships with China, Russia and the Global South

@FinanceLancelot: A massive fire has broken out at one of the largest oil refineries in India. 🇮🇳

(4 videos I'm too lazy to embed)

Russia's Tuapse Oil Refinery has been completely destroyed by Ukraine (American) drones

Probably nothing...

(video)

https://xcancel.com/FinanceLancelot/status/2044801493321109970#m

Peru's primary election won't be counted fully until next month 😩

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-reviews-disputed-election-ballots-with-final-result-likely-stalled-until-2026-04-20/

New NASA study estimates that Artemis EVA suits will not be ready for demonstration until 2031, with their potential use in a moon landing being even later. The lunar suits were originally scheduled for completion in 2025.

The Rossiya Segodnya media group editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, explained why her children are learning Chinese:

Power is no longer concentrated in a single capital or filtered through one political or cultural lens. We are living in a multipolar era again, and have been for some time.

That shift didn't happen overnight and it has accelerated, particularly over the past decade. And that is almost exactly how long my eldest child, Mariana, now 12, has been studying Chinese. Her younger siblings, Bagrat, 11, and Maro, six, followed naturally, virtually since birth. They did not "pick up" the language as a novelty or an extracurricular experiment. On the contrary, they were deliberately grown into it.

In the century now we are in, fluency in Chinese is not merely an advantage. It is a necessity.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260420/why-my-children-learn-to-speak-chinese-1124013498.html

https://archive.ph/2a4Rg

U.S. Ambassador Threatens Peru After Lima Delays F-16 Fighter Jet Deal

U.S. Ambassador to Peru Bernie Navarro issued a direct threat to the Peruvian government Friday, vowing Washington would use “all available tools” if it deems Lima is negotiating in bad faith over the suspension of a multi-billion-dollar F-16 fighter jet purchase.

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Navarro, representing the Trump Administration, reacted sharply on the social media platform X after interim President José María Balcázar announced the final decision on the $3.5 billion fleet renewal would be deferred to the next government taking office July 28. Balcázar argued the financial commitment constituted excessive national debt for a transitional administration. “I will use all available tools to protect and promote the prosperity and security of our country,” Navarro posted.

The controversy stems from Peru’s plan to replace its aging fleet of French Mirage 2000 and Russian MIG-29 jets with 24 new aircraft. While Balcázar previously indicated a preference for the U.S.-made F-16 Block 70, he clarified Friday that no contract has been signed and no funds have been disbursed. The cost of the proposed acquisition exceeds the budget originally approved by the Peruvian Parliament. The negotiations, driven by former Prime Minister Ernesto Álvarez and Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela, are part of a broader deepening of U.S.-Peru defense ties. In February, De Zela announced Peru’s designation as a Major Non-NATO Ally, a status conferring specific U.S. military assistance. The bilateral agenda also includes the construction of a $1.5 billion naval base in the port of Callao, to be built by U.S. military personnel and financed by the Peruvian state. Balcázar reiterated that with the presidential transition imminent, a decision of such fiscal magnitude should be left to an administration with a fresh electoral mandate and full democratic legitimacy. :::

https://xcancel.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2046204529897611573

The US Government has begun refunding up to $166 billion in tariffs charged under President Trump after the Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful. Beginning today, businesses can file claims through a new customs system. Over 330,000 importers across 53 million shipments are expected to be eligible. Once approved, refunds plus interest will be paid within 60 to 90 days.

https://xcancel.com/bjack129903/status/2046213608070328823

Businesses that already passed the higher costs to consumers are now getting big refunds with interest, while regular people who paid more get nothing 🤡

What are your predictions for this week?

Tim Cook out at Apple?

https://xcancel.com/Coinvo/status/2046136793603694749

UAE has told the U.S. that if they run out of dollars, they'll be forced to trade oil in Chinese yuan.

https://archive.ph/2criR

A new socdem party "Progressive Bulgaria" that was founded only 1 month ago has won the election in Bulgaria yesterday, taking 131 seats of 240. They got 43.5% of the vote, while 2nd place party only got 15%.

I don't really know anything about them but it seems like news.

https://xcancel.com/WallStreetApes/status/2046204738681597988

Our roads in America are crumbling. A huge 8 foot by 4 foot hole is found on the I-64 into Illinois. It’s on a bridge, the driver almost hits it. He walks over and looks down the hole, you can see the road way below. He quickly leaves fearing he may fall through. The pavement crumbled, leaving only the steel grid support structure visible. I looked more into this and Illinois Department of Transportation did covered it with a steel plate as a temporary fix until it’s repaired.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046103711731290112/vid/avc1/1080x1750/M1BKTaqStLpBIaRy.mp4

what do americans even have anymore? no healthcare, no infrastructure, no borgar... guess there's copious amounts of online gambling?

Israel’s about to invent the back door cope cage - new Hezbollah video

https://t.me/mmirleb/15485

REPORT | Sexual violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers is deliberately driving Palestinians from their West Bank homes, new report finds

More comprehensive report attached in the link

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More than 70% of displaced Palestinian households in the occupied West Bank identified threats to women and children — particularly sexualised violence — as the decisive reason for leaving their communities, according to a report by the West Bank Protection Consortium, led by the Norwegian Refugee Council.

The report documents how conflict-related sexual violence has become a systematic tool of forced displacement in Area C, operating within a broader coercive environment of settler attacks, movement restrictions, and persistent impunity.

Based on 83 in-depth interviews and 12 focus group discussions across 10 Palestinian communities, it found at least 16 documented cases of sexual violence attributed to Israeli settlers and soldiers — a figure researchers say is significantly higher in reality, as survivors rarely disclose incidents due to stigma, fear of retaliation, and the threat of further targeting by Israeli forces.

Among the documented abuses: ▪️ Settlers attempting to sexually assault a blindfolded man with a broomstick in Wadi al-Seeq, with perpetrators circulating images of the abuse ▪️ A woman subjected to a full-body naked inspection by female Israeli soldiers, with derogatory comments and touching of intimate areas ▪️ Settlers walking naked between Bedouin shelters before a community fled overnight ▪️removed threats made while settlers stalked women walking to latrines ▪️ Drones hovering outside bedroom windows and cameras directed at beds

Key findings on the consequences of displacement: ▪️ 84% of households experienced settler violence alongside systemic coercive pressures ▪️ 87% of women who experienced forcible transfer lost all sources of income ▪️ 90% of women reported increased psychological stress and trauma ▪️ 40% of affected children lost access to education ▪️ 92% of displaced households lost access to grazing and agricultural land

Since January 2023, more than 5,600 Palestinians including 2,600 children have been displaced across 107 communities. In the first three months of 2026 alone, 1,697 Palestinians were displaced — already surpassing all of 2025. Settler attacks last year reached their highest recorded level since OCHA began monitoring in 2006. :::

Iran is skipping talks in Islamabad due to american piracy

Palantir's fascist manifesto below, worth reading if only to know one's enemy

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The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

It continues... :::

Arnaud bertrand on Palantir's fascist manifesto, worth reading because he is actually thoughtful

::: spoiler spoiler If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir document 👇 wouldn't be a manifesto they proudly boast about, but a clear sign of the urgent need to purge its software from the public institutions it has infiltrated.

What are they saying, essentially?

They basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a "they" - the supposed enemies of Western civilization, whose cultures the document codes as inferior - and a "we" who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software (which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure).

Look at point 4 for instance. They write that "the limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software."

It all rests on a pretty massive assumption: that coexistence is impossible. Why would "free and democratic societies" (by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal-democracies) need to "prevail"? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems out there?

Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption: it's simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument.

But it's the entire ballgame: if civilizations and political systems can coexist - as they largely have, imperfectly but recognizably, throughout history - then the entire case they make in the document evaporates.

In fact one can argue that, studying history, the big problem was not that civilizations couldn't coexist: it was that, from time to time, one of them decided that others were inferior, threatening, or standing in the way of its rightful expansion - and acted accordingly.

So many catastrophes and so much human suffering in history trace back not to the fact of plural civilizations, but to one of them deciding it could no longer tolerate the others.

The problem, in other words, has almost always been exactly the worldview Palantir is now selling. Their manifesto isn't warning against the cause of some of the worst periods in history: it's arguing for reviving them!

Or take point 15: they explicitly call for the re-armament of Germany and Japan, and an end to "Japanese pacifism". Basically undoing one of the foundational settlements of the post-WW2 order.

I mean, think about the insanity of this for a second: a private company - unelected, answerable only to its shareholders - is casually proposing to overturn the security architecture of two continents. A settlement that took a world war, and tens of millions of dead to establish.

Why do they propose this? There is obviously a commercial motivation: a remilitarized Germany and Japan are massive new defense-software markets.

But the more troubling answer is that point 15 fits into the ideological project the rest of the manifesto lays out - a civilizational contest requires a consolidated Western bloc, and pacifist members are a liability in such a contest.

So taking a step back we now have what's the most influential defense-software company in the world, with its code deeply embedded in all the machinery of Western states - intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, welfare systems, border controls - openly outing itself as an ideological project.

They're effectively saying "our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours."

Because, worryingly, that's what they CAN do. Palantir software is all about basically telling states: "these are your threats, these are the people and groups to watch, these are the patterns that matter, these are the targets that warrant action."

For instance the DGSI - the French intelligence services - use Palantir (see: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…): do you honestly think the software is warning them about, say, the NSA tapping the phones of French government officials? About the weaponization of US extraterritorial law against French companies? Did it warn them about the AUKUS ambush that cost France a sixty-billion-euro submarine contract? Obviously not.

And that's exactly what the manifesto is saying. They've positioned themselves as advocates of Western civilizational unity, so their software can't undermine it. The ideological position and the product roadmap have to align, or the whole project falls apart.

This makes their software not only deeply dangerous for the world as a whole but also, almost by definition, for any country using it. When it comes to your security as a state, it is primordial you base yourself on truth as opposed to ideology. The entire point of an intelligence agency is to tell its government what is true, not what your so-called "allies'" defense contractors would like you to see.

A state that outsources its threat assessment to a company with an explicit ideological agenda is not gathering intelligence, it is essentially subscribing to propaganda.

The conclusion couldn't be more obvious. Every government still running Palantir software in its intelligence, security, or public-service infrastructure needs to start ripping it out, now! Lest they want to be embarked on the delusional and deeply destructive clash-of-civilizations crusade Palantir has now openly committed itself to. :::

You will have no tanks left - Hezbollah Military Media

Related article: https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollahs-fpv-drones-pose-shocking-threat-to-israeli-troops-occupying-south-lebanon-report

you know what, eff you blockades your blockade

Iran warns that security in the Strait of Hormuz does not come free - Prensa Latina

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Tehran, April 20 (Prensa Latina) Iran's First Vice President, Mohammad Reza Aref, stated today that security in the Strait of Hormuz "comes at a price" and warned that its guarantee cannot be expected free of charge while restrictions on Iranian oil exports continue.

In a message posted on the social network X, Aref addressed the situation in this strategic maritime route, currently affected by tensions stemming from the naval blockade imposed by the United States.

“The choice is clear: either a free oil market for all, or a risky and costly one for all,” the senior official said, while noting that the stability of global energy prices depends on ending the economic and military pressure against Iran and its allies.

The statement comes after Iranian authorities announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to US actions, according to a statement from the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.

Following that decision, the UK Maritime Operations Office (UKMTO) reported several incidents involving vessels in the area off the coast of Oman in a short period of time.

Meanwhile, Iran reported launching drones against US warships, after Washington announced an attack on an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman.

These events coincide with expectations of a possible resumption of negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, amid conflicting reports about the development of the diplomatic process.

The current scenario is part of the conflict that began on February 28, which left thousands of victims, followed by a temporary ceasefire announced on April 8 with mediation from Pakistan. :::