This Week in the New Normal #115
Including this week: Mexico’s war on cash and the Scottish Parliament’s rejection of a bill for assisted dying
The Gulf countries may retaliate if Iran attacks continue, Turkey says
Turkish foreign minister says Gulf states warned they may be forced to take “countermeasures” if Iran’s attacks continue, raising fears of a wider regional war, which is exactly what Israel wants. Providing a distraction while it continues its campaign of conquest to create a ‘Greater Israel’
Britain sees no evidence that Iran is targeting Europe with missiles
Iran denies firing missiles at the joint U.S./UK airbase on the Indian Ocean isle of Diego Garcia. This follows IDF social media posts claiming that Iranian missiles can reach “London, Paris or Berlin”. Are U.S/Israel trying to draw Europe into their illegal war on Iran?
Iran Warns of Consequences Beyond Hormuz Strait if US Seizes Kharg Island
Having ordered thousands of Marines and support ships to the Gulf, Trump is thought to be viewing seizing Kharg Island to secure the Strait of Hormuz, although no firm decision has been made. However, if Trump does order Marines in, the IRGC has warned that they will sustain “unprecedented” casualties
IRGC hits another Israeli F-16 fighter jet with interceptor missile
Iran claims its air defence forces have intercepted over 200 enemy aircraft in the skies over Iran in the past month. Including drones, cruise missiles and advanced fighter jets, among them three Israeli F-16s
US Aircraft Losses Mount Amid High-Tempo Airstrike Campaign
U.S. aircraft losses are mounting over Iran and with it there is a rise in disinfo from the mainstream media to cover the cause of the losses
Israel’s AWACS Is Gone — Iran Spent $5M To Do It And That’s The Scariest Part
Like all its losses, Israel played down the disappearance of a Gulfstream G550s over the eastern Mediterranean. The plane was one three that comprised Israel AWACs fleet and contributed to its regional air superiority. To make matters worse, it appears that an Iranian missiles that shouldn’t have been there shot it down
“They’re Hiding The Real Risk…” | Douglas Macgregor: The Nuclear Question Just Got More Dangerous
The risk in the war with Iran is that someone will use a nuclear weapon, says Douglas Macgregor. It wont be the U.S., he stresses, and nor will it be Iran, which doesn’t have nuclear weapons anyway. However, Israel is under heavy conventional missile bombardment and it has nukes; and Netanyahu may well resort to a nuclear response
Iran TAKES DOWN F-35, Rains Missile HELL on Israel | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Former intelligence analyst Larry Johnson and former aide to secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss Iran’s downing of an F-35. Plus: the devastation being wrought by Iranian missiles and the morale problem among ordinary Israelis
IRGC: USS Gerald Ford’s retreat exposes ‘hollowness’ of American military power
Iranians mock as America’s ‘most advanced carrier’ is forced to withdraw from the front – following a fire in its laundry and plumbing problems, according to a US Navy spokesman
Democrats accuse Bondi of Epstein files coverup, demand special investigation
Is U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi covering credible allegations of rape of young teenage girls by Donald Trump? Is this why he launched an illegal war on Iran, to distract attention from explosive testimony against him?
Trump administration has ‘lost control of its own foreign policy’, says Oman
Oman’s foreign minister who mediated talks between the U.S. and Iran claims that the Trump administration had “lost control of its own foreign policy”.