Patrick Wintour – The Guardian Jan 24, 2026
Donald Trump has said an American “armada” is heading towards the Middle East and that the US is monitoring Iran closely, as activists put the death toll from Tehran’s crackdown on protesters at 5,002.
Speaking on Air Force One as he returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos overnight, he said: “We have a lot of ships going that direction, just in case. I’d rather not see anything happen, but we’re watching them very closely … we have an armada … heading in that direction, and maybe we won’t have to use it.”
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers are due to arrive in the Middle East in the coming days. Additional air defence systems are being deployed, most likely around US and Israeli airbases. The UK said it would send RAF Eurofighter Typhoon jets from 12 Squadron to Qatar, at Doha’s request.
Iran will treat any attack “as an all-out war against us, and we will respond in the hardest way possible” a senior Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Friday ahead of the arrival of the US aircraft carrier strike group.
The US president pulled back from attacking Iran two weeks ago, despite promising “help is on its way”, largely because he felt he had been given no military option that would prove decisive in securing regime change in Tehran. He was also urged to hold back by the Gulf states.
In an update on Friday, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said the death toll from the Iranian crackdown on protesters had reached 5,002 – comprising 4,716 demonstrators, 203 government-affiliated people, 43 children and 40 civilians not taking part in the protests.
The agency’s numbers have been accurate in previous unrest in Iran and rely on a network of activists there to verify deaths. HRANA said at least 26,541 people had been arrested.
The protests started on 28 December when traders took to the streets in Tehran in response to a sudden dip in the value of the rial. As they spread, demands expanded to include calls for an end to the country’s government, creating the most serious and deadliest unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution.
Comment – Jan 24, 2026
The article continues at length concentrating on the recent protests and the brutal crackdown on protesters. However there are a couple of really crucial omissions.
First of all the Guardian doesn’t have any reporters in Iran: so where is getting its information about the riots in Iran?
Crucially, the Guardian makes no mention of alleged Mossad and U.S. covert operations orchestrating the unrest:
The Guardian makes absolutely no mention of covert U.S./Israeli involvement behind the unrest. Rather than investigating if agent provocateurs are at work, the Guardian focuses on the Iranian government’s crackdown and the international reaction to its “brutality” against protesters.
To make matters worse, the Guardian fails to mention the massive protests in support of the Ayatollah:
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities recently to show their support for the Ayatollah. Yet the Guardian and other western outlets were notably silent about this. Why?
I’m not a Muslim or a supporter of the Ayatollah but there is something missing in the Guardian’s coverage here. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq we were inundated with coverage about Saddam’s WMD. Something obviously had to be done, or so we were led to think, so the Iraq invasion went ahead.
Now decades later it’s clear that all we were told about Iraq’s WMD was little more than a fiction to justify the ousting of Saddam.
Are reports like the Guardian’s above, similar to all those earlier stories about Saddam’s WMD? Are all the reports about Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters – many of whom are allegedly Mossad or CIA assets – intended to prepare the western public for military strikes against Iran?
“… an American “armada” is heading towards the Middle East…” — should make for an interesting turkey shoot with Iranian missiles. 🙂
“The Guardian makes absolutely no mention of covert U.S./Israeli involvement behind the unrest.” — are we surprised coming from the (((Guardian))) ??
No doubt Trump wants use of the stolen land Diego Garcia from which air-tanker refuellers can take-off or whatever US assets operate from there. But now the deal made by Britain to give these islands back to those who were ethnically cleansed from there is said to be complicated by US power to deny that deal. “The legislation, which was set to be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, has been delayed, amid warnings it could breach a treaty with the US that asserts the UK’s sovereignty over the archipelago.”
If this denial of return is true then the UK doesn’t have sovereignty the US does. So say so ffs. The world will be so much better when this western mafia running it are broke and departed.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-power-block-starmer-chagos-104600818.html
The “US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)” ????
It is all BS and the only pretext they can use to bomb Iran and “save” those poor persecuted Iranian freedom fighters. The UK of course is right in there. How about Canada? Is it going to go along with the US in order to get along.
The US-UK-Israeli ZOG efforts to crush Iran ought to be the calling card for the rest of the world to unite and defeat these every evil nations, otherwise every nation will be subjected to their dictatorship, exploitation and oppressing and the spread of their filth through their criminal organizations.
Listening last night to Jimmy Dore interviewing Dane Wiggington of GeoengineeringWatch.org stressing the fact that the US military is behind the never-ending chem trails over our nations with tons and tons of crap being dropped over our nations through US chemtrails. it is clear that the US most certainly has been engaged in weather wars since WWII whereby they believe that by controlling the weather of the world they will control the world. The US HAARP installations are crucial to their weather control operations, and they are running full bore. It was strange that no one is connecting the dots to why the US really wants to control Greenland. In typical Nazi-ZOG-style ruthlessness, US diplomacy is first to threaten to annex Greenland, and then they make the offer the Danes cannot refuse which is total military access to Greenland to set up massive HAARP installations.
This is one more clear reason why the rest of the world has to say ENOUGH and train all weaponry on these rogue nations screwing over the planet and everyone in it.
This Massive Winter Storm Is COMPLETELY ENGINEERED! – Dane Wiggington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLw2s8lXKA
Trump would gladly trade the lives of 5000 sailors on the carrier if their sacrifices contributed to Donny’s latest war. He loves war and he loves to brag about his love for war.
Funny how this works. Where was Trump’s Armada when Israel was brutally killing Palestinians in GAZA? We can only hope that a war with Iran hasn’t already been planned, as Iran ain’t no Venezuela or Cuba.
Trump forgets the last “armada” was defeated quite soundly.
Yeah..
….earlier TS post showed that Trump and Kikes olde (4) point plan for regime change didn’t happen and they got stuck.
Likely see Gulf of Tonkin 2.0 happen…US ship gets “attacked”….then USA gloves off.
However USA has zero clue as to the Iran’s arsenal and capability.
US = another quagmire ?
This may be their overdue Waterloo?
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A $112B Gaza rebuild plan sends one message: israeli terrorism pays
Opinion by ZVIKA KLEIN • israel turns mass graves into investor opportunities. That’s the business model.
Last week, US envoy Jared Kushner presented renderings of “New Rafah”: 100,000 housing units, coastal tourism zones, and the full luxury development pitch. “Project Sunrise” proposes $112 billion to rebuild Gaza as a destination resort.
Trump has a hotel and golf course, Tony Blair has a large sea front plot beside Nutenyahus
The plan supposedly requires Hamas demilitarization first. they would be damn fools to give in their weapons
Then you read the actual text: Amnesty and safe passage for any of the large number being expelled
ireland and the UK have taken in huge numbers of those expelled
israelis expected all non jews to be destroyed, the hostages home, and real security changes, as the palestinians were evicted
CONSCRIPTION ?
In 1917 Rothschild forces took Russia
and the Russian royal family the Romanovs were murdered
as they kept refusing Rothschild Banking.
The war on Germany was in reality because Adolf Hitler started Germanies
own currency.
Japan refused to allow in Rothschild fractional reserve lending
and at the end of the war they were bombed, Germany was not bombed
as Rothschild Oppenheimer and Rockefeller wanted to seize the factories
this is one reason why allied bombing was moved to the dormitory towns.
US General Wesley Clark said ” ‘I just got this down from upstairs today.’ And he said, ‘This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.'”
The idea is that all countries that refuse Rothschild banking get bombed then they have to borrow from the banks to rebuild, and the jews then have them.
Just keep in mind anyone who joins as a service man is fighting for Rothschild terrorism
the london proposal to make the city centre car free
is unworkable says paul stringer
overheard saying ” i hate cars they bark like dogs and stink like jews”
lol so funny