US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Just a refresher about land grabbing Israel.

The situation in the Straits seems to be a lot more complicated that much of the media coverage would suggest. Iran is apparently continuing to ship oil out at the rate of about a million barrels a day, about 60% of normal, plus they exported 2 million a day during February knowing the war was coming. They've also tripled their natural gas exports. Needless to say, the US can't or won't lift a finger to impede this to avoid upsetting the markets further.

They've also done deals with India (and probably also China) to let tankers through. I suspect that's what the French and Italians are angling for already.

Iran still exporting millions of barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz even as other traffic paralyzed | CNN Business

Criticism of a nation that is an apartheid state, which constantly steals land that doesn't belong to them and is guilty of numerous war crimes and ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide and who acts as an aggressor nation to all around it isn't "demonisation".

The recent episode of Louis Theroux meeting the settlers showed a Rabbi saying that Israel should conquer neighbours including Lebanon.

Don't forget the 'settlers' killing kittens and the IDF sniping sheep. I saw a video earlier of the 'settlers' setting a Palestinian person on fire but I'm not going to repost that.

Not to mention a casus belli.

That seems to be a general fascist failing. Unsurprisingly.

I was in Isfahan, it's an utterly amazing place and, like I said before, the people there like everywhere else I was in Iran were just so kind to me.

Foreign FM Araghchi is playing a blinder so far.

Some Gulf states hosting US forces may be covertly encouraging the slaughter of Iranians, Iran’s foreign minister has claimed in a thinly-veiled attack on Saudi Arabia.

Abbas Araghchi demanded clarification on reports that Mohammed bin Salman was in regular private conversations with Donald Trump, urging the US president “to continue hitting the Iranians hard”.

Araghchi was responding to the second US media report in a week claiming the Saudi crown prince’s public opposition to the US attacks on Iran did not reflect his private position. “Stances should be promptly clarified,” he said in a post on X after stating that hundreds of civilians had been killed in US-Israeli attacks, including more than 200 children.

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, issued an appeal directed at Muslim populations in the Gulf states urging them to ask themselves which side they were on in the war and why no Islamic country had stood by the Iranian people.

Defending Iran’s attacks on Gulf states, he said: “Are we being asked to stand idly by while US bases in your countries are being used to attack us? The confrontation today is between America and Israel on the one hand, and the Muslim Iran and the forces of resistance on the other.”

As usual mealy mouthed soundbites and no follow through

UK and allies 'gravely concerned' as Israel launches ground offensive in Lebanon

The UK has released a joint statement with Canada, France, Germany and Italy after Israel launched a ground operation in Lebanon.

The countries say they are "gravely concerned" by the escalating violence in the country.

They call for meaningful engagement by Israeli and Lebanese representatives to negotiate a sustainable political solution.

A significant ground offensive would have devastating humanitarian consequences, they warn, adding that it could lead to a protracted conflict.

The UN is pretty displeased with the near daily ceasefire violations and killing of civilians. Over 100 civilians, including 16 children in the first 10 months of the “ceasefire”

The UN has also recorded the abduction of 19 Lebanese civilians by the IDF.

Why is the killing of children by Israel not considered a violation of the ceasefire for which there are no consequences?

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/un-experts-warn-against-continued-violations-ceasefire-lebanon-and-urge