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*Iran Detests America's 'Unacceptable' Demands *War Intensity May Increase *Turkey, Egypt Scramble To Get Talks Back On Track Regional mediation efforts to broker a ceasefire between the United States (US) and Iran have reached a dead end, mediators said on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The push, led by Pakistan, has failed to yield a breakthrough, with Tehran formally notifying mediators that it is unwilling to send officials to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, for talks in the coming days. Iran has also stressed that it finds Washington's demands unacceptable, effectively closing off the current framework for negotiations. The breakdown…

*Appoints VP Vance As Fraud Czar US President Donald Trump has announced a fresh crackdown on fraud in Democratic states and tapped Vice President (VP) JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of arrests in California. In a Truth Social post today, the President announced that his VP is now “in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”, claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive” and that Vance’s new role as “fraud czar” will be “a major factor in how great the future of our country will be." Trump said that Vance would focus on “everywhere…

*Military Ruler Is Now In His Fourth Year As President “Democracy, we kill children. Democracy, we drop bombs, we kill women, we destroy hospitals, we kill civilian population. Is that democracy?” This was the position of Burkina Faso military President Ibrahim Traore yesterday,four years into his reign, as he told his country to forget about democracy as it is “not for us." Traoré was speaking in an interview with the country’s broadcaster, Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB). Traoré took power in a coup in September 2022, toppling another junta that had taken power just nine months earlier. He has since…

*Mocks Trump's Claim Of Curtailed Capabilities, Insists More Crushing Strikes Underway Talking tough, the Iranian military has responded to United States (US) President Donald Trump's remarks yesterday, warning that the war in the Middle East will continue until the US faces what it described as "lasting humiliation and surrender." In a statement, a spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Military Headquarters, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, threatened to launch "stronger, wider, and more destructive" attacks against the US and Israeli forces, rejecting Trump's claims that its capabilities have been significantly weakened. The statement came hours after Trump said that over the next two…

*Parliamentary Commission Security Chief Mocks US Leader *Israel Kills Hezbollah Commander In Lebanon *Death Toll Mounts Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday rallied the American people against President Donald Trump, who has been facing mass demonstrations in the US over the war on Iran and associated matters. Pezeshkian posted a letter to Americans on his X account. He wrote that his country has no 'enmity' for the American people. In his letter to Americans, Pezeshkian laid out the longstanding, historical grievances behind Tehran’s distrust of Washington, with a turning point being the 1953 coup d’état, which he described as “an…

*Trump Claims Parliamentary Speaker Okays Passage Of 20 US-Allied Ships Through Hormuz Strait *Move May Lower Fuel Prices In Nigeria, Others *Insists New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Either Dead Or Badly Injured The tough-talking top Iranian official who publicly declared on Saturday that his country's troops will ''set on fire" American ground soldiers should they venture into the Persian Gulf nation, has allegedly granted permission to oil tankers of a major ally of the US to ply the Strait of Hormuz, closed to US/Israeli ships and those of their allies. US President Donald Trump, who disclosed this to the influential…

*Trump Publicly Talks Peace, But Is Secretly Preparing For Ground War, He Adds *Gulf Foreign Ministers To Meet In Pakistan Iranian Parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has published a message marking 30 days since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The war kicked off 28 February this year with the first US/Israel airstrikes instantly killing Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and over 40 top military and civil leaders who were meeting in his well-fortified presidential palace in Tehran. Khamenei has since been replaced by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei. Iranian forces “are waiting for the arrival of American…

*War Death Toll Mounts: Israel, 23; US, 13 Soldiers,Civilians In Gulf Bases; Iran, Over 1900; Over 20,000 Injured; Lebanon, Nearly 1100 Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have confirmed that they launched an attack on Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-US war on Iran, marking their entry to the conflict just hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US expected to conclude military operations within “weeks, not months." While Israel was again hitting targets across Iran’s capital, Tehran, today, it identified what it said was a missile launched from Yemen. The Houthis said the attack…

Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, while it is weighing a decision on whether to join the fight directly. The Saudi source confirmed reporting in the New York Times that said the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, has urged Donald Trump not to cut short his war against Iran, and that the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign represented a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East. The intelligence source said Riyadh was not just calling for the military campaign to be continued, but…

*Duo To Be Assassinated Days Ago, But Pakistan Told US Of Their Importance In Ongoing Peace Negotiations -Source *Strait Shutdown Responsible For Rising Global Oil Prices Israel said yesterday that the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC ), Navy, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, had been killed in an airstrike, the latest senior Iranian official targeted in a relentless hunt-and-kill campaign. Later, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the killing and said that in addition to Tangsiri, the strike also killed the IRGC Navy’s intelligence chief, Behnam Rezaei, and the rest of the Navy’s top leadership. The military did not…