Israel / Iran

[Monkeybubbles]

Confirmed?

Yes

Do you have a source for that please? All I can find about it is a claim from the IDF.

[vietnammer]

Ave a word with yourself

[BowenArrow]

Do you have a source for that please? All I can find about it is a claim from the IDF.

Not much else out there than that. IDF saying they've been dead for over a year, were killed "with bare hands" and they've shared the evidence "with partners around the world". Don't see that any other organisation have commented on it yet though.

[sendô]

The reality here - and whether people want to accept it or not - is a large number of the prisoners being released by Israel will likely go straight into swelling the ranks of the Palestinian armed forces, and the cycle of trading rocket attacks and air strikes will continue.

The whole region is at it's lowest ebb for decades.

[last.caress]

Posted in the Trump thread but it probably needs posting in here too:

[sendô]

Of course he's put his name on it.

[Plashet Grove Pete]

Very odd - Israeli government trying to move the goalposts?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... efire-deal

[Ozza]

What a surprise (not)

[vietnammer]

Of course he's put his name on it.

Fend off satire for the plebs?

[Plashet Grove Pete]

Utter bull**** in this article. Surely everybody knows the Israelis only want peace?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... hamas-deal

[Plashet Grove Pete]

So America now talking directly to Hamas despite it's confirmed policy of not negotiating with terrorists?

Whilst jaw jaw is better than war war, another sign of the duplicity of Trump and his cronies?

From the BBC - "Wednesday began with news that the US is directly negotiating with Hamas leaders for the release of American hostages still in Gaza. Contacting a group designated a foreign terrorist organisation by the US since 1997 represents a dramatic shift away from decades of US policy".

[sendô]

"If you let me build some hotels in Gaza, I'll make you all very rich".

[snooperpooper]

Trump saying, "we're going to see some things happen on Iran very, very soon"

[vietnammer]

Report (Grauniad - sorry can't link) that Trump has 'written' to Ali Khamenei about reopening negotiations on uranium enrichment. This is apparently tempered by the remark (something like) '...if the US gets involved militarily it'll be very bad for them' (Iran)

FWIW PressTV reports the Iranian mission to the UN says this letter has not been received.

[The Old Man of Storr]

Report (Grauniad - sorry can't link) that Trump has 'written' to Ali Khamenei about reopening negotiations on uranium enrichment. This is apparently tempered by the remark (something like) '...if the US gets involved militarily it'll be very bad for them' (Iran)

FWIW PressTV reports the Iranian mission to the UN says this letter has not been received.

Yee R.......


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ary-threat


'' Iran’s supreme leader rails against Trump’s ‘bullying’ military threat
Ayatollah Khamenei says US demand to reopen talks on Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at domination . ''


Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has criticised what he described as bullying tactics a day after Donald Trump threatened military action against Iran.

“Some bully governments – I really don’t know of any more appropriate term for some foreign figures and leaders than the word bullying – insist on negotiations,” Khamenei told officials after Trump threatened military action if Iran refused to engage in talks over its nuclear programme.

“Their negotiations are not aimed at solving problems, they aim at domination,” Khamenei said on Saturday. ''


Last month, Khamenei reiterated his opposition to negotiations with the US, calling this “unwise” just days after Trump called for a new nuclear deal.

Khamenei accused Washington of having “ruined, violated, and torn up” the 2015 agreement.

In 2019, more than a year after Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA, Japan’s then premier, Shinzo Abe, visited Iran in an attempt to mediate between Tehran and Washington.

But Khamenei firmly rejected the possibility of talks with the US, saying he did not “consider Trump as a person worthy of exchanging messages with”.

[sendô]

That's some going to make Iran look like the good guys in a disagreement.

[simon hammer]

Trump saying, "we're going to see some things happen on Iran very, very soon"

Trump reminds me of the "boring prophet" from Life Of Brian. Speaks a lot of words, says very little:

..."Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one"...

[mcdaddy99]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... yahu-hamas

Over 400 confirmed deaths now from overnight strikes in Gaza. I’m sure the likely suspects will pop up and say that 99% were Hamas militants, they were precision strikes and they should have freed all hostages by now (the hostages families have condemned these strikes).

Utter, indiscriminate brutality. Apparently Netanyahu rang Trump last night to seek his blessing prior to the planned strikes. Our leaders are supposed to represent the best of us, these are truly horrid times we’re living through. A break from the news may be in order personally.

[vietnammer]

The USA (or UK) will NEVER sanction or even threaten Israel. We're firmly on their side.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... l-law-gaza

[Puff Daddy]

Another Israeli airstrike on Gaza over night. Just only 300 Palestinians killed this time. Mostly, young children