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Friday, July 11, 2025

What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

#Germany summons #China’s ambassador after military aircraft lasered in Red Sea

A #maritime #surveillance aircraft was part of #EU mission #Aspides, which is intended to better defend #civilian #ships against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

It was #lasered earlier this month “without any reason or prior contact” by a #Chinese #warship that had been encountered several times in the area, the German Defence Ministry said.

euronews.com/2025/07/08/german

Germany summons China’s ambassador after military aircraft lasered in Red Sea
euronews · Germany summons China’s ambassador after aircraft lasered in Red SeaThe maritime surveillance aircraft was part of the EU mission Aspides, which is intended to better defend civilian ships against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

#Iran #Lavrov
#Israel #Aggression
@palestine

Lavrov: “We intend to stay vigilant, as the 'war party' [Israel] remains highly active in the Middle East."
""We keep hearing a variety of statements from some representatives of the Israeli leadership," he added, suggesting that those officials were persistently agitating for the resumption of aggression against the Islamic Republic"
"Lavrov criticized some European states’ “aggressive” anti-Iranian efforts,"
War not over

presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/04/7

PressTVRussia warns of Israeli war party seeking to reignite aggression against IranRussia has warned about various Israeli officials’ efforts to trigger the resumption of aggression against Iran.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Ukraine shows footage of Bober drones hitting Russian air defenses, fighter jet in Crimea — Ukraine’s new interceptor UAVs are starting to knock Russia’s long-range Shahed drones out of the sky — Germany still weighing Taurus missile supply to Ukraine — [vlog/video] Why Norway is investing billions in Ukraine’s victory … and more

activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

Putin confirmed what many people believed: Ukraine is only the first nation of many nations that Putin, like Hitler before him, intends to conquer.

Putin said: "Where the foot of a Russian soldier steps, that is ours":
msn.com/en-nz/news/other/putin This is a slideshow that appears on several pages.
#NationalSecurity #defense #politics #Russia #aggression

www.msn.comMSN

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that
one man in the Defense Department was having an outsized say on Washington’s Iran strategy:

Erik Kurilla, the hawkish U.S. Central Command leader known as “The Gorilla.”

“He’s a big dude, he’s jacked, he’s exactly this ‘lethality’ look they’re going for,” said an anonymous former official.

So long as military advisors “come across as tough and warfighters,”
the source added, Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth “is easily persuaded to their point of view.”

Kurilla’s influence illustrates a broader truth about Washington’s current priorities:
💥In Trump’s second term, hypermasculinity has become the governing logic of U.S. foreign policy.

Masculinity in itself
—associated with traits such as leadership, strength, and courage
—is not harmful.

But a brand of traditional masculinity defined by
🔥aggression,
🔥lack of emotional regulation,
🔥and poor impulse control is,
and it has become a driving force in an administration that favors preemptive attacks in pursuit of national self-interestover U.S. values.
#hypermasculinity #aggression #gorrila #ErikKurilla #PeteHegseth
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/u

Foreign Policy · Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign PolicyBy Alice Lassman

#Iran #Sovreignty
#US #Aggression
@palestine

"Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations says the Islamic Republic will not acquiesce to any restrictions imposed on its missile power"
Dead right.
Why doesn't Witkoff ask Netanyahu to stop buying F16s and bunker buster bombs. And as he's at it, ask him to sign the NPT and give up Israeli nukes? Why doesn't he do that instead? Or he could simply STFU

presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/28/7

PressTVIran rejects limits on missile power, stresses enrichment on own soilIran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has affirmed the Islamic Republic’s determination to continue its enrichment activities within its borders.

Pentagon says US doesn't seek war with Iran after bombing 3 of its nuclear sites

dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites while Vice President JD Vance said the strikes have given Tehran a renewed chance of negotiating with Washington.

#Iran#War#USA

Samidoun Condemns U.S.-Zionist Aggression on Iran, Urges Solidarity, Unity and Action

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns in the strongest terms the Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched in the early morning hours of Friday, 13 June 2025, and affirms Iran’s complete and legitimate right to defend itself and to respond by all means. This is not only an attack by the Zionist entity alone, but clearly coordinated with, armed, funded and directly cheered on by the United States and its fellow imperialist powers. The moment requires clear and explicit solidarity and action to confront the Zionist-imperialist war machine.

As the people of Iran awaken to the bombing of residential neighborhoods in Tehran and sites throughout the country, imperialist politician after imperialist politician declares that they are “praying for Israel” amid its ongoing, unlawful and illegitimate aggression. This attack once again exposes and underlines the facade of U.S. “diplomacy” and expressions about “peace” — they want only subjugation, surrender and the abdication of sovereignty and self-determination, but never peace or security for the people of the region.

When the US claims it wants “negotiations” on the future of a sovereign nation’s energy and defense policy, it is only buying time in order to carry out its imperial war plans. The only way to security and peace in the region is to uproot the Zionist entity — the military base of Western imperialism — once and for all.

We express our deepest condolences to the Iranian leadership and people on the martyrdom of senior leaders, including Major General Hossein Salami, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Lieutenant General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, and a number of scientists and leaders.

The vicious hands of imperialism and Zionism are carrying out a genocide in Gaza for the past 20 months amid 77 years of ongoing genocidal colonialism throughout occupied Palestine; carrying out daily assassination and bombing crimes in Lebanon; besieging and bombing the brave people and leadership of Yemen; occupying Syria and engaging in daily aggressions and bombings; and today attacking Iran after years of warmongering and economic coercive measures intended to undermine the independent and self-determined path of development for Iran.

Iran is being targeted today because it stands with Palestine and the Resistance throughout the region and because it refuses to relinquish the independent future of its people and its nation to the exploitation, domination and destruction of U.S. imperialism.

Iran has every right to defend itself, which is, particularly at this time, a defense of humanity against the genocidal forces of death and devastation that seek only to extract the wealth, resources and future of the peoples of Iran, Palestine, the region and the world.

It is urgent to unify the ranks of our collective camp of resistance at this critical moment, including the popular movement in the imperial core and around the world, to stand firmly and clearly against the U.S.-Zionist aggression and in solidarity with Iran’s self-defense and self-determination.

The liberation of Palestine is at the heart of the global struggle against imperialism, as it is at the core of the struggle for Arab liberation and to defend the Islamic nation. The nuclear-armed Zionist project is carrying out a genocide in Palestine and aggressively seeking to expand throughout the region, and the battle of confrontation against its genocide and aggression requires the united effort of all.

This is a moment when action, escalation and organizing are critically necessary, including direct action to shut down the war machine, bring the genocide against the Palestinian people to an end. We must take action to materially impede the aggression of imperialism and Zionism and to develop our collective organizations to withstand repression, state violence and targeting, especially at a moment of growing uprising in the United States against fascist state violence, particularly targeting migrant workers and communities.

The bombing of children, the assassination of leaders, the attempted destruction of nations: this is, in short, the nature of the Zionist entity and U.S. and European imperialism. There is no path to peace, security or justice without bringing them to an end and imposing true accountability for their crimes.

Victory for Iran, victory for Palestine, victory for humanity.

source: Samidoun

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=

Zionist Regime Launches Massive Attack on Iran, Risking Regional War

The Zionist occupation military confirmed early Friday the launch of a broad aerial offensive targeting Iran’s nuclear program, political and military staff and civilians.

In an official statement, the occupation military said it carried out a “precise, preemptive strike” in Iran, “with the goal of damaging Iran’s nuclear program.”

It named the operation “Rising Lion.”

There are reports of civilian casualties and extensive damage in the cities and in milfitary facilities.

Reports are beginning to confirm US collusion in the attack as was expected. The Iranian state announced it considers the US a party to the aggression and vowed an immediate response.

US regime leader Donald Trump stated, the US will “defend itself and ‘Israel'” if Iran retaliates. He also claimed that he was briefed in advance about the attacks.

The aggression is an attempt to launch a wider war to try to cripple Palestinian support, and anti-western resistance in the region.

The war is certainly going to escalate and potentially turn into a regional conflict.

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=

"When small children are fighting bitterly, it sometimes is better to let them fight for a while and only try to separate them after."

This utterly sick metaphor on #Russia's deadly and criminal war of #aggression against #Ukraine came out of the sewer faucet known as #Trump's filthy gob. And boy is it falling on his own tiny feet now. "Small children fighting bitterly", as in Donnie's feud with Space Karen?

#Scamerica, you got what you voted for.
#UnitedStates #Trump

#Iran
#US #Israel #Aggression
@palestine

"Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called it “utterly wrong” for the United States to insist on Iran’s completely stopping its peaceful uranium enrichment activities"

The US knows that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. The US also knows Israelis do have them, quite a few in fact.
Q: Who's the unhinged aggressor in the region waging wars on all its neighbours?
A: The one with nukes

presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/24/7

PressTVIran chooses its own path, allows no one to dictate to it: Nuclear chiefIran’s nuclear chief says the country chooses its path and will never allow anybody to dictate to it.

#Iran
#US #Israel #Aggression
@palestine

"Over the past month, Washington has quietly repositioned strategic bombers and fighter squadrons to Diego Garcia, a remote U.S. military outpost in the Indian Ocean, squarely within striking distance of Tehran"
"A confrontation with Iran would carry significant consequences, yet few in Washington have publicly questioned whether such a conflict serves America’s national interest,"

mintpressnews.com/us-deploys-b

MintPress News · Staging for a Strike? US Quietly Moves Bombers as Israel Prepares to Hit IranU.S. moves nuclear bombers to Diego Garcia as Israel prepares to hit Iran. Washington’s war posture escalates — with no public debate.