Trump suggests new talks with Iran to begin on Monday

  US President Donald Trump has said new talks with Iran will begin on Monday, after calling off what he said would have been "massive" strikes on the country.

"They knew the extent of the attack because they saw it forming," he told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday. "We're talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon."

In an earlier post on Truth Social, Trump said he had been asked by Iran and US allies in the Middle East to "hold off" on any attack as the "perimeters" of a deal had been agreed.

Iran is yet to respond to Trump's remarks. The US president has repeatedly vowed that a negotiated end to the war is near, only for tit-for-tat strikes to resume.

In his remarks on Air Force One, Trump declined to outline a deadline for a deal to be struck with Tehran, adding: "We'll just see how it is. We're ready to go anytime we want... I'm not looking to kill people."

Trump added that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman - as well as US partners such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - had urged him against conducting strikes over the weekend.

"We were all set to go," Trump said. "The reason they asked is [that] they think there's a deal," he said. "There's a deal on Hormuz, and there will be a deal on the nuclear." Global oil prices fell on Monday morning in Asia trading after Trump's announcement. Brent Crude oil was down by 4.5% at $83.98 (£62.26), while US-traded oil was 4.6% lower at $80.74 (£59.85).

Energy prices have fluctuated since the conflict started on 28 February as traders reacted to disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Around 20% of the world's crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) usually flows through the strait.

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency denied that Tehran had asked the US to hold off on further military action, saying Trump's claims were "nothing but a new lie".

On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that negotiations with Oman on a deal on the Strait of Hormuz were "on track for finalisation", according to Iranian media.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23579jzv08o

At least 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza after Hamas agree disarmament deal

 At least 13 people, including several children, have been killed in the latest strikes on Gaza, Palestinian officials have said.

Gaza's Civil Defence Authority said Israeli military aircraft carried out the attacks on Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah.

It was the second successive night of Israeli strikes on the territory, and it comes days after Hamas accepted a disarmament plan, which would see the Palestinian group hand over its weapons to US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace.

A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said it was targeting military operatives in Gaza, and two Hamas militants were killed.

The Israeli Energy Minister, Eli Cohen, said on Sunday that no deal had been reached to stop attacks on the Gaza Strip, a territory now under 70% Israeli control.

Cohen added that he saw a need for the strip to be placed under the full control of Israel if Hamas did not disarm - despite the Board of Peace plan for Israel to pull out of the territory - the Reuters news agency reported.

In a post on X on Sunday, the IDF said it had killed two Hamas commanders, one from the elite Nukbha force, and one from the Maghazi Battalion.

The IDF also said killed another Hamas militant from the Jabalia Battalion in northern Gaza in a separate attack last week. It said all three were planning to attack Israeli targets.

Palestinian health officials said two people, including a child, were killed in a strike on a residential building in Gaza City, while another person was killed near Jabalia in northern Gaza.

A father, mother and their nine-year-old son were killed after a strike on a house in Khan Younis, and a man and woman died after their apartment block was struck in Deir el-Balah.

More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since a supposed ceasefire came into effect last October.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjlvvkzj20o

Iran Mocks Trump And Threatens Preemptive Strikes

 

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Iran Denies Hormuz Agreement After Trump Halts Major Strike

 

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"Spanish Ceuta: Is 711 AD Repeating Itself Again" by Raymond Ibrahim

 More than thirteen centuries ago, Muslim invaders crossed through Ceuta and conquered Spain. What followed reshaped Europe for centuries.

Just days ago, Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta—the same strategic gateway whence the original Muslim conquest of Spain began in A.D. 711—was once again overrun by Muslim masses arriving from Africa.

Over the course of several days, over 50,000 migrants breached the city’s borders, overwhelming local authorities and forcing Madrid to deploy emergency measures.

The images are striking: endless columns of young Muslim men streaming into European territory by land and sea—through the very corridor that, more than thirteen centuries earlier, served as the launching point for one of the most consequential invasions in Western history. Nor is any of this new or shocking. As one of many examples, in 2021, 6,000 Muslims invaded Ceuta. They came “by sea, either swimming or with inflatables, all in a bid to eventually get to mainland Europe.”

Nor is Ceuta an isolated episode. Spain has for years experienced a steady surge of illegal Muslim migration from Africa. In 2020 alone, some 23,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands—a 234 percent increase over the previous year. The numbers continued climbing, with more than 1,600 arriving over just three days in October 2023. As one report noted:

Of the boats that arrived over the weekend, one on Saturday was carrying 320 migrants. The state news agency EFE said it was the largest number in a single boat since human traffickers began to regularly use the Canary Island route in 1994. The previous record of 280 was recorded earlier this month.

Once arriving on Spanish territory, such migrants invariably engage in unsavory and downright criminal behavior—including gang-rape, murder, church desecrations and slaughter of Christians; and they create enclaves, or ribats, where police fear to tread.

Indeed, just a few days ago, we learned that “Spain reports highest number of arrests for Islamist extremism in EU.” This is certainly saying something considering that the EU itself is a hotbed of jihadist activity.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://raymondibrahim.substack.com/p/ceuta-is-711-ad-repeating-itself?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6873559&post_id=209500280&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1v9n4o&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to deal being made 'rapidly'

  Donald Trump says he has cancelled strikes against Iran provided a deal was struck "rapidly" with the country.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president claimed he was asked by Iran and other countries in the Middle East to "hold off" on any attack as the "perimeters" of a deal had been agreed, which he said would include reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending Iran's nuclear threat.

His comments came after US media reported that Washington may have been planning new, intense strikes on Iran over the weekend. Earlier on Saturday, Tehran had accused the US of escalating tensions, saying any regional state co-operating with Washington would be "engulfed by the flames of war".

Meanwhile the US government urged Americans across the Middle East to be alert and ready to leave "should there be escalation" in the region. "Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise caution and heightened vigilance and should be prepared for flight cancellations, periodic airspace closures, and potential travel disruptions," the security alert said on Saturday.

Multiple sources had earlier told CBS News, the BBC's American media partner, that the US and Israel were planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran.

The plan came up during Trump's cabinet meeting on Friday, sources told CBS News. Trump further said in his post the US was "locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II".

He said cancelling the attack would be "for the future benefit of the world and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran". Iran has not yet responded to Trump's announcement.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwx74qgld2o

Israeli minister compares Donald Trump's peace deal with Hamas as 'tantamount to agreeing next October 7 massacre'

 Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has compared Donald Trump's deal with Hamas as "tantamount to agreeing next October 7 massacre".

The US president declared on social media that the "Board of Peace" had reached a "HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza," describing it as "a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY."

However, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir branded the arrangement "unacceptable," warning it was "tantamount to agreeing to Hamas organising for the next massacre." The agreement is designed to advance the long-delayed second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan, which Mr Trump brokered and which has been in effect since October.

Weapons held by the terrorist group have remained one of the central obstacles to progress. The two sides remain locked in a standoff over the sequencing of the deal's key provisions.

An Israeli political source stated "that there will be no withdrawal whatsoever" unless Hamas undergoes "a genuine disarmament," having previously listed full demilitarisation of the Strip as a precondition for any process. Speaking at Camp David, Mr Trump insisted the Israelis were on board: "We do have an understanding with Israel. Israel's very happy about it."

Yet the Israeli source also revealed that "the issue of Gaza did not come up" during this week's meeting between the US President and Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington — a claim that sits uneasily alongside the president's assertion of mutual satisfaction. Hamas said it expected mediators and Trump's Board of Peace to guarantee Israeli compliance with the withdrawal terms.

Under the roadmap, the National Committee for Administration of Gaza — a body established as part of Trump's plan to manage day-to-day governance in the territory — will oversee internal security and carry out a phased assumption of full authority.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/gaza-war-israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-compares-hamas-peace-deal-october-7-massacre 

The War That Donald Trump Started In Iran Is Rapidly Spinning Out Of Control As The United States Appears To Be Heading ‘Strait’ Into A Strategic Defeat

 Trump Said Iran Was Obliterated And The War Was Nearly Finished, Now U.S. Allies Fear Defeat And American Generals Are Warning Of Dangerous Shortages

HOW CAN THIS BE?? How can the most powerful military machine on earth spend five months pounding Iran with bombers, cruise missiles, aircraft carriers and thousands of combat sorties, only to awaken to headlines warning that America is approaching a strategic defeat? 

The answer is as simple as it is devastating. President Donald Trump confused the power to destroy targets with the ability to win a war. The Pentagon can publish breathtaking numbers of Iranian installations bombed, ships destroyed and commanders eliminated, but none of that constitutes victory when the enemy government remains standing, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed, American forces remain under attack and the conflict continues expanding across the Middle East. 

Trump promised obliteration, announced victory and assured the American people that the war was nearly finished. Iran apparently never received that memo. Today all Hell is breaking loose across the Middle East, and it appears to be unstoppable.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/the-war-that-donald-trump-started-in-iran-is-rapidly-spinning-out-of-control-as-the-united-states-appears-to-be-heading-strait-into-a-strategic-defeat/

The Crusades’ Most Impossible Victory

  Today in History: With Christians being massacred at Jaffa, and outnumbered ten to one, Richard the Lionheart accomplished the impossible.

In a feat of heroism that even Hollywood fiction cannot match, today in history witnessed Richard Lionheart and a few thousand Christian knights put to flight a massive Muslim army that, moments earlier, had been torturing and murdering Christian civilians.

On July 27, 1192, Saladin, the great sultan-hero of Islam, besieged the tiny Christian-held town of Jaffa. According to contemporary chronicles, the Muslims numbered as many as 20,000 and “covered the face of the earth like locusts.”

Messengers were instantly dispatched to King Richard I, then in Acre preparing to sail for England. Before the battered envoys had even finished recounting Jaffa’s plight, Richard declared, “With God as my guide, I will set out to do what I can,” and immediately boarded his fleet with just over 2,000 fighting men.

Jaffa, meanwhile, was fighting for its life. According to Saladin’s court historian, Baha’ al-Din, who witnessed the siege, after one of its walls collapsed, all the Muslims rushed into the city, “and there was not an enemy heart that did not tremble and shake.” Even so, the Christians “were more fierce and determined in the fight and more eager for and devoted to death.”

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If Iran Was Weaponizing Smallpox and Other Deadly Pathogens 23 Years Ago, How Much More Advanced Is Their Program Today?

 

If Iran Was Weaponizing Smallpox and Other Deadly Pathogens 23 Years Ago, How Much More Advanced Is Their Program Today?

I am going to share some information with you in this article that nobody is talking about, but I believe that it is exceedingly important. Iran has been weaponizing some of the most deadly pathogens known to humanity, and that includes smallpox. The United States has known about Iran’s biological weapons program for more than 30 years. So have the Russians. If the Iranians were to suddenly release an extremely contagious disease in the United States and Israel, millions could potentially die. This is a threat that we should be taking very seriously, but we aren’t.

Trump’s Gaza Peace Breakthrough: A Warning When They Say Peace And Safety

President Donald Trump has now used one of the Bible’s most prophetically charged phrases twice in connection with his efforts to reshape the Middle East.

After announcing a preliminary agreement with Iran in June, Trump wrote, “This Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region.” Regional hostilities subsequently resumed, demonstrating how quickly sweeping declarations of peace can outrun events on the ground.