Sunday, July 5, 2026

Khamenei funeral speaker vows revenge


Khamenei funeral speaker vows revenge, calls for Trump's death


As the public funeral for former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei entered its second day on Sunday in Tehran, a video from the event shows some insight into the types of things being said on stage at the event.

In the video, one of the speakers at the funeral openly called for the killing of US President Donald Trump, in revenge for the elimination of the Supreme Leader in the opening strike of the joint US-Israeli war against the regime. "The one who killed my Imam, why shouldn't we kill him?" the speaker asked.

"This is our shame. If we do not kill the murderer, from now on, burial shrouds will be our clothing, instead of normal clothes. I swear on your blood, the killing of Trump is on our necks; it is our obligation. We will never give up on your revenge," he declared.

The six-day funeral, which started Saturday, is expected to draw millions, with the Iranian Health Ministry telling the semi-official Tasnim news agency: "We estimate that over the next two to three days, around 15 million people will participate in the farewell and funeral ceremonies."

Throughout the first day of the funeral, anti-Israel and anti-American chants could be heard by attendees, including "Death to America," "Death to Israel," and "Our word is one! Revenge! Revenge!"

Numerous foreign officials arrived to observe the proceedings. Among them were Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose administration has consistently acted as a mediator between Iran and the United States to de-escalate the broader Middle East war, Iraqi President Nizar Amidi, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and the foreign minister representing Afghanistan's Taliban government.

Furthermore, delegation teams representing the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations, both proxies of Iran, arrived at the compound ahead of the public ceremonies. Speaking to the Hamas delegation, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pledged that "Iran will continue to support the Palestinian cause." He also told the Hezbollah delegation that the regime is "making every effort to achieve the demand of ending the war in Lebanon and ending the occupation in accordance with the first article of the memorandum of understanding."

Among the millions of attendees, one person's absence from the first day of the funeral was glaring: Ali Khamenei's son and successor as Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who was reportedly wounded in the strike that killed his father and has yet to be seen since.





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Israel slams Turkey for inciting “genocide”


Israel slams Turkey for inciting “genocide”


Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said he was “sickened” after his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, declared that Israel had become “a burden humanity can no longer bear.”


“Dehumanizing the Jewish people as an ‘unbearable burden’ is the classic, horrific language of history’s worst eliminationist regimes,” Sa’ar wrote on X.

“The civilized world and Turkey’s NATO allies must unequivocally condemn this explicit call for the erasure of Israel.”

Speaking to CNN Türk, Fidan said Israel had become “a problem for the entire international community” and insisted that Ankara had no intention of softening its increasingly hostile position toward the Jewish state.

“Israel is not only a problem for Turkey; it has become a problem for the entire world,” he said.

Fidan also defended Turkey’s decision to suspend trade with Israel following the outbreak of the war against Hamas in Gaza. He accused Israel of carrying out “massacres” and claimed that Jerusalem was seeking new enemies to distract from what he described as its deteriorating international standing.

Relations between Jerusalem and Ankara have been sour for years, and the situation declined sharply in the aftermath of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023

The bitter exchange comes as frustration grows in Israel over US President Donald Trump’s continued portrayal of Erdoğan’s government as a dependable regional partner.

That confidence appears increasingly detached from Ankara’s conduct.

Turkey remains a NATO member and presents itself as a diplomatic power capable of mediating regional crises. Yet its senior officials now speak of Israel not as a state with which they have policy disagreements, but as a burden to be removed.

Sa’ar’s demand therefore places the question squarely before Turkey’s allies: how far can a NATO government go in dehumanizing the Jewish state before silence becomes complicity?

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Iran Stands Firm on Hormuz as US Desperately Dangles Carrots to No Avail




Amidst the funeral for Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, the Saga of Hormuz has continued taking some interesting turns.

Iran has refused to make any concessions to the US because it knows the treacherous Trump administration has no principles whatsoever when it comes to honoring deals. All the while, the US has resorted to outright begging and making every possible concession to avert the humiliation of accepting a Hormuz with tolls:

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-dangles-rewards-for-opening-the-strait-of-hormuz-iran-isnt-budging-07d99135

WSJ writes:


The U.S. and Oman are looking for ways to break Iran’s insistence on charging tolls for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Their chief lever in indirect talks was a promise to unfreeze some of the $100 billion in Iranian funds held overseas.

The U.S. diplomats offered a trade-off to Iran, the people said: Relinquish its claim to control the strait and renounce toll payments in exchange for billions of dollars of unfrozen funds.

Europe, on the other hand, is now convinced that bowing to Iranian regional hegemony is the only remaining rational choice as the rest of the world simply lacks cards to play in prying Hormuz away from its rightful proprietors:

As the most striking example of this came Vice President JD Vance’s eye-opening admission two days ago that Trump merely used the MOU as a brief pause to give the world some time to refill its oil stocks and stave off economic collapse, before—it is strongly implied—continuing the unprovoked aggression against Iran as needed.

The frankness is shocking, to say the least:

“So, I think what the president has told us to do is use this MOU to sort of refill the world’s oil economy. To refill some stocks, and then to see where the hand is.”

What most immediately becomes clear is that our previous reporting here was accurate in regard to the true extent of economic danger the US and the world was facing, and how secretly aware Trump was of it all despite his theatrical bravado toward Iran. It’s clear that Trump cried uncle because Iran won this round of Chicken, but as Vance here implies, the threat is not over as Trump believes he can simply wait out an economic stabilization period and then give it another go.

Regarding this, there have been reports that all kinds of “historic-level” mass airlifts from the US toward the Middle East have been ongoing this past week, with many believing they represent US preparations for a ground invasion of some kind. The main trigger for this was the sudden flare-up of military activity in the Baghdad Green Zone which allegedly turned out to be a large-scale American-led anti-Iranian coup, wherein Iraqi forces hunted down pro-Iranian factions and “traitors” to—as some believe—set the stage for something bigger:

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Russia on track to take over all of Donbass


Russia on track to take over all of Donbass – ex-Pentagon analyst (VIDEO)
RT


The recent liberation of Konstantinovka – a key Ukrainian stronghold in Donbass – could pave the way for Russian forces to take control of the entire region in short order, former Pentagon security policy analyst Michael Maloof has told RT.

The Russian military announced on Friday that its troops had seized the heavily fortified Ukrainian stronghold, which is part of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Konstantinovka agglomeration in the northwest of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

Speaking to RT on Saturday, Maloof described the liberation of Konstantinovka as a “very significant development” in that “it opens up the way, it breaks a logjam, if you will, for Russian troops now to basically take over all of the Donbass and to expand.”

The Ukrainian leadership should engage in talks with Russia at last, “if they have anything left to negotiate,” the former Pentagon security policy analyst told RT.

“They’re not going to have much to bargain with. I think that’s basically what it’s getting down to. Their armed forces are in retreat. They don’t have the manpower. They can’t recruit fast enough. They can’t even train them. And now, basically, the Russian army is going to become a steamroller, and President Putin made clear that he was going to be accelerating this effort now,” he said.

President Putin inspected an auxiliary command post on Friday, where he was briefed by Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and senior frontline commanders, and called Konstantinovka the “key to liberating the entire territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.”


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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Iran: We’ll ‘definitely’ charge Hormuz fees, friendly nations may get ‘special treatment’


Iran: We’ll ‘definitely’ charge Hormuz fees, friendly nations may get ‘special treatment’


Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday



The Hamas terror group has decided to stall for time in negotiations for its disarmament and for the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s plan for postwar Gaza, recognizing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing the same due to the upcoming Knesset election, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

The outlet cites an internal document discussed in the past few days by the Palestinian jihadist movement. It says Hamas believes Netanyahu views any concession on Gaza as political suicide, and that he therefore is intentionally stalling in the indirect negotiations, which haven’t made meaningful progress in months.

Kan reports that the document reveals a proposal made to Hamas by mediators Qatar and Turkey, suggesting that the terror group show flexibility by making “tactical concessions,” including on its weapons. The mediators expected Netanyahu to reject any reciprocal concession due to electoral concerns, resulting in Hamas appearing to be the more cooperative side.

However, the report adds, Hamas decided after extensive discussions to reject this proposal, fearing that any concession it makes will become a starting point for future pressure to make further concessions.

Therefore, Hamas decided to adopt a strategy mirroring Israel’s — to stall for time until the end of 2026, and to see how the next Israeli government shapes up, the report



Iran’s ambassador to China insists that new fees will be charged to ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz — an idea rejected by Washington — while assuring that “friendly” nations would receive special treatment.

The initial deal struck between Iran and the United States to end their war stipulated that commercial ships would transit the strait free of charge for 60 days, but it remains unclear what will be in place after that period.

Iranian Ambassador Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli tells the World Peace Forum in Beijing that his country is working in “collaboration and cooperation” with Oman on “new arrangements” for the vital waterway.

“As a country where the Hormuz is part of its territorial waters, we will definitely charge service fees,” Azli says in translated remarks, while insisting such fees would not be a “toll.”

“These new arrangements will be concerning guaranteeing the security of passage through the Straits of Hormuz, supervision of the passage of the vessels… and also guaranteeing and dealing with the environmental consequences of the massive number of ships,” he says.

“We will definitely consider special treatment for the countries that were friendly to us and specially stood by us during the hard times,” he adds.


The United States has said any final deal will bar Iran from charging any sort of fee for passage in the waterway, casting the difference between service fees and tolls as mere semantics.











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