An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader says the country would have no alternative but to acquire a nuclear weapon if attacked, following a threat by US President Donald Trump.
“We are not moving towards (nuclear) weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move towards that because it has to defend itself,” Ali Larijani, adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says in an interview with state TV.
The IDF says it carried out a strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital of Beirut targeting a Hezbollah operative, the second such strike since a November ceasefire.
“The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians,” the Israeli military says in a joint statement with the domestic Shin Bet security agency.
“The terrorist posed a real and immediate threat,” the statement adds.
On Thursday, the IDF targeted the southern Beirut Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh for the first time since a ceasefire went into place in late November between Israel and Hezbollah. Last week’s IDF strike came in response to the firing of several projectiles at northern Israel from southern Lebanon. Hezbollah claimed it wasn’t responsible for the launches.
The US backed last week’s Israeli strikes and called on the Lebanese government to do a better job enforcing the ceasefire by ensuring the disarmament of all terror groups in Lebanon.
For its part, Beirut has taken issue with what it says is Israel’s own violation of the ceasefire, which required the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Israel has kept troops in key strategic positions in southern Lebanon, arguing that the Lebanese government hasn’t sufficiently cracked down on Hezbollah and other armed groups. The Trump administration has backed this Israeli move as well.
Hezbollah-linked network: At least 3 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Nevada has experienced four earthquakes since 8am ET, with the strongest reaching a 4.0 magnitude.
The swarm hit Valmy, which is about 200 miles southwest of Reno, on Monday.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) predicts a 27 percent chance of another 3.0 magnitude or higher quake hitting within the next week.
There is also a five percent chance of a 4.0 magnitude or higher.
The 4.0 magnitude hit at 12:28pm ET, about 50 miles northwest of Carlin, 71 miles east and northeast of Winnemucca and 32 miles north of Battle Mountain, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Reno.
Nevada is the nation's third-most seismically active state, ranking after California and Alaska.
Valmy sits within a region of active fault lines, including the Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps and the Central Nevada Seismic Belt.
The small town also sits on the Pleasant Valley fault that is capable of producing a quake up to a 7.7 magnitude.
The USGS detected the first quake, a 3.4 magnitude, at 8:03am ET.
A second 2.6 magnitude hit at 12:24pm and the 4.0 magnitude was detected just four minutes later.
And the fourth earthquake, a 2.9 magnitude, was reported at 1:29pm ET.
While a swarm like this would be felt by hundreds of people, the location is in the Great Basin that is sparsely populated.
USGS received only three reports of shaking in the area. However, those individuals said they felt 'strong shaking.'
And since this area is part of the Basin, it experiences active crustal stretching, fault movements and occasional deep fluid activity.
Her popularity just got a boost. She walked out of the kangaroo court like a Boss while the “judge” was still reading the verdict. She won’t take this lying down, just like Trump. The left has yet again gone too far. They can’t beat Marine le Pen at the ballot box, so they used the courts.
Same playbook they’re using on Trump.A decades old financial situation was revived and then a politically motivated judge sentenced her to prison even though it’s legally a “non-crime”.
Insane.
Isn’t this going to backfire? From my understanding what they’ve convicted her of like every political party in the EU does the same thing.
What is happening with Le Pen means that Le Pen is on the right path for his country and her people.
This happens with every leader in the world who raises his voice for his country and his people.
So good the people of France come out on the road for Le Pen...
Several unjustly wealthy members of Congress, including one infamous far-left politician from San Francisco, may soon find themselves completely exposed by Elon Musk.
During a Sunday night town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk revealed that he had noticed an inordinate number of multimillionaires in America’s legislative branch. He then vowed that he and DOGE would launch an investigation to stop this corrupt activity.
“A lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress…Where I’m just trying to connect the dots of how did they become rich,” Musk told the audience. “How’d they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?”
“No can explain that,” he added. “We’re gonna try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
Unsurprisingly, Musk has long been interested in the massive wealth members of Congress have accumulated during their years of ‘service.’ Last month, he asked independent journalist Nick Sortor how Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren (D-MA) collected a whopping $12 MILLION on a $200,000 salary.
“Has anyone tracked how she got $12M from a $200k salary?” Musk inquired. “This is a real question.”
In addition to Warren, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) could soon find herself in hot water. The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported regarding how Pelosi and her husband Paul have ‘coincidently’ beaten the market to the point many have credibly accused them of insider trading.
Last September, news broke that Paul Pelosi dumped at least $500,000 of their Visa stock worth up to $1 million just weeks before the Department of Justice slapped the financial giant with an antitrust lawsuit.
This is not the first time Paul Pelosi has traded at a convenient moment, either.
On July 3, a disclosure showed that the former Speaker of the House’s spouse unloaded 2,000 shares of Visa, valued somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million. All this was just three months before the federal hammer dropped.
As Jim Hoft notes, President Trump has taken notice of all of this and called for Nancy Pelosi to be prosecuted.
The Irish government has frozen the bank account of an Irish teacher after his continued refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns for a student at Wilson’s Hospital School. Enoch Burke, who has spent more than 500 days in jail for refusing to comply with a court order, also had his salary payments halted.
Burke attempted to withdraw funds from his Bank of Ireland account last week but found that he was unable to access his money. The account reportedly holds over €40,000—his personal savings from years of work. The Irish government and courts have frozen these funds and are set to seize them next week.
Burke was previously jailed for contempt of court after refusing to comply with an injunction barring him from entering Wilson’s Hospital School, where he had been suspended following a dispute over the use of transgender pronouns.
The freezing of his bank account marks an unprecedented escalation in the legal battle. Burke maintains that he was upholding the Christian ethos of his school and acting according to his beliefs. The Irish courts have ruled against him at multiple stages, leading to fines, jail time, and now the freezing of his assets.
“What this is all about is an attempt to change the face of our country and to exalt LGBTQ+ ideology above Christian belief–to do away with religious belief altogether,” Burke said in a video update posted on X. “Children are being told they decide their gender. That is an anti-Christian belief.
“It’s not me that should be criminalised today, it’s any teacher that will stand in front of a class and will encourage young children to accept a belief that is anti-Christian,” he said.
In an update posted on Burke’s X account yesterday, the former teacher said his bank account balance is now at €0.00. “I have been robbed of €40,617.69 by the courts,” he said.
Burke said the Courts have also directed that the Irish Attorney General Rossa Fanning may apply to seize any other assets he may own.
While President Trump’s ultimatum to Iran was intended to pressure the regime into nuclear negotiations, it has had the unintended effect of giving China, Russia, and Iran a clear deadline to rush the nuclear program forward before the window closes.
With Trump’s ultimatum in place, these adversaries are racing against the clock to ensure that Iran becomes a nuclear-armed state. If the US and its allies fail to act immediately, the balance of power could shift permanently, and the West could lose the war before realizing it had even begun.
This is not theoretical warfare. Poseidon has already been tested and, according to Russian sources, is fully integrated into combat readiness. Such a weapon does not simply destroy infrastructure. It renders entire geographic regions — cities, ports, coastlines — uninhabitable for generations. A successful Poseidon strike on the British Isles would transform the southern and eastern coasts of the United Kingdom into radioactive wastelands. London, Liverpool, and Glasgow would be erased not by fire, but by water laced with nuclear contamination.
The West often accuses Russia of psychological warfare and fear-mongering. But Poseidon’s existence is not a bluff. It is a technological reality, and one that changes the rules of engagement entirely.
The tense relationship between the United States and Iran has reached a new high after the Islamic regime responded to a letter sent by Donald Trump, in which he urged negotiations for a new nuclear deal.
Tehran reaffirmed its defiant stance, hinting that its nuclear program will continue to develop despite the sanctions and restrictions imposed by Washington.
In early March, Trump sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, proposing direct negotiations to peacefully resolve tensions related to Tehran's growing nuclear program.
Although the exact content of the letter has not been made public, Trump suggested that a deal could include concessions regarding Iranian oil. However, he also made it clear that if an agreement was not reached, military options remained on the table.
Iran's regime, through Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, confirmed on Thursday that the response was delivered via Oman. Without revealing specific details, Iran reiterated its distrust of the United States and reaffirmed its right to continue with its nuclear program.
Iran delivered its response to Trump's letter through a message transmitted by the Sultanate of Oman. According to Al-Mayadeen and other sources, the Iranian response consists of the following points: 1. Iran confirms that it will not negotiate directly with the United States, especially within the framework of the maximum pressure policy, and categorically rejects the American approach. 2. Iran claims that it does not negotiate on behalf of any regional power and that it does not dictate the foreign policy of other nations or groups, including Yemen's Ansar Allah, which is an independent ally. 3. Iran claims it will not accept Trump's "unrealistic conditions" and that the US demands are so broad that they cannot even be considered hypothetically. 4. Iran unequivocally warns that any military or hostile action, whether by the United States or any of its allies, will be met with an Iranian response targeting all US military assets in the Middle East.
Iran doubles down .
In response, the Iranian government has toughened its rhetoric, insisting it will not yield to US pressure. Furthermore, it has accelerated uranium enrichment to near weapons-grade levels, according to a November 2024 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), suggesting that Tehran seeks to gain leverage before Trump returns to the White House.
Simultaneously, Iran has strengthened its ties with Russia and China—key geopolitical players aiming to weaken Western influence in the Middle East.
Iran's insistence on defying the United States and its allies poses a direct threat to Middle Eastern stability. A nuclear-armed Iran could trigger an arms race in the region, prompting countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel to take drastic measures to ensure their security.
Additionally, Tehran could leverage its nuclear capabilities to blackmail the international community and support its extremist allies in the region.
A judge has ruled Marine Le Pen is ineligible to run for office, along with eight MEPs from her National Rally party, after they were found guilty of misappropriation of EU funds.
The move is the latest attack on democracy in the EU, with judges increasingly deciding elections in Europe.
Le Pen has also been sentenced to four years in prison, with two years suspended.
Notably, the news comes right as Le Pen leads the polling for French presidential elections in 2027, as Remix News reported earlier today.
The court estimated that the total losses amounted to €2.9 million, as a result of “paying by the European Parliament people who actually worked for the far-right party.” Le Pen was found to be responsible for €1.8 million in damages herself. The judgment also concerns 12 assistants. The prosecutor’s office initially alleged that €7 million had been used in this way.
Investigators accused Le Pen of managing the illegal use of European subsidies between 2004 and 2016, when she served as an MEP. They stated that instead of working in Strasbourg, assistants were to work for Le Pen’s National Rally party in a domestic capacity.
“It was found that all these people actually worked for the party, that their deputy did not commission them any tasks,” said the judge. Assistants then “passed from one deputy to another.”
“It was not about combining the work of assistants, but about combining the budgets of MPs,” said the judge.
Le Pen said before the trial that the matter is entirely political and that her opponents wished for her “political death.”
RN president Jordan Bardella denounced the sentence on his X account, calling it “unjust” and amounting to an execution of French democracy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed support for Le Pen, posting “I am Marine” in French and tagging her account on X.
This is not the only such case either, with Romania banning the presidential frontrunner, Călin Georgescu, from running for president as well as arresting him.
The parents of a nine year old British girl were arrested by police who came to their home after they complained about their child’s school in a WhatsApp chat group.
Yes, really.
The Times reports that Police arrested Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levin in front of their daughter on suspicion of malicious communications, harassment, and causing a nuisance on school property.
The pair were thrown in a jail cell over comments they made about the Cowley Hill Primary School in Borehamwood,
The report notes that the parents had taken issue with the school’s process of hiring a new head teacher, with school governors stepping in and issuing them with a warning for causing “disharmony”.
The school later completely banned the parents from the premises and were told they could only communicate via email.
The parents were then allegedly accused by the school of making “disparaging” remarks about the institution and “casting aspersions” in a parents’ group on WhatsApp, prompting the school to contact police.
The police then ordered the parents to remove their child’s from the school, which they did, yet they were still arrested a week later on their own doorstep and kept in jail for 11 hours.
Here is footage of the arrest:
The parents have accused school of using aggressive tactics to “silence awkward parents” and accused the police of a “massive overreach” owing to the arrest.
“We’d never used abusive or threatening language, even in private, and always followed due process,” mr Allen, who works for Times Radio said.
He added, “Yet we have never even been told what these communications were that were supposedly criminal, which is completely Kafkaesque.”
Ms Levin noted that her initial thought when police approached her door was that her daughter had died, saying that she “could not think of any other reason why six police officers would be at my door”.
Following the arrest, Police decided not to take any further action, with a spokesman commenting “The arrests were necessary to fully investigate the allegations as is routine in these types of matters. Following further investigations, officers deemed that no further action should be taken due to insufficient evidence.”
A Cowley Hill Primary school spokesman told The Times “We sought advice from the police following a high volume of direct correspondence and public social media posts from two parents, as this was becoming upsetting for staff, parents and governors.”
Contrary to what some busy body school officials might believe, having and sharing a negative opinion of a public institution is not a crime, it’s called freedom of speech.
It is years too late and alternative and independent media had already done so much work on exposing the reality, including 600+ page books which have been published, but the New York Times on Sunday is out with a lengthy report on The Partnership: The Secret History of America’s Role in the Ukraine War.
Up until very recently, mainstream media gatekeepers wouldn't so much as admit that a proxy war has been unfolding from the very start of the conflict in Ukraine. This even after the so-called paper of record had earlier in Feb. 2024 acknowledged that the CIA had built 12 "secret spy bases" in Ukraine to wage a shadow war against Russia going back to 2014.
Again, it comes much too belatedly, but now with Ukrainian forces clearly losing the fight, the Times admits that the prior Biden administration was far more involved in being embedded on a military and intelligence level with Ukraine than was previously made public by official sources.
The report is a deep dive into the "extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology" that became Zelensky's "secret weapon" in countering Russia. It begins by describing that within two months of Putin sending his army across the border, Ukrainian generals in civilians clothes were being secretly whisked away for high-level war planning sessions at US bases in Germany.
"The passengers were top Ukrainian generals," NY Times describes of men taken by a convoy of unmarked cars from the Ukrainian capital to Western Europe. "Their destination was Clay Kaserne, the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe and Africa in Wiesbaden, Germany. Their mission was to help forge what would become one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war in Ukraine."
The report makes clear that US commanders were much more inter-woven into Ukrainian operations than known, to the point of 'shocking' some NATO allies. In essence many counter-Russia operations happening on Ukraine's battlefields were simply run from the base in Germany.
"But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood," the report continues. "At critical moments, the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden’s mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv’s counteroffensives. A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field."
Notably, this is essentially US officials and the NY Times also admitting that the Kremlin has all along been right when it insisted this was never really simply about Moscow vs. Kiev - but that NATO countries have militarized Ukraine and weaponized it against Russia. President Putin and Kremlin officials have been fiercely complaining about US intervention all along, but this was dismissed in the West as merely 'propaganda'.
Below are some key excerpts from the very lengthy NY Times report, with subheadings and emphasis by ZeroHedge...
