Iran Claims They Have Completely Opened the Strait of America, Claims They're Ready to Turn Over All Uranium and Give Up Their Nuclear Ambitions

I believe neither of these things. I do believe they've said these things, but I think they're lying.

But this nevertheless newsworthy because it shows that Iran is scared and desperate. They are always pretending that they're in the cat-bird seat and #winning the war, somehow, even as they're all hiding inside mosques. To even speak these lies shows their weakness: Strong men have no need of lying. They can speak the truth and dar you to object to it.

LeMonde: Iran agrees to give up their enriched uranium, insists their nuclear program is "peaceful."

Except that during the talks before Epic Fury, they boasted they could make 11 nuclear bombs within a week if they chose to.

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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday, April 16, that Washington and Tehran were "very close" to a peace deal and insisted that Iran had agreed to hand over its enriched uranium, a key sticking point in negotiations. The United States had earlier threatened to resume airstrikes on the Islamic Republic and maintain a naval blockade of its ports if Tehran refused to accept a deal to solve the conflict that broke out on February 28.

At the same time, a 10-day ceasefire came into effect between Israel and Lebanon with Trump saying he expected the two countries' leaders to be at the White House within "four or five days." Hezbollah has not said if it recognizes the ceasefire, but a senior figure said it would respect it if Israeli attacks on the militants stopped.

But Israel's army said it was striking Hezbollah rocket launchers after fire from Lebanon shortly before the ceasefire was due to begin. The prime ministers of both countries welcomed the ceasefire, which came days after the US and Iran agreed to a separate truce and as Pakistan pursued diplomatic efforts to arrange a new round of talks between foes Washington and Tehran.

CNN: Iran declares Strait of America "completely open."

Strait of Hormuz: Iran announced the vital trade chokepoint open to all commercial vessels for the remainder of the ceasefire. US President Donald Trump said Iran committed to never closing the waterway again, but that a US naval blockade will continue until a deal with Iran is "100% complete."

They're also threatening to re-close the Strait if America continues its blockade of Iranian ports:

If the US continues its naval blockade, Iran will consider it a ceasefire violation and close the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media Fars reported on Friday.

That's weird, the leftwing propaganda media, including CNN, insisted that America's counter-blockade wasn't working at all.

And yet here's Iran begging for an end to the blockade. Almost as if it's crippling them.

As Rachel Zegler would say: Weird, weird!

I don't believe that any agreement these monsters sign is worth anything. The only way we will achieve our objectives is through regime change.

So this is very hopeful news: Iranian patriots are TCOB themselves. As a hippie would say: Be the Regime Change You Want to See in the World.

M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐑𝐆𝐂 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍

"𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴."

The IRGC is dying from both ends. While American bombers and Israeli jets hit from above, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰.

Three more senior IRGC operatives have been confirmed eliminated in 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧:

-- Second Lieutenant 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐝𝐢 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐢 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐡
-- First Sergeant 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐤𝐡𝐢
-- First Sergeant 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐳𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐢

These are new assassinations. These took place in Saravan, near the Pakistani border, while the car-bombs and assassination-by-stabbings I mentioned earlier this week took place in Tehran.

And these are just the ones that have been confirmed. With the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭 across Iran, it is taking days to verify identities -- meaning the real body count is almost certainly 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫.

"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘙𝘎𝘊 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭."

This is the part of the war the legacy media refuses to cover: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐑𝐆𝐂. These are not American strikes. These are not Israeli operations. These are 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬, 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬.

For 46 years the mullahs told the world the Iranian people loved the revolution. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬.

Update! Regime-aligned cops killed in "bloody and grisly" ambush and gun battle.

Unfortunately, the Islamic Occupational Army in Iran continues to murder civilians -- and of course the world press, so concerned about human rights abuses, refuses to report on it.

And I don't hear Pope Leo's bleeding heart beating about it, either.

Bita Hemmati, along with her husband, Mohammadreza Majid-Asl, has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court in connection with the January protests in Tehran. Hemmati will be the first female protester executed. On Thursday, Dr. Sheila Nazarian, a doctor whose family fled Iran when she was a child, spoke to Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer. Nazarian provided grisly details about what happens to women who are convicted of "crimes against God" and sentenced to death.

The fate of Hemmati and her husband is just the latest round of executions since the uprising began in January. Hemmer gave a grim tally of what continues to happen in Iran. According to Iran HRM, a human rights group, since the beginning of the war, there were 341 executions in January, 307 in February, but only eight were reported in March since the regime shut off the internet for a total of 656.

Bonus:

Hello! Happy Friday!

I've got my deck covered with bread, seeds, and peanuts, but no crows have returned.

Are you having a more productive day than I am, crow-wise or otherwise?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

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