Israel directs the U.S. war on Iran

• Iran has formally demanded compensation from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan, accusing them of facilitating the recent US-Israeli strikes by allowing the use of their airspace, bases, or territory. 

• Russian Security Council: The United States and Israel may exploit the peace talks as a prelude to a ground operation against Iran.
• Several US KC-135 refueling aircraft have arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. They will refuel US fighter-bombers that would be used to attack Iran. As they now sit on the runway they are fat targets. 

• The Hebrew newspaper Yediot Aharonot quotes Dr. Avi Weissman, deputy director of Rambam Hospital in Haifa: 'All day long, Israeli army helicopters are landing at the hospital carrying wounded soldiers from the southern front in Lebanon. This reminds us of the First and Second Lebanon Wars'.
• Over 750 schools have sustained damage in the war of aggression launched by the invading US-Israeli coalition against the Islamic Republic. 

• Bloomberg: British-French disagreements over the mechanism for implementing any naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz and any American role. The European disagreements stem from the belief that US participation could push Iran towards a more hardline stance.

• Rosatom President: There are still 20 people at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, including engineers.
• This is the zionist battalion commander who was seriously wounded yesterday in Hezbollah attacks during fierce fighting in the Bint Jbeil area of ​​southern Lebanon. He was performing Talmudic rituals before entering southern Lebanon and chanting: 'We will go room by room, house by house, village by village, until Hezbollah is gone from southern Lebanon. Did you hear me'?  

• Israeli Channel 13, quoting the Mayor of Kiryat Shmona: “We do not trust the negotiations, nor the possibility of ‘dismantling Hezbollah.’”
• The Economist: Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a dangerous gamble. This action further weakens international law and could lead to new conflicts. Any prolonged disruption could cause a global economic shock and plunge many countries into crisis.
• The head of the Isfahan Railway Department described how officials and personnel worked around the clock to restore a heavily damaged railway bridge following US–Israeli acts of aggression against some railway facilities.

• Regarding US Blockade and Ships 'Transiting the Strait of Hormuz': The US is not blocking ships in the Strait of Hormuz. It is blocking ships passing through the Strait once they enter into open waters. This is why ships are transiting the Strait. Are the ships transiting onward to their destination ports? That is the question. So far the US claims it is turning ships back or forcing them to sit idle. Others are supposedly getting by through methods including spoofed signals.
• Hezbollah's Secretary General made it even more clear that 'there will be no submission, there will be no repeat by the resistance. We will fight until the last drop of blood'. Veteran Journalist Dr. Marwa Osman  noted that the US sham of 'Lebanon-Israel talks' is illegal, and won't change a thing. 

• CENTCOM commander says, US has 'completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea'. Meanwhile two hours before this statement, a supertanker entered Iranian ports to load crude oil. Reality does not match CENTCOM claims. 
• A deceiver, a false prophet, the money lender operating from within the temple, the signs are clear now. 

• A sickening scandal is tearing through the German political establishment, exposing a 'justice' system that prioritizes the reputation of the Israel lobby over the lives of innocent children. At the center of this moral vacuum is Hartmut Ebbing, former treasurer of the German-Israel Society (DIG), the country’s most aggressive pro-Israel lobby group. In 2024, while Gaza was being systematically leveled, Ebbing was a vocal architect of destruction, calling for total Israeli conquest and the criminalization of any German citizen who dared to boycott the occupation. But behind this mask of 'moral' advocacy lay a predator. By February 2025, Ebbing was charged with possessing and distributing horrific videos of child sexual abuse. In a move that reeks of high-level collusion, Ebbing successfully lobbied the Berlin courts for a private trial, arguing that a public hearing would damage the reputation of the pro-Israel lobby. 
• US finally admits: A $238 million MQ-4C Triton, equipped with sensitive surveillance hardware, was lost in the Persian Gulf on April 9 following a sudden altitude drop that resulted in a complete tracking failure. And as of 2025, the US Navy only had 20 of them in total. 

• Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, Major General Ali Abdollahi: 'The continued U.S. naval blockade and its threats to the security of Iranian vessels will be a prelude to violating the ceasefire. Iran will take firm and decisive steps to defend its national interests and sovereignty. We will not allow the passage of imports and exports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman if the U.S.-imposed blockade on Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz continues'.
• Daniel Ella, commander of Battalion 52 and allegedly responsible for the killing of the child martyr Hind Rajab, was seriously wounded after a Hezbollah missile struck his tank. The Hind Rajab Foundation had filed a case against him at the International Criminal Court, but Hezbollah acted before the legal proceedings could take place.

• Russia says uranium enrichment in Iran is an inalienable right, and hails any decision that secures Iran legal rights. It should be remembered that Iran for many years has made clear that they are building a civilian nuclear power industry. They've repeatedly renounced plans to build nuclear weapons - even in the recent round of negotiations in Pakistan they did so. But the US 'negotiators' turned right around and denied that fact. 
• IAEA chief Grossi to The Economist: 'Iran's nuclear program cannot be stopped by military means. No evidence of systematic weaponization effort. Never been weeks or months from a bomb'.
• Associated Press: America has only 16 warships in the region and no warships in Iran’s territorial waters, which make up most of Iran’s waterways. This indicates that the ability to blockade Iran’s ports with such a small number of ships is very weak.