May Day international news round-up

• Irish activist Fra Hughes reports from Crete: Many illegally detained participants from the non-violent Global Sumud Flotilla savagely beaten. Broken noses, broken ribs, many needing hospitalization after being kidnapped by the zio baby killers. Please raise your voices and hit the streets. Two members illegally transported to the zio racist state. Demand our governments are not complicit in the deportation of their citizens from Greece who have committed no crime.

• Spain has summoned the Israeli regime's charge d'affaires and strongly condemned the interception and arrest of 175 Gaza-bound Sumud aid flotilla activists, including 30 Spanish citizens.
• The paperwork and legalities for passage through the Strait of Hormuz are being completed by Iran. One by one they are negotiating with countries for passage. ‘Indian ships can pass through Strait of Hormuz without restrictions’ says Iran’s Ambassador to India. ‘Passage of Indian ships has been completely secure, and this process will continue in the future’. Iran grants Russia exemption of all transit fees to cross the Strait of Hormuz. Insurance companies are beginning to insure ships and cargo for the passage.  

• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine told the Senate during hearings about Moscow's aid to Tehran. He refused to go into details, given the public nature of the hearing. “There are certainly certain actions there," Caine said. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, a Republican and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, went even further. “There is no doubt that Vladimir Putin's Russia is taking serious actions to undermine our efforts to achieve success in Iran," he said.

• Iran's President says US naval blockade is an extension of military operations. "Continuation of this oppressive approach is intolerable."
• Footage published on Iranian channels with the description that Iranian security forces installed these inflatable rocket launchers throughout the country and reported them to Mossad-affiliated ‘Iran International’, under the guise of an ordinary citizen. Many flight sorties and missiles were wasted bombing these mockups. 

• Tehran Municipality says Iranians whose homes have been damaged are welcomed to stay at hotels until their homes are rebuilt. The municipality will cover all expenses. So far, 6,677 citizens have been accommodated in 45 hotels and accommodation complexes.
• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico: We are under pressure from oil prices depending on how Trump sleeps. When he sleeps well, prices go down. When he doesn’t and makes some statement, oil automatically goes up. 

• A major fire aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins has disabled the ship, causing a full loss of power and propulsion in the Indo-Pacific region. 
• Major damage caused to the Ghandour hospital following the Israeli airstrike that targeted Nabatieh al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon. 
• CBS News (now a Zionist run TV network): U.S. officials say the Iran war has likely cost closer to $50 billion—about double the $25 billion publicly cited by the Pentagon. The lower figure excluded major expenses like destroyed equipment and damaged bases. Much of the added cost comes from replacing lost munitions and assets, including dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones.

• Iran has unveiled a plan to counter the US military's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, activating a rail route to supply oil to Beijing.
• Israeli settler attacks nun outside a church in occupied Jerusalem, pushing and kicking her on the ground as another settler watches and does nothing. 

• Banksy unveiled a new sculpture in Waterloo Place, London. A suited man blinded by his own flag and walking off a platform, widely read as satire on blind patriotism. 

• Question: The US is playing Peru in the World Cup. Who do you cheer for? Pope Leo response: 'Probably Peru'. 

• CNN investigation says some of the US facilities in the region have become unusable after Iranian attacks during the war. At least 16 US bases in 8 countries were seriously damaged by Iranian attacks. The targeted sites include key radar, communications, and aircraft systems—high-value assets that are difficult and costly to replace. One congressional aide said assessments range from “fully destroyed” to “repairable but strategically vital.”

• Pakistani officials: We conveyed to Washington a revised Iranian response to the latest US conditions for ending the war.