Zionists say Iran won but invade them anyway!

• Arnaud Bertrand: Robert Kagan (co-founder of Project for the New American Century, probably the single most imperialist Think Tank in Washington) writes that the US “suffered a total defeat” in Iran that has no precedent in US history. On one hand he calls this a “checkmate” by Iran, and a US defeat that can “neither be repaired nor ignored,” yet an the other hand his solution for it is.... surprise, surprise.... a bigger war still! He states that what’s to be done is “engage in a full-scale ground and naval war to remove the current Iranian regime, and then to occupy Iran until a new government can take hold.” The arsonist's solution to the fire is a bigger fire.

• Hebrew Channel 14: Iran is linking the entire Middle East to the negotiations and wants the agreement to include Lebanon, Iraq, and the Gaza Strip.
• Despite repeated Israeli strikes, the Caspian Sea has become a vital trade route for Iran, enabling it to bypass the naval blockade imposed by the US at the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials have confirmed that efforts to open alternative trade routes are accelerating, with four Iranian ports along the Caspian Sea operating around the clock to receive wheat, corn, livestock feed, sunflower oil, and other essential supplies. Mohammad Reza Mortezaei, head of the Iranian Food Industries Association, told local media that his country is now receiving its vital food imports through this maritime passage. Port data and Russian trade circles reinforce this picture, indicating a significant and rapid increase in maritime traffic in the sea over recent months, including the transport of approximately two million tons of Russian wheat to Iran. 

• Trump to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: “Italy was not there when we needed it, and I am considering moving our troops from Italian bases.”

• Lavrov didn’t waste a second. “The fact that Chancellor Merz can’t even make himself say who really liberated Germany from Nazism… The fact that Nazism is being revived, that it is being actively and ideologically implanted into public opinion… and in practice, Europe is openly supporting the Nazi regime [in Ukraine]. There are no doubts about that.”  

• Shehab: The State Security Court in Kuwait sentenced a 19-year-old girl to three years in prison because she wrote in a WhatsApp group the phrase "May God support Hezbollah against the Zionists".
• Lebanese Minister of Information says Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stressed the need to document Israeli war crimes and submit them to the United Nations.
• The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was spotted in the Red Sea on May 8 after transiting the Suez Canal. The carrier is heading toward the central region as part of French-British efforts to resume maritime navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. The world's knees are shaking.

• Correspondent for the Hebrew website Walla: The Israeli army is not revealing everything that is happening along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon. Officers in the Northern Command say there has been an increase in attacks by Hezbollah that are not being reported to the public.
• Zelensky’s former press secretary calls him the ‘biggest obstacle to peace. Not the person whom you see on camera... changes masks all the time... emotionally uncontrollable, often hysterical. But his acting doesn't have any substance. He thinks that every person is disposable. He does cocaine.'  

• Israeli Army Radio: The Israeli army is conducting an investigation into one of the most serious drone strikes of the war, which Hezbollah published footage of yesterday: the targeting of an Iron Dome battery. Military sources confirmed that such a strike had indeed occurred.
• The Eurovision-2026 is opening in Vienna. This year, five countries - Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland - are boycotting the competition. They oppose Israel's participation in the competition.
• US Navy announced (for PR purposes) that one of its ballistic missile submarines arrived in Gibraltar to intimidate Iran. Will the submarine launch another missile at a children’s school? 

• Financial Times: Trump's war with Iran is inflicting enormous damage to the US economy, with costs estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars in the production sector, in light of rising fuel prices, increased borrowing costs, and the complexity of supply chains, which has significantly eroded the welfare and living standards of Americans.
• The White House is inviting top U.S. business leaders to accompany President Trump on his trip to China this week for a summit with Xi Jinping, according to Bloomberg. Oligarchs expected to join the delegation include Elon Musk of Tesla, Tim Cook of Apple, and Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, along with David Solomon, Stephen Schwarzman, Larry Fink, Jane Fraser, and Dina Powell McCormick. Trump’s hopes to secure new business deals and purchase agreements with Beijing during the visit. 

• Germany and Ukraine announced yesterday a major new joint deal for the production of drones. As part of the announcement, it was stated that the parties will develop everything from combat drones to long-range strike drones, 'capable of flying up to 1,500 km over territory controlled by Russia'. The official announcement was made in Kyiv by the defense ministers of Germany and Ukraine, Boris Pistorius and Mikhail Fedorov.

• Kaja Kallas upon arriving at a meeting of EU foreign ministers says: "Russia's influence is growing again in Europe. This is evident in sport, where Russian athletes are once again competing as if nothing had happened, and also in Russia's presence at the Venice Biennale." The European Commission previously reported that it had sent official letters to the Biennale organizers demanding that Russia be excluded from participating. 

• Max Blumenthal: Dana Bash joined fellow CNN zionist enforcer Jake Tapper in running cover for one of the biggest journalistic scandals of the year. Barak Ravid, a former Israeli intel officer who does not list his IDF record on his Axios bio, nakedly assisted Trump/Witkoff/Kushner in manipulating markets by selling false hope in an Iran deal which they have no intention of allowing. $920 million in crude oil shorts were placed 70 minutes before he reported the US and Iran were close to a '14 point' deal to end the war. It was the fifth time in three weeks that Ravid was used to manipulate markets on behalf of Trump insiders. The result of Beltway hacks like Dana Bash circling the wagons around their corrupt colleague – using bogus claims of antisemitism as a shield – is that zero US mainstream publications have reported on what should be a massive journalism scandal.
• David Ramirez, Second Secretary, Cuban Embassy in DC via Skype to a public meeting in Los Angeles: “At the end of January, the US government made public an executive order imposing tariffs against the people of Cuba, against the governments around the world that would dare to send fuel to Cuba, not only sell but as a donation; declaring for the first time that Cuba is an 'unusual security threat' of the US and as a symbolic measure of punishment they announced another wave of measures against Cuba on May 1st, what you might call sanctions on steroids. The US government has the capacity of designating and sanctioning any entity from other countries, enterprises that dares to trade with Cuba as liable to sanctions. About 48 hours ago Sherrit, a Canadian mining industry, that has been in Cuba for decades pulled out because of the threats of sanctions. The main purpose is to topple the government by generating hunger, frustration, anger towards the government so people would 'rise up' against its popular government, which has been the objective for decades. Right now, there is an imminent threat of a military operation against our country.”