Trump worried that Iran might kill him

• Meanwhile in Mashad, Iran: Millions were waiting on the streets ahead of the final funeral ceremony for martyr Imam Khamenei and family members. 

• According to official estimates, 41 to 43 million people attended the funeral ceremony in total over 6 days in 5 cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad. The ceremonies in Tehran lasted 3 days, while in Qom, Najaf-Karbala, and Mashhad, they lasted 1 day each.

• Head of the Public Relations and Media Center of the Iranian Ministry of Health: The American attacks on July 8 and 9 resulted in 14 martyrs and 78 injured. Among the wounded, 47 people are still receiving treatment in hospitals.

• The maritime traffic control tower was damaged at Bushehr, in order to damage Iran’s eye on the Strait of Hormoz. Two explosions were heard on Boo Musa Island, one of Iran’s three strategic islands. The US also bombed the navy base in Chabahar, southeastern Iran.   

• Among the targets of the US in Iran was on the transit bridge and railway line in Aqqala. It’s a railway line that connects Iran with China and Russia via the east corridor. This route was used by Russia to transport its goods since last November, and the volume of freight trains from China had tripled after the naval blockade. [US now moving to isolate Iran from its allies. Time will tell how this aggressive strategy works out.] 

• IRGC statement: "Retaliation completed". Key infrastructure and facilities at four US bases in Kuwait (Arifan and Ali al-Salem) and Bahrain (Jafair and Sheikh Isa) were targeted. 
• USAF aircraft refueling in the Persian Gulf with refuellers taking off from Tel Aviv & Qatar. Israeli media say the Israeli Air Force may have participated in strikes against Iran. Air defense site near Bushehr nuclear plant targeted in US strikes. 

• CNN on the US Navy: We have at least 19 warships near Iran.
• The IRGC says it struck a US-linked command-and-control center at Muwaffaq al Salti US Air Base in Jordan with 10 ballistic missiles. The IRGC says this was the 2nd phase of retaliation for US attacks, and warn that if the US attacks again, other American bases in the region will also be targeted.
• Haaretz Hebrew Newspaper Israeli Analyst: We are now living in a world more like a madhouse, led by the biggest madman, Trump.
• Hebrew Live: A 21-year-old discharged soldier from the Israeli army committed suicide today by shooting himself in the head.
• Professsor Glenn Diesen: The NATO Summit reads like a declaration of war. The Europeans got what they wanted, diplomacy is dead & this is now Trump's war. How to fight and defeat the world's largest nuclear power in a fight for its survival? We will now see massive escalation as we move toward total war.

• Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: “Russia will no longer believe that the West wants negotiated solutions regarding Ukraine.” According to Lavrov, the West was simulating a willingness to negotiate on Ukraine, but is now openly issuing ultimatums to Russia. [US always plays good cop-bad cop but in the end is a fascist war mongering colonial power - and a declining one at that.]

• Responsible Statecraft: Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request show that the Selective Service recently gamed out what a military draft would look like in a future war. It would not resemble the one the nation lived through 55 years ago for the Vietnam War. Instead, those with “special skills” would be conscripted first.  According to the January 2026 military mobilization exercise, the first wave of draftees could include “computer network technicians, electronics technicians, aerospace engineers, divers, welders, gas turbine engine mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, longshoremen, steel workers / pipefitters, radar / communications technicians, fiber optic technicians, mariners, aviation structural mechanics, cyber security specialists, robotics operators and technicians, air traffic controllers, logistics specialists, [and] linguists.”

• Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia, contaminating an estimated 110,000 people —nearly the entire population of the territory at the time.
• CovertAction Magazine: In December 2025, Hawaiian Congressman Ed Case (Democrat) issued a press release announcing his support for the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included $1 billion for military construction projects in Hawai’i. Case gave a speech before Congress last year asserting that Chinese Premier Xi Jinping was cheering on Republicans who voted against funding the Ukraine War because they were supposedly playing into Xi’s ambitions to establish Chinese global domination—enabled by an isolationist US. Case’s use of Sinophobic rhetoric to justify an expansion of the military presence in Hawai’i is matched by Hawai’i’s other Democratic Party congresswoman, Jill Tokuda, who sits on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, a fear-mongering body that has spread alarmist rhetoric and false accusations directed against China reminiscent of the McCarthy era. 
• Former Colombian candidate Cepeda warns about "paramilitary government" in Colombia: "After learning of announcements about the first decrees that he will issue, we have reached a serious conclusion: a paramilitary Government is beginning to take shape in Colombia," said Iván Cepeda in a statement, commenting on the first proposals announced by the elected president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella. The senator maintained that this conclusion is based on three initiatives announced by Espriella: the creation of "urban search blocks" and "first lines of security" made up of veterans and reservists, the reestablishment of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad and the construction of private prisons.  
• Simplicius: NATO has apparently decided that Russia can no longer be defeated militarily or even economically. The only way they now deem it’s possible to bring Russia to the negotiating table is by inflicting pain on the civilian population, which they believe will rebound onto the political elite, putting pressure on Putin to end the war. The problem is the Russian population is far more hip to the true contours of global events than the propagandized Western populaces. Russians know they are fighting an existential war led by the West with the goal to destroy Russia completely. As such, Russian people are not being in some way “radicalized” against their own government, at least not in the ways the West thinks. For Ukraine, the battlefield situation continues to worsen, and this campaign to make Russian society “feel the pain” is all that it’s got left. 

• @MaryKostakidis: Australia’s use as a US military base is being expanded in preparation for war with China, our biggest trading partner, one that has fueled our nation’s prosperity and poses no military threat to our country (or the US for that matter but that is not what it’s about). 

• The Kiev regime glorifies Nazis and everyone in the EU knows it, but nobody cares as long as Ukrainians keep being used as cannon fodder against Russia. The EU Parliament has approved an amendment that criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to rename an elite Ukrainian military unit after the World War II Nazi and Holocaust  collaborators Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a move that has sparked a diplomatic dispute with Poland. The move comes only 2 months after Zelesnky started repatriating the bodies of Ukrainian Nazi and Holocaust collaborators to bury them in Ukraine with with all the honours in state funerals.