CALM BEFORE THE STORM
Alert 8/13/26
🇺🇸🕋💧❗️— Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is adding dedicated Islamic wudu stations in the men’s and women’s restrooms of Terminal D, providing Muslim passengers with facilities for ritual washing before prayer.
▶️Airport officials say the stations will also address safety and maintenance concerns caused by travelers washing their feet in regular sinks, which can leave floors wet and damage counters.
▶️The privately funded facilities are scheduled to be completed by the end of the year, joining similar installations already found at major U.S. airports such as Chicago O’Hare.
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🗳 🇩🇪 📊 AfD surges to a record 42% in Saxony-Anhalt — a full 20 points clear of the CDU with just one month to go before the state election.
The historic result could make the party the strongest force and potentially deliver Germany’s first AfD-led state government.
📎 Europa
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🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — URGENT: According to Israel’s Channel 13, U.S. Central Command chief Brad Cooper reportedly told Israeli military officials that he is pushing the Trump administration to consider attacks on key Iranian infrastructure.
▶️The reported goal would not simply be military damage.
▶️The idea would be to put enough pressure on Tehran that Iran would agree to return to negotiations with Washington.
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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🇬🇧🕋 — Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
You might call Britain the “Islamic Republic of Britain.”
Someone said that the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain.
We’re making sure there won’t be another one—you know, in Iran.
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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺🛠 — URGENT: The United States is considering different options against the communist regime in Cuba.
▶️U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that all possibilities remain under consideration, including potential military action.
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—❗️🇮🇷 Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Command:
‘The false claims of by United States regarding the normal passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, which show the desperation and helplessness of the U.S. military, are nothing more than lies and falsehoods.
We announce that the Strait of Hormuz remains, as in the past, under the complete supervision and control of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and no commercial ship or tanker without the permission and guidance of the powerful Iranian Armed Forces has had and will have the possibility of safely transiting this strait.
America is constantly seeking evil and insecurity in the region, and its false and baseless threats, in the face of the all-encompassing preparations of the heroic warriors of Islam in the Armed Forces will result in nothing but further misery and helplessness for them.
The glorious Armed Forces of Islamic Iran are monitoring all movements of the American-Zionist enemy in the region, and under the wise and intelligent command of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, His Holiness Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, they have not and will not have the slightest hesitation in realizing the rights of the nation, national sovereignty, and defending the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and our beloved country of Iran.
And we will respond to any threat, of any kind and at any level, with an even more crushing and severe response than before.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇱🇧/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Iran informed Syria through Turkey that 100s of locations would be targeted with drones and missiles throughout Syria, including the Presidential Palace, if the Syrian Army intervened in Lebanon against Hezbollah – Tasnim
Following the warning, which took place weeks ago, Syria tuned down its anti-Hezbollah rhetoric and privately reassured Tehran and Beirut that it would not intervene in Lebanon.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The USS George Washington (CVN-73), USS Shoup (DDG-86) and USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) have transited the Singapore Strait westbound
The George Washington carrier may replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, currently deployed for 9+ months against Iran, with its crew increasingly desperate and suicidal.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Yemeni drone attack against Aramco facilities in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
@Middle_East_Spectator
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has lost 25% of all its MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drones in the war with Iran
@Middle_East_Spectator
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🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Damage is visible at Mokha Port in western Yemen following recent Houthi (Ansarallah) missile and drone strikes.
At least one hangar or warehouse at the Yemeni government-controlled base appears to have been completely destroyed, while a separate burn scar is visible within the commercial port.
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—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Israeli intelligence believes Iran’s military will be fully restored to pre-war status by mid 2027 at the latest
The Jerusalem Post, citing IDF and Mossad officials, reports that Israel is ‘shocked’ for the second time by Iran’s rapid defense industry recovery in the aftermath of the joint Israeli-American war against Iran.
The report states that Iran will likely restore its capability to manufacture ballistic missiles at rates of 100-300 per month by mid-2027, comparable to its output pre-12 Day War.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah (Houthi) forces are rapidly advancing and surrounding the city of Marib, currently held by Saudi-backed forces
Sources on the ground report that an offensive to capture the city is possible within the coming hours and days, if Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi orders it.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡- A high-level Iraqi delegation has arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for talks regarding the recent Saudi attacks on the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces position in retaliation for the PMF’s attacks on Saudi’s oil facilities.
The Iraqi security delegation consists of the Chief of Staff, the Chief of Baghdad’s security services, the Air Defense Commander, and the Chief of Baghdad’s Counter-Terrorism Agency.
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🇫🇷⚡️- Thousands of firefighters in France have started a strike following “disastrous” early talks with the government.
Among their main demands are better salaries, new trucks, as the average fire truck in France is around two decades old, and for more cancers to be recognized as work-related risks.
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🇫🇷⚡️- In private, French President Emmanuel Macron is increasingly criticizing his constitutional inability to serve a third term, calling it some “grim bullshit”.
“He’s begun to talk about himself as if he were eternal. He doesn’t seem to conceptualize he’ll be gone next year.” - Executive source to Paris Match.
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🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah attacked ARAMCO’s Jizan oil refinery in southwest Saudi Arabia with two drones.
This would be the third time the processing facility has been struck by the Yemeni group in less than three weeks.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel is astonished at Iran’s rapid military rebuild following the U.S.-Iran war, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The report states Tel Aviv believes Iran will rebuild to pre-war levels by 2027, and become a major threat again by 2028.
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🇺🇸⚡️- The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. was vandalized by putting soap into the fountains and spray painting the phrase: “Clean hands, Dirty $.”
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🇺🇸⚡️- Fox News polling shows Republican Mike Rogers beating Abdul El-Sayed 51 - 47 in the Michigan Senate race. Fox’s polling has consistently shown better results than most for the Democrats.
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🇹🇷⚡️ - Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker says he is suing conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings for defamation after Jennings played and commented on the numerous controversial clips from Hasan’s live streams.
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🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡- The Catholic Biblical Association of America has elected Amy-Jill Levine, a practicing Orthodox Jewish woman, as its president.
Levine is a scholar in Jewish studies and the New Testament, where she seeks to eliminate antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic readings of biblical texts.
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Iran Adapts Missile Tactics as US Interceptor Stockpiles Dwindle
Iranian forces are rapidly refining their strike tactics across the Middle East, adopting multi-layered drone and missile salvos that deplete scarce US Patriot interceptor stockpiles.
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BREAKING: Romania begins complete shutdown of nuclear plant due to low water levels of Danube river, national nuclear company says
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BREAKING - Ebola outbreak spreads to sixth DR Congo province: Africa CDC bit.ly/3TKNARn
Follow @InsiderPaper for more news
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BREAKING: 4.0 magnitude earthquake shakes Bay Area, California
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The Trump administration flagged dozens of US trading partners Thursday as potential risks in aiding Chinese tariff evasion, vowing to tap artificial intelligence to help detect illegal practices in the future.
READ: https://t.co/JhSvYuntYv
Follow @InsiderPaper for more news
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇨🇳 In order to reduce the dependence on China, the U.S. and Japan are advancing plans to mine massive rare-earth deposits 6 km beneath the Pacific, per Bloomberg
The location is near Minamitorishima, potentially creating the world’s deepest undersea mine and reducing dependence on China
Japanese researchers estimate the seabed contains more than 16 million tons of rare earths, including critical heavy elements such as dysprosium, terbium, yttrium, and gadolinium.
The yttrium deposits alone could reportedly cover 780 years of global demand, while samples contain little radioactive material compared with many land-based deposits.
The project remains extremely difficult: pressure at 6 km is around 600 times atmospheric pressure, commercial development could cost billions and take more than a decade, and extraction may cost roughly three times more than Chinese land-based mining, alongside environmental concerns.
@Megatron_ron
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The project has also become strategically important as China controls around 90% of global rare-earth supply and has restricted exports.
If successful, Minamitorishima could become Japan’s only rare-earth mine and help the U.S. and Japan establish a closed-loop “mine-to-magnet” supply chain independent of China, although commercial production is unlikely before Trump leaves office.
@Megatron_ron
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NEW: 🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel is deliberately igniting wildfires in southern Lebanon per The Guardian
Firefighters, locals, and environmental groups say Israel is using drones, flares, and incendiary shells to torch forests and cropland
@Megatron_ron
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NEW: 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iranian Commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi announced that Iran is producing ballistic missiles and drones at a rate exceeding the rate at which they are launched.
He says even if the war lasts for several years, our ballistic missiles will continue to rain down on the enemy.
@Megatron_ron
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending, per The Kobeissi Letter
@Megatron_ron
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JUST IN: 🇮🇹 Massive explosion at an ammunition plant near Rome owned by Franco-German defense giant KNDS
The company is a major supplier of weapons systems and munitions to Ukraine.
@Megatron_ron
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A geophysicist who predicted Colombia’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake has warned California could be next
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JUST IN - X is open-sourcing the code that determines how posts are ranked and filtered in the For You timeline, alongside a new tool showing visibility-limiting labels applied to accounts and posts.
@insiderpaper
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WATCH: Sierra Madre resident filmed a bear cooling off in a backyard pool as temperatures soared across Southern California.
@insiderpaper
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BREAKING: UAE ‘strongly condemns’ Iranian attack targeting two oil vessels in Hormuz strait
@insiderpaper
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is reportedly planning at least $900 million in White House construction and modernization projects, expanding a sweeping renovation effort that is drawing legal and political scrutiny.
@GeneralMCNews
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BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies are fueling the war in Gaza and drawing growing international criticism, Turkey’s foreign minister argues.
@GeneralMCNews
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🇮🇱⚔️🇹🇷 Israel was behind the intelligence report which claimed there was a “serious” Iranian assassination threat to Donald Trump during the 2026 Ankara NATO Summit
The Wall Street Journal writes that the CIA didn’t believe the Israeli intelligence report but the U.S. Secret Service wanted to take “no chances”.
The WSJ citing U.S. intelligence officials wrote that the Israelis passed the report to the U.S. president not because it was true but because they wanted to sour relations between Trump and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is a rival of Israel.
The WSJ noted that the Israeli report “fit a broader pattern” which sought to influence (manipulate) Donald Trump’s decision making rather than simply being informative which is the real purpose of an intelligence report.
@CIG_telegram
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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸📝: How does the loss of the U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf hinder the U.S. Navy’s ability to maintain ships deployed in the Arabian Sea for long periods of time?
The US Navy and US Fifth Fleet are operating a fleet of about 20 ships in the northern Arabian Sea centered around two carrier strike groups - Lincoln and Bush - and an amphibious ready group - Boxer.
The loss of access to bases in and around the Persian Gulf means that all the food have to be procured either from local sources in and around the Indian Ocean, or brought in from East Asia.
To replenish the ships at sea with food, there are four ships available: USNS Arctic, Cesar Chavez, Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard. Some of these ships departed from bases in East Asia over a month ago.
Food, depending on the type, has specific shelf life. The Navy is well aware of this. Nuclear submarines load up all the food they need for months when they deploy. Surface ships have the advantage to receive fresh food on a more regular basis.
However, because of the number of ships on station, the limited number of store ships (four), and the elongated distance from supply sources, means that the food onboard ship will be of the type that can be stored, frozen or preserved for long duration. This means less fresh fruit & vegetables, or milk (butter there is good old fashion nuclear milk - if you know, you know).
What this story tells us, is that we need more logistics to keep our Navy at sea in a contested environment. In 2015, the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command re-introduced the concept of commercial shipping transferring fuel to Navy underway replenishment ships.
What we have lost are the commercial ships that can transfer dry stores and ammunition to restock.
Currently, the four stores ships have to shuttle between bases to the forward deployed fleet.
Remember, deployed warships are not cruise ships in the Caribbean. This does not mean we cannot do better, but admirals never like to prioritize and fund logistics over warships.
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🌎♨️ A record El Niño will act like a climate time machine.
It will help push global temperatures in 2027 to levels that otherwise might not be expected for another decade or so.
Next year has a 95 percent chance of becoming the warmest year on record, with the average global temperature anomaly currently predicted to reach +1.76°C.
That would be about 0.29 degrees Celsius higher than what’s expected based on the warming trend of the past decade.
The middle 50% of global temperature forecasts for 2027 range from 1.67°C to 1.85°C above the preindustrial average.
Under these scenarios, temperatures would jump 7 to 13 years ahead of the recent warming trend, reaching levels that might otherwise become typical around 2040.
These temperature increases will also have consequences for water vapor.
Because the water vapor-carrying capacity of air increases at a rate of 7% per degree Celsius, it’s possible — if not likely — that 2027 also sets a new global moisture record.
But this El Niño isn’t just going to be strong.
Boosted by the planet’s long-term warming trend, it’s probably going to dwarf the six strongest that came before it in 2015, 1997, 1982, 1972, 1888 and 1877.
🔗 Ben Noll
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🇷🇺 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 Putin visited Etorofu Island on Thursday, marking his first-ever trip to the Russian-occupied Northern Territories claimed by Japan. The visit comes a day after Putin described the decades-old territorial dispute as effectively settled by the outcome of World War II.
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🇮🇷⚔️🇧🇭🇦🇪🇺🇸 IRGC-linked Fars News Agency published new satellite imagery of several U.S. military infrastructure and economic assets that were destroyed in the 3rd Gulf War
Notably, three of the targets shown are located in the United Arab Emirates which has not claimed to have been targeted by Iranian projectiles last July so its possible the images show objects that were destroyed in sometime in March or April.
Destruction of a data center supporting US Sintelligence operations in Bahrain.
Destruction of a gas compression unit at the Habshan refinery, part of US economic interests in the UAE
Destruction of a carbon unit belonging to a US aluminum company in the UAE
Destruction of AN/TPS-57 radar at Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE
@CIG_telegram
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🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Israeli Ministry of Defense has announced that a Cargo Ship from the USA carrying thousands of tons of military equipment has arrived to Israel’s ‘Haifa’ port “recently”, to be delivered to the IDF.
The shipment includes “D9” Bulldozers, “HMMWV” vehicles, JLTVs, “Oshkosh” Logistic trucks and other equipment.
📝 The MoD has stated that the purpose of the shipment is:
intended to strengthen the operational readiness and continuity of ground forces
@GeoPWatch
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🇺🇸⚡️ — Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, reports President Trump today signed a memorandum ordering the U.S. Navy to revert from electromagnetic catapults to steam catapults to launch fighter jets on Ford-class aircraft carriers, starting with the USS Doris Miller; the fourth Ford-class carrier to be built.
The electromagnetic catapult system is fundamental to the Ford-class’s design, and the change back to steam catapults will cost billions of dollars and likely require substantial design changes for future Ford-class carriers.
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🇮🇷🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸 U.S. military has lost roughly 25% of its Reaper drones
The Washington Post says “the U.S. military has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the war with Iran, or roughly 25 percent of its fleet”.
https://archive.ph/oqxS4
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🇮🇱🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 US CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper is actively pushing for renewed US strikes on Iran, together with Israel, saying “the fighting in Iran must be renewed, to attack national infrastructure, including sites in the gas, oil and electricity industries,” per Israeli Channel 13.
Cooper also told IDF senior officials “we may very well have no choice but to resume fighting and will need you for joint strikes.”
Israel says the Trump administration’s demand last week to “close all fronts” with Iran is not the plan anymore.
On August 10th, Brad Cooper went to Israel to pick up a prize handed to him personally by the Israeli Chief of Staff, Lt-Gen. Eyal Zamir. Cooper reportedly told the Israelis:
“You are a nation of warriors, and the people sitting here are the leaders of those warriors,” Cooper told the officers. “I am proud to serve shoulder to shoulder with you.”
Cooper doubled down on the U.S. “commitment” to Israel.
A CNN article details Cooper’s close relations with the leadership of the IDF, mentioning that him and Eyal Zamir talk “multiple times per day”, that Cooper knows every IDF general and most of its colonels too but it goes even deeper.
According to CNN, Admiral Brad Cooper has a “deep connection to Israel — one that comes from the heart” dating back to the time Cooper commanded the U.S. 5th Fleet stationed at NSA Bahrain. It was Cooper who placed a Israeli liaison officer at NSA Bahrain.
@CIG_telegram
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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Trump regime changed Iran but not in the way he wanted
Mojtaba Khamenei Is Planning for a Long War
Several months into his tenure as supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is beginning to put his own stamp on Iran’s military and national security establishment. In a sweeping series of appointments, he has effectively recreated Iran’s senior command, reorganizing the institutions responsible for managing both war and diplomacy.
The emerging command structure points toward a broader shift in how Tehran intends to manage the next phase of the conflict: more centralized military command; a greater emphasis on offensive operations and imposing more severe costs to strengthen deterrence; and tighter integration of military, economic, diplomatic, and domestic-security policy.
Yet this does not necessarily mean abandoning negotiations. Rather, the appointments suggest that Tehran is trying to pair diplomacy with a harder conception of deterrence, centered on preserving and strengthening its ability to damage its adversaries so that negotiations produce a durable settlement rather than another pause before renewed conflict.
The clearest expression of that approach may be Khamenei’s choice of Mohsen Rezaei to lead the Supreme National Security Council, the institution charged with coordinating Iran’s military, diplomatic, economic, and security policies. Rezaei is often described simply as a veteran hard-liner or former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). But that understates his significance.
Rezaei has long stood out as a strategic thinker and institution-builder within Iran’s military establishment. During his 16 years commanding the IRGC, he helped transform it into a sprawling military organization, developing its ground, air and naval forces; the Quds Force, responsible for operations abroad; and Khatam al-Anbiya, the central headquarters for coordinating major military operations. His role thus extended beyond helping to direct the Iran-Iraq War to building institutions and capabilities that would shape how Iran wielded military power for decades to come. But his wartime record also reveals the harder edge of that strategic outlook, particularly when it came to determining when Iran had achieved enough to end a conflict on acceptable terms.
The rest of Khamenei’s appointments reinforce this picture. Ali Abdollahi, the new chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, has been tasked with completing the integration of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters into the General Staff, a reorganization that would further centralize wartime command and coordination. His mandate emphasizes preparedness for “conventional, modern, cognitive, and hybrid threats.”
Ahmad Vahidi, meanwhile, has been formally confirmed as IRGC commander and promoted to major general after assuming the post following Mohammed Pakpour’s assassination. Khamenei instructed him to pursue “maximum deterrence” while maintaining readiness for “powerful offensive operations against the enemy.” Iranian commentators have highlighted the latter phrase as an unusually explicit articulation of offensive operations as part of the IRGC commander’s mandate.
Hossein Taeb—the controversial former head of the IRGC’s intelligence arm, closely associated with the repression of dissent— was made the head of the Basij. Taeb has been instructed to strengthen its “public intelligence network,” exploit new technologies, and deepen neighborhood-level organization.
The dominant view in Tehran now holds that this restraint had the opposite effect, reinforcing perceptions in Washington and Israel that Iran was weak and vulnerable, its responses predictable, and the costs of attacking it manageable. The lesson drawn from the wars since June 2025 is therefore not simply that Iran needs greater military capabilities, but also that it must demonstrate the willingness to use them in ways that impose sufficiently severe military and economic costs to discourage its adversaries from escalating again.
🔗 https://archive.ph/IIOgR
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Shocking stat of the day:
Estimated annualized interest expense on US federal debt is up to a record $1.38 trillion.
This is equivalent to 4.2% of US GDP, the highest percentage since 1997.
By comparison, this figure stood at 2.3% in Q4 2020.
Annualized interest expense has surged +$900 billion, or nearly +200%, over the last 5 years, rising at an average annual rate of +24%.
Meanwhile, in the first 9 months of FY2026, interest expense jumped +$78 billion YoY, to $827 billion, the highest level for this period in history.
The cost of servicing US federal debt has never been higher.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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BREAKING: July PPI Inflation falls to 4.7%, below expectations of 4.9%.
Core PPI Inflation fell to 4.2%, in-line with expectations of 4.2%.
Month-over-month PPI inflation was flat, at 0.0%, the first such reading since June 2025.
The odds of rate hikes are declining further.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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BREAKING: The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending.
Interest on US debt rose +$26 billion from last July’s levels to an alarming $118 billion for the month.
This puts total interest expense for FY2026 up to $1.17 trillion in FY2026.
As a result, interest expense has officially surpassed both National Defense and Medicare spending.
In other words, the US government now spends more money just on interest than it does to fund the entire US Military or to provide healthcare for seniors.
We cannot afford higher interest rates.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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BREAKING: The median apartment in Manhattan, NY, is now renting for a record $5,000/month, up +6.4% year-over-year.
The median rent price for a luxury Manhattan apartment surged +31% year-over-year, to a record $13,750/month.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn also hit a record $4,500/month in July, with inventory down -27% compared to last year.
Living in New York City has never been more expensive.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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BREAKING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is now projected to win the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Market expectations for a Gavin Newsom nomination have declined from 40% to a new low of 17%. https://t.co/Qomzqbd3nb
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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🇱🇻🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Latvia has issued an air threat warning in several municipalities in the south eastern corner of Latvia that borders Belarus and Russia.
“AIR THREAT IN THE AIRSPACE OF AUGŠDAUGAVA, PREIĻI, RĒZEKNE, AND BALVI MUNICIPALITIES.
The National Armed Forces of Latvia inform - air threat in Latvian airspace. Seek safe place indoors and follow the two-wall principle. If you see a low-flying and suspicious object, do not approach it and call 112. You will be informed when the threat has ended.” - Latvia Armed Forces.
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Weakness in US full-time employment is deepening:
Full-time employment fell-106,000 in July, to 133.55 million, the lowest since December 2024.
This marks the 4th consecutive monthly decline, totaling -1.11 million.
Since January 2025, full-time employment has dropped by -2.35 million
As a result, the number of full-time workers in the US is now just 1.4% above pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, the full-time employment-to-total employment ratio has fallen to 82.4%, the 3rd-lowest level since March 2018.
US labor market is weak beneath the surface.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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LATVIA ENDS AIR THREAT ALERT: ALLIED FIGHTERS DOWN DRONE IN LATVIAN AIRSPACE, NATIONAL ARMED FORCES SAY ON X ...
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