re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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President Donald Trump said he canceled the planned trip by US negotiators to Pakistan because there was “no reason” to have people travel for 16 or 17 hours when Iran’s position was not good enough, but said Tehran sent an improved paper shortly after the cancellation.

“There’s no reason to wait two days, have people traveling for 16, 17 hours. We’re not doing it that way,” Trump told reporters before leaving Palm Beach International Airport. “When they want, they can call me. We have all the cards. We won everything.”

Asked what had changed since he said the United States was dealing with whoever was in charge in Iran, Trump said: “Nothing. It’s just that they gave us a paper that should have been better.”

“Interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better,” he added.

Asked whether Iran had offered anything in return for a 20-year suspension of enriched uranium, Trump said: “They offered a lot, but not enough.”

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Some still find VPN access, but only through expensive, unstable, dangerous scraps. Three to eight dollars per gigabyte for a window to the world, with legal risk hanging over anyone who helps others connect.

A country of millions has been reduced to a two class reality:
those with access,
and those left in darkness.

And yet, when you look closely, Tehran is not asleep.

I saw it in people’s faces.

They remember January.
They remember the horror.
They remember the bodies, the bullets, the names, the nights that never ended.

I saw the will to survive.
I saw the guilt of surviving.
I saw despair in the way people walked, but also something the regime has never managed to kill:
belief that tomorrow can still belong to us.

Everywhere, if you listen carefully, people are talking about the end of the regime.

Not loudly.
Not foolishly.
Not for performance.

But it is there.

In shops.
In transit.
In clinics.
In short sentences.
In conversations that begin with prices, internet, work, and medicine, then drift toward the same unspoken question:

what happens next?

People believe that day is near. But the waiting is torture, because while we wait, they execute the young they dragged from January. While we wait, they torture detainees. While we wait, they arrest more.

Even those of us still “free” are living under a slow sentence.

The economy is eating people alive.

Prices are through the roof. Eggs, rice, bread, the most basic things, now feel like daily calculations of humiliation. Spending has become necessity only. People are selling dollars, gold, whatever little reserve they had, not to build a future, but to survive the week.

The streets and subway are not as crowded as they should be.
Street vendors are desperate.
Restaurants and cafés are bleeding customers.
Businesses are taking hit after hit from the blackout.
Layoffs are spreading like smoke after a fire.

There is no mass flight. No grand panic stockpiling. Not yet.

What you see is something quieter and heavier:
controlled pressure,
exhausted restraint,
a city burning through its last buffers while pretending to function.

And the blackout damage has barely begun.

The regime has built a two class country out of the internet itself. White SIM cards and privileged access for loyalists, officials, propagandists, and regime approved circles. Darkness and expensive, dangerous scraps of connection for everyone else.

For them, access.
For us, silence.

For them, propaganda.
For us, risk.

For them, the stage.
For us, the blackout.

And every night, while ordinary people avoid the streets, their loyalists gather in staged little victory circuses. Money flows to militias and regime parasites so they can perform “popular support” under lights, while the rest of the country is suffocating under a digital siege.

They are not celebrating strength.

They are celebrating our isolation.

They cut the internet because they are terrified of our voice. They throw parties because they are terrified of our grief. They flood the streets with guns because they know the people no longer fear them the way they used to.

Tehran is not dead.

It is wounded.
It is watched.
It is occupied.
It is being forced to whisper with a boot on its throat.

But beneath the silence, the city remembers.

And one day, the same streets where we now lower our heads will raise the Lion and Sun again.

Until then, understand this clearly:

The people of Iran are not tired because they surrendered.
They are tired because they have been carrying a nation through darkness.

And still, they are walking forward.
Pãyande Iran.
Javid shah.

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a few pages earlier it was reported Iran is pulling in an abandoned oil tanker to use as storage

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Yesterday, M/V Sevan was among 19 “shadow fleet” vessels sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury for activities related to transporting billions of dollars worth of Iranian energy, oil and gas products, including propane and butane, to foreign markets.

Earlier today, Sevan was intercepted in the Arabian Sea by a U.S. Navy helicopter from guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), and the merchant vessel is currently complying with U.S. military direction to turn back to Iran under escort.

U.S. forces continue to enforce U.S. sanctions and fully implement the blockade against ships entering or departing Iranian ports. 37 vessels have been redirected since the start of the blockade.

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