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      <title>Experts Declare Fuel Crisis Imminent as Global Wars Choke
        Out Supply</title>
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        all around the world are now declaring that a major fuel crisis
        is upon us due to the perfect storm of catalysts, which includes
        Ukraine and Russia\u2019s mutual energy strikes, as well as the
        sudden flare-up of the Houthi-Iran axis\u2019s targeting of critical
        Saudi energy infrastructure.</div>
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                      major fuel crisis is upon us due to the perfect
                      storm of catalysts, which includes Ukraine and
                      Russia\u2019s mutual energy strikes, as well as the
                      sudden flare-up of the Houthi-Iran axis\u2019s
                      targeting of critical Saudi energy infrastructure.
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">WSJ
                      reports:</p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #51b4e9;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><strong>American
                            oil executives warned for months that the
                            prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz
                            was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they
                            say it is here.</strong></em></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>Commercial
                            fuel stocks around the world have been
                            depleting for more than six months, and
                            strategic crude reserves can\u2019t be tapped
                            much further. </span><strong>Attacks last
                            week shut down a crucial crude pipeline in
                            Saudi Arabia that bypassed the Strait,
                            stranding at least 2.5 million barrels a day
                            from an already tight global oil market,
                            analysts estimate.</strong></em></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      latest driver has been the news that Saudi Arabia
                      is cancelling \u201ccrude oil cargoes\u201d to Europe for
                      the rest of September, with rumors now speculating
                      that this will extend into October as well.</p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        past several days, the Houthis have been
                        launching major strikes on Saudi oil
                        infrastructure sites, which include the Aramco
                        plant at </span><em><strong>18.485593,
                          42.505660</strong><span> </span></em><span>geolocation:</span></p>
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                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>BREAKING:
                          Oil loadings suspended at Yanbu, Saudi
                          Arabia\u2019s main Red Sea port, following the
                          earlier attack on the east\u2013west pipeline,
                          Reuters report.</em></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>Oil
                            storage tanks ablaze after a claimed Houthi
                            missile strike on the Aramco Abha Bulk Plant
                            north of Abha, Saudi Arabia.</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>18.485593, 42.505660</span></em></p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">About
                      500 miles from there the Yasref oil refinery in
                      the Red Sea coast city of Yanbu was also hit: </p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Meanwhile,
                        the critical East-West pipeline meant to serve
                        as lifeline to redirect Hormuz crude flows was
                        seen in new Maxar satellite imagery after the
                        attack which disabled it on September 10th. </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b0d1c03c-3155-4f80-b756-766738562cfb?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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style="color: #51b4e9;text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">multiple</a></strong></em><strong><a
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                          moz-do-not-send="true"> pump stations along
                          the long route were destroyed</a></strong><span>,
                        making the attack far more severe than initially
                        estimated:</span></p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
                      is unlikely the site will be reopened any time
                      soon. Experts speaking to Reuters estimated
                      several weeks, with some \u201cpartial\u201d crude flows
                      possible before then\u2014a close-up of the destruction
                      was provided, as well:</p>
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/4aaa3129-6d00-48fc-8081-98f638a90963?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                            moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-pipeline-outage-threatens-loss-4-global-oil-supply-2026-09-13/</a></figcaption></figure>
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/aa51c0d4-e62e-478b-8e19-309b71d151e8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">However,
                      seeing as how easy the site was to hit, who is to
                      say that the responsible parties\u2014whether they were
                      in Iraq or Yemen\u2014could not simply keep hitting it
                      again?</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Now
                      US diesel prices have skyrocketed alarmingly: </p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
                      has blamed the diesel crisis on Ukraine\u2019s strikes
                      on Russian diesel refining infrastructure: </p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">What
                      a churlishly lazy and hypocritically unprincipled
                      foreign policy: \u201cLet them strike what they want,
                      but not diesel for now, because that\u2019s where we\u2019re
                      seeing major shocks!\u201d </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      type of short-sighted, bumbling diplomacy is like
                      haphazardly putting out random fires one at a
                      time, all while inadvertently starting new ones.
                      Trump thinks the US can act recklessly hostile
                      against the entire world, supplying weapons to
                      Ukraine to destroy major sectors of Russian
                      infrastructure, ruthlessly attacking Iran, etc.,
                      and then wondering why the blowback is starting to
                      poison the domestic economy. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Now
                      global bond yields have skyrocketed for both US
                      and Europe, with US and UK\u2019s 10Y note being
                      highest since 2007, and Germany\u2019s 10Y reportedly
                      highest since 2006:</p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #51b4e9;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>BREAKING:
                            The 10Y Note Yield rises to 5.04%, its
                            highest level since July 2007.</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>This pushes the average interest rate on
                            a 30Y mortgage up to 7.17%.</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>Homeownership is officially a luxury. -
                          </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a77b0d1d-a9df-4574-9077-091e8eadcb8f?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: #51b4e9;text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Source</a></strong></em></p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="320" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/982bd123-c527-4c48-8334-8eb3949907b8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c382b731-5ae6-425c-b79b-06a517c31484_714x1200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1200,&quot;width&quot;:714,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:320,&quot;bytes&quot;:51151,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://simplicius76.substack.com/i/215748453?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc382b731-5ae6-425c-b79b-06a517c31484_714x1200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
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                                    height="537.8151260504202"
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style="border: none !important;vertical-align: middle;display: block;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;height: auto;margin-bottom: 0;width: auto !important;max-width: 100% !important;margin: 0 auto;"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
                      part of his hamfistedly stilted attempt to rectify
                      the situation, Trump announced a mutual energy
                      ceasefire that never happened, another in a long
                      line of fakes meant to pacify the domestic cattle:
                    </p>
                    <div class="captioned-image-container-static"
style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
                      <figure style="width: 100%;margin: 0 auto;">
                        <table class="image-wrapper" width="100%"
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                            <tr>
                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="448" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ee67d907-306e-462e-a8ea-b941418540d2?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="position: relative;flex-direction: column;align-items: center;padding: 0;width: auto;height: auto;border: none;text-decoration: none;display: block;margin: 0;"
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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a70a8d2-5f43-4106-843f-38a3afc011e6_1145x465.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:465,&quot;width&quot;:1145,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:448,&quot;bytes&quot;:334839,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://simplicius76.substack.com/i/215748453?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a70a8d2-5f43-4106-843f-38a3afc011e6_1145x465.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
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                                    height="181.93886462882097"
src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!32P3!,w_448,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a70a8d2-5f43-4106-843f-38a3afc011e6_1145x465.png"
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                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Both
                      Zelensky and Russian representatives have denied
                      any such ceasefire, and as proof of this, both
                      countries hit the other\u2019s energy sites just this
                      morning. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9f49940c-5f93-45e2-9ebe-da3184e79d88?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
                          style="color: #51b4e9;text-decoration: none;"
                          moz-do-not-send="true">Russian analyst Victor
                          Leonov shared an interesting theory</a></strong><span>
                        that proposes Russia and Iran are working
                        hand-in-hand in taking down the Western monetary
                        and economic orders: </span></p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #51b4e9;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>Why
                            do Iran and Russia target energy facilities?</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>In the war in Ukraine and the tensions
                            in the Middle East, petrol stations, oil and
                            fuel depots, energy facilities,
                            infrastructure, and refineries are
                            continuously targeted by Russia and Iran. At
                            the same time, transportation and energy
                            routes such as the Strait of Hormuz and Bab
                            al-Mandab are completely shut down. Why is
                            this happening? Why are Russia and Iran
                            doing this in coordination, and what is
                            their objective?</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <strong>The answer to these questions comes
                            from the fact that Russia and Iran have
                            agreed together to destroy the Western and
                            American capitalist system, by creating an
                            energy crisis through targeting energy
                            facilities and transportation routes.</strong><span>
                            The equation works like this: attacking and
                            destroying these facilities reduces energy
                            production and supply, while closing the
                            Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab similarly
                            reduces supply and availability on a global
                            level.</span><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>As a result, fuel and energy prices in
                            general begin to rise and surge. Rising
                            prices mean that greater pressure is placed
                            on the global industrial sector, which must
                            secure fuel at much higher prices. At the
                            same time, transportation costs also rise
                            and economic inflation begins to increase. </span><strong>As
                            a result, central banks are forced to raise
                            interest rates in order to control
                            inflation, which in turn slows and weakens
                            the economy. In this way, production and
                            factory activity gradually weaken, while the
                            industrial sector faces a major threat.</strong><br>
                          <br>
                          <strong>Through this method, Russia and Iran
                            are putting industry, economic growth, and
                            the current world order at risk, to the
                            point where factories may shut down and
                            industry, in its current form, may no longer
                            be able to continue. Since industry is the
                            foundation stone of modern capitalism, step
                            by step the current world order moves toward
                            collapse as an energy crisis develops.</strong><br>
                          <br>
                          <span>Therefore, Russia and Iran want to use
                            this path to bring down and transform the
                            current world order, which is led by the
                            United States in a unipolar manner. For this
                            reason, expect further bombing of petrol
                            stations, oil, gas, and fuel depots, along
                            with more attacks on energy facilities and
                            infrastructure.</span></em></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">I\u2019m
                      not convinced this is such a coordinated operation
                      to \u201ctake down capitalism\u201d, but it\u2019s an interesting
                      direction of thought, particularly considering
                      that Iran and Russia are able to bolster their own
                      eastward trade routes while simultaneously
                      stymieing the West\u2019s economic life lines. More
                      likely, Russia and Iran are simply reacting
                      defensively to hurt their opponents at their most
                      sensitive points. Russia was happy to supply
                      energy to the West to keep the Western \u201ccapitalist
                      order\u201d churning along, up until Ukraine began to
                      put the pain on Russia\u2019s own energy
                      infrastructure. </p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                                width="516" style="text-align: center;"><a
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                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #51b4e9;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>The
                          daily rental rate for a supertanker on the
                          route from the Persian Gulf to China has
                          reached $1 million for the first time in
                          history.</em></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Now
                      as of this writing, various reports are claiming
                      that the Houthis have mined Bab al Mandab, which
                      would appear to be in contradiction to their
                      previous claims that only Saudi transports are
                      prohibited from transiting:</p>
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                      the reports are true\u2014in conjunction with the
                      wide-scale strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure\u2014it
                      could represent a pronounced campaign to deliver
                      an economic deathblow to the Saudi regime. </p>
                    <p
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                      thing is for certain, while Trump continues to
                      treat the Iran conflict as some kind of casual
                      diversion or vanity playground, Iran is taking
                      things to the extreme. For Iran, the conflict is
                      existential, notably demonstrated by two recent
                      items: </p>
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                      Reports are circulating that Iran is preparing to
                      mobilize up to one million people for training,
                      for\u2014as I understand it\u2014the creation of 1,000
                      reserve battalions dubbed the \u201cnational resistance
                      battalions\u201d in preparation for possible future
                      conflict.</p>
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                        corroborating the above news, </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/3ca6542e-4177-479b-bc92-2db6f75fe5ba?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                        that billboards have been going up all over Iran
                        promoting the joining of the IRGC.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Jerusalem
                      Post writes of the new campaign:</p>
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                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><strong>Volunteer
                            call to mobilize the youth</strong></em></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span>Macmillan
                            stressed that Iran was attempting to
                            mobilize youth with the messaging, offering
                            weapons training, map reading, and first aid
                            skills needed for combat zones, as part of a
                            campaign to expand </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9f9977c5-32e6-44d2-ae11-7cca3d78b6a9?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
style="color: #51b4e9;text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true">Basij-styl</a><span>e
                            units beyond the \u201cusual core\u201d supporters.</span></em></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>The
                          new brand of fighters will demonstrate to
                          Iranians and the West that the regime \u201ccan
                          still organize mass participation after months
                          of tension,\u201d despite the economic turmoil,
                          war, and violent suppression of protests, he
                          said.</em></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em>\u201cIt
                          is a volunteer call, pushed through official
                          channels and mass SMS. This is an official
                          Iranian government campaign infrastructure, a
                          political-military mobilization message, not a
                          neutral public-service notice,\u201d he noted.</em></p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Secondly,
                      </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bc21a71e-a99f-46d9-bed0-26deee533cac?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                          moz-do-not-send="true">Iranian news sources
                          report</a></strong><span> that a prominent
                        Iranian MP has claimed that an \u201curgent bill\u201d has
                        been prepared by a group of lawmakers for Iran\u2019s
                        withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
                        Act. The bill reportedly will be voted upon once
                        the parliament\u2019s \u201cpresiding board approves it\u201d.
                      </span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      most striking portion of the MP\u2019s interview is his
                      direct call for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons,
                      given that the US\u2019s aggression has caused this to
                      be an \u201cunavoidable necessity\u201d: </p>
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                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><strong>\u201cIt
                            is better to conduct the necessary tests for
                            nuclear weapons as soon as possible\u201d because
                            Iran needs nuclear deterrence and possessing
                            nuclear weapons is now an \u201cunavoidable
                            necessity.\u201d</strong></em></p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Granted,
                      we must not overreact, as such firebrand lawmakers
                      have come before and the initiative will likely
                      lead nowhere. But it all goes to show that Iran\u2019s
                      leaders and people are hardening, solidifying
                      around a unified core, and are treating the
                      US-Israeli axis\u2019s attacks on their country as an
                      existential threat that must be dealt with like a
                      cancer, rather than a vanity show for PR ratings.
                    </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      light of this, a series of new photos have been
                      \u2018leaked\u2019 by CBS showing never-before-seen scenes
                      of destruction in US bases after Iranian attacks:
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9f2a7aa7-e0e4-45ef-9014-7b1e8f339a58?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
                          style="color: #51b4e9;text-decoration: none;"
                          moz-do-not-send="true">Mario Nawfal reports
                          the list of destroyed assets</a></strong><span>:
                      </span></p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #51b4e9;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><em><span><span>Active
                              service members sent the images
                              anonymously. </span><br>
                            <br>
                          </span><strong><span>One soldier's words:
                              "We're not defending these bases. We're
                              just watching them get destroyed."</span></strong><span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>What the photos reportedly show:</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia:
                              an </span></span><strong><span>E-3 Sentry
                              with its tail severed</span></strong><span><span>
                              from a charred fuselage</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-Prince Sultan Air Base: hollowed-out
                              buildings and barracks standing beside
                              untouched concrete T-walls, fortifications
                              built for mortars and grenades in a war
                              fought from 300 miles up</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-Camp Buehring, Kuwait: rows of
                              trailers destroyed at the main staging
                              area for Army ground troops and armor</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-Camp Buehring: vehicles burned out in
                              the open</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-Camp Arifjan, Kuwait: structural
                              damage to a building at the largest
                              American logistics hub in the region</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>-The IG counted nearly 60 aircraft
                              lost and $3.7 billion in equipment across
                              eight countries.</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>Hegseth called the missiles that
                              killed six at Shuaiba "squirters," a word
                              for the odd one that slips past a working
                              defense.</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>These photos say the defense isn't
                              working, and the people inside the wire
                              know it.</span><br>
                            <br>
                            <span>Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel</span></span></em></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Compilation
                      of the \u201cleaks\u201d:</p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
                      new Pentagon report lists the failed war\u2019s
                      \u201cofficial losses\u201d: </p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Some
                      analysts have crunched the numbers and reportedly
                      derived that Operation Epic Fury\u2019s per-sortie
                      losses were some of the highest in US history: </p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It\u2019s
                      clear that Iran is only just getting going, and
                      Trump\u2019s historic blunder has ignited a national
                      renewal that is unlikely to slow ever again, now
                      that the genie has been let out the bottle, and
                      US\u2019s unprecedented vulnerability has been exposed.
                    </p>
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