Category: Terrorism

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter

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Open Source Intel;

The U.S. has begun enforcing a naval blockade on Iran, targeting all vessels entering and exiting its ports across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The move is expected to inflict about $435M in total daily losses across Iran’s exports, roughly $13B per month, even as its oil revenues rose 37% during the war to about $139M per day.

The IRGC had been operating a paid “protection corridor,” charging up to $2M per vessel in crypto, but the blockade could halt exports, disrupt imports, trigger food shortages, and accelerate the collapse of the rial.

Plus: vessels entering the Strait of Hormuz without authorization are subject to interception, diversion, and capture by the U.S. military. […] “The blockade will not impede neutral transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz to or from non-Iranian destinations.”

More: The thing about that Persian Gulf stranglehold is that, like the Sword of Damcles, it’s only effective until it’s played.”

I’m on the road this week and mostly out of the news cycle, so drop related links in the comments.

Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?

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The first rule of fishing is fish where the fish are;

The chief oversight body responsible for tracking U.S. foreign assistance says United Nations agencies are stonewalling a probe into their ties to Hamas. The agencies have failed to provide investigators with information that could identify their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to a non-public report transmitted to Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Mad Mullah Money

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Maybe bombing the banker was a bad idea;

The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.

Sources familiar with the matter told Iran International that UAE authorities detained dozens of money changers tied to financial entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, shut down associated companies and closed their offices.

The crackdown follows days of mounting regional tensions and comes after other measures targeting Iranian nationals, including visa revocations and tighter travel restrictions through Dubai.

For years, Dubai has served as Iran’s main offshore financial artery, where oil proceeds, petrochemical revenues and rial conversions were turned into dollars, dirhams and euros beyond the reach of the country’s battered domestic banking system.

“This is going to be a real problem for Tehran because Dubai was an economic lung for the Iranian regime,” Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran told Iran International.

“That is economic pressure and diplomatic isolation in a way that the UAE is able to employ against the Iranian regime, and it will have a very considerable impact.”

h/t Instapundit

Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

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SANCTIONS: The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the Canadian company Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, a Vancouver-based company, over alleged ties to a $100 million Hezbollah financing network led by financier Alaa Hassan Hamieh.

Assets under U.S. jurisdiction are now frozen and American entities are barred from doing business with the firm, as authorities say the network used multiple front companies to move funds supporting Hezbollah operations.

No shit, Muhammad: B.C.’s Ministry of Finance said the province was not alerted to the situation before the U.S. announcement

Related terror funding: FOI documents reveal that “Toronto Palestinian Families” received $99,500 in federal money to conduct these workshops…

New Rules

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Mark Levin interviews Steve Witkoff “where he lays out in detail for nearly 40 minutes, the shocking information and events that occurred during the three meetings with the Iranian regime’s negotiators, and not a single so-called major news outlet reports on it.”

Update: Kurdish forces in Iraq have launched a ground military offensive into Iran against the Islamic regime, an Iranian Kurdish official tells @i24NEWS_EN
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Operation Epic Fury

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Status report from the Institute for the Study of War. (Good X account to follow)

Iranian Retaliation: The rate and scale of Iranian ballistic missile strikes targeting Israel suggest that US and Israeli efforts to degrade Iran’s retaliatory capabilities are succeeding.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that Iran’s retaliation in response to the joint US-Israeli air campaign has not inflicted US casualties or caused meaningful damage to US military installations used to conduct offensive operations against Iran.

Multiple Iranian drone strikes on civilian infrastructure in Gulf countries wounded civilians on February 28.

Several members of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, including Hezbollah and the Houthis, have condemned the US and Israeli strikes in Iran but have not conducted retaliatory attacks as of ISW-CTP’s 04:00 PM ET data cutoff. These Axis of Resistance members could decide at any time to attack the United States or Israel in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, however.

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The combined US-Israeli force killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and it is unclear who is currently ruling Iran. US President Donald Trump confirmed on February 28 that Khamenei was killed. The Iranian constitution stipulates that the President, the Judiciary Chief, and a member of the Guardian Council will take over the responsibilities of the Supreme Leader until Iran’s Assembly of Experts convenes to select a new leader. Khamenei was reportedly making plans prior to the current conflict for who he wanted to rule Iran in the event of his death, however.

The combined force conducted nearly 900 strikes on Iranian targets in the first 12 hours of its campaign, according to an unspecified US official speaking to Fox News. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that it struck 500 Iranian targets. The regime’s internet shutdown has almost certainly limited the amount of information about US and Israeli strikes coming out of Iran. ISW-CTP’s strike data, therefore, only reflects a portion of the total amount of US and Israeli strikes.

CENTCOM Update: As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.

@DrEliDavid – President Trump announced that the US is converting all Iranian ships into submarines

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Operation Epic Fury (Bumped)

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New report, via Israel: Khamenei’s body has been found, Netanyahu has viewed the photos.

Fireworks.

Original post below. Evening developments will be posted to a new thread.
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The hour of your freedom is at hand.

Summary of events;

The coordinated attacks, named Operation Epic Fury by the Pentagon and Roaring Lion by Israel, hit Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s residence, parliament, National Security Council headquarters, and radar sites. Trump urged Iran’s military to surrender and civilians to overthrow the government amid unconfirmed reports of top officials killed.
Iran fired back with ballistic missiles at Israel, US assets in Bahrain, and sites in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan, as Gulf states condemned the aggression and the region braced for escalation.

As always, X is your firehose of both information and propaganda/AI fakes, readers are welcome to drop whatever looks legit in the comments.

Official U.S. Department of War X account.

Teenage boys in Iran react.

@WarMonitor3: Iranian air defence appears completely non existent

Eli David is a good account to follow: USS Abraham Lincoln strike group is now attacking Iran’s navy

Fingers crossed: Reports that rescue teams are digging the rubble in Khamenei’s residence. Update: Senior Israel official “Khamenei ‘almost certainly’ eliminated”

Commander of the IRGC has been eliminated.

The regime’s Chief Justice—who executed thousands of protesters by hanging during the Woman Life Freedom uprisings and recent protests—has been eliminated.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86 – They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.
Iran disputes reports: “Everything is fine.”

Or not.

Not, if he was here: Damavand headquarters hit with bunker busters.

Iran’s announcement that Khamenei will give a proof of life address “within minutes” expired hours ago.

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