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🇮🇷🇮🇳| That phone call from Rezaei to Doval not a conversation but a showdown

October 12 2026 Tehran

Mohsen Rezaei Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council placed a call to India National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

This was not exchange of views. It was not discussion on matters of mutual concern. It was Tehran telling New Delhi your double game is over.

India thought it could play both sides forever

India buys 8.6 billion dollars worth of weapons from Israel. India ships 2596 consignments of military equipment to Israel. India uses Israeli Pegasus spyware to monitor its own journalists lawyers and opposition figures. India aligns with Washington within Quad to contain China. India signs 2030 Roadmap with UK.

At same time India maintains friendly relations with Iran. India has investments in Chabahar Port. India imports crude oil from Iran. India has embassy in Tehran.

Playing both sides. Deceiving both sides.

But Rezaei call was message. You cannot play both sides anymore.

Why now

Because Strait of Hormuz is in Iran hands.

Over 60 percent of India crude oil imports pass through Strait of Hormuz. India refineries Jamnagar Kochi Mangalore rely on tankers from Persian Gulf. India natural gas imports also pass through this waterway.

Iran has torched three non compliant tankers in three days. Third one was just hit and set ablaze in Strait of Hormuz.

For every barrel of Israeli weapons India buys Iran withholds barrel of oil from India.

This is not sanction. This is not threat. It is geographical fact. Rules of passage for Strait of Hormuz are set by Tehran. Indian tankers must comply or else they will end up burning at sea just like GEM NO 2.

Why this call

Because India stance on Yemen is wavering. Pakistan has intervened in Yemen. Saudi Arabia has deployed approximately 10000 desert warfare troops from Pakistan 25th Mechanized Division along Saudi Yemen border. Mecca Defense Treaty has been activated.

What is India doing. India has not condemned Saudi war on Yemen. India has not condemned US Israeli aggression against Iran. India has not condemned genocide in Gaza.

What is India doing. India is signing new arms purchase agreements with Israel. India is shipping weapons to Israel.

Rezaei asks Doval. Which side are you on.

India has 9 million citizens in Gulf.

This is not abstract geopolitics.

Nine million Indian citizens work in Gulf countries Saudi Arabia UAE Qatar Kuwait Bahrain and Oman. They remit over 40 billion dollars in foreign currency to India annually. This is one of India largest sources of foreign exchange.

If Strait of Hormuz and Bab el Mandeb Strait were to close simultaneously economies of Gulf states would collapse. Gulf oil exports rely on these two waterways. If oil cannot get out Gulf state finances will collapse. If Gulf finances collapse 9 million Indian workers will be laid off. If 9 million Indian workers lose jobs India foreign exchange inflows will collapse. If India foreign exchange collapses India economy will collapse.

Iran is telling India. You can keep buying Israeli weapons. But you need to think carefully. Are weapons more important or are livelihoods of 9 million people more important.

India has no options left.

India wants to maintain strategic autonomy. India wants to play both sides. India wants to cooperate with Washington within Quad while remaining friendly with Iran.

But this is not 2010. This is no longer era where India can straddle fence between US Israel axis and Iran.

US Fifth Fleet has withdrawn 1000 kilometers from Persian Gulf. US base in Bahrain has been severely damaged by Iranian strikes. Both of Saudi Arabia oil export routes are within firing range of Axis of Resistance. Yemeni armed forces control Bab el Mandeb Strait.

India thinks it is chess player. India is pawn. India thinks it is hedging its bets. India is losing on both sides.

Rezaei called Doval not to make request but to deliver notification.

India must choose. Tehran is awaiting answer.

Long live Iran. Long live Resistance.

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2110362016548331524

If anyone says he or she has a pain in the left arm and the chest, act fast. Even if the person says they just want to lie down or whatever, ignore them. People in pain are probably unable to think clearly. https://people.com/days-of-our-lives-robert-kelker-kelly-chest-pains-before-death-62-12175293

Also call an ambulance or drive straight to the ER if someone who is normally coherent starts talking gibberish. A relative did that. His wife took him to their doctor, but she should have taken him to the ER instead. The doctor did call ahead to the hospital which was helpful. Fortunately, the patient was lucky: He recovered.

In either case, if you are able to speak to medical provider right away or while you await an ambulance, you might ask about giving the person aspirin.

If you are the person having the symptoms, do not attempt to drive yourself anywhere.

If it turns out to be a false alarm, better safe than sorry. JMO.

I have no medical training and this is not medical advice.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/15/jonathan-cook-israel-has-no-right-to-exist/

Israel has no right to exist. That’s the position in international law.

In fact, no state — none — has a “right” to exist, including states busy extolling their democratic credentials.

If the U.K. had a “right” to exist, for example, it would mean that Scotland could not be allowed to vote for independence. Why? Because such a vote... would be a violation of the U.K.’s supposed “right” to exist as the U.K.

Peoples have a right to exist... States, by contrast, don’t have a “right” to exist. They simply do exist as a matter of fact — until they suddenly don’t. Like apartheid South Africa. Like Rhodesia. Like Czechoslovakia. Like Yugoslavia. Like Nazi Germany.

And yet every single journalist employed by an establishment media outlet is suddenly playing dumb on this most elementary of issues.

Watch, for example, the BBC’s Nick Robinson berating Green Party leader Zack Polanski for refusing to affirm Israel’s “right to exist.” Polanksi correctly argues instead that Israelis and Palestinians have a right to live in equality.

A Green Party motion earlier this month determined that Zionism — the ideology that created and sustains Israel — is racism. That brought very unwelcome attention to the question of what kind of state Israel is.

But what Robinson and the rest of the media are insisting on is a unique carve-out for Israel... The implication, the one they want you to infer without them having to spell it out, is that any attempt to end Israel as a racist state, and reform it into a democracy where Israelis and Palestinians have equal rights, is a violation of its supposed “right to exist.”

They also want you to assume that anyone who denies Israel’s “right to exist” is calling for the mass murder, the genocide, of Israeli Jews — and possibly all Jews.

In their telling, those calling for the extermination of Jews include Zack Polanksi, the Jewish leader of the Greens, and Stephen Kapos, an elderly Holocaust survivor and one of the proposers of the motion.

The reaction to the Yandex strikes is starting to look rather bot-like itself.

The same claim about Russian propaganda accounts going silent, repeated over and over. Where are the accounts, the posting data, the attribution?

Instead, the same Cloudflare graph of automated web requests gets passed around as proof.

People seem so pleased with the conclusion that they’ve stopped asking how anyone reached it. That willingness to repeat a story because we want it to be true is what bothers me.

From https://jillstein.net/#evidence:

On April 27, 2024, students at Washington University in St. Louis asked Jill Stein, then the Green Party’s candidate for president, to stand with them as they protested the university’s ties to Boeing, a major supplier of the weapons used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

The protest was peaceful until the university ordered mass arrests. Police charged the crowd, and an officer rammed a bicycle into Stein and the demonstrators beside her. Roughly 100 people were arrested.

Two and a half years later, the charges against the others have been dropped. Jill Stein alone is being prosecuted, accused of assaulting a police officer and trespassing.

The charges are bogus and clearly an attack on free speech. Dr. Stein is asking for donations and petition signatures. This is from a recent e-mail:

The genocide in Palestine rages on at the center of this turbulent, historic moment – as you know. In 2024, with your help, our presidential campaign elevated the demand to end the genocide and the US weapons enabling it, forcing it to the forefront of national presidential debate.

As a result of our unwavering advocacy – in particular, standing with Washington University (St. Louis) students peacefully protesting genocide in 2024 – I now find myself fighting false criminal charges of assaulting a police officer and trespassing. Of 100 protestors arrested, I alone am now facing trial and up to 18 months in prison if convicted. My next court appearance is Oct. 29.

If you’re in a position to help fund our legal defense – protecting basic rights for us all – every contribution is deeply appreciated, no matter what size. You can contribute online at https://jillstein.net/donate/.

Also, I would be so grateful if you would sign the petition at https://jillstein.net telling the University and the prosecution to drop the charges. You’ll be joining Ali Abunimah, Chris Hedges, Medea Benjamin, Ajamu Baraka, Roger Waters, Glenn Greenwald, Jeffrey Sachs, Abby Martin, Craig Mokiber, Max Blumenthal, Butch Ware, Miko Peled and many more in calling for an end to this prosecution that endangers us all.

For more information go to https://jillstein.net.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Together, we can beat back genocide and this assault on our most basic freedoms.

BREAKING: Trump considering firing Defense Secretary Hegseth after the midterms in an effort to take the blame of the unpopular Iran war off of himself and onto Hegseth in order to "protect his legacy" and "reputation as an anti-war president," per multiple initial reports.

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China’s OSINT Wink: We See Your Jammers, Israel

Not Spying, Just Watching: Beijing Maps Israeli EW

Let’s cut through the polite academic wrapping. Chinese scientists publishing “open source intelligence” (OSINT) about Israeli electronic warfare units isn’t just some nerdy research project. It’s Beijing sending a message in plain sight: we can see your EW toys, we can track them, and we don’t need to spy to do it.

Israel loves to flex its Scorpius jammers and spoofers, the crown jewels of its electronic warfare arsenal. These systems can blind radar, scramble GPS, and mess with communications. Normally, Israel counts on secrecy — hide the gear, keep the deployments quiet, and let adversaries guess. But here comes a Chinese university paper saying: “Look, we mapped your EW units using nothing but public data.” That’s not a research finding. That’s a warning shot.

Why the academic cover?

Simple. If China’s military said it outright, Washington and Tel Aviv would scream “espionage.” By running it through universities, Beijing gets plausible deniability. “Hey, we’re just doing science, using open source data anyone can access.” Translation: we’re not spying, but we still know exactly where your jammers are.

The subtext is aimed squarely at Israel: don’t mess with Chinese signals. China has embassies, military assets, and commercial projects scattered across the Middle East. If Israeli EW units start interfering with Chinese communications or GPS near those sites, Beijing wants it clear — they’ll know, they’ll attribute, and they’ll call it out. Publishing the analysis is like putting a surveillance camera in the shop window: “Smile, you’re on candid camera.”

And the U.S. isn’t off the hook either. Washington leans on Israel’s EW capabilities as part of its regional posture. By exposing that these deployments can be tracked with open source methods, China is telling the Pentagon: your spectrum dominance isn’t invisible anymore.

This is classic Chinese signalling — indirect, deniable, but sharp. Instead of a diplomatic protest note, they drop a “scientific paper.” Instead of saying “we’re monitoring your EW,” they say “we just did some OSINT.” The cover story is almost comical: “We’re not spying, we’re just reading the internet.” But the real message is unmistakable: we can see you, we can track you, and we can call you out if you interfere with us.

So don’t be fooled by the academic jargon. This isn’t about advancing science. It’s about Beijing flexing its intelligence muscles while keeping its hands clean. Israel and the U.S. are meant to read between the lines: China has the capability to monitor EW jamming and spoofing near its assets, and it’s politely telling them — don’t even think about it.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3370910/chinese-scientists-use-open-source-data-spot-suspected-israeli-electronic-warfare-units or https://archive.ph/Z9U3a

happyt oexplain · 5h ago
I'm 40, and I am not suicidal, but I've definitely felt those thoughts more than ever in my life in the past two years. I wake up two or three times every night from anxiety dreams. I began drinking too much, but luckily I was able to get out of that habit. Between (some of) the effects of AI on my career and hobbies, and the effects of politics on my country and even my own town, and many more problems, I can count more things I feel love and passion for that have been demeaned or destroyed in the past decade than such things that persist.

And this isn't even to mention money, and what my future is looking like, despite having every possible intrinsic and external advantage in The Greatest Country on Earth.

I've had one same-aged friend kill themselves, and I try to be attentive to the signals being put out by everybody in my circle.

ryanbiggg · 4h ago
I turn 39 this year and am just finding more and more ways to become irrelevant. I can’t be the only one so these stats make sense to me. Fortunately, Australia has a good start on what mental health care should look like and its subsidised (or at least a few sessions are).

I was made redundant in August and despite being a 20 year career vet who has done many different langs, I still can’t find a new job.

My skills as a developer are no longer required because the all knowing robot can (apparently) do what I need to do. I’ve heard multiple companies now using it to ship stuff all the way into production without any human intervention at all. This feels to me like driving the car without holding onto the wheel.

The side hustle I had of writing books to teach people development is over — they can just ask the robot instead. I was writing a new book about how developers can train up others, but have put that on hold (due to losing my job which was that thing, and because of AI)

I honestly don’t know what I’m supposed to do here to provide for my family.

hermannj314 · 3h ago
44, unemployed since July, on a cross country train trip trying to decide if it is worth going on. Stood on a bridge a bit too long the other day just wondering what the point is.

It is over for a lot of us in IT. It isn't going to get better, it is going to get worse very quickly. Rather than tell myself a convenient lie, I'd rather try to figure out why to keep living in a world like this.

Anyone going through the same thing, I hope you find something worth living for.