EXCLUSIVE : US expands intel, targeting support for Saudi campaign against Iranian ally | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/us-military-support-saudi-arabia-houthi-iran-yemen
And there is a deep wariness inside the military of being too closely associated with a Saudi strike campaign against the Houthis — especially if a strike goes wrong and there are civilian casualties [sic], as happened in the past, another US official said.
Les trumpiens racontent des bobards (typiques par ailleurs) sur les raisons de leur reluctance à participer aux combats contre les Houthis :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1190108
Houthi rebels launched about 480 rudimentary cruise missiles at US Navy ships between November 2024 and January 2025, leading to the use of billions of dollars’ worth of defensive weapons. The US and its allies around the world have also struggled to refill their interceptor stockpiles amid heavy use in the Iran war.
“The sheer amount of air-defense interceptors consumed in every attack continues to be unsustainable,” Wasser said. “The US risks running bare, and the continued costs on US stockpiles may lead Washington to reevaluate its approach.”
Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/health/measles-deaths-pennsylvania
Two people have died due to measles in Pennsylvania, the state Department of Health said Tuesday. Both individuals were unvaccinated.
These are the first US deaths from measles reported in 2026 and the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years.
Le progrès fait rage... à l’envers :-))
#it_has_begun #rougeole #measles #vaccin #it_has_begun
On a les mêmes en Europe, mais avec la diphtérie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/1187853
Dan Caine : Trump’s top general is ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited, sources say | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/politics/general-dan-caine-off-ramp-iran-war
Le même qui s’était rangé du côté de l’état terroriste génocidaire sioniste pour dire que ce serait une promenade de santé.
But at the same time, Trump specifically invoked Caine by name in a pre-war post claiming his top military adviser believed the now-months long conflict with Iran “will be something easily won.”
As the war approaches the six-month mark, tempered criticism about Caine’s approach to the job is being revived and questions about his relative lack of experience managing an extended conflict are beginning to emerge.
“He is out of his depth on this one,” a source familiar with how Caine is navigating the current crisis — both strategically and in managing his relationship with Trump.
But Caine is not an outlier, many within the administration as well as outside analysts agree that the only way to decisively defeat Iran would be through a major operation involving ground troops, a commitment that could potentially cost thousands of American lives. The Pentagon considers all scenarios, so those plans exist, but as of now no one in the administration is arguing for such drastic action.
Therefore, as Caine and others continue to make sure Trump is aware that less drastic escalatory military actions could lead to negative results, the focus is on finding the off-ramp that offers the president a “symbolic” win — at minimum — he can try to sell to the American people without preventing a potential diplomatic breakthrough, starting with an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Sanam Vakil صنم وكى :
▻https://x.com/SanamVakil/status/2086340766956216399
Iranian hardliners are clearly calculating that without further concessions they cannot give Trump an off ramp that might allow him to win in November, rebuild stockpiles for round 3 while reducing Iran’s leverage.
Over to Trump to weigh the unchanged options: escalate - capitulate or lumber along in this attritional phase of the war.
US military has used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors as commanders warn stockpiles ‘dangerously low,’ sources say | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/politics/us-iran-key-missile-interceptors-low
[…]
Gulf countries have also raised fresh concerns about how a shortage of air defense systems could impact their ability to ward off potential Iranian retaliation if President Donald Trump decides to escalate the ongoing conflict.
Several of those countries rely on US air defense systems and have acknowledged the stockpile shortage could hinder their own ability to intercept incoming Iranian missile and drone attacks – particularly if they are targeted in response to any American escalation, multiple officials said.
[…]
The US Army has also used “virtually all” of its highly accurate long-range, surface-to-air weapons during the conflict, according to the source familiar with recent internal Pentagon reports. Reuters first reported the specific concerns about US stockpiles of long-range strategic missiles.
The recent warnings about munitions shortages — coupled with other intelligence presented to Trump about the potential negative effects of striking Iran’s critical infrastructure, including energy-related targets, and concerns voiced by Gulf countries — have been compelling enough to convince some of Trump’s most hawkish advisers there were was reason to call off planned operations over the weekend, the sources said.
Trump, le grand tacticien
US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war-troops-punish
“I think we just want to win,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Friday when asked about concluding the war. “We’ll be hitting them very hard, and you know, at some point, they’re going to say, ‘We just can’t take it anymore.’”
Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel delivered a series of provocative warnings and predictions about the future of artificial intelligence and the West on Tuesday, accusing Pope Leo XIV of inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” by calling for AI regulation. In his remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, he also warned of a “democratic-socialist takeover” of the United States’ Democratic Party.
Exclusive: Downed US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in ‘jellyfish’ formation | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/23/politics/iran-drones-f-15-pilot-intelligence
A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
The account, which has not been previously reported, was shared by the F-15 pilot with intelligence officials during a debriefing after the incident. It immediately set off a firestorm of debate within the US intelligence community that has yet to be resolved.
If the airman really saw what he described — a formation moving in unison — it would be an alarming advance in Iranian drone capabilities.
US intel assesses Iran can shut down the Strait of Hormuz at will from now on | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/politics/us-intel-assessment-iran-shut-strait-hormuz
“We have now handed Iran de facto control over the strait – a weapon more powerful than any nuke,” one of the sources familiar with the US intelligence assessments told CNN, emphasizing how the war has fundamentally altered Tehran’s thinking about leveraging similar tactics in the future.
Live updates : Trump says US ‘ended the war with Iran,’ though Tehran has yet to confirm a deal | CNN
►https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-hnk
Trump claims latest attacks pushed Iran to accept peace agreement
L’autre partie dit le contraire : l’accord finalement accepté par Trump est celui avait été conclu avant les frappes US. ▻https://x.com/BabakVahdad/status/2065164005346247080
Live updates: Iran war; Trump warns the US will seize key Iranian oil export hub Kharg Island | CNN
►https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-hnk
Plans for the US military to try and capture Kharg Island have been drawn up for months but continuously shelved because the operation was considered too risky, a senior Pentagon official and two administration officials told CNN.
The view inside the White House and Pentagon is that taking Kharg Island — or wiping out the island’s energy infrastructure — would effectively bankrupt Iran and diminish its capabilities to the point of it being unable to continue in the war, the administration officials said.
However, officials have also communicated to President Donald Trump that such an operation would likely require a significant number of ground troops and could potentially result in heavy US causalities.
Due to those calculations, the Pentagon and the White House have considered any moves to take Kharg Island as an “endgame” option — a last resort that could shift the balance of the war, but at a high cost, the officials said.
The US military has previously conducted multiple major air strikes on military installations on Kharg Island, but the attacks have deliberately avoided striking the island’s critical energy infrastructure
Ça y est, il dit qu’il ne bombarde plus l’Iran, que l’accord est quasi signé et pour fêter ça il bombarde la côte sud iranienne.
Edit :
قناة الجزيرة sur X :▻https://x.com/AJArabic/status/2065205649341042692
La télévision iranienne citant la marine des Gardiens de la révolution : Les sons d’explosions à Sirik sont dus à notre riposte contre un navire qui tentait de traverser Hormuz
Dans un nouveau degré de bassesse, le ministère de la justice de Trump lance une « enquête criminelle » contre E. Jean Carroll, qu’il a violée et diffamée (et Trump a été condamné en justice plusieurs fois pour cela). Et dans un nouveau degré de bassesse, la presse unanime décide de la qualifier « d’accusatrice de Trump », et non de victime de Trump.
– US justice department launches criminal investigation into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll, reports say
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyp77jd407o
– Exclusive : Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation
– L’offensive du gouvernement Trump contre E. Jean Carroll, une des accusatrices du président
▻https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/international/article/l-offensive-du-gouvernement-trump-contre-e-jean-carroll-une-des-accus
– US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/trump-doj-investigation-e-jean-carroll
– Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html
– Justice Department Opens Probe Into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll
▻https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/justice-department-opens-probe-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll-16b5e7e8
– Le ministère américain de la Justice ouvre une enquête contre la journaliste E. Jean Carroll qui a accusé Trump de viol
▻https://www.parismatch.com/actu/international/le-ministere-americain-de-la-justice-ouvre-une-enquete-contre-la-journal
Et ainsi de suite sur plusieurs pages…
Donc rappeler que E Jean Carroll est une victime de Trump, pas une « accusatrice », qu’il a été condamné plusieurs pour diffamation et d’agression sexuelle (qualifiée de « viol » par le juge), et que ce que contestent ses avocats, c’est le montant de sa condamnation, pas le fond :
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll
Carroll a poursuivi Trump pour diffamation et agression devant le tribunal de district des États-Unis pour le district sud de New York (initialement déposée devant la Cour suprême de New York). Le 9 mai 2023, un jury a reconnu Trump responsable de diffamation et d’agression sexuelle envers Carroll et lui a accordé 5 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts. Le 19 juillet 2023, le juge Kaplan a conclu que Trump l’avait bien violée au sens où ce terme est compris « dans le langage courant moderne », bien que pas « au sens étroit et technique d’une disposition particulière du Code pénal de New York ». Le 26 janvier 2024, un jury a reconnu Trump responsable de diffamation envers Carroll concernant ses déclarations faites après le premier verdict, et lui a accordé 83,3 millions de dollars supplémentaires de dommages et intérêts. Trump a fait appel du verdict et a versé une caution de 91,6 millions de dollars. Dans une décision per curiam rendue le 8 septembre 2025, une cour d’appel a confirmé le verdict et les dommages accordés.
Dans une interview diffusée le 30 juin 2025, Carroll a déclaré à Pamela Brown sur CNN qu’elle prévoyait de donner l’argent : « La dernière chose qui m’importe, c’est l’argent. La première chose qui m’importe, c’est que les gens connaissent la vérité. »
Le 8 septembre 2025, la deuxième cour d’appel fédérale des États-Unis a confirmé les 83 millions de dollars de dommages pour diffamation contre le président Trump, qualifiant sa conduite d’« extraordinaire et sans précédent ». L’appel de l’équipe du président Trump avait soutenu que les dommages punitifs étaient trop élevés, mais la cour d’appel a cité d’autres affaires, notamment les 75 millions de dollars accordés à deux agents électoraux ayant poursuivi Rudy Giuliani pour diffamation en 2023, ainsi que les 321 millions de dollars de dommages punitifs qu’Alex Jones a été condamné à payer pour ses fausses déclarations sur la fusillade de Sandy Hook.
Elizabeth Picciuto :
▻https://bsky.app/profile/epicciuto.bsky.social/post/3mn3ecf6lsc2e
Another clear centering of Trump’s emotions from a few days ago: the number of headlines and articles that referred to E. Jean Carroll that referred to her as an “enemy” or “adversary” rather than “victim.”
Regina Schrambling :
▻https://bsky.app/profile/gastropoda.bsky.social/post/3mn3tgvw5fs22
And they keep referring to her as accuser when she proved her case to the tune of $88 million. Deadbeat Don has too many enablers.
A hardline general wanted by Interpol emerges as a key player in Iran war | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/23/middleeast/hardline-general-wanted-interpol-emerges-key-player-in-iran-war-intl
Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش sur X :
▻https://x.com/citrinowicz/status/2058252015575167352
J’étais ravi d’aider @CNN à dépeindre le profil d’Ahmad Vahidi, le nouveau commandant des GRI, dont la nomination souligne une réalité importante : les campagnes d’assassinats ciblés ne produisent pas nécessairement des successeurs moins radicaux ou moins compétents que les figures qu’ils remplacent.
Dans de nombreux cas, de telles politiques élèvent des individus encore plus endurcis idéologiquement, plus expérimentés sur le plan opérationnel et plus profondément engagés dans la confrontation avec l’Occident, comme Vahidi.
Alors que le site Axios essaie sans relâche de faire croire que le leadership iranien est cloné à partir du tandem libanais aoun/salam, la meilleure illustration étant ce qu’il prétend être les « points d’accord » entre l’Iran et les états-unis.
Cubans prepare for “invasion” as US escalates tensions with long-suffering island
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/16/americas/cubans-prepare-for-us-invasion-latam-intl
Havana, #Cuba —
A few days ago, the manager of the building where CNN’s #Havana bureau is located rapped on our door with an urgent message: She needed to know if we would be coming to work during the “imminent” #US #invasion.
#Washington’s intense pressure campaign on Cuba had already been keenly felt in day-to-day life. Under the ongoing US oil #blockade, power flickers off in our offices several times a day. The compounding economic crisis means there’s no #fuel for the building generator or even toilet paper for the bathrooms. Every day, I walk past an enormous artificial Christmas tree in the lobby that no one has bothered to take down.
Iran imposes new rules for Hormuz in effort to cement control of key waterway | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/middleeast/iran-hormuz-rules-warime-gains-intl
Iran is trying to force shippers to comply with a new protocol for transiting the Strait of Hormuz — or risk attack.
Tehran has laid out a set of new rules for vessels seeking to transit the strait, according to a document seen by CNN, pressing ahead with efforts to formalize control over the waterway in defiance of US warnings.
Entitled “Vessel Information Declaration,” the document is an application form issued by Iran’s newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) and must be completed by all transiting vessels to ensure safe passage. It was shared with CNN by Lloyds List and another shipping industry source who wished to remain anonymous.
Before the US and Israeli campaign against Iran began at the end of February, the strait was free for any vessel of any origin to navigate. But since the conflict began, Iran has threatened to strike any ship passing through Hormuz without permission from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy. A number of vessels have come under attack, but the vast majority of ship owners and operators have opted not to take the risk of sending their vessels through in defiance of Iran.
The move to set up an authority for the strait underscores Iran’s determination to cement control over what it sees as a spoil of war, despite repeated US and regional warnings. Dominance of the waterway, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows, would hand the Islamic Republic immense leverage over its neighbors and the global economy.
A Revolutionary Guard navy speedboat approaches the cargo ship Epaminondas during what state media described as the seizure of one of two vessels accused of violations in the Strait of Hormuz, on April 21.
Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim News Agency/APThe closure of the Strait of Hormuz unleashed the biggest oil supply shock in history, sending energy prices sharply higher. On Wednesday, US gas prices rose above $4.50 per gallon for the first time in four years.
‘A new regional and global order’
On Wednesday, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s account on the social media app Telegram posted a message laying out his vision for the Persian Gulf.
The leader called for a “new regional and global order under the strategy of a strong Iran” where there would be no place for foreigners “and their mischief.” He specifically pointed to “using the leverage of closing the strait” as one way to achieve that vision.
At the end of April, a statement attributed to Khamenei indicated Iran would create the mechanism to supervising traffic at the waterway.
Iran would implement “new legal frameworks and management of the Strait of Hormuz,” the statement said, which would benefit its neighbors and prove economically fruitful.
“Foreigners who come from thousands of kilometers away, acting maliciously out of greed, have no place there, except at the bottom of its waters,” it added.
The PGSA document now made available to shippers comprises more than 40 questions, requiring vessels to declare their name and identification number, any “previous name,” country of origin and destination.
It also asks for the nationalities of the registered owners and operators and of the crew on board, plus details of the cargo.
According to the PGSA, the information must be emailed to the authority before a vessel can transit the strait.
An email from PGSA shared with CNN includes a warning that “complete and accurate information is essential” to processing the vessel’s request to transit and that “further instructions will be communicated via email.”
“Any incorrect or incomplete information provided will be the sole responsibility of the applicant, and any resulting consequences will be borne accordingly,” the email says.
It’s unclear whether any shipping company has sought permission from the PGSA. Doing so could make them liable to US sanctions, according to analysts.
CNN wrote to the PGSA email address advertised on Wednesday, seeking further information, but has not received a reply.
CNN has reached out to the White House and US Treasury Department for comment.
Iran has previously said it would deny passage through the waterway to vessels linked to the US or Israel, while other vessels may only transit with Iranian consent. India and Pakistan are among governments that have negotiated with Iran to secure passage of their flagged vessels.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) uses an emergency radio communication frequency to warn shipping that it exercises control over the waterway.
The new requirements “look pretty similar to the questions we knew were already being asked of shipowners” by Iranian authorities, according to Richard Meade of maritime data analytics service Lloyd’s Intelligence. But this “formalizes the structure and appears to be a play by Iran to normalize its authority over transits.”
It’s unclear from the document whether passage will incur a fee. Tehran has touted the strait as a potential revenue stream that could help rebuild the country after destruction caused by American and Israeli strikes. It is reportedly charging up to $2 million per vessel for passage.
Last week, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added guidance to its Frequently Asked Questions page clarifying that such payments would not be authorized for US persons or entities.
“Payments to the government of Iran or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), directly or indirectly, for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz would not be authorized for US persons, including US financial institutions, or for US-owned or -controlled foreign entities,” it said.
The Iranians have made “demands for payments, payments for toll fees, as we say, for those vessels to be granted permission to sail,” said Dimitris Maniatis, CEO of maritime risk consultancy Marisks.
Once they have permission, they sail with “a specific voyage plan … which always takes them through between the islands of Kashm and Larak,” close to the Iranian coast, Maniatis told CNN.
On Monday, the IRGC announced a new maritime control area that covered a large area to the west and east of the strait, stretching into the Gulf of Oman, according to a map issued with the announcement.
‘Mariners are not soldiers’
Just as Iran seeks to exert control over the strait, the US naval blockade of shipping to and from Iranian ports continues.
At the beginning of this week, US President Donald Trump announced the beginning of Project Freedom to assist vessels through the strait, only to pause it within 48 hours, at the request of Pakistani mediators.
The project did “add to the aggressive manner of the Iranians who want to control the strait,” according to Maniatis.
Caught in the middle are as many as 20,000 seafarers on nearly 1,000 vessels trapped in the Persian Gulf, “with their crews in very difficult conditions, bearing all the consequences of a war that is expanding into something more regional,” says Maniatis.
“Mariners are not soldiers. They are civilians who are piloting vessels, who are managing global trade. They should not be caught in a situation like this.”
Only 40 ships crossed the strait the entire week to May 3, according to Lloyd’s List. Pre-war traffic would see an average of 120 crossings a day.
On Thursday, marine traffic data showed almost no tanker or freight traffic passing through the strait as Iran and the US contest the chokepoint.
Analysts say any form of Iranian control would have long-term effects on oil flows through the strait.
“There is growing evidence that Iran may seek to retain strategic control of the strait for as long as possible. At the same time, the US may tolerate this outcome,” according to Matt Wright at Kpler, a marine intelligence firm.
US officials have repeatedly said they wouldn’t accept Iranian control of the chokepoint.
Wright estimates that should Tehran be able to control the waterway, transits would not exceed half of the pre-war average, with profound consequences for the global oil and gas markets.
“Under a long-term Iranian control scenario, transits could rise to 40-50% of export capacity, but normalization is not achievable,” Wright added.
Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/trump-administration-now-classifies-antifa-and-left-wing-groups-among-major-ter
The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.
“In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups,” the plan says, “our national (counter terrorism) activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”
Oubliez pas de dire, comme le type qui parle à la radio, « je suis charlie kirk ».
US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/politics/us-military-missile-stockpile
The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.
Over the last seven weeks of war, the US military has expended at least 45% of its stockpile of Precision Strike Missiles; at least half of its inventory of THAAD missiles, which are designed to intercept ballistic missiles; and nearly 50% of its stockpile of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles, according to a new analysis conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Those numbers closely align with classified Pentagon data about US stockpiles, according to the sources familiar with the assessment.
Earlier this year the Pentagon signed a series of contracts that would help expand missile production, but the delivery timeline to replace these systems is three to five years even with the increased capacity, the CSIS experts and the sources said.
Day 37 of Middle East conflict — Live News | CNN
Satellite imagery shows cratered roads in area where US staged airman rescue
le contenu est mis à jour en temps réel
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/05/world/live-news/iran-war-us-trump-oil
▻https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-f-15-crash-bombed-road-a-airbus-2025-april-5.jpg
Airbus
Satellite imagery shows cratered roads in area where US staged airman rescue
Satellite images show craters in roads believed to be near the site in central Iran where a US service member was rescued from. Airbus
Newly released satellite imagery from Airbus shows dozens of craters along roads in the area where the second downed US airman was extracted on Sunday.
The satellite images show at least 28 craters along several roads in central Esfahan province, around 20 kilometers from a remote airstrip where US forces destroyed their own aircraft after they became damaged.
The craters, which appear one after another along roadways, were around 9 meters wide — just large enough to destroy the width of the roads that appeared to have been targeted with deliberate precision.
CNN earlier reported that as American special operations forces converged on the mountainside where the downed officer had been hiding, US planes conducted strikes in the area to ensure Iranian forces could not get there first.
charme de l’OSInt, sur X, un twittos a localisé les sites photographiés par Airbus
Jesus / X
▻https://x.com/jesususama/status/2041065179677364356
The potential impacts intended to delay or damage Iranian forces attempting to capture the F-15 co-pilot are within the possible radius where the WSO may have crashed.
– 32.314803, 51.726326
– 32.285949, 51.698591
– 32.296898, 51.690450
et deux lectures possibles :
• officielle é.-u. : pour empêcher l’arrivée de renforts iraniens pendant l’opération de récupération du pilote
• officieuse / complotiste (?) : pour empêcher les C-130 de faire des atterrissages sur piste non préparée dans l’opération (annoncée…) de récupération de l’uranium enrichi
(parce que, évidemment, une interprétation de la quantité de matériel détruite au sol (2 C-130 !, plus 2 hélicoptères) et de sa nature peu compatible avec une « simple » opération de récupération d’un pilote, est qu’il serait agi, sous couvert de la récupération de l’officier navigateur du F-15, de récupérer l’uranium enrichi situé quelque part dans la région)
How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vpz1kwreo
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/38d1/live/07b8a4f0-311d-11f1-934f-036468834728.png.webp BBC Verify place les épaves à environ 200 km de la zone de recherche de l’aviateur au sol…
au sud d’isfahan, dans la zone où seraient situés, enterrés, les stocks d’uranium
et, toujours dans la veine « complotiste » / fake news évidentes pour l’administration é.-u., le tout récent limogeage des (8) très hauts gradés é.-u. serait directement lié à leur désapprobation d’une telle opération
la version « officielle » de l’extraction de l’officier système d’armes (WSO)
Greg Bagwell / X 🧵1/8 ▻https://x.com/gregbagwell/status/2040902029292269857
Some may be wondering why the US flew 2 x MC-130 into a landing zone in Iran rather than use other types available. The clue is in the use of the Night Stalker AH-6 Little Bird Helicopters, which were also destroyed at the forward landing site. 1/8
Thread by gregbagwell on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
▻https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2040902029292269857.html
le fondement de la version “complotiste”
Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/01/trump-commando-plan-seize-iran-uranium
A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran’s nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.
By Ellen Nakashima, John Hudson, Alex Horton and Karen DeYoung
The U.S. military has given the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The complex plan was briefed to the president in the past week after he asked for a proposal, they said, as were its significant operational risks.
Trump’s request for the plan, previously unreported, signals his interest in contemplating what would be an unusually sensitive and high-stakes special operations mission. The administration’s consideration of such an operation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Limiting Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon remains a top goal of the administration. But this plan, experts say, would represent an enormously difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted during wartime. The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of troops and heavy equipment to support the excavation and recovery of radioactive material. That could take weeks, former defense officials have estimated, and take place under fire deep inside Iran.
Administration officials recently presented Iran with a 15-point proposal to end the war by reportedly demanding, among other things, that Tehran relinquish its highly enriched uranium — what Trump has called “nuclear dust.”
Iran has rejected the U.S. proposal, although it suggested in negotiations just before the war began that it could “dilute” the enriched material to a lower level.
“This would be one of, if not the largest, most complicated special operations in history,” said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and retired CIA and Marine officer. “It’s a major risk to the force.”
In another sign of Trump’s interest in pursuing such an operation, he encouraged Americans to tune in to a show by Fox News host Mark Levin, a staunch pro-Israel advocate, on Saturday. During the episode, Levin said the United States should deploy “specialized” ground troops to snatch Iran’s uranium stockpiles.
“Why would we need troops on the ground? Well, there’s a lot of reasons — and we wouldn’t need 300,000 of them. It’s this uranium,” Levin said.
Trump, who campaigned on a promise to end wars, now finds himself entering the fifth week of a conflict he started, one conducted mostly by air in coordination with Israel. Launching an ambitious ground operation to seize the uranium would involve the deployment of commandos and a host of other troops and support personnel, introducing a significant new level of risk to the military.
“It’s the job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the Commander in Chief maximum optionality. It does not mean the President has made a decision,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a written response to questions about the plan.
With polls showing a majority of Americans opposed to the war and, in particular, to sending in ground troops, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sought to portray the president as a bold leader.
“As President Trump has said time and time again for years and in this administration, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb — and it won’t,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon press briefing, speaking about one motive for the war.
This image from an April 17, 2021, video released by the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting shows centrifuge machines at the Natanz uranium facility.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting/APIn June, the United States bombed nuclear facilities in Iran. But according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has stockpiled about 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent — just short of weapons-grade level. More than half is stored in a nuclear facility outside Isfahan, a historic city in central Iran, in tunnels more than 300 feet deep, according to IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, with the rest located at the Natanz nuclear site and, potentially, other areas.
Satellite imagery from early June published by France’s Le Monde newspaper and analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security showed a large flatbed truck carrying 18 blue barrels toward the southern entrance of the Isfahan facility. Though it was not possible to reach a definitive conclusion about their contents, the institute assessed that “the best match” was that the barrels contained highly enriched uranium cylinders and were being moved for storage within the tunnel complex days before Israel and then the U.S. launched punishing airstrikes on Iranian targets.
Access to the Isfahan storage area, Grossi told reporters during a mid-March Washington visit for high-level meetings, remains buried under rubble left by the U.S. bombing in June. Since then, he said, “we haven’t seen big movements” indicating efforts to reach it. “Maybe a car or a truck” in the area, but “not bulldozers digging things out.”
The highly enriched material, in the form of uranium hexafluoride gas, is stored in sealed cylinders akin to scuba tanks, each about three feet high. Before it can be used in a weapon, it must be additionally enriched to more than 90 percent and processed into a metal.
Describing an inspection visit to the Isfahan site just before the June airstrikes, Grossi said the cylinders are “not very big” and “not specially protected,” although it is possible that some “decoys” have been placed among them to confuse and impede anyone trying to remove them.
While not privy to any military decisions, he said, “what I can say is that this considerable amount of material … is highly contaminant, so there could be some contamination if there was a direct hit on it.”
To get to the buried Isfahan stockpile, “you have to get excavation equipment, break through the concrete and the lead shield” and any other protective covering, “and then you somehow have to get to the bottom of this silo and remove the containers full of nuclear material and fly them out,” said one of the two people familiar with the matter, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Estimates on how long that would take vary, ranging from weeks to several months.
The best way to recover the material would be after a ceasefire and accompanied by IAEA personnel, said retired Gen. Joseph Votel, who has led both U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. “But if you have to fight your way in,” he said, it could be feasible.
“There’s a lot of risks associated with it. This is a very high order of complexity. There likely will be casualties,” he said. “But this is the problem set for U.S. Special Operations forces. It’s what we do. We have people who are specifically trained to go into these types of environments.”
The scale and complexity would make the mission extraordinarily difficult, but it is possible, according to a former defense official with direct knowledge of Iran war plans and Special Operations capabilities. “Short of a largely symbolic quick strike to demonstrate we could do more, to recover much or all of the material requires a temporary occupation,” the former official said.
This image from a video posted to social media on Tuesday shows smoke billowing as explosions rock Isfahan.
UGC/AFP/Getty ImagesFormer commandos and officials described the extraordinary complexities surrounding such an operation.
The logistics would probably start with striking Iranian defenses and equipment to create safer passage for the ground troops, who would then fly hundreds of miles into the country to establish a defense perimeter at the facilities. One option, experts have speculated, is the Army’s 82nd Airborne and Rangers parachuting to seize the ground, which could be within range of enemy artillery, missiles and drones.
From there, engineers would probably build an airstrip to bring in supplies and equipment, some of which may be airdropped from cargo aircraft or slung from utility helicopters. Both options would leave the slower-moving transport aircraft vulnerable to enemy fire.
Keeping the heavy excavation work going would require a deep bench of support troops, officials said. Mechanics, drivers, refuelers and others would work round-the-clock. Food and water would need constant resupply. Civilian nuclear specialists from the Energy Department and other agencies also would probably be on-site, former officials said, to assess risks and supervise the uranium removal.
The operations to house, feed and protect personnel would probably look more like a small base than a low-profile, clandestine mission.
The effort to blast through the rock and enter the storage area would be the start of a grueling, yard-by-yard process for commandos to enter the abyss of a facility thick with unknowns.
Breaching teams, possibly from the Army’s Delta Force or Navy SEALs, would wield saws and blow torches to get past obstacles inside the underground facility while shooters covered them, according to a former special operator with experience training for such missions. The commandos would wear protective uniforms and rebreathers, carrying sensors to detect radioactive threats.
The teams would have to be mindful that anything they shoot, explode or cut through could disturb dangerous material. Concerns about radioactive exposure would require arduous and repeated decontamination of personnel and equipment. There might be booby traps.
“It is slow, meticulous and can be an extremely deadly process,” the former operator said.
The exfiltration process would also expose troops, equipment and nuclear material to potential Iranian attacks as scores of personnel are airlifted back out through enemy airspace.
The operation would make complex, high-stakes missions look simple by comparison, former officials said. The raids to capture Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, for instance, were measured in minutes and hours. The entire process in Iran, even if the operation goes relatively smoothly, could take weeks, former officials estimated.
“It starts to look like you’re not just buying a car on the lot, you’re buying the entire assembly line,” the former defense official said.
There are probably only a few dozen troops trained to retrieve nuclear material from behind enemy lines, and the proficiency has declined since the Cold War, the former official said, adding that nuclear retrieval scenarios were focused on terrorists and North Korea in recent years.
“There was a lot more attention on planning for these sorts of seizures or denying the North Koreans access” to nuclear materials, the former official said.
Certains ont du mal à croire à cette histoire d’extraction d’uranium :
▻https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran
The other core American strategic interest here is Iran’s nuclear program, the core of which is Iran’s supply of roughly 500kg of highly enriched uranium; no effort appears to have been made to recover or destroy this material and it remains in Iranian hands. Actually destroying (dispersing, really) or seizing this material by military force would be an extremely difficult operation with a very high risk of failure, since the HEU is underground buried in facilities (mostly Isfahan) in the center of the country. Any sort of special forces operation would thus run the risk of being surrounded and outnumbered very fast, even with ample air support, while trying to extract half a ton of uranium stored in gas form in heavy storage cylinders.
When the United States did this in Kazakhstan, removing about 600kg (so roughly the same amount) it required the team to spend 12 hours a day every day for a month to remove it, using multiple heavy cargo planes. And that facility was neither defended, nor buried under rubble.
Le projet Sapphire donné en source :
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sapphire
After months of preparation, 31 agents forming the specialised Nuclear Emergency Recovery Team were recruited in October 1994 to embark on a covert mission to remove the uranium. On October 7, President Bill Clinton signed a classified directive to approve the airlift - composed of 3 C-5 aircraft - to leave from Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base to Kazakhstan. The team spent 12 hours a day from October 14 to November 11 packing up uranium (including seven different types of uranium, some laced with toxic beryllium) in extreme secrecy. The team found 1032 containers in the warehouse and repacked the material into 448 shipping containers. Bad weather set in and on the way to the airport the trucks carrying the HEU were almost compromised due to the ice and sleet. Finally the plane was loaded and flown for 20 hours (the longest flight for a C-5 in U.S. history) back to Delaware.
Actually destroying (dispersing, really) or seizing this material by military force would be an extremely difficult operation with a very high risk of failure […]
toujours d’après la rumeur, c’est précisément pour avoir fait ce genre de remarque qu’une partie de l’état-major é.-u. aurait été débarquée.
The Army Chief Hegseth Ousted—and the General Who’s Taking Over
04/04/2026
▻https://time.com/article/2026/04/03/hegseth-army-firings-chief-of-staff
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and two other generals in the midst of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, a Pentagon official confirmed to TIME, the most recent firings in a broader overhaul of U.S. military leadership since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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Gen. Christopher LaNeve will replace George as acting chief of staff, a Pentagon official confirmed to TIME. The official also confirmed that Hegseth fired the chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., and the commander of Army Transformation and Training Command, Gen. David Hodne.
The Pentagon official did not provide rationale for the three firings.
cf. english.almayadeen.net, 2026-04-06, ici:
Live updates: Iran war news; Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-22-26
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
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It […] comes after Trump said Thursday that he’d told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop attacks on Iranian oil and gas facilities.
L’Iran menace de frapper des infrastructures clés après un ultimatum de Trump
▻https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/afp/liran-menace-de-frapper-des-infrastructures-cles-apres-un-u
Connaissance des Énergies avec AFP parue le 22 mars 2026
Téhéran a menacé dimanche de frapper des infrastructures clés du Moyen-Orient, répliquant immédiatement à l’ultimatum lancé par Donald Trump de rouvrir le détroit d’Ormuz sous 48 heures, après des frappes iraniennes particulièrement destructrices dans le sud d’Israël.
Sans réouverture totale et inconditionnelle de ce détroit stratégique pour l’approvisionnement mondial en hydrocarbures, les Etats-Unis « frapperont et anéantiront » les centrales électriques iraniennes "EN COMMENÇANT PAR LA PLUS GRANDE !", a mis en garde le président américain sur sa plateforme Truth Social samedi soir.
L’Iran a répliqué à cette sommation sans attendre : si Washington met sa menace à exécution, l’armée iranienne visera alors les infrastructures « énergétiques, de technologie de l’information et de dessalement d’eau » dans la région.
C’est tjs l’Iran le méchant, et c’est normal, on vit dans un blockbuster américain.
Aucune idée de la fiabilité de ce compte.
The Kremlin sur X : “Iran’s largest power plant only supplies 2.9% of their total power. Their grid is decentralized with 500+ plants. There is a reason they prepared for the war for 47 yrs Israel’s largest plant, Orot Rabin, accounts for 20% of Israel’s total power. The Washington bastard bring”
▻https://x.com/The_Kremlinn/status/2035572424347930775
La plus grande centrale électrique d’Iran ne fournit que 2,9 % de leur production totale d’énergie.
Leur réseau est décentralisé avec plus de 500 centrales.
C’est pour une bonne raison quils se sont préparés à la guerre pendant 47 ans.
La plus grande centrale d’Israël, Orot Rabin, représente 20 % de la production totale d’énergie d’Israël.
Que le salaud de Washington s’amène.
US F-35 damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes emergency landing, sources say | CNN Politics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/f-35-damage-iran-war
▻https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-2175834684.jpg
A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely and the incident is under investigation.
“The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added. “This incident is under investigation.”
The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million.
The US has lost other aircraft in the war thus far, though none known to have been hit by enemy fire. Three US F-15 fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, with all six crew members ejecting safely. And last week, a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, though the cause is still unclear. The US military said the incident was “not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.”
All six crew members aboard the KC-135 were killed.
Questions remain about the timeline of the conflict and what could come next. CNN previously reported that a Marine Expeditionary Unit was heading to the region; a US official confirmed it is the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit out of Okinawa, and the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group. The USS Tripoli was seen approaching Singapore earlier this week.
As the war has nearing the end of its third week, senior US officials continue to claim widespread success in its campaign against Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday morning that the US is “winning decisively” and that Iran’s air defenses have been “flattened.”
DD Geopolitics / X – 🇮🇷🇺🇸 DID IRAN DOWN AN F-35 ?
▻https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2034843936955801673
(avec vidéo (de l’hélico) sur FlightRadar24)
🇮🇷🇺🇸 DID IRAN DOWN AN F-35?
CENTCOM confirmed that a US F-35 was struck by Iranian fire while flying a combat mission over Iran and was forced to make an emergency landing. The pilot is described as being in stable condition. The incident is under investigation.
Iran claims it shot the aircraft down. Here is what else we know:
In the hours following the incident, a US Army MH-47G Chinook, registration 19-02916, was tracked on FlightRadar24 flying an extensive series of tight circling patterns over the eastern Saudi Arabian region near Al Jubayl. The flight pattern is consistent with Combat Search and Rescue operations: the kind of search profile you fly when you are looking for a downed aircraft or a pilot on the ground.
The IRGC claims the shoot-down occurred at AM Iran time. The Chinook’s search activity and the timeline raise questions about whether the F-35 reached a base at all, or whether it came down somewhere over Saudi territory.
CENTCOM says it landed safely. A Chinook was circling the Saudi desert in a CSAR pattern.
One of those things may not be true.
New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/climate/small-nuclear-reactors-smrs-holtec-kairos
On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an #American #nuclear renaissance.
The Palisades nuclear #plant, about a two-hour drive from Chicago, was decommissioned in 2022, judged to be #uneconomical in a world of #cheap American #gas. But Florida-headquartered company Holtec is reviving it. It will mark not only the first ever #restart of a shuttered #US nuclear plant, but, if all goes to plan, Palisades will also be the birthplace of a nuclear #breakthrough: America’s first commercial “#small_modular_reactors.”
These advanced nuclear #reactors, known as #SMRs, are like mini nuclear power plants but touted as #cheaper, #safer, #faster to #build and #easier to #finance than their conventional counterparts — and #hype around them is rising fast.
