The Royal Navy's destroyer HMS Daring has spent over 3000 days being out of service compared to the 2,307 days it took to be built and commissioned.

"Russian diplomatists have invariably sought to aggravate the case and render an accommodation impossible." Captain George Hunt (1858)

President Trump appears to be confused about Iran acting strange in the negotiations. First reason for that would be the recent deaths of many in the revolutionary regime leads to extreme paranoia. Second, Iran's geography encourages factionalism, that comes to the surface whenever a regime faces an existential crisis. Finally, the Supreme Leaders by centralising power, similar to the way the Shahs of the past, have played different factions off each other. Now those factions feel there's less constraints to achieve their own objectives, and they wish to use Trump against their rivals. The White House is speaking to multiple factions at the same time.

Mohammed Baqir Qalibaf- the Speaker of Parliament, appears to be the person who is negotiating on behalf of what's left of the Iranian regime.

This war against Iran is ample evidence that shows just how much Russia has effectively been downgraded from being a global superpower.

Qatar putting a pause on its Gas exports is terrible for China- Iran's patron. In terms of volume of China's liquefied natural gas imports, Qatar is its second biggest supplier with 23% of its needs, Oman is the eight largest and the U.A.E is the 11th. Maybe the Ayatollah regime has decided its time to go out spectacularly and hurt China in the process.

Khamenei, who fashioned himself [as] the heir to an Islamic revolution against the enemies of God, was killed by the Jewish state on the eve of the Jewish festival that celebrates the destruction of a Persian enemy who sought to destroy the Jews. https://critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/this-is-the-end

"Tehran has just demonstrated, in the most visceral terms possible, that neutrality offers no protection against a regime that treats its neighbors as targets regardless of their diplomatic position."

Iran's Gulf Gambit

A Bet Against a Ticking Clock

The Iranian regime has once again shown itself to be more malicious than competent. #Iran

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran following an air strike

The Ayatollah's regime has attacked U.S bases in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, U.A.E, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia #Iran

#Iran. It appears that 3 members of the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia have been killed in Iraq following an air strike.