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By thefreeonline.. 3.28 am 8th April 26.. https://t.me/thefreeonline/5761
Iran’s Supreme National Council said that the United States was forced to accept the 10 demands Iran asked for to reach a ceasefire.
Iranian State TV said that negotiations will start on April 10th in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad under the direction of Iran’s Leader Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei.
US President Donald Trump has reshared the statement posted by Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
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02:10 GMTThe IDF has struck Lebanon at least twice since President Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire that, according to Pakistani mediators, is supposed to include Israel’s northern neighbor.
https://x.com/fouadkhreiss/status/2041669058144157905
Al Jazeera reports that one strike hit near a hospital in the city of Tyre, while another targeted the town of Machghara in the Bekaa Valley….. The Israeli Air Force continues to carry out strikes in Iran despite the announcement of a ceasefire by President Trump, a security official told the Times of Israel.https://www.rt.com/news/637586-us-strikes-irans-kharg-island-live/
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“OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF IRAN,” said Trump in the post after announcing that the US had reached a ceasefire with Iran.
A US military official told Al Mayadeen that the US has ceased its attacks on Iran as agreed upon in the two-ceasefire announced earlier by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Talks are expected to take place in Islamabad on April 10th for further negotiations.
Al Mayadeen English:
In a statement on behalf of Iran’s Supreme National Council, Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi said that Iran will cease defensive operations once attacks against the country stop.
Aragchi added that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during these two weeks will be possible through coordination with the Iranian Armed Forces, with due consideration to technical limitations.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on X that the ceasefire between the US and Iran, along with their allies, is underway effective immediately.
Sharif noted that the ceasefire includes Lebanon as well.
The Pakistani PM said that Islamabad invites the US and Iranian delegations for further negotiations on April 10th.
A senior White House official told CNN that “Israel” is included in the two-week ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump, which came just 90 minutes before his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or risk intensified strikes on civilian infrastructure.
According to the official, “Israel” has also agreed to pause its bombing operations while negotiations are ongoing.
Israeli newspaper Maariv reports that the ceasefire agreement reached between Iran and the United States and the Israeli occupation will include Lebanon and should see a cessation of hostilities on Lebanese territory.
by Simplicius on Apr 06, 2026 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HZs Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/5736
The morning broke with news of a large-scale US operation to supposedly extract the second downed pilot (WSO – Weapons Systems Officer) from Iran, who had ejected from his shot-down F-15E on Thursday. The scale of losses for this operation alone turned out to be massive, as the US lost hundreds of millions worth of planes allegedly getting the airman back to safety.
The operation involved all kinds of Special Forces units which amounted to “boots on ground” inside Iran for the first time—at least officially.
The story is roughly as follows:
The F-15E went down over “southwestern Iran” on Thursday, with the second crewman reportedly making first radio contact around noon on Friday, wherein he had climbed a mountain to transmit his emergency signal.
From Fox News’s chief national security correspondent:
Fox News can confirm that the 2nd crew member of the downed F15E fighter jet has been rescued and he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran. That according to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources in the region. The Weapons Systems Officer ejected along with the pilot when their F15E Strike Eagle they were flying was struck Thursday night (early Friday local time) in southwest Iran.
The WSO used the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon.) US Special Operations rescue forces to include PJs (United States Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs) and many layers of elite rescue forces took part in the complex, layered mission to both find the crew member and also keep the Iranian forces who were hunting the American weapons system operator at bay. There are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appear to have been injured and dead Iranian members of the IRGC and Basij who were looking for the downed American crew member. Fox has learned there was fighting on the ground but no Americans killed during the operation. “It was a very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member,” a well placed source briefed on the operation told me. Many different branches of the US military were involved in the rescue.
Fox News can confirm the A10 Warthog that crashed Friday was involved in providing cover for the rescue teams searching for the pilot. That A10 crashed in Kuwait (first reported by ABC Friday) but the A10 pilot managed to eject safely and was rescued. There was destruction of aircraft which have sensitive equipment on board, I am told, all part of this complex CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) mission.
The F15E was pretty much destroyed on impact. Two rescue helicopters were hit by enemy fire on Friday and crew members onboard were injured by enemy fire but managed to make it out of Iran.
There were a lot of elements to this rescue, I am told.
The various US Special Forces teams, which included the Air Force’s Pararescue, allegedly engaged in gun battles against Iranian Basij militias in order to keep them under cover fire while the airman was extracted.
There are reports that the U.S. Air Force Pararescue teams are currently conducting an operation to extract the last remaining F-15 pilot inside Iranian territory.
HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters are reportedly active over Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, where heavy fighting is ongoing.
In the last hour, the IRGC’s ‘Saberin’ Unit and the “65th (NOHEN)” Airborne Special Forces engaged with US Pararescuemen and Special forces in the area.
The US allegedly flew in two HC-130 transport craft as well as several different types of helicopters and other craft (Dash-8s, MH-60s, Reaper drones, etc.).
The modernized C-295W of the US Air Force was spotted at an extremely low altitude in the sky over Iran.
The aircraft is in service with the specialized secret 427th Special Operations Squadron (427th SOS), which is part of the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).
The official story claims the HC-130s got stuck in “mud” after landing, and had to be destroyed on the ground along with several helicopters, though this was later updated to a “mechanical failure” despite bullet holes being found on the wings and fuselage of the wreckage.
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But buckle up, because here’s where the story begins falling apart.
The original F-15E that was shot down was said to have gone down in ‘southwestern Iran’ with geolocations showing roughly 30.787710, 50.701440, which is about ~80km from the Iranian coastline:
You can see even major outlets reported the crash to have happened in southwestern Khuzestan province:
To the best of my ability I’ve traced the original geolocation to this post which shows US Pave Hawk Combat Search and Rescue choppers flying over the area presumed to be the original F-15E crash site.
But here’s the plot twist: the new footage of destroyed American C-130 transport craft and helicopters has been geolocated to over 200km away at this geolocation: 32.258394, 51.901927.
The above geolocation is just south of Isfahan, and as you can see, about 200km from the earlier CSAR geolocation:
A caveat: the CSAR geolocation appeared only to show a group of search craft passing through that location, it did not actually geolocate the downed F-15E wreckage itself. For all we know, those helicopters could have been passing from there toward the Isfahan site. But remember, even official MSM sources with contacts in government had initially reported the crash to be in precisely the area where the CSAR choppers were spotted and geolocated; so this does not rely on one piece of evidence alone.
Furthermore, it obviously makes more sense for an F-15E to have been operating around the coastal zone and not 300km deep in Isfahan, Iran, lobbing short-range bombs, which one would think would be the job of more stealthy craft.
However, a later geolocation did allegedly pin the F-15E crash to just south of Isfahan at 32°22’52.5”N 51°40’19.6”E:
USAF F-15E crash site geolocated ~25km south of Isfahan google.com/maps?ll=32.381…
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The above photo used for the geolocation with the crater in it was from the original series of photos with F-15E debris seen here. This would put the distance between the two debris sites at about 25km:
The northwestern one is the F-15E crash site, and the southeastern one is the C-130 debris field. We’ll return to this in a moment.
Then there’s the fact that two C-130s were used to extract a single downed pilot—a plane meant to carry nearly 100 passengers. Does that strike anyone else as a little suspicious?
Granted, the official story claims a huge number of special forces were flown in:
BREAKING: The two MC-130 aircraft that ferried roughly 100 U.S. special operations forces into Iran to extract the final F-15 crew member, the WSO, suffered mechanical failures and were unable to take off, risking leaving commandos stranded behind enemy lines – Reuters
But if that’s the case, how did they get that same number out after both planes suffered “mechanical failures”?
But wait, there’s more.
The geolocated wreckage of the C-130s which were apparently using a local “agricultural airstrip” (32.223369, 51.897678) just happens to be right over a mountain, about 35km away, from Isfahan’s nuclear facility, where Iran’s ‘near-weapons grade’ enriched uranium is alleged to be stored:
In an article just last month, Rafael Grossi stated the following:
Almost half of Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.
Listen closely below:
You can confirm via the above link in the quote that they are referring to the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center at the center of the discussion. There is apparently an underground complex at the connected “missile complex”, whose southern entrance is here: 32.585522° N, 51.814933° E.
This puts the failed US clandestine operation 35km southeast of one of Iran’s main uranium sites.
Continue reading “Was huge US debacle a failed ‘Victory Raid’ to grab enriched Uranium?”
Next Sunday we reopen the doors of the Can Vies Store (Barcelona) to hold a FREE MARKET!!! 🤩😊🎉🎶💥
N💝FREE MARKET
🗓Sunday, April 15
⏰12-14h
📍c/Jocs Florals
( and 3rd Sunday every month)
How does it work??
1. Enter the Can Vies Store, observe how the space is organized (adult area – children area, sections with different types of clothes… everything will be marked with bright yellow signs)
2. Spend some time helping maintain the space: if you see hangers on the floor, pick them up; if you see damaged clothes, put them in the white bin; if you see clothes out of place, hang them in the corresponding section.
3. Look, try on, and take the clothes you want for yourself or to give as gifts! (We recommend 5 pieces per adult, and 15 pieces if for children).
💝FREE MARKET
🗓Sunday, April 15
⏰12-14h
📍c/Jocs Florals 42
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/mercadillo-gratis-per-a-totes-les-edats-estils-i-generes-5
La Moncloa confirms the pardon for the six trade unionists who protested against the La Suiza pastry shop in Xixón
The support group celebrates the decision to annul the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence, but they consider that what is needed “are not pardons but the ability to exercise labor and union rights.”
🔗 https://directa.cat/la-moncloa-confirma-lindult-per-a-les-sis-sindicalistes-que-protestaven-contra-la-pastisseria-la-suiza-de-xixon/
✍️ Jesús Rodríguez
📸 David F. Sabadell (El Salto)
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La Moncloa confirma l’indult per a les sis sindicalistes que protestaven contra la pastisseria La Suiza de Xixón
Des del grup de suport celebren la decisió d’anul·lar la sentència de tres anys i mig de presó, però consideren que el que cal “no són indults sinó poder exercir els drets laborals i sindicals”.
🔗 https://directa.cat/la-moncloa-confirma-lindult-per-a-les-sis-sindicalistes-que-protestaven-contra-la-pastisseria-la-suiza-de-xixon/
✍️ Jesús Rodríguez
📸 David F. Sabadell (El Salto)
Mar 13, 2026 by https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/ Reading by Tim Foley / via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HYB
https://x.com/New_tres/status/2030727585080996133. Watch here
Over 1,300 Iranian civilians murdered, (now 2687 !). // Israel Rains Hell On Lebanon, 600+ Killed by Israel
An ongoing internal US military investigation has reportedly found the United States responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian girls’ school which killed at least 175 people at the beginning of the US-Israeli onslaught.
Remember all the hasbarists and empire apologists who said it was a misfired Iranian missile that hit the school. Remember how aggressively and uniformly they all pushed this lie, including the president of the United States. Then understand that they’re going to keep lying like this throughout the entire war.
Remember Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boasting about how the US has gotten rid of “stupid rules of engagement” intended to protect civilians, tough talking about how “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”
Those words land a bit different now that we know he was talking about mass murdering little girls.
In hindsight I guess it shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the guy who wrote a book called “American Crusade” immediately changed his title to Secretary of War and initiated a crusade against the Muslim world.
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Queensland police have begun making arrests of protesters who utter the now-illegal slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” with one demonstrator facing charges which could see him imprisoned for up to two years.
Continue reading “They All Lied About The Massacre of 165 Schoolgirls, And They’ll Keep On Lying!”The nihilistic conviction that life is meaningless blocks any understanding of our role as part of a multi-layered living organism – family, community, species, nature, cosmos.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works
by Paul Cudenec on Feb 23, 2026 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HXc Telegram.. https://t.me/thefreeonline/5485
Many years ago I penned a (never-published) novel entitled The Extremist, which recounted the adventures of an angry and disillusioned lad from the London suburbs who joined an openly nihilist political organisation.
He soon discovered that there was nothing that this group (the Nihilist Bloc, if I remember correctly) hated more than anarchists, with their absurdly positive view of human nature.
[This is Paul’s contribution to Nevermore’sAgainst the Rising Tide of Nihilism series and he reads it here]
And it particularly objected to the famed punk group the Sex Pistols because while they exhorted their fans to “get pissed, destroy” – which was obviously an admirably nihilist sentiment – they were misdirecting people to the enemy camp by calling the song “Anarchy in the UK”.
Today I would say that there definitely are, and have been, anarchists whose worldview and actions are nihilistic.
But nihilism represents pretty much the opposite of my own kind of anarchism, which I often call organic radicalism in order to avoid confusion with those false friends.
The nihilistic conviction that life is meaningless is, I would say, at the core of our contemporary social dis-ease.
It opens the door for people to base their entire existence on nothing but immediate gratification of one kind or another, to prioritise personal comfort and convenience over everything else.
Continue reading “Nihilism: A Modern Sickness… Cudenec”
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