TotalEnergies Drills Lebanon’s Qana Prospect Amid New Global Interest in EastMed Gas
Lebanon hopes to join the club of EastMed gas producers as TotalEnergies and its partners spud an appraisal well near Beirut’s maritime border with Israel where gas is already being produced.
As of September, TotalEnergies together with partners Eni and QatarEnergy will have spud exploration well 31/1 on Block 9 of Lebanon’s Qana prospect. It is the consortium’s second attempt in 6 years to strike gas in the EastMed where upstream riches at the crossroads of markets east and west struggle against the fiercest of global geopolitical headwinds.
Lebanese media hailed the 16 August arrival of the Transocean Barents semisubmersible drilling platform at Block 9 with guarded optimism, reporting on the Barents journey from the North Sea like a sports play-by-play, detailing the landing of the first crew transport helicopter and the offloading of pipe and other equipment delivered by ship to the Port of Beirut.
The Lebanese Petroleum Administration busily dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on the drilling license application that TotalEnergies EP Lebanon had submitted in June while MP Ibrahim Kanaan, head of the parliament’s finance and budget committee, announced creation of the Lebanese Sovereign Fund for Oil and Gas to protect future revenues from political interference.
“The rig will start working in Lebanon in September … before the end of the year we will know if there is a discovery,” Lebanon’s caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad told Reuters at an event earlier this summer in Abu Dhabi.
Built to operate in harsh environments the Barents will drill in deep water, its crew hoping to hit the sweet spot that is the Tamar Sands Formation from which Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt are producing gas or developing fields for domestic needs and for export.
Assuming commercial gas reserves are confirmed in Qana, Lebanon will join the club of EastMed gas producers—a development that would ease Beirut’s seemingly endless energy crisis, give the financially bankrupt country a share of revenues for gas exported to Europe and Asia, and attract further global investment. The World Bank has described Lebanon’s economic collapse as possibly one of the top three most severe worldwide since the 1850s.
Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon. The town is situated 680 meters above sea level, has an area of 630 hectares and a population of approximately 5585.
On April 18, 1996, the village of Qana in Southern Lebanon was shelled by artillery fire from the Israeli Defense Force, the official Israeli military organization. Unfortunately, Qana was the location of a United Nations compound manned by members of the Fijian United Nations Interim Force and had been providing haven to about 800 Lebanese civilian refugees. The attack left 4 of the Fijian soldiers wounded and killed 106 of the Lebanese civilians, injuring another 116 civilians. The bombardment was part of an Israeli offensive operation from April 11-April 27, 1996, known as Operation Grapes of Wrath, an operation to stop the Islamic terrorist faction known as Hezbollah, an Iranian backed group, from sending rockets into Israeli territory from havens in Lebanon.
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Why is Israel attacking Lebanon’s Nabatieh, the major southern city?
Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon May 26, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]
Beirut, Lebanon – The Israeli military ordered the forced displacement of the population of Lebanon’s southern city of Nabatieh on Tuesday, amid an escalation of its campaign – ostensibly against Hezbollah targets – in Lebanon.
Israel hit towns on the outskirts of Nabatieh on Wednesday with “near continuous artillery shelling”, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodor reported, coming as Muslims in the country celebrated the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Local media reported that Israel hit Nabatieh multiple times on Tuesday, including direct air strikes on a cemetery in the city limits. Israel also struck surrounding villages, with the village Yohmor al-Shaqif hit multiple times.
Russia spent the week telling diplomats to leave Kyiv.
Telling foreign residents to leave Kyiv.
It warned embassies to empty their offices, treating a capital city like a room with a light switch.
As if life could be folded and zipped into a bag, so carried somewhere safe before the next missile arrives.
“Leave Kyiv.”
Where exactly are we supposed to go?
There is something almost obscene in the way some people say evacuation. The word sounds clean from a distance.
The vocabulary of people who have never had to do it.
They speak as though everyone already has a map open, a road chosen, and a bed prepared somewhere else.
But ordinary life just does not work like that.
People are not loose objects. We are tied to places by rent, parents, jobs, cats, pharmacies, documents, debts, school schedules, doctors who know our history, neighbors who have our spare key, the small grocery store where the woman behind the counter already knows what bread we buy.
A person cannot simply become portable because Russia has decided to threaten the city they happen to live in.
This is the part that always disappears when powerful men speak.
They say “leave.”
And they forget that not everyone in this city is a member of some diplomatic mission, with evacuation plans prepared long before the rest of us even know where to begin.
Sometimes people abroad ask me why Ukrainians don’t just leave the threatened areas.
I understand the question. Most of them have never had to calculate escape like this.
So let me give you the calculation.
Do you have money for a week somewhere else?
Can your mother walk down five floors?
Does your salary depend on showing up tomorrow?
Well intentioned people ask because they have never had to imagine war entering every small decision, and I completely forgive them for that (that is one reason I write by the way.)
Russia, no.
Russia does not ask because they just and simply do not care.
Russia knows ordinary people cannot simply move, and this is why the warning is part of the attack.
The bomb is one violence.
The order to disappear before the bomb arrives is another.
It tells people that the problem is their presence, not Russia’s violence.
And I cannot accept that.
Kyiv is not a hotel people can check out of because a criminal government sends a warning.
This is a city where three million sleep-deprived souls are waking up this morning, making coffee, answering messages, going to work, holding their children, feeding their cats, looking at the sky and continuing because continuing is still the only honest answer we have.
You, reading this from a place at peace, hold this for a second:
A neighboring country has decided your home is now a “legitimate target.”
Notice the word they use. Legitimate.
What a clean little word for such insanity.
As if a city were obligated to empty itself politely to make room for someone else’s missiles.
As if staying were the provocation.
People stay because the place where you survive becomes part of your body.
If an embassy leaves, the missile is still a missile.
The family forced to leave is still a family forced to leave.
The attacker who warns before attacking only proves he knew exactly what he was doing.
So let this be recorded, Russia threatened more than buildings.
It threatened the idea that people are allowed to keep living where their lives already exist.
The simple human right to belong somewhere.
And still, Kyiv is here.
Kept alive by people who wake up every morning and choose this city again.
Kyiv is here because a home is not abandoned every time a murderer points at it.
Because people do not stop belonging to a place just because someone else wants it empty.
Sometimes the most radical act left is to remain where your life still knows your name.
—Viktor
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I usually ask you to subscribe if you can, but today, I want to ask something different: please send this piece to one person who should understand why “just leave” is not a real answer.
This testimony already belongs beyond me, and if it reaches them because of you, then this record has already gone farther than I could take it by myself.
Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo an already fragile ceasefire and create catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the already devastated territory.
Under the US-brokered ceasefire in October, the Israeli army withdrew to a demarcation line which gave Israel direct control of 53% of the occupied territory. Since then, Israeli forces have steadily advanced their positions westward into the Hamas-controlled half of the strip, and declared an ever-expanded no man’s land west of that, within which they claim the right to decide who can enter and open fire on anyone perceived as a threat.
In recent days, Israeli-backed armed militias have taken a leading role in emptying the territory along the ceasefire line, telling residents to vacate their homes or shelters.
Throughout the eight months of the ceasefire, Israeli forces have continued to open fire on Palestinians within range of the “yellow line” splitting the strip, and carry out airstrikes deeper inside western Gaza, killing more than 900 Palestinians since the truce began.
The settler-colonial state’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, has openly stated Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Genocidal intentions have being central to Israeli state ideology. Lawyers and human rights groups attacked Katz.
We committed that Hamas will not rule Gaza civilly or militarily, and so it shall be, and also the voluntary emigration plan from Gaza will be implemented.
Everything at the right timing and in the right manner.
Yet Israeli human rights groups warned that the conditions created in Gaza by Israel mean there would be nothing ‘voluntary’ about a removal scheme.
Creating living conditions that do not allow for survival, freedom and dignity, and subjecting civilians to them until they say they want to leave is not a plan for ‘encouraging voluntary emigration’ but a plan for forced evacuation and expulsion.
In Israel, elections hinge on racism and militarism
One expert warned that the context around a US-Iran peace deal and upcoming Israeli elections could dictate what happens to Gazans.
International Crisis Group analyst Mairav Zonszein said:
Because we are looking at an extension of the ceasefire and de-escalation of the situation in Iran and Lebanon, Israel – and Netanyahu specifically – will be looking for ways to show that they’re doing something on the security front, and that means exercising military power.
In a bleak commentary on the racist and militarist nature of Israeli politics, she added:
Unfortunately talking about ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not necessarily something that will hurt you in domestic politics. In fact it might even help you.
And there are fears that Israel could remove Palestinians from their land, depositing them in Somaliland.
Somaliland and Israel have agreed to normalise relations and open embassies in their respective capitals.
Some would that Gaza’s future hinging on Israeli voter prejudice speaks to the failure of the so-called ‘international community’. Yet this can just as easily be read as sign of its success. That is, if we view the global ‘liberal’ order as being built upon the suppression and expropriation of indigenous populations around the world. Which — on this evidence, at least — we certainly should.
The crime of the century is underway and the supposed guardians of human rights aren’t just indifferent. They are complicit. Palestinian lives simply do not factor in their grand calculations.
Americans continue to increasingly view Israel negatively amid ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The results published April 7 found 60% of all American adults had an unfavorable opinion of Israel, compared with 53% a year earlier. Just 37% of respondents had a favorable view of Israel, a longstanding ally of the United States in the region and a historic beneficiary of foreign aid.
Pew’s latest polling is a 20-point shift since 2022, when most Americans had favorable views of Israel. Then, just 42% had an unfavorable opinion of Israel.
Pew found younger Americans across the ideological spectrum in particular have negative views toward Israel. About 70% of respondents younger than 50 had unfavorable opinions of Israel.
Elon Musk’s rocket explosion caused masses of dangerous chemicals to pollute atmosphere
6 February 2025
Dr Connor Barker (UCL Geography) estimated that roughly 45 metric tons of metal oxide and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxide pollution was generated by the destruction of Space-X’s Starship shortly after launch.
The largest and most powerful rocket in history exploded in a massive fireball after its successful test flight around the Earth Friday night.
Elon Musk‘s SpaceX declared the launch of Starship 12 a success and noted that the space capsule’s explosion in the Indian Ocean was planned as the aerospace company did not plan to reuse the experimental craft.
Why dismantling environmental regulation results in our being no longer protected from poisoning of this planet. The oceans circulate the planet, they have no contained borders. The contaminated air blows in the winds around us. Marine life cannot withstand these onslaughts.
Here is an abstract from a 2024 scientific article:
This study delves into the critical issue of water pollution caused by the presence of metal oxides, synthetic dyes, and dissolved organic matter, shedding light on their potential ramifications for both the environment and human health. Metal oxides, ubiquitous in industrial processes and consumer products, are known to leach into water bodies, posing a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems. Additionally, synthetic dyes, extensively used in various industries, can persist in water systems and exhibit complex chemical behavior. This review provides a comprehensive examination of the toxicity associated with metal oxides, synthetic dyes, and dissolved organic matter in water systems. We delve into the sources and environmental fate of these contaminants, highlighting their prevalence in natural water bodies and wastewater effluents. The study highlights the multifaceted impacts of them on human health and aquatic ecosystems, encompassing effects on microbial communities, aquatic flora and fauna, and the overall ecological balance. The novelty of this review lies in its unique presentation, focusing on the toxicity of metal oxides, dyes, and dissolved organic matter. This approach aims to facilitate the accessibility of results for readers, providing a streamlined and clear understanding of the reported findings.
“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ’em up.” President Donald Trump made that threat Wednesday at a Cabinet meeting, discussing his administration’s negotiations with Iran and the near future of the Strait of Hormuz.
Past offending outbursts:
With this odd threat against Oman, Trump has now threatened or attacked one out of every 13 countries in the world, CNN Senior Reporter Aaron Blake notes.
Israel kills 10 people in Lebanon, including rescuers and a child in a ‘double tap’ strike
Despite agreeing to cease fire multiple times, Israel has killed 3,111 Lebanese people since February, including 123 medics, over 210 children, and nearly 300 women.
Since February, Israel has killed 123 medics, more than 210 children and nearly 300 women in Lebanon. / TRT World
May 22, 2026
Lebanon’s health ministry has said that Israeli forces killed 10 people in new truce violations, including six rescuers and a child, with some of them killed in a “double-tap” attack captured on video.
In a statement on Friday, the Lebanese ministry said “six people were martyred”, including two rescuers from the Risala Scouts association and a Syrian girl, in an attack on Deir Qanun al-Nahr village near the city of Tyre.
An earlier strike on the southern town of Hanaway killed four rescuers, the ministry said.
Videos circulating on social media claim to show the killing of a father and his child in an attack by occupying Israeli forces, followed by a subsequent strike as rescuers gather at the scene.
Footage captured by a resident from her window shows the moment paramedics were killed by Israel in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, southern Lebanon.
Rescuers are seen trying to assist casualties, including a child, lying in the street following an earlier Israeli attack.
“An innocent child… what did she ever do?” the woman asks in the video documenting the aftermath of an Israeli attack.
Then an ambulance arrives.
Moments later, another missile from Israeli forces directly hits the site. A sudden flash and explosion are immediately followed by widespread panic.
“They hit the medics… they hit the medics. The medics are gone, the medics are gone …” the woman screams in terror.
A paramedic sitting beside the wounded suddenly collapses as a woman cries out: “Oh my God… he’s dead…”
Double-tap strikes are a pattern Israel has routinely used since the beginning of its genocide in Gaza, monitors say, with the second strike intended to kill first responders and rescue workers arriving at the scene.
Only psychopaths could enjoy carrying out double tap strikes on first responders. It is a common pattern. Like serial killers, it is the trademark of the Israeli ‘Defence’ Force.
Regarding International law of occupiers of territory – here is an extract of historically agreed laws, which are no longer adhered to by what was once a respected nation:
Relief Supplies and Actions
The occupying power has the duty to ensure that the adequate provision of food and medical supplies is provided, as well as clothing, bedding, means of shelter, other supplies essential to the survival of the civilian population of the occupied territory, and objects necessary for religious worship (GCIV Arts. 55, 58; API Art. 69).
The occupying power must allow the protecting power, or the ICRC and other impartial humanitarian organizations, to verify the state of these supplies in occupied territories, and to visit protected persons so as to monitor their condition (GCIV Arts. 30, 55, and 143). It is also under the obligation to allow the ICRC or any other impartial humanitarian organization to undertake their own strictly humanitarian relief actions aimed at this population. All States must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of all relief supplies and must not divert them, in any way whatsoever, from their destination. The only restrictions that parties to the conflict may impose are technical ones, or they may ask for guarantees that the relief is destined to the population in need and will not be used by the adverse power.
The fact that humanitarian organizations are delivering relief in no way relieves the occupying power of any of its own responsibilities to ensure that the population is properly supplied (GCIV Arts. 59–62 and 108–111; API Arts. 69–71).
The occupying power must not transfer or deport the population of occupied territories or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies (GCIV Art. 49 and Rule 130 of the 2005 ICRC customary IHL study).
I heard someone explaining how Israel changed after Russian and Ethiopian Jews began a mass exodus to Israel since 1989. So I looked it up. There are many articles on the Internet concerning this phenomenon, and it is just that. A phenomenon. I am reproducing this informative essay from 2020, and it links further essays the author has provided, for those interested:
Soviet Jews from Moscow disembark at Ben-Gurion Airport on August 20, 1991. SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images.
November 23, 2020
How One Million Russian Immigrants Revitalized Israel
At the end of the 1980s, Israel was barely managing its finances and its security. Then a substantial part of the professional and cultural elite of a superpower showed up.
In the summer of 1989, I left my home in Jerusalem for a reporting assignment in Europe, covering the fall of Communism from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague. A year later, I returned to a different Israel. In the supermarket there were strange cheeses and yogurt drinks labeled with Cyrillic writing, and unimagined, new products like frozen blueberries and cherries. On the streets, young musicians played cello and old men with gold teeth played accordion. The country suddenly felt as though it had become both less intimate and more claustrophobic: my daughter’s first-grade class was packed with 40 children to accommodate the immigrant influx.
I joined the staff of the recently founded Jerusalem Report magazine and was given the Russian beat. My editor, Ze’ev Chafets, told me that we Israelis are opening our home to hundreds of thousands of strangers, and none of us knows anything about who these people are. And so, I went out to learn. I sought intimate stories: a couple struggling to stay together as the husband became increasingly religious and his half-Jewish wife increasingly bewildered; the editor of a new Russian-language Israeli newspaper who had sat in the Gulag for Zionist activity but who felt himself an outsider to the Jewish story; a celebrated organist in the northern town of Carmiel who divided his time touring Europe and working as an Israeli garbageman.
The early 1990s not only brought a million Russian immigrants to Israel but tens of thousands of Ethiopians, who had been gradually arriving through the previous decade. The two immigrations were opposing images of each other: the Russians, with impressive secular education but the least Jewish knowledge of any immigrant wave; the Ethiopians, with little secular education but deep religiosity. Many Russians had come to Israel because it was as far West as they could reach; the Ethiopians had come to Zion. Inevitably, they regarded each other with suspicion and even loathing. In one absorption center I visited near Haifa, Russians and Ethiopians had to be housed in different areas after coming to blows.
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During a crucial Saturday, May 25, conference call intended to finalize a deal ending the conflict, Trump explicitly urged multiple Arab and Muslim leaders to normalize relations with Israel.
The unexpected mandate caught several participants completely off guard, signaling the administration’s intent to use the security crisis to force a total Middle East realignment.
The high-level phone call included the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain.
World leaders including President Donald Trump, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Jordan’s King Abdullah, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, pose for a family photo, at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza war on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (Suzanne Plunkett – Pool / Getty Images)
While hawkish participants, including UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed, expressed full solidarity regarding the emerging Iran pact, the atmosphere reportedly shifted when Trump linked post-war stability to Israeli normalization.
Two US officials confirmed that Trump’s request was met with dead silence on the line, prompting the president to joke and ask if the leaders were still there.
Envoys mobilize for historic normalization pacts
Specialized White House diplomatic channels have been activated to conduct direct, follow-up enforcement operations across unaligned regional capitals (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
Trump informed the regional leaders that he intends to contact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next, expressing hope that Israel’s leader would soon join them on a unified call.
The president stressed that nations currently lacking formal diplomatic ties with Israel must prepare to sign the accords once hostilities conclude.
To maintain momentum, Trump announced that his top envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, will directly follow up on the normalization directive over the coming weeks.
Riyadh resists pressure ahead of elections
President Donald Trump welcomes Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during an arrival ceremony at the White House on November 18, 2025, in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The administration’s primary objective is a historic Saudi-Israel peace agreement, but the regional political climate remains deeply unfavorable.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman previously pushed back against Trump on this issue during a tense Oval Office meeting last November.
The conflict, coupled with a deep rift between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has driven Riyadh to adopt a much tougher stance against Israel’s far-right government.
Saudi officials continue to demand an irreversible path to a Palestinian state, a condition the Israeli government rejects. Analysts believe Riyadh will freeze any major diplomatic steps ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections in September.
Capitol leadership backs enforcement of terms
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Sen Lindsey Graham during an event in the East Room of the White House on November 6, 2019, in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Despite these deep systemic hurdles, Trump doubled down publicly on Sunday via Truth Social, thanking Middle Eastern nations for their cooperation while floating the highly controversial idea of Iran eventually joining the Abraham Accords.
In Congress, Senator Lindsey Graham firmly backed the president’s play, warning that a refusal by Arab and Muslim allies to adhere to Trump’s normalization request would carry severe repercussions for future relationships with Washington and stand as a massive historical miscalculation.
The White House, official Facebook post, 23 May 2026
Response from Iran:
The Kobeissi Letter, X, 23 May 2026
Then:
Social media accounts tracking the war summed up Iran’s rejection within the hour. The underlying quotes above are sourced to Iran’s Foreign Ministry via IRNA, Fars News, and military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari.
What happened on May 22?
Iran confirms Qatar-hosted talks to end US-Iran war, with Pakistan serving as lead mediator
A Qatari negotiating team and Pakistan’s army chief arrived in Tehran on May 22 to push ceasefire negotiations forward, as Iran says nuclear issues are off the table for now.
May. 22, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on May 22 that active negotiations are underway to end the US-Iran war, with Qatar hosting the talks and Pakistan serving as the lead mediator. The announcement marks the most concrete diplomatic framework to emerge since the conflict began on February 28, 2026.
A Qatari negotiating team arrived in Tehran the same day, joined by a high-ranking Pakistani delegation led by Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir. The goal is straightforward: turn a fragile ceasefire into a permanent end to hostilities.
What we know about the negotiations
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stated that the current round of talks is focused exclusively on ending the war. Nuclear issues are explicitly excluded from the negotiating table for now.
Iran has already responded to US ceasefire proposals through Pakistani mediators, seeking a permanent end to hostilities rather than another temporary pause.
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged on May 19 that more time is needed to resolve the negotiations.
The war’s trajectory so far
The conflict broke out on February 28, 2026, following a series of escalating confrontations that included US and Israeli strikes against Iranian targets.
A fragile ceasefire was established around April 8-12, 2026, roughly six weeks into the conflict.
What this means for markets and investors
The Strait of Hormuz, which sits at the doorstep of this conflict, is the narrow waterway through which a massive share of global oil shipments pass. The fragile ceasefire has already created a push-pull dynamic in oil markets, with traders pricing in both the possibility of a permanent peace deal and the risk of a ceasefire collapse.
But if Netanyahu doesn’t get the nuclear deal he wants, the deal is always off, war is back on.
Tehran has also not agreed to hand over its uranium stockpile, with a source telling the news agency that this is not part of the preliminary agreement with the US.
Source: The Independent
Iran-US war latest: Tehran brands Trump ‘inconsistent with reality’ after he announces peace deal is ‘largely negotiated’
Trump said the deal included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, adding that the details would be announced “shortly”
Trump says peace deal with Iran ‘largely negotiated’ including Strait of Hormuz reopening
Donald Trump has said that a deal with Iran, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated”, with leaks of the draft details showing significant progress has been made.
The US president said on Saturday that the final aspects and details of the deal are being discussed and will be announced “shortly” but was not more specific about the timetable for a further announcement.
Reported details include the US lifting its blockade on Iran ships and issuing some sanction waivers to allow Iran to sell oil freely. The US has also agreed to negotiate over the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of Iranian funds. In exchange, Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, among other commitments.
Iran’s Fars news agency reported that it would remain under Iran’s management and dismissed Trump’s announcement of reopening the Strait as “incomplete and inconsistent with reality.”
Nobody stopped this disgusting behaviour of Ben Givr and his gang of extremists:
Ben Gvir posts video of himself taunting bound and detained Gaza flotilla activists, sparks global outcry
Clip shows minister waving Israeli flag as activists forced to kneel on ground and national anthem blasts over loudspeaker; Italy, France summon Israeli envoys over treatment of their citizens
![Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon May 26, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA249WQY.img?w=768&h=512&m=6 "Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon May 26, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]")
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