Kernow Damo

Israel is blowing up Lebanon’s bridges to carve out a new border, and the BBC is still trying to sell the rubble as peace. Right, so Israel has blown up bridges in southern Lebanon, the war minister Israel Katz has ordered all crossings, all bridges over the Litani river destroyed, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Litani must become Israel’s new border, some 30km north of the current Israeli border as that is and the BBC line doing the rounds courtesy of Lucy Williamson’s report calls a “blueprint for destruction” a “path to peace”. I really wish I was joking. There is your story. Israeli insanity and land grabs and the BBC calls it a path to piece. A bridge is not an opinion. A bridge is a bridge. When the Qasmiyeh Bridge, a key crossing linking Lebanon’s south to the rest of the country, gets hit after Israel has already destroyed other Litani crossings, incidentally, that was the target that Russia Today journalist Steve Sweeney was recently caught up in, you are watching a state cut the roads that keep a region tied to its own country. The Litani River almost completely splits Lebanon into two halves, Destroying the bridges whilst the gormless government just watches and blinks and demands Hezbollah disarm as their first priority it seems, even now as the bridge blowers have demanded is making for the easiest land grab Israel could possibly wish for. All in the name of their security of course though. What we are watching here, is a line being prepared on the map with explosives and displacement orders. And when the BBC describes that method as a path to peace, the corporation is not failing to find the right words, it has found exactly the wrong ones and put them out there anyway, still either in the mindset that it doesn’t matter, or that we simply don’t care enough to notice.

Not only is the Met Police investigating the Golders Green arson, but now they have to explain why one of its own was in the mob abusing Al Jazeera. Right, so we’re all familiar with the ambulance arson attack in Golders Green by now aren’t we? Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola, the Jewish volunteer ambulance service, were burned outside a synagogue in Golders Green, the police said three hooded people were seen pouring accelerant and setting them alight, and almost immediately the mainstream media were connecting the dots to Iran, proxies and terror talk, a new IRGC aligned terror group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, or HAYI was in the frame as well as the apparent instigators and I do mean new because there is no record of them before the 9th of this month, all before the public evidence and news of any investigation or arrests had had a chance to be heard of. But then the arrests have come. The Metropolitan Police have arrested two British nationals, so not Iranian then, aged 47 and 45, over the arson and later released them on bail, which they absolutely wouldn’t do for a suspected terror offence, just speak to anyone from Palestine Action about that, and so we have already got this easy little foreign-enemy story, as it has been framed, coughing up bits of itself all over the pavement. Speaking of the police though, and especially if you’ve followed my coverage of this story, you’ll know there is an Al Jazeera linked story connected to this and the Met it seems, are involved here where no doubt they will currently be very much wishing they were not. If you’re aware of this story, then you’ll have seen a clip featuring this chap here, who told Al Jazeera journalists to go back to Qatar, who called them donkeys and dogs. Well thanks to Declassified UK, we now know an awful lot more about him.

An ambulance service was attacked in London, but the more people inspect the claim of responsibility, the less the mainstream story holds together. Right, so four ambulances have been burned outside a synagogue in Golders Green, CCTV has caught three hooded figures pouring accelerant on them, and an Iran-linked group has rushed out an online claim of responsibility before the police have even finished the first sweep of the scene. That is the claim. The part making this backfire on Israel though is not that the attack happened, because an ambulance attack is foul whoever does it, an attack on Jewish communities is vile, whether it is perpetrated by an Iranian group, or Mossad, or anyone else. Same goes for every other ethnorace too. And there is no clever politics that rescues that, but this Iranian line is the useful story attached to this albeit riding on supposed evidence that already looks rather shaky. Speaking of standing on shaky ground though, it’s evidence enough for some and apparently, they know even more. [CLIP] Fifth columnist Nigel Farage there, feeling rather exonerated by this attack he thinks, makes claims of attacks in other nations in Europe, they are directly connected to the IRGC, it’s very curious he knows so much about this group I think, for reasons I’ll go into in a moment. Now the incident at time of writing has not been declared terrorism at this stage, and the men on the CCTV footage heading towards the ambulances are still just the men on the CCTV, though given how heavily surveilled London is I’m frankly amazed more footage has not come out. Despite the likes of Farage leaping to an answer to all of this, there is no clear conclusion drawn as yet. So the first people trying to sell this as a neat Iran-linked terror story are already asking the public to do the one thing they always ask for when they are short of proof, which is obedience. The vehicles are gone, the claim is online, and the case is sitting with the investigation team, but never mind that, listen to what I have to say. So who are this Jewish ambulance outfit anyway then?

If Diego Garcia was used to sell fear before the proof existed, Britain needs an investigation, not another lie used to drag us closer to war. Right, so Israel and its friends have spent days trying to sell one very simple story. Iran fired missiles at Diego Garcia, that joint American-British base in the Indian Ocean, and therefore Europe should stop hanging back, stop asking awkward questions, and start feeling properly frightened, because if they can reach Diego Garcia, then they can reach you. In fact they’ve even rolled out their Chief of Staff, the head of the IDF just to nail on how big an issue this is for Europe. Curious that that message was clearly meant for Western interests, yet was still delivered in Hebrew without subtitles, I added those myself, so who are you trying to convince here exactly? Anyway, this story has readily started slipping all over the place. Iran denied it. Iranian officials called it a false flag, well Israel have never pulled those before have they? But equally Iran typically owns up to what it targets, they don’t beat around the bush. British ministers have refused to say Iran was targeting Britain, Diego Garcia of course being a joint UK-US base and that should raise alarm bells given that they usually shout how high the moment Israel tells Starmer’s regime to jump. NATO would not back the full panic line either. And of course the public has still not been shown the sort of evidence that would settle a claim this large. No public radar track. No public satellite release. No public debris trail. No public intercept record. Just a claim from Israeli and US sources, then a bigger claim, then a fear campaign built on top of both, and Benjamin Netanyahu now has the delightful problem of standing next to a story that has moved from “Iran did it” to “was this a setup?” to “hold on, are we even sure anything actually happened at all?” because yes, that’s the latest claim, that actually, nothing happened at all – and with no public evidence, what proof is there otherwise?

A verified X account posts a bounty on an Iranian academic, X left it up, so Musk’s “violent content” rules aren't worth the pixels they’re printed on. Right, so a verified X account, is currently offering a one million dollar bounty for the capture of that most eloquent of Israeli and western propaganda destroyers Professor Mohammad Marandi alive, they specify they want him alive. The account is called Terror Alarm, the post is described there as a paid partnership no less, who with begs the question and Elon Musk’s platform has left it sitting there days after report after report about this post, not least from Marandi himself, have been submitted, which tells you more about X than any number of help-centre pages ever will. But if you are wondering why this man is so important, an academic as he is; if you’ve not seen his calm smiling eviscerations of wet western media talking points, well, allow me to introduce you. Mohammad Marandi is not a militia commander, not an armed faction leader, not some man on an international wanted poster that everybody has somehow missed. He is a professor at the University of Tehran, he works in English, and he has spent years going onto English-language media and making very comfortable, very smug people look either dishonest or thick or both. Terror Alarm decided that the correct response to that was not to beat him in argument, not to ignore him, not even to smear him in the usual grubby online way, but to push a bounty now for his capture and do it on a platform that says violent threats and incitement are banned. Musk’s platform then looked at that spectacle it seems, looked at its own rulebook, tossed it aside and instead chose the oldest trick in the coward’s handbook, which is to do nothing while pretending procedure is still intact. X says in its violent content policy that explicitly threatening, inciting, glorifying, or expressing desire for violence is not allowed. X also says violent speech includes content that threatens, incites, glorifies, or expresses desire for violence or harm. X then goes further and says high-severity material such as violent threats, wish of harm and incitement of violence must be removed.

Israel bombed Natanz, Iran answered near Dimona, and the West’s old lie about Israel’s nukes just doesn't wash anymore. Right, so despite the orange oaf passing himself off as leader of the free world, Donald Trump claiming to have totally obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites during the 12 day war last year, it hasn’t stopped him and Israel targeting those same sites again this time around as well, I guess they just want to make sure at US taxpayer expense. Well Iran has now bitten back in the tit for tat way we’ve become increasingly accustomed to this war going. What Israel strikes first, what the US strikes first, they strike an equivalent asset afterwards. We’ve seen it with military sites, we’ve seen it with oil and gas hubs, we’ve seen it with shipping, now its nukes. Oh but Israel doesn’t have any of those the mainstream media tell us, yeah and I’m the Queen of flaming Sheba. Iran has hit Dimona. The place everybody in this story is meant to know without saying too loudly why they know it, because that is where Israel’s nuclear reality has been sat for decades under that old polite arrangement where one side’s atomic infrastructure gets treated like a legitimate object of warnings, inspections, sanctions and air strikes, and the other side’s gets treated like a family secret stashed away in the attic. The Iranian site of Natanz was struck again, no leaks being reported thankfully by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA at this point, but Iran have had enough of taking these sites getting targeted on the chin and have now targeted Dimona and the nearby town of Arad. Now the IAEA have also helpfully said it has received no indication of damage to the Negev nuclear research centre as the Dimona site is called and no abnormal radiation levels, so this was not a reactor disaster, not a mushroom cloud, not the end of the world, but why would the IAEA even be interested if Israel has no nukes? Hiding behind that name of nuclear research centre perhaps to weigh in? But what would the IAEA even know about Israel's ‘nuclear research centre’ which it's not allowed to inspect?

Trump went to war with Iran, blew oil prices sky high, then had to relax sanctions on Iranian oil to clean up his own mess - interstellar incompetence! Right, so Donald Trump has managed something so off the scale stupid it would be funny if he were not the President of the United States, but unfortunately, he very much still is. He has gone to war with Iran, helped send oil prices shooting up globally, and now his own administration is reportedly relaxing sanctions on Iranian oil to try to bring those prices back down. Yes, really. The man who was supposed to be crushing Iran has ended up making room for Iranian oil because his own war has started hurting him. So when I say Trump’s war incompetence has gone galactic, that is not me being colourful for the sake of it. That is the plain English version of a White House now trying to clean up an oil crisis it helped create by softening pressure on the very country it is bombing. Even some mainstream outlets have picked up on just how stupid this situation now is. The same administration that has spent years selling sanctions as punishment has signed a document saying transactions ordinarily necessary to sell, deliver, dock, insure and offload that Iranian oil are now authorised for the next month. Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has said the move could bring about 140 million barrels to global markets. So we have this situation now where Iranian oil is under sanction, the United States has gone to war with Iran for the sake of Israel, and the United States has now carved out a temporary permission slip for Iranian oil because the oil price has become a problem in Washington. Trump has managed to start a war and then relax part of the pressure on the country he started it with. Frankly if his brain exploded at this point, it wouldn’t ruffle whatever that thing on his head is that he passes off as hair. Saman Ghodousi, a spokesperson for Iran’s oil ministry has answered that move from the Iranian side by saying Iran has no crude left on the water and no surplus waiting to be released into international markets.

Starmer has dragged the UK into war with iran even further as a strike on Diego Garcia now proves, but the Greens are holding his feet to the fire. Right, so seven Green MPs and peers have written to Keir Starmer and asked the question he has spent this whole crisis trying not to answer, which is whether he has effectively given Donald Trump free rein to wage war from British soil. They have not written some vague little letter saying war is bad, everybody calm down, can we have a nice debate in due course. They have asked what checks are being done on American bombers using RAF Fairford, whether the Ministry of Defence sees target lists before strikes from British territory, whether banned cluster munitions could be loaded at British bases, whether UK-made parts have ended up inside weapons hitting Iran, and how many civilians may already have died from missions launched with British help. You do not need a law degree to hear the problem there. If you are not involved in the strikes, but British bases are being used for strikes, then the word involved is not being used in English any more. It is being used in government. And government English is what you reach for when the plain truth would be too difficult to explain away at the despatch box, but a picture is also worth a thousand words.

Israel can post all the warnings it likes, but when a clearly marked press crew is still hit in Lebanon, the excuse is already falling apart. Right, so Israel has hit a marked press crew in Lebanon, but frankly for anyone who has followed similar attacks in Gaza for the last two and half years, its not exactly breaking news perhaps, but actually, this might carry consequences for Israel their arrogance might have left them thinking they could still get away with. RT reporter Steve Sweeney and his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity were it seems deliberately targeted by the Israeli regime, whilst reporting in Lebanon [CLIP] After months and months of dead journalists in Gaza, it seems Israel has had no qualms about doing so in Lebanon too, only this time they don’t have the comfort of censorship here, the ability to claim Hamas did it, because they control the occupied territory. A marked crew was there, the crossing was struck, the footage very much exists and has gone viral, and so the problem for Israel starts, because there’s no cover for this – there was nothing else there, save for Steve Sweeney and his cameraman. There is no other plausible target. Gaza has already produced the deadliest conflict ever recorded for journalists according to the Watson Institute work cited by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, and the International Federation of Journalists has put the Gaza journalist death toll at at least 234 as of 9 March this year.

Israel hit South Pars and Iran hit back where it hurts most - triggering splits between Trump & Netanyahu and Israelis heading for the exits. Right, so Israel as we now know hit Iran’s biggest gas field, the South Pars field down on the Gulf coast, the one that supplies most of Iran’s domestic gas and sits inside the same wider field that Qatar depends on too, hurting their supposed ally and making a mockery of normalisation with Israel and those Abraham Accords, as I went into yesterday. Of course Iran Was never going to let that go. Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility has now been hit, Saudi sites reported hit or targeted included Ras Tanura, Shaybah, and an unnamed eastern gas facility; in the UAE, the reported sites were Fujairah’s industrial/export zone and the Shah gas field. Iran also hit Haifa’s energy infrastructure - first a power station, then the Bazan oil refining facilities in Haifa Bay, with fires, outages and infrastructure damage reported. And as for Donald Trump, who loves acting like the sheriff right up until the petrol pump starts talking back, triggering an attack of the old bone spurs, has it seems had to start putting the brakes on Benjamin Netanyahu over further attacks on gas infrastructure. Netanyahu, the AI version of him, or the real thing, who frankly cares anymore? Has therefore tried to widen the war in his desperation with a hit on the largest natural gas field on Earth, and the result has not been a clear show of Israeli dominance, nor a calm submission by Iran, as if that was ever likely, but a regional panic that has put the entire Gulf order and the Abraham Accords paperwork on the table with a big old pair of scissors looking more attractive to even more states. Trump has then made this apparent split with Netanyahu visible enough that even the most fervent of Zionist loyalists can’t fail to see it.