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A war of words is exploding alongside the military conflict between the United States and Iran. And according to Iran’s leaders, Donald Trump is losing control of the narrative. For a regime the US and Israel say is being bombed “back to the Stone Age”, Tehran’s surviving leadership is still firing back—this time with scorn. Iranian officials have seized every opportunity to ridicule the White House’s shifting explanations about negotiations and war aims. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Iran’s main military command delivered a blunt message aimed squarely at Washington. “Someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you,” said Ebrahim Zolfaghari. “Not now, not ever.” The remark was a direct challenge to Trump’s repeated claims that secret negotiations were already underway between the US and a mysterious “top person” inside Iran. Reports widely suggested that figure was Mohammad Ghalibaf, the powerful speaker of Iran’s parliament. But Ghalibaf quickly poured cold water on the idea. This week he publicly denied that any negotiations were taking place. Instead, he warned that Iran was closely watching American military movements across the region. “Do not test our resolve to defend our land,” he wrote on social media. The conflicting messages have fuelled confusion about whether diplomacy is even possible as the war drags on. Pakistan, which has been positioning itself as a potential mediator, says the White House has already prepared a 15-point peace proposal and passed it to Tehran. Yet early reports suggest Iran has rejected two key figures Trump expected to lead negotiations: Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Iranian officials reportedly branded the pair “backstabbers”. Both men were involved in approving last year’s Operation Midnight Hammer against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the continuing Operation Epic Fury. Those strikes came while diplomatic talks were underway in Geneva, a move that appears to have deeply damaged Tehran’s trust. Instead, Iranian negotiators are said to want to deal only with US Vice President JD Vance. For Trump, that demand may be a difficult pill to swallow—especially as he insists the United States is winning the conflict. But the situation is complicated by another problem: Trump’s own account of events. The president has repeatedly claimed that US and Israeli forces “completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities during strikes in July 2025. However, details of the reported 15-point peace proposal suggest something very different. According to Israeli television network Channel 12, the plan calls for nuclear facilities at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow to be “taken out of use and destroyed”. That wording implies the sites may still be operational despite earlier claims they were wiped out. The proposal also requires Iran to commit to never developing nuclear weapons. Yet Iranian negotiators say they already made that promise publicly during talks in Geneva last month. Those negotiations collapsed when the United States walked away from the table and instead launched air strikes alongside Israel. Another part of the plan focuses on international oversight. The International Atomic Energy Agency would once again be tasked with monitoring nuclear activity in Iran. Ironically, the same agency had previously supervised the nuclear deal that Trump withdrew the United States from during his first term in office. Meanwhile, the White House is pushing for a major change in one of the world’s most strategically important waterways. The proposal demands that the Strait of Hormuz be reopened fully to all shipping and designated a “free maritime zone”. Such a move would dramatically alter the current arrangement. Iran never ratified the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and reserves the right to require some vessels to seek permission before passing through the strait. Tehran has already shown how powerful that leverage can be. Earlier this week, reports said Iranian authorities charged a $2 million toll to allow a single oil tanker safe passage through the waterway. Officials may now be considering a system of fees per vessel while also controlling traffic to influence global oil prices. At the same time, Trump is preparing for the possibility that the war could widen. Additional US military resources are being sent to the Middle East, including paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne Division. Yet the president has also signalled he wants the conflict to end soon. Trump says the war’s main objectives have already been achieved and that “regime change” in Iran has effectively taken place. Many observers disagree. Iran’s population has not echoed that claim, and key regional players are pushing for a very different outcome. Israeli leaders and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are reportedly urging Trump to go further and topple Iran’s government entirely rather than negotiate with it. Meanwhile, Tehran is escalating its propaganda campaign. In a video released on Wednesday, Iran displayed images of what it described as victims of US imperialism—Native Americans, Hiroshima survivors, Vietnam, Palestine and Iran itself. The clip ends with an artificial intelligence version of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei watching as a missile streaks through the clouds and strikes the Statue of Liberty. The final message flashes across the screen. “One Vengeance for All.” Almost a month into the war, the message from Tehran appears unmistakable. If Iran is open to dialogue, it is determined that Donald Trump will not control the story—or the outcome. Trump is losing control. Iran is humiliating him

No - we know they are British nationals according to the polcie and this is not being treated as terrorism but a hate crime so that rules out Israel/Iran but that the group that was cited could be an Iranian psy-op trying to claim ownership of the event for their own purposes.

So, you still think that the arsonists still could be Israeli Jews carrying out false flag operation ?

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Got it — I’ll be straight with you then. You’re not being consistent in reasoning style, but that doesn’t mean you’re being dishonest or acting in bad faith. It just means your approach leans heavily toward pattern-seeking + suspicion first, then adapting as new info drops. Here’s what’s happening in your posts: 1. You start from a “cui bono?” lensThat’s not inherently wrong — asking who benefits is a legitimate analytical tool. But the way you used it: You jumped quickly to a high-level explanation (state actor / false flag) Without first ruling out simpler explanations (hate crime, local actors) That’s a classic analytical trap: 👉 starting at the most complex explanation instead of the most probable 2. You anchor on suspicion, not evidenceOnce you introduced the false flag idea (with the Lavon Affair), you set a tone: Even when new info appeared (arrests, claims of responsibility), You didn’t step back and say “okay, that earlier theory is now unlikely” Instead, you replaced one hidden-actor theory with another (Iran psy-op) That’s why people are calling you out — it feels like: 3. Your “I was just speculating” defense is only partly fairYou did signal uncertainty — that’s true. But: The direction of your speculation wasn’t neutral It pointed toward specific actors (Israel / false flag framing) So others read it as: That’s why the pushback is strong. 4. Where you actually are consistentTo be fair to you: You consistently distrust official narratives You consistently look for geopolitical motives You consistently reference historical precedent So your mindset is consistent — it’s your conclusions that keep shifting. 5. If you want to be harder to challengeA more solid version of your argument would look like: Start with: “Most likely explanation = X (e.g. hate crime / local actors)” Then add: “Less likely but possible = state involvement, given past precedents” Then clearly update: “With arrests made, the state-actor theory is now unlikely unless new evidence emerges” That shows: 👉 skepticism without looking like you’re chasing a preferred narrative Bottom lineYou’re not crazy or uniquely inconsistent — you’re just: leading with suspicion and not pruning your earlier theories when new evidence arrives That combination is exactly what triggers people in debates like that.

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I was speculating and making that clear in my posts based on historical antecdents as this is a discussion forum not a court of law. They have been arrested in short order and therefore my comment that if they are not then they could be state actors still stands ! I am careful with my words and how I frame posts.

And I say that is debatable: The 1947 UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181) proposed detailed borders, allocating roughly 56% of Palestine to a Jewish state and 42% to an Arab state, with Jerusalem internationalized. The Jews fully accepted the plan and created Israel. The Arabs did not accept out of differerent reasons: Why give away land which was ruled by Muslims for more than a Millenia to create a purely Jewish ethno state? Why do the Jews, who were by then about 38% of the population because of the immigration forced upon them by the British get 56% of Palestine, while The Arabs, still the majority gets only 42%? Why was the Balfour Declaration not respected which clearly promised to facilitate a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine and NOT a independent Jewish ethno state, as it paticularly says: "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities" Why did the British not fulfill their part of the deal which was an independent Arab state in exchange for the Arabs fighting for them against the Ottomans (as can be seen in the famous movie "Laurence of Arabia".) This lead to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war which Israel won and before you knew it, they suddenly had 78% of Palestine. Now it´s more. And getting more by the day as the illegal settlements go on as we write. So yes, the borders were not established, only proposed, yet happily accepted by the Jews and later even more happily expanded until today with the settlers stealing land from it´s legal owners and killing them by the Thousands while labeling anyone criticizing it as an anti-Semite (intentionally conflating it with anti-Zionism) in order to silence him and whining why there is so much anti-Semitism in the world, or in other words: Expecting the world to grant them a lifelong license to kill and steal. And personally for me the worst part: Western leaders and governments, ignoring all their international laws to protect humanity, happily bending over and allowing them to do whatever they want while sanctioning judges from international courts and brutally restricting the basic rights of their own people. That is unbearable.

LOL, YOU had already claimmed., suggested they were Jews committing a false flag operation !!!!!! Don't you go pointing your finger at Tommy and what he wants when it was YOU hoping they were Jews false flagging

Thank you, BeastOfBodmin, for your encouragement. Now that our world has become almost completely unhinged, it is probably only through listening to the likes of Frank that... We will be able to retain even half of our sanity. We are presently living through a difficult time of Topsy-Turviness. Fortunately, we have members here on TV who recall and recognize a decent song when they hear one. Here we are in 2026, waiting in gas lines as one did in the 1970s.. We are repeating the nostalgic pleasures of over 50 years ago. So. other than ZAPPA.....WHO, and not the WHO, is the most ironical band you know, and.... Which song is TRUE IRONY at its purest level?

2 British nationals have been arrested Tomee Ten Names and his mob are praying for them to be Mohhameds. Congratulations to the Met for collaring them. My money's is now on that group being some Iranian psy-op trying to weave together anti-semetic attacks across Europe to make them look like a co-ordinated Iranian terror plot when it's probably nothing of the sort. Time will tell.

Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI) has claimed responsibility online for the attack, which police have said is so far being treated as an antisemitic hate crime rather than a terror attack. https://news.sky.com/story/two-british-men-arrested-in-connection-with-golders-green-ambulances-arson-attack-13523827

This might be one of the daftest takes I’ve seen in a while, and thats saying something - the logic is fundamentally flawed. You’re basically arguing that the solution to instability is… more instability. That giving nuclear weapons to more countries in one of the most volatile regions on earth somehow creates peace. That’s borderline insanity. Mutually assured destruction only barely worked between two superpowers with tight control systems - not a region full of proxy wars, militias, and governments that openly fund armed groups. Iran isn’t Switzerland - It has a long track record of backing and arming terrorist organisations across the region You want to give nuclear capability to a state that already funds groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and others - and just hope none of that influence ever spills over into something far worse? IMO thats gambling with civilisation. MAD relies on rational actors. Terror networks aren’t rational in the same way states are. Even analysts point out that nuclear proliferation increases the risk of nuclear terrorism or loss of control over materials So not... perhaps is not a good idea to take region already full of proxy wars, ideological conflict, and instability… and add multiple nuclear arsenals into the mix. What could possibly go wrong ??? Your argument / logic does not support peace - its simply delays a bigger disaster.

Looks like the attendant was far too trusting for their own good handing over 100 litres on nothing more than a passing promise is next‑level gullible. The thieves, on the other hand, had some serious nerve pulling off a stunt that brazen, right down to coordinating the pickup and getaway. Credit where it’s due though: the station owner showed remarkable restraint and generosity by giving them a full week to make things right before involving the police. In a situation where many would’ve gone straight to filing charges, she chose patience over punishment.

Why please tell me do you use up valuable bandwidth on this forum asking the most ridiculous questions. Always the same old BS - death, crap accomodation, bad bar conversations, no one that lives in Pattaya enjoys themselves. zzzzzzzzxzzzzz Cmon Asean Now, why don't you ban him ? Why is he getting a free pass to antagonise everyone ? There is only one reason obviously.

I see you have very little idea about the market. Such a pretty little snap of a small time frame to reinforce your attempt at a troll comment.

Just accept you are ignorant about who uses the Arabic alphabet and who uses the Roman alphabet. You are trying to deflect your lack of knowledge and mistakes with silly Donald Trump style retorts.

This kind of behaviour is embarrassing. It doesn’t just make tourists look bad, it reflects on every foreigner living here.

Bang on... The US throwing MM-DD-YYYY out there just confuses everything. Business should really be using DD-MON-YYYY (as in 24-Mar-2026) to avoid any confusion. As Berin Pharma is a Thai company - it will use DD-MM-YYYY - So the Expiry date is: 2-Oct-2027

The weakness of AI is that it is easily manipulated and subject to misinformation when biased question is asked. There is no current helium shortage in the USA. Your misrepresentation of the. current situation ignores the significant changes that occurred in 2024 to date. Developments like the discovery of the massive natural helium belt in Babbitt, MN. AI can give any answer one wants. It all depends on being honest and asking a fair question. Anwsers like this; Long-Term Outlook: While periodic volatility exists, the US possesses significant domestic reserves, with roughly 80 to 100 years' worth of helium known to exist in Wyoming alone. There was a helium shortage in 2025 accompanied by price hikes. Once again, Russia was implicated as it has cut back on supply forcing up the market price. The resource price was being manipulated. The USA and Canada have managed their supply to address their supply chain shortages and the issue was resolved after a few months. If ever there is a shortage, the USA can prohibit exports.

When in America 10th February. When in Thailand and the rest of the world 2nd of October

If we want the Islands, we will take them with out a hassle

Oh look a terrorist supporting eliminationist anti semite has chimed in..

Is this 10th of February or 2nd of October? Medicine from Berin Pharma.

Yeah like a dope smoking Chicago DEI machine politico who was clean and articulate and a one term Senator