US-Iranian Negotiations - Trust is Everything

Continuously updated on April 27

The above photo is referring to an earlier visit of US Vice-President J.D. Vance
in Pakistan. It has been published on April 14, 2026, and seems to be genuine
because neither evidence of AI generation nor photoshop manipulation could
be detected.

... especially when it comes to using weapons inside USA

What we hear from the shooting at a press gala held at Washington Hilton:

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, a Los Angeles-area resident about 31 years of age. City officials said the suspect, who will be arraigned in court on Monday on firearm and assault charges, appeared to have been a guest at the hotel. He was armed with a shotgun, handgun and knives.

Little was immediately known about Allen's background, but social media postings suggested he was a teacher in Torrance, California, near Los Angeles.

He was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated but it was too soon to say what his motivation was, Washington interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll said. Based on preliminary ⁠information, he was believed to have been a guest at the hotel, Carroll added.

This was the 3rd shooting in the environment of US president Trump that made it into media reports. First was the iconic ear shot. Next came a shooting at Trump's resort of Mar El Largo. And now it's the shooting at a Washington press gala.

Portrait of an Enemy of State A profile of the shooting suspect soon emerged in social media posts and showing him as a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer. A May 2025 profile photo of Allen appears to match the appearance of the man in a photo of the alleged attacker being taken into custody and which was posted by Trump Saturday night. The photo, posted to the social networking site LinkedIn, shows him in a cap and gown after graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He listed his involvement there in a Christian student fellowship and a campus group that battled with Nerf guns. A local ABC station in Los Angeles included an interview with Allen during his senior year of college as part of a story about new technologies to help people as they age. He had developed a prototype for a new type of emergency brake for wheelchairs. Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records. Cole Allen's full manifesto is available on the following X-account @MarioNawfal (... and which is not connected with my own blog). The whole story bears some resemblance with another historic assassination atttempt. On 8 November 1939, the carpenter Johann Georg Elser installed a time bomb in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller with the intention to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The attack failed and Elser was arrested. Shortly before the end of fascist rule in 1945, he was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp. Some German artist created a memorial for him, consisting of neon tubes that are automatically glowing at night, such reminding the exact time of explosion. By X - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10392956

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Strait of Malacca - No Intention for Maritime Traffic Tolls

Indonesian Finance Minister wanted to charge for
Strait of Malacca & all three countries responded

According to a report by the Global Times, citing Reuters on the 24th, Indonesian Finance Minister Purbaya Yudi Sadeva said that day that Indonesia had no intention of charging tolls for ships passing through the Strait of Malacca.

Sadeva pointed out at the time that if similar measures are taken in the Strait of Malacca, considerable economic benefits may be brought, but only if Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore advance together.“ If the three parties jointly distribute the proceeds, the scale may be considerable.”

However, he immediately adjusted his stance that night, emphasizing that Indonesia would not charge ships passing through the Strait of Malacca. Indonesian Foreign Minister Sujyono also stated on the 23rd that Indonesia has no intention of imposing relevant fees and emphasized that the relevant policies must be in line with the international law of the sea framework.

As Malaysia and Singapore already declared their rejection of maritime traffic tolls, it is now clear that all ship traffic passing the Strait of Malacca remains uncharged.

[Chinese source quoting another: Global Times on April 25]

... while US Blockade is Going Global

After US Hormuz Blockade ..... US Trying to Survey Strait of Malacca

Last Update: April 23

After US closure of Hormuz Strait, there is new intelligence about the US trying to suffocate, as well, Iranian oil deliveries to South-East Asia passing through the Strait of Malacca.

The following information came from a regional media source in the Chinese language on April 17, 2026. First rumours reached me some days earlier via a US based X-account I already knew and which suddenly threatened to punish my own X entry with immediate deletion.

(Jakarta Comprehensive News) Iran and the United States have launched a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, making the Strait of Malacca, the most critical maritime throat in Southeast Asia, the focus of attention. All parties are once again worried about the fragility of Asia, the lifeblood of energy and trade. uneasy.

The Strait of Malacca is about 900 km long, with Indonesia's Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore on both sides, and is only 2.7 km at its narrowest point, less than one-tenth of the narrowest point in the Strait of Hormuz; however, this waterway carries about 40% of the world's trade transport and is the main channel for Middle Eastern crude oil to Asian economic engines such as China, Japan and South Korea.

The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet has long patrolled the Strait of Malacca, and for a long time in the eyes of the Chinese leadership, once war begins, this strategic channel will be a weak link. This so-called “ Malacca dilemma ” was often mentioned during Hu Jintao's tenure as Chinese President in the 2000s.

At a time when Iran and the United States are in a stalemate over the blockade and anti-blockade operations in the Strait of Hormuz, Western media reported that the Strait of Malacca and surrounding waters have become an important area for Iran's ghost fleet to transfer oil to other ships, as a cover-up Tehran sells oil to Asian countries, especially China.

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In addition, tensions within the South-East Asian Zone have emerged during the weeks when the Strait of Hormuz was blocked. Singapore opposed negotiations with Iran on payment of tolls for the Strait of Hormuz; Malaysia defended its related contacts with Iran. Some officials also expressed dissatisfaction with Singapore's Foreign Minister Balakrishnan's statement that traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is a transit right expressly granted by international law.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto took Indonesia's proximity to the Strait of Malacca as a geopolitical advantage and wanted to deepen military cooperation with the United States. The Indonesian Defense Ministry confirmed last week that it was considering the Trump administration's proposal to allow U.S. military aircraft to fly over Indonesian airspace; the matter was hotly debated within the Indonesian military and government.

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The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs later stated that the proposal to fly over Indonesian airspace was still under consideration and that there was no policy to allow any foreign party to use Indonesian airspace without restrictions.

Spain & EU - No Association Agreement with Israel

Last Update on April 25, quoting
a dwindling US support for Israel.

The time has come for the EU to break its Association Agreement with Israel.

We have nothing against the people of Israel; quite the contrary. But a Government that violates international law and, therefore, the principles and values of the EU cannot be our partner.

NO TO WAR.

Sánchez calls for termination of the EU Association Agreement with Israel

Spain's Prime Minister accuses Israel of violating international law. He argues the country should not be an EU partner. Ireland and Slovenia also intend to review the Association Agreement.

... while US Popular Support is Dwindling As Well

Even US Republicans are now increasingly refraining from support for Israel, as we learn from US broadcaster CNN. Here some clarification for non-US readers: The US Republican Party is sometimes referred to as GOP or "Grand Old Party" because it was founded before the US Democratic Party.

US Facing Iran - Iranian Voices

Last Update on April 19

Official Iranian source on Trump lies about alleged Deal with Iran and the renewed closure of Hormuz Strait because of US blocking Iranian ports. Western experts: A threatening shortage of Kerosine might lead to the cancelling of passenger & cargo flights especially to East-Asia.

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Foreign Minister Araghchi of the Islamic Republic of Iran announcing the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on X. Related comments from external sides are included below:

A clarification of Foreign Minister Araghchi's declaration is given by Iran's Speaker of Parliament. US TV station CNN is considering that clarification as a statement from Iranian hardliners:

Screenshots are referring to CNN's late news show by Erin Burnett on April 17.

As US president Trump announced, Iran could now prepare to receive 20 billion US $ of frozen assets.

On April 18, Ibrahim Azizi, head of the National Security Commission of the Iranian parliament, came in support of the above quoted speaker of Iran's parliament with the following post on X:

Five hours ago on CNN:
Debate: Is Trump hyping a nonexistent deal with Iran ?

US Facing Iran - This Time It's Different

Last Update: April 16 after US closing of Hormuz Strait

During the last decades, we experienced different wars in the Middle East leading to an almost total destruction of civil infrastructure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It should be mentioned that, in all three cases, Israel seemed to be at the origin of any US military action whatsoever.

We have to remember that Afghanistan was once a politically stable kingdom in a remote part of Central Asia, when it was first ruined by a Russian invasion that brought about the predecessors of today's Taliban rule. Under the US, who were fuelling the resistance of the national Mujahedeen movement against Russia by arming them, traditional structures of power were finally replaced by Bin Laden and his guys from Al-Qaeda, later declared to be 'global terrorists'. In the years that followed, Afghanistan was extensively bombed and invaded by US forces. Years later, however, it was (only recently) retaken by an even more old-fashioned species of Taliban who made the Americans flee from their country, in a similar scenario like we experienced years before when the US definitely lost their war in Vietnam and hastily left the zone of combat.

Same goes with Iraq where the iron-fist rule of President Saddam Hussein was ultimately replaced after an extensive US bombing of Saddam's military infrastructure. The Americans, acting without an appropriate plan after having placed their 'boots on the ground', then engaged with the wrong local politicians and finally left an unstable and even more corrupt government, endangered by the newly formed Islamic State IS. It was said that a breathtaking military success of IS became possible with the help of especially zealous parts of Saddam's former army. In the end, the Islamic State could be kept under control in Iraq and Syria, while their affiliates in Egypt and Nigeria are known for being active up to now.

I still remember a mediocre US President Bush jr. announcing his "Mision accomplished", surrounded by US soldiers and aboard some US aircraft carrier, far away from the real combat zones. The same president who earlier said: "We are addicted to oil". Later presidents had to care for bringing home a mass of US troops.

In Syria things are actually still undergoing extensive changes, and a view on the current situation is still blurred.

And now we have a War on Iran, started by Israel and the US, and which has now reached some kind of stalemate.

For the first time in US history, US supremacy has been challenged by a defiant regime that rejects to negotiate some kind of 'peace' on the terms of an aggressor who started an unfair war.

Simultaneously, US allies, snubbed by an immature & narcissistic guy heading the White House, are announcing that any War on Iran is not their's.

And it is just Spain, an important member of the European Union, that recently encouraged its partners to refrain from supporting the US engagement in Iran. The reason for that seems to be a deeply rooted experience in the necessity of fighting fascism that comes about with irrational bombing of foreign citizens and which is related to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, only decades away. To get an idea of the Spanish way of opposing fascism, you should have a look at the PDF file below (1.4 MB / 3 pages):

=> The Spanish Spirit of Rebellion Opposing Fascism <=

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And here is latest news about how the US most advanced warplane F-35 became subject to Iranian GPS spoofing. The information sounds believable to me. However, you should track & check it, in order to find out, if this is really breaking news.

Coordinated Iranian ResistanceTargeting Israeli and US Forces

أعلنت جماعة “الحوثي” الموالية لطهران، السبت، تنفيذ هجوم صاروخي وجوي استهدف مطار تل أبيب، ومواقع عسكرية في إسرائيل، في خامس عملية تعلن عنها منذ دخولها المباشر في الصراع الإقليمي، نهاية آذار/ مارس الماضي.

وقال المتحدث العسكري باسم الجماعة “الحوثية”، إن العملية نٌفذت باستخدام صاروخ باليستي وطائرات مسيّرة، وبالتنسيق مع إيران و”حزب الله” اللبناني الموالي لطهران، فيما أفادت وسائل إعلام إسرائيلية بسقوط الصاروخ في مناطق مفتوحة، دون تسجيل أضرار.

The “Houthi group loyal to Tehran announced, on Saturday, the implementation of a missile and air attack targeting Tel Aviv Airport and military sites in Israel, in the fifth operation it announced since its direct entry into the regional conflict, at the end of last March.

The military spokesman for the Houthi group “said that the operation was carried out using a ballistic missile and drones, and in coordination with Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah” loyal to Tehran, while Israeli media reported that the missile fell in open areas, without recording damage.

However and at the same time, the Yemenite people are suffering from missing oil deliveries that are badly needed.

[Arabic Source on April 5]

据以色列方面消息，4月1日下午，以色列监测到至少5轮导弹来袭，包括特拉维夫在内的以色列多地响起巨大爆炸声。

以色列方面称，这是自本轮冲突爆发以来，伊朗对以色列发动的火力密度最大的导弹袭击。与此同时，黎巴嫩真主党武装也对以色列北部发动了火箭弹袭击。

伊朗称与“抵抗阵线”协同作战打击美以目标

According to Israeli sources, on the afternoon of 1 April, Israel monitored at least five rounds of missile attacks, and loud explosions were heard in many places in Israel, including Tel Aviv.

Israel says,This is the most densely fired missile strike by Iran against Israel since the start of this round of conflict. At the same time, Lebanese Hezbollah forces also launched rocket attacks in northern Israel.

Iran says it is fighting against US-Israeli targets in coordination with the “resistance front”
[... including Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi armed forces].

[Chinese Source on April 2, 2026]

US Warplanes in Search and Rescue Operation
Deliberately Destroyed under Iranian Pressure

Trump Adressing the Nation on Iran

An important Update on Iranian Reactions was
added two days after Trump's speech on April 3:

Eager to learn more about Trump's justification for his war on Iran, I decided to stay awake tonight, and now, I am really feeling pity for all those US citizens forced to regularly hear such kind of Whisked Bullshit from an immature guy impersonating some respectable US President.

He started with one of his usual stances of having “taken over a crippled country“ from his predecessors in office and having “built economy like never seen before“, only within one year. And “we have gas and oil, more than we need, and the world should buy from us“.

What I didn't hear for example, was something about the gigantic monoculture of soybeans planted by US farmers in the Middle-West, intended to be sold on the Chinese market. While their East Asian trade partners ordered 500 million tons the year before, they are going to purchase only 80 million tons in 2026. Maybe the news of a record harvest in Brazil have made them change their minds. And those who will be suffering from economic backlash would be just these unshakeable supporters of Trump's MAGA movement. However, some of them might remember on election day ...

As to Iran, “we had to take that little journey“ because they tried to threaten the US with their unbroken will to grab nuclear weapons for more than fourty years, and nobody before him (Trump) having even tried to stop them. As to the enriched Uranium, still in Iran's possession, I didn't hear a single word about its handing over to the US.

Trump boasted that “we have had regime change, as none of their leaders are alive by now“.

Even the duration of that war on Iran should be seen as exemplary: “Only 32 days compared with World War II or the Korean War“.

Trump added that the next two or three weeks are now essential for ending “Iran's sinister threat“ targeting the world. But the US are “now very close to finishing the job“. All that leaves the impression of a US president who is simply unable to handle the situation he has gotten into under the pressure of some Israeli hardliners to whom The Jewish World is Not Enough.

No - We don't call back !
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On April 2, the day after Trump's speech where he threatened:
"We will bomb them into Stone Age", if they don't cooperate,
Iran's News Agency IRNA answered with the following X-post:

The Iranian Embassy to South Africa came with a reminder of Babylonian emperor Cyril the Great and his humane policy.

The Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, lasted from approximately 559 BC to 331 BC. At its height, it encompassed the areas of modern-day Iran, Egypt, Türkiye, and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Currently, China seems to have no problems to get its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Two tankers, that had to interrupt their passage after Iran issued a warning, are now on their way to China. There are even rumours that earlier reported 'passage tariffs' are either being waved for now or completely taken from the agenda.

Furthermore, Iran insists that any passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz is only a matter concerning Iran and Oman. This is a point worth to receive attention, because Iran is in control of the northern coast of Hormuz while its southern coast belongs to Oman, a fact that could easily be overlooked as borders between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman are rarely known to people who are now attracted by the consequences of a global crisis.