Ceasefire

[Alex]

Has Donald had a few scoops tonight ?  He's just announced a total ceasefire between Israel and Iran which will take place in 6 hours !

[muddy]

Meanwhile Iran has bombed residential areas in Israel with lose of life .

[Ashy]

Obviously been on the hot line to our Keir.

[klondike]

It seems he suffers from the delusion that he is World Emperor. It seems that he suffers dementia as much as Biden did but with different symptoms. He is beginning to believe his own BS now. 

I suspect most of his Truth Social followers do so for amusement value that the "leader of the free world" could post such shear tripe on a daily basis. It's a shocker.  And a frightening one for many.

[Alex]

I cannot see the point of a ceasefire while the Ayatollahs are still in power.  This just gives them time to regroup and obtain more missiles from China. 

Sky has just reported missiles have been launched from Iran ?
Iran wants the destruction of Israel and unfortunately that isn't going to change.

[klondike]

I think that as Trump has started he probably needs to get the job done. May have been better to give Israel more subtle assistance to avoid problems with China but what is done is done. There is no doubt that Iran needs to be crushed as a terrorist state absolutely cannot be allowed to have nukes. It seems Russia has been assisting them to that end. Probably in exchange for drone technology to help them over the three and well into the fourth year of their 3 day war with Ukraine. Same with Rocket Man. What with Biden's fear of escalation and Trump thinking he can force Ukraine into capitulation to Russia this really all is a cess pit now. Why can't the bloody Yanks elect competent leaders? Mind you we can't either.

[Alex]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/17/china-sends-mystery-transport-planes-into-iran/#:~:text=China%20has%20a%20history%20of,Iran's%20development%20of%20nuclear%20weapons.

[klondike]

and then falling off the radar as it neared Iran

No - turning off the ADS-B transponder.  This is deliberate hiding of the aircraft.

These planes aren't tracked by radar they transmit identification details, You can even see all this stuff on a phone app or set up a simple receiver costing about £10 and send the stuff you pick up over the internet to FlightRadar24 for enhanced access. I used to do that myself but lost interest.

I think the Yanks may have some problems finding the stuff that those lorries now pretty obviously seem to have taken away from the Iranian sites. If they have any sense they'll not give it back but I'm not hopeful on that front. There must have been a leak from the Yanks or maybe Trump posted all the plans on Truth Social.