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25 Sept, 20:15
🐓Pakistan Draws a Water Red LineAt the UN General Assembly, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned India that any attempt to stop, impede or divert Pakistan’s allocated Indus waters would be treated as “an act of war.”“The waters of the Indus River system are the lifeblood,” Sharif said. “Water must never be weaponized.”Sharif was answering India’s suspension of cooperation under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty after the April 2025 attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, which killed 26 people. New Delhi stopped sharing water data and argued that Pakistan’s support for cross-border militant groups made normal treaty cooperation untenable.The 1960 treaty survived three wars between nuclear-armed states. By declaring interference with water flows an act of war, Islamabad says that exception has ended. The Indus is no longer a technical arrangement insulated from the conflict. It is another front.@Burning_Babylon#Pakistan #India #Indus #WaterSecurity #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
25 Sept, 19:17
✈️🫷Najaf Closes Its Gate to IranIran's consulate in Najaf says Najaf al-Ashraf International Airport has stopped accepting Iranian flights.The consulate's statement made the point in sectarian language: Najaf holds the shrine of Imam Ali, the first imam in Shiism, and serves as one of the faith's central cities. Iraq's main Shiite pilgrimage city is now off limits to Iranians arriving by air.Baghdad is operating under U.S. financial pressure. Washington controls dollar clearing for Iraq's oil revenue, and Iraqi banks and airlines that handle Iranian traffic risk losing access to it. The instrument is not a fleet. It is a settlement account.An airport that turns away pilgrims is what hegemony looks like when it runs through the banking system rather than the battlefield.@Burning_Babylon#Iran #Iraq #Najaf #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
25 Sept, 15:11edited
🛢💲France Guards Saudi OilEmmanuel Macron says France will send soldiers, radars, and air-defense systems to protect Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu oil hub on the Red Sea.The deployment follows missile attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthis against the terminal, which links to the East-West Pipeline and can move up to 7 million barrels of crude daily.Macron said France would defend the site without entering the regional war.But any military sensor brought into this theater collects regional airspace data, which is why every “defensive” deployment becomes part of the intelligence map.@Burning_Babylon#SaudiArabia #France #Yanbu #Houthis #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
25 Sept, 15:05
✈️Iran Threatens the Region’s AirspaceMohammad Mokhber, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, warned that states helping enforce U.S. aviation sanctions could lose access to regional air routes and airport services themselves.“The skies in the region will be open to everyone or to no one,” Mokhber wrote. “If Iran cannot operate flights and receive airport services, no country in the region will be able to do so either.”Washington sanctioned the service infrastructure behind Iranian commercial aviation. Tehran’s answer is to threaten the infrastructure behind everyone else’s.The target is not just U.S. policy. It is Gulf airports, foreign carriers, and regional governments asked to choose between access to the dollar system and normal aviation links with Iran.@Burning_Babylon#Iran #Sanctions #Aviation #Gulf #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
25 Sept, 15:01
🚀RIA Floats a "Very Short" War on LithuaniaRussia's state news agency RIA Novosti published a column titled "Russia faces another special military operation. It will be very short," after Lithuania's parliament advanced a constitutional amendment that could lift the ban on weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases.Lithuania raises the threat near Russia's borders, so a Russian attack becomes self-defense.@Burning_Babylon#Russia #Lithuania #NATO #NuclearWeapons #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
25 Sept, 08:51
🚀September 25: The Periphery Starts Moving1️⃣ Northern Ethiopia. NetBlocks detected a telecommunications blackout across Tigray as federal forces fought Tigrayan troops and their allies. The outage’s cause is unconfirmed, but the timing is familiar: war expands, then the region loses its ability to document it.2️⃣ Riyadh / Ankara / Islamabad. Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan called an urgent meeting of their military chiefs under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement after Houthi strikes on Saudi targets. Riyadh said it intercepted six ballistic missiles on Thursday; the Houthis claimed dozens of missile and drone attacks. The pact’s collective-defense clause is now facing its first real test.3️⃣New York. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi agreed that only diplomacy could resolve the regional crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Moscow said. The statement costs neither capital nor leverage. Russia wants to sound like a mediator while Iran needs a Security Council veto-holder to turn its war terms into international language.4️⃣Beirut / New York. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Lebanon would not serve as an arena for regional wars or an exchange point for other powers’ messages. He said the country had already paid heavily in security, stability, and economic damage. Beirut wants distance from Tehran’s war network, but Hezbollah’s independent arsenal makes that distance a demand, not a condition Lebanon can enforce alone.5️⃣Kabul / Kandahar. Pakistan confirmed its September 24 airstrikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan, framing them as retaliation for drone attacks. Afghanistan reported four civilians killed. Islamabad is signaling directly to the Taliban leadership in Kandahar: control the territory, restrain militant networks, or expect cross-border punishment.6️⃣Addis Ababa / Afar. Ethiopian forces fought overnight to repel a Tigrayan assault in Afar, according to a humanitarian source. Tigrayan forces have seized local airports and struck into neighboring Afar and Amhara while describing the conflict as a “full-blown war” with the federal government. The 2022 peace deal did not settle Ethiopia’s northern conflict; it froze a dispute that was waiting for the state to weaken again.7️⃣ Athens, Greece. Asylum seekers at a Greek migrant camp staged repeated protests over conditions they described as so severe that some residents contemplated suicide, AFP reported. The camp was promoted by the government as a “model” facility.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Ethiopia #SaudiArabia #Iran #MigrationBabylon Burning
24 Sept, 20:43
🪖Syria Trains Its Sea FrogsSyria’s navy published footage of a maritime-commando exercise by its “Sea Frogs” unit under Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government.The drill showed fast-rib raids, smoke-covered beach landings, concealed divers using underwater scooters, and attacks on shoreline targets.Damascus is rebuilding armed institutions after state collapse while Israel maintains freedom of action along Syria’s coast and southern frontier.@Burning_Babylon#Syria #Mediterranean #Military #BabylonBurningBabylon Burning
24 Sept, 20:28
🚀September 24: Power Moves After Dark1️⃣New York. U.S. and Iranian negotiators explored a phased arrangement linking the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to a U.S. rollback of its economic blockade, according to sources close to the talks. The proposal would trade shipping access for sanctions relief in stages. Neither side is negotiating peace first. They are negotiating the price of restarting the world’s oil artery.2️⃣ Washington. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping extended the U.S.-China trade truce for two months after their White House summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. The extension postpones another tariff collision but settles none of the structural disputes over technology, supply chains, Taiwan, or Chinese industrial policy.3️⃣ New York. Mahmoud Abbas again committed the Palestinian Authority to holding legislative elections on November 28, the first in 20 years. He framed the vote as part of reforms backed by international partners. The promise still runs into the same hard fact: the Palestinian Authority does not control the territory where any election would need to mean something.4️⃣St. Petersburg. VTB chief executive Andrei Kostin said the Russian state’s seizures and “temporary administration” orders are making Russian business owners fear that their own assets can be taken. He said major entrepreneurs were diverting money away from core operations because they believe, “They’ll take this away from us anyway.”5️⃣Tehran. Iran moved to buy up to 400 Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 shoulder-fired air-defense systems for $60–70 million, Reuters reported, citing three informed sources. Tehran is rebuilding short-range defenses damaged during the U.S.-Israeli war. China gets another export customer under pressure; Iran gets a cheaper way to raise the cost of the next strike.6️⃣Geneva / Kyiv / Tehran. Iranian and Ukrainian foreign ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the first such contact since tensions rose in July after a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea. The meeting did not resolve the wider conflict, but it reopened a direct channel between two governments now entangled in separate wars and overlapping shipping routes.7️⃣The Hague / Bangui. The International Criminal Court convicted former Central African Republic rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on four counts of crimes against humanity, including torture and unlawful imprisonment. The court found that he oversaw abuse at a feared prison unit during the 2013 civil war.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Hormuz #China #Palestine #RussiaBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 20:11
🚀September 22: Deals, Deterrence, and Election Stress1️⃣ New York / Nuuk / Copenhagen. Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed an agreement allowing a larger U.S. military presence in Greenland. The deal aims to end months of confrontation over the mineral-rich Arctic territory while keeping formal sovereignty with Denmark and Greenland.2️⃣Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish prosecutors opened an investigation into alleged election fraud that could force a rerun in one county and put 11 parliamentary seats back in play after the September 13 vote. In a fragmented parliament, 11 seats can alter who has the leverage to govern.3️⃣Vilnius, Lithuania. A new rotation of U.S. troops began moving to Lithuania, President Gitanas Nausėda said. He described the American deployment as indispensable to Lithuania’s deterrenceBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 19:38
🏦🪬Macron Defends the ICCNew York. French President Emmanuel Macron said France would continue supporting the International Criminal Court and its “central role” after Donald Trump called on every ICC member state to leave the institution.“We cannot accept a new world order of impunity that some are trying to establish,” Macron said.Trump treats the ICC as an assault on sovereignty. Macron treats impunity as the greater threat to order.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Macron #Trump #ICC #InternationalLawBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 19:29
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22 Sept, 19:26
💥Trump Says Iran Talks RestartedNew York. President Donald Trump said U.S. officials held a three-hour meeting with an Iranian delegation on September 22 and called it productive.Special envoy Steve Witkoff said afterward: "I feel very good." A follow-up meeting is expected soon.Trump framed the talks as Iran's choice between a deal that lets the country "rebuild" and become "great," or the destruction of the Islamic Republic. He made the same threat from the UN General Assembly podium earlier that day.A public ultimatum and three hours behind closed doors on the same day suggest the ultimatum was aimed at an audience other than Tehran.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Iran #Trump #UnitedStates #DiplomacyBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 19:00edited
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22 Sept, 18:49
🧨Macron Calls the Gaza Peace a CharadeNew York. French President Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly that the peace in Gaza has brought no humanitarian corridors and called it a charade that shames everyone involved.Macron has pressed the same point since France recognized a Palestinian state in September 2025: a ceasefire that moves no aid is a diplomatic formality.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #France #Macron #Gaza #UnitedNationsBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 18:43
⚔️Trump Calls for an ICC ExodusNew York. President Donald Trump urged every member state of the International Criminal Court to withdraw “immediately” during his September 22 address to the UN General Assembly. He called the court an “out-of-control institution,” a “rogue institution,” and an “anti-American tribunal.”Trump said the United States would never allow American service members “or anyone else” to be investigated or subjected to “show trials” by a court he said lacked jurisdiction over the United States.Washington is not an ICC member, so the demand carries no domestic legal cost for Trump.It is a direct attempt to strip the court of international legitimacy by turning U.S. military immunity into a test of alliance loyalty.The ICC was designed to reach perpetrators when national systems refuse or fail to prosecute them.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Trump #ICCBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 18:40
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22 Sept, 18:36
🚀🪬Saudi Strikes Hit Hodeidah and Al-JawfHodeidah. Houthi-run media said Saudi airstrikes hit a house in the Red Sea port city on September 22, killing six civilians, including two children and a woman, and wounding eight.Saudi Arabia has not publicly confirmed the strike.Al-Hazm, Al-Jawf. Houthi officials said what they called a Saudi strike hit a prison holding detainees captured in recent fighting, killing nine prisoners. The claim came from Abdelqader al-Murtada, who heads the Houthi prisoner-affairs committee.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Yemen #SaudiArabia #Houthis #RedSeaBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 17:54
⚓️⚔️Cuba Walks Out on TrumpCuba's delegation left the UN General Assembly hall as President Donald Trump called the island an "absolutely failed state" and predicted that its Communist government would fall.Trump said his administration was seeking a fundamental change in Cuba and promised that "freedom will be coming to Cuba."He also said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was negotiating with Havana.The Cuban delegation answered by leaving the room. It gave Washington's script no legitimacy and no audience.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Cuba #Trump #UnitedNations #LatinAmericaBabylon Burning
22 Sept, 17:53
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22 Sept, 17:42
🏦👥Trump Leaves the Ban to the CourtNew York. President Donald Trump said he would “probably” allow CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters back onto White House grounds if a court ruled against his ban.The three outlets sued the administration on September 21, arguing that the ban retaliates against protected speech and violates the First Amendment and due-process rights. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly scheduled a hearing for Wednesday.The president is trying to turn a press-access case into a loyalty test.@Burning_Babylon#BabylonBurning #Trump #WhiteHouse #CNN #PressFreedom
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