Kurt Zindulka

The military operation in Iran entered its sixteenth day on Sunday. The eyes of the world continue to focus on the Strait of Hormuz and its impact on international energy markets, while both President Trump and the remnants of the Iranian regime both reject suggestions of peace negotiations.

The military operation in Iran is now over two weeks old. While overnight U.S. attacks on the critical Kharg Island avoided striking Iranian oil facilities, the Islamist regime in Tehran continues to attack energy infrastructure throughout the Gulf region.

A tranche of internal UK government documents revealed that Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer chose to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States despite having been made aware that the Labour Party operative continued his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein after his child prostitution conviction.

All eyes turn to the international energy markets as multiple cargo ships were attacked in the critical Strait of Hormuz supply chain chokepoint off the coast of Iran, while leaders of the world’s major economies are set to meet later today to discuss the largest ever release of emergency oil reserves.

Tragedy struck the small Swiss town of Kerzers on Tuesday evening after a man apparently set himself on fire on a bus, leaving several dead and multiple injured.

President Trump said war is “nearly complete” and warned Iran against trying to escalate, but it seems Tehran hasn’t got the message yet. 

A synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège was rocked on Monday morning by an explosion outside its doors in what authorities are considering a potential terror attack.

Norwegian authorities are considering a terrorist motivation for the explosion outside of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo.

Former British Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has excoriated his Downing Street successor Sir Keir Starmer for having damaged the UK’s special relationship with the United States by refusing a military request from President Donald Trump.

The military operation against Iran entered its ninth day on Sunday. Reports have indicated that cracks are emerging in the remnants of the Iranian leadership structure as it scrambles to replace slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid continued waves of strikes from the United States and Israel, some of which left the Iranian capital of Tehran shrouded in thick black smoke.

President Donald Trump roasted Britain as a “once great ally” on Saturday as he continued to express displeasure with the left-wing Labour government in London over its initial refusal to grant the U.S. use of its bases for the conflict in Iran.

Israel continues its strikes in Lebanon, Tehran vows to keep fighting the U.S., and President Trump has promised to hit Iran “very hard”.

French anti-terrorism police have joined the criminal investigation into the alleged Antifa mob killing of a conservative student at a Lyon university last month.

Iran is attempting to choose a new supreme leader, while the U.S. and Israel continue strikes, including on Tehran and Lebanon. 

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the joint American-Israeli military strikes against Iran are “outside of international law.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to “cut off” all trade with Spain after the socialist-led country refused to allow the American military to use its bases to strike the Islamist regime in Iran during Operation Epic Fury.

The military operation against Iran has entered its fourth day on Tuesday, with missiles and rockets traded by combatants overnight.

The former director of an anti-Breitbart censorship group has resigned from British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government amid reports he spread fake Russiagate-style allegations against journalists critical of the organisation he ran.

Operation against Iran has entered third day, with strikes against targets inside Iran and interceptions against Iranian aircraft ongoing.

U.S. Central Command announced on Monday morning the death of a fourth American military service member amid Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

The conflict between the United States, Israel and the Islamist regime in Iran could result in terror blowback across Europe, German security officials have warned.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday morning that Operation Epic Fury has already eliminated at least 48 senior Iranian officials, including the former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

British Defence Secretary John Healey refused on Sunday to say whether the UK government agreed with the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamist Iranian regime, prompting pushback from opposition parties.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated during an Israeli air strike on his Tehran compound, Fox News reported.

There were zero casualties as a result of retaliatory strikes from the Islamist Iranian regime in response to the opening salvo of the Operation Epic Fury military operation by the United States, CENTCOM said on Saturday.

The United Nations will convene an emergency Security Council meeting on Saturday over U.S.-Israel strikes Iran, which U.N. leaders have condemned.

The United States military reportedly deployed Tomahawk missiles and new “one-way” attack drones during its opening strikes against the Islamist regime in Iran on Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an “urgent meeting” of the United Nations Security Council, while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchéz said that Madrid “rejects” strikes from the United States and Israel against the Islamist regime in Iran on Saturday.

The son of the last Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, called on the country’s military, police, and security forces to abandon the “crumbling” Islamist regime of the Ayatollah amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Saturday.

Israel said on Saturday that it has taken part in a U.S.-led military operation in Iran, with Jerusalem reportedly targeting the top leadership of the Islamist regime in Tehran.

America’s allies in Europe have called for “restraint” following a series of military strikes against the Islamist Iranian regime, while the United Kingdom has warned against potential “escalation” into a broader regional conflict.

President told Iranian armed forces to lay down their arms or face “certain death” as “major” strikes against Tehran commenced. 

Poland has claimed that Russia is orchestrating a Hamas-style tunnel operation in Belarus to send illegal migrants into Europe and destabilise the West.

The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population.

The number of left-wing extremist crimes rose by over 100 per cent last year in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.