Eight years before he was imprisoned for over half a decade on trumped up charges, Julian Assange exposed the mainstream media's role in perpetuating war.

"Nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies."

"Populations don't like wars... Populations have to be fooled into wars."

"The media in general are so bad, we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether."

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC says it detected an F-16 breaching Iranian airspace, launching surface-to-air missiles at it and forcing it to retreat

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. CENTCOM confirms launching ‘self-defense strikes’ against Iran

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Yedioth Ahronoth claims a U.S. warship possibly got hit in Hormuz

This information is very unconfirmed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya has announced the full closure of the Strait of Hormuz. No vessels, commercial or otherwise, will be allowed to pass through.

Anyways, this basically means even Chinese, Russian and Pakistani ships will no longer be allowed to cross.

Unfortunate for them, but it’s been decided by Iran that the price of oil must skyrocket.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Pete Hegseth: ‘If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump, talking to Fox News, claims he called directly with an Iranian official and they ‘asked him to stop’, so he said he will ‘stop the bombing soon’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘If they don’t make a deal, we’ll bomb the shit out of them again tomorrow’

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Iran should officially announce the end of the ceasefire. Enough is enough.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 CENTCOM: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is open’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇧🇭/🇰🇼 NEW: In a separate statement, the IRGC Aerospace Force claims it targeted and destroyed 18 targets in two waves, at the U.S. Ali Al-Salem and Al-Jaber Airbases in Kuwait, and Sheikh Issa Airbase in Bahrain

There is no evidence to support this.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Something really weird has been ongoing since yesterday.

Issuing statements about events that verifiably did not happen.

I have a suspicion that maybe someone is accidentally releasing the statements before the actual attacks take place.

As I suspected, NOW the attack on Bahrain begins, AFTER the statement is already issued. Truly incredible.

How does that even happen?

—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭 BREAKING: Sirens in Bahrain

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Well, if my hypothesis is right, based on the issued statement, we should also see sirens in Kuwait.

So far, despite the sounding of sirens, no explosions or interceptions have taken place in Bahrain.

Confirmed by a local source on the ground, nothing has been heard yet.