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Iran FM Accuses Israel Of False Flag After Mystery Drone Strike On Egyptian Port

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Iran FM Accuses Israel Of False Flag After Mystery Drone Strike On Egyptian Port

Iran is suggesting that Wednesday's unprecedented drone attack on a US-owned gas-processing vessel moored at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta was a false flag.

Even within hours of the incident first being reported by Egyptian authorities, which merely described an industrial fire of unknown cause, the incident was shrouded in mystery and contradictory reports. Some reports pointed to the Iranians, while others alleged the Houthis may have attacked the Mediterranean port.

via TradeArabia

Reuters had described, "The drone hit floating storage tanker Energos Winter, causing a fire that then spread to another vessel, Gaslog ‌Salem, ⁠three trading sources familiar with the incident said. Two separate security sources said the cause ⁠of the blast was a drone strike."

It detailed: "The crew was evacuated, and the fire had ⁠been brought under control, Ambrey said, adding that no party ⁠had claimed responsibility."

There was widespread speculation that this was the Iranians seeking to demonstrate to the Americans that it can disrupt energy flows across the whole broader region, even into the Mediterranean Sea.

But Tehran has since vehemently denied it was behind the alleged drone strike, with on Thursday its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issuing a statement raising the prospect of an Israeli false flag.

"Egypt is an important friend and partner in the region, and its security is of utmost importance to us," Araghchi wrote on X. "We must all be vigilant against Israeli plots and false-flag operations designed to undermine regional peace."

The suggestion from Tehran is that Israel wanted to ensure that all Arab and Muslim-majority states turn strongly against Tehran, and so put a greater target on the Islamic Republic.

Egypt is an important friend and partner in the region, and its security is of utmost importance to us.

We must all be vigilant against Israeli plots and false-flag operations designed to undermine regional peace.

The threat is clear, mutual, and fearful of Muslim solidarity.

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 30, 2026

Still, there's a lot at stake if yet another regional transit area is threatened, as Reuters newly alludes to: "Even as Iran and its Houthi allies have fired on tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, Egypt's Suez Canal and Sumed pipeline continued to offer safe, northbound export routes for Saudi Red Sea energy cargoes."

Saul Kavonic, head of energy research at advisory company MST Marquee, has explained, "The passage through the Red Sea, even via the longer Mediterranean route, could be put at risk, which threatens up to five million barrels per day of oil supply that can currently bypass the Strait of Hormuz."

Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2026 - 05:45

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John Cleese: "Some Cultures Are Better Than Others"

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John Cleese: "Some Cultures Are Better Than Others"

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Legendary Monty Python star John Cleese has drawn a clear line in the sand, declaring himself a "culturalist" who believes some cultures are superior to others.

Cleese has also openly backed Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe amid the accelerating collapse of British norms under mass migration and parallel societies.

The legendary comedian responded this week to ritual insults hurled at him for supporting Lowe by rejecting the tired "racist" smear from the usual uneducated quarters.

I see I am being ritually insulted for my support of this man

The uneducated call me a racist

I am not a racist

I am a culturalist

I believe that some cultures are better than others

I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital... https://t.co/dpzlIRrAoV

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) July 28, 2026

"I am not a racist. I am a culturalist," he stated in a post that now has over ten million views, adding "I believe that some cultures are better than others. I prefer cultures that do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents. Call me old-fashioned..."

Cleese had earlier made plain his preference for Lowe over the rest of the political class, stating he trusts the Great Yarmouth MP "more than any of the other leaders." The Metro reported the comments as Cleese pushed back against the predictable pile-on.

John Cleese has insisted that he is 'not a racist' after voicing support for Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe. Responding to a post featuring the former Reform UK MP, Cleese recently said on X: 'I trust this man more than any of the other leaders': https://t.co/gObd5yE1Bw pic.twitter.com/saKZ0RlmXo

— Metro (@MetroUK) July 29, 2026

Lowe, for his part, simply called Cleese a patriot. The exchange has crystallised a growing recognition that Britain's cultural foundations are under sustained assault from imported practices fundamentally at odds with the country's historic values of individual liberty, equal protection under the law, and basic human decency.

Cleese has for some time now been documenting the same pattern with characteristic clarity. In April he tore into the BBC over claims that the British education system was designed for "whiteness," pointing out the obvious: it was built for British children in Britain, most of whom happened to be white at the time.

To treat that historical fact as a "racist conspiracy," he said, is insane. The broadcaster, he charged, operates with a hidden agenda opposed to the beliefs of the majority of British people.

He has also zeroed in on the political reality driving the double standard. With churches across Britain suffering more than ten recorded crimes every single day - theft, arson, vandalism, violence - Cleese observed that Labour politicians have become so dependent on Muslim votes that they no longer even pretend to be even-handed. "We need a new election," the Python star demanded.

Cleese has noted that the focus on religion in Britain falls almost exclusively on Islam, while more peaceful and spiritual traditions are sidelined. He has asked why schoolchildren are not being introduced to Buddhism - a far more civilised belief system - rather than being steered toward Islam.

He has highlighted the one-way demand for respect: Islam insists its traditions be honoured while showing no reciprocal intention of respecting British ones, the polar opposite of genuine multiculturalism.

And he has pointed out that other religions do not threaten to take over the country, whereas multiple Muslim clerics and scholars openly do.

These are not abstract observations. They map directly onto the lived experience of communities watching churches burn, girls trafficked, and native citizens pushed down waiting lists.

That is precisely the ground Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain have chosen to fight on. The party, which surged past the Conservatives in membership within weeks of its launch, does not traffic in polite fictions.

It has vowed to deport millions of illegal and burdensome migrants - "if that means millions go, so be it" - to outlaw incompatible cultural and religious practices, and to give the British people a binding referendum on the death penalty for pedophiles and rapists when guilt is undeniable.

"Prison or deportation is too kind," Lowe has said.

Lowe's own record shows why the establishment treats him as a threat. As an MP he has submitted more than a thousand Freedom of Information requests that forced light onto grooming gang data, the true costs of mass migration, and foreign offender absconding rates.

When the results proved too damaging, the WhatDoTheyKnow platform restricted his access. Lowe's response was characteristically dry: the restriction was "not in the spirit of transparency."

He has also refused to soft-pedal the immigration crisis itself. Lowe has called openly for a hostile environment toward illegal entrants, many of them criminals, stating he wants them all deported and does not care how it happens.

Far-left politicians and media figures predictably denounced the stance as "cruel" and "repulsive." Lowe's reply was equally direct: he could not care less about defending the "humanity" of third-world conmen who break into the country and leave British families living in fear.

The practical consequences of the current open-door approach continue to surface. Lowe recently told Joe Rogan that arriving migrants are placed at the top of NHS waiting lists for dental treatment that British citizens cannot access. Rogan's reaction was pure disbelief.

The incentive structure is obvious: free housing, welfare, and priority healthcare create a magnet that draws people across multiple safe countries.

Nowhere has the cultural incompatibility been more horrific than in the industrial-scale rape gang scandals.

Lowe's Restore Britain-backed inquiry documented a nationwide pattern of abuse involving up to 250,000 young British girls, overwhelmingly by men from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds, with police and politicians suppressing the truth for decades under the banner of community cohesion.

Elon Musk responded by endorsing Nuremberg-style trials for those who enabled the cover-up. "The politicians who turned a blind eye to the Rape of Britain must go to prison," he wrote.

Cleese's latest stand simply names what millions of Britons already see. Preferring a culture that does not stone people, mutilate girls, or treat women as disposable is not racism. It is the minimum requirement of civilisation.

The uneducated may continue to throw the racist label; the rest of the country is increasingly done pretending that all cultures are equal when the evidence of the last three decades proves otherwise.

Britain's political class spent years importing demographic change while criminalising honest discussion of the results.

Cleese, Lowe, and a growing public are no longer playing along. Some cultures produce free speech, scientific inquiry, and equal rights. Others produce the opposite. Pretending otherwise has already cost Britain dearly.

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