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Iran Submits Conditions For Ending War With US Via Qatar, Awaits Trump Response

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Iran Submits Conditions For Ending War With US Via Qatar, Awaits Trump Response

Iran has announced Saturday that its Supreme National Security Council has submitted Tehran's conditions for ending the war with the United States via Qatar, and that it awaits the Trump White House's response.

"We are in contact with the Qatari intermediary who conveyed our conditions to Washington to end the war, and we are awaiting a response from President Trump," the supreme council's secretary Mohsen Rezaei said.

Via Asharq Al Awsat

But he warned that if Washington doesn't comply, the Islamic Republic is ready for a "decisive war". The conditions, according to his summary, features--

"the end of the war on all fronts, the release of frozen assets and the end of the naval blockade."

"Iran has become convinced of the need to change its strategy towards Washington following the US withdrawal from the memorandum of understanding," Rezaei explained in words given to Al Jazeera.

He blasted US and Israeli calculations which have been on display through over six months of war as "flawed" and asserted that the conflict was ultimately instigated by Netanyahu.

"Iran knows the US military’s vulnerabilities and is more prepared than ever to counter its air strikes," Rezaei stated. He went on to claim that Iranian forces recently tested an anti-ship missile near a US aircraft carrier.

"Iran is serious about defense," the high-ranking Iranian security official continued, and "if attacked, will strike US bases and Washington's interests in the region with greater force."

Meanwhile, President Trump continues to shut down critics of his "little excursion" in the Middle East, which is increasingly an obvious quagmire from which the US is seeking to extricate itself, by saying that high fuel prices don't matter in light of the potential for Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Interestingly, at the same time Iran continues to seek to demonstrate it is not bent on achieving nuclear weapons status. 

However, Rezaei has also newly teased withdrawing from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty:

Iran complies with a fatwa issued by the late Ali Khamenei prohibiting the development of nuclear weapons and has not yet decided to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non·Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

"We still adhere to the fatwa of the late supreme leader and have not changed our nuclear doctrine, but we do not know what will happen in the future. We have not yet made a decision to withdraw from the Non·Proliferation Treaty, and this issue depends on Washington’s behavior," said Mohsen Rezaei

However, according to Rezaei, the actions of the United States and Israel allow Iran to withdraw from the treaty.

The Iranian official in the fresh remarks also addressed the escalating Saudi-Yemen war. He described that the Houthis seek a peace settlement with Saudi Arabia, and suggested a broader US-Iran deal would facilitate that.

Why is CENTCOM doing this? Markets say bullshit pic.twitter.com/BdkzCGrFY6

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) September 19, 2026

Of course, Tehran at the same time knows that the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast has only increased Iranian leverage over global energy - given the Yemeni rebels are now in easter shooting distance of the vital Bab Al-Mandab Strait. Iranian advisers are likely coordinating with the Shia Ansar Allah movement as it battles the Saudi coalition.

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Tyler Durden Sat, 09/19/2026 - 14:35
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The 'Modern-Day Lynching' Hoax... And The Elephant In The Room

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3 weeks ago
The 'Modern-Day Lynching' Hoax... And The Elephant In The Room

Authored by Larry Elder via The Epoch Times,

Nearly 60 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter to sound an alarm: Black Americans are being found hanging, including some from trees, in a wave of possible "modern-day lynchings."

Their letter to the Justice Department and FBI stated, "The series of deaths raise significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation's history." Rep. Ayanna Pressley called it a "national crisis." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who signed the letter, tweeted about "widespread modern-day lynchings" and "racial terror."

Every suspicious death deserves investigation. But history is not evidence. What are the facts?

  • Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was found hanging at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. The medical examiner found no foul play and ruled the death suicide. His family confirmed that his girlfriend said Reed sent suicidal texts the previous night.

  • In Raleigh, North Carolina, a 32-year-old black man was found hanging downtown. Video showed him acting alone with a cord. His mother said he suffered mental health problems.

  • Juliana Nzita, 16, was found on church property in Charlotte. Investigators found no defensive wounds, assault, foul play or outside involvement.

  • Justice Kai James, 21, was found hanging at a Job Corps center in Albany, Georgia. Authorities called it suicide.

  • Kyle Bassinga, 21, was found hanging in Cobb County; video showed him entering the woods alone. Authorities called it suicide.

  • To'Nea Nicole Miller, 27, was found hanging in Miami's Gwen Cherry Park. Authorities called it suicide.

  • Jerard "Jay" Jackson, 28, was found near a trail in Rothbury, Michigan. Authorities called it suicide.

  • Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi. Her death was ruled homicide. Police arrested Jarques Ratliff, a 51-year-old black man who knew her. His motive is unknown.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, more white Americans than black Americans die by suicide by hanging, and whites do so at a higher per-capita rate. In 2020, 10,573 white Americans and 916 black Americans died by suicide by hanging, strangulation or suffocation. The age-adjusted rates were 4.6 per 100,000 for whites and 2.0 for blacks.

This blacks-being-lynched hysteria recalls the supposed epidemic of racism-driven black church burnings in the 1990s. The mainstream media pushed the narrative of organized white terrorists torching black churches across America. Then-President Bill Clinton created a national task force.

The investigation found no national racist conspiracy. From 1995 through September 1998, authorities investigated 670 arsons, bombings or attempted bombings involving houses of worship. Two hundred twenty-five involved predominantly black churches. Most did not. Of the 106 suspects arrested for arson at black churches, 68 were white, 37 were black, and one was Hispanic.

Some fires were indeed racist crimes, but the sweeping media narrative was false. America had again been stampeded into believing white racism had suddenly and everywhere reared its head.

Meanwhile, these so-called leaders ignore the elephant in the room.

They ignore the epidemic of black children born without a father married to and living with their mother, despite overwhelming evidence that two-parent families improve economic, behavioral and educational outcomes.

They ignore the crisis of K-12 schools in urban America, where most black fourth graders are not proficient in reading or math. Leftist politicians and teacher unions control and defend public urban schools.

They ignore black-on-black crime. In 2023 more than half of the nation's homicide victims were black, and of those victims, nearly 90 percent of the identified offenders were black.

They ignore the effect of illegal immigration on black joblessness and wages. A U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation found that illegal immigration has tended to increase the supply of low-skilled labor and depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American workers - a disproportionate number of whom are black men. Research presented to the commission estimated that the immigration influx from 1980 through 2000 reduced the employment rate of low-skilled black men by 8 percentage points. Other research estimated that immigration cost the average American man without a high-school diploma approximately $1,800 annually in reduced wages.

Black truth-tellers who identify these problems are smeared as "Uncle Toms" and "sellouts." The Ku Klux Klan could not have designed a more destructive arrangement.

If black leadership malpractice were a crime, many politicians would be staring at life without the possibility of parole.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.

Tyler Durden Sat, 09/19/2026 - 14:00
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Houthi Ballistic Missiles Hit Fuel Tanks Near Riyadh Airport In War First

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3 weeks ago
Houthi Ballistic Missiles Hit Fuel Tanks Near Riyadh Airport In War First

In a historic first of the Yemen conflict, Houthi ballistic missiles rained down on the Saudi capital of Riyadh overnight, triggering rare air raid alerts and a general state of panic among the citizenry.

The international airport may have been targeted, given huge black smoke plumes were seen rising above city’s King Khalid international airport. There looks to have been a significant ground impact just near the major aviation hub.

Source: Reuters

The Guardian reports, "Explosions were heard in the capital as firefighters battled to extinguish the flames of a burning fuel tank emblazoned with the logo of the Saudi oil company Aramco near the city’s King Khalid international airport."

Several rounds of explosions in the capital were heard overnight, with reports of flight cancelations and pauses, with FlightRadar24 citing "major problems" at the airport.

"The Saudi civil defense force sent air raid alerts overnight on Friday to residents of Riyadh, Jeddah and other cities including Yanbu, a major industrial port which is home to critical oil facilities," The Guardian report notes.

No casualties or major damage has been officially reported, and the air alert warnings were soon lifted. There hasn't been much in the way of a specific public assessment of the attack from Saudi authorities.

Smoke rises from fuel storage depot at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com/0qjb9oY3lC

— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) September 19, 2026

Gulf states which have been targeted throughout the Iran conflict have by and large kept quiet on damage as a result of attacks either by Iranian forces or the Houthi rebels in Yemen. In some cases they've persecuted citizens who share photographs with the outside world.

Fierce fighting continues to unfold in Yemen, with regionally based analyst Yasmeen al-Eryani of the Sanaa Center think tank saying the Houthis continue to set the pace of escalation:

"You could see that the Houthis are determining the timelines and the levels of the escalation," al-Eryani said. "So, depending on the current situation, it seems that the Houthis are the ones in control."

The analyst traced the latest tensions back to July, when an Iranian Mahan Air flight resumed direct travel between Tehran and Houthi-controlled Sanaa.

She said tensions escalated with Saudi Arabia after a subsequent Mahan Air flight was prevented from landing in Sanaa, prompting Houthi retaliation and raising fears of a broader confrontation.

But the attacks have gone the other way as well, with the Houthi military on Saturday announcing that the Saudi coalition carried out 26 attacks against areas under the group's control over the prior day. 

Reported images and footage of smoke rising from facilities at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh following overnight ballistic missile attacks by Ansarallah: pic.twitter.com/bTSfEDdlYF

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 19, 2026

The Houthis further tallied that over 300 Saudi attacks had been launched on their positions over just the past week, as cited in the AFP. After the rapid Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast this month, the Iran-aligned group is in better position to potentially block international shipping in the Bab Al-Mandab Strait.

Tyler Durden Sat, 09/19/2026 - 13:25
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