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In Scramble To Open Up Hormuz, France & Italy Open Talks With Iran After India’s Request

Amid very confused and mixed messaging coming from Washington over the status and future fate of Hormuz oil transit, the EU is trying its hand at a solution.

France ⁠and ⁠Italy have ​opened ‘tentative’ talks ‌with Iran ‌seeking ⁠to ⁠negotiate a deal to ​guarantee safe ​passage for their tankers ⁠through vital strait which remains a crucial chokepoint for stalled global crude transit, the ​Financial ⁠Times reports Friday, citing people briefed on ⁠the efforts.

This comes as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a Friday morning Pentagon briefing there is “no clear evidence that Iran has laid mines” in the Strait. This contradicts an avalanche of reporting from earlier this week which said at least a dozen mines were laid.

The two key overnight and morning headlines which have most impacted oil markets remain confirmed India-Iran talks for safe passage, and now EU efforts to do the same…

Regardless, it’s more than obvious that the waterway is de facto shut – with perhaps the exception of some Chinese or possibly an Indian vessel being allowed through – also amid persisting threats of rocket and drone attacks.

According to the Financial Times, “European capitals have opened the tentative discussions in an attempt to restart oil and gas exports without expanding the conflict, three officials briefed on the talks told the FT, as shipping companies look to western navies to provide potential escorts for their tankers.”

“France is one of the countries involved in the talks, two of the officials said,” the report continues. “The first official said Italy had also made attempts to open discussions with Tehran on the issue.”

As for whether the war expands or not, that’s in no way under Europe’s control – but remains something pertaining only to Israel, the United States, and Iran – the main players in the conflict.

The case for some shred of optimism or hope? However, Trump and Hegseth’s bellicose tones on Friday morning, vowing to keep ramping up military action over Tehran, underscores continued extreme uncertainty:

If Iran allows China and India oil through the Strait, that’s more than half of normal oil traffic already (7mmb/d). Throw in the Saudi East-West pipeline for redirection (another 7mb/d) and the blockade suddenly shrinks a lot pic.twitter.com/64xoGJpiHG
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 13, 2026
Meanwhile the Trump administration has sought to push back against reporting by CNN and others which alleges war-planners didn’t actually take into account that attacking Iran would result in Hormuz’s closure or blockage.

Here’s how Hegseth responded to the charge on Friday morning – while trying to paint a general picture that the mainstream media is clouding the picture, and just trying to make Trump ‘look bad’:

“This is always what they do, hold the strait hostage. CNN doesn’t think we thought of that? It’s a fundamentally unserious report,” Hegseth said. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”

Skeptics have pushed back against Pentagon and White House claims of lengthy preparations and plans to use military force to clear the Strait of Hormuz, and yet now 13 days into a war with Iran and there’s been no US action in the waterway, and not so much as a single US naval escort that anyone is aware of.
Source: Yeni Safak

So far there does seem to be a constant flow of words on the issue coming from the White House and Pentagon – and yet a clear strategy still hasn’t been articulated, much less clear action taking shape.

Tyler Durden
Fri, 03/13/2026 – 09:50

“The Madison” has some moments of bizarre writing, but overall, it boasts strong performances, gorgeous visuals, and packs an emotional punch. It’s a powerhouse showcase for Pfeiffer, who hasn’t had a chance to shine like this in a while. 

“The Madison” has some moments of bizarre writing, but overall, it boasts strong performances, gorgeous visuals, and packs an emotional punch. It’s a powerhouse showcase for Pfeiffer, who hasn’t had a chance to shine like this in a while. 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said during a press briefing on Friday that the security officers at a Michigan synagogue targeted in an attack on Thursday were “heroes” who “saved lives.””They were selfless in their courage and they saved lives. These heroes threw themselves in harm’s way, engaging the suspect,” she said.This is a breaking news story and will be updated 

Opinion by Wayne Allyn Root
Another day. Another terror attack on Jews at a Michigan temple where innocent Jewish children were at a day school.
At the same time at Old Dominion University, another terror attack by an ex-National Guardsman named Mohammed. Wanna guess what that’s about?
We are under attack. Americans. Christians. Jews.
The attacks will only get worse with anti-Jewish rhetoric, and hate speech, coming from both the left and the right.
On the left, it comes from almost everyone.
Democrat office holders, politicians, voters, activists. They all hate Jews and Israel.
On the right, the GOP and MAGA were just making progress moving the Jewish support to Trump and the GOP. I personally know hundreds of Jews- and the vast majority I know have switched to the GOP and voted for Trump.
More importantly, as House Speaker Tip O’Neil once reported, “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” Fundraising is the most important part of any political campaign.
So, let’s put aside Jewish votes moving to the right because of the Jew-hatred on the left. For the first time ever- Trump got all the big money from Jewish billionaire business moguls on Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Jewish money helped elect President Trump. All based on the Jew-hatred coming from the left.
This was a miracle from God.
And at just this moment, where Jewish voters (to a small extent), and Jewish big money donors (to a large extent) have moved to the GOP and MAGA- which means Democrats are in big trouble- at just that moment along comes Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene to spew Jew hatred- just like the left.
Suspicious timing, don’t you think?
And please don’t lie to yourself and say it’s not Jew-hatred, “it’s only questioning the government of Israel.” I hear that excuse all the time. Stop peeing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.
Tucker, Candace and others on team “Jew Hatred” aren’t just asking questions about funding for Israel. I have no problem with that. It’s a free country with free speech. We’re all allowed to ask questions.
But Tucker is questioning what the Bible says about Jews. Tucker is asking if the Jewish people are really God’s chosen people. Tucker is asking Jews to take DNA tests. That’s disgusting. Tucker is giving a large platform to Jew-hating Holocaust deniers. Tucker is suggesting we want Iran to “unconditionally surrender,” so US and Israeli soldiers can rape all the women and young girls of Iran. What???
I haven’t gotten to half the terrible, vicious, poisonous things Tucker has said about Jews, the Jewish people of Israel, and the US military after the bombing of Iran.
As bad as Tucker is, Candace Owens is 100 times worse. Her hatred for Jews and conspiracy theories blaming Jews for every problem in America is so over-the-top, I wonder if she laughs like Dr Evil while writing her scripts?
Candace thinks Jews blew up the World Trade Center. She is also counseling Americans to leave the military at once, because it’s run by Israel.
And you wonder why terrorists are attacking Jewish schools and US colleges?
The ammo that is inspiring attacks, terrorism and murder against Jews is suddenly coming from both the right and left.
It’s OPEN SEASON on Jews in America.
And again, I’d point out the timing is too perfect to be true. Trump wins an electoral landslide, and swing state sweep, and popular vote victory, and the GOP finally has Jewish votes and Jewish financial support, and the world is our MAGA oyster.
Then, suddenly, at that very moment, Jews are under coordinated attack by the right? Why? Because you hate success? Because you can’t stand to see Trump succeed? Because you can’t stand to see MAGA’s tent hold the wealthiest, most influential Jewish donors in US politics? That’s a negative to you? Would you rather lose elections, than have Jews on your team?
Who gains from this division?
Who stands to succeed if Trump’s coalition is broken up and we lose the midterms? The Deep State. The DC Swamp. The Democrat Party. China and the CCP. The Mexican Drug Cartels (because the border will be open again). Muslim nations who hate Jews and want to see Hamas succeed. Communist activists in the USA (who always have signs saying, “We love Palestine”).
Quite a list.
These are the potential groups and people who love what Tucker, and Candace, and MTG, and a cast of hundreds of other MAGA podcasters and influencers are saying. It sure isn’t helping President Trump, or MAGA, or the GOP. All of this is destroying our big tent, our party and our governing coalition.
Thanks, Tucker and Candace.
You’re destroying MAGA; your demagoguery and scapegoating of Jews is leading to the death of the GOP; and soon thereafter, the death of America (if Democrats get elected); and finally, your words are inspiring the worst impulses of mentally-ill, angry people, and terrorists named Mohammed to target, attack and kill both Jews and Americans.
So, my MESSAGE TO JEWS from this point forward is simple…
1. Understand it’s OPEN SEASON on Jews.
2. If you’re Jewish, it’s time to defend yourselves. “If it’s to be, it’s up to me.” Buy a gun (or preferably multiple guns); take a training course- learn to use your guns; get a CCW (permit to carry a concealed weapon); and start carrying everywhere- at home, in your car, when shopping, out to dinner, at temple, or picking your children up from school. It’s your job to protect yourself and your family. Expect no one else to do it.
3. President Trump, please sign an important Executive Order- legalizing reciprocity for gun owners in all 50 states.
Right now, the two cities in America with the most Jews are New York City and Los Angeles. Jews can’t carry guns in either city. Neither can anyone else. You and your family are sitting ducks. No matter how many CCW permits you have in any other state, you cannot carry in NYC or LA.
You will be helpless when that Jew-hating killer, or terrorist named Mohammed comes calling. All because some ignorant, clueless, liberal schmuck bureaucrat, or Democrat politician wouldn’t allow you to carry a gun for self-defense.
President Trump can change all that with the stroke of his pen.
So, please my fellow Jews, get armed, get trained, and carry everywhere.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, and his video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
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On “The Alex Marlow Show,” Under Secretary of War Emil Michael discusses A.I. and explains why the Department of War cut ties with Anthropic.
The post Exclusive — Under Sec’y of War Throw Down: Anthropic Wants to Get Between Command Structure and War Fighter appeared first on Breitbart.

Thursday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Under Secretary of War Emil Michael talked about A.I. Michael said, “It’s Orwellian. … Anthropic has its own constitution … There’s what we call model poisoning…where a model’s poisoned to act a certain way by an
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Leftist Media Quiet After Four Suspected Islamic Terror Attacks In Two Weeks

Nothing to see here, folks,  Move along…

The strange relationship between fundamentalist Islam and the political left has taken a disturbing turn recently as establishment media platforms seek to spin or ignore at least three separate terror attacks involving Muslim suspects in the past two weeks.  Is selective news coverage being applied to protect militant Islamism in the name of “diversity?” 

The war in Iran is heating up an the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has global markets in an agitated frenzy.  How long these tensions will last is uncertain but it’s likely that Iran has already lost the ability to project large and coordinated military operations due to extensive US strikes.  As a result, the Iranians will do what every other third world nation does; revert to insurgency and terror attacks. 

Of course, Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or a country, and over the past decade the west has been flooded with people who view the attack on Iran as an attack on Islam in general.  This means a high probability of terror events going into the next few months.  The trend is already gaining momentum. 

On March 1, 2026 in Austin, Texas, A migrant gunman named Ndiaga Diagne from Senegal killed 3 people and wounded 15 others before being killed by police. He wore a sweatshirt saying “Property of Allah” and had an Iranian flag T-shirt. The FBI is investigating it as potential terrorism, with indicators of a larger nexus of jihadist suspects.

The media’s coverage of the attack was minimal at the time and has now gone mostly silent.  Some journalists have suggested that the mass shooting as “unrelated” to the war in Iran or to Islam (the Iranian flag t-shirt wasn’t enough to convince them).  They argue that the attack might have been personal and tied to mental health issues.   

Keep in mind, if the suspect was white and conservative, news reports would be plastered for months with stories about how “right-wingers” are ticking time bombs waiting to explode.  But for Ndiaga Diagne from Senegal, they are eerily disinterested. 

On March 8, 2026 in New York City, two Muslim suspects (Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19) allegedly attempted a bombing at a protest near the mayor’s residence of Gracie Mansion.  Two young men are seen on multiple videos throwing explosive devices into a crowd of conservative protesters and at the feet of police.

The homemade bombs filled with explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), also known as “Mother of Satan”,  failed to detonate. They cited ISIS inspiration and reportedly aimed for mass casualties.  The two suspects are the children of wealthy naturalized immigrants from Afghanistan living in Pennsylvania. They are currently facing terrorism charges.  

The media, however, has instituted a reprehensible cover-up campaign in response to the failed attack, claiming that is was aimed at the Mayor’s residence instead of the conservative anti-Islam protesters.  Headlines and pundit spin on the attack made it sound as if the protesters were the culprits, rather than than the Muslim militants, and that the target was Mayor Zohran Mamdani. 

CNN caught repeatedly lying about who was targeted in the recent NYC ISIS-inspired Muslim IED attack on American protesters.
Abby Phillip called it “an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”
Ana Navarro called it “an attempt against Mayor Mamdani.”… pic.twitter.com/MYkpnFjn6H
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 11, 2026
Organizations like CNN and The New York Times published articles and social media posts in what appeared to be an attempt to humanize the alleged bombers; describing them as wayward kids who “somehow” took a wrong turn.  CNN would later delete their original post.

Mayor Mamdani would go on to hold a press conference in which he admonished the anti-Islam protesters more than the Islamic terrorists.  

Unbelievable.
Mayor Mamdani opens up his press conference following an ISIS-inspired terror attempt by condemning Islamophobia.
“This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy…Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me…” pic.twitter.com/czRRinovEU
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 9, 2026
Brazen disinformation efforts by corporate news sources in situations like this merely reinforce the public belief that the media should be treated as more than just “ideologically captured.”  Rather, there is a growing sentiment that left-wing journalists and outlets are waging 4th Generation warfare on the American populace. 

At Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 12, 2026, a suspect identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh (also reported as Mohamed Jalloh) opened fire in a classroom, killing one person (a retired officer or instructor affiliated with the university/ROTC) and wounding two others. He reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack, according to the FBI.   

The body count would have been higher but he was subdued and killed by a group of brave students (likely ROTC members) in the classroom shortly after the attack began.  The media coverage of this incident is disturbingly slim.

Jalloh was a 36-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Sierra Leone and a former Army National Guard member. In 2016, he pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS, including plots to murder U.S. military personnel and efforts to join the group overseas. He was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison and released in December 2024.

Finally, on March 12, 2026, an attack at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, involved a suspect who is reportedly a migrant from Lebanon.  The suspect rammed his car into the building, drove down a hallway while shooting, and was confronted by armed security and reportedly killed.  The attack is being treated as a terrorist incident.

🚨 JUST IN: The FBI confirms they are investigating the Temple Israel attack in Michigan as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”
The assailant, who the FBI has NOT yet named, is reportedly a LEBANESE IMMIGRANT who was naturalized as a US citizen.… pic.twitter.com/FQdcSMjphF
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 12, 2026
The news apparatus continues to remain reticent to identify the attack as ideologically motivated.  In all likelihood, they will offer no follow-up investigation into the incident and it will fall into the memory hole within a week.  There is a clear trend taking place here, and no one in the corporate mainstream is talking about it.   

Their biased coverage of these events helps to inspire future attacks by providing narrative protection for terrorists who align with the progressive agenda of multiculturalism.  They would rather aid terrorists before sacrificing any political leverage.  Similar propaganda tactics have been used by governments and the media in Europe to devastating effect. 

Tyler Durden
Fri, 03/13/2026 – 09:30