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Netanyahu Insists Iran War To Continue Until Uranium Is 'Physically' Removed

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a 60 Minutes interview which aired Sunday that President Trump still wants Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium removed. Trump on Monday warned that the Iran ceasefire is on 'massive life support'.

Netanyahu told CBS show host Major Garrett that the military campaign had achieved "a great deal" but insisted additional operations remain necessary.  That's when he described, "There’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium, that has to be taken out of Iran. There's still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled."

Trump on Iran:

Iran told me, “You are getting the nuclear dust, but you will have to get it.”

They said, “You and China are the only ones that can get it because the sites were obliterated.” pic.twitter.com/bpyRXcNTtw

— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 11, 2026

"There are still proxies that Iran supports," Netanyahu added. "There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there, and there's work to be done."

Clearly the Israeli prime minister is trying to hold the line of maximalist demands on Iran, even as it seems Washington is trying to extricate itself from the conflict while still seeking to present a narrative of 'victory'.

It is true that Trump has still not let up on insisting that what he calls all the "nuclear dust" must be removed from Iran, amid Tehran's repeat objections to this. This lone issue is primarily what has collapsed peace negotiations at this point.

Garrett pressed Netanyahu on just how the removal of Iranian nuclear material would be accomplished, given such a gambit would be obvious recipe for prolonging and even escalating the war.

"With what?" Garrett posed. “Special Forces from Israel, Special Forces from the United States working in tandem under international supervision? How?”

Netanyahu dodged the question, amid growing criticism among the American public that Washington is doing the bidding of Israel in starting and prolonging Operation Epic Fury:

"Well, I’m not gonna talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, 'I want to go in there,' I mean, he’s said that publicly. He’s said it and I think he’s right. He's very committed to this. And I think it can be done physically," Netanyahu responded. "That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way."

"What if there isn’t an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?" Garrett asked.

The below segment has raised some serious questions: Bibi trying to dictate US foreign policy?...

🚨 HOLY CRAP. A FOREIGN PRIME MINISTER just told American media YOUR war isn't over, and casually floated sending YOUR sons into Iran to grab uranium.

NETANYAHU: "It's not over."

"You go in and you take it out."

REPORTER: With what? Special forces from Israel? From the United… pic.twitter.com/pcvTwJ80Xo

— Space Ape (@EatDaBugs) May 10, 2026

"Well, you’re gonna ask me these questions. I'm gonna dodge them, so you can ask me that second time, third time, and I’ll dodge it second time, third time," the prime minister replied.

At one point Netanyahu had said: "I think it can be done physically."

While there remains the distinct possibility that this conflict could morph into an eventual ground war, US officials have downplayed the potential of Israeli boots on the ground. And yet Washington hasn't discounted putting American soldiers in harm's way. This is has resulted in anger and frustration among some sectors of the Right in the US.

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Below is the full interview:

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/11/2026 - 22:10

At least three people were detained after agitators swarmed near the Young Israel Senior Services of Midwood, which was hosting an event promoting real estate in Israel and the West Bank.

She said during an interview with Uncrowned’s Ariel Helwani on Monday that he didn’t truely understand the neurological issues she was dealing with for an extended period of time and they finally caught up with her against Holm. 

India Rejects Russian LNG Under Sanctions

India rejected Russia’s offer ​to sell it liquefied natural gas subject to US sanctions, despite a huge shortfall driven by Middle East tensions, leaving a tanker bound for India in limbo as talks continue on permitted cargoes, Reuters reports.

The stance highlights the fine balance the world’s third-biggest oil importer and consumer is seeking to strike between securing energy supplies and avoiding LNG cargoes on which the U.S. has ​placed sanctions, which are harder to disguise and carry greater compliance risk. It also underscores the limits of Moscow’s ability ​to pivot its LNG exports to new markets.

India's reluctance has left an LNG cargo from Russia's U.S.-sanctioned Portovaya ⁠plant in the Baltic Sea unable to discharge, despite indicating India as its destination in mid-April, one of the sources said. The ​vessel was tracked despite documentation suggesting the cargo was non-Russian, the source added.

Reuters had reported in mid-April, citing LSEG shipping data, that the ​138,200-cubic-metre tanker Kunpeng was heading to the Dahej LNG import terminal in western India. The vessel is now near Singaporean waters with no destination broadcast, according to LSEG.

India, the biggest buyer of Russian seaborne crude, conveyed its decision not to buy LNG that was under sanction to Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Pavel ​Sorokin during his April 30 visit, when he met Indian officials including Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, one of ​the sources said. It was their second meeting in as many months, and Sorokin could return in June for further talks, said the source.

India’s purchases of Russian crude have meanwhile continued unabated, aided by a temporary waiver of U.S. sanctions introduced to help countries cope with an energy crisis resulting from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which began on February 28.

Arctic LNG 2 is Russia's other export plant subject to U.S. sanctions. Washington stepped ​up sanctions on the LNG ​plants in early 2025 over ⁠Russia's war on Ukraine.  

While crude oil cargoes can be hidden through ship-to-ship transfers at sea, LNG shipments are far harder to conceal from satellite tracking. 

While India is open to buying authorised ​Russian LNG, most of those volumes are committed to Europe, Reuters notes. Meanwhile, China remains ⁠a major buyer of both sanctioned and unsanctioned Russian LNG. Moscow is also seeking long-term deals to supply India with LNG and fertilizers such as potash, phosphorus and urea, the source added.

Before the Iran conflict disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, India was meeting half of its ⁠gas consumption ​through imports, about 60% of which had come through the waterway. More than ​half of its crude supplies came the same way.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to conserve fuel and foreign exchange by working from home, limiting foreign ​travel and reducing imports of gold and edible oil.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/11/2026 - 21:45

California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter was fact-checked Monday after she accused rival Tom Steyer of leaking a damaging video and warned that Xavier Becerra could pose a risk to Democrats in the state's jungle primary.

“He was a great brother, son and friend," the TV personality's brother Brent wrote of their late brother Scott.

“He was a great brother, son and friend," the TV personality's brother Brent wrote of their late brother Scott.

Ryan Weathers took a hurl at history. Then, soon after the lefty’s no-hit bid ended in the seventh inning, the Yankees threw up on themselves.

City Hall's educrats are displaying a shocking failure to adapt at a time when NYC families are plainly voting with their feet and leaving the city school system en masse.

"When you watch Netflix, Netflix watched you," Texas AG Ken Paxton alleges in the lawsuit.

Iran Deploys Combat-Ready Mini Subs In Hormuz As US Flexes Nuclear Submarine En Route

Rival submarine threats have emerged Monday amid the ongoing Strait of Hormuz showdown and as President Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran is on "massive life support".

A US Navy nuclear-armed submarine has arrived in Gibraltar while en route into the Mediterranean Sea and likely Central Command or Middle East regional waters, in a very rare Pentagon admission of the whereabouts of one of America's most secretive weapons.

Source: GBC News

"The port visit demonstrates U.S. capability, flexibility, and continuing commitment to its NATO allies," the Navy announced, confirming that the submarine arrived in Gibraltar on Sunday. "Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are undetectable launch platforms for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad."

The Wall Street Journal has emphasized, "The Pentagon almost never acknowledges the locations of its boomers [US naval slang], which are highly classified. The Navy didn’t provide the name of the submarine in Gibraltar."

The revelation of the nuclear sub's movements comes just atter President Trump blasted Iran's latest counterproposal to a US peace plan as "totally unacceptable" and even called it "garbage" while threatening renewed anti-Tehran military action. It also comes as Trump is about to travel to China for a highly anticipated summit with Xi Jinping.

There's current some rival 'sub flexing' going on among the two rival and warring powers, given also the following from Bloomberg on the same day: "The Islamic Republic has at least 16 of the Ghadir-class midget submarines, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies."

USS Alaska (SSBN 732) (tentatively identified) Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine coming into Gibraltar - May 10, 2026 SRC: X-@PeterFerrary pic.twitter.com/aU7V53tS3V

— WarshipCam (@WarshipCam) May 11, 2026

"Each has a crew of fewer than 10 people and can carry either two torpedoes or two Chinese-designed C-704 anti-ship cruise missiles," the report described.

Iranian Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said the domestically built submarines, known as the "Persian Gulf Dolphins," are deployed in active operational positions calibrated to confront evolving threats.

Tehran is in essence warning it still possesses the capability to take out American destroyers and warships patrolling the area, as the deployment reinforces Tehran's broader asymmetric warfare strategy across the Persian Gulf.

State-linked Iranian outlets have characterized the submarines as "trigger-ready" - but also say they are capable of prolonged seabed-resting surveillance operations.

All of this suggests intense submarine warfare could soon come to the Hormuz Strait and Persian Gulf waters. Already most of the Iranian Navy's surface vessels were obliterated in over a month of intense US-Israeli airstrikes.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/11/2026 - 21:20

Freddy Peralta's name is at least being mentioned as a trade candidate as part of the most disappointing team in the sport.

The Mets are doing whatever they can to turn around their season, which now includes calling up top hitting prospect A.J. Ewing.

At least five Americans on both coasts are being monitored for hantavirus symptoms after possibly coming into contact with passengers of the MV Hondius cruise ship on international flights.

Jeffries Calls On Half-Dozen Democratic States To Start 'Aggressive' Redistricting

Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times,

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday named six Democratic states he wants to join New York in pursuing mid-decade redistricting ahead of the 2028 election—a longer-term play as both parties have raced to redraw maps before the November 2026 midterms.

“It’s going to be incredibly important that states like New York, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Maryland and Illinois are aggressive in moving forward to ensure that there’s a fair national map, particularly in light of what the Supreme Court’s attack on the Voting Rights Act has unleashed,” Jeffries said in an interview with CNN published on May 8.

Congressional maps are slated to be redrawn after the next census in 2030.

 

The comments came the same day that the Virginia Supreme Court voided an April referendum that would have allowed state Democrats to redraw Virginia’s congressional map ahead of the November midterms. Democrats had said the new Virginia map could result in their having 10 congressional seats to only one for Republicans. Virginia now has six Democratic members of Congress and five Republicans.

 

Jeffries called the Virginia ruling “unprecedented” and “undemocratic” in a statement released by his office on Friday.

“Over three million Virginia citizens cast their votes in a free and fair election, yet the State Supreme Court has chosen to invalidate their voice, disenfranchise them and violate their due process rights,” Jeffries said in the statement.

He added, “We are exploring all options to overturn this shocking decision. No matter what it takes, House Democrats will win in November so we can help rescue this nation from the extremism being unleashed by Donald Trump and Republicans.”

Despite the setback, Jeffries told CNN that Democrats could still flip “at least two” GOP-held seats in Virginia under the existing congressional map.

“If the current map holds in Virginia, we will at minimum flip two seats. And we’re exploring other options given how unpopular the policies of the Republican party have been,” Jeffries told CNN.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29 ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana’s congressional map was unconstitutional because race was the predominant factor in drawing the lines, a decision that limits redistricting based on race. Democrats and voting rights advocates say the decision guts the Voting Rights Act and gives Republican-led states grounds to revisit majority-minority districts.

Republicans hailed the ruling. Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said on May 6 that the Supreme Court had “opined that redistricting, like the judicial system, should be color-blind.” He noted that the court had also indicated that “states can redistrict based off partisan politics” as the state began redrawing its districts.

Republican-led states have moved quickly.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on May 7 signed a new congressional map that splits Memphis into three districts and will probably eliminate the state’s only Democratic-held congressional seat. The Tennessee General Assembly first passed a measure repealing a state law that had previously prohibited mid-decade redistricting.

Republicans have also moved this year to redraw congressional maps in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, Missouri, and Florida. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 4 signed a new map that could add up to four Republican-leaning seats to that state’s congressional delegation.

Democrats have countered with their own mid-decade redraws in California and the now-voided Virginia attempt. On May 4, Jeffries launched what he calls the New York Democracy Project, an effort to recruit New York into the mid-decade redistricting fight.

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), dispatched to Albany by Jeffries, pressed New York Democratic leaders to advance a constitutional amendment enabling mid-decade redistricting before the legislature adjourns the first week of June. A New York constitutional change would require passage by two consecutive legislative sessions before going to voters for ratification.

Jeffries on Monday told House Democrats in a Dear Colleague letter that he will host a caucus-wide briefing on Thursday with Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House Administration Committee, to discuss what he called “the largest voter protection effort in modern American history.”

National Republican Redistricting Trust Executive Director Adam Kincaid told The Epoch Times this past week that the broader push amounted to “Hochul and Jeffries’s annual attempt to illegally gerrymander New York and roll back the state’s twice-voter-approved redistricting commission.”

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/11/2026 - 20:55

The reclusive actor went on a solo outing in West Hollywood, California.

The reclusive actor went on a solo outing in West Hollywood, California.

Gavin Newsom was defiant about California's costly fuel policies as President Donald Trump called a gas tax suspension a "great idea."

In his first start since “[throwing] my guts up for several hours” nine days ago, Ryan Weathers took a hurl at history.