Iran has gotten under Trump’s skin

According to press reports, Trump has exploded, slammed the table, and cursed with expletives in more than one meeting with senior national security officials.

The lack of progress in the war against Iran, the absence of a clear strategy, and even the lack of defined objectives for the war itself have been the source of his frustration.

Such a clear strategy, or whatever one wants to call it, never existed. As I wrote at the beginning of the conflict, they expected a war of just a few days based on reports that completely underestimated Iranian capabilities.

Sources speak of disagreement over the military options being presented and over the lack of unity on strategy. There are reports of tension between what the president wants l, -harder military pressure or a quick deal, -and what parts of the team and the commanders consider feasible or advisable.

This climate was already unhealthy after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carried out a broad purge of the high command, removing or forcing into retirement more than 20 generals and admirals. The justification was not military; it was related to issues of loyalty and alignment with the vision of the new administration.

The fact is that Trump is bothered by the current situation and will have to make important decisions in the coming days.

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— Google Earth has added a feature allowing users to add anything they want to Google satellite imagery using Nano Banana 2 AI image generation.

This will allow faked satellite imagery to run absolutely rampant and will do terrible damage to satellite imagery credibility. Attached is a faked image of a nuclear power plant in Iran.

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— Moroccan migrants are setting cars on fire near the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Updated OSINT613 Map: Last night’s U.S. strikes were reported across southern Iran, making them one of the most geographically widespread strike waves of the current campaign.

According to CENTCOM, the targets included:

• IRGC military command centers
• Missile facilities
• Drone facilities
• Coastal surveillance sites
• Coastal defense sites
• Maritime capabilities

Confirmed strikes in red:
• Qeshm Island
• Bandar Abbas
• Kish Island
• Abu Musa Island
• Ahvaz
• Abadan
• Bushehr
• Kazerun

Reported but not independently confirmed in yellow:
• Khorramshahr
• Bandar-e Mahshahr
• Farashband
• Nurabad
• Sirik (officially disputed)

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— Mossad and the CIA are desperately trying to determine the status and whereabouts of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, according to The Times.

Mojtaba has not used electronic devices for around 150 days, forcing intelligence agencies to rely primarily on human intelligence rather than cyber surveillance. Some intelligence officials believe he may already be dead and that the IRGC is concealing his death, while others believe he is hiding in underground facilities near Tehran or Qom.

Former Mossad officials said Mojtaba is believed to communicate through layers of unwitting couriers carrying handwritten messages, making the recruitment of someone within his inner circle the only realistic way to confirm his location or even whether he is still alive.

Any future audio or video message from Mojtaba could itself become an intelligence opportunity, as agencies may be able to analyze recordings for clues about his location.

As Spanish authorities are beginning to crack down on the assault on Ceuta, Moroccan migrants are now storming the walls of Melilla.

Most migrants are breaking into Spain by swimming from the nearby Beni Ansar Port.

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A large portion of Jordanian civil society turned against America

Hundreds of Jordanian political, legal and other figures signed an open letter last week calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Jordan in a rare public challenge to the government and the staunchly pro-Western and pro-Israeli House of Hashem/Jordanian Royal Family, which has long cracked down on free speech and dissent.

People who signed the letter said they were driven by a sense of national responsibility and concern that the troop presence endangered Jordanian sovereignty.

“We maintain that their presence exposes Jordan to security, political, and economic risks that serve no national interest and increases the likelihood of our country being dragged into a regional conflict to which it is not a party,” the letter said.

A Jordanian government spokesman did not respond to requests for comment about either the open letter or allegations that free expression was being stifled.

Jordan hosts some 4,000 American soldiers at its bases, and the country is a hub for U.S. military operations in the Middle East.

The war immediately hit Jordan’s tourism industry, which provides up to 18 percent of the revenue for the country. Jordan is already struggling with a weak economy, high unemployment and few natural resources.

Even as airstrikes on Jordan have increased, the government has appeared unwavering in its alliance with the United States, in large part, analysts said, because the country relies heavily on American foreign aid. Last year, the United States gave Jordan $1.65 billion in economic and military assistance, according to Jordanian officials.

Sufyan al-Tell, a 90-year-old political activist, said he signed the letter because he wanted to show the world there is a difference between the government’s position — in particular its support for close ties with the United States and Israel — and that of the Jordanian people.

“We as Jordanian people do not accept the politics of the government and its exploitation of Jordan and its capabilities in one way or another to defend Israel,” said Mr. al-Tell, who was arrested by Jordanian security forces in late 2022 for planning to publicly criticize a speech by King Abdullah.

No Jordanian media outlet has published the letter, he said, reflecting government directives not to disseminate it as well as self-censorship. One outlet ran an article attacking the letter, without publishing the text of the letter itself. It has been shared on social media, but Mr. Kuttab didn’t expect it to inspire further dissent.

In 2023, Jordan introduced harsh legal penalties for offenses such as “spreading fake news” and “threatening societal peace,” targeting journalists, activists and others critical of the government, according to Amnesty International.

Last year, the government banned the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group, accusing it of planning attacks in the country. Jordanian security forces also raided the headquarters of Jordan’s largest opposition party, the Islamic Action Front, considered the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/world/middleeast/jordan-us-military-iran-war.html

Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, denies Iran's responsibility for the drone attacks on two American LNG tankers in the Egyptian port of Damietta, calls Egypt a "friend" and "important partner" of Iran and blames Israel for a "false-flag" type of operation to drag Egypt into the war.

Egyptian officials appear to adhere to this explanation as they denied a Reuters article which blamed Iran for the incident in Damietta.

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The current Spanish minister of the interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez, spent 32 million EURs in 2019 to "upgrade" the border fences surrounding the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla by removing the barbed wire atop the border wall.

The "upgrades" consisted of making the border fence taller in some areas, placing a couple dozen new CCTV cameras with facial recognition systems and buying new vehicles for the local Civil Guard.

Spain (and the EU's) border protection in Ceuta and Melilla also strongly relies on Morocco's border guards on preventing migrants from assaulting the border fence which Morocco repeatedly fails to do despite hundreds of millions of EURs thrown their way by Brussels and Madrid to do exactly that.

https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4057010/0/retirada-concertinas-vallas-ceuta-melilla-comenzara-antes-fin-mes/

The Spanish ministry of the interior announced they reached an agreement with Moroccan authorities to deport all the migrants which broke into Spanish territory in recent days.

They will not be a part of prime-minister, Pedro Sánchez's regularization scheme.

https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/detalle/articulo/Comunicado-sobre-la-situacion-en-la-ciudad-autonoma-de-Ceuta/

As the night fell, thousands of Moroccans keep crossing into Ceuta and run aimlessly on the city's streets.

The Spanish Gendarmerie (Guardia Civil) estimated earlier today that as many as 40k migrants jumped the fence from Morocco into Spain, an estimate that is very likely outdated as of the writing of this post.

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The streets of Ceuta are filled with young Moroccan men amid a growing Spanish military presence

Morocco is the 5th biggest African economy in terms of nominal GDP and 6th in terms of GDP at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). A Bloomberg article from June 2026 said Morocco overtook South Africa as the continent's most industrialized economy.

Morocco is quickly maturing into a Western style economy as the country is beginning to see acute labour shortages. As of April 2026, roughly 50k legal migrants from West Africa work in Morocco's agriculture sector despite having an unemployment rate of 12-13%.

The manufacturing sector is struggling as well to find labourers and is bringing in migrants from countries like Togo, Benin, Senegal, Guinea etc. Factory owners in the country note that young Moroccans are picky when it comes to job offers and many refuse to work in agriculture or manufacturing, preferring to stay unemployed or migrate to Europe.

Europa.com (@europa)

As the day draws to an end, migrants continue entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta by climbing over the border fence.

Europa