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  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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    13 days ago

    🇮🇷/🇧🇭🇰🇼🇺🇸 The IRGC released a statement:

    In the name of God Almighty. In the fourth wave of Operation Nasr, with the callsign ‘Ya Abul-Hassan’, a warehouse belonging to the Kuwait and Gulf Link Holding Company (KGL) was targeted and completely destroyed in Mina Abdullah, Kuwait. KGL is the main U.S. Army support center in West Asia.

    The retaliatory operations of the warriors of Islam shall continue, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed to the evil United States until the end of the aggression.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7175

    🇺🇸🇰🇼/🇮🇷 KGL is a specialized conglomerate with significant regional investments in Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (SCM). It serves as the main military supplier in Kuwait and a prominent supplier throughout the Middle East.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7176

    🇮🇷/🇰🇼🇺🇸 More info about KGL for those who want to read:

    KGL is one of five contractors awarded a spot on the U.S. Army’s Heavy Lift 9 (HL9) contract, managed by Army Contracting Command Rock Island, which carries a ceiling value of $248 million across four ordering periods running through December 29, 2026, and covers heavy lift, line haul, and personnel transportation throughout the Army Central Command area of responsibility, including deployment and redeployment of unit equipment and moves to training exercises; the requirement was awarded on a full-and-open competitive basis. In January 2018, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded KGL a food distribution contract with a base value of $690 million and a ceiling of up to $1.38 billion over a 60-month duration, the fifth such contract awarded by the DLA, under which KGL procures, imports, stores, and distributes food products from the U.S. and local sources to support more than 20,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan, serviced primarily from KGL’s procurement and distribution hub in Kuwait.

    • In March 2018, two KGL subsidiaries secured additional Army transportation contracts worth up to $2 billion, with a maximum value of $1.38 billion for a base period of 24 months extendable to 60 months through options, including a heavy line-haul support operation for the U.S. military across the Middle East.

    • Beyond these contracts, KGL has faced repeated congressional and watchdog scrutiny over the Pentagon’s reliance on the firm, in 2010 the Pentagon reversed a planned sole-source DLA award to KGL for CENTCOM logistics after lawmakers objected, opening it to competition instead, the scrutiny traces partly to a 2003 incident in which a KGL tractor-trailer struck and killed Army Lt. Col. Dominic “Rocky” Baragona Jr., with a federal judge later calling KGL’s conduct in the resulting litigation “callous” for using delay tactics to drag the case out; members of Congress also cited KGL’s placement on India’s Prior Approval List, effectively a blacklist tied to human-trafficking concerns, in objecting to contract awards.

    • KGL has additionally faced longstanding allegations of business ties to Iran, including a joint venture with Valfajr Shipping, a subsidiary of the sanctioned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL); DoD officials, including then–Under Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, told lawmakers in 2011 that no substantial evidence showed continuing Iran ties that would bar KGL from U.S. contracts, though the company had by then announced it was ending its Iran dealings.

    • Also, KGL’s chairman was charged in Kuwait with fraud and money-laundering allegedly totaling more than $160 million in investor losses, and the Project On Government Oversight has reported concerns about leaks of sealed federal court documents from the DLA to KGL’s Washington lawyers.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7178

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      13 days ago

      He’s right though. Negotiation and war are not mutually exclusive and it doesn’t mean Iran is naive. After every round of military exchanges Iran’s negotiating position is strengthened, and at the same time engaging in negotiations (even though they know the US is not negotiating in good faith and breaks all agreements) helps to keep the international community on side for Iran’s continued legitimate right to defend itself and pushes the responsibility for the economic crisis caused by the closure of the strait on to the US.

  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    —❗️🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: After an operational assessment, following senior IDF and political orders, Israel’s Minister of Transportation has revoked permission for U.S. military aircraft to land at Ben Gurion International Airport – Kann

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    https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/34857

  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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    9 days ago

    🇺🇸🇰🇼🇮🇷More missile launches reported from Kuwait against Iran.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7662

    Just a note to say when there are explosions in quick succession along the Iranian coastline, it’s usually the work of ATCAMS fired from Bahrain and/or Kuwait.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7663

    🇺🇸🇮🇷The aftermath of US strikes on Konarak.

    It has been attacked many times before, it’s doubtful if there’s a target of any significance left there.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7663

    🇺🇸🇮🇷Bandar Khomeini Port following the US strikes.

    @SimurghRes

    https://t.me/SimurghRes/7665