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Dimitri is in Crete.  He reveals his personal feelings about the mess we are in.

• EXCLUSIVE: Dimmitri Lceras on Iran War Reporting, Western Media Blackout, Souda Bay Base, and the Coming Economic Collapse
  Reporter: Dimmitri Lceras (self-reporting) | Outlet: Reason to Resist (YouTube channel)
  Date of Recording: April 3, 2026 | Location: Kanya (Chania), Crete, Greece
  
  1. INTRODUCTION & CONTEXT
  Reporter Dimmitri Lceras has just arrived in Kanya, Crete after an 11-day reporting trip inside Iran. He traveled from Bandar Abbas (Strait of Hormuz) to Tehran by 22-hour train, then by bus to the Turkish border (12 hours), then a taxi to Van, Turkey. He describes the journey as grueling, averaging about 3 hours of sleep per night. He states the war against Iran is "the most consequential war of our lifetime."
  
  Key Facts:
  
  • Reporter: Dimmitri Lceras, former Canadian securities class actions lawyer (2006-2016), former Green Party of Canada leadership candidate (2020), now independent journalist for "Reason to Resist"
    
  • Location of this report: Kanya (Chania), Crete, Greece (near Souda Bay US naval base)
    
  • Reporting period in Iran: 11 days prior to April 3, 2026
    
  • Travel route: Bandar Abbas (Iran) → Tehran (22-hour train) → Turkish border (12-hour bus) → Van, Turkey (1-hour taxi) → Athens → Kanya, Crete
    
  • Purpose in Crete: Investigate US naval base at Souda Bay, which he calls a "critically important" role in the war on Iran
    
  2. REPORT FROM IRAN: PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
  Lceras reports that he spoke with approximately 200 Iranians during his 11 days. He claims he personally heard no criticism of the Iranian government from those he interacted with, only "unmitigated contempt" for the US and Israel and derision towards Reza Pahlavi (son of the former Shah). He acknowledges this may not be statistically representative but reports what he saw.
  
  Key Observations in Iran
  
  • Iranians expressed "universal" hostility to negotiating with the US government
  • One young woman in a Tehran mall criticized the government for imposing religious views but adamantly opposed US/Israeli attacks
  • Reporter witnessed 15-20 demonstrations across various Iranian cities supporting the government and condemning the US/Israel
  • Iranians approached him on streets, trains, and in restaurants after recognizing him from Iranian national television
  • A 64-year-old man who fought in the Iran-Iraq war told Lceras he is ready to take up arms again to resist invasion
  • Iranians repeatedly asked him to "tell the people in the West that we are prepared to die for our country"
  
  Hospital Visit to Bombing Victim
  
  • Visited a 3-year-old girl in an Isfahan hospital whose entire family was killed in a US-Israeli bombing raid
  • The girl was on a ventilator, face scarred, unconscious and unaware of her family's death
  • Lceras broke down in tears; an Iranian journalist filmed him
  • The video was broadcast on Iranian national television
  • Iranian-Canadians contacted him saying his tears caused them to shed tears
  • Following this, Iranian media constantly requested interviews; Lceras lost count of how many he gave
  
  3. MILITARY SITUATION ASSESSMENT AND SIGNS OF WESTERN DEFEAT
  Lceras claims multiple indicators suggest the US and Israel are facing defeat in the war against Iran.
  
  Reported Military Developments
  
  • A US war plane was reportedly shot down over Iran; pilots ejected; US sent helicopters and refueling aircraft for recovery efforts
  • Israeli military told Israeli media they do not think it is possible to disarm Hezbollah, leaving it to the Lebanese government (which Lceras calls a "pipe dream")
  • Lceras states Hezbollah "appears now to be stronger than it has been at any time during the genocide in Gaza"
  • An Israeli soldier (face masked) reportedly told Israeli media the Israeli military is "on the verge of collapse"
  • Time magazine reported that Trump advisers presented polling showing US voters becoming "even more opposed and by a wide margin" to the war, urging Trump to find a way out
  • Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was reportedly "taken aback" by the expansive Iranian response and did not think Iran would attack other US bases in the Persian Gulf or seriously threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz
  
  4. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS: THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE
  Lceras argues there is no military solution to closing the Strait of Hormuz. He predicts the war will end only with humiliating US concessions, but only after the US economy is "screaming in pain."
  
  Strait of Hormuz Analysis
  
  • Iran does not need to cut off the strait completely; drastically reducing traffic is sufficient to tank the global economy
    
  • Iran can achieve this by blowing up a ship "now and then" using drones, missiles, mines, or fast boats with anti-ship missiles
    
  • Oil tankers and LNG tankers are "sitting ducks" — huge, slow-moving, highly combustible
    
  • Occasional attacks would put fear into the global insurance and shipping industries
    
  • Conclusion: "There's no military solution to that conundrum"
    
  Iranian Demands for Ending the War
  
  • Reparations: Iran is entitled to reparations under international law because the US attack was a "criminal war of aggression"; the bill grows daily as pharmaceutical institutions, medical institutions, bridges, and power structures are destroyed
    
  • Removal of US bases from Persian Gulf: Lceras argues bases have proven "completely indefensible" and US Arab vassals may evict them regardless
    
  • Ironclad guarantees: That neither Israel nor the US will attack Iran again; Lceras calls this difficult due to destroyed US/Israeli credibility
    
  Economic Prediction
  
  • Trump is "congenally incapable" of making the required concessions
    
  • The only way Trump will concede is if the US economy is "screaming in pain" and Americans pour into the streets in Vietnam War-scale protests
    
  • Prediction: Between now and summer 2026, the global economic situation will become "considerably worse than the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009"
    
  • Alternative: Republicans could be eviscerated in the midterms, but by then the global economy "will lie in smoking ruins"
    
  5. CRITIQUE OF CANADIAN CORPORATE MEDIA
  Lceras expresses outrage that no Canadian corporate media outlet contacted him for interviews during his time in Iran, despite his previous prominence as the "most quoted practicing lawyer in Canada" from 2006-2016.
  
  Background and Alleged Blacklisting
  
  • From 2006-2016, Lceras prosecuted securities class actions against major Canadian companies including Research in Motion (Blackberry)
  • He was "almost certainly the most quoted practicing lawyer in Canada in the corporate media by a wide margin"
  • In 2016, as a member of the Green Party shadow cabinet, he brought a resolution supporting BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel
  • The Green Party became the first Canadian party with parliamentary seats to adopt such a resolution, over the objections of leaders Elizabeth May
  • From that moment, he says he became "a leper" to Canadian corporate media
  
  Media Silence During Iran Trip
  
  • A colleague sent a press release to 230 Canadian reporters; no response
  • A former Canadian civil servant (respected by corporate media) emailed six to seven leading CBC personalities urging them to interview Lceras; no response
  • Lceras offered to report for free, only wanting broader communication of what he was seeing
  • "Not a single Canadian media outlet from the corporate world contacted me"
  • By contrast, he has been interviewed by a major Japanese media outlet (1.5 hours), a major Indian media outlet, Greek television, and multiple Arab and Muslim world media outlets
  • His video evidence of a war crime was published by the New York Times and the Washington Post
  • He calls the Canadian corporate media a "disgusting, putrid cabal of prostitutes" and says he is "embarrassed to be a Canadian"
  
  6. COMMENTS ON CANADIAN POLITICS AND NDP LEADER AVI LEWIS
  Lceras addresses the recent election of Avi Lewis as leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada.
  
  Lceras's Position
  
  • Lceras allowed his Green Party membership to lapse months ago due to its support for "the war machine" and Elizabeth May's "constant compromises"
  • He joined the NDP to vote for Avi Lewis, whom he knows personally
  • He calls Lewis "the best hope we have in Canadian politics"
  • However, he states the "acid test" will be whether Lewis comes out strongly and unequivocally against NATO, NATO proxy wars (including Ukraine), the military-industrial complex, and the war on Iran
  • Lceras argues one cannot oppose what is happening in Palestine without opposing all of these
  • Warning: If Lewis "sells out" like every NDP leader in Lceras's lifetime, Lceras will call him out on it
  • Message to Lewis: "Be true to your principles and stand against the war machine"
  
  7. PLANNED INVESTIGATIVE WORK IN CRETE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lceras explains his original plan and why it changed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Souda Bay Naval Base Investigation
  
  • He believes the US naval base at Souda Bay (few kilometers from his location) plays a "critically important role" in the war on Iran
  • He accuses Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of rendering Greece complicit in the war and all Israeli wars in the region
  • He states Mitsotakis has "the blood of Palestinian children on his hands" and should be tried for war crimes at The Hague and for treason in Greece
  • Original plan: Get as close as possible to the base and document activities
  • A contact (an anti-imperialist "legend" who was reportedly tortured by the Papadopoulos dictatorship in the 1960s, installed by the CIA) warned him he would likely be arrested for espionage, especially given his recent return from Iran
  • Lceras decided not to risk arrest on "bogus charges"
  • New plan: Interview local people involved in the struggle against the US military presence on the island and report what he learns from them
  
  8. FINAL REPORTING SCHEDULE
  
  • One more report from Iran to be published: severe damage to historical cultural sites in Tehran (expected April 4, 2026)
  • After that, full attention to US military activities in the Eastern Mediterranean
  
  KEY DATA SUMMARY
  
  
  • Date of Recording: April 3, 2026
    
  • Location: Kanya (Chania), Crete, Greece
    
  • Reporter: Dimmitri Lceras (independent journalist, Reason to Resist)
    
  • Reporting period in Iran: 11 days prior to April 3, 2026
    
  • Iranians reportedly interacted with: Approximately 200
    
  • Demonstrations witnessed in Iran: 15-20
    
  • Travel time (Bandar Abbas to Tehran): 22 hours by train
    
  • Travel time (Tehran to Turkish border): Approximately 12 hours by bus
    
  • Sleep average during trip: Approximately 3 hours per night
    
  • Age of bombing victim visited: 3 years old (Isfahan hospital)
    
  • Age of Iran-Iraq war veteran interviewed: 64 years old
    
  • Canadian reporters contacted via press release: 230
    
  • Canadian corporate media responses: Zero
    
  • International media that interviewed or quoted Lceras: Major Japanese outlet, major Indian outlet, New York Times, Washington Post, Greek television, multiple Arab and Muslim world outlets
    
  • Lceras's prior career (2006-2016): Securities class actions lawyer, described as "most quoted practicing lawyer in Canada" during that period
    
  • Greek Prime Minister named: Kyriakos Mitsotakis
    
  • US base location in Crete: Souda Bay (few kilometers from Kanya)
    
  • New NDP leader of Canada: Avi Lewis (documentary filmmaker, spouse of Naomi Klein)
    
  • Lceras's prediction: Economic crisis worse than 2008-2009 financial crisis, expected by summer 2026
    
  
  End of Extraction
  

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RUDAW.NET 2026-04-03

Kuwait energy, strategic assets hit by drone, missile strikes as Iran war escalates

One of Kuwait’s main refineries and key gas hubs was targeted in a drone attack on Friday

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EVNREPORT.COM 2026-04-02

Iran War, Escalation and Armenia: Managing Ambiguity and Risk

Armenia will proceed through the situational-appraisal model: each escalatory framework requiring situational ambiguity.

Lots of verbiage to say Armenia will do what is best for Armenia.

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Regarding former U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on ending the war, Araqchi stated that Iran has not responded to Washington's fifteen-point proposal.

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40 per cent in a single year!  To sponsor genocide.  And America bends over and takes it.  I scream 'naked' into a void.  It must be a void because the King continues to get his delusional way.



 

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40 per cent in a single year!  To sponsor genocide.  And America bends over and takes it.  I scream 'naked' into a void.  It must be a void because the King continues to get his delusional way.

I think it's unlikely he gets a 40% increase.  20% maybe though.  Either way, he's impeached in 6 mo unless the elections are rigged.

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If Iran is watching the domestic and international response to a single downed fighter jet, they might figure out that American deaths are needed to win this war.  Iran will quickly realize that killing Americans is the way to cook Trump's goose.  That is a hard realization for the people of Iran, who put out a reward that the American pilot be captured ALIVE.  Killing is an insult to their dignity.

Trump talked about delayed courage.  For everyone's benefit I hope he gets some.  To avert American deaths.  It would be the honorable thing to do.

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The energy market is not just about quotes and indices. It is a system on which everyday life directly depends. And if a disruption occurs anywhere, its consequences inevitably manifest themselves in the cost of transportation, food, and medicine.

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How to show the world you are TACO in one easy lesson.  The world watches his threats, and then they watch Trump play golf.

 

Then they laugh.  And cry.

 

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That is a hard realization for the people of Iran, who put out a reward that the American pilot be captured ALIVE.  Killing is an insult to their dignity.

Dignity issue aside, dead the pilot has no value in the political game.  Alive he has much more utility as a bargaining chip and for media attention.  Videos of said pilot would stir up the emotions of the Amerikan audience.  He might even be induced to make statements of remorse questioning why he was sent on the mission.  The grunts aren't all in favor of the folks running this show.  They have renamed the Hegseth's DoW the Department of War Crimes. 😁  Who knows, the Pilot might even be a Democrat! lol.

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Dignity aside, true what you say.  But saying Iranians are not crazy bloodthirsty terrorists is worth saying.  It can't be said enough considering how Americans completely have been propagandized.  We have the bloodthirsty terrorists. 

I have mentioned Krugman before, he is at least as pissed off as I am.  This article is background for what PK talks about.

 

It appears Christian Nationalists are pulling strings.




For which the Ayatollah will toll ya.

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Convincing an Iranian that Trump would kill an American is likely not hard to do.  And many Americans now know that Trump will.



 

Gotta hit those terrorist bases ya know !  They might have nuclear materials in the roof of  the Green Palace.  Something they don't show in the visitors guide.

• EXCLUSIVE: Demetri Lceris on US/Israeli Strikes in Iran – Damage to Historical Sites at Saadabad and Golestan Palaces
  Reporter: Demetri Lceris | Outlet: Reason to Resist
  Date of Recording: March 22, 2026 and April 4, 2026 | Location: Island of Crete (Greece) and Tehran (Iran)
  
  1. INTRODUCTION & CONTEXT OF THE REPORT
  Reporter Demetri Lceris introduces his final report from Iran from the Greek island of Crete, near the Souda naval base where the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is stationed. He states that the US and Israel have already lost the war of aggression against Iran. The report focuses on damage to Iranian cultural heritage sites caused by US/Israeli bombardments.
  
  Key Facts:
  
  • Reporter: Demetri Lceris
    
  • Location of introduction: Island of Crete, Greece (near Souda naval base)
    
  • Date of introduction: April 4, 2026
    
  • French aircraft carrier: Charles de Gaulle (arrived April 2, departing April 7 for Eastern Mediterranean)
    
  • Date of Tehran visit: March 22, 2026
    
  • Sites damaged: Saadabad Palace complex (80 hectares) and Golestan Palace
    
  2. DAMAGE TO SAADABAD PALACE COMPLEX (NORTHERN TEHRAN)
  The Saadabad complex, built in part by the Pahlavi monarchs, includes the Green Palace (belonging to the Shah's father) and the White Palace (the Shah's own residence). The complex also contains natural forest, galleries, and museums. The reporter notes the irony that the US and Israel damaged the heritage of their "puppet," Reza Pahlavi.
  
  Key Damage Details
  
  • Windows blown out, glass on floor
  • Roof lifted and came back down due to explosion (seen on CCTV)
  • Six 2,000-lb bunker busters detonated approximately 700 meters away
  • Blast had a measurable seismic impact (described as "earthquake magnitude")
  • Three main palaces heavily impacted; 100 other buildings had minor impacts
  • Missile/bomb fragments found up to 2 kilometers from blast site
  • Trees 150+ years old damaged by shrapnel
  • Internationally recognized blue shield symbol (cultural heritage site) was present but did not prevent damage
  
  3. DAMAGE TO GOLESTAN PALACE (CENTRAL TEHRAN)
  The Golestan Palace, approximately 150 years old, was damaged as collateral from a strike on a nearby judiciary building. The reporter states he saw no evidence the judiciary building had a military purpose.
  
  Specific Damage
  
  • Tomb of King Naser al-Din Shah destroyed (only a thin layer of shards remains)
  • Marble throne room – stained glass windows (handmade, 150 years old) shattered
  • Wooden mirror work and inlaid panels (handmade without machinery) heavily damaged
  • Ceiling windows broken
  
  4. POLITICAL COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM
  The reporter makes strongly worded statements against US and Israeli policy, as well as against Reza Pahlavi (the late Shah's son).
  
  Statements of Note
  
  • Accuses the West of wanting to "extract all of your wealth" and make Iranians "slaves of the Jewish supremacists"
  • Claims Reza Pahlavi has remained silent about damage to his own dynasty's heritage
  • Suggests Pahlavi might welcome the destruction as an opportunity for "major renovations" (sarcastic tone)
  • States the US and Israel have "already lost" the war of aggression
  
  5. CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT PROVIDED
  Guides and the reporter provide historical background on the sites.
  
  Green Palace
  
  • Belonged to the Shah's father
  
  White Palace (Millet Palace)
  
  • Belonged to the Shah himself
  • Ceiling features paintings of Persian mythological figures including Arash the Archer
  • The reporter draws a parallel between Arash's arrow and Iran's ballistic missiles
  
  Golestan Palace
  
  • Constructed approximately 150 years ago
  • Marble throne of King Naser al-Din Shah
  • Handmade stained glass and woodwork without machinery
  
  KEY DATA SUMMARY
  
  • Date of report: April 4, 2026 (intro/outro) / March 22, 2026 (Tehran footage)
    
  • Location of damage: Tehran, Iran (Saadabad complex and Golestan Palace)
    
  • Size of Saadabad complex: 80 hectares
    
  • Bunker busters used: Six 2,000-lb bombs
    
  • Distance from blast to Green Palace: Approximately 700 meters
    
  • Fragments found up to: 2 kilometers away
    
  • Buildings impacted at Saadabad: 100+ (three main palaces heavily, others minor)
    
  • Age of Golestan Palace: Approximately 150 years
    
  • Age of damaged trees: 150+ years (planted under Shah's grandfather)
    
  • International symbol present: Blue shield for cultural heritage (ignored)
    
  • Nearby target (Golestan): Judiciary building (catastrophic damage)
    
  • French carrier departure: April 7, 2026 (to Eastern Mediterranean)
    
  
  End of Extraction
  

Trump cosplays 'Starship Troopers'.

Rico is already in motion, bounding ahead in long jumps, when he selects his target: a large civilian structure, built for mass gatherings with a capacity fifty thousand.  It is at full capacity.

His suit feeds him the firing solution. He launches a small nuclear charge. Two grams of uranium, confined in a tensor field, at the right instant it tightens to critical mass.

Rico doesn't pause to look back. He is already on the next jump, vectoring toward the collection point.  Back to the mothership. By the time the projectile arrives, Rico has turned away already on his next bound. The detonation registers only a flash over his shoulder, muted by his suit's shielding.

Rico has moved on. The target is no longer a thought to him.  His mission is done.

But did Trump ever read Heinlein?

When he could read.