Fighting Stops in Iran Following Backchannel Diplomacy; US Moves Forces in Gulf

 

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Fighting Stops in Iran Following Backchannel Diplomacy; US Moves Forces in Gulf

 

Governments including Israel, Iran, and Russia have used indirect and secret messaging channels in recent weeks to communicate positions and reduce the risk of escalation, according to reporting by The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources. The messages were conveyed through intermediaries and did not involve public negotiations or formal agreements.

Separately, the United States withdrew some military personnel from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, citing security concerns related to Iran. US officials said the move was a precautionary measure and did not announce a broader drawdown or change in US military posture in the region. President Trump stated recently that he was told the killing has stopped.

No government involved publicly disclosed the full contents of the backchannel communications or announced a formal diplomatic breakthrough during the period covered by the reporting based on anonymous sources.

Inside Iran, nationwide protests appeared to subside following a security crackdown, according to Israeli media. Iranian authorities accused the United States and Israel of encouraging unrest, according to Russian media. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned publicly that foreign interference would be met with a response, while also calling for internal calm, according to the reports, which also claim that President Trump conveyed through the backchannels that the US was not preparing to strike Iran, according to unnamed officials familiar with the communication.

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) publicly urged stronger action against Iran, claiming the regime is still “killing protesters at an alarming rate,” despite the recent developments.

Burning Bright: In this accelerated phase of the awakening cycle, something both subtle and profound has shifted: the backchannels themselves are being publicly disclosed, even as the warmongers—perennial peddlers of perpetual strife—beat their drums loudest for escalation, many having been baited by Donald Trump into doing so to their own reputational detriment in full view of the Collective Mind.

Throughout history, great powers have relied on shadowed communications to avert catastrophe while their public rhetoric served the domestic game board.

Backchannels.

From the American side of the story ledger, Kennedy and Khrushchev are perhaps most infamous for this, having traded secret assurances amid the Cuban Missile Crisis en route to dismantling Jupiter missiles in Turkey through backchannels the public would only learn of decades later.

The need for such ‘translation layers,’ as I explored in ‘Temporal Trump Card’ in 2023 stemmed from the same toxic soil we till today: a geopolitical landscape wherein warmongers drape themselves in the skin suit of faux patriotism, stumping for mass murder and endless profit while the true sovereigns maneuver for peace on the edges of the board.

The key difference between then and now?

The Sovereign Alliance—anchored by the United States under Trump, Russia under Putin, China under Xi and a growing mesh of unlikely allies, some even this community is loath to consider—is no longer content to let these backchannels remain fully shadowed.

In surfacing them, deliberately and at the precise moment when NeoCons, warmongers and yes, elements in Tel Aviv and Brussels clamor loudest for kinetic intervention, they are holding up a dark mirror to the Invisible Enemy, now rendered corporeal to an awakening (and global) body politic.

And so, while we can’t know the truth inherent in these narrative deployments, the net effect remains as the peacemaking pincer closes: Trump on one flank, Putin on the other, squeezing the warmongers in the middle while the Collective Mind watches their escalation narratives deflate in real time, and perhaps (hopefully) their own engineered bloodlust.

This is the same pincer I mapped in ‘The Villains We Need’—wherein I discussed how Kremlin figures repeatedly reference backchannels with Trump, with Yuri Ushakov noting that public statements are weighed alongside “communication we receive through secure channels.”

They’re telling you the real story and the fake one at the same time.

It’s on you to discern the difference.

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GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: My firm opinion on this Iran situation is that the evil elements of our government and the Israeli government attempted to launch a regime-change revolution, likely encouraged by the ongoing rhetoric of President Trump, and the recent raid that “kidnapped” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

We should note that once the protest activity took off, President Trump stepped up his rhetoric and really hammed it up for the cameras. He then took it a step further and declared that if anybody was killed, then the US military would likely intervene, all but assuring that we would soon hear about protesters being killed.

Mind you, none of these stories need to be real in order for Trump to follow through on his hypothetical promise. It merely has to look real to the audience, so that a public consensus can form supporting regime change via military intervention.

But the fact that President Trump was going full Hulk Hogan in his rhetoric should have been the indicator that he had no real intention of following through. Ten years ago he would regularly say that he would never telegraph such plans before an actual attack, mocking Obama for doing so.

We are now getting reports of horrific violence being conducted not by regime forces, but instead by the protesters. Decapitated police officers, hundreds of mosques and ambulances burned to ash, and molotov cocktails thrown at government buildings, are just a few examples of reported violence coming out of Iran. Honestly, it sounds like the work of ISIS.

“But wait a minute, Ghost. I thought ISIS worked for Iran?”

Wrong.

ISIS was created by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad to overthrow President Assad and the Syrian government. It is not an Iranian proxy—it doesn’t even champion the same religion. (ISIS is Sunni Islam; Iran is Shia Islam.)

What I think has happened is that these Mossad/CIA/ISIS operatives were baited into launching their color revolution playbook, and then the necessary support systems that were expected to deploy never actually did, leaving the radical provocateurs completely exposed.

The Iranian leadership is already beginning to disclose that Israeli and western intelligence have been involved, while Steve Witkoff advocates for diplomacy over military intervention and President Trump tells Iran that the US doesn’t actually intend to do anything.

When the MSM asserted that Iran was going to start hanging [presumably innocent] protesters, both President Trump and Iranian President Pezeshkian came forward and rebuked those claims. Now we have Lady Lindsey Graham scurrying over to Tel Aviv to grovel at the feet of his masters, as he defies President Trump and flagrantly contradicts Trump’s claims about the hangings not happening.

Just listen to this dejected man and look at his pathetic demeanor.

He’s like a heroin addict who has fallen into a deep hole after a long weekend of riding the train.

We have foreign allies like Serbian President Vucic and Colonel Douglas Macgregor saying that the CIA and Mossad are behind the failing revolution.

So now that the CIA/Mossad/MI6 has deployed their op and it is failing, the chances of the Iranian government recovering hard evidence that those parties were involved seems very high.

What will happen when that evidence is presented to the world and to the American People?