Heathrow Airport Faces No-Fuel Scenario, Iran Plans to Attack US Tech Firms Starting Today

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Originally published at: Heathrow Airport Faces No-Fuel Scenario, Iran Plans to Attack US Tech Firms Starting Today – Peak Prosperity

Energy

Europe faces an aviation fuel crisis, with airports urging airlines to prepare for potential shortages or even no-fuel scenarios. Jet fuel prices doubled over the past year to above $1,710 per tonne. Thousands of flights were canceled, including over one in twenty scheduled on Monday, per Cirium data. Lufthansa is considering suspending 20 aircraft operations. The UK expects its final Middle East shipment this week, with no further deliveries confirmed. Analyst Alex Macheras warned major hubs like Heathrow could face no-fuel scenarios within a week.

Meanwhile, US national average gasoline prices reached $4 per gallon for regular unleaded, a 35% monthly increase and the largest since 2004 records began, with diesel at $5.45 per gallon, up 45%. These levels are similar to the 2022 Russia-Ukraine crisis peaks. Analysts note consumers drive less and fill tanks partially above $3 per gallon, with demand destruction intensifying near $5. President Trump indicated willingness to wind down the campaign even if Hormuz remains disrupted.

Worsening the crisis, Iranian missiles struck British-linked Castrol facilities in Iraq. The strike, attributed to Iranian drones, caused a large fire with no reported casualties.

In the wake of all this, Ukraine’s allies have reportedly signaled to President Volodymyr Zelensky to reduce long-range strikes on Russian oil and energy facilities amid rising global prices from the Iran conflict. Zelensky said he received such messages during a WhatsApp briefing and called for a reciprocal pause if Russia halts attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Following a Middle East tour, he secured a one-year diesel supply deal from Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Jordan. Russia’s Kremlin reportedly rejected Zelensky’s proposed truce on energy facilities.

Geopolitics

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued warnings to over a dozen US tech firms, including Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Tesla, and Boeing, accusing them of enabling military targeting. The IRGC posted on Telegram that attacks on their regional offices and data centers would begin after 8 pm Tehran time on April 1 (11:30 am ET), urging employees to evacuate. Prior strikes reportedly hit Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing outages in banking and consumer services. Before the deadline, IRGC missiles reportedly already struck Batelco headquarters in Bahrain, which hosts AWS infrastructure. US officials stated military preparedness to counter such attacks.

The United Arab Emirates is reportedly preparing to join the conflict, lobbying the UN Security Council for a resolution to use force in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and urging a US-led coalition for mine clearance. Abu Dhabi also seeks the US seizure of Abu Musa island, which it claims and Iran has controlled for 50 years. This follows reported Iranian strikes on UAE territory, including missiles, drones, burning hotels, damaged airports, and a tanker fire in its harbor.

Meanwhile, several European NATO allies have reportedly resisted US requests for support. Poland rejected a US approach to redeploy one of its two Patriot air defense batteries from NATO’s eastern flank, with Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stating protection of Polish airspace is the absolute priority. France blocked US military flights over its territory for the first time since the conflict began. Italy denied landing rights at the Sigonella airbase in Sicily to US bombers, citing a lack of prior authorization. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said decisions comply with international agreements and require case-by-case parliamentary review. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that without the United States, there is no NATO. That said, Meloni’s office affirmed solid US-Italy relations despite the procedural reviews.

Lastly, a report by RT opines on the strategic failures of the attacks on Iran. The conflict has now lasted one month without resolution. Iran has reportedly withstood attacks on its military and infrastructure, retaliating across the region and describing the war as an existential struggle, according to Tehran statements. Reports indicate Iran has consolidated domestic support around national defense. Reported global economic effects include rising oil prices, shipping disruptions, and recession risks, alongside geopolitical shifts as states respond to US actions.

Economy

Solar stocks have risen amid the energy shock. SolarEdge shares rose 79% year-to-date, Enphase Energy 18%, tracking Brent crude and European natural gas benchmarks. Goldman Sachs analyst Adam Wijaya noted coal switching in Europe bolsters solar and wind adoption to diversify grids, amid the Hormuz crisis. Some analysts cautioned that renewables face physics-based challenges during correlated demand spikes.

Technology

Anthropic accidentally bundled a debugging file containing 512,000 lines of proprietary Claude Code source code into a 4 am software update. Researcher Chaofan Shou spotted and shared the download link on X, viewed by 21 million. Copies proliferated across GitHub before Anthropic issued DMCA takedowns. Korean developer Sigrid Jin, a top Claude user with 25 billion tokens processed last year, rewrote the code in Python as “claw-code,” achieving 30,000 stars. He followed with a Rust version, garnering 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks. A decentralized mirror has been created. Anthropic’s Undercover Mode aims to prevent leaks, but Python and Rust rewrites are considered new creative works and are likely to remain in the open. Anthropic attributed the incident to a human error in release packaging.

Sources

A Month of War Exposes the Folly of Attacking Iran

A month of war has shown the strategic failure of attacking Iran

Source | Submitted by PhilH

Poland Rejects Unofficial US Request to Redeploy Patriot Batteries to West Asia

“Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO’s eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this regard and we are not planning to move them anywhere!”

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Zelensky: Allies Signal Ukraine to Scale Back Strikes on Russian Oil Amid Energy Crunch

we have indeed received signals from some of our partners about how to reduce our responses in the oil sector and the energy sector of the Russian Federation

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Rubio’s Veiled NATO Threat: France, Italy Block US Military Flights for Iran War

Without the United States there is no NATO.

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Solar Stocks Surge as Energy Shock Revives 2022 Renewables Trade

Are we back to running the 2022 playbook?

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U.S. Gas Hits Politically Toxic $4 as Trump Eyes Iran Off-Ramp

U.S. Gasoline Prices Hit Politically Sensitive $4 Level As Trump Eyes Iran War Off-Ramp

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UAE Gears Up for War: Force Hormuz Open, Seize Abu Musa from Iran

The UAE is preparing to enter the war and wants Hormuz opened by force

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Anthropic’s 4AM Code Leak: Rewritten in Python, Rust, and Eternal GitHub Glory

Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.

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Iran Targets Apple, Google, and US Tech Giants for Attacks Starting April 1

Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

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Europe Faces Jet Fuel Crisis: Airports Urge Contingency Plans for Total Shortage

European airports have urged airlines to prepare contingency plans for a potential complete lack of aviation fuel in the coming weeks.

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IRGC Strikes Bahrain AWS Hub Before Own Deadline Expires

The old war struck bases and refineries. The new war strikes servers and switches.

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Iranian Missiles Strike Castrol in Iraq, Hastening Western Oil Collapse

Western oil and gas businesses are collapsing rapidly.

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In addition to sources submitted by community members, the following were also used in the creation of this report: Al Mayadeen English, Anadolu Agency, IDF, Meloni’s office, UAE, White House, Kremlin, Shafaq News, Osint613, Anthropic, VentureBeat, and Ars Technica.

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Bibi is facing his own problem now as Martin Armstrong says that civil unrest has begun in Israel and they are directing their anger at the Beeb-meister via protests. As they like to say at Zerohedge, “karma bitchez” with the US and Israel creating protests in Iran to topple the government.

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RT (Russia Today) is controlled and funded by the Russian state. It’s pure Russian propaganda. Any original claims it makes should be verified by a reputable source and it should be noted Russia has a clear conflict of interest as an ally and trade partner of Iran.

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Uh huh, Trump says Iran is asking for a ceasefire. An Iranian spokesman yesterday said otherwise. Tl;dr they are pissed at you and Bibi and they want nothing to do with Kushner and Witkoff and they have NOT asked for a ceasefire. In fact they have increased missile strikes as of yesterday. But this is the same Trump who keeps talking with two imaginary Iranians and the same guy who just cut a business deal with a dude in Japan who’s been dead for 3 years. You can’t make this sh*t up even if your tried. We put Clowns in charge and they gave us a circus.

The Iranians want the US out of the ME. Could it be they also want to see NATO breakup? This war is resulting in that possibility where the US exits NATO and NATO breaks up because the US was funding the organization.

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And PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, NewsMaxx are either controlled or funded by the US government. So what is your point?

Remember it was Bill Clinton who put the State controlled US media in the hands of 6 corporations?

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My point is consider the source.

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That is true. And most people have no idea that even happened.

This is one of the reasons that the Presstitute News is so awful. It is all “Public Private Partnership” disinformation.

And most people don’t know that Clinton was behind the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. That helped lead to the Great Financial Crisis.

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And consider your source!

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Thank you Mike for referring to it as the Presstitue media a (Gerald Celente) reference. One thing i’ve found out is that if you want to get closer to the truth listen to the other side.

And as we were just told that RT is filled with propaganda, their Presenters (journalists/contributors) are mostly American.

A small sample: Rick Sanchez from Miami, Peter Lavelle, Thom Hartmann, Abbey Martin, Scott Ritter and many other Americans have been a part of RT and they all say the same thing. Russia Today, gives them the freedom to say what they want.

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Lindsey Graham is NOW pushing for a Peace Deal. Really? Now? Why is it because Bibi Netanyahu is royally getting his ass kicked by the Iranians? Did the Beeb-Meister call up Lady Graham and told him (No Mas)?

This is the same Lady Graham who wanted to destroy the Mullahs in Iran for Israel’s goal of a greater Israel. Too bad Lady Graham because the Iranians don’t trust you seeing you told the world you wanted to destroy them. This guy is one f-ing lowlife.

For our friend Nick who thinks RT is propaganda. No, this is not from RT but The Hill.

“Graham to Trump: ‘Wind down’ Iran war, ‘wind up’ efforts for peace deal”

Excerpt: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday he has encouraged President Trump to “wind down” the Iran war and “wind up” efforts for a peace deal while noting that it would take an agreement from both parties to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.

“Keep it up Mr President. Wind down the war and wind up efforts for an historic peace deal,” Graham wrote in a post on social platform X, responding to Trump’s Truth Social post touting “serious discussions” with what Trump described as a new and more reasonable regime in Iran.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5807742-trump-iran-war-peace-efforts/

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The same can be said for any source. Pretty much all sources have inherent bias based on their ownership model. The exceptions are small, private alt media sources.

I am curious as to why you only call out RT here, and not publications like CBS, Fox News, the NYT, WaPo, TikTok and so on, all of which are controlled by ardent Zionists.

Do these not also require consideration of the source? :thinking:

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Here are two highly decorated field commanders who say that the US has lost this war. That is was immoral that the US started this war and now they realize that they need to cut bait and leave. But will Iran agree to that?

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NewsMax, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc etc etc are all propaganda sources pushing a narrative.

I have found RT to be equivalent to the BBC of yesterday, as long as it doesn’t directly involve Russia. I submitted that article, because IMHO, it provided a fair and balanced review of the US war with Iran, and mirrored a lot of the discussions we’ve seen from CM on here. Years ago, I got involved in politics in my small community. We had THREE local papers for this small community. One was extreme right wing, one was left leaning, and the third was extreme left wing. From my position, non of the papers got things right… however, reading all three, there would be a reasonable conclusion drawn from a blending of all three. As I pointed out above, all the MSM media sources are biased. One must avoid only getting information inside of any one echo chamber.

Did you find anything in that article that is incorrect or a false narrative?

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https://x.com/OdessaOrlewicz/status/2039200554740850783?s=20

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I do the same thing. It takes me about an hour each morning to go through all the news sites.

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And (jo)Urinalists

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https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/2039333820965786084?s=20

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https://x.com/JasminLaine_/status/2039334946041421872?s=20

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Here lies the problem. They can’t agree until they have some certainty that the U.S. and particularly Israel won’t be back at it in “x” days, weeks, or months.

No other president has been boneheaded enough to take the bait on Iran. For this exact reason. Iran will cease to exist if they cave on this. So they’re following the plan they told us all along. They’re crashing the global economy. And here we are.

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AWS in Bahrain has been hit in a drone attack.

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/technology/amazon-cloud-operations-in-bahrain-hit-in-iran-strike-ft-report

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