Tehran's top cop airstruck and is out of luck

According to multiple reports exploding across X and other platforms today (March 7, 2026), Brigadier General Abbas-Ali Mohammadian, commander of Tehran's police force (فرمانده انتظامی تهران بزرگ), has reportedly been blown to smithereens in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes hammering Iran.

These claims are blasting out from pro-Israel accounts, anti-regime voices, and freedom-loving patriots on X, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit, complete with those glorious "ELIMINATED" graphics and zero sympathy for a guy accused of ordering the slaughter of protesters. 

We're talking the 2022 Mahsa Amini uprising and the fresh waves of unrest where his forces allegedly racked up hundreds (some say thousands) of dead and injured Iranians just trying to breathe free.

The man was already sanctioned up the wazoo by the U.S., EU, and others for human rights abuses tied to crushing demonstrations. Before Tehran, he ran the show in Alborz province, overseeing more of the same violent crackdowns that left bodies in the streets.

This fits the bigger picture of escalating U.S. and Israeli operations targeting Iranian military brass, security heavies, and command structure, IRGC bigwigs, defense minister-level figures, and higher have been in the crosshairs too.

Posts are framing it as straight-up justice or good riddance, with a lot of folks tying it to the regime's collapsing grip after massive leadership losses. 

But here's the latest skivvy: As of this moment, nothing confirmed from major Western outlets, Iranian state media, or official channels on Mohammadian specifically. 

Tehran has admitted heavy hits from the strikes and big casualties among top ranks, but they're mum on this one. In hot war zones like this, social media moves at warp speed, sometimes with fog-of-war misinformation, so treat these reports as preliminary and explosive until rock-solid independent verification drops.

If official word or more details break (and in this fast-moving chaos, it could happen any minute), the picture will sharpen quick. Stay sharp, folks.

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Joe Biden claims to be 'a hell of a lot smarter' than most Democrats

Former alleged President Joseph Robinette Biden, in what can only be described as vintage Sleepy Joe fashion, decided to drop this gem on the mourners at Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral service Friday: "I'm a hell of a lot smarter than most of you."

He was speaking primarily to a crowd of Democrats and civil rights figures, and while Snopes didn't actually rate the remark "Mostly True," it sure feels on-brand for the guy who can't help but remind everyone he's the sharpest tool in the shed, even when the shed is a memorial service.

This oddball line came while Biden was reflecting on his childhood stutter, a topic he's brought up countless times. He noted how people mocked him for it, assuming it meant he wasn't bright. "If I told you I had a cleft palate or clubfoot, none of you would have laughed," Biden said. "But it’s OK to laugh at stuttering. … It’s the one place where people think you’re stupid."

Then came the zinger: "Oh, really? I’m a hell of a lot smarter than most of you," he added, before quickly pivoting back with, "But all kidding aside, it makes you feel really small."All kidding aside, folks, Joe Biden remains a walking gaffe machine.

And every event he makes about himself.

The memorial took place at the House of Hope arena in Chicago, where hundreds gathered to honor Jackson's life and his massive left-leaning legacy. Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were there, along with Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Rev. Al Sharpton, and other big Democratic names. They praised Jackson for founding the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, running for president in 1984 and 1988, boosting Black voter turnout, and reshaping the party's coalition.Biden, who often talks about overcoming his stutter, tied his remarks to resilience and the pain of being ridiculed as a kid.

Later in his speech, Biden veered into another classic tangent, declaring that "the continent of Africa is going to be the largest continent in the world" in terms of population by 2050. He recalled telling Jackson about a trip to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa: "I remember telling Jesse that I knew a guy, in South Africa," former President Biden recalled. "I was going to go see name is Nelson Mandela. And, I'm Jesse saying, how are you going? You guys actually see him, by the way? You know, the continent of Africa is going to be the largest continent in the world in terms of population of the year 2050, the largest in the entire world. Watch, man. Watch."

Joe's "Deer in the Headlights" look

The "smarter than most of you" line has already joined the ever-growing Biden gaffe hall of fame, and social media lit up with reactions. Under one repost from Libs of TikTok, a commenter nailed it: "That’s a strange line to deliver at a memorial service."

Another user summed it up perfectly: "Never ending comedy from this guy. So happy he’s back in public."

Outside Biden's head-scratchers, the service stayed focused on Jackson's enduring impact as a civil rights icon who built bridges, championed marginalized communities, and helped modernize the Democratic Party's approach to inclusion and participation.

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NYC leftists hold vigil for slain Ayatollah Khamenei and punches fly

A bloody fight broke out Friday afternoon during a New York City vigil for the former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed Saturday in an Israeli military strike in downtown Tehran. 

Chaos erupted in Washington Square Park in Manhattan as a vigil mourning the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei descended into violence Friday. Video showed a man trying to pull down a poster of the dictator, killed last week in an Israeli airstrike, when a man wearing a SpongeBob sweatshirt punched him in the face, sending him to the ground.

Others jumped in and began fighting, prompting New York City Police Department intervention.As the brawl unfolded, the crowd could be heard shouting profanity.

Multiple people were captured on video being detained by police.

The vigil featured a makeshift memorial table covered with Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, candles and photos of Khamenei. One observer described the scene as the "People’s Republic of New York."

Meanwhile, nearby counter-protesters waved Iranian, American and Israeli flags while chanting "U.S.A."

In a flyer announcing the event, organizers called Khamenei's death an "assassination by U.S. government forces."

Saturday's downtown Tehran strike that killed Khamenei and other regime leaders was carried out by the Israeli military.

U.S. officials have denied any involvement.

"Throughout his life, Khamenei defended the dignity of the Iranian people and stood firmly against zionism [sic] and the criminal American regime," organizers wrote on the flyer. "Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 overthrew the U.S.-backed puppet government, the Iranian people have resisted Western domination and the exploitation of their land, labor, and resources.

"In that time, Iran severed all ties with the zionist [sic] regime and was the first country to host a Palestinian embassy on its soil, all while materially supporting Palestinian resistance and national liberation movements across the world."

Among Khamenei's supporters were a group of counter-protesters who slammed the vigil while holding American flags and pre-1979 Islamic Revolution Iranian Lion and Sun flags.

"We're here to show everyone that Iranians don't like the regime," a man at the vigil told Fox News contributor Nicole Parker on Fox News' "Hannity."

"My family is in Iran, but all of them are fighting against the regime," another woman told Parker. "They're happy about this, they want this war - this war is not about [the] Iranian people, this war is against the Islamic Republic."

Look, this is the kind of unhinged scene you'd expect in parts of Manhattan these days. A vigil for a brutal theocratic dictator turns into a street fight complete with SpongeBob-punching action, anti-American chants, and counter-protesters waving Old Glory and the pre-revolution Iranian flag. The regime loyalists are out there mourning their supreme leader like he was some freedom fighter, while actual Iranians show up to say the regime's days are numbered. Classic New York chaos, but with a heavy dose of Middle East politics thrown in. The quotes from the counter-protesters say it all: Iranians want freedom, not this oppressive mess.

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CNN has panic attack caused by Iranian political prisoner

Kian Tajbakhsh showed up on CNN the other night to talk about the Iranian operation. No fireworks, no shouting matches like you get from the usual suspects, Scott Jennings barking, Kevin O'Leary pontificating, Ben Ferguson thundering. Tajbakhsh just laid out the plain facts, cool as you please. And why wouldn't he? The man spent time as a political prisoner in Iran; he's seen the regime up close and personal.

We chewed over how the liberal crowd is now trying to paint Operation Epic Fury as some fresh quagmire, another endless war cooked up in Washington. Nonsense. Iran has considered itself at war with the United States since the mullahs took power in 1979. Tajbakhsh was right there when their officials said it outright, we've been in a cold (and sometimes hot) war with the Islamic Republic ever since the Revolution.

But what really sent the producers scrambling was what came next on the Obama Iran nuclear deal. That’s when Abby Phillip hit the panic button and cut to commercial. You could almost hear the tires screeching.

Here's Tajbakhsh, straight and unvarnished:

TAJBAKHSH: "What happened with President Obama, I'll just say this very quickly.'"And I was in the State Department in the 2000s when we implored the Bush administration not to restrict the engagement with Iran simply to the nuclear file."

"What happened with president Obama is that, for better or worse, and I'm not going to litigate that here, he decided that given the four big problems that have always been on American objectives with Iran, that is enrichment, ballistic missiles, proxies and democracy inside Iran, that he would put all the last three aside and focus only on the nuclear deal."

"Now, I'm not going to say that was good or bad. I don't think it was a great idea, but what we have seen and this is also maybe controversial and I think a lot of my liberal friends are going to hate me for this…"

"Is that unfortunately you can draw a straight line from the 2015 nuclear deal to October 7th.”“I think that what the Trump administration is--"

PHILLIP: "We . . . we . . . we do have to go to a break here."

TAJBAKHSH: "Okay."

And poof, gone to break, smoke screen deployed, retreat in good order. Classic CNN when the narrative takes a direct hit.

Operation Epic Fury has laid bare what a disaster the Obama nuke deal really was. Naïve doesn’t begin to cover it. Handing the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism billions in cash and sanctions relief, while conveniently ignoring the missiles, the proxies, the whole apparatus of terror, that wasn't diplomacy; it was wishful thinking bordering on delusion. The mullahs were never going to play straight; anyone with a shred of realism could see that. You don't need a PhD from Harvard or Foggy Bottom experience to understand you can’t trust fanatics who chant "Death to America" as a national pastime.

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The Democrats, bless their virtue signaling souls, have a perfect record on foreign policy: always wrong, usually catastrophically so. They got played like a cheap fiddle here. Obama's domestic crown jewel, Obamacare, is a rolling catastrophe. Now his foreign-policy masterpiece lies in ruins—and worse, those billions may well have helped subsidize the October 7 massacre.

No wonder the network bolted for the exits. Some truths are just too inconvenient for prime time.

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Mamdani's wife "Likes" Hamas on Instagram

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, decided to spend some quality time on her personal Instagram account "liking" multiple posts that enthusiastically cheered on the barbaric Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023.

The scoop from Jewish Insider yanks the curtain off the "moderate" mask Mamdani has been polishing for public consumption. While the mayor now insists he unequivocally condemns Hamas, his wife was out there clicking those little heart buttons on photos of bulldozers smashing through the Israeli border and terrorists joyriding in captured IDF vehicles. 

One anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic gem she liked, courtesy of an outfit called "The Slow Factory," casually reframed the slaughter of 1,200 people as nothing more than "breaking the walls of apartheid."

The timing makes it sting even more. 

Back when Mamdani was still just a state assemblyman, he went public criticizing a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square for "making light" of the massacre. Meanwhile, his then-girlfriend was apparently cozy at home, digitally high-fiving the very same crowd. Duwaji reportedly hearted posts from the "People’s Forum," you know, that node in the network tied to Maoist moneybags Neville "Roy" Singham, which proudly ran the genocidal chant "from the river to the sea" and hailed the Oct. 7 atrocities as a "human right."

When cornered for comment, Duwaji went radio silent. The mayor's office, predictably, turtle-upped into full defensive crouch mode and spat out a boilerplate statement reaffirming Mamdani's "consistent" condemnation of Hamas. 

They somehow forgot to mention whether the mayor shares a dinner table with someone who sees the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as a glorious moment of "collective liberation."

Right after the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis, Mamdani (then a state assemblyman) dropped a statement that mostly aimed its fire at Israel: "I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid."

Fast-forward to the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre, and Mamdani took to his X account with another statement. This time he accused Israel of perpetrating "genocide" in Gaza, leaned on fatality figures straight from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and wrote, "In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war.” He branded Israel’s actions “war crimes," took shots at the Trump administration, and added, "Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account."  

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IDF destroys 6 Iranian missile launchers right before launching toward Israel

The IDF reported Friday that the Israeli Air Force totally destroyed six Iranian ballistic missile launchers "just minutes before they were intended to be launched toward" Israel on Thursday [not the launchers themselves, just ballistic missiles].

The Intelligence Directorate guided the action, according to the IDF, and said that three advanced Iranian defense systems were also made into scrap metal.

"The combined effort to deepen the impact on the Iranian regime’s firing and defense capabilities has been conducted systematically since the beginning of Operation Rising Lion," the IDF said.

Also, for some reason Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to leave towns within 3.11 miles of the border in a message posted on its Telegram channel on early Friday morning. Like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Iranian regime, Israelis are never given a warning to evacuate as civilian men, women, and children are targeted by these terrorists.

The IDF, for its part, conducted strikes on Hezbollah targets in the Dahiyeh area of Beirut on Thursday night. The military announced this minutes after sirens were triggered throughout Israel by Iranian missile launches.

[Sung to the tune: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Peter, Paul and Mary]

Where have all the mullahs gone, long time passing? 

Where have all the mullahs gone . . . long time ago? 

Where have all the mullahs gone?

Gone to graveyards every one.

When will they ever learn? When will they eeeeever learn?

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A lot of Trump insiders delighted Noem was canned

Joy, celebration, and even happy tears swept through Department of Homeland Security agency offices on Thursday afternoon as word came down that President Donald Trump had finally removed Secretary Kristi Noem from her post.

Trump administration insiders, including senior DHS officials, told the Washington Examiner they were stunned by the president's sudden decision to replace Noem at the helm of the third-largest federal department. This came after several months of scandal and relentlessly negative press.

But let's be real: the shock didn't last long. Relief and outright joy quickly took its place among those who had worked under Noem and even alongside her adviser, special government employee Corey Lewandowski.

“People in the office are actually crying out of happiness,” said one person.

Noem had served in her post for more than 13 months. She helped the White House carry out its mass deportation operation. She was frequently in front of the cameras, visiting DHS employees nationwide and starring in flashy social media videos. But behind closed doors, senior officials in Washington and in the field said her team made their jobs incredibly difficult.

“We’ve seen fake news and calls for resignation. I usually sympathize with the principle and instinctively, and actually, know the stories of their behavior are overstated or inaccurate. I cannot say that today,” a senior DHS official wrote in a text message Thursday afternoon. “Her actions have led to the reputational loss of the DHS. Her continued hobbling of the component heads leads to more negativity regarding law enforcement pros. I suspect this is hard for POTUS, he deserves better!”

Another source, a senior administration official, at first responded with an emoji of a smiling face with a halo, suggesting pure joy at the announcement.

That official pointed out that Lewandowski, though a special government employee legally bound to work fewer than 130 days per year, played a significant role in day-to-day operations across DHS. Lewandowski’s future remains to be seen, but all who spoke with the Washington Examiner were hopeful that he would depart along with Noem.

“The leaders of CBP and ICE will be able to do their job without constant interference and harassment by Corey Lewandowski,” the official wrote in a text message, optimistic that Lewandowski would also depart soon.

In January, the Washington Examiner was first to report that Noem and Lewandowski were waging an internal campaign to force Trump’s hand-picked commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, to resign. This was because Scott had pushed back over the DHS’s aggressive approach to deportations and Lewandowski’s legal authority to continue working.

Sources said the lengths that the two took to push Scott toward the exit were “evil.” They even forced his top staff members to take random jobs across the department in various parts of the country to make his work unpleasant. Noem and Lewandowski were said to be eyeing Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks to replace Scott, though Scott has refused to resign.

Noem and Lewandowski had also tapped Border Patrol’s El Centro, California, chief Greg Bovino to singlehandedly lead Border Patrol operations in the interior of the country, assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

After descending on several cities in mid-2025 through early 2026, the operations had devolved into a chaotic state in Minneapolis. Noem was forced to remove Bovino from his job overseeing the at-large operations as public support in polls declined swiftly following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.

White House border czar Tom Homan was dispatched to Minneapolis for several weeks. He has since steered the operation into a single, focused effort that targets specific violent illegal immigrants, not approaching or arresting illegal immigrants in public. Homan, the former acting director of ICE, also streamlined one chain of command for ICE operations, aided by other federal agencies.

Given Lewandowski’s heavy-handedness in immigration operations behind the scenes, the second person was doubtful that Lewandowski would depart.“Corey will endure, and he should be investigated and condemned for his malicious influence,” the official wrote.

A fourth person, a senior DHS official, said Lewandowski “should be gone too, but it wouldn’t hurt for some folks to ask openly and make sure that happens!”

A fifth person, a former senior official, stated in a text message, “Hopefully we have seen the last of Corey,” adding that “he is not a good person.”

In addition, Noem has accumulated a mountain of personal and professional problems in recent months. These ranged from her department’s issuance of noncompeted contracts, an alleged extramarital affair with Lewandowski, her portrayal of events of two police-involved shootings in Minnesota, and other concerns that lawmakers voiced in oversight hearings this week.Democrats, even some Republicans, on the House and Senate’s judiciary committees grilled Noem over the allotment of a $220 million DHS contract for advertisements that prominently featured the secretary.

Trump was upset Wednesday and Thursday over Noem’s claim on Capitol Hill that she had discussed the massive contract with him and had his support for moving forward with the expenditure, Punchbowl News reported. Hours later, Trump posted on Truth Social that Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) would replace Noem and that Noem would move into a new administration position.

The DHS did not respond to a request for comment on when Noem will officially depart the department, but Trump said Mullin will step in as her replacement on March 31.

Noem will lead a Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere slated to be rolled out in Doral, Florida, this weekend, according to Trump.Look, this is the kind of shake-up that conservative voters have been waiting for in the second Trump term. Noem's tenure was a mess from the start, riddled with drama, alleged affairs, shady contracts, and internal sabotage that undermined the very border security mission the administration promised. The tears of joy in those DHS offices say it all: finally, someone is clearing out the dead weight so the real pros can get back to deporting criminals and securing the border without the constant interference. Trump deserves better, and so do the American people. This move is long overdue.

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Miami GOP head calls for GOP party official to resign

Florida Republican leaders are demanding that Miami GOP Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal resign immediately after explosive revelations emerged about his involvement in a conservative group chat riddled with vile racial slurs, antisemitic statements, and other disgusting content.

Miami-Dade County Republican Party Chairman Kevin Cooper declared that "anyone associated with this chat should resign immediately." Meanwhile, Republican state Rep. Juan Porras directly called on Carvajal to step down on Wednesday, blasting the messages as "deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable."

Carvajal launched the group chat last fall, mainly for conservative students at Florida International University. Leaked messages revealed participants unleashing a barrage of racial slurs targeting Jews and Black people. Among the worst offenders were Dariel Gonzalez, then the College Republicans' recruitment chairman, and Ian Valdes, the Turning Point USA chapter president. Carvajal chimed in occasionally, deleted some messages, but never shut the chat down, according to the Miami Herald.

In one exchange, Gonzalez wrote, "You can f*** all the ks you want. Just don't marry them and procreate," warning about the danger of having "a little k running arounddddd." Valdes shot back, "I would def not marry a Jew." [The k abbreviation apparently stands for the disgusting antisemitic slur that rhymes with 'bike'.]

In another antisemitic moment, Valdes renamed the group chat "Gooning in Agartha," a reference to crude slang for male masturbation combined with the mythical underground civilization pushed by Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man. Valdes called Agartha "esoteric nazism essentially," and Gonzalez described it as "Nazi heaven sort of."

Elsewhere, Valdes pushed, "We need to have a moratorium on immigration temporarily unless it's someone from a first world country….Yeah I obviously mean whites."

The chat also featured plenty of misogynistic trash talk about women, along with repeated use of the n-word and violent, hateful comments against Black people. Gonzalez sneered, "Ew you had colored professors?!" adding, "I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds." He later insisted, "Avoid the coloreds like the plague."

Another exchange reported by the Floridian Press included a user spewing violent fantasies about wanting to "exterminate ns in the gas chamber" and "eat ns," among other sickening rants. Gonzalez's response? "How edgy."

Carvajal, the Miami GOP secretary who created the chat, once he was caught claimed, "had I known and had I seen some of these messages, I would have called the police." When pressed on whether he would resign, he shot back, "Of course not … for a chat where the messages that were stated were not mine."

Porras made it clear that Carvajal's failure to shut down the chat and take decisive action as a leader is indefensible. The state representative, who also serves as a Miami-Dade GOP state committee member, stressed that "Hatred toward Jewish Americans, racist rhetoric, calls for violence, all these ideas have no place in our party, our state, or our country."

"Leadership carries responsibility," Porras added. "When someone in a leadership role engages in this kind of behavior, it damages the trust placed in our party by voters across Florida. The Republican Party stands for law, order, and respect for every American. We believe in the dignity of every person."

Cooper, as the first Jewish chairman of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, said he was "shocked" by the WhatsApp messages.

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This kind of toxic garbage has no business in the Republican Party. Leaders are right to demand accountability and swift action to protect the party's integrity and the trust of Florida voters.

And while the Democratic Party continues to accept anti-Semites like Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the rest of the so called Squad, at least the Republicans take an active stance against this garbage.

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