Rep. Brandon Gill (R) introduced bill to ban Somali immigration for next 25 years

Fun Facts: Around 81% of Somali immigrant households in Minnesota, the state with the largest Somali population, receive some form of welfare (cash assistance, food stamps/SNAP, or Medicaid), according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of American Community Survey data from 2014–2023.⁠

Key breakdowns (Minnesota, Somali-headed immigrant households): Any welfare: 81% (vs. 21% of native Minnesota households)

Food stamps (SNAP): 54% (vs. 7% native)

Medicaid: 73% have at least one member enrolled (vs. 18% native)

Cash welfare (TANF, SSI, general assistance): 27% (vs. 6% native)

Households with children: 89% receive some form of welfare

Well, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) dropped the hammer with H.R. 7359, the Somalia Immigration Moratorium Act, on February 4, 2026. The measure would tweak the Immigration and Nationality Act so that, with a handful of exceptions, no one who is a citizen or national of Somalia could get a visa or any immigration status for 25 years after the bill becomes law.

Sounds like a good plan, but he should have gone for 50 years in my humble opinion.

Those exceptions cover people already here legally plus a few diplomatic and nonimmigrant categories. The bill also blocks Somali nationals from certain forms of withholding-of-removal relief. It has already been sent to the House Judiciary Committee, where it picked up cosponsors Mary Miller, Randy Fine, Andy Biggs, and Clay Higgins.

Gill has been out selling the idea by pointing to the usual data: sky-high welfare use, almost no English, serial fraud cases (Minnesota has been especially helpful), and the complete absence of anything resembling assimilation.

Progressives immediately labeled the whole thing a hate crime. It's surprising they didn't simply call Gill a racist and save time.

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Democratic Florida Mayor arrested on charges of grand theft and scheme to defraud

Espinosa

KISSIMMEE, FL — In a stunning display of bureaucratic innovation, Kissimmee Mayor Eva Jacquelyn Espinosa was arrested on charges of Grand Theft and Organized Scheme to Defraud after allegedly treating federal COVID relief funds like a personal loyalty rewards program to the tune of $50,000 from a city initiative she personally championed.

Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the arrest Wednesday morning in a post on X.

During a press conference, Uthmeier detailed how the mayor treated public office as a family checking account despite clear warnings that self-dealing was frowned upon.

"Public officials do not get to write the rules and then write themselves a check," Uthmeier said. "The mayor used her position to push a COVID relief grant program, then took $50,000 from it for her family's businesses after being warned it was prohibited."

Investigators noted that Espinosa assumed office in November 2024 and wasted zero time advocating for and voting on the creation and expansion of the City of Kissimmee's Business Boost 2.0 program. Financed by federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars, the program was ostensibly designed to aid struggling small businesses in the municipality.

True to form, the moment the program opened for applications in September 2025, Espinosa and her immediate family members dutifully submitted paperwork for three businesses under their control, requesting a cool $50,000. Approval came swiftly, and the cash landed in accounts linked to the Espinosa clan on Nov. 7, 2025.

When the city attorney pointed out a minor conflict of interest on Dec. 5, 2025, suggesting she return the loot, Espinosa politely declined, announced she would fight any complaints, and kept right on moving.

"The voters put their trust in their public officials to do what is best for their community, not what is best for themselves," said Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia. "Jackie Espinosa abused that trust and cashed in at the taxpayers' expense."

The resulting warrant slaps Espinosa with one count of Grand Theft for amounts between $20,000 and $100,000, classified as a second-degree felony, alongside a count of Organized Scheme to Defraud of $50,000 or more, which is a first-degree felony. The joint investigation was a team effort by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Financial Services Criminal Investigations Division.

The case will be handled in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by Office of Statewide Prosecution Public Integrity Unit Special Counsel Richard Mantei.

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El Sayed doubles down on anti-Semitic stance and vows to make America France again

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has a message for American voters: Israel is not America’s friend, and apparently the best person to explain this is a candidate whose own political baggage keeps generating uncomfortable questions. 

But he doesn't tend to answer questions himself. When asked at a town hall meeting whether he denounces Hamas, he did not give an emphatic "yes, I denounce Hamas," but instead said "yes, sure," and then began asking the questioner about his knowledge of the US Constitution [and 'yadda, yadda. squirrel, squirrel'].

In an interview with ABC News (D) on Monday, El-Sayed doubled down on his anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric, arguing that the Jewish state is not an ally of the United States. His evidence? An analogy involving a freeloading friend who steals money from your children and starts fights with the neighborhood.

“An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” he argued, leaving out the uncomfortable issue regarding the October 7, 2023 when Hamas massacred about 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies--what people with a functioning cortex would label genocide.

El-Sayed then expanded on his theory of international relations, comparing Israel to a friend who “keeps bumming off [your kids’ money] and then talks about them behind their back and gets them into fights with their other friends.” He evidently doesn't view Israel as a crucial Middle East ally. Perhaps he would like France in that role in the future once the Islamists and communists burn Paris down along with a bunch of other major French cities. 

Apparently, decades of strategic cooperation, intelligence sharing, and regional security concerns can all be reduced to the sort of playground dispute normally settled by confiscating someone's lunch money.

“What would you tell your kid?” he asked the reporter. “You’d probably tell them, ‘Maybe that’s not actually your friend.’” Actually, for El Sayed, the Muslim Brotherhood is his friend but he won't admit it. 

“I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is actually not our friend,” he concluded. 'Viva la France and burn baby burn,' his brain whispers.

The declaration offers Michigan voters a revealing preview of El-Sayed’s foreign policy priorities. Israel, a longstanding American ally, our best ally, is to be judged according to a schoolyard morality play, while the candidate delivering the lecture presumably expects voters to regard his own political associations and family controversies as matters requiring considerably more nuance.

The timing is also worth noting.

El-Sayed’s comments follow renewed accusations concerning his sister-in-law, Miriam Jukaku, who was reportedly involved in a federal terrorist watchlist lawsuit during the Obama administration. It's unknown as to whether she has a history of burning buildings in Paris or the USA, but she's what the kids call a jihadist.

El-Sayed dismissed the allegations when speaking to Fox News, insisting that she had done nothing wrong and suggesting that Islamophobia explained her designation.

"You've got this system where folks are guilty until proven innocent because they've got different kinds of names, because of the infrastructure that people like [Michigan Republican Senate candidate] Mike Rogers set up,” he said.

That is quite a defense of due process, although voters might reasonably wonder whether El-Sayed applies the same generous presumption of innocence when discussing America's allies. Israel, at least in his telling, appears to have been convicted without much of a trial.

The Democratic nominee has also faced scrutiny over alleged family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Those allegations have added another layer of controversy to a campaign already marked by his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Israel.

El-Sayed's remarks have not gone unnoticed among American Jewish leaders, some of whom are increasingly concerned about what his political ascent could mean for Jewish communities in Michigan and beyond.

Rabbis and other Jewish leaders have called on the Democratic Party to adopt a list of “nonnegotiable” principles for Jewish safety ahead of the November midterm elections. Their concerns reflect growing unease over whether a party that has historically enjoyed substantial support from Jewish voters is prepared to confront the consequences of its own anti-Israel rhetoric. Lately, of course, the Democratic Party has voiced enough anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric to make a skinhead blush.

Meanwhile, the Michigan Senate race has left some Democratic voters searching for alternatives. Students who identify as Democrats at the University of Michigan have recently joined the campaign as well, apparently hoping to influence a contest that has become increasingly uncomfortable for voters who support their party but remain unwilling to accept its hostility toward Israel without question.

For El-Sayed, the strategy seems straightforward: portray Israel as the troublesome friend, suggest that American taxpayers are being taken advantage of, and invite voters to reconsider a relationship that has endured across multiple administrations.

Whether Michigan voters find that argument persuasive remains to be seen. But El-Sayed has made one thing clear: if elected to the Senate, he intends to bring a rather different understanding of America's alliances to Washington, one in which a longtime democratic partner is cast as the neighborhood bully and the candidate making the accusation expects to be taken seriously as a judge of international character.

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Is Dr. Oz a wizard or what, in his crackdown on NYC daycare center directors?

FLUSHING, N.Y. — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz showed up in a surprise visit at two New York City senior care centers suspected of treating Medicaid like an open bar tab, and the staff responses landed somewhere between "the computer did it" and "please come back after lunch when the room looks fuller." 

Fox News Digital tagged along as federal officials delivered the kind of warning letters that tend to make billing departments check the exits.

Oz and senior federal health officials handed the notices to Kent Senior Care and Evergreen Adult Day Care in Flushing, Queens, causing several severe cases of loose stools, and not the kind you sit in unless you're very weird.

The visits formed part of a wider sweep that put the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the NYPD and other agencies on the same Tuesday itinerary. More than 80 stops and warning letters went out across the city that day. 

Taxpayers who fund the programs received no such courtesy tour.

"The whole experience was suspicious," Oz told Fox News Digital afterward.

Authorities described a broader effort that included arrests, search warrants and moves to halt certain operators from billing Medicaid, although these steps at the two Queens, NY sites were not observed directly by Fox News Digital.

Oz questions senior center director: 'We don't believe you'

The first stop, around 8:30 a.m. at Kent Senior Care, when residents were likely in the throes of being cleaned up, began with Oz walking in and personally delivering the federal letter. The posted maximum occupancy was 70. The room did not appear to be testing that number.

"The bills are much higher than they should be," Oz told the director. "The billing is for more people. It doesn't look very crowded here."

The director claimed that more seniors would arrive later. Oz noted the paperwork suggested something closer to this being the perpetual capacity.

"The bills we're getting are as though it's completely full all the time," Oz said. So something stank, much like these places at 8:30 in the morning.

The director insisted the center billed only for actual attendance and required sign-in sheets. Oz was unmoved.

"You're getting this letter from the U.S. Government because we don't believe you," he told the director.

Billing records indicated five-day-a-week participation. The director said many seniors came only two or three days. When the conversation turned to specialized wheelchair transportation charges, Oz looked around the room.

"I don't see any wheelchairs here," Oz told the director.

Fox News Digital saw seniors using walking aids but no wheelchairs during the visit. Another official noted the billing for specialized transport. The director said some participants had mobility issues after strokes, that wheelchairs were available, and that staff might have reused old codes.

"Probably he just copy and pasted," the director said, lying like an abandoned sofa by Coney Islamd Creek.

Oz then walked over to the mahjong tables set up for the Medicaid-funded program.

"Should the American taxpayers be paying so folks can play mahjong?" Oz asked the director.

The director said the game helped with finger exercise, socialization and memory. Oz answered that the benefit was not free.

"It's free for them, not free for the taxpayers," Oz responded. "Is that what our federal tax dollars for Medicaid is supposed to go to? Or is it life-saving heart surgery? Or, you know, new therapies for cancer?"

Oz also watched seniors walk in without signing anything, despite the stated requirement. He later described the timing.

"People were just walking in there without signing anything," Oz said. "And then after I showed up and he saw what we were doing with my team, he started collecting these documents to be signed." You know, closing the barn door after the chickens made a run for it.

Social adult day care programs can supply activities, supervision, meals and support. Medicaid payment hinges on eligibility and documentation of what was actually provided. The gap between that rule and the observed room proved difficult to close on the spot.

At Evergreen Adult Day Care the pattern repeated. 

A floor manager said roughly 200 seniors attended on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and about 150 on the other days. Oz walked the space and offered a different count.

"So I look at maybe 25 people in the whole space now," Oz said, perhaps forgetting to multiply by 10. 

The manager claimed that some were in classes and others had left for shopping, the pharmacy or appointments.

"The numbers don't seem to add up," Oz responded.

On wheelchairs the manager first said none were in use, then acknowledged a small number.

"But you said there weren't any, didn't you?" Oz pressed. He compared notes with the other federal officials present.

"I'm struck by how few people are here as well," Oz said. "This makes me wonder how they sustain these billing levels."

The attendance books supplied the next discrepancy. Fox News Digital saw sign-in sheets with names already entered for Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, dates that had not yet arrived. Whether the pages were finished records or advance schedules remained unclear. Let's hope he took photos of the fraudulent-sounding evidence,

Oz alleges organized crime ties to NYC Medicaid fraud. He said federal authorities believed organized criminal networks were paying seniors to appear at facilities so operators could bill for services never delivered. He described individuals he linked to the "Chinese mafia" offering some seniors between $1,000 and $1,200 to participate. 

He did not name a specific group or present supporting evidence in the interview. He said billing spikes across the sector had pushed annual spending toward $1 billion. 

Sounds a lot like a Minnesota Learing Center, doesn't it?

"We know from the billing here that there's no way this business is running in the way that they claim to be running without something being wrong," Oz told the media outlet.

"Is it an innocent mistake? A hundred times in a row, I don't think so."

He added that proceeds from the schemes were financing other crimes, including money laundering and human trafficking. 

"It's really a clubhouse for crime," Oz said.

He said the fraud grew during the COVID-19 period and faulted the previous administration for letting the spending and the suspicious patterns continue. 

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Democratic New York Gov. comrade Kathy Hochul called the Tuesday actions part of a "massive effort to combat fraud and abuse" and noted that state health officials joined the federal and local effort. While Oz delivered the letters in Queens, searches continued at other sites across the city. Details on the remaining targets, the people involved and any evidence recovered were not available while the investigations continued.

Imagine if the Democrats were in power in the federal government. They would look the other way while holding out their hands for a little greasing. 

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Mostly peaceful rioting, vandalism and total mayhem in France

The left doesn't want you to see this 

The situation in France has finally devolved into a storm of looting, vandalism, and total mayhem. This has been spurred on by Muslim migrants, as opposed to "students" the left would like us to believe. The media wants us to believe the rioting, looting and destruction, is about the cost of living and education funding. If you believe that claptrap, you're a fool.

With all the rioting and looting, a group of Muslim "students" [not really] take time out to pray to Allah. Ironically, no mosques were vandalized but historical sites such as Marché des Enfants Rouges, in Paris and Limoges City Hall were destroyed on October 12 and 17th respectively,

The Communist News Network (CNN) is calling the worst rioting and destruction France has experienced in years "mostly peaceful." Seriously. And these leftist morons are blaming the cause of the violence, arson and widespread looting on school conditions and the cost of living. Maybe that explains why they're stealing Louis Vitton handbags for example.

And while the mayhem was and is currently taking place, France's President Emmanuel Macron along with his wife [who has bigger balls than he has] went to a Celine Dion concert.

In terms of the destruction mentioned above, Limoges was a 19th-Century City Hall. It was deliberately set ablaze which caused its roof and clock tower to collapse, the structure mostly destroyed by mostly peaceful terrorists.

Limoges City Hall

In other mostly peaceful protests, there's Lyon, where the tourist office was torched. In Marseille, the city hall was stormed, sprayed with graffiti, doors destroyed, furniture damaged and shops in the city, including the Olympique de Marseille, were mostly peacefully looted.

Nationwide in France, between 1,500 to 3,000 shops and businesses were looted or vandalized. Supermarkets, pharmacies, stores, luxury boutiques, electronic stores, cars, bikes, garbage bins, and barricades were peacefully burned.

Not surprisingly, looted goods appeared on resale platforms.

At least two deaths linked to the mostly peaceful protests have been recorded thus far. Mathieu Morat, a 22-year-old police officer was killed by a vehicle while pursuing fleeing mostly peaceful folks. At least two people lost hands from a police crowd-control grenade. A 17-year-old girl lost an eye in Mulhouse.

Roughly 500 to nearly 1,000 officers, gendarmes, firefighters, and paramedics injured (one tally cited ~997, with several serious). Earlier partial figures were lower (150–600+). Hundreds of civilians were also injured in the mostly peaceful clashes.

With these peaceful protests as CNN calls them, we can predict with confidence, that they will once again make an appearance at a city near you. . . unless we act now.

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Mahmoud Khalil Runs to the Supreme Court, Hoping for a Judicial Lifeline

Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud "Free Palestine" Khalil is asking the Supreme Court to rescue him from a legal predicament that could allow the Trump administration to arrest him again. After months of legal maneuvering, the Columbia University anti-Semitic scumwafer protest leader is now hoping the nation’s highest court will intervene before immigration authorities get another opportunity to enforce a deportation order against him.

Yes, they hate America but hate it more when told to leave it.

In an X post on Monday, comrade Khalil announced that his legal team had filed a petition, declaring that he has “asked the Supreme Court to affirm that federal courts have the power to hear my case.”

Khalil claims the government has no legitimate case against him and accused the Trump administration of trying to keep federal judges from examining the evidence.

“The government knows all too well that its baseless allegations and smears against me cannot survive the slightest scrutiny in federal court,” the Islamist said. “That’s why it is doing everything it can to keep those courts from looking at my case and to channel it into its kangaroo immigration courts.”

Apparently, when the immigration system produces a result Khalil dislikes, it becomes a kangaroo court. The label is a convenient substitute for addressing the substance of the proceedings, particularly when an immigration judge has already ordered his deportation.

Khalil then broadened his argument into a sweeping warning about free speech, portraying his legal battle as a threat to the constitutional rights of Americans everywhere. Except for the little issue of his not being an American and hating on the government.

“So the question is simple: can the government weaponize immigration laws to punish someone’s speech, then tell federal courts they have no power to step in? If the answer is yes, none of our speech is safe. If the Trump administration can punish someone for pro-Palestine speech, this or any future administration can punish anyone for any speech,” the execrable post-digestive waste of a human said.

That is a dramatic constitutional argument from an activist whose case involves far more than a generic disagreement over political expression. 

Khalil, a Syrian-born green card holder of Palestinian descent, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March 2025 after helping lead anti-Israel protests at Columbia University. The Department of Homeland Security accused him of participating in activities that were “aligned to Hamas.”

The distinction matters. The administration has argued that the immigration consequences of Khalil’s case concern national interests and immigration law, while Khalil insists the government is retaliating against his political speech. His Supreme Court petition seeks to keep federal courts involved in resolving that dispute.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously argued that Khalil’s “presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest” and vowed to strip the immigration status of foreign “Hamas supporters.”

“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” Rubio said.

The administration's position is hardly mysterious. A green card grants a foreign national lawful permanent resident status, but it does not confer immunity from immigration law or guarantee that the government can never seek deportation. The legal question is whether the administration has acted within its authority and whether Khalil can challenge those actions in federal court.

The case has already produced a complicated series of legal reversals and competing proceedings. In June 2025, a federal judge in New Jersey ordered Khalil released from ICE detention. That ruling did not, by itself, resolve the separate question of whether he could ultimately be deported.

In April, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld an immigration judge’s deportation order. Then, in May, a federal appeals court denied Khalil’s request for a rehearing challenging his detention.

Khalil responded to the appeals court decision by calling it “biased and politically motivated.” His lawyers have maintained that he is pursuing a separate case in federal court and cannot yet be detained or deported.

Now the Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on whether the federal judiciary can hear his challenge. According to The Hill, the justices will consider whether to take up the case during a closed-door meeting in the coming months. Khalil’s legal team hopes the court will hear it during the current term.

For the Trump administration, the case raises questions about the government's authority to enforce immigration law against foreign nationals whose activities it considers contrary to U.S. interests. For Khalil, it is an opportunity to keep his deportation fight alive and frame the dispute as a landmark battle over free expression.

The Supreme Court has not agreed to hear the case, much less ruled in Khalil’s favor. Until the justices make that decision, his campaign for judicial intervention remains just that: a campaign for another chance in court.

Khalil wants the public to see a free-speech martyr. The administration sees an immigration enforcement case involving alleged activities tied to Hamas. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether the legal questions warrant its attention, not whether either side can produce the most dramatic political narrative.

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Washington’s Omar Investigation: Democrats Circle the Wagons While More Shoes Prepare to Drop

Washington has never lacked for political theater, but the latest developments surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar have given the capital’s drama department enough material to keep the lights on for years. Federal agents reportedly arrived at a sitting member of Congress’s home at sunrise, transforming what might otherwise have been a quiet morning into an unwelcome audition for a legal thriller.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project and a man who appears convinced that the plot has barely begun, suggested that more revelations could be on the way. "I think there's other shoes that are going to drop here," he warned. Washington may soon need a much larger closet.

Howell also took aim at Democrats who rushed to Omar’s defense before the public had seen the evidence. "That's why I think the Democrats really just couldn't resist the temptation to jump out of this before they saw any evidence and just circle the wagons [around Omar]." Apparently, congressional solidarity now comes with an express shipping option, allowing lawmakers to deliver their verdicts before investigators finish gathering the paperwork.

Mike Howell

Howell added that the Democrats’ arguments suggest it is "not all peaches and cream underneath the hood," a diagnosis that would make a mechanic nervous and a congressional ethics lawyer reach for the antacids. Whatever lies beneath the political paint job, Howell believes the public has reason to look more closely.

Then came the question of why a federal judge would approve a search warrant in Washington, D.C., a city where legal scrutiny and political influence routinely compete for the same parking space.

Howell offered a remarkably direct explanation: "They probably got the goods on her."

He expanded on that assessment by observing, "You don't get a federal judge to sign off on something like this in Washington, D.C., of all places, unless there is something that is rather convincing."

It is an argument that leaves little room for the usual Washington ritual of pretending that a judicial warrant is merely a clerical misunderstanding. Of course, a warrant is not proof of guilt, and the investigation must establish whether any laws were broken. But the fact that a judge approved the warrant raises questions that cannot be answered simply by assembling a congressional protection squad and declaring the matter politically inconvenient.

Howell also explained how his organization began examining local nonprofit earmarks, describing the process with the sort of understated simplicity that rarely survives contact with Washington’s public relations machinery. "We said, let's go check out those earmarks."

A radical concept, apparently: examine where public money goes, determine who benefits, and ask whether taxpayers are getting anything in return. Somewhere in the federal bureaucracy, a filing cabinet just slammed shut.

Finally, Howell broadened his criticism to the obligations lawmakers accept when they swear an oath to the Constitution. His assessment was blunt: "This isn't normal. And it only seems normal because it's been happening so much. And I think it's about time we take the oath to the Constitution that members swear seriously,"

He followed that statement with an even sharper conclusion: "If somebody has loyalties to another place, they should not be in Congress."

And Omar had admitted her loyalty to Somalia in the past.

That is a serious charge, and it deserves serious scrutiny rather than automatic acceptance or reflexive dismissal. Allegations about divided loyalties must be supported by evidence, not political insinuation. But the principle itself should not be controversial: members of Congress owe their allegiance to the United States Constitution and their duty to the American people, not to foreign governments, outside interests, or political factions demanding unconditional protection.

For now, the investigation continues, the political defenses are firmly in place, and Washington’s familiar cast of characters is busy insisting that everyone else is either corrupt, confused, or conspiring against democracy.

The public, meanwhile, is left waiting for the evidence, the answers, and whatever footwear Howell believes is still airborne.

Stay tuned. In Washington, the subpoenas may be serious, the accusations may be consequential, and the congressional outrage is practically guaranteed to arrive before the facts.

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Iran parliament approves Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defense minister to replace latest goat-heavy predecessor killed by IDF

Iran’s parliament has approved Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi as the country’s new defense minister, ending months of interim leadership and putting a longtime veteran of Iran’s aerospace and missile industries in charge of rebuilding the regime’s military machine.

Akhlaghi replaces Majid Ebn al-Reza, who assumed the position on an interim basis after former Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh was killed in US-Israeli strikes in February. Apparently, Tehran’s preferred response to losing a defense minister is to appoint another man from the same defense establishment and resume making threats.

Akhlaghi brings decades of experience in Iran’s defense industry, including senior positions in its aerospace and missile sectors. He also brings an existing collection of US and EU sanctions tied to his work in the Iranian military-industrial complex.

Presenting his program to lawmakers, Akhlaghi promised to rebuild Iran’s military-industrial infrastructure, accelerate the development of defense technologies, and expand cooperation with private companies. The regime, it seems, intends to get its weapons factories back in business and make sure the next round of threats comes with an upgraded arsenal.

He also delivered the customary warning to Washington, declaring, "If the American enemy makes another miscalculation, the response of the valiant Iranian people and the fighters of Islam will be surprising and extensive,"

Akhlaghi added that Tehran had taken measures to counter the possible use by the US of its "mother of all bombs" against Iran.
Iran Warns America About America's Bombs

The appointment comes amid reports that the United States has developed plans for renewed military operations against Iran. CNN reported this week that those plans could include the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, commonly known as the "mother of all bombs," against Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites if President Donald Trump orders a resumption of combat operations.

The MOAB is among the largest non-nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. It is also the sort of weapon that tends to make discussions about military escalation considerably less theoretical.

Akhlaghi responded with another threat, this time suggesting that American troops could pay a gruesome price if Washington launches another attack.

"The US president should focus on ensuring his forces are withdrawn safely from our region. If he drops a single bomb, he will have to see how many of his troops end up being carried out of the region in a horizontal position," Akhlaghi said.

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So Iran’s newly installed defense minister has begun his tenure by promising to rebuild the country’s military infrastructure, accelerate weapons development, and warn the United States that American soldiers could come home in body bags.

For a regime whose military establishment has already suffered major losses in US-Israeli strikes, the confidence is remarkable. Tehran is determined to demonstrate that its capacity for threats remains fully operational, even as it works to restore the military capabilities needed to back them up.

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