Civilization Is Once Again Asked Whether Aggression Carries Consequences

Two American service members were killed Saturday in an Iranian strike on Jordan, according to U.S. Central Command. A third American remains missing. It is a grim reminder that the Iranian regime continues to conduct itself as it has for decades, treating violence not as a last resort but as a preferred instrument of statecraft.

These are the first confirmed American combat fatalities resulting from Iran's attacks on Jordan this week. Four additional U.S. troops were evacuated to Jordanian hospitals for treatment and have since been released. CENTCOM stated that the names of the fallen will not be released until 24 hours after their families have been notified.

The attacks extend well beyond Jordan. In recent days, Iran has struck America's partners throughout the region. Kuwait reported that an Iranian attack hit a power generation and water desalination facility, igniting a fire and forcing critical infrastructure offline. A child in Qatar was injured by shrapnel. Bahrain also came under attack. This is not the behavior of a nation seeking stability. It is the behavior of a revolutionary regime that has spent decades exporting instability wherever it can.

The United States has responded by intensifying strikes against Iranian military targets, particularly around Bandar Abbas, the regime's principal strategic port on the Strait of Hormuz. The city is not merely a commercial center. It houses Iran's naval headquarters and serves as a vital hub for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the regime's military operations.

CENTCOM also confirmed the destruction of the surveillance tower at Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port on July 16, an installation with clear operational significance.

"The destruction of the tower directly degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members," CENTCOM said.

The statement reflects a simple military reality. Modern conflicts are won not only by destroying weapons but by dismantling the command structures that direct them. Surveillance and communications infrastructure are force multipliers. Removing them limits an adversary's ability to wage war.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reinforced that message by sharing images of American troops and declaring that "Iran does not control the SoH," referring to the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, the consequences of the conflict are increasingly being felt inside Iran itself. Reports indicate that the regime's Energy Ministry has instructed residents to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours after attacks on energy facilities disrupted the power grid across southern provinces. As so often happens under authoritarian governments, ordinary citizens are left to bear the costs of decisions made by leaders who remain insulated from the suffering they create.

The latest escalation follows Tehran's announcement that it would no longer honor its interim peace agreement with the United States. That decision has brought predictable consequences. History offers few examples of regimes abandoning diplomatic commitments while simultaneously escalating military aggression without inviting a forceful response.

President Trump summarized the strategic dilemma in stark terms during a July 14 interview.

"The only way you can negotiate with these people is through strength," Trump said. "And the only strength is military strength."

Whether one agrees entirely with that formulation or not, recent events have reinforced an uncomfortable truth. Peace cannot be sustained by wishful thinking alone. It requires the credible willingness to confront those who believe violence carries no meaningful cost.

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Iran has launched a missile attack on Jordan

Not mosques; missiles

“Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy warned.

On Thursday, Iran directed missiles toward Jordan. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asserted that its forces had targeted the U.S.-operated Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. This strike forms part of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran that now spreads steadily across the region.

Jordan’s military reported that it had intercepted eight Iranian missiles before they could reach their intended targets within the kingdom.The U.S. Embassy in Amman responded with a nationwide security alert. It spoke of “missiles, drones, or rockets” in Jordanian airspace and instructed American citizens to take immediate shelter.

“Reports indicate missiles, drones, or rockets are in Jordanian airspace. Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy said.The launches caused a temporary halt in air travel.

All flights at Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport were delayed while Jordan dealt with the aerial threat.This assault on Jordan followed a wider Iranian retaliatory operation launched earlier the same day.

Tehran declared that it had sent a large barrage of missiles and explosive drones against U.S. military sites in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Iranian sources claimed successful strikes on an aerial early warning system in Qatar, fuel storage facilities in Bahrain, and a Patriot missile battery in Kuwait. Iranian state media described the targets as “key infrastructure and facilities” linked to the American military presence across the Gulf.

At the same time, Reuters noted a drone strike on a camp belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition northeast of Erbil in Iraq. Another front opened in a conflict that expands with alarming speed.

These latest attacks arrived while the United States pressed its own military campaign against Iran. Iranian media described explosions in several cities, among them Kerman, Bushehr, Asaluyeh, and Bandar Abbas. The deputy governor of Bushehr province was quoted as saying that U.S. projectiles had struck areas surrounding the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Several locations in the province, including the perimeter of the nuclear facility itself, came under fire in the most recent wave of American strikes.This widening exchange of blows follows consecutive nights of U.S. operations against Iranian military infrastructure. It comes after Tehran first targeted commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The pattern now raises grave and entirely justified fears that the conflict is sliding into a broader regional war.

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Trump Pauses Iran Strikes, Believes A Deal is Imminent

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending the morning threatening to turn Iran’s military infrastructure into a parking lot, President Trump abruptly announced Thursday afternoon that peace was back on the menu and the whole thing was “all wrapped up,” proving once again that Middle East diplomacy now operates like a New York real estate negotiation conducted entirely through Truth Social posts.

“We have a deal,” Trump reportedly told aides moments after allegedly green-lighting, canceling, then re-green-lighting a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island before finally deciding he preferred making headlines instead.

“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.”

Sources inside Washington confirmed several Pentagon officials were informed of the cancellation only after seeing the president’s post sandwiched between advertisements for gold coins and pillows.

The agreement reportedly includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, renewed nuclear negotiations, and what experts are calling “the annual Middle East ceasefire that lasts somewhere between four hours and two weeks.”

“It’s pretty much all wrapped up,” Trump told The Post in a phone call that insiders say lasted roughly the same amount of time as one of his golf putts.

The sudden diplomatic breakthrough came just hours after Trump warned Iran he would strike them “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and floated plans to take over Kharg Island and “assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote earlier Thursday morning, causing cable news producers nationwide to begin hyperventilating into paper bags.

Trump later explained that conquering the island remained his preferred option.

“We ⁠are talking ⁠to them, and all, but you know, ⁠look, my preference has always been — take ⁠Kharg Island … my preference would be that,” he said on “Fox and Friends.”

“⁠I don’t know that America has the stomach for it.”

Political analysts immediately translated the statement to mean, “Trump still wants the win, but he also remembers Americans get cranky when their sons are deployed to defend democracy in places they can’t find on a map.”

Meanwhile, Iran appeared to respond to the agreement with the traditional diplomatic strategy of denying the agreement exists at all.

“An informed source told FNA Iran has not approved any draft agreement or initial memorandum with the US, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran agreed to a finalized text,” Iran’s Fars News Agency posted to X.

Observers noted this marks approximately the 38th time Trump has declared an Iran deal “close,” though supporters insist that unlike previous administrations, at least this time America bombed something before negotiating.

At press time, CNN was reportedly preparing a seven-part special explaining why peace in the Middle East is actually bad news for democracy.

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US hits Iran radar sites after Iranian drones fired at Bahrain and Kuwait

 
The Middle East, once again, teeters on the edge of a wider conflagration, and once again the world is forced to confront the grim arithmetic of escalation. 

Overnight, U.S. Central Command intercepted six Iranian ballistic missiles fired toward Kuwait and Bahrain after American forces carried out retaliatory strikes on Iranian radar installations in Goruk and on Qeshm Island. According to CENTCOM, six of the seven missiles were intercepted, while the seventh failed to reach its target. 

Before that exchange, American forces had already downed four Iranian one-way attack drones headed toward the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow maritime chokepoint through which so much of the world’s energy supply precariously flows.

The significance of these events should not be understated. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the vital arteries of the global economy. Any attempt by Tehran to menace shipping lanes there is designed as a message to the world that Iran retains the ability to inject instability into international commerce whenever it chooses.

Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst reported from Dubai that Iran launched the missile barrage toward the Gulf allies after CENTCOM’s retaliatory operations against the radar sites. “Officials in Kuwait are describing those recent overnight strikes here in the Gulf as a serious escalation,” Paul said on “Fox Report.” And indeed they are. The phrase “serious escalation” has become so overused in modern diplomacy that it risks sounding almost procedural, but what we are witnessing is the steady collapse of deterrence into direct confrontation.

Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman offered perhaps the clearest reading of Tehran’s strategy. Iran, he said, appears intent on trying to “drive up the costs of the war” for the United States by threatening trade through Hormuz, escalating Hezbollah attacks against Israel, and targeting America’s Gulf allies. “Iran feels like that gives them added leverage,” Hoffman noted, particularly as domestic political pressure builds ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

That observation cuts to the heart of the matter. The Iranian regime has long understood that its conventional military power cannot rival that of the United States. Its strength instead lies in asymmetry, in creating sufficient instability, uncertainty, and attrition that Western governments begin asking whether the cost of resistance exceeds the cost of accommodation. It is a strategy built not on victory in the traditional sense, but on exhaustion.

Meanwhile, the regional situation continues to deteriorate on multiple fronts. Israel launched airstrikes in southern Lebanon that reportedly killed nine people, including members of the Lebanese army, only days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon had raised hopes, however faint, that tensions might temporarily subside. In the modern Middle East, ceasefires increasingly resemble intermissions rather than conclusions.

President Donald Trump, speaking on the state of Iran’s military capabilities, claimed the regime now possesses only “21%-22%” of the missile arsenal it held prior to the U.S. strikes in February. Whether or not that estimate proves entirely accurate, it reveals the administration’s underlying calculation, namely that sustained military pressure can substantially degrade Tehran’s offensive capacity. Yet history offers repeated warnings about assuming that diminished capability necessarily translates into diminished resolve.

For decades the Iranian regime has demonstrated a remarkable willingness to absorb punishment while continuing to pursue strategic objectives through proxies, missile campaigns, and regional destabilization. The danger now is not simply of one retaliatory strike leading to another. The danger is that every actor involved increasingly believes escalation itself may serve its interests better than restraint.

And that is the truly sobering reality. The Middle East is no longer witnessing isolated incidents, but the gradual knitting together of multiple conflicts into a single expanding crisis, one in which the margin for miscalculation grows thinner by the day.

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U.S., Iran Keep Trading Punches While Negotiators Pretend a Peace Deal Is Right Around the Corner

One of the more exhausting traditions in modern geopolitics is watching hostile nations lob missiles at each other while diplomats simultaneously assure everyone that a breakthrough is just days away. This weekend, the United States and Iran kept that tradition alive and well.

The latest round of Middle East fireworks saw American forces strike Iranian air-defense radar installations and drone facilities, while Iran answered by launching missiles and drones toward Kuwait. Apparently, "de-escalation" means something very different in that part of the world.

The fighting comes as negotiators continue trying to hammer out a deal that would supposedly bring an end to the conflict. President Trump had indicated before the weekend that an agreement was within reach. Unfortunately, the people actually negotiating the deal keep pointing out that minor details, such as Iran's nuclear commitments and the timing of sanctions relief, remain unresolved. In diplomatic circles, those are what experts refer to as "the important parts."

According to U.S. Central Command, American warplanes struck Iranian radar sites and drone command-and-control facilities on Qeshm Island and in Gorik, both located in Hormozgan province. The military said the operation followed Iran's shoot-down of an American MQ-1 drone.

American forces also intercepted and destroyed two Iranian attack drones that were deemed threats to commercial shipping. Given Iran's long-standing interest in making life miserable for anyone trying to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, that assessment wasn't exactly difficult to make.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps quickly announced that it had responded to the American attacks. The Guard Corps, which serves as both the regime's military enforcer and its favorite tool for projecting power throughout the region, portrayed its actions as defensive.

Kuwait, meanwhile, found itself once again caught in the middle. The country reported missile and drone attacks Monday as warning alarms echoed across the nation. U.S. Central Command said American defenses intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at U.S. forces stationed there.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman insisted the attacks were a defensive response to American operations. That's a familiar talking point from regimes that routinely define "defense" as launching missiles at their neighbors.

The latest exchange is particularly concerning for Kuwait, which suffered heavily during the broader conflict and has continued to absorb attacks even after the ceasefire that technically took effect in early April. The ceasefire has held about as effectively as most ceasefires involving Iran.

The Revolutionary Guard also claimed responsibility for shooting down an MQ-1 drone Sunday after it allegedly entered Iranian territorial waters. Whether that incident was a provocation, a misunderstanding, or simply another excuse for escalation depends entirely on which government spokesman is talking.

Behind the scenes, negotiators are reportedly discussing a memorandum of understanding that would reopen access through the Strait of Hormuz, extend the ceasefire, and create a renewable 60-day window to address Iran's nuclear program and sanctions relief. In theory, it would provide both sides with enough breathing room to end the conflict.

Not everyone is convinced.

American foreign-policy hawks and Israeli officials remain deeply skeptical of any agreement that eases pressure on Tehran without forcing significant concessions. Their concern is straightforward: Iran appears weaker than it has been in years, and they fear a rushed agreement could hand the regime economic relief while leaving its nuclear ambitions largely intact.

Trump weighed in Monday on social media, saying Iran wants to reach an agreement but complaining that criticism of the deal inside the United States is making that harder to accomplish.

That may be true. Then again, when missiles are still flying and drones are still falling out of the sky, it's understandable that some people might want to see the fine print before celebrating the arrival of peace.

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UAE tried to coordinate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to strike Iran during recent war - report

The United Arab Emirates attempted to persuade its neighboring Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to coordinate a military response to Iran’s barrage of missiles, rockets and drones during the recent war. When those neighbors declined, Abu Dhabi’s leadership was left frustrated, sources familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, widely known as MBZ, made several phone calls to fellow leaders, among them Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the immediate aftermath of the joint Israeli and American strikes on Iran that began on 28 February. Convinced of the strategic necessity for a unified retaliatory posture to deter Tehran, MBZ reached out in the expectation that shared peril might at last produce shared resolve.

Yet his neighbors demurred. This, they insisted, was not their war. 

The refusal has only deepened the strains already visible between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration, for its part, was fully aware of the Emirati proposal and lent its own weight to the effort to bring Riyadh and Doha into the fold.

MBZ sought to frame the moment in historical terms for his Gulf Cooperation Council counterparts. The GCC itself, he reminded them, had been founded in 1981 precisely in response to the threats unleashed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. The argument carried the logic of self-preservation. It did not carry the day.

These revelations offer one plausible explanation for the UAE’s subsequent conduct: its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ at the end of April, and its increasingly close alignment with Israel. Left without the collective shield it had sought, the Emirates acted alone. Despite the absence of Gulf support, Abu Dhabi carried out limited strikes against Iranian targets in both March and April.

Iran, for its part, repaid the region with ferocity. The UAE endured the most intense barrage of the entire conflict, with Tehran dispatching nearly 3,000 drones and hundreds of missiles toward Emirati territory before any truce took hold. Last week, Iranian forces struck the key oil port of Fujairah, hard by the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia, having declined coordination with its neighbor, eventually struck Iran on its own terms in March. Riyadh then pivoted, assisting Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Washington and Tehran. Qatar, meanwhile, briefly contemplated retaliation after Iran targeted the vast liquefied natural gas facility at Ras Laffan, but chose instead the safer ground of de-escalation. Bahrain and Kuwait, ever aligned with Saudi caution, likewise kept their distance. Oman, bound by longstanding ties to Tehran, was never expected to join such an enterprise.

Emirati and Saudi spokespeople have not responded to requests for comment. What remains is the portrait of a region divided even in the face of a common adversary, where the clearest strategic thinking has come from the smallest and most exposed player. The UAE, at least, appears to have drawn its conclusions from the episode. Whether its neighbours will eventually be forced to do the same is the question that now hangs over the Gulf.

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Search for missing pilot of downed F-15E jet now in second day

The ejector seat

The desperate search for the missing American pilot of an F-15E that was shot down over Iran stretched into the second day after his co-pilot was rescued in a daring search and rescue mission that saw other US aircraft targeted.

Crews were racing against time to find the second pilot of the Strike Eagle, which is believed to have gone down Friday in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in the southwestern part of the country near Iraq, The New York Times reported. Iranian officials quickly placed a bounty on the pilot’s head, calling on civilians to help capture him or her.

Retired Marine combat pilot Capt. Ron Alvarado told The Post the timing of the attack may bode in the US’s favor in terms of finding the pilot because of better night vision and infrared communication technology than Iranian combatants.

“We own the night,” Alvarado said. “Hopefully, he or she will be rescued by morning.”

By early Saturday local time there were no updates on the status of the missing pilot.

Both pilots reportedly ejected from the plane, with one located and rescued by US forces hours later. That pilot was being medically treated.

The Strike Eagle has an emergency locator beacon as part of a survival kit that can be activated automatically or manually, Alan Diehl, a former investigator for the Air Force Safety Center, said.Other US aircraft were caught in the crosshairs as crew members rushed into action after the first plane plunged to the ground.

Another US aircraft was also targeted after the initial attack that took down an A-10 Thunderbolt [aka Warthog]. 

The Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf area after it was struck by Iranian forces, but the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to US officials.

The A-10 Warthog was able to reach Kuwaiti airspace, where the pilot ejected and the plane crashed, an official told liberal network NBC News.

Iran terrorists using rifles also struck a pair of US military helicopters involved in the F-15E rescue, but all crew members are safe, a US official told NBC News.

Some of the crew were injured, but the choppers safely returned to their base, the Washington Post reported.

The F-15E is the first US aircraft to be shot down in Iran during Operation Epic Fury, in which the US and Israel have launched 20,000 strikes on the evil regime as the war stretched into its sixth week.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed its “newly developed and advanced air defenses” had downed the jet, which was “completely destroyed and crashed,” Tehran’s Press TV reported. 

A photo circulating online appeared to show one of the ejected seats seen at the top of the post.

The anchor of a local affiliate of the state TV broadcaster earlier urged Iranians to hunt down the downed “enemy” pilots and the regime is offering a reward for his capture.

“If you capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police, you will receive a precious prize,” the anchor said, according to the Associated Press.  Sources at Brain Flushings believes the reward to be 72 virgin goats.

President Trump, in a brief NBC News interview Friday afternoon, declined to discuss the specifics of the ongoing search for the outstanding pilot but insisted the series of strikes against US jets and choppers won’t sidetrack negotiations.

“No, not at all. No, it’s war,” he said. “We’re in war.”

The good news is that the pilot has not been captured and is likely using tactics to avoid detection, giving him a good chance of escape and return to friendly forces.

Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have boasted about how the operation against Tehran has knocked out much of Iran’s capabilities.

Hegseth said in early March near the start of the war that the US was “establishing total dominance over the skies we fly over and seas we fly over.”

Meanwhile, President Trump, in a primetime address to the nation Wednesday, said thanks to progress made during the war, his administration was “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly.”

More than 90% of Tehran’s missile and drone capacities have been eliminated in the month-long war, US officials have said. Still, Trump has refused to rule out putting American boots on the ground during the conflict.

On Friday, Iran used the successful attacks to taunt the US, reminiscent of Monty Python's "Black Knight."

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf criticized the US in an X post Friday that its “no-strategy war … has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”

A US F-35A was also damaged over Iran on March 19 during a combatmission, and 16 MQ-9 drones have been shot down. Three American F-15 fighter jets were also shot down over Kuwait in a friendly fire incident.

Hegseth revealed in a Pentagon news conference that the six downed crew members in those jets had “never left the theater” and returned to drop bombs on Tehran Tuesday.

Since the start of the war, 365 US service members have been wounded in action while the death toll is at 13, according to the Pentagon data available online.

It’s unclear if Friday’s incidents have been included in those figures.

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Report: US service members wounded in Iranian drone strike in Kuwait

The CBS News report published on Wednesday reveals a far grimmer picture than previously admitted of the Iranian drone strike on American forces in Kuwait.

United States service members suffered brain injuries, shrapnel trauma, and burns in the attack, which struck a tactical operations center at the Shuaiba port outside Kuwait City on March 1.

Sources described a “grim and chaotic scene” in the strike’s aftermath, according to CBS, and more than 30 American military members were hospitalized.

What emerges here is not merely an underreported incident but a stark illustration of how rapidly the costs of confrontation can mount, and how initial accounts—whether from design or caution—can obscure the true human toll when Iran chooses to strike directly at American personnel in the opening hours of open conflict. The injuries detailed, from traumatic brain effects to severe burns and embedded shrapnel, speak to the indiscriminate violence of such drone assaults, even against a fortified position. That dozens were wounded so badly, with some facing possible amputation and many requiring urgent evacuation to facilities in Germany, Walter Reed, and elsewhere, underscores a reality that polite official statements had earlier downplayed.

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Besides destroying IRGC infrastructure, the US destroys their lies after Khamenai is also destroyed

The United States didn't pull any punches. It straight-up called out Tehran by name, shredding what CENTCOM describes as outright lies from the Iranian regime in a no-nonsense, point-by-point smackdown posted just hours after the joint U.S.-Israel operation that took out Iran's Supreme Leader.

This fact-check blitz hit right after the coordinated strike that eliminated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a hit that U.S. officials are calling a major takedown in the regime's long-running terror spree and chaos across the region.In a couple of tough posts on X, CENTCOM directly slapped down claims from Iran's UN ambassador and the IRGC, branding them false and accusing Tehran of trying to snow the whole world.

At a UN Security Council session, Iran's ambassador insisted Tehran's retaliation was aimed "solely and exclusively at the bases and assets of the United States. "CENTCOM shot that down hard."

The Iranian Regime is actively targeting civilians and has attacked more than a dozen locations," the command declared, then rattled off the sites it says got hit.Those include: 

Dubai International Airport

Kuwait International Airport

Zayed International Airport in Dubai 

Erbil International Airport in Iraq, 

Fairmont Palm Hotel in Dubai, 

Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, 

Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bahrain, 

Port of Dubai, 

residential areas in Beit Shemesh, Israel, 

residential areas in Tel Aviv, 

Israel, residential area of Era Views Towers in Bahrain, 

residential areas in Qatar.

This public call-out ramps up the messaging war big time, with Washington accusing Iran of slamming civilian targets while feeding the international community a bunch of garbage.In another whopper, the IRGC claimed it nailed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier with ballistic missiles. CENTCOM wasn't having it.

"The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close," the command fired back, and media video shows that this is true.

The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.

"These blunt denials drop as the U.S. and Israel keep hammering Iranian military targets in their joint ops, going after air defenses, missile setups, naval forces, you name it. 

By flat-out labeling Tehran's spin as bogus, the U.S. is fighting the info war right alongside the kinetic one, pushing back on Iranian propaganda, steadying allies, and making crystal clear that key American assets are still locked and loaded.

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U.S., U.K., Canada and others urge their citizens to evacuate Lebanon as Iranian terrorists escalate terror on Israel

At least ten countries are alerting their citizens in Lebanon to get out of there as fast as they can as the religion of peace worshiping Iranian organizations ramp up terror attacks on Israel's northern border. It's possible that a second front in the war could begin in Israel's war against Islamic terrorists in the region.

Israel officials worry that Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization operating out of Lebanon, is preparing to launch a full-scale attack on Israel's northern border with their 20,000 jihad terrorists. They have approximately 150,000 rockets at the ready and could easily overwhelm Israel's Iron Dome defense, a number that gets Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar moist.

Hezbollah high-ranking official Hashem Safieddine gave a speech to thousands of unwashed supporters on Wednesday, claiming that the terrorist group was “thousands of times stronger” than it was in the past, and threatening Israel and the West, warning that attacks on Hezbollah would be a “resounding” mistake, even though it would be the only reasonable thing the Jewish State would do in an existential response.

And while Hezbollah shakes its bloody fist and screams, the IDF might very well have the capability to kick its proverbial ass in battle.

Never again means never again--it doesn't mean "don't."

The countries that have told their citizens to "get out of Dodge" include the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Canada, France, Kuwait, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and Australia.

On Monday, the IDF announced that residents of 28 towns along the Israel-Lebanon border needed to immediately evacuate the area. These communities are: Ghajar, Dishon, Kfar Yuval, Margaliot, Metula, Avivim, Dovev, Ma’ayan Baruch, Bara’m, Manara, Yiftach, Malkia, Misgav Am, Yir’on, Dafna, Arab al-Aramshe, Shlomi, Netu’a, Ya’ara, Shtula, Matat, Zari’t, Shomera, Betzet, Adamit, Rosh HaNikram, Hanita and Kfar Giladi. 

Hezbollah's primary goal is the elimination of Jews and the targeting of the United States all over the world as it has operations in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. 

Thanks to former President Barack Hussein Obama (D) the terrorist organization grew quickly. He even let them smuggle in many tons of illicit drugs into the US as his weak way of appeasing the alligator known as Iran while believing they'd go along with the proposed nuclear deal. 

Can I get a WTF?

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Fencers from Iraq, Kuwait afraid of losing to Israelis: bail from international competition

When Kuwaiti fencer Abdulaziz Alshatti, 32, withdrew from competition in Istanbul [it was once Constantinople] when he discovered that he was scheduled to duel against an Israeli. The very thought of losing to a Jew was more than he could bare, and he tried to save face by simply claiming to have an ingrown pubic hair which restricted his lunge and parry. 

Alshatti [the second 'a' is pronounced like an 'i'] said that his trust in Allah is great and perhaps some time in the future he will go up against "the Jew" and beat him unmercifully. "But for now, my groin is killing me and I have to carefully bow out."

Ironically, Alshatti also pulled a groin hair in the 2018 World Fencing Championship when he was matched up with an Israeli opponent with better skills. And other Kuwaiti cowards have also done the same when it came to going head-to-head with "those Zionists."

As a way to avoid further pubic hair calamities, in May 2021, Kuwait's National Assembly unanimously approved bills outlawing all efforts to normalize relations with Israel.

Israel sticks it to them

The Iraqi national fencing team said in a released statement that it too was withdrawing from the FIE World Cup also to evade being paired up with members of the Israeli team who would disgrace them with better fencing skills.

Both the Iraqi and Kuwaiti teams walked away with their tails between their legs, which may be the reason their pubic hairs were getting pulled.

Israel's advice to both teams: "Be a mensch."

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While Biden blasts MAGA Republicans, US flies 2 B-52H Stratofortresses over Middle East

As tensions increase with Iran, the world's number one sponsor of terrorism, the US flew a pair of nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortresses over the Middle East on Sunday. They were escorted by air forces from the UK, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).

President Biden forgot to talk about Iran, China, Russia and other threats to the nation in his speech last week.

Anyway, this was the fourth Bomber Task Force (BTF) mission in 2022 and if things don't change with Iran, and they keep messing with us at sea as they did with taking our sea drones, this will not be the last mission to be flown there.

During Sunday's mission, the B-52 long-distance bombers left from England and flew over the Eastern Mediterranean, Arabian Peninsula, and Red Sea.

"This Bomber Task Force is a strong, clear representation of enduring US commitment to the region," Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, 9th Air Force commander, said in a statement.

"Threats to the US and our partners will not go unanswered. Missions like this BTF showcase our ability to combine forces to deter and, if necessary, defeat our adversaries," as in blow them to smithereens. 

Dear Ayatollah: Coming to a neighborhood near you

As fighter jets from the United Kingdom, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia escorted the B-52 bombers overhead, Army Central forces simulated firepower on the ground.  This is kind of equivalent to a schoolyard tough guy grabbing his crotch just before he's ready to throw a punch.

The Biden administration has tried to negotiate with Iran for 16 months in order to revive the useless and now defunct Iran Nuclear Deal. While Iran responded to the US proposal to reopen negotiations, the State Department said that it was "not constructive."

Iran may claim that it has no intentions of building a nuclear bomb, they're about as believable as a scorpion promising a frog that it won't sting it when crossing the pond. They have already enriched 3,800 kilograms of uranium up to 60% purity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Under the previous terms of the nuclear deal, Iran could only have 300 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 3.67%.

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Just last Monday, Iran seized an unarmed American sea drone in the Arabian Gulf and the USS Thunderbolt and MH-60S Sea Hawk chopper were dispatched to stop the seizure.

Then last Thursday, an Iranian warship seized and detained two US sea drones, but the U.S. 5th Fleet again dispatched two destroyers and a helicopter to deter them.

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Khizr Khan believes Sharia overrules the Constitution

Khizr Khan lost his son in the Iraq war. That's very sad, but it doesn't mean that Donald Trump, or anyone else who didn't lose a child in a war, hasn't sacrificed, as Khan said of Trump. 

The same would apply to the Clintons, but hey, that's asking too much.

Using the death of one's son for political reasons really sucks, and that's what Khan did, and he did it to challenge Trump on his stance over the immigration of Muslims. 

Trump wants a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S."until we can figure things out," and Khan has consistently worked on getting as many Muslim immigrants to the U.S. as possible.

Kahn, a Harvard lawyer, said that he believes Donald Trump never read the Constitution and offered him his pocket version. He alluded to the false premise that the Constitution does not allow for a religious test for immigration. That simply isn't true, and a lawyer like Khan or Hillary, should know that fact.

The truth is, there is nothing in the Constitution that forbids a religious test for foreigners from entering the country.

 The 'No Religious Test Clause' within Article VI, Clause 3 states that "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution, but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. [Italics mine.]
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It was never about immigration. And if any religion (such as Islam) poses a threat to the United States, it is the duty of the President to protect the nation, which Trump's [temporary] plan would do.

In 1983, Khan gave rave reviews to a book titled "Human Rights In Islam" which was compiled from a seminar in Kuwait. In the review, Khan praised the keynote speaker, fellow Pakistani Allah K. Brohi (his friends call him God) to the sky. 

Brohi is a pro-jihad Islamic jurist who was a close adviser to the late Pakistani dictator General Zia ul-Haq, the daddy of the Taliban (pronounced "Tahleebahn" by President Obama) terrorist group.

Khan gets all hot and bothered by Brohi's interpretaton of human rights, including the right to kill and mutilate those who violate Sharia as well as the right of men to 'beat" their wives who act "unseemly." 

Khan was 'all in' for that Sharia garbage.

When Brohi was Pakistan's minister of law and religious affairs, he created hundreds of madrassas and brought back Sharia punishments (such as amputations for theft and demanding that women who were raped produce 4 male witnesses or face adultery charges which could lead to a stoning if she couldn't get witnesses to bear her out). 

Insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed, became a crime punishable by death (see Charlie Hebdo). Judges in Pakistan were required to consult a mullah before making a judgment. 

All of this was praised by Khan. Not so much by abused women.

After Khan was outed by Walid and Ted Shoebat and Robert Spencer, he took down his website. That was after the Trump attack by Khan.

Kind of like deleting emails, right?

Hillary Clinton either doesn't care about Khan's history or that he advocates women being beaten by their husbands or doesn't care about the death sentences given to those who violate Sharia . .  or she never vetted Khan before she used him as her attack Muslim. 

In either case, it is clear that if anyone is not "fit to be president'," it's Hillary Clinton.

And if anyone is going to be nominated for "Father of the Year," it should be Donald Trump before Khizr Khan any day.


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Hillary's blatant hypocrisy

In her fight for women's health, the LGBT community and the presidency of the United States, Hillary Clinton has reached out to her Clinton Foundation donors, but faces an uphill battle in trying to get their support and win the job as POTUS.

Saudi Arabia, who had "donated" $50 million to the Clinton Foundation said they would not, under any circumstances, support women's rights or gay rights on any level. In fact, Saudi officials made it clear that they did not want to deal directly with Ms. Clinton as she is a woman and considered inferior to men, and the idea of any woman running a country is ludicrous as far as they're concerned.

The Saudis said they preferred to deal with her husband Bill, whose philandering is appreciated by the Islamic nation as they are permitted multiple wives and understand Bill's insatiable sexual appetite.

In fact, Saudi Arabia, like some other Islamic countries, kills homosexuals as prescribed in the Koran. Depending upon the circumstances, the penalty for committing a homosexual act can be public flogging (100 lashes for adultery)  or other strict Sharia sentence.

While Ms. Clinton eagerly accepts money from this homophobic, misogynist nation, she doesn't confront their beliefs nor advertise them to her constituents. 

The Saudis also tend to treat women worse than their camels. 

Saudi women cannot leave home without a male relative as an chaperone, and must be covered "modestly" to ensure they're not raped for indecency or beaten by the "Morality Police." 

Morality Police? What an oxymoron.

Algeria, another Islamic country, donated only $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clintons, but refuse to help gays and any gays caught in their country can get anywhere from 2 months to 2 years in the slammer. If one person is under 18, the other can get as many as 3 years and fined 10,000 dinars. That isn't a lot of money by our standa, about $124, but in Algeria, it's substantial. Human rights in Algeria kind of suck too, but Hillary doesn't care where the money comes from as long as it comes.

Other Islamic countries that have given to the Clintons that treat women with contempt and homosexuals with strong punishments are:

Brunie: donated $1 million to $5 million
Kuwait: donated $5 million to $10 million
Qatar: donated $5.8 million
Sultanate of Oman: donated $1 million to $5 million
United Arab Emirates: donated $11.5 million

Jamaica gave anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 which for Hillary is "chump change." She makes more than that in a 20-minute Wall Street speech. 

And while being gay isn't a crime in Jamaica, they imprison gays who are caught in the act up to 10 years. 

So while Hillary claims to support gay rights, the LGBT community, and women's rights, her lack of voice against countries who clearly oppose these rights speaks volumes.

The only thing Hillary Clinton clearly supports is Hillary Clinton.



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Breaking: 10 U.S. sailors being held by Iran

Nine males and one female U.S. sailor are being "detained on Tuesday by Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces," according to FoxNews.com. The report they put out said that their boats apparently became disabled in the Persian Gulf, but this has not been confirmed.

The timing is perfect for the Iranians--President Obama is about to give his State of the Union speech outlining the wonderful job he has done over the past 7 years, but it looks like Iran has thrown in a monkey wrench to the gears of balderdash.

The original report said that the sailors would be released "promptly," but now Iran is saying that they want to wait until morning--they don't want to release them in the middle of the night. This must be in accordance with the Revolutionary Guard Union regulations stating that no Guard is to work beyond 5:00 p.m.

No surprise, Obama isn't arguing this detail and will wait. Kerry may or may not believe Iran, but he doesn't actually count.

This latest insult of our power by Iran occurred near Farsi Island in the Gulf. The Pentagon reports that one of the two small craft had mechanical trouble, which caused one or both to run aground. Iran then picked up the sailors and brought them to the island but their whereabouts is not known at this time.

The boats were moving between Bahrain and Kuwait when the trouble occurred and contact was lost with the crews.

Now is John Kerry's chance to shine. [LMAO]

Obama pom-pom girl, Jen Psaki, told reporters that the president will not be addressing this latest crisis because, she likely believes, it isn't a big deal like gun-control and stuff. The president will also not be addressing the other four hostages whose release he failed to negotiate for, but he will talk about his most excellent term in office.

If we're lucky, perhaps he'll shed another tear over gun control issues.

Fox News was told by a senior Obama official that Iran has assured the U.S. that the sailor's safety and well-being" is being attended to, and that they "will promptly be allowed to continue their journey," and they still want the $150 billion.


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Arab nations now want UN to make the Western Wall Islam's own

Nothing will easily stop the spread of this disease. People are dying from it all over the world. It sneaks up on you when you're on your way home from work, or from visiting your grand kids and suddenly some stranger tries to kill you with a knife or a meat cleaver. He cuts your arm, you bleed profusely, and just as he's ready to cut your throat, another citizen shoots the stranger dead.

The disease is called orthodox Islam; the place, for now, is Israel.

Some people in the West who want to divorce this ongoing terrorist behavior from the actual religion of Islam and refer to it as radical Islam. It's only radical if you're not a very religious Muslim, otherwise it's perfectly Islamic to kill the infidel.

Rumors were told of how Israel had its sights on the Temple Mount which is considered sacred by both Jews and Muslims. The rumors were false.

Another rumor was told to angry Palestinians of how a 13-year-old boy was executed by the Jews. But in spite of the fact that the boy stabbed another 13-year-old boy to death as he rode his bicycle, and then stabbed another adult and was captured, the kid is now in an Israeli hospital receiving treatment. Another false rumor debunked by visual proof.

But to add insult to injury, as they say, there is a plan by six Arab nations to rid the Jewish State's claim to its holiest site. On Wednesday, the United Nations' so-called cultural arm will vote on this claim that the site should go to the Muslims.

The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt all affirm "that the Buraq Plaza is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque" and if passed by UN vote would make the Jewish Western Wall an Islamic domain on the Temple Mount.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded by this disgusting proposal and said "This is a clear endeavor to distort history, in order to erase the connection between the Jewish People and its holiest site, and to create a false reality."

The recent attacks by Palestinian scumcrumpet terrorists that were, in part, caused by the phony rumor mentioned above, that Israel tried to change the status quo at the Temple Mount. So the response by these Muslim nations is to do exactly what they are accusing Israel of doing! 

Historically, the Western Wall is what remains of a retaining wall that was part of the second Jewish temple. While Jews are not permitted to pray on the Temple Mount, by rabbinic decree, they are allowed to pray at the Western Wall, which is the closest they can venture to their most hallowed site.

But the religion of peace, as some dhimmies call it, does not want Jews anywhere near the site. In fact, the religion of peace doesn't want Jews anywhere.

The vote was originally slated for Tuesday in gay Paris, but UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian diplomat, tried to delay it saying she "deplores the recent proposals under discussion by the UNESCO Executive Board that could be seen to alter the status of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list, and that could further incite tensions." She also said "The protection of cultural heritage should not be taken hostage."

As if orthodox Muslims need a legitimate reason to be angry or take hostages.

The draft decision, which refers to the Jewish State as "Israel, the Occupying Power," was circulated by the aforementioned Arab states because Palestine isn't a member of the UNESCO Executive Board. The five-page document has only one sentence crafted to push the Western Wall into Islam's purview.

Sneaky scumcrumpets, so it appears.

The rest of the document blames Israel for all the violence past and present and stresses an Islamic claim to everything on the Temple Mount and screw the Jews if they don't agree.

It's bad enough that Muhammad got bad information when he wrote the Koran (with the help of a scribe who wasn't an illiterate like him), and put Alexander the Great over a thousand years in the wrong era of history. But to steal Jewish history and claim it for their own is highway robbery.

Then again, Muhammad actually engaged in highway robbery of caravans in the desert. 

Now his followers want to do the same to the Jews with their holy sites.

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Jihadi John's Work Ethic

It looks like Mohammed Emwazi was never going to need the help of the US State Department to land a job. Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, had worked for a Kuwaiti IT company and was a kick-butt salesman, The Guardian reports. 

Like many serial killing crazies whose neighbors say things like: "Gee, he was so quiet and polite, I never figured he'd kill all the neighbors on the opposite side of the street," his former boss said that he was quiet and withdrawn, but had a natural gift for his work. In fact, the boss gushed with praise, "He was the best employee we ever had." He also said, 'He was very good with people. Calm and decent. He came to our door and gave us his CV."

The staff was surprised that someone from London would want to work in Kuwait as many of his peers looked to do the opposite.

"How could someone as calm and quiet as him become like the man who we saw on the news? It's just not logical that he could be this guy."

Yeah, right. 

Like Osama bin Laden was a raving lunatic? It wasn't as if you could tell by looking at Osama that he was the evil mastermind behind the terrorist attacks that killed so many Americans. 

Actually, if you have ever seen photos of Osama, you might have noticed his faraway stare and gentle smile. He was looking into his mind's eye and seeing Allah, or perhaps Muhammed making love to Aisha when she was 9. He wasn't angry, he was religiously driven to kill us via jihad.

Emzawi is doing the same--he is simply carrying out his religious obligation to commit jihad in the name of Islam. It isn't personal, it's just Islam, and that is why he can be polite and calm. Cutting off the head of infidels is just his way of getting into Jannah, (or Paradise).

So now we know Mohammed Emzawi is just an ordinary guy with a computer background, a sharp knife, and dark eyes. 

It's just a matter of time until some idiot young woman whose letters went unanswered by DzhokharTsarnaev, will develop a terror-crush on Emzawi. Perhaps she will hope and wait until he is captured so she can try her luck once more. Hopefully, that will happen soon and we can get information from yet another Mohammed.

But first, Rolling Stone Magazine will need to put a Photoshopped picture of him on their cover so they can glorify this piece of work.

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