[IsraelTimes] As Trump negotiates, Arab states seem to be pushing for war to continue until certain demands are met, driven by the damage wreaked by Hormuz’s closure and attacks on energy sites.
It’s the New York Times, so the details may even be true.
[NYT] A surge of weapons is flowing from the U.S. to Mexico. These firearms — sourced from gun shops, shows, websites and apps — are funneled across the border to fuel the country’s most violent crimes.
The 17-year-old sat in a hotel room, running a high-stakes logistics hub from his smartphone. He scrolled through listings of weapons for sale on WhatsApp and fielded requests like a call-center operator, dispatching orders in real time: Kalashnikovs, AR-15-style rifles and lots of ammunition.
The pace of business has become relentless, said the arms smuggler, the Arizona-born son of a local cartel cell leader. Though still in high school here in Phoenix, he is now handling as many as 200 firearms orders a week, roughly double what he shipped to Mexico before President Trump returned to the White House and pressed for a crackdown on the cartels.
Moving the weapons into Mexico is easy, he said, despite increased surveillance and enforcement on both sides of the border. “No one stops you unless you run a red light,” he said.
As the Trump administration pushes the Mexican government to do more against drug cartels, an unintended beneficiary has emerged from the U.S. pressure campaign: the weapons smugglers who supply guns to the Sinaloa Cartel, the criminal powerhouse behind much of the fentanyl flooding American streets.
Mexican and U.S. authorities have poured billions of dollars into stemming the flow of drugs, particularly fentanyl going north. Yet gun traffickers have quietly moved what they say is an unprecedented amount of weapons south, arming the very criminal group the U.S.-Mexico effort was meant to weaken.
Over the past year and a half, the demand for weapons has exploded as the Sinaloa Cartel wages a three-front war: confronting an intensified offensive by the Mexican government, battling rival factions within its own ranks and stocking up for the prospect of U.S. military intervention.
I spent weeks interviewing seven cartel operatives directly involved in buying and delivering firearms from the United States. They are all tied to the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most powerful criminal groups. Two of the dealers are based in Arizona and the five others operate in Sinaloa state, the cartel’s stronghold.
The smugglers spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from law enforcement and their bosses. Their accounts provide chilling details of how weapons sold in American gun shops and at gun shows — and increasingly through websites and phone apps that operate like open marketplaces — are funneled to Mexican cartel members and used in some of the country’s most violent crimes.
#3
They are referencing a country wherein skilled military personnel not only defect to the cartels, their entire service is subsidized.
Worse yet it isn't a matter of helicopter pilot slips away clandestinely. More like he departs with his co-pilot, ground crew, and oh that's right the aircraft as well. Keep that thought including but absolutely not limited to armored vehicles and any crew served weapon.
They don't need the nervous 17 year old, they have the Mexican armed forces to chose from, and let's not forget neighboring Central America, too. Mone3y talks and especially the numbers they are showing.
[PJ] German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on March 30, and immediately coming out of that meeting, at a joint press conference, Merz said that a significant number of Syrian refugees who’ve made a home in Germany will be repatriated to Syria.
How many are we talking, exactly? Try 80% of the Syrians in Deutschland, or 700,000 to 800,000. That’s how many Syrian immigrants will be returned to Syria from Germany over the next three years.
#3
Just telling them they’re not welcome will not drive them to go home and live under tyranny, when they can continue in the criminal demimonde as they have been.
[RedState] The American relationship with NATO has never been more strained. Despite decades upon decades of propping up Europe's defense while its leaders spend all their money on welfare programs and mass migration, the United States is now having to fight over something as mundane as transiting the airspace of its alleged "allies."
According to President Donald Trump, France denied the use of its airspace to American cargo planes transporting munitions to Israel as part of Operation Epic Fury.
France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have been asked to do very little in support of this mission. For the most part, the request has simply been for them not to get in the way. This constitutes getting in the way, and it's a betrayal that should not go unchecked.
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All of the countries have a large Islamic migrant population, I suspect they fear riots and internal terrorist attacks.
France: Not the first time France has done this, France did the same thing during the US attack on Libya in 1986. They have also denied overflight to a SR-71 returning from a mission (which we ignored). France doesn't like being reminded that France just isn't that important to the US or the rest of the world.
Germany: We spent decades after WWII teaching Germany not be militarily aggressive. They learned that lesson a bit too well.
England: Starmer is a world class idiot.
#6
And we shouldn't withdraw from NATO, just reduce our basing in many of the NATO countries and pivot toward making the Pacific our primary focus.
Like remaining in the UN, remaining in NATO gives us more options than not being a member.
[FoxNews] Cameron Chell says Iran may already have sleeper cells in the U.S. capable of building and deploying FPV drones for attacks
Iran is building a decentralized drone warfare capability in Tehran’s apartment building basements powered by inexpensive technology sourced from China, a leading defense expert has warned.
Draganfly’s Cameron Chell also said this emerging system — centered on first-person-view (FPV) drones — could pose a threat not only across the Middle East but potentially to the U.S. homeland.
"The FPVs are Iran’s Hail Mary because they are very hard to defend, are incredibly effective and can be delivered in a manner without having to have a central command," Chell told Fox News Digital.
"So, whether it's the Iranian army, whether it's militia groups or Iranian patriots, they can all create or procure their own FPVs and get offensive."
He added that "Iran could be reiterating FPVs and churning out more than 100,000 a month over time."
"Iran's got either militias or sleeper cells in the states who can, in my estimation, already build this equipment," Chell clarified.
Chell’s warning comes as recent incidents in Iraq highlight the growing use of FPVs.
At Baghdad International Airport, Iranian-backed militias operating under the "Iraqi Islamic Resistance" umbrella have launched multiple FPV drone attacks.
Footage released in March 2026 allegedly shows an FPV drone striking a U.S. UH-60M or HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, while another attack successfully hit a U.S. AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar unit at the same base.
"FPVs are a central core theme, and Iran is building these itself, suspecting they’re pulling parts in from China and getting the parts through some pretty porous borders. So, it is very difficult to stop that," Chell said.
He warned that Iran’s strategy mirrors what has already occurred in Ukraine, where decentralized drone manufacturing has flourished.
"There will be, or already is, an underground industry for FPV and drone manufacturing, which will or is swelling up inside Iran, the exact same way that we saw it swell up inside Ukraine," he explained.
"This is going to be happening in people's homes in Iran, people's basements, the basements of apartment blocks, where they can construct makeshift assembly lines.
"I am confident China and Russia are shipping in parts to help support the development of drone assembly or manufacturing capability, which is a de facto decentralized cottage industry."
Concerns extend beyond overseas battlefields as about 1,500 Iranians were intercepted at the U.S. border during the Biden administration.
Officials warn the unknown number who evaded detection raises fears of potential "sleeper cells."
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I'm hoping some agency is tracking any high volume purchasing of drone parts here in the US.
LeT Terrorist Shabir Ahmed Lone Reveals ISI-backed Plot to Recce Delhi Temples, Key Commercial Hubs
New Delhi: Fresh investigations have revealed major details about Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed terror plot after the interrogation of arrested… pic.twitter.com/hhiNC6vLG4
LeT Terrorist Shabir Ahmed Lone Reveals ISI-backed Plot to Recce Delhi Temples, Key Commercial Hubs
New Delhi: Fresh investigations have revealed major details about Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed terror plot after the interrogation of arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Shabir Ahmed Lone. According to officials, an accused arrested earlier had conducted a recce of commercial locations and religious sites in Delhi. These sites included Kalkaji Temple, Lotus Temple and Chhatarpur Temple. After completing the recce, a video was sent to Pakistan, revealing Lone, as per the investigators. The accused had also recorded footage of Connaught Place. This comes a day after Lone was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from the Ghazipur area. After his arrest, he was produced before a court, which sent him to five days of police custody.
Lone told interrogators that ISI was planning to create a terror outfit modelled on The Resistance Front (TRF). Notably, TRF was involved in carrying out the Pahalgam terror attack last year. Investigators said Lone remained in regular touch with handlers of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, identified as Asif Dar and Sumama Babar.
[Rudaw] Nearly half of the drone and missile attacks launched on the Kurdistan Region since the start of the Middle East war over a month ago have been carried out by the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said late Monday.
"During the 30 days of the war, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out 179 attacks, while affiliated militia groups operating inside Iraq and funded by the Iraqi government launched 295 attacks against the Kurdistan Region," the KDP’s Foreign Relations office said in a post on X.
The KDP said Erbil province bore the brunt of the strikes with 370 attacks, followed by Sulaimani with 90, Duhok with 11, and Halabja with three.
"The attacks employed a range of weapons and tactics: suicide drones/UAVs - 359 incidents (75.74%), missiles - 104 incidents (21.94%), artillery shelling - 10 incidents (2.11%), and small-arms fire - 1 incident (0.21%)," the statement detailed.
The report also said that around 228 of the attacks - representing "60.76% of all drone and missile threats - were intercepted, neutralized, or failed to reach their intended targets."
Latest figures published by the human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organization Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) show that 14 people were killed and 93 others injured between February 28 and Monday due to the war and related attacks.
The US and Israel launched a coordinated military campaign against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on February 28, with the US Central Command (CENTCOM) reporting on Saturday that more than 11,000 targets have been struck across Iran so far.
In response, Tehran has carried out thousands of drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, targeting alleged US assets in the region - particularly in Gulf Arab states - as well as launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
Iran’s response has also involved Iraqi gangs aligned with the Tehran-led "Axis of Resistance®," with several factions claiming responsibility for attacks on purported US targets in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. The latest incident included a drone attack targeting the Duhok residence of Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani.
In a sharply worded statement, KDP leader Masoud Barzani said that while the Kurdistan Region "has never been part" of regional conflicts, there are "some groups" that "unjustly and repeatedly attack the Region and its Peshmerga forces," posing a threat to the lives and stability of its people.
"They have attacked our headquarters five times, yet we have remained silent to prevent fear and anger among the public," the Kurdish leader added, while strongly condemning the latest dronezap targeting President Nechirvan Barzani’s residence in Duhok.
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[REGNUM] Israel's legal landscape is undergoing significant changes. The Knesset (the Jewish state's parliament) has passed a controversial bill introducing capital punishment for those convicted of "terrorism" offenses. In reality, the law is aimed against Hamas and other groups and movements opposed to Israel. Absolutely. At least those who act murderously.
The "hawks," led by the ideologist of the innovation, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, are jubilant. They believe the threat of capital punishment will seriously dampen the enthusiasm of the Palestinian underground's neophytes, and the law itself will become a prelude to the establishment of a tribunal specifically for sentencing key Hamas functionaries.
Or Israel will kill them judiciously as well as while fighting, and so reduce the excess of murderous Muslims, as opposed to the peaceful kind.
However, other factions do not share this optimism.
It’s Israel. There are always other factions that disagree, whatever the topic.
A RARE MEASURE
Although Israeli law already provides for the death penalty under a number of articles (treason on the battlefield, participation in genocide, collaboration with the Nazis), the actual use of the death penalty here was extremely rare.
Indeed.
In the more than 70-year history of the Jewish state, the death penalty has been carried out here only twice: in 1948, when the field "troika" executed IDF Captain Meir Tuviansky (posthumously rehabilitated) on false charges of treason and panic, and in 1962, when the secret services kidnapped and hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Both cases were considered exceptional and entailed thorough internal investigations and legality checks.
Israel has not returned to capital punishment since the 1960s. Even after the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics, when public demands for the capture and public execution of all those involved in the attack on Israeli athletes, the authorities opted for a "silent hunt"—eliminating them on the spot, without wasting time and resources on legal proceedings.
And while this tactic generally satisfied the public, the issue of expanding the grounds for imposing the death penalty periodically returned to the agenda. Particularly significant controversy arose over the "terrorist" articles.
Israeli security officials repeatedly called for a crackdown, including due to concerns about the infiltration of radicals from Arab countries in the Middle East. However, they ultimately restrained themselves: the threat was too vague and difficult to interpret. Therefore, those convicted of terrorism offenses could receive multiple life sentences, but not the noose or a bullet.
Then eventually they were traded to Hamas at high multiples for Israelis and others Hamas had kidnapped.
BY MAJORITY VOTE
Since the outbreak of the conflict in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, public sentiment in Israel has changed dramatically.
Life imprisonment is no longer perceived as a sufficient response to the crime or a guarantee of full punishment for terrorists and insurgents.
Not when Hamas kidnapped so many from Israel specifically to trade them for imprisoned Palestinians, especially the most evil among them, thus getting political credit from the the general Palestinian population for doing something the secular Palestinian Authority did not.
This is especially true after Israeli authorities were forced to engage in several unequal prisoner exchanges (including "lifetime" ones) to free some of the hostages held by Hamas.
This sparked a wave of bills in the Knesset aimed at introducing the death penalty for terrorists. The far-right Otzma Yehudit party, led by Ben-Gvir, was particularly zealous in this regard. Despite numerous rejections and criticism from fellow members, the party members continued to insist on expanding the practice of capital punishment.
And after nearly three years of parliamentary debate, they finally prevailed. The Knesset passed the law imposing the death penalty by hanging for terrorists by a majority vote (62 to 48). All parties in the ruling coalition voted in favor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also welcomed the decision, calling it "timely."
The opposition came out in opposition, but not as a united front.
In particular, the faction of the supposedly liberal Yisrael Beiteinu party suddenly defected to the side of the death penalty advocates, giving them at least six votes in favor. With this support, the coalition deprived the opposition of its main trump card—the claim that the bill had been passed with minimal margins of approval, and therefore did not reflect the position of Israeli society as a whole.
"BEN GVIR'S LAW"
The new law, already informally dubbed the "Ben Gvir Law," significantly changes law enforcement's approach to combating terrorism. It also defines the areas where the new regulations will be applied to the greatest extent.
For most of the country, the so-called general regime applies, under which the death penalty is prescribed for the murder of an Israeli citizen "for anti-state motives." Denial of the legitimacy of Israeli statehood and the Holocaust may constitute aggravating circumstances.
The legal framework is much stricter in the Judea and Samaria region, home to Palestinian communities. There, the death penalty is becoming the default punishment for those convicted of "terrorism" offenses—regardless of whether the defendant committed murder, established caches, or smuggled weapons.
Only in exceptional cases and with sufficient justification, including the personal guarantee of an Israeli law enforcement officer, can the death penalty be commuted to life imprisonment. This makes the "Ben Gvir Law" an ideal instrument of repression.
Against this backdrop, the "hawks" are boasting that they "heard the public" and softened the final wording, adding the possibility of deferring the sentence "at the discretion of the court."
However, this "concession to the liberals" was more than compensated for by a simplification of the decision-making procedure. Judges now require a simple majority to approve a sentence, rather than unanimity, as was previously the case. The death penalty can appear in a sentence even without a motion from the prosecutor's office.
THE RISK OF ERRORS INCREASES
Rivals of the ruling coalition were dissatisfied with the upcoming legal changes. Former prime minister and current parliamentary opposition leader Yair Lapid
…who has beautiful hair. He demonstrated the exact caliber of his ability as caretaker prime minister for six months while a snap election was organized, but Bibi Netanyahu was the one to form the next government, thank goodness…
attempted to speak out against the law, calling it "bloodthirsty," "distorted," and "serving the interests of the right."
At the final plenary session, Lapid made sure to point out that the "fighters against terror" had completely forgotten to develop a special legal regime for the Gaza Strip, which is not covered by either the "general approach" or the "special" provisions created to stabilize the situation in Judea and Samaria. This created a legal paradox: Hamas supporters, who fought the Israeli army in Gaza for several years, are largely exempt from the new law.
Although Otzma Yehudit representatives promised to close the loophole with upcoming amendments, Lapid remained adamant. Even with the law amended post factum, Hamas supporters already convicted by Israel could only be sentenced to death if they were arrested again.
Security officials, led by former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, have also voiced criticism. However, unlike Lapid, they are more concerned about the excessively short time frame (no more than 90 days) between the trial and execution, given the irreversibility of the punishment.
The lack of time to double-check the investigator's arguments, coupled with the abandonment of the principle of "absolute consent" by judges, greatly increases the risk of errors against innocent people. The Tuviansky case, which all Israeli prosecutors, both military and civilian, begin their careers with a detailed study and analysis, serves as a silent reminder of the dangers of rushing trials, and the Israeli security forces are hardly eager to add more names to the statistics of errors.
However, the opposition considers the Ben Gvir Law's most weak point to be its inconsistency with the Geneva Convention—specifically, the prohibition on appeals and requests for pardons. This renders the adopted legal mechanism extremely unstable and illegitimate under international law, as stated by the UN and European countries. The latter are even threatening Israel with sanctions if it does not seriously revise the law.
But while external pressure doesn't seem to bother Israel much, the loss of formal ties to international law could derail some long-term plans. The country's authorities make no secret of their dream of holding a tribunal for Hamas's leadership, modeled on the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, and excessive criticism of international institutions could derail these plans.
Therefore, it's quite possible that after a brief testing of the situation, the Netanyahu cabinet will initiate a package of amendments to make the law more humane and compassionate. This, however, does not guarantee a softer approach to investigating the actions of Palestinian insurgents.
Not so long as they promise to keep repeating 10/7 over and over until the Jews clar out or are all dead, no.
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I doubt that fear of the death penalty provides much deterrence to true believers and persons with poor impulse control. It does, however, remove them from the board which limits their mischief-making.
As for the Paleos fearing death by hanging without due process, give them a fair trial and then hang them. It's not like their victims enjoyed any sort of due process.
#5
(a) It'll reduce the kidnaping for bargain attempts.
(b) It'll save money - more for IDF etc...
(c) It'll will send a message to the "friendly world" - these ARE NOT the Jews you're used to!!!
[IsraelTimes] US president says war ‘coming to an end’ even as he keeps amassing troops for potential invasion, expresses doubts Tehran can reach buried uranium; Netanyahu: Iranian nuclear production abilities ‘smashed’
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... on Tuesday said Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... does not have to agree to a deal to end the ongoing US-Israeli war with the Islamic Theocratic Republic, as he stated that the United States will probably wrap up the war in two or three weeks.
Trump also declared that Iran’s surviving stockpiles of enriched uranium did not concern him at all since they are buried underground and inaccessible, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel, during the current conflict, has "smashed" Tehran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons.
The remarks from both Trump and Netanyahu appeared to potentially set the stage for the conclusion of the war, even as the US has been amassing troops for a potential ground operation in Iran.
"No, [the Iranians] don’t have to make a deal," Trump said in response to news hounds’ questions at the White House, which later announced the president will "address the nation" about the war on Wednesday at 9 p.m. eastern time.
"When we feel that they are... put into the stone ages and won’t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, then we’ll leave, whether we have a deal or not," he said. "It’s irrelevant now."
Trump has claimed that the US already obliterated Iran’s nuclear program in strikes last year and said earlier Tuesday that he was not focused on Iranian uranium stockpiles, so it’s not clear what else Trump is looking to accomplish militarily. It also remains unclear if Iran will follow suit if the US unilaterally ceases fire.
"It’s possible that we’ll have a deal because they want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal," Trump added.
"But in a fairly short period of time, we’ll be finished, and they will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years," he continued.
"Maybe in a long time from now, [they’ll be] able to do a nuclear weapon, you’ll have a president [who] will be like me, and he will go there and knock the hell out of them again," Trump said, acknowledging that the ongoing war with Iran may not be definitive.
Just three weeks ago, Trump made the reverse claim, saying that he wanted to "make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it."
US TO BE ’LEAVING’ IRAN ’VERY SOON’
While speaking with the media Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump was adamant that the US will be "leaving" Iran "very soon," insisting that gasoline prices will subsequently "tumble down" as well.
After a news hound noted that Americans are feeling the financial squeeze at the gas pump, Trump declared they’re also "feeling a lot safer" because Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon.
Trump claimed the "detour" from improving the US economy was necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, something he said he already prevented in last year’s strikes against Tehran’s nuclear sites.
As for the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said other countries that want to get their oil through the key waterway will have to "fend for themselves," acknowledging that Iran could drop mines or direct machine gun and RPG fire at ships.
"I think it’ll be very safe, but we have nothing to do with that," Trump said of the strait, which Iran has shuttered in response to the US and Israeli attacks.
Trump stated the US has done its part by taking out dozens of Iran’s "radicalized lunatic" leaders.
He also reiterated his claim that the US has enacted "regime change" in Iran, even though the Islamic Theocratic Republic is still standing. Still, he asserted that the new leadership is "much more rational."
Trump then said regime change was not even his goal to begin with, even though he urged Iranians to take over the government once the bombing stops in the speech he gave upon launching the war.
He claimed that he only had one war aim: Ensuring Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
His aides have listed at least four other goals, though those too have ranged from the destruction of Iran’s missile program, the destruction of its navy, the destruction of its air force and the cessation of its support for proxies
Pressed for a more specific timeline for when the war might end, Trump responded, "I think week two or three weeks."
"Within maybe two weeks — maybe a couple of days longer," Trump added later on.
Trump has a history of providing two-week timelines in a variety of policy fields that he hasn’t typically stuck with.
"We want to knock out every single thing they have now, [But] it’s possible that we’ll make a deal before that," Trump said, adding that he’d like to hit some additional bridges in Iran, predicting that it will take 15 to 20 years to rebuild what has been hit in the war.
Speaking separately on Tuesday at a Pentagon briefing, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said American forces have carried out more than 11,000 strikes against Iranian targets, while revealing they have also successfully begun conducting "overland missions" of B-52 bomber sorties, thanks to the air superiority the United States has over Iran.
Also Tuesday, the White House said the US military was prepared to thwart any attacks by Iran, responding to threats by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against US tech giants, such as Apple and Google, in the region.
"The United States military is and was prepared to curtail any attacks by Iran, as evidenced by the 90 percent drop in ballistic missile and drone attacks by the terrorist regime," said a White House official, who did not wish to be named.
IRAN’S URANIUM ’DEEPLY BURIED’ UNDERGROUND
In an earlier phone interview with CBS, Trump said he doesn’t "even think about" Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, whose recovery some experts say is critical to ensuring that Tehran can’t rush to a nuclear weapon.
"I don’t even think about it. I just know that it’s so deeply buried it’s going to be very hard for anybody" to reach it, Trump said, referencing the US strikes last June on Iran’s nuclear facilities where the stockpiles are believed to be held.
"We’ve watched it. And at least I think finally people admit it was obliteration. It’s down there deep... Even without a war, they haven’t been able to do it. So... it’s pretty safe. But, we’ll make a determination," he added.
Asked when the war could wind down completely, Trump was again non-committal. "It won’t be long," he said.
"I would say we are two weeks ahead of schedule," Trump claimed, even though the White House previously said the war would last four to six weeks, and the war is now in its fifth week.
Trump added that it would take Iran "10 years to rebuild" after the war.
Later, in an NBC interview, Trump reiterated, "We’re doing great" in the war. "And it’s coming to an end."
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... in a video statement, Netanyahu lauded the IDF’s accomplishments in the war against Iran last June and in the current campaign, including "hitting hard and distancing two existential threats." Tehran, he specified, was "moving ahead to develop nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of ballistic missiles."
"In Operation Rising Lion, we removed from upon us the immediate threat of Iran arming itself with a nuclear weapon and many ballistic missiles," he said, referring to the June war. And in the current war, he added, "we brought a complementary achievement, by smashing the industrial capability of the regime to produce these tools of destruction."
Netanyahu said Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , Iran’s supreme leader who was killed on the war’s first day, had wanted to bury those programs deep underground to make them immune from Israeli attacks.
The premier promised that "sooner or later," the Iranian regime will fall — seemingly contradicting Trump’s assertion that the killing so far of a series of top Islamic Theocratic Republic officials has already constituted "regime change."
Netanyahu said that Iran’s "trillion dollar" investment in ballistic missiles, in nuclear enrichment and in supporting armed proxies "has gone down the drain."
He summed up 10 major achievements he said were accomplished in the war, including the creation of "security zones" in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Syria and Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... that are patrolled by the IDF.
He claimed that Israel has hit Iran and its axis with "10 plagues," a reference to the holiday of Passover, which begins Wednesday evening.
Netanyahu listed the blows Israel has delivered to terror groups Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and others in the West Bank, as well as to the ousted Assad regime in Syria. He also listed five "plagues" delivered to Iran — hitting its nuclear program, ballistic missiles, regime infrastructure, internal security forces, and big shots.
PAKISTAN, CHINA UNVEIL TRUCE PLAN; US REPORTEDLY DOESN’T OPPOSE IT
Also Tuesday, Pakistain and China issued a joint call for an immediate ceasefire followed by peace talks between the US and Iran.
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Five-Point Initiative of China and Pakistan for Restoring Peace and Stability in the Gulf and Middle East Region (Beijing, March 31,2026) pic.twitter.com/JAkSsro17a
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) March 31, 2026
Pak Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Beijing, after which they issued their five-point initiative.
The plan also calls for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and for a UN-backed peace agreement.
In a call with Israel’s Channel 12, Trump didn’t deny knowledge of the plan, saying only that talks about ending the war were progressing.
An official with knowledge of the details was cited by the outlet as saying that the White House does not oppose the Chinese-Pak initiative.
As soon as Trump has accomplished what the USA set out to do. Which was to kick Iran's A$$, destroy their Nuke building and Terrorist abilities, eliminate the elite Iranian extremists, deflection from Epstein & Kirk issues accomplished, and pull out.
Iran, will as usual jump on the propaganda wagon.
It will tell its people, that have little outside world real info, that it beat the USA & Israel back and has won again.
Then in the coming years the US Democrat-Socialists will steal another election.
Then the US Democrat-Socialists w & DC Swamp will funnel $$$ Billions to Iran for humanitarian, war damages, and to use for peaceful Nuclear Power plant building. The UN & EU will sit on its thumbs in dark places.
As certain US Democrat-Socialists, DC Swamp (RINO's) & EU Elites fill their pockets.
All while, Iran goes on yet another Nuke Weapon building/ Kill Israel agenda. Because, by this time Iran will have dug up the enriched uranium buried underground.
#3
Will China & Pakistan's serious need for oil imports cause them to force Iran into a deal? While China & Pakistan aren't upset when US concerns are negatively impacted, both countries need oil more than they need to see the US influence in the Middle East diminished.
🚨BREAKING: Because of the oil price crisis and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Austria has decided to open its only nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf on the Danube, which was completed in 1978 but never connected to the grid due to a negative referendum the same year. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/xt99cnyqAv
#5
"by this time Iran will have dug up the enriched uranium buried underground."
The IRI would have to be fools not to have already have put it a mile or two underground. AFAICT the USA doesn't have bombs to go that deep.
#6
No matter what happens on the ground, the MSM will report this as a devastating defeat for Trump and yet more evidence of Israeli genocide. The after-action articles have already been written.
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Iranian Scoreboard - we bought five to ten years and reduced a major threat to peace and stability
- We have de-fanged the Iranian regime for years to come
- made a huge impact on nations who had energy policies reliant on Hormuz transit normalcy and mythic green energy solutions
- showed the sane half of the American people just how feckless, weak and vestigial NATO has become
- really had a magnificent impact on public and world perception of the US military superiority when appropriately used and led
- spent an enormous amount of treasure squashing the IRGC et al, and endangering the last two years of Trump's administration to endless lawfare
- gave the Iranian people their best chance in decades to rid themselves of the Mullahocrasy and strangled Persian culture
- strengthened our Israeli allies dominance in the Middle East
- exposed just how divided our nation has become on virtually every significant public policy, cultural and social issues
- and refocused on our hemisphere awareness and a renewed sense of going it alone going forward...
U.S. and Israeli operations are now converging on the key areas the regime must hold.
This is not collapse yet. But the pattern is getting more dangerous for Tehran: U.S.-Israeli operations are hitting the regime’s political center of gravity in Greater Tehran, its…
U.S. and Israeli operations are now converging on the key areas the regime must hold.
This is not collapse yet. But the pattern is getting more dangerous for Tehran: U.S.-Israeli operations are hitting the regime’s political center of gravity in Greater Tehran, its ideological-security axis around Qom-Fordow, its military-industrial core in Isfahan-Natanz, and additional population centers such as Tabriz and Shiraz.
At the same time, the regime is acting like a government worried about what happens after the bombing as much as the bombing itself. Tehran is escalating arrests, executions, checkpoint control, and wartime legal threats to deter unrest before it starts.
The five hold areas I am watching most closely:
Read the rest at the link
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[IsraelTimes] Some officials fear the confab on the unstructured leftist movement is a distraction as the US faces a more pressing threat from Iran-linked terror groups
The Trump administration is organizing an international summit focused on countering the left-wing movement antifa and other groups, three sources familiar with the matter said, an effort that highlights the shift in the US government’s counterterrorism priorities over the past year.
The conference, tentatively planned for June or July, will convene officials from various nations to discuss strategies for battling antifa and encourage intelligence sharing, said the sources, who requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... has portrayed antifa as a severe threat to the US.
Counterterrorism experts argue it does not exist as an organized entity, though people claiming affinity to antifa have been involved in armed attacks in the US.
Among the officials organizing the event is Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Thomas DiNanno, said two of the people.
In response to requests for comment, spokespeople for the White House and State Department both described antifa as a major security concern for the Trump administration.
"The anarchists, Marxists, and violent mostly peacefulforces of Evil of antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda," said Tommy Pigott, the State Department’s principal deputy front man.
A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES
The planned event has raised concerns among some current and former officials, who argue that the summit would be a distraction when the US faces threats from Iran-sponsored terror groups driven by the war in the Middle East.
"I am just skeptical that now, with everything going on, when you see the number of plots being put together by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Hezbollah, that there really is a compelling need to spend limited counterterrorism resources on the antifa threat right now," said Michael Jacobson, who was the director of strategy, plans and initiatives for the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau until 2025. Now, he is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy think tank.
A State Department official argued the administration had taken "unprecedented steps to combat terrorism worldwide," including many actions against Hezbollah, Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... -based Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, and various narco mobs.
Many details of the planned event were unclear, including which countries were invited and would participate.
As of last week, formal invites for the conference had not yet been sent, two of the people said. The State Department official said no summit date had been set.
It was also unclear if the event would focus narrowly on groups or individuals that self-identify with antifa, or on left-wing groups generally. At times, senior administration officials have used antifa as public shorthand for leftist extremism of all stripes.
One source expected European governments to receive many of the invites. In November, the Trump administration designated four left-wing entities in Germany, Italia, and Greece as foreign terrorist organizations under US law. Seven people allegedly linked to one of those groups, known as Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... Ost, went on trial in Germany in November for charges including attempted murder.
The source said administration officials hoped to announce a global coalition countering antifa around the time of the planned conference.
ACTS OF VIOLENCE — BUT NO HIERARCHY
That’s the claim. It’s a blatant lie.
Antifa, short for "anti-fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... ," is not an organized political group but is a decentralized movement without a clear structure, command hierarchy, or leader, according to a 2020 Congressional Research Service report.
Some experts on political extremism, along with former FBI director Christopher Wray, have argued that antifa is better viewed as an ideology than a cohesive entity, and legal and civil rights advocates have expressed concerns that Trump’s pursuit of antifa amounts to an attempt to criminalize certain political views.
Supporters of the administration’s focus on antifa point out that individuals who identify as antifa sympathizers have, in fact, committed acts of violence.
A federal jury in Fort Worth this month convicted nine people, who prosecutors said were antifa operatives, on terrorism-related and weapons charges for an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas last year.
Trump first sought to designate the movement as a domestic terror organization in 2020, when left-wing demonstrators attacked federal buildings in Portland, Oregon, during weeks of unrest following the police killing of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... A self-identified antifa supporter shot and killed a member of the far-right group Patriot Prayer in Portland in August 2020 and was in turn killed by federal and local law enforcement officers.
IRAN THREAT LOOMS LARGE
Most Western counterterrorism officials are now focused on the threat of Iran-sponsored terror attacks directed at US, European, and Israeli targets.
Ahead of the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, the FBI warned law enforcement agencies that Tehran might try to retaliate for any US strikes by launching surprise drone attacks in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, according to a security bulletin seen by Rooters.
European police body Europol has warned that the conflict has "immediate repercussions" for European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... security, with an increased threat of acts of terror on the continent.
Both at home and abroad, US officials have in recent years focused more on right-wing extremism than left-wing extremism.
But Trump has made countering left-wing groups — and antifa in particular — a priority. He singled out the movement on the campaign trail in 2024, and he vowed to take action against left-wing groups he accuses of fomenting violence after the murder of conservative activist and ally Charlie Kirk in September.
Publicly available evidence in that case has not tied alleged assassin Tyler Robinson to antifa.
Shortly after the liquidation, Trump signed an executive order labeling antifa a "domestic terrorist organization."
Legal experts have said the domestic terrorist designation is legally and constitutionally dubious and raises free-speech concerns.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
