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Fasten your seatbelts. I have some surprises for you. This article is about one nation being respectful to all other nations. What! In general, ordinary citizens don’t understand, and don’t try to understand, what goes on among nations. Possibly diplomats know the ropes, but most of us relate to foreign policy, and war only as a … Read more
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a blood-soaked cartel that holds eighty-five million citizens hostage through terror, extortion, and executioner squads. American foreign policy stands on the brink of a catastrophic blunder if foreign boots step onto Iranian soil to fight a battle that belongs strictly to the Iranian nation. Foreign invasion breeds public … Read more
For nearly half a century, Israel and Iran have defined themselves partly through mutual hostility. That may be changing – not through official diplomacy between the two governments, which don’t exist, but through a growing, increasingly public relationship between Jerusalem and Iran’s exiled opposition, centered on Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. The clearest signal came recently … Read more
The Fall of a Tyrant’s Empire: A Final Warning to the IRGC and the West For forty-seven agonizing years, the ancient and noble land of Iran has lived under the suffocating boot of a brutal theocratic occupation. Today, the supreme architect of that misery, Ali Khamenei, is gone. He is dead, yet the apparatus of … Read more
Vermonters and at least one national Republican figure are responding to an elected Vermont official’s ‘death to America’ statements made last week while attending the funeral of the leader of Iran, who died in the early days of the war with Iran. According to an X post by Orange County High Bailiff Christopher Helali, he’s … Read more
Ali Khamenei ruled for thirty-seven years and built an empire on corpses. A US-Israeli airstrike ended his life on February 28, 2026 – and the blood-soaked machine he commanded didn’t blink. Khamenei sat atop Iran’s government in the summer of 1988 while death committees executed thousands of political prisoners in a matter of weeks. Dissidents, students, and … Read more
President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend. Khamenei was assassinated by the United States at the beginning of the February US surprise attack on Iran. The US attack on Iran was sold to … Read more
I’ve already explained the pervasive doomsday belief of the Iranians and how this makes it impossible to come to any sort of rational conclusion to the Iran conflict. They will lie, cheat, drag their feet while feigning compliance, and ultimately, break any agreement signed or otherwise agreed to, in order to advance their obsession with … Read more
“If you know the enemy … you need not fear the results of battle.” So said the ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu in The Art of War, which has long been studied by military professionals—but not so much by American presidents. Franklin D. Roosevelt went to the 1945 Yalta Conference planning to charm and cajole Soviet … Read more
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. and Iran agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to bring the months-long war to an end. The formal signing is planned to take place at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday. The MOU is not a final, negotiated “peace deal.” But it is the first important … Read more
I have no idea what the Iran Deal will include beyond the 14-point MOU included below. Stop being the global sponsor of terror, give up an armed nuclear future, and allow actual inspections. It’s not complicated. You have a right to your own sovereignty but not the right to hold the world hostage. If you … Read more
Joe Scarborough, of MSNOW Morning Joe, opened his Monday show with talk of the tentative Iran deal that ends the conflict in the Middle East and opens the Strait of Hormuz. This is a historic moment as it possibly ends the nearly 45-year-old stranglehold that Iran has had on the region and the world. But … Read more
Today, on your Morning Update, the Iran thing is a thing that, like most things, would shrink onto the back burner but for the obvious rise in gas prices. So, what do people think about Iran despite that issue? Gallup polled some folks, and the results were surprising. 00:00 Iran as a Threat to Stability01:45 … Read more
On April 24, 2026, Jeffrey Sachs sat down with Tucker Carlson for just over two hours to explain what he called the real origins of the Iran war and the economic catastrophe he believes is coming if the United States does not take what he repeatedly calls the “off ramp.” It is a remarkable piece of talk. … Read more
There are very few times during President Trump’s two terms that I disagreed with the President, but I am having a difficult time defending his hesitancy to finish the job in Iran. I agree with him 100% that we had to take action to stop the Iranian nuclear program and its threat to the Middle … Read more
Imagine an enemy of the United States refusing to negotiate peace, because they believe a possible November political shift in Washington may be beneficial to THEM! Some pundits have put forth this as a viable reason for Iran’s refusal to negotiate in good faith. Is this truly plausible? Older Americans might remember that the current … Read more
Trump’s attacks in response to 47 years of Iran’s attacks against Americans and others escalating to a nuclear threat have made Trump’s critics forgetful. Previous Presidents, leading politicians, and the media acknowledged that Iran is the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism; that Iran killed, maimed, or injured thousands of Americans; and that Iran must not … Read more
They really think Trump has no clue what’s going on, when in reality, he now controls the flow of 36%+ of the world’s crude oil supply, and just forced the nations of the world to buy oil from us, and Venezuela, which Trump conveniently already secured, along with the Panama Canal. Now, Trump’s focus is … Read more
In the wake of a recent physical assault in Berlin – a desperate attempt to silence a message that has grown increasingly urgent – Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has embarked on a diplomatic tour of Europe that is less a plea for help and more a stark prophecy. His message to the parliaments of Stockholm and Berlin … Read more
As the price of oil soars and bombs strike Middle East oil and natural gas facilities, memories of the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s resurface for many Americans. That crisis was resolved by simply turning the oil spigots back on; this conflict threatens to blow them up. Dramatic changes in U.S. food production and distribution since … Read more