History shows that when Jerusalem has folded under American pressure, it has earned contempt, while when it has insisted on its sovereign security needs, it has earned respect. If history is our guide, Israel has no choice but to act independently in the fateful campaign for its future.
In my media interviews, I am often asked: “Has Israel become the 51st state of the US?” With half a smile, I answer: “If only. American states have far more freedom and room to maneuver than Israel does.”
This situation is hardly new. Ever since U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion halt the Israel Defense Forces’ campaign against Egypt in Sinai in 1956, and later withdraw from Gaza, the United States has consistently forced Israel to stop fighting and agree to a ceasefire.
That was true in the 1967 Six-Day War, which Israel wanted to continue for an eighth day; in the 1973 Yom Kippur War; in both Lebanon wars; and in all our operations in Gaza. Even pro-Israel presidents such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush threatened severe consequences if Israel ignored their demands to cease fire.
In May 2021, on the eighth day of “Operation Guardian of the Walls” against Hamas, I received a phone call from a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, who asked me to convey an urgent message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Israel must end the operation tonight, or risk losing American support.” Netanyahu was furious. He wanted to keep fighting for at least three more days. But he immediately complied. The operation ended that evening.
The only difference between U.S. President Donald Trump and previous presidents is his tendency to treat us publicly as vassals who must obey his every order. This is humiliating and demoralizing for Israel and, unfortunately, it strengthens our enemies. But that raises the question: Must Israel obey the White House’s demands under all circumstances and at any price?
Historically, the answer has been “no.” U.S. presidents not only ordered Israel to stop fighting; they also opposed its decision to go to war in the first place. That was the case in every war from the establishment of the state until “Operation Rising Lion” last year. Yet Israel’s leaders, despite the risk of a rift with Washington, determined that our basic security was at stake and decided to act.
Ironically, every time Israel defied the White House and went to war—in 1948, for example, in 1967 and in the 1981 strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor—we earned America’s respect. Every time we surrendered to pressure and showed restraint—in 1973 and in the 1991 Gulf War—we earned America’s contempt.
This record is especially relevant today, when Hezbollah will undoubtedly violate any ceasefire and continue attacking us. Israel needs to defend and save the north, but in doing so, it risks not only war with Iran but also an open confrontation with President Trump. As in the past, Israel will have no choice but to act.
With its eyes wide open to the potential cost, Israel must show that it is neither a U.S. vassal nor its 51st state, but a sovereign country with an unshakable duty to defend its territory and its citizens. In the end, if history is our guide, Trump will respect us for it.
The nerve center of Iran’s most powerful military force just went dark.
U.S. forces have struck and destroyed an IRGC command and control center, hitting Iranian surveillance, communications, and air defense sites across Iran in response to the regime’s downing of a U.S.
Iran: Still short of a full-scale resumption of hostilities. Iran International: Donald Trump said 49 Tomahawk missiles had been fired at Iran as he oversaw ongoing US military strikes from the Situation Room, according to Fox News. Trump said the strikes also involved fighter jet bombardment, with the closest target around 40 miles from Tehran. Trump said the bombing would stop shortly but warned that if Iran does not sign a deal, the United States would escalate further attacks.
Wall Street Journal:U.S. military forces were striking air defenses and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, a senior U.S. official said. No infrastructure sites were hit, the official said. Iranian state media reported explosions in areas along the Strait of Hormuz, including Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island and Sirik, and said its air defenses were engaging with U.S. jet fighters. The Pentagon cast the attacks as an act of coercive diplomacy designed to force Iranian concessions at the negotiating table.
Noah Rothman:This is the strait opening operation that has been overdue since mid-April.
From CENTCOM Wednesday night: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed additional self-defense strikes against multiple targets in Iran, June 10, at the Commander in Chief’s direction. CENTCOM forces launched strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran. U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy assets fired precision munitions on Iranian targets that posed a threat to U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression. U.S. forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.
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“The islamic regime is selling murdered Iranian women for parts. Armenia has confiscated massive amounts of undeclared Iranian natural women’s hair which was brought across the border. This illegal trend has been skyrocketing since, wait for it, January. Almost all the morgue victims from the massacre were men, and not women. We are beginning to learn what actually happened to the girls who were massacred back then.”
In the heart-wrenching saga of a nation teetering on the brink of economic collapse, a hauntingly lucrative enterprise emerges, reaching unprecedented heights in Iran: the shameless trafficking of human organs.
This macabre trade, with its grotesque nature and moral bankruptcy, stands as a chilling testament to the depths of a human tragedy. While there have been numerous reports about this problem, a recent article published in the state-run Jahan-e Sanat newspaper brought this tragedy into the spotlight again.
The May 3 article, entitled “life traders,” made headlines, prompting the ruling theocracy to order the paper to remove it.
In recent years, as the weight of skyrocketing living expenses and unabated destitution bears down upon the populace, the insidious allure of this enterprise has thrived.
The article begins with a chilling advertisement on the wall: “I sell my body parts, even my heart. I am 33 years old, and I need the money to feed my wife and four children and pay off my rent. I’m not unemployed. I have been a laborer for 23 years.”
While kidneys, the coveted lifeblood of the trade, continue to be in high demand, the boundaries of this sordid marketplace have long been breached. From the hollow depths of its origin over a decade ago, it has metamorphosed into a grotesque bazaar where the liver, bone marrow, and cornea are mercilessly bartered. Each transaction further exacerbates the somber plight that afflicts the nation, sinking it deeper into the abyss of desolation.
“Going down in Vali-Asr Street and near the Judicial Palace, there is an alley, which is the kidney marketplace. There is no one there, but one can find a wall filled with advertisements of selling body parts,” the article writes, adding that “In the past year, alongside kidney advertisements, liver, bone marrow, eye cornea, sperm, and ovum donation have also found their way onto the walls. Moreover, a website bearing the same name has been launched, facilitating easy connections between individuals seeking these services.
“In the preceding year, the Kidney Association of Iran established the kidney donation rate at 800 million rials; however, the actual buying and selling price had surged to 3 billion rials. This year, from the onset, the kidney’s price has oscillated between 5 billion and 10 billion rials. The involvement of intermediaries or the critical condition of the patient, combined with demanding the rare blood type of O-, further increases the price.”
Meanwhile, even according to the regime’s own laws, buying and selling body organs is considered a crime in Iran, and only its donation is legal. Only kidney donation from a living person is possible.
“According to the Ministry of Health’s records, Iran witnessed 420 cases of living kidney transplants in 2020. Recognizing the concerning presence of intermediaries in kidney donation, the Iran Kidney Association, dedicated to supporting kidney patients, established a regulated system for this process, including registration and specific financial arrangements,” Jahan-e Sanat wrote in this regard, adding that the Kidney Association “Initially set the price at 120 million rials and later raised to 340 million rials, the designated amount for donation by the association has now surged to 800 million rials since 2020.”
Now as a body organ’s price fluctuates between 500 million to one billion rials in the black market, more Iranians sell out their vital organs to make a living.
“Our reporter’s interview with sellers indicates they all want to sell their body organs due to poverty, and this is sadly not limited to a specific gender or age. Sometimes, buyers also cannot afford these prices because they should sell their houses or cars to have enough money for a transplant,” Jahan-e Sanat writes.
Thus, as Iranians can no longer afford the high prices of vital organs, many sell their body parts outside of Iran, namely in Iraq, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
“Certain intermediaries with international ties facilitate the travel of organ sellers to neighboring countries like the UAE, Turkey, and Iraq, where they can sell their body parts for sums ranging from $7,000 to $15,000. Unfortunately, in many cases, these sellers become ensnared in the clutches of fraudsters, with fatal consequences. It is worth noting that sellers of body parts lack legal protection within the country, often leaving them with no alternative but to engage in this perilous undertaking,” Jahan-e Sanat acknowledges in this regard.
These sellers are not unemployed; they toil relentlessly to make ends meet. However, the dire economic crisis in the country, exacerbated by the regime’s pervasive corruption, leaves them with no choice but to sacrifice their very own vital organs to secure survival.
“A brief search through Telegram channels and local websites reveals that the trade of body parts extends far beyond Tehran or major cities, encompassing the entire nation—an alarming testament to the widespread destitution evident on the faces of all 80 million Iranians. Poverty is not an overnight creation; it has persistently existed and continues to afflict the populace,” the paper writes in this regard.
As Jahan-e Sanat acknowledges, “Inflation and soaring prices have plunged people into the abyss of poverty. Within Iran’s boundaries, the heart-wrenching plight of individuals haggling over their own body parts for a mere morsel of bread underscores the harrowing tragedy beneath the surface. Kidney sellers, once motivated by desires for material possessions like cars or homes, now find themselves compelled to sell their organs to meet their basic daily needs.”
Jahan-e Sanat’s reporter contacted two sellers, one a worker and the other a single mom with two underage children. The worker is 22 years old and sells his kidney for 5 billion rials and part of his liver for 2 billion rials. The single mom, born in 1987, sells her kidney for 3.4 billion rials. “This is the only way I have to feed my children,” she says.
Engaging in the sale of body organs poses significant risks and can have severe consequences for the individuals involved. The human body is intricately balanced, and the removal of vital organs can lead to life-altering complications, both physical and psychological. Surgical procedures performed outside regulated medical settings and without proper medical expertise increase the chances of infections, surgical errors, and long-term health issues.
Moreover, the emotional toll of parting with an organ and the potential ethical and legal repercussions can inflict lasting harm on a person’s well-being.
But people of one of the world’s richest nations have to sell their body parts to make a living, while the ruling theocracy squanders Iran’s national wealth on terrorism and oppression.
“More people are selling their body organs while Ebrahim Raisi’s government keeps on bragging about eradicating poverty. The poverty line has increased by 210 million rials, and a worker’s salary is around 80 million rials. Yet, the government keeps speaking of eradicating poverty,” Jahan-e Sanat writes in this regard.
These heart-wrenching tragedies, abhorrent in their nature, stoke the flames of social outrage against the ruling theocracy, whose illicit machinations and malignant policies have ruthlessly ravaged the populace’s lives.
“The trade of body organs serves as a stark testament to the dire economic plight and the agonizing struggle for survival faced by members of society, preventing them from experiencing a semblance of normalcy. Such a distressing state of affairs inevitably breeds a myriad of social perils, casting a dark shadow over the fabric of the community,” Jahan-e Sanat warns officials.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announces that Washington will retaliate against Iran for shooting down a military helicopter last night over the Strait of Hormuz.
“I have just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” Trump writes on Truth Social.
“Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” Trump adds, without elaborating on what a response might look like.
But Israel is prevented from retaliation (or minimized its retaliation) when it is attacked.
CENTCOM: The two crewmembers were rescued by a drone-boat. Central Command: At 7:33 p.m. ET on June 8, two crew members from a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache were rescued by American forces after their helicopter went down near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters. The Soldiers were safely rescued within approximately two hours and are in stable condition. The cause of the incident is under investigation. Rescue efforts were led by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 82nd Airborne Division, with support from U.S. Air Force and Navy units including U.S. 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59.
Axios: More details on the rescue: The crew of a U.S. Apache attack helicopter shot down by Iran was rescued by a drone-boat known as Corsair. It was a first-of-its-kind operation, with incredibly high stakes…. Saronic advertises Corsair as autonomous. It was not immediately clear how it maneuvered during the rescue mission. It was operated by the Navy’s Task Force 59, which was established in 2021 to experiment with unmanned tech and artificial intelligence and fold them into naval operations. Navy leadership has for years advocated for a hybrid fleet, or a mix of manned and unmanned ships. The Corsair, unveiled in October 2024, is 24 feet long. It can travel 1,000 nautical miles, carry 1,000 pounds and hit speeds greater than 35 knots.
In response the USA just launched “self-defense strikes against Iran” in response to “yesterday’s downing of an Apache helicopter”
The explosions are reported from Qeshm island, Sirik, Bandar Abbas and 2 other locations near the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets following the downing of an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, which President Donald Trump directly attributed to Tehran. According to the Pentagon, American forces targeted Iranian air defense systems, ground control stations, and radar installations. U.S. Central Command announced the completion of the operation three hours after it began. In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have attacked 21 targets on US military bases in the region, including sites in Bahrain and Jordan. Kuwait reported intercepting incoming attacks. American officials have not yet commented on reports of attacks on their bases, and it is unclear whether any damage was caused. However, according to local authorities, an air alert was declared in Bahrain, and the Iranian attacks were repelled.
That description comes straight from CENTCOM: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.
Ravid: Tuesday evening we heard of a second and third round of retaliatory strikes. Barak Ravid of Axios: Third round of strikes now, per U.S. official.
Jonathan Karl of ABC News: I was on the phone with Trump as CENTCOM announced US retaliatory strikes against Iran. Here’s what he said: “I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak.” He added: “This is a response to what they did they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is” (Karl).
Dubowitz: Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: President Trump is right to respond. But the more effective strategy is to impose—and support Israel’s right to impose—overwhelming costs on the regime in Tehran and its terror network. The lesson: perceived weakness invites aggression. Strength restores deterrence. Escalate to de-escalate.
Consider: Trump told the press just hours before that attack, “We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal.”
Does it feel like an Iran deal is getting closer?
A country that’s “very close” to sealing a deal in good faith doesn’t escalate against its negotiating partner.
This leaves us wondering which presidential advisers are leading him down this garden path to likely humiliation.
By one count, he’s said “nearly there” 38 times since he announced that “almost all” of the points of contention “have been agreed to” and that a “two-week period” should allow the deal to be “consummated.”
We’re now 10 weeks into that “two-week period,” and everything’s going backward.
Back then, those final issues were: 1) setting verifiable procedures for the end of Iran’s nuke program, and 2) securing permanent free passage through the Strait of Hormuz — with any benefits to Iran (beyond the end of US-Israeli bombing) to come later.
Now, suddenly, getting to the deal somehow has Washington telling Jerusalem it can’t respond to Hezbollah’s missile attacks out of Lebanon.
It’s what the Iranians do: Claim they could give us what we want, stall on actually delivering it (in this case, on any way to hold them to a no-nukes promise) by never giving an inch unless they take it back a day or three later — meanwhile ginning up side issues and manipulating the other side into delivering in advance on those demands in the foolish belief that a final deal will then be possible.
Trump’s negotiators are falling into the same old trap as Carter and Barack Obama.
Are they telling him the blockade will force the regime to bend? Sorry: Iran’s leaders are perfectly willing to let the people suffer. (Heck, they proved in January that they’ll slaughter civilians in the street!) The elites can keep on living the high life, just as they do in impoverished North Korea.
A sign Trump’s getting terrible advice is his assertion Monday night that if “we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they’ll have nothing left whatsoever,” but then “you won’t have the Strait open for months.”
How’s that?
And why is just reopening the Strait not a legitimate military aim to take away the regime’s leverage?
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Iran, trying to force the IDF to stop hitting Hezbollah sites in Beirut, launched 11 ballistic missiles at Israel on June 7. They were all intercepted, causing no damage. But such an attack could not go unanswered. The IDF then responded, giving not as good as it got, but far better. More on the damage it wrought can be found here: “Watch: IDF strikes key targets throughout Iran in response to missile barrages,” Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2026:
The IDF struck several targets throughout western Iran in retaliation for Iranian missile attacks on Israel on Monday morning.
The strikes come after sources told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that Israeli officials were still deciding when and how hard to hit Iran, noting that a significant Israeli response to Tehran’s ceasefire breach was expected.
Earlier on Monday, a United States official told Axios that he did not expect an imminent Israeli retaliation against Iran. “I don’t think anything is imminent in terms of an Israeli strike,” he said.
Targets were hit in Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, and some other places in western Iran, while explosions have reportedly been heard in Karaj, outside of Tehran, according to Tasmin News Agency, an IRGC-affiliated outlet.
Additionally, Iran’s official state news agency, IRNA, reported that all flights in Tehran’s Mehrabad airport have been suspended until further notice.
The targets include a petrochemical complex near Iran’s southwestern city of Mahshahr, which the military confirmed was used to produce unique materials critical for Iran’s ballistic missile program.
The israeli [sic] Air Force struck several infrastructure sites at the complex, and the area has been evacuated, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-run Fars News Agency reported on Monday….
Unlike the most recent Iranian missile attack, that caused no casualties or damages, the IDF response has been effective, destroying both offensive weapons — long-range ballistic missile factories — and defensive weapons, including a large number of air defense radars that the Iranians had been furiously rebuilding-since their earlier destruction by Israel and the U.S. in June 2025 and in early 2026.
Stung by the IDF’s wide-ranging attacks, and after Trump called for both sides to stop their tit-for-tat exchanges, Tehran decided to announce that it would stop its own attacks on Israel, provided Israel stopped attacking Hezbollah sites in Beirut, thereby hoping to elicit the same promise from Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unwilling to oblige. He agreed to stop hitting Iran, but with the caveat that the IDF will continue striking Hezbollah in Beirut as long as the terror group launches more missile and drone attacks against northern Israel. The IDF is itching to launch far more devastating attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, and knows that another attack from Iran will be all the excuse it needs.
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While Nicholas Kristof recently published in the New York Times his baseless accusation that the IDF engages in sexual torture, including his claim that Israeli soldiers “train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners,” the real victims of sexual torture in the Middle East are to be found elsewhere.
These are the prisoners that the Islamic Republic of Iran holds in Evin Prison and similar torture houses. And the New York Times, that continues to defend Kristof’s infamous column and to accuse his critics of trying to “stifle journalism,” when all they are trying to do is to point out his lies, has failed completely to report on the sexual torture inflicted on prisoners in Iran.
More on that torture can be found here: “Iranian men and women describe horrific abuse at the hands of regime guards specialising in ‘sexual torture,’” by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail, May 17, 2026:
Detainees in Iran’s prisons are being subjected to beatings, rape and psychological abuse, according to testimonies that lay bare the lengths the Islamic Republic will go to crush dissent.
Despite the regime’s long-standing reputation for brutality, accounts of sexual violence and intimidation reveal a particularly disturbing pattern of abuse.
In a harrowing account to The Australian, a woman identified as Mina, a pseudonym, described her experience inside one of Iran’s notorious prisons.
‘They repeatedly struck my head with a Koran so hard that my nose began to bleed. The interrogator also touched my body under my clothes while using disgusting sexual language, and repeatedly asked which newspaper editors I had slept with.’
She added: ‘He told me, “I will bring your 12-year-old son here and make him rape you. Then you will confess on television”.’
Such accounts are not isolated, with a report by Amnesty International last month finding that thousands of Iranians are at risk of sexual violence, with children as young as 14 among those assaulted by IRGC-linked forces during the January protests.
Evidence suggests this pattern stretches back decades.
Researcher and former political prisoner Iraj Mesdaghi has documented abuses from the 1980s, including testimony from a 14-year-old boy tortured by Mohammad Mehrayin, known as the ‘Butcher of Evin’….
The mainstream media in the United States — television, radio, newspapers, news sites online — should have reported on so many cases of sexual torture in Iran, that so many different sources have reported on, including those who were its victims, but until now their stories have received very little attention. Why is that? And why has Nicholas Kristof, with his great interest in the use of sexual torture, and his bully pulpit at the most prestigious American newspaper, not provided a single report on how that torture has been inflicted on prisoners, including children, in Iran?
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Some very real and current terrorism threats seem to be either missing or somehow downgraded in this new document. Islamic terror, for example, is cited on page 5 as “Legacy Islamist Terrorists”, although Al-Qa’eda and the Islamic State are named briefly and specifically later on. In what seems a glaring omission, in the Regional breakdown of Counterterrorism threats, neither Iran nor its terror proxies are mentioned at all, even as the documented presence of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Force hit teams inside the U.S. remains unresolved and the extensive network of Hizballah operatives gets no mention at all. Neither is the role of the FBI in the domestic counterterrorism mission mentioned while DHS gets only cursory mention.
This is a recent example of both the ongoing Iran proxy threat as well as the key role of the FBI in thwarting it.
“The Bureau of Missed Clues Strikes Again — Failure to Anticipate Old Dominion Shooting Shows Glaring Holes in FBI’s Lackluster Approach to Counterterrorism” by Liberato.us, Federal Government Watch, May 27, 2026
This one is an unfortunate example of the failure of FBI and law enforcement to monitor this shooter, who’d previously been convicted of terrorism in 2017, but then was released from prison in December 2024.
This alert cites to a report from The Gateway Pundit (below) that ties into concern about the lack of mention of the Iranian regime or its terror proxies in the new White House 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy, noted above.
We have to question whether the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, or local law enforcement across the U.S. are even aware that any number of Iranian regime figures and/or their children may still be here in the homeland.
President Trump is known to troll our adversaries often—but does he or does he not really mean he’ll ‘probably meet with Iran’s Ayatollah at some point’? (It may be noted here that neither Mojtaba Khamenei nor his late father Ali Khamenei ever achieved the Shi’ite clerical rank of ayatollah, but both only made it to the middling rank of hojatoleslam.)
Events in Iran as well as Lebanon continue to play out, so this ultimately may be seen as just one U.S. move in a multi-dimensional operation against the Tehran regime. But it does raise questions about the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the long-game U.S. strategy against Iran.
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Iran has been firing missiles at its Gulf neighbors throughout the cease-fire, but refrained from hitting Israel until now. If Iran thinks it can circumvent the ‘ceasefire” by hitting Israel, they are sadly mistaken.
Israel struck several military targets in Iran on Sunday, hours after the Islamic Republic launched a barrage launched a number of ballistic missiles at Israel on Sunday night for the first time since the U.S. and Iran reached a tenuous ceasefire in early April.
The Israeli Defense Forces said its air force struck targets “belonging to the Iranian terror regime” in western and central Iran in a statement on X Sunday evening.
Jewish Insider:
Millions of people across northern Israel heard a familiar sound from their phones late Sunday night: an alert from Israel’s Homefront Command, notifying them for the first time in two months, of an incoming ballistic missile attack from Iran.
Just after sunrise, residents of Israel’s center — from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — received the same notification, and groggily huddled in shelters as Iran, joined by its Houthi proxy in Yemen, launched fresh salvos at Israel. Shortly after, Israel struck a petrochemical plant in southwest Iran.
Iran state media separately reported that explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan after Israel fired “air-launched ballistic missiles,” citing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Israeli military hit Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites and non-energy infrastructure, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said.
Axios: President Trump told Axios he was going to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and press him not to retaliate for Iran’s missile attack.
“I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don’t need another one,” Trump said. Why it matters: The ceasefire in the Middle East is teetering after Israel struck Beirut and Iran fired multiple waves of missiles in response. Trump is racing to stop the escalations from killing his hopes at a lasting deal with Iran. Netanyahu’s answer will measure how much sway the American president still holds over Israel. Driving the news: Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. It’s Iran’s first direct attack since the April 8 ceasefire. Israel says it has intercepted the missiles. Trump’s demand that Israel not retaliate is highly unusual. Without U.S. support, any Israeli strike in Iran will be much more difficult and risky. A U.S. official told Axios: “We are not part of this,” but it is unclear whether Trump will order the U.S. military not to assist Israel in a strike in Iran, especially when it comes to air refueling and other kinds of military coordination. (Axios.)
Late Sunday night, Israel bombed northern and Western Iran in retaliation for missile strikes.
Would America tolerate this? Of course not. So why should Israel have to tolerate missile attacks from Iran? Israel is a sovereign state and has every right and duty to defend itself. President Trump must stop the asinine nuke negotiations with Iran, and allow the U.S and Israeli Air forces to finish off Iran’s leaders for good.
Israel strikes Iran military targets after Iranian missile attack
The Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central and Western Iran on Monday morning local time, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Why it matters: The strikes, in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack against Israel, mark a new phase in a growing escalation that started on Sunday morning. This is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the April 8 ceasefire
The Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central and Western Iran on Monday morning local time, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. Why it matters: The strikes, in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack against Israel, mark a new phase in a growing escalation that started on Sunday morning. This is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the April 8 ceasefire. Iran had threatened to expand its attacks and target U.S. bases in the region if Israel retaliated. Further exchanges of fire could unravel the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran and lead to the resumption of the war. President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several hours before the strikes to stand down and refrain from retaliating. State of play: Explosions were heard in the Iranian cities of Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Tabriz and Kermanshah, according to Iranian state media. A U.S. official said the Israel strikes were “relatively limited” in their scope. (Axios.)
As per Iranian opposition news, Israeli Air Forces targeted an underground command and control center in Kermanshah, this morning in retaliatory strike against Iran. Reports claim that multiple senior IRGC officials were killed while discussing attack plans.
NY Post: Nearly two hours later, the Israel Air Force said that it was intercepting a missile “from the direction of Yemen toward Israeli territory.”
Iran bombards Israel with missiles, threatening to reignite all-out conflict
A missile hasn’t been launched from Yemen at Israel since April 4 – just four days before the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between the US and Iran went into effect.
Earlier, Iran fired at least 10 missiles at Israel, all of which were intercepted. Iranian officials claimed responsibility and asserted the attack was in response to Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon that morning.
Israel’s strike violated its delicate cease-fire with Lebanon. Both countries agreed to the US-brokered cease-fire last week, but Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah rejected it.
Financial Times that he’s still the one “calling the shots.”
“He won’t have any choice,” Trump said.
Israel, however, has insisted on maintaining its military presence in Lebanon despite US officials’ demands for deescalation.
On Sunday, IDF officials defiantly announced they would “continue to operate” and “intensify its actions against the Hezbollah terrorist organization” in Lebanon, even though Israel agreed to a cease-fire that stipulated a decrease in hostility between the warring countries.
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“Today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies”
The D-Day commemorations have long since become stellar exercises in which sterile phrases about the courage and honor of those young men who fought to liberate Europe from fascism are mouthed by politicians and leaders enabling the contemporary mass invasion of Europe by Islamofascism.
Even as Pope Leo was visiting Spain to promote mass Muslim migration being enabled by its corrupt, mostly under indictment, leftist regime, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told some troubling truths at Normandy.
Speaking on the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, Allied beach landings in Normandy, Hegseth said: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies — beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria; boats and men arrive.”
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” Hegseth said in his speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France.
“Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”
“The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for, was merely temporary!”
There’s no point in empty recollections of past defenses of civilization only to abandon it to a new barbarism.
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Victor Davis Hanson: That’s the first video I couldn’t finish. It was just sick.
To remind everybody what happened, we had a 19-year-old who had a confrontation with a 23-year-old immigrant, [a] Sikh from India. We don’t really know the particulars except the Sikh person was carrying a “ceremonial sword,” which is apparently allowed under DEI auspices because he has a religious exemption, but it was a pretty big blade.
He stabbed this 19-year-old white male repeatedly. Then his brother called the police and said the perpetrator was a victim of racism. The police came to the scene. The perpetrator said he had a little mark, which I couldn’t even see, and that this racist on the ground had attacked him and he had only defended himself.
That was all they needed.
So, then, the DEI police, and that’s what I’m going to use because that’s the thematic narrative, went to the anti-DEI person who was dying with a deep wound to the chest. His lungs were filling up with blood. I can relate to that because I had the same experience with three pulmonary arteries that were cut or broke apart, and I had two to three liters immediately in my lung cavity.
That’s not a good feeling when you can’t breathe and you’ll die with that blood in your cavity. They have to suck it all out.
So, he was there alive, and the police saw that. He was lying down, and they pulled on him to prop him up. He said, “I’m dying. I can’t breathe.” They completely ignored him, kept the cuffs on, and he literally bled to death in front of them.
They were just clueless and more worried about the perpetrator. Then they went home and hid the murder weapon. His mother did.
They found out the particulars of the assault and came back. The brother, I don’t think, has been arrested, even though he was the one who called in with the fake narrative that it was a matter of white racism, which really killed the kid.
Then the family hid it, and the Sikh leader in the community said, “Oh, this is terrible. People are blaming us. We’re victims of hate now.”
My answer to him is: Don’t identify an individual as a collective unless you want to be a collective.
There was a member of your Sikh community who killed a person and murdered him. He is a murderer. He was convicted. Then there was another member of that Sikh community, a member of that family, who lied to a police officer.
That’s a felony. Then they hid the weapon. They were accessories after the fact. That’s a felony.
All you have to do as a self-proclaimed Sikh leader is say the following: “This does not represent the Sikh community. We are a group of individuals, and any time we find one of the members of our community has acted antithetical to our values, we condemn it most heartedly.”
That’s all he had to say.
Instead, he turned around and said, “Well, the poor Sikh community is now getting … ” If you’re going to be a collective, then people are going to say, “Well, this is what you do.” If you want to be individuals, then act like individuals.
The same thing is true here in the United States. No one has been more supportive of the Sikh community than I have, both on this broadcast and in person.
Sometimes I kid my Sikh friends at one of the largest temples that’s 2 miles from my house. I’ve talked about them many times.
Yes, they’re all good friends. They’re wonderful people. They’re wonderful citizens. I don’t even think I should use the term “wonderful people.” They’re wonderful individuals that I know.
One of the most admirable is Simon Siyodi. He’s a good friend of mine. I like him enormously.
But my point is this. I teased him. I said, “If you’re going to have this huge Sikh temple with these flags of the Sikh nation, why don’t you at least put an American flag on your temple?” Sometimes I’ve seen it, sometimes I haven’t.
When these accidents were overwhelmingly perpetrated by illegal aliens, and here in California, overwhelmingly the Sikh drivers did not know English, did not take the regular test, and were given exemptions.
There was an attempt by federal authorities to say those licenses, which were fraudulently issued and led to some deaths of innocent people, would not be valid in other states.
The Sikh community then said, “We want a letter in support.”
That was the same idea. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you say, “These members of the Sikh community who entered the United States illegally, resided illegally, got driver’s licenses under fraudulent circumstances, acted recklessly, and killed people through their recklessness, we condemn these people. They’re not representative of our community.”
They didn’t do that.
I think that’s another sign that it’s going to hurt the community and hurt the community terribly.
Yes, I’m on a working farm, and there’s a big machine that is very important to finish.
The other thing, very quickly, Jack, is that this is the anti-George Floyd scenario.
Here we have parallel tracks. Here is a 19-year-old without a record who was minding his own business.
Here is George Floyd, a career felon who broke into a home, put a knife at a pregnant woman’s belly, and was convicted. In the process of encountering the police, he was:
A) Committing a felony by passing counterfeit currency.
B) Committing a felony by resisting arrest.
C) Committing a misdemeanor by being under the influence of fentanyl.
The police intervened in both cases.
In the case of George Floyd, they used an approved police maneuver to subdue him. Due to his ongoing COVID-19 condition, his fentanyl intoxication, a jury found Officer [Derek] Chauvin’s use of his knee—he passed out and said he couldn’t breathe.
At that point, they called an ambulance. The ambulance came, took him to the hospital, and he died.
Officer Chauvin was given a murder charge, convicted, and has since been attacked in prison, as I understand it.
The country’s reaction to that was four months of looting, arson, violence, 35 people killed, 1,500 officers injured, $2 billion in damage, courthouses burned, precincts burned, churches burned, and 14,000 people arrested.
That day almost ruined the universities because afterward they dropped the SAT and standards for admissions.
Now, of course, you see left-wing faculty saying, “Please bring back the SAT. The students are too poor to do the work. We don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Stanford said the same thing.
“We can’t water down the curriculum anymore because the graduates cannot get the type of jobs the Stanford brand would ensure them because employers caught on to us.”
It changed everything. It changed the military with DEI. It changed popular culture with critical race theory. It started the defund-the-police movement.
All from that incident.
In Britain, there will be no mass arson, riots, nothing.
The murderer was convicted.
I hope the members of the family who either hid the weapon or gave fraudulent information to the police will be charged and held accountable.
I hope the Sikh community will say, “These people do not represent our values and are not really members in good standing of our community. We want to integrate and assimilate into British culture.”
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Now that I have arrived in our summer quarters in the South of France, I am discovering the secret animal nature of Iran’s current leaders.
More than any other animal, they resemble the boar.
I know them well — both the Iranians, and the boar.
This winter, my boar were particularly aggressive — boorish, if you will. They crashed through my electric fence like it was an Arleigh Burke destroyer in dry-dock, with devastating results.
I tell them every year not to do this, because they will get shot. And without fail, every year they do it.
They can’t help it. It is their boar nature. And neither I nor the local guns managed to catch them in the act and shoot them.
So they tore up acres of cultivated ground, ripping out flowers and shrubs, leaving behind hillsides looking like a swarm of mosquito boats had just swept past at 50mph.
This week, Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai (there is no “ret.” after that, despite the fact he was fired as Rev. Guards commander in 2007), announced that Iran had no intention of making a deal with the United States unless Donald Trump authorized the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
I write about Rezai extensively in my new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue. One reason is that his son Ahmad defected to the United States in 1997 and not long thereafter called upon me to parole him into the country, where he learned English in our Kensington, Maryland basement for six months.
Rezai was sidelined for power for years because of his son’s actions. And when his son was murdered in Dubai in November 2011, I went there to investigate on behalf of his widow and young daughter. And what I found troubled me.
You can read the full story in the book. But in short, I believed Dad showed the regime he was capable of Abrahamic loyalty.
Mohsen Rezai reappeared in 2021 as a vice-president under the Raisi government. And now, he has reinvented himself once again, this time as the military advisor of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
It’s a convenient job, if true. Because Mojtaba is 1) shy, or 2) disabled, or 3) paranoid that the CIA will track him if he ever appears on a video, so he issues written statements that get read by a succubus.
Mohsen Rezai is that succubus.
His latest gambit — or invention, and we don’t really know which — is that El Supremo wants Trump to return $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets as a “sign of good will.” Otherwise, the negotiations are over.
Now that’s an interesting gambit. Eventually, if Iran gives up its enriched uranium — all of it, not just the HEU — and opens the Strait and pledges to never seek a nuclear weapons capability in the future, ever — well, then sanctions relief becomes possible.
But not upfront. Trump made that clear.
But SOMEONE talked the US Navy into easing the blockade of the Strait to allow four Iranian-flagged supertankers to slip the noose this week, carrying 7 million barrels of Iranian crude they loaded at Kharg more than 6 weeks ago.
I suspect Trump’s Svengali, Steve Witkoff. I can picture him whispering in the president’s ear: Mr. President, it’s such a small gesture, but for the Iranians, it will show our good faith and unblock the negotiations. That’s all they are asking. Just a little gesture or good will.
Here’s a lesson in Iranology for Mr. Witkoff. Offer the mullahs carrots and they will consume them, burp, and not even say thank-you. Instead, they will ask for more.
And that’s exactly what Mohsen Rezai is doing.
The president today made his deadline clear. He wants a deal over the weekend, and a signing ceremony next week in Geneva. Mohsen Rezai and the Gayatollah can pound sand in their bunker as it collapses on top of them. Or so we can hope.
I discuss the Iran talks, as well as Zelinskyy’s asking Putin for lunch, Turkey’s ambitions to strike Israel, and Trump’s plan to restructure our NATO assets so the Germans can’t suck us into another senseless war, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.
As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.
Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue,can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here.
Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here.
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The nightly news, and social media, are full of stories on the latest on-again-off-again American negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and stories, too, about Israel under American pressure agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gaza has been much less in the news, but for the IDF, Gaza has not been forgotten, as the latest reports from the Strip make clear. More on the IDF’s most recent “mowing the lawn” in Gaza, with help from the Shin Bet’s Arab assets inside Gaza, can be found here: “IDF, Shin Bet kill several Hamas General Security Apparatus officials in Gaza,” Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2026:
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) struck and killed several senior members of Hamas’ General Security Apparatus in the Gaza Strip overnight, a clandestine group which is responsible for protecting and assisting Hamas leadership.
The General Security Apparatus’ responsibilities include maintaining communication and coordination between Hamas leaders, protecting them and escorting them to emergency facilities, and collecting intelligence and guiding the leadership in decision-making….
The General Security Apparatus is in charge of protecting Hamas leaders from attack, helping them to communicate safely with each other, and providing intelligence to those leaders that will enable them to make well-informed decisions. Their record is not impressive. The last four leaders of Hamas were killed one after the other. The Shin Bet appears to have penetrated the ranks of the GSA with its Arab agents, and knows exactly where its own senior officials are hiding, when and how they change dwellings, and when they come out into the open.
“The senior members of the General Security Apparatus were eliminated in order to remove an immediate threat, after recently engaging in efforts to rebuild the Hamas terrorist organization and assisting its leadership in advancing terrorist activity against the State of Israel and IDF troops,” the IDF said.
The IDF also stated that, prior to the strikes, steps had been taken to reduce and mitigate the potential threat to civilians, including through the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance.
The IDF certainly kept civilian casualties to a minimum. A total of ten people were killed, four of them the senior leaders of the GSA, while four of the other six casualties are almost certainly to have been their wives in the four apartments that were struck before dawn; the remaining two dead were possibly their children. That is what precision bombing can accomplish.
In Gaza, Hamas is again licking its wounds, counting its dead, and wondering who in the terror group the relentless IDF will eliminate next, with the aid of Palestinian Arab informants in the Strip. Trump may call Netanyahu “f**king crazy,” but that is not how they think of Netanyahu in Gaza. They are terrified.
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Memorial Day, a federal holiday held the last Monday in May, is the nation’s foremost annual day to mourn and honor its deceased service men and women.[1]
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIRR) has a problem with Memorial Day. There are instances of inattention to the actual date of Memorial Day, unopposed criticism of the U.S. military on Memorial Day by some CAIR officials, and years of apparent indifference to the Day itself. Consider the following:
When is Memorial Day?
On November 9, 2006, CAIR issued the following press release:
DC: MUSLIM VETERANS TO LAY MEMORIAL DAY WREATH. The Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA) will conduct a wreath-laying ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, Area 5 in Washington, D.C., on 11 November at 0700 A.M.[2]
November 11, 2006, was Veterans Day, honoring all U.S. military veterans, especially those still alive. CAIR apparently did not know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
I could not find another mention of CAIR and Memorial Day until 2014.
Memorial Day 2014
On May 22, 2014, CAIR issued the following press release:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today marked the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with the release of a video featuring American Muslim veterans expressing pride in serving their nation through military service and sacrifice. In the 44-second video, three CAIR representatives describe their service in the Army and Navy:
“My name is Dawud Walid. I’m executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and I served honorably in the Navy. “My name is Sakinah Mujahid. I’m on CAIR’s Minnesota board of advisors and I served 13 years in the Army. “My name is Wilfredo Ruiz. I am an attorney with CAIR’s Florida office and I am a former officer in the U.S. Navy. “American Muslims serve our nation’s military and have died for our freedoms.”
The video ends with the tag line: “On this Memorial Day, CAIR honors all who served our country.”[3] So far so good.
However, on May 23, Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter, tweeted that she:
“struggles with Memorial Day each year. How does one balance being pretty staunchly anti-war while honoring those who died in the military”
She also quoted Dawud Walid, who said:
If one dies in an unjust war in which we illegally invaded and occupied a sovereign nation, should that person be honored?[4]
Billoo also retweeted “hateful anti-American comments” by Remi Kanazi, a Palestinian poet, writer, and political organizer.[5]
It was reported that:
CAIR-St. Louis Executive Director Faizan Syed came to her [Billoo’s] defense, retweeting a message claiming that the U.S. army “often murders innocent women and children.”[6]
Other CAIR officials had no criticism of any of these comments.
Memorial Day 2015
Billoo “again slandered the U.S. military and said servicemen often ‘murder’ innocent civilians.”[7] CAIR officials had no criticism of this.
Memorial Day 2016
Billoo stated “that she is ‘proud’ to stand by her inflammatory comments.”[8] Later that year Billoo equated the U.S. military with ISIS.[9] CAIR officials had no criticism of this.
Memorial Day 2017
This year CAIR took a different approach to Memorial Day. On May 26, 2017, CAIR
…released a video message marking Memorial Day from Gold Star father Khizr Khan in which he urges all Americans to “recommit ourselves to unity, liberty, justice, and finally – to an end to all wars.[10]
CAIR must have considered this video as compensation for previous Memorial Day issues placing CAIR in a poor light, and as a years-long pay-it-forward, because in an internet search I was unable to find any mention of CAIR and Memorial Day until 2025.
Memorial Day 2025
On May 27, 2025, one day after Memorial Day, CAIR posted an article titled, “Honoring Muslim American Veterans on Memorial Day.”[11] CAIR was reaching back into the archives, because this article had been written by Craig Considine for the Huffington Post on May 27, 2013.[12] Why would CAIR post a Memorial Day article one day after Memorial Day? Perhaps because Considine’s article started out, “On May 27th, Americans will celebrate Memorial Day…” and whoever posted the article didn’t realize that it had been written in 2013, when Memorial Day was on May 27th.
Memorial Day 2026
Instead of trying again in 2026, CAIR apparently decided to lay low and ignore Memorial Day. On Memorial Day, May 25, I went to the websites of the following CAIR organizations: CAIR (National), CAIR California, CAIR Chicago, CAIR Michigan, CAIR Minnesota, CAIR New York, and CAIR Texas. At each website I took screen shots of the various webpages, allowing some overlap to show continuity, to see if there was any mention of Memorial Day on any of these websites. There was no mention of Memorial Day on any of these websites. Those screen shots, listed by CAIR organization, are found in Appendix 1.[13]
I also checked the Facebook page posts for these CAIR organizations on and around May 25. There was no mention of Memorial Day.
Conclusion
Is Memorial Day important to CAIR? Is it even relevant to CAIR? From what we have seen, the answer to both questions is “No.” So, here are some things to think about.
In 1919, Theodore Roosevelt stated:
We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. .[14]
CAIR touts itself as an organization representing Muslims in America. So, who are the Muslims CAIR is representing? Here are some considerations.
The majority of Muslims in the United States are not native-born Americans. A survey was taken between July 17, 2023, and March 4, 2024, and found that 59% of adult Muslims in the United States had been born outside the United States.[15]
Muslims in the United States are generally considered to be devout in their adherence to Islam, and the mosque is where they learn about their faith from imams. A 2020 study found some interesting facts about imams in the United States:
Over half (55%) of imams had a BA, MA, or PhD in Islamic studies from an overseas university. Only approximately 6% of all imams had a degree in Islamic studies from an American university or institution.
68% of the imams were born abroad and 32% were born in the US. 78% of full-time paid imams were foreign born.
Of those imams born abroad, almost half were from Arab countries, with Egypt being the origin of most Arab imams.[16]
So Muslims in the United States are going to mosques and learning their religion mostly from imams born outside the United States. And as I wrote about in an earlier article, there are some common themes being taught in those mosques:
Hostility toward Israel and calls for its destruction;
Hostility toward Jews and Christians and calls for their death;
Great antipathy toward the United States;
The lauding of designated foreign terrorist organizations and individual terrorists;
Praise for the October 7, 2023, attack on Israeli civilians and the subsequent fighting by Hamas.[17]
And the doctrines of Islam are not compatible with the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. I wrote about this in a brochure titled Islamic Doctrine and Muslim Immigration to the United States.[18] I concluded:
How can Muslim immigrants assimilate into a society of non-Muslims toward which their religion teaches such hatred and violence, and the intent to destroy? The reality is that they can’t. That is why Muslims already in the United States seem to stay mainly socially separated from non-Muslim Americans. So, where does their “one sole loyalty” truly lay? As we can see above, it is not with Jewish and Christian Americans.
This is why CAIR has a problem with our Memorial Day.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
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The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism should never have been allowed another day in power—and certainly not another opportunity to pull garbage like this. Every extra day this regime remains standing comes at the expense of freedom, stability, and human life. They forfeited any right to exist through decades of terror, oppression, and bloodshed.
A nuclear deal between these two evil besieged allies wreaks of desperation.
Iran, Russia Sign $25 Billion Nuclear Cooperation Deal as Tehran Presses Ahead Amid U.S. Talks
Iran and Russia have signed a sweeping $25 billion nuclear cooperation agreement to expand Tehran’s civilian nuclear infrastructure, deepening strategic ties between the two countries even as negotiations with the United States continue over efforts to curb the Islamist regime’s nuclear activities.
Speaking at a conference attended by senior officials and nuclear experts from both countries in the Russian capital, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, unveiled what he described as the most extensive nuclear cooperation project ever launched between Tehran and Moscow, centered on the development of the Hormoz Nuclear Power Plant.
With the signing of a $25 billion memorandum of understanding, Jalali said the Hormoz project — alongside the ongoing expansion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant — represents one of the most significant pillars of Iranian-Russian cooperation in the field of what Tehran describes as “peaceful nuclear energy.”
The Hormoz project is set to be developed by Iran’s “private sector” in cooperation with Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, according to Iranian media.
The memorandum also includes the expansion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant — Iran’s only operational nuclear power station, which is currently generating electricity — with its second and third reactor units already under construction.
During the conference, Jalali also highlighted plans for joint cooperation on small-scale nuclear power plants, expressing optimism that the projects would soon move from the planning stage into full implementation.
The Iranian diplomat further underscored the growing scientific and technological partnership between Tehran and Moscow in the nuclear sector, particularly in the production of radiopharmaceuticals, which are used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis and cancer treatment.
“Iran has made remarkable progress in this field,” Jalali said. “We now produce 70 radiopharmaceutical products. In 2025, Iran ranked among the world’s top three producers of radiopharmaceuticals – demonstrating that our use of nuclear technology is strictly for peaceful purposes.”
In recent weeks, regional tensions have intensified as negotiations between US and Iranian officials have failed to produce a breakthrough, even as US President Donald Trump repeatedly insists that he still believes a strong agreement can be reached that prevents Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While Iran has long denied plans to develop nuclear bombs, Western countries have argued weaponization is the only reason for much of Iran’s nuclear activity, including building secret sites into mountains and enriching uranium well beyond what’s needed for civilian use.
For its part, Iran is now pushing for an interim agreement that could potentially include sanctions relief, thus granting the regime access to billions of dollars in oil revenue. However, Washington has continued to impose economic sanctions on Iranian entities even as talks have taken place.
According to multiple media reports, Iran is seeking a limited interim agreement to ease mounting economic pressure and respond to rising domestic risks driven by a deepening economic crisis, while steering clear of any major concessions on its nuclear program.
Tehran’s latest diplomatic maneuvering follows weeks of negotiations after US-Israeli strikes in late February spiraled into a broader regional conflict. Iranian attacks across the Gulf have heightened fears over the security of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for roughly a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.
Three months later, despite a fragile ceasefire reached in early April, the conflict has settled into a tense stalemate, with a US blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran’s continued leverage over the Strait of Hormuz sustaining pressure on both sides while leaving the threat of renewed fighting unresolved.
Now, both Washington and Tehran appear to be lowering expectations for a comprehensive settlement, instead exploring what officials have described as a temporary memorandum of understanding — effectively an interim arrangement designed to prevent a return to open conflict while postponing core disputes surrounding Iran’s nuclear activities.
If finalized, a potential framework would reportedly focus on phased sanctions easing and limited access through the strait while leaving unresolved the most contentious issues, including Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity and its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
It remains unclear whether Iran’s ambitious nuclear projects with Russia have been discussed with US negotiators.
