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Khamenei Is Dead. Finish the Regime.

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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 terror he left behind — specifically the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the desperate cronies clinging to the fading halls of power — continues to wage a cowardly, bloody war against its own citizens.

To the commanders and ranks of the IRGC: look around you. The grand illusion of your eternal grip on power has shattered. The era of fear is over. You have lost your revenue, you have squandered the nation’s vast oil wealth on foreign proxy wars, and the domestic economy lies in absolute ruin. You no longer have any oil to sell, and you have absolutely no income left to sustain your corruption. You are holding empty, rusted guns against a massive population that no longer fears your threats. The civilized people of Iran, the proud descendants of Cyrus the Great, find you guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, and the day of reckoning is at hand.

For nearly five decades, this regime has systematically terrorized the Iranian nation to sustain its existence. Whenever the people stood up for their basic human dignity — from the historic defiance of the Green Movement to the major uprisings that have continually rocked the nation — you met them with military-grade violence and live ammunition. The world watched in absolute horror during the staggering, bloody massacres of recent Decembers and Januaries. Your forces slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent citizens in cold blood simply because they dared to demand freedom, bread, and basic human rights.

Your crimes extend far beyond the streets and into the dark, soundproofed cells of Evin Prison. Your twisted, radical religious interpretation encourages jailbirds and prison guards to commit the most unspeakable atrocities: to savagely rape young virgin girls before you hang them, a barbaric act designed to strip them of their dignity and deny them peace even in death. You have executed human rights lawyers, tortured striking schoolteachers, crushed labor unions, and driven millions of Iran’s brightest minds into exile. You have turned a proud, wealthy nation into a global pariah.

This catastrophe was not engineered in a vacuum. For forty-seven years, foreign governments — including the European Union and various Western administrations — have engaged in a shameful, spineless policy of appeasement. They have repeatedly shaken the blood-stained hands of these regional terrorists, signed worthless pieces of paper, and looked the other way during decades of massacres and systemic discrimination against religious minorities and political dissidents.

This reality brings an urgent, vital message to U.S. President Donald Trump and other global leaders: do not deal with this dying regime. Do not throw these terrorists an economic lifeline under the guise of diplomacy. Any negotiation with the IRGC or the remaining regime loyalists is a direct betrayal of the Iranian people. The time for deals is over. The international community must unequivocally recognize the IRGC for what it is — a transnational terrorist syndicate that must be completely isolated and dismantled.

To the ranks of the IRGC and whoever is currently holding the keys to power: you face a stark, final choice. You can continue to act as shields for a dead dictator’s crumbling, bankrupt empire, or you can look toward the future survival of your country. The geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East have permanently shifted. If you choose to fight a losing war to the bitter end, you face total, devastating demolition from the combined resolve of the United States, Israel, and the unstoppable force of the Iranian resistance.

The best thing you can do right now — for yourselves, your families, and your homeland — is to put your guns down once and for all. Stop the slaughter of innocent citizens. Stand up, step aside, and help Reza Pahlavi. Support him in this transition to rescue your country from total collapse.

To those of you who choose to lay down your weapons and refuse to pull the trigger on your brothers and sisters: join the freedom-loving people of Iran. If you make the brave choice to stand with the nation, the people will welcome you back into the fold of humanity. Put down your guns, join the march toward freedom, and know that you are loved by a nation ready to heal. The end of the regime has already been written by the courage of the Iranian people; decide which side of history you want to be on before the final hammer falls.

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What Israel Hit in Iran

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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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In Iran, the Army’s Resentment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Continues to Grow

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The troops in the Iranian Army (Artesh) believe that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) soldiers are mistreating them, refusing to share medical personnel, and leaving the regular army with insufficient food, water, and even ammunition. The hostility of Artesh recruits toward the “spoiled” combatants of the IRGC continues inexorably to grow. More on this outbreak of mutual hostility in the ranks can be found here: “Desertions, shortages and army-IRGC rift strain Iran’s military,” Iran International, March 12, 2026:

Iran’s armed forces are facing acute supply shortages, rising desertions and deepening friction between the regular army (Artesh) and the Revolutionary Guards, according to informed sources who described a military system under growing strain as the war intensifies.

Among the most serious allegations are reports that wounded army personnel have been denied assistance by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), that some frontline units are operating with minimal ammunition, food and drinking water, and that attempts to mobilize reserve forces have faltered.

Tensions between army and Revolutionary Guards

One of the sharpest points of friction appears to involve medical support for wounded soldiers.

Sources said that regular army units are suffering significant casualties but that IRGC personnel have refused to transport injured army soldiers to hospitals despite having access to medical facilities.

According to the sources, Revolutionary Guards officials rejected repeated army requests for assistance, citing shortages of ambulances and blood supplies.

The refusals have deepened anger and resentment between personnel from the two forces, adding to long-standing institutional tensions between the regular army (Artesh) and the IRGC….

Large numbers of troops have been reported as having deserted from their bases en masse, and seeking refuge among sympathetic Iranian civilians in towns nearby.

The strain is not limited to the regular army, according to the sources.

Even within IRGC missile units – traditionally among the best resourced parts of Iran’s military – there have been reports of communications equipment failures and shortages of food and other basic supplies.

The IRGC’s elite units, containing the soldiers in charge of missile launches, have always been given the best treatment by the regime. But even they are suffering from a lack of food and water, though not to the extent endured by the regular army.

The upper echelons of the IRGC are determined to keep their missile systems operational, which means ensuring a steady supply of components. And that matters far more to them than does the wellbeing of their troops; food for those troops arrives only intermittently. They are not starving, but are certainly undernourished.

Even the elite IRGC, whose troops are the best-fed and best supplied In Iran, are finding that they can no longer count on their own reserves answering the call when summoned. More of those refractory soldiers simply don’t show up. Worse still, a noticeable number are moving their families closer to the country’s borders — especially those with Iraq and Turkey — in the hope that they can together make it safely across.

Meanwhile, the resentment in the regular army at the high-handed ways of the IRGC continue to roil the ranks. Especially infuriating is the IRGC’s refusal to let its own medical personnel treat wounded soldiers from the regular army. The fury is not yet to the point of mutiny, and a demand for better treatment “at the same level as the Revolutionary Guards enjoy” but it’s getting there. It’s not far-fetched to imagine a future scenario with the Iranian National Army refusing to fire on protesters, and the IRGC then firing on the army.

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Iran’s Supreme Insult: Mojtaba Khameni, The Fraud of Succession

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The “New” Ayatollah has arrived, and it is a horrible joke played on the back of a nation. As of March 9, 2026, the Assembly of Experts — under the boot of the Revolutionary Guard – has officially crowned Mojtaba Khamenei as the Supreme Leader. This is not a leadership transition; it is a palace coup by a shadow prince who has spent fifty-six years hiding behind his father’s robes.

For decades, the Islamic Republic claimed to be a revolutionary departure from the hereditary monarchy of the Shah. Today, that mask has been incinerated. By placing Mojtaba on the throne, the regime has revealed itself as nothing more than a tyrant mullah.

Let us be clear: Mojtaba Khamenei has generally the same credentials for the job as a 100-pound black lab. Zip. Nada.

In a system that ostensibly requires the “Supreme Leader” to be a pinnacle of Islamic jurisprudence, Mojtaba is a lightweight. He has never held a responsible job, never managed a government department, and has zero formal management training. His “career” consists entirely of being his father’s gatekeeper. He is a man of the shadows who has never won an election, never faced a public debate, and never managed anything more complex than his own illicit financial networks.

The people of Iran are expected to bow to a man who entered the seminary relatively late in life and whose only “scholarly” achievement is being the son of the previous boss. It is an insult to the intelligence of every Iranian citizen.

Make no mistake, this is not a man of peace. Mojtaba is the darling of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) precisely because he is a hollow vessel for their militant agenda. While he lacks the theological weight of his predecessors, he is deeply embedded in the security apparatus that has spent decades murdering its own people.

He was the architect of the 2009 crackdown on the Green Movement, a man who views dissent not as a dialogue but as a target. His rise signals a “defiant consolidation” – a regime retreating into its bunker, doubling down on missile projects and regional proxy wars while the Iranian people starve under the weight of his father’s failures.

This is not a government; it is a protection racket. The IRGC has hand-picked Mojtaba not for his wisdom, but for his weakness. They require a Supreme Leader who is beholden to the bayonets of the Basij and the ballistic missile commands. By placing a man with zero military experience and zero administrative history at the helm, the Guard has ensured that the “Supreme” office is nothing more than a rubber stamp for their own corporate and militant expansion. Mojtaba is the ultimate “Shadow Man,” a cardboard cutout designed to provide a face for a military junta that has completely cannibalized the Iranian state. He is their insurance policy against accountability.

Even the digital world is beginning to recoil from this illegitimate transition. On March 12, 2026, reports surfaced that Elon Musk’s X platform has become a battleground for the regime’s propaganda, with the Trump administration already denouncing the broadcasting of the new leader’s messages as state-sponsored terrorism.

The regime is desperately trying to use Western platforms to project an image of stability, but the world sees the truth: an injured and hiding “leader” who cannot even show his face to the public he claims to rule.

This appointment is a great injustice to the people of Iran. It is a desperate gasp from a dying theocracy trying to survive through nepotism. The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei is the final proof that the system is unreformable.

The streets of Tehran have already begun to echo with the cries of “Death to Mojtaba!” during the night. The Iranian people do not want a “Wonder Dog” Ayatollah; they want their country back. They do not want a “Khamenei’s Prince”; they want a new and modern Iran.

The transition to Mojtaba is not a sign of strength; it is a sign of a regime that has run out of ideas and out of time. There is no “maybe” here. There is no “partly.” This is a total betrayal of the Iranian nation. We do not need dialogue with a hereditary cleric; we need full and complete regime change.

The thunder is rolling in the streets of Iran. The “Shadow Men” of the March 9 CC News report are finally being dragged into the light, and they will find no shelter there. The era of the Khamenei dynasty ends not with a peaceful handover, but with the total and necessary collapse of this fraudulent house of cards. We need full and complete regime change. Anything less is a death sentence for Iran.

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Here Are All The Times US Troops Have Shot Down Drones And Missiles Launched By Iran-Backed Groups Since October

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  • U.S. forces in the Middle East have shot down at least 50 drones and 11 missiles since the Oct. 17 escalation in attacks by Iran-backed militias, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation tally.
  • U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have come under attack at least 106 times, a Department of Defense official told the DCNF.
  • Meanwhile, naval forces in the Red Sea have defended against 46 attack drones and saved commercial shipping vessels from ballistic missiles the Yemen-based Houthi rebel group fired.

U.S. troops in the Middle East have engaged more than 50 drones and at least 11 missiles, including ballistic missiles, fired by Iranian proxy groups, since the Oct. 17 escalation in attacks, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation tally.

The Iran-backed militias conducting drone and missile attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria and on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have framed their activities as a means of opposing Israel in its war on the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, and Washington’s alleged underwriting of the conflict that began Oct. 7. In the process of defending against those attacks, U.S. forces have downed dozens of drones and missiles targeting or nearing American personnel, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) statements, media reports and claims by the militia groups show.

The Pentagon says it aims to prevent a wider war from cascading across the Middle East and has moved to bolster air defenses at bases throughout the region.

A Department of Defense (DOD) official told the DCNF on Friday afternoon the Pentagon has counted at least 106 attacks on U.S. forces Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17. CENTCOM has confirmed only six drones successfully intercepted during those attacks, but media reports suggest the number could be much higher.

The Islamic Resistance of Iraq, a coalition of various Iran-backed militant groups, through its semi-official Iraq War Media social media channel issued another claim on Friday accompanied by footage of rocket launches.

The first attack took place on Oct. 17, when the U.S. military and coalition forces fended off three explosive-laden drones bearing down on U.S. troops stationed in Iraq in two different incidents, CENTCOM said in a press release. The next day, two sites in Syria hosting American and partner troops came under attack; one of the drones was shot down before it could cause damage, while the other one caused minor injuries to personnel at the al-Tanf coalition garrison.

Kataib Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia, had threatened to attack U.S. military bases with missiles, special forces and drones if the U.S. intervened militarily in support of Israel, Reuters reported.

Rockets and drones pummeled the Ain al-Asad air base near Baghdad later on Oct. 19. On Oct. 23, U.S. troops shot down two more kamikaze drones in Syria with unspecified defensive systems, Pentagon officials confirmed. Rockets rained down at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad again on Oct. 24, Reuters reported, citing two Iraqi security sources.

The Pentagon warned Iran and its proxy militias in the Middle East intended to further escalate conflict by attacking U.S. troops based in the region.

Dozens of troops have sustained minor injures, and one American contractor died during a false alarm.

On Oct. 25, one attack was recorded at a location in northern Syria on Wednesday, The Washington Post reported, citing U.S. officials. Three rockets were aimed at the outpost and one landed inside, although no troops were injured.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed dozens of attacks, not all of which have been verified as successful. They continued through November and December.

Christmas day saw the most significant casualty of all the attacks when an explosive drone apparently crashed into Erbil Air Base in Iraq, wounding two American service members and leaving a third in critical condition, the Pentagon said. In retaliation, President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on “Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups focused specifically on UAV activities,” damaging facilities used to make drones and likely killing or wounding multiple militants.

It was the fourth round of airstrikes Biden ordered on facilities associated with the militant groups and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which oversees Tehran’s proxy operations, since Oct. 27.

Additionally, U.S. and coalition forces have defended bases as militants were planning or in the process of conducting strikes, recording casualties.

Separately, U.S. Naval forces in the Red Sea have downed at least 46 attack drones and 11 missiles the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched, according to a DCNF tally. The USS Carney guided-missile destroyer intercepted three land-attack cruise missiles and eight drones that appeared intended to strike Israel on Oct. 19, USNI News reported, citing a preliminary Pentagon after-action report.

Since then, CENTCOM has documented 23 attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, according to a statement. U.S. destroyers and fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier scrambled to respond.

In the latest incident, Houthi rebels on four small boats fired small arms and crew-served guns at U.S. helicopters while attempting to board a Maersk container ship early Sunday, the first time the Pentagon has confirmed Houthi militants directly targeted American military personnel. U.S. helicopters fired back, killing militants and sinking three of the skifs, the military said.

Saturday night, the Gravely shot down two more anti-ship ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis, according to CENTCOM.

The Pentagon is documenting attacks on international shipping on a case-by-case basis, the DOD official told the DCNF.

“Often times if multiple munitions are fired in quick succession, that would count as once ‘incident.’ However, it really depends on the timing and sequence of events during a period of time,” the official said.

U.S. warships downed drones twice in November and responded to an attempted strike on commercial ship with anti-ship ballistic missiles, CENTCOM has said. Incidents increased in frequency in December; on one occasion, the USS Carney shot down 14 attack drones that came at the destroyer in a wave, without any evidence of warship nearby.

Dec. 3 proved an especially tense day as the UUS Carney guided-missile destroyer responded to three separate distress calls as the commercial ships came under attack from an onslaught of drones and ballistic missiles from areas occupied by the Iran-backed militant group, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. In the process of rendering support to the ships, the Carney downed three Houthi drones but CENTCOM said it was too early to determine whether a U.S. Navy vessel was also a target.

“These attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security. They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world. We also have every reason to believe that these attacks, while launched by the Houthis in Yemen, are fully enabled by Iran,” CENTCOM said in the statement.

U.S. naval assets downed a dozen suicide drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land-based cruise missiles the Houthis fired toward the Red Sea over a 10-hour period on Dec. 26, the military said in a statement.

In a statement, the Houthi military spokesperson affirmed the group’s “continued support and support of the Palestinian people as part of their religious, moral and humanitarian duty” and reiterated intentions to attack any commercial vessel tied to Israeli owners or destined for Israel.

Shipping in the Red Sea has decreased dramatically to the Houthi threat, as successful strikes have sparked fires on board merchant vessels and tankers, while U.S. forces continue to take down missiles.

The Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational task force aimed at safeguarding shipping through the critical waterway, on Dec. 18. Major freight companies say they still plan to reroute around Cape of Good Hope, CNN reported.

So far, the Pentagon has not confirmed whether the Houthis aimed for any drones heading directly for U.S. warships to impact on those ships, reportedly to avoid provoking further tensions as the region is simmering over the war between Israel and Gaza. The Biden administration has also refrained from directly targeting Houthi launch sites.

“President Biden’s perceived weakness by our enemies is leading to escalating attacks against our servicemembers and lawful commercial shipping. These attacks will continue until these terrorists understand that their actions will have severe consequences.” Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.

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MICAELA BURROW

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U.S. Conducts Second Round Of Retaliatory Airstrikes In Syria As Attacks On Troops Rises To 41

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The U.S. conducted a second round of retaliatory airstrikes at facilities used by Iran’s elite military and Iran-backed groups in Syria on Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

Attacks by Iranian-backed militias on bases in Iraq and Syria hosting U.S. troops numbered 41 on Wednesday after at least one more was confirmed, Fox News reported. The retaliatory strikes marked the second time the U.S. has targeted facilities linked to Iran and its proxy militias since the wave of attempted drone and rocket attacks beginning on Oct. 17.

“This precision self-defense strike is a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by IRGC-Quds Force affiliates,” Austin said in the statement. “The President has no higher priority than the safety of U.S. personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests.”

President Joe Biden directed the attacks in eastern Syria on weapons storage facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated militias, the statement said. Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets conducted the airstrikes.

“The United States is fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities. We urge against any escalation. U.S. personnel will continue to conduct counter-ISIS missions in Iraq and Syria,” he added.

Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder on Monday characterized the operations as repeated “harassing attacks of drones and rockets.” At least 46 personnel sustained injuries including traumatic brain injuries and minor wounds from shrapnel, headaches, perforated ear drums and other conditions, he said.

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MICAELA BURROW

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Bolton warned before Rushdie attack that Iran wasn’t targeting only him, called on Biden to end negotiations

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Bolton, who is quite spectacularly wrong about so very much, cannot be wrong all the time.

Bolton calls Iran assassination plot an ‘act of war,’ calls on Biden admin to ‘terminate’ nuclear talks

by Brooke Singman, Fox News, August 11, 2022:

EXCLUSIVE: Former White House national security adviser Amb. John Bolton said the assassination plot against him by an Iranian operative, and continued threats from Iran to American citizens on American soil is “unprecedented” and “an act of war,” telling Fox News the Biden administration has been “signaling weakness” to Tehran and should “terminate” negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal.

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against Iranian operative Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for an alleged plot to assassinate Bolton, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser until 2019.

U.S. officials said the plot was likely planned in retaliation for the January 2020 strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a revered Iranian leader and the head of Iran’s Quds Force.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Bolton said he had been “aware” of plots against him for “some time.”

Bolton said in the spring of 2020, the FBI contacted him with a “duty to warn.”

“I was given several duties to warn as time went on, and each one was becoming a little more serious,” Bolton said, noting that he went to a meeting at the FBI in the fall of 2021, where officials explained the latest information they had on plots against him.

Bolton told Fox News he requested U.S. Secret Service protection, which he had during the Trump administration but which was terminated upon his resignation.

The FBI granted the request for USSS protection in December 2021, and Bolton told Fox News that protection is ongoing.

But Bolton said he is not so concerned about the individual plot against him, but rather, threats from Iran against all Americans.

“It is not just me,” Bolton said. “The regime in Tehran has targeted a lot of Americans.”

“The aim here is to kill Americans on American soil, and its former government officials,” Bolton explained. “This is a broad threat to private American citizens on American soil, and I think it is, essentially, unprecedented.”

He added: “You could call it an act of war, and it tells you everything you need to know about the government in Tehran.”…

“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, through the Defendant, tried to hatch a brazen plot: assassinate a former U.S. official on U.S. soil in retaliation for U.S. actions,” U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia said this week.

Meanwhile, Bolton went on to slam the Biden administration for engaging in negotiations with Tehran to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, known as the Iran nuclear deal.

“To me, more important than the threats to the individuals is that catastrophic strategic policy that the administration is pursuing to try and revive the 2015 nuclear deal,” Bolton said. “You’ve got a government that absolutely won’t honor any commitments it makes—it will do whatever it thinks is necessary to get nuclear weapons.”

He added: “People are deluding themselves if they think that if we give Iran enough concessions, that they gain to let us back into the nuclear deal—they’ll do what they want to do.”…

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ROBERT SPENCER

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Iran Issues Ramadan Attack Warning in Threat to Mideast Peace

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In an ominous warning to Israel and regional Sunni countries, Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday threatened those nations that have “established political and security relations with the Zionist regime,” a reference to the Jewish State of Israel.

He added, “We explicitly declare and warn that the continuation of such relations is not acceptable at all.”

Coming three days before the start of Ramadan, the annual month of obligatory fasting and prayer for Muslims and one of the Five Pillars of Islam, the warning should be taken seriously by those specifically identified in Salami’s threat because Ramadan is also traditionally a time of Islamic terror attacks.

Those attacks may already have begun with a deadly spate of terrorism across Israel, in Be’ersheba, Hadera and Bnei Brak (just outside of Tel Aviv) that thus far have killed 11 people in the space of a single week. Assailants, two Arab-Israelis and the last one from the town of Ya’bad, near Jenin in Samaria, were armed with knives and guns, including an M-16 rifle, in the three attacks.

In HAMAS-ruled Gaza, sweets were handed out on the street to celebrate Israeli deaths, and in Lebanon, Hezbollah hailed the attacks with flags and music in the streets.

An official statement from Hezbollah referenced both the Abraham Accords indirectly and more specifically the tri-partite March 22 meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Egyptian resort of Sharm e-Sheikh with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, declaring that “All meetings of betrayal and the heights of normalization cannot give the enemy security.”

The fact that it was Maj. Gen. Salami, the IRGC commander, who issued the Iranian threat is significant, because it is the IRGC and its subordinate Qods Force unit that provide the support — arms, funding, training — for Islamic terror proxies across the Middle East.

The official statements coming from both Iran and HAMAS, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the wake of the Israel attacks indicate an orchestrated terror offensive, timed for the start of Ramadan. As Islamic doctrine obligates that a warning be given before attack, the Tehran regime is here putting Israel and the entire region on notice that this Ramadan, as others past, will be a violent one.

The Iranian regime understands that both within and outside of the Abraham Accords, key regional players, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco and others are banding together with Israel in an unprecedented recognition of the threat from an aggressive and rapidly nuclearizing Iran.

Those expanding relationships with the hated Jews, as well as the centuries-old Sunni-Shi’ite split that leaves the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in administrative charge of Islam’s Two Holy Places — Mecca and Medina — are what’s really “not acceptable at all” to the Shi’ite Twelvers who head both Iran and the IRGC/Qods Force.

It is especially incongruous that at precisely this time, in this atmosphere, the U.S. reportedly is considering removing the IRGC from the Department of State’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list as one of a slew of concessions to Iran intended to revive the July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal.

Indeed, indicative of the alarm such reports are invoking, recent articles in the Saudi press have labeled such efforts an “absurd” act and a “crime” that will threaten global security. Writing in the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on March 22, Saudi journalist Abdullah bin Bijad al-Otaibi called the idea of revoking the IRGC’s terrorist designation “a direct threat and danger not only to the Arab states but to the entire world.”

Likewise writing in Al-Sharq Al Awsat, Saudi journalist Tariq al-Homayed drew the broader implications, stating that “Removing the IRGC from the terror list will grant Iran freedom of action in the region as part of a Russian-Chinese-Iranian alliance.”

As the seasons of Ramadan, Passover and the Christian Holy Week culminating with Easter on April 16 all coincide this year, it is urgent that we understand the explicit intent of the Iranian warning to Israel and the region. It is nothing less than a declaration of war against Israel and those regional people who are choosing the pathway of peace and reconciliation with it.

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