Iran: Scalpel and Hammer
With brilliant intelligence and close U.S. and Israeli cooperation and coordination, Operation Epic fury is systematically dismantling the terrorist regime of Iran’s ayatollahs... It has also demolished fears of Russian and Chinese intervention on behalf of the regime... Indeed China, which depended on Iran and Venezuelan oil, is unlikely to make good for a while if ever on its threats to occupy Taiwan.
A quick reminder of Iran’s anti-U.S. aggression in recent decades: It took over our embassy and held 52 Americans there hostage for over a year; it bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American troops, its IEDs killed 603 and maimed hundreds more American service members in Iraq, it supplied its terrorist proxies who attack U.S. forces and shipping, it brutally tortured CIA’s Bill Buckley for 15 months, filming his agonies and sending the film to us...
Saggezza Eterna accurately describes our weak responses to these aggressions:
For years, the Democratic establishment operated on a delusional premise that a rogue regime could be bribed into morality. They sent pallets of cash to a state that burns the American flag, yet they express feigned shock when that same regime funds the slaughter of innocents across the globe. Under President Trump, that charade is finished...
The most knowledgeable analysis I found is by Shanaka Anselm Perera, who describes the decapitation of Iran’s leaders and the destruction of institutional trust which follows.
They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran. Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time...
In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran... [snip] Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent...
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The Iran Question Is All About China, by Zineb Riboua, 28 February 2026:
... In fact, Beijing has spent years and billions of dollars building Iran into a structural asset. Everything that follows in the Middle East flows from this fact... By striking Iran directly, the Trump administration is dismantling, whether by design or by consequence, a pillar of China’s regional architecture.
China buys around 90% of Iran’s crude exports at steep discounts. The shipments travel on a ghost fleet of tankers that switch off their transponders and relabel their cargo as Malaysian or Indonesian crude to circumvent American sanctions...
A freight rail corridor now connects the Iranian city of Qom to Yiwu, China...
Huawei and ZTE have built significant portions of Iran’s telecommunications infrastructure. As far back as 2010, ZTE signed a $130 million contract to overlay a surveillance system onto Iran’s state-managed telephone and internet networks. Huawei and ZTE have built significant portions of Iran’s telecommunications infrastructure. As far back as 2010, ZTE signed a $130 million contract to overlay a surveillance system onto Iran’s state-managed telephone and internet networks...
The orientation of the Middle East will determine whether the United States can prevail in the defining confrontation of this century: a Chinese move against Taiwan...
Trump's masterful statement about the attack on Iran, by Andrea Widburg, American Thinker, 28 February 2026.
Trump's Way of War, by Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, 3 March 2026.
There Is No Need For Congress To Declare War Because We’re Already At War, by Ted Noel, American Thinker, 3 March 2026.
Although multiple U.S. presidents have ignored this fact, we’ve been at war for 47 years—the only difference is that President Trump is finally taking it seriously...
Thomas Jefferson... seems to be of a kind with Trump. Now the threat to America wasn’t as blatant as the nuclear winter threatened by the Ayatollahs, but he faced off against some of their ideological kin in the Barbary pirates.
Those Muslim corsairs were happily capturing American ships and putting American sailors into slavery...
A territorial threat is not required for a state of war to exist. President Jefferson knew this and sent a task force of Marines to eliminate the threat...
Islam has been at war with civilization since its founding. Mohammed was little more than a successful local warlord, but it appears that he was visited by a fallen Elohim who claimed to be the Archangel Gabriel. Jewish history was thereby co-opted into a completely different religion that isn’t compatible with civilization. And it has been at war with civilization ever since.
Rome had civilized North Africa, and it was home to much of Christianity. St. Augustine lived there, as did many of the early church fathers. But shortly after Islam took root, Christian civilization was largely destroyed in North Africa. The Moors (an Islamic group) even conquered Spain...
In short, Islam has declared war, and that war has never ended. The most powerful recent iteration is Iran. There are dozens of Islamic nations, but Iran has been the major player in the war against the West...
We have been at war with Iran for over forty years. No declaration of war on our part matters. The war is an open fact...
Trump’s Incentive Alignment Doctrine: A Businessman’s Fix for Failed Foreign Policy, by Michael Ryall, Epoch times, 3 March 2026.
Operation Epic Fury Day Four: The Latest News From Iran and the Middle East, Breitbart, 3 March 2026.
IDF Destroys ‘Secret’ Iranian Nuclear Site and Over 300 Ballistic Missile Launchers Across Iran, Geller Report, 3 March 2026:
The secret nuclear facility—previously unknown to Western intelligence—was struck in the opening hours of the campaign and completely destroyed: Israeli Air Force jets on Tuesday destroyed a secret underground site on the outskirts of Tehran where Iran transferred much of its nuclear program after the war with Israel in June...
Pompeo’s Iran Plan: A Terror Cult in Power, by Amil Imani, Geller Report, 7 March 2026.
A Lot of Americans Don't Understand Operation Epic Fury, and the Answer Why Is Obvious, by David Strom, Hot Air, 12 March 2026:
The left clearly wants the United States to fail in Iran because they want Trump to fail, and the media is pounding the drums to help them force Trump to stop Operation Epic Fury before it is done.
The country is so divided right now because there are people who trust the media and get their news from it, and those of us who know they are liars.
Why Attack Iran Now? by Brian T. Kennedy, American Mind, 12 March 2026
... President Trump has two objectives: to make sure Iran does not use nuclear ballistic missiles to attack the United States and to install a regime in Tehran favorable to U.S. interests. This will only happen when the current Iranian regime is defeated—and when they know they have been defeated...
If the United States were attacked by a ship-launched nuclear missile, we would be at the tender mercies of Communist China, Russia, or any other nation that seeks our destruction. Such an electromagnetic pulse attack is not something to be dismissed as a relic of Cold War thinking. It is today the operational doctrine of our enemies...
The American people need to understand that Iran presents an existential threat to the United States...
What we have done with our current use of military force is remove Iran as an effective proxy of Communist China...
One additional and immediate concern of the United States should be the 200,000 Chinese men of military age who appear to be special forces who came illegally to the United States during the Biden Administration...
Put simply, this war ends when the nuclear threat from Iran ends, and the regime in Tehran believes it is suicidal to attack the United States ever again. Nothing less will suffice.
Data Analysis of the State of the Iranian Conflict on March 8, 2026. DataRepublican, 9 March 2026.
What Many Analysts Get Wrong About the Iran War, Epoch times, 19 March 2026.
The Case for Epic Fury, by Ben Mordecai, American Greatness, 20 March 2026.
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Won The Battle, But Will He Take Iran? by Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal, 23 March 2026.
