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By Teri Christoph President Trump took to Truth Social Saturday afternoon to offer his first  comments  on the death of Ayatollah Khameini during military strikes carried out on Iran by the United States and Israel. Calling Khamenei "one of the most evil people in History," the president confirmed Israeli reports of the Iranian leader's demise.  Trump wrote, "This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do." And he again encouraged the people of Iran to use the death of the ayatollah to "take back their Country." The Commander in Chief also revealed the "heavy and pinp...

By Becca Lower The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has released a statement on the joint U.S,-Israel strikes on Iran on Saturday, referring to the Jewish state's moniker for the IDF's part, "Operation Roaring Lion." RedState has extensively been on top of this swiftly-moving story, including of the American "Operation Epic Fury" starting in the earliest hours of Saturday; if you missed any of it, find our work  here . Here is Ambassador Danny Danon's video that was shared on X, courtesy of Newsbusters' Curtis Houck: BREAKING: Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon... "To the brave soldiers of the U.S., the IDF, our air force, intelligence and security services, you are defending our people with courage and resolve. You stand like lions. Our entire nation stands behind you. To the brave… pic.twitter.com/JakCGb4BQT — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 28, 2026 The statement read: "To the brave soldiers of the U.S., the...

By Becca Lower In the wee hours of Saturday morning just minutes after the deadline set by President Donald Trump for the Iranian regime to agree to drop its decades-long nuclear enrichment ambitions, it happened. The U.S. and Israel began devastating air strikes on Iran, as RedState reported. The president announced Operation "Epic Fury" with a just-after-midnight ET video statement. NYC's Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke on the joint Iran operation at an event on Saturday: “Today’s military strikes by the United States and Israel mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal act of war of aggression,” Mamdani said Saturday at an unrelated event in Brooklyn. “Bombing cities, killing civilians, opening up a new theater of war — Americans do not want this. Americans do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. We want an answer to the affordability crisis. We want peace.” The story linked above adds some details on how NYC law enforcement is beefi...

By Ward Clark In the latest news from the Middle East, where the theocratic Iranian regime is being disassembled by American and Israeli air power, there's a new possible threat. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation, a group sponsored by the Royal Navy to handle emergency calls by shipping, is claiming to have reports that the Iranians may try to  close the Strait of Hormuz . Merchant vessels operating in the Persian Gulf region are being told that Iran is shutting down the Strait of Hormuz amid the expanding conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel.  The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations, a Royal Navy-sponsored organization that acts as a “911 call center” for the global shipping industry, said it has received multiple reports from ship operators about the shutdown. At least 20% of the world’s petroleum product passes through the Strait of Hormuz, widely considered the most crucial oil chokepoint in the world. The Strait is a major shipping lane, as well as being...

By Scott Pinsker Here’s a quick thought experiment: Instead of just a  couple thousand dead Israelis , let’s pretend 73,000 Israelis were killed in the Gaza War — the same exact number as dead Palestinians. Would the world still accuse Israel of genocide? After all, if there’s a multi-year war between one side with 2.23 million and another with 9.7 million — and 73,000 people died on each side — that sure wouldn’t sound like a genocide to me. It just would sound like war:  Horrible, brutal, immoral, and obscene. Because the connotative meaning of “genocide” necessarily includes the intent to kill an entire genome, a.k.a. a “race” of people. It’s not supposed to be a slick-sounding euphemism for “war with civilian casualties by someone we don’t like.” I’m not making light of 73,000 deaths (which included an unknown number of the  25,000 to 30,000 members of the Hamas military ). Every life is precious. It saddens me that we live on a planet where “holy war” isn’t contr...

By Thomas Stevenson Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have chosen not to appeal a prior ruling to pursue capital punishment against  Luigi Mangione , the 27-year-old charged in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO  Brian Thomspon . On Friday, prosecutors disclosed they will not challenge a prior ruling that eliminated the possibility of the death penalty. The decision means Mangione, an Ivy League-educated defendant, will not face execution even if convicted, per the  New York Post . In correspondence to the court, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said it would not contest Judge Margarett Garnett’s Jan. 30 order dismissing the death penalty-eligible murder charge, pointing to legal deficiencies identified in the case. Mangione is slated to stand trial in federal court in September. If jurors find him guilty of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson during a targeted attack on a Midtown sidewalk on Dec. 4, 2024, he could ...

By Tyler Durden As fully predictable, Moscow has blasted the major overnight and early morning  US-Israeli strikes on Iran , calling the attack " a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression  against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state" and has demanded an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy. The Foreign Ministry in a statement on Telegram accused Washington and Tel Aviv of  "hiding behind" concerns about Iran’s nuclear program  while actually pursuing regime change, as also cited in  The Associated Press . After all, even on Friday Iran was strongly signaling readiness to take enrichment down to zero, as our own headline and others indicated:  Iran Reportedly Agrees To Give Up Nuclear Material In Breakthrough: 'Peace Deal Within Reach' . Moscow is further  warning of Iraq-style catastrophe and a regional domino effect  which could unleash terrorism and chaos for years to come. The attacks could t...

By Robert Spencer After the U.S./Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran began early Saturday morning, the far-left government of Canada offered tepid support for the strikes, while the government of Saudi Arabia, indignant after an Iranian strike against a U.S. base inside the kingdom, said that it would join in on striking Iran. So far, so good. Emmanuel Macron's France, however, had a markedly different reaction. Several hours after the strikes began, Macron  wrote :  The outbreak of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran carries grave consequences for international peace and security.  Notice that he says nothing whatsoever about the yearning of the Iranian people for freedom after suffering 47 years of the Islamic regime’s bloodthirsty repression. In this decisive moment, all measures are being taken to ensure the security of the national territory and that of our compatriots, as well as our interests in the Middle East.  France also stands ...

By A. J. Christopher As of this writing, the United States and Israel have begun what I can only assume to be the first round of military strikes on Iran. I also assume that the eventual goal is regime change, effected by the United States, but driven by the Iranian people. And I'm not alone. Over the past few days, the so-called “think” tanks are falling all over themselves to be the first to prophesy a quagmire, a “trap,” a “forever war,” and Iraq 3.0. The dregs at Foreign Policy took a break from clamoring for a post-American world order to  demand  we not bomb Iran precisely to more quickly usher in said order. At Powerline blog, John Hinderaker gleefully straddles the fence as only he can by  declaring  his hope that Trump bombs the mullahs with the goal of regime change… and in the same sentence, expresses doubt that this will be accomplished. And if you’re willing to waste the brain cells, you can guess what ol’ Tucker’s position on it is. But the absolute...