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IRAN'S twisted generals have demanded an "immediate" strike on a US military base in response to Donald Trump's continued threats to bomb the region. The US president's B-2 stealth bomber strike force has already starting massing on the island of Diego Garcia with his team now aimed directly at Iran. Trump warned Iran on Sunday that there would be “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Iran continues to rejects his nuclear weapons proposal. The president set a deadline to the Ayatollah to come to the table to discuss the complete disarmament of all nuclear weapons....

President Trump is planning to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and potentially the United Arab Emirates in the coming weeks, though he said that plans are still being finalized. “I have a very good relationship with the Middle East,” Trump said on Monday in the Oval Office. On timing, he said, “It could be next month, maybe a little bit later.” Trump said that he was good friends with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Riyadh was one of the places Trump visited during his first term in 2017, when the kingdom announced a series of weapons sales and commercial deals...

Polic arrested Jonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein, top aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as suspects in the so-called Qatargate scandal on Monday, just as the attorney general ordered the police to summon the premier for testimony in the ongoing probe. Netanyahu left the Tel Aviv District Court Monday morning, cutting short his criminal trial on corruption charges, to give testimony to the Israel Police's Lahav 433 major crimes unit regarding the alleged unlawful financial ties between his senior staffers and Qatar. He returned to Jerusalem and was reportedly to be questioned on Monday afternoon at the Prime Minister's office...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump's threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington. Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if it does not accept his offer for talks outlined in a letter sent to Iran's leadership in early March, giving Tehran a two-month window to make a decision. Iran handed a warning on Monday about Trump's threats to Switzerland's embassy, which represents U.S. interests and acts as an intermediary between Washington and Tehran,...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs on Sunday if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC. "But there's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago."

"Bad things" will happen to Iran unless it reaches a deal with the U.S. on its nuclear program, President Trump said Friday. -snip- "Iran is very high on my list of things to watch. ... We will have to talk it out or very bad things are gonna happen to Iran, and I don't want that to happen," Trump said. "My big preference is that we work it out with Iran, but if we don't work it out, bad, bad things are gonna happen to Iran." -snip- Trump delivered his letter to the Iranian supreme leader through the UAE signaling...

One good way to tell if your effort to eliminate your enemy's leadership is going well is if you blow up their new defacto prime minister before his people have had a chance to learn that the old prime minister had been blown up, too. True story. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Hamas PM Ismail Barhoum was killed in an Israeli Air Force (IAF) airstrike just five days after his predecessor (pre-deceasor?) Issam al-Da’alis was — you guessed it! — killed in an IAF airstrike. With an almost coy dryness, the Journal headline read, "Israel Is Killing Hamas...

"BREAKING: Pete Hegseth answered a question about the Signal Chats: "So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax or suckers and losers hoax." "So this is the guy that pedals in the garbage. This is what he does." "I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops, I've monitored it very closely from the beginning."' ...

Steven Witkoff, the Trump administration’s official envoy who had past business ties to Qatar, sat down with Tucker Carlson, the former FOX News talking head turned Qatari apologist who had recently featured Qatar’s leader, to talk about how wonderful Qatar is... Qatar is not a mediator. It’s a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups. By collaborating with Qatar, Witkoff is by definition collaborating with Hamas.

The European Parliament has, once again, found itself at the heart of a corruption scandal, this time involving the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Police raids have been carried out across Belgium and Portugal amid suspicions of bribery, forgery, money laundering, and organized criminal activity. The European Parliament’s latest corruption scandal unfolds even as the previous one—the so-called ‘Qatargate’ affair—remains under investigation and litigation, further deepening preexisting concerns about foreign influence in EU institutions. The Qatargate scandal, which surfaced more than two years ago, involves allegations that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), lobbyists, and their families accepted substantial sums of...

The China War Update... Well China getting their chops in selling low-price products online and your poor neighbors are scooping it up bringing in billions for Chinese owned... But what about that other kind of war, the shooting war if you will defense experts here in the US laying it out... Here I am again your host a luster, liar, thief and a character assassin a leader of sinners deserving Hell but thanks be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and shedding of his blood for this sinner and all sinners... "Fight Oligarchy" Who is the "oligarchy" if you...

PM claims AG, Shin Bet head opened probe into aides' ties to Doha on same date he had set for Bar to present report on agency's Oct. 7 failures, but Qatar probe had been ongoing for weeks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Saturday that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet security agency chief Ronen Bar only opened an investigation into his senior aides' financial ties with Qatar... Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Thursday to fire Bar and was set to meet Sunday to advance the process of firing Baharav-Miara...

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Tuesday demanded immediate international action to compel Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire, abide by the Gaza ceasefire agreement and return to negotiations.

In his interview with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Aal Thani, published March 8, 2025, Tucker Carlson allows a total whitewash of the worst enemy of America in this century, Qatar. He claims that the attacks on Qatar are motivated by an attempt to drag America into war with Iran. This is a false claim. MEMRI, the foremost critic of Qatar over the years that continues to accuse it of being an enemy of America, and the foremost sponsor of Islamist terrorism (including 9/11), opposes an American attack on Iran. -snip- Qatar's prime minister tries to justify the existence...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently took to his official account on Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) and warned US President Donald Trump about the complications of striking Iran including the possibility of setting off a war, causing the death of thousands of Americans. The American political commentator and presenter wrote, "It’s worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars." Tucker Carlson added, "The cost of future acts of terrorism...

After Iran, Israel does not have a greater enemy than Qatar. In addition to Qatar providing Hamas with financial and diplomatic support, Qatar is also funding the ‘Palestinian’ propaganda war against Israel in America. Most especially in our schools, but also on television and on social media. Qatar’s goal is to erode American public support for Israel, thereby destroying American diplomatic and military support for Israel in the years ahead. ... Qatar shaping anti-Israeli curricula for 8,000 American schools in all 50 states ... Pro-Hamas, Iranian-aligned Gulf state using its petro dollars to shape the curriculum used by thousands of...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement said on Sunday that a delegation met with the Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, in the Qatari capital, Doha. “The two sides discussed developments in the ceasefire negotiations, the ongoing Israeli violations of the agreement, and the practices that hinder its implementation, including stalling implementation of the humanitarian protocol, preventing the entry of tents, mobile homes [caravans], fuel and heavy equipment,” explained Hamas. “Efforts to rebuild basic infrastructure are also being hindered.” The “dangerous situation” in Jerusalem and the...

Evangelical leader and curriculum expert Laurie Cardoza-Moore has blasted Tucker Carlson for his recent interview with the Prime Minister of Qatar and what she called his "sudden pro-Iranian advocacy." “Did Tucker just take off his mask for Purim? Was this all a dance for his new puppet masters in Doha? Is Tucker the Emir’s new court jester?” asked Cardoza-Moore, who hosts the Focus on Israel television program that reaches billions of Christians worldwide. “Has Tucker Carlson sold his soul to the Muslim Brotherhood? He appears to have fully cozied up to Qatar - one of world’s biggest sponsors of Islamist...

As my boat cruises toward the private island city of Indian Creek Village — better known as the Billionaire Bunker — I'm hoping my trip doesn't end in an arrest. It's a hot morning on South Florida's Biscayne Bay, and I've convinced two local tour boat captains to pilot me around the perimeter of what is quite possibly the wealthiest and most heavily defended town in America. I'm not entirely clear on the rules about boating near the island, which lies just across the bay from Miami, and neither are my captains — they're both in their first weeks on...

Air raid alerts across Ukraine tonight in Kiev and 10 other regions with explosions... The polls are closed in Greenland...a lead for the Naleraq Party... The US Department of Education firing more than 1,300 employees... The Houthi government in Yemen announcing a 'resumption of military operations' against Israel... In Portugal the government of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro losing a confidence vote... The plan to keep spending money in Washington called a "Continuing Resolution" isn't conservative. That's the message from... In Saudi Arabia Ukraine agreeing to a 30-day ceasefire at talks with US officials... In South Africa at least 16 people...