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The official story is real — but incomplete. Operation Epic Fury’s stated goals — eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, destroying its missile arsenal, degrading its proxy networks, and annihilating its navy — are all legitimate grievances rooted in 47 years of Iranian hostility toward the United States. But they are the surface layer of a much deeper strategic play.

Video The Bat Yam Municipality has filed a lawsuit against the Islamic Republic of Iran, demanding more than NIS 208 million in compensation for the extensive destruction caused by an Iranian ballistic missile strike during Operation Rising Lion in June 2025. The lawsuit, filed Sunday in the Tel Aviv District Court by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, seeks NIS 208,330,129 in damages incurred by the municipality following the deadly attack. Bat Yam Mayor Zvika Brot and Shurat HaDin President attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner personally delivered the legal documents to a representative of Iran's mission to the United Nations in...

Lebanon News & OSINT on X: "🌲 - 🇱🇧🔰🇺🇸 The U.S. State Department has declared Lebanon’s Consul General in Detroit, Ibrahim Sharara, persona non grata, ordering him to leave the United States by Sunday, November 8. The decision follows a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting social media posts attributed to Sharara in which he praised the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing, which killed 241 American servicemen. The report also highlighted Sharara’s participation in an Arab-American community event in Michigan attended by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed." Conversation @LebOSINT Lebanon News & OSINT @LebOSINT 🌲 - 🇱🇧🔰🇺🇸 The U.S. State...

The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America. The editor was “diligent in what appears to be a clean-up of El-Sayed’s page” heading into Tuesday’s general election where the radical Dem defeated Republican Mike Rogers, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg. ..tracked revisions to El-Sayed’s page and posted them this week on X. They include a June 12 edit where wording is changed from El-Sayed “has never been granted a medical license” to...

JERUSALEM, Israel – Today, we get a rare inside look at what Christians have faced under Hamas rule in Gaza. One Christian who escaped the region tells CBN News that intimidation and religious pressure have reduced Gaza’s Christian community to just a few hundred people. Naji grew up as a Christian in Gaza. He says Hamas changed life dramatically after seizing control of the Gaza Strip in 2007. He told us, “They completely restructured how everyday Gazans thought. They pushed a whole new set of ideas through mosques, teachings, periodic sermons, and structured religious circles.” This system also affected the...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations will shut down operations in Florida after a federal court rejected its request to reverse its designation as a terrorist group Wednesday night. The ruling came after the State of Florida designated the Muslim civil rights group as a terrorist organization under a new Florida law that gave the state the ability to pull funding from institutions. The designation took effect Thursday, forcing CAIR and CAIR-Florida to shut down operations in the state. CAIR announced Thursday plans to appeal the decision, calling the claims baseless and saying the new law violates...

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, stated that the United States' response regarding Iran's rights and demands was unconvincing. He said that the United States must provide a full, clear, and explicit response...

Donald Trump: Agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US funding to Israel at the end of 2026 | The Jerusalem Post. Trump: US will stop funding to Israel after end of 2026, will 'help Israel if they need it'. The president went on to praise Israel as a particularly reliable American ally, contrasting its conduct with that of other US partners. By Idan Kweller. November 3, 2026. On the morning of the US midterm elections, US President Donald Trump made a startling claim in an interview with Fox & Friends: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself initiated a plan to end...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US aid to Israel after the end of the year. “They don’t need it,” Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. “We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.” The president said the idea came from Netanyahu himself, suggesting that the agreement was also...

U.S. and Israel have discussed phasing out grants, but president’s comments suggest it could occur much faster than expected WASHINGTON—President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. would cut off military aid to Israel by the end of the year, suggesting the phaseout of grants to the U.S. ally could occur much faster than expected.“We won’t be paying anymore to Israel,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News on Election Day. “We’ve already agreed that by the end of this year, we won’t be paying Israel.”The phasing out of direct U.S. military aid to Israel has been under discussion for...

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The Midwesterner wrote that El-Sayed advocated for Sharia law and was heavily affiliated with groups that provided support to Hamas. The apple does not fall far from the tree because his own mother supported terrorist organizations. Three times, El-Sayed has avoided questions about labeling the Brotherhood a terrorist group. He instead mocked his questioner and repeated a painfully generic “this is about democracy” answer. “I’m not going to stoop to that level,” El-Sayed said when asked if he would designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. .......

Abdul El-Sayed is having a terrible home stretch in the Michigan Senate race, digging himself deeper on a daily basis. And for whatever reason, he just can't seem to put the shovel down. First, he refused to condemn a blatantly antisemitic ad supporting his campaign. That was too much for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), his former primary opponent, who had endorsed him after their race. Stevens flipped and endorsed his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers. In the final days of the campaign, El-Sayed's candidacy is tearing the Democrat Party apart, and now he is stuck playing defense on antisemitism...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner as President Donald Trump considers renewed strikes on Iran following next week's midterm elections. Army Lt Gen Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after he reportedly leaked classified information about the war in Iran and the war between Russia and Ukraine. 'Although Sylvia's title was director of the Directorate for Strategy, Plans and Policy at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, known inside the military as the J5, he was NOT a central planner for the Iran War,' a...

Two British nationals have been charged over an alleged plot to assist Iran's intelligence service as part of the investigation into the incident at RAF Fairford in September. Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, 24, from Westminster, has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service under Section 3 of the National Security Act. Nouman Essghir, also 24 and from Westminster, has been charged under Section 4 of the same act with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK on 22 August - weeks before he was arrested near the airbase in Gloucestershire alongside four other men. The pair...

Wes Streeting’s remarks were made following the launch of a government campaign urging Brits to stock up with emergency supplies. British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has said the country must be ready for war in 1,000 days, after the government advised citizens to stock up on essential supplies. Writing in the Telegraph over the weekend, Streeting warned that the UK’s enemies could be ready to launch an attack on the UK by 2030. He wrote: “Our adversaries’ willingness to harm us is not new. What has changed is their capacity. By 2030, their force strength and war economy could put...

Mass demonstrations, when IRGC came out to play, they encountered armed resistance. Pahlavi circulating contact info to civil servants and military, urging next steps to be taken towards revolution. Some technical difficulty. Targeted drone attack in Tehran building, result and intended victim not yet known. Ayatoilets trying to gaslight and demonizing Pahlavi. He has plans that he's made known for reconstructing Iran after revolution. He's pro-western, pro-democracy and pro-free markets. Li'l Lulu stole election in Brazil, very similar to the Brandonistas' theft, and Bolsonaro Jr. has skedaddled and asked for asylum in America to avoid arrest like they did his...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis will vote in a pivotal election Tuesday as their country is embroiled in unresolved wars, still reeling from Hamas’ 2023 attack and deeply divided over the character of the state and the right person to lead it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces off against a coalition of parties seeking to oust the longtime leader from power. Opinion polls have suggested a tight race with his main rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot.In Israel’s fragmented parliamentary politics, no single party has ever won an outright parliamentary majority, so political leaders must forge coalitions. But in a tight...

A friend of mine is taking his wife on a European cruise that ends in Barcelona this week. He told me how much they love the Spanish city and how they’d normally stay an extra couple of days there before flying back. “Not this year,” he said, before stressing that they’re “gonna get outta there fast” because of safety concerns. We had this discussion before this weekend’s violent riots in Barcelona, in which hundreds of people (black clothing, masks, and Palestinian flags prominent among them) looted and damaged dozens of stores, injured at least 15 police officers, and set multiple...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he was deciding whether to “make a deal” with Iran or “finish it off” as investors weigh heightened tensions across the Middle East. “Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? It’s getting to be decision time,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday. Mediators from Qatar, which has played a key role in efforts to negotiate an agreement between Washington and Tehran, visited Tehran on Sunday, per Reuters. It comes as attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants on Saudi Arabia continued over...

An internal document from the group that organized Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander’s trip to the West Bank describes Israel as "genocidal[SIC]" and engaged in "ethnic cleansing[SIC]" and says the trip’s goal is to build support for "international intervention" against Israel. The document, labeled "INTERNAL DOCUMENT: DO NOT SHARE OR CIRCULATE," is a set of talking points from Protect the Harvest, which recruits foreigners to help make Israel look bad as part of its smear campaign. Lander did his part, posting to social media that he had been "detained" by the Israel Defense Forces. Lander is the Democratic nominee for...