From Iran to Space X to the World Cup, it’s been a good week.
On June 21, 2025, the U.S. bombed three facilities in Iran dedicated to nuclear enrichment, which enrichment would have allowed Iran to move in a short time to making nine nuclear bombs. This was a terrific mission that took more than 35 hours of flight time, and Iran’s three facilities deep in the mountains were decimated. Despite the success of the bombing in destroying these sites, satellite photos “showed trucks leaving Iran’s Fordow site just before U.S. airstrikes” said to be carrying enriched uranium. “Now, over 400kg of highly enriched uranium is unaccounted for. … [The] U.S. calls the strikes a success — but where is the uranium?”
Subsequently, Pres. Trump initiated Operation Epic Fury in March 2026. At that point in time, he announced that the air strikes against Iran had four purposes:
- To destroy Iran’s missile capabilities.
- To destroy Iran’s navy.
- To ensure that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
- To ensure that the Iranian regime “cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”
The same website that lists President Trump’s objectives for these attacks also lists statements by a variety of military leaders as well as by our secretary of War and secretary of State.
This writer was particularly gripped by the statement of purpose for our attack made by Admiral Brad Cooper: “Our military in the Middle East is undertaking an unprecedented operation to eliminate Iran’s ability to threaten Americans, as they’ve been doing for nearly half a century.”
This statement carries a broader vision of the military venture in Iran that needs to be received by the public. Admiral Cooper understands clearly that the threatening and killing of Americans that Iran has done for decades is the right and sufficient justification for our aggressive stance. He understands that Iran’s portrayal of the USA as the Great Satan to stir up the animus of the Muslim world (and particularly the Shi’ite believers within that political and religious culture) is in service to a bloodthirsty ideology of belligerence, hatred, and violent disrespect of Western mores and beliefs.
“Threaten Americans.” Think about this. The present ayatollah government wants to threaten us with suffering and death because we believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The leadership of Iran, under the acronym IRGC, hates us because we live under phrases like “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” and “all men are created equal.” They are obsessed that so many of us live claiming to be Protestant or Catholic Christians. Their envy of our economic successes drives them into a murderous rage, as even their own oil productivity and production depends upon the engineering knowledge and exploratory gifts of the West.
When this writer briefly taught high school at a private school in Iran two years before the present fanatical scoundrels took control of that country, U.S. engineers laughed discreetly at the Iranians who were on their teams who were building missile manufacturing and launching facilities for the Iranian army. At a party in my apartment at the time, an American engineer said that if there was a testing protocol in place at a missile manufacturing site and parts were not available for the test to be properly completed, the Iranians would go ahead anyway. The engineer said this would be like having three people lay a pipe. The first would dig the trench, the second would put in the pipe, and the third would fill up the trench and cover the pipe. However, he mockingly said of the Iranians that if the second man was not there to put in the pipe, Iranian three would reflexively fill in the trench without the pipe.
After the 1979 revolution that brought the ayatollahs to power, all the books in the library at the school where I had taught were burned in the courtyard of the school. The American principal of the school who had lived and worked in Iran for decades left the country in 1980, and the school today is exclusively for boys.
The only aspect of Admiral Cooper’s above statement that needs to be qualified is that our operation in Iran is an “unprecedented operation.” The vast scope and advanced weaponry involved are certainly unprecedented, but in the early years of our republic, we faced an extremely violent threat from the Barbary pirates of the Islamic world for thirty years, from 1785 until 1815.
Those pirates captured two of our ships as early as 1785, and each one had 25 sailors. Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as our ambassador to France at the time, tried to negotiate, but the reader will not be surprised that the negotiations got nowhere. Then the U.S. government changed from the Articles of Confederation to our present Constitution, and George Washington became our president. Nevertheless, headway in recovering the kidnapped sailors went nowhere. In fact, about two fifths of the American sailors captured died of disease and horrible conditions in captivity.
The U.S. kept on negotiating and negotiating, but the piracy and capture of our sailors did not abate. Only after we defeated the British soundly in the War of 1812 did the Islamic enemies in Algiers retreat from their piratical ways, because that victory showed our growing strength and also smashed the British-Algiers alliance that was in effect at the beginning of the War of 1812.
It’s now confirmed that the raid was to capture documentary evidence that the Russiagate claims were false. They had been manufactured to defeat Trump and Obama believed that evidence was hidden in Trump’s residence.
She also revealed that, despite their repeated denials, the Obama Administration, including Dr. Fauci, had 120 gain-of-function biolabs in 30 countries, including Ukraine. Russia had claimed they did. Russian claims proved to have been true
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“After months of searching through intelligence community holdings and files,” she said, “today I’m releasing new evidence of long-standing US government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries.” Before you ask — yes, all 30 countries have lax regulations, legacies of official corruption, and long histories of dependency on USAID.
It’s not just routine bio-research. “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.”
“Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci” — I love how she modified health professionals with so-called — “and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
Lies and threats. That’s the sitting ODNI accusing top government officials of malfeasance. It made history. The only comparable incident I could find was Tulsi’s own July 2025 release that accused Obama’s national security team of manufacturing the Russia-collusion intelligence narrative.
Tulsi is systematically dismantling the 2016-2024 intelligence establishment narrative. Which is probably why the corporate media quietly nudged the whole story behind the break room fridge with its Birkenstocked foot.
Grand juries in Florida are still sifting through evidence and listening to witnesses. CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirms that his predecessor John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are likely to be indicted in connection with their roles in this scandal.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find indictments respecting the 2020 presidential election corruption as well.
Remigration marches and rallies have expanded beyond Northern Ireland and Great Britain to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Poland. I don’t know how much longer the European Union, which keeps demanding more third-world migration to Europe, will continue to hold together.
Speaking of Europe, X viewers have been charmed by the accounts of various Europeans who have toured the South and other less-traveled spots in the U.S. while here for the World Cup. A young German, “Freddy,” among others, was taken with local foods like Texas Barbecue, enormous stores full of wares like rifles and even shooting ranges, and fast food, ice for drinks, free drink refills, open roads, and the enormous geographic and demographic diversity of a country mostly familiar to them in movies painting dystopian pictures of America. Rod Dreher was inspired:
“Proposal: resurrect USAID, and dedicate all its funding to sending Europeans on field trips to Buc-ee’s, Costco, and Bass Pro Shop.”
In my experience, few Europeans appreciate the sheer size and variety of the USA. They look with astonishment at the offerings in big box stores, not understanding that many people have refrigerators and freezers the size of many European flats or the sheer distance most of us travel to shop in cars, rather than on bikes or public transportation. European bien pensants have always worked to diminish the new world. In the 18th century, prominent French intellectuals believed North American animals were smaller and inferior to those in Europe. Thomas Jefferson, then our Minister to France, was, as you may recall, very tall (more than six feet), and he found the claim preposterous. He took time to compile comparative charts of mammals. After he was challenged on the matter at one dinner party in France, he responded by bringing at his own cost a massive bull moose, which he had paid to be hunted, stuffed, and shipped to Paris. In another, perhaps apocryphal account, he had guests line up by height, which he marked on the wall behind them to prove the Americans were taller.
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