“US Israel Iran War”

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced, “Iran’s formerly supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei is dead.” The Iranian leader was eliminated during a coordinated U.S.–Israeli military operation that targeted senior Iranian officials and military sites across Tehran as part of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury.

Stripped of citizenship followed by deportation.

Perhaps we forgot what it’s like when politicians act on their promises.

Perhaps our enemies ­forgot as well.

For decades, American presidents — Democratic and Republican — have said the theocratic dictatorship in Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.

Ten people have been arrested across London in relation to a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into Iranian spying in the city, four of them on direct intelligence suspicions, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday.

Counter Terrorism Policing detectives arrested four people on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and a further six people on suspicion of “assisting an offender”, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men are said to be suspected of spying on the Jewish community in London on behalf of Iranian intelligence.

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.

The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.

Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

Toronto will get a better picture this weekend of just how much support there was for Iran’s fallen spiritual leader and how much opposition there really is for the war being prosecuted by Israel and America that eliminated him.

While some local mosques have martyred Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Saturday’s planned protest at the U.S. consulate in Toronto by those mourning his death will provide a bellwether of where Canadians stand on this conflict?

Not Iran. Toronto. 🇨🇦

After the supreme loser, Ali Khamenei, was turned into a kotlet on Saturday, this is how Hamas and Islamic Republic loyalists in Toronto reacted.

Deport. pic.twitter.com/gQ4lAce4Ts

— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) March 3, 2026

The folks who do al Quds Day usually draw a pretty good turnout in Toronto with their marches typically drawing several thousand Shia Muslims among others.

We have been betrayed by our elite as they should never have been allowed to settle in Canada to begin with.

For a sixth day, the US and Israel are battering targets in Iran, waging war from the air. Could there soon be boots on the ground? Maybe. But not American ones.

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq have told the BBC they have plans to cross the border – and have had them for decades – but they flatly deny claims that their fighters have already done so.

“We have been preparing for this for the past 47 years, since the age of the Islamic Republic,” said Hana Yazdanpana, of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), which claims to have the biggest armed force.

I don’t think the IRGC or the army will want to be caught exposed above ground should the Kurds advance leaving the prospect of an ugly urban war fought in the rubble of Iran’s cities.

(Bloomberg) — US President Donald Trump demanded Iran surrender as the war on the Islamic Republic raged for a seventh day, with the impact reverberating across global supply chains and energy markets.

Washington doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the conflict and will only accept “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.

Even those who thought they had seen it all before said they had seen nothing like it. Iran is a country used to suffering. Older generations lived through the bombing and gassing of the war with Iraq in the 1980s.

In recent years there have been sanctions, economic chaos and military action in the name of the Axis of Resistance which took countless young Iranian lives.

But what the world’s two most sophisticated air forces, those of America and Israel, could achieve when working in concert was yet to be fully demonstrated.

Is the Iranian Regime Cracking? Police, Soldiers, and Even IRGC Members Not Showing Up to Work

Is this report real, or Israeli disinformation to create a cascade of defections from the regime’s coercive apparatus?

At this point, it is hard to say, but the reports that police, soldiers, and IRGC thugs are opting out of risking their lives to protect a regime that is in deep trouble and getting killed at an astonishing rate are certainly plausible.

The Iranian regime’s ability to impact U.S. forces and regional partners is rapidly declining, while American combat power continues to build. pic.twitter.com/21TXHbWwFi

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 5, 2026

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The Strait of Hormuz, one of the most vital shipping routes in the world, has been closed by Iran since the US and Israel began their airstrikes last week. This event might not seem as newsworthy as the assasination of Ayatollah Khamenei and the potential demise of the Islamic Republic – but make no mistake, the consequences could be just as profound. Particularly for the UK.

Seven. That’s how many times Israel has invaded Lebanon since 1978, yet this latest incursion could prove the most momentous of all. Unlike previous assaults, changes inside Lebanon itself mean the IDF could finally achieve a long-cherished goal: the crushing of Hezbollah and a political realignment in Beirut that removes future threats to Israel’s security. That, in turn, could shift the balance of power right across the Levant, extending Israel’s influence, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s political legacy, yet further. Still, as always in the Middle East, what happens when the dust settles is a very different question, as is its impact on the lives of innocent civilians — especially when the Lebanese are unlikely to accept Israeli domination for long.

I am staggered by the idiocy, rage, and just plain old-fashioned antisemitism that rends the news of the world today.

First, let’s start with the wild anti-Israel snarling of the media today. Not more than a few days or even hours after the Iranian murder regime has mowed down tens of thousands of its people on the streets of Tehran because they asked for a government that would rule by law instead of by hate, the Trump administration took steps for mercy and law.

🚨 WOW! China is now PANICKING over President Trump's overwhelming strikes against Iran and Venezuela victory

PETER SCHWEIZER: "China has lost TWO of its most important allies in the developing world!"

“China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran…we… pic.twitter.com/cTXTu3EWRK

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 5, 2026

Nobody wants to talk about it, because the subject is still politically touchy.

But countries that were, not so long ago, implacable enemies of Israel have not just made their peace with the existence of the Jewish state, but (almost) openly allied with it both economically and militarily.

Operation Epic Fury has revealed something that defense planners have worked toward for decades. Directed energy weapons have moved beyond research programs and test ranges. They’re now stopping real missiles in combat.

h/t Canuknucklehead™