“US Israel Iran War”

Iran spent decades constructing underground bunkers to shield its vast missile arsenal from destruction. Less than a week into the war with its two most powerful adversaries, the strategy is beginning to look like a blunder.

U.S. and Israeli war planes and armed drones are circling over the dozens of cavernous bases, striking missile-carrying launchers when they emerge to fire. Meanwhile, waves of heavy bombers have dropped munitions on the sites, apparently entombing the Iranian weapons below ground in some locations.

Satellite imagery taken in recent days shows the smoldering remains of several Iranian missiles and launchers destroyed in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes near entrances to the “missile cities,” as Iranian officials call the subterranean sites.

There are plenty of reasons to worry about Donald Trump’s war on Iran, starting with the U.S. President himself.

This is, after all, a leader who appears to lack a moral compass, circumspection and democratic values. He has consistently abused his power by seeking retribution against his political enemies. His immigration purge tears a page out of the 20th-century fascist playbook.

I’d seek vengeance if I were Trump. The Deep State tried to destroy him but he beat them and he has flourished.

And here we have the Globe who even when praising Trump must first display their TDS Elbow fides.

The CIA and Israel are working to arm Kurdish forces in Iraq and Iran to take on the regime in Tehran, sparking fears of sectarian conflict and a widening regional war drawing in Syria and Turkey.

President Trump spoke by phone to Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Iran in the past few days to urge them to get behind the plan, which could entail an armed Kurdish offensive within days in the northwest of Iran.

The outreach comes only weeks after the Trump administration cut off support to the pro-western Kurdish forces in Syria who defeated the Islamic State’s caliphate on the ground, switching allegiance to the former Islamist government in Damascus.

Support thin in Canada for operation to neutralize Iranian regime

OTTAWA — American and Israeli efforts to maintain security in the Middle East by decapitating Iran’s despotic regime isn’t winning many fans in Canada.

A new Angus Reid poll released this week demonstrates little consensus over the joint operation, with 26% of those polled saying they strongly oppose the operation against the Iranian regime, and 22% saying they oppose.

Mark Carney got it right on Iran. Then he didn’t

U.S. forces have struck or sunk to the bottom of the ocean more than 20 ships from the Iranian regime. Last night, CENTCOM added a Soleimani-class warship to the list. pic.twitter.com/KgW8cS726P

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 4, 2026

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A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to avenge the ‘blood of the martyr’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Following the death of the Supreme Leader on Saturday, Iranian religious leader Nasser Makarem Shirazi delivered a formal religious decree that claimed all Muslims were obliged to avenge him.

Shirazi stated that the US and Israel were the ‘main perpetrators of this crime.’

I’m sure there’s a cruise missile with his name on it.

🚨 BREAKING: Iranians, Jews, and British citizens have gathered outside Manchester’s Islamic Centre during a vigil held for Ali Khamenei.

The crowd is loudly and repeatedly chanting:

“FUCK ISLAM”

Many protesters are burning portraits of Leader Ali Khamenei. pic.twitter.com/bcOTaaoPps

— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) March 4, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

Airstrikes have targeted organizations responsible for suppressing protests and cracking down on separatists; analysts are skeptical the strategy will work

TEL AVIV—Israel’s military is targeting the Iranian police state that brutally suppressed protests and killed thousands of people, with the hope of clearing the way for a popular revolt to overthrow the Islamic government.

Israeli airstrikes have targeted people responsible for internal security, from members of the Basij paramilitary force to senior intelligence officials, the Israeli military said. The U.S. has also hit some domestic-security agencies, including the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful group responsible for defending and perpetuating the regime.

The Revolutionary Guard and Basij militants were the main perpetrators of the bloody crackdown against antigovernment protesters in January. They opened fire on crowds, killing thousands in one of the deadliest acts of political crackdowns worldwide in decades. Police units and intelligence services also suppressed rallies and arrested protesters en masse.

The US strikes on Iran may be the biggest story around the world, but in Texas – where voters head to the polls on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees in November’s midterm congressional elections – it appears mostly to be an afterthought. At least for now.

At a banquet hall in the central Texas town of Waco on Monday, Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general running for the US Senate, made a pitch to voters that was heavy on domestic red meat for his conservative audience

Makes you wonder who the intended recipients of this statement really were … Trump says Iran strikes were “last best chance” to take out missiles, nuclear threat

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Department of War releases footage of a US submarine launching a TORPEDO and SINKING an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.

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— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) March 4, 2026

h/t Mauser