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The US-Israeli war on Iran is beginning to look like some kind of religious crusade, in no small part due to what top US officials and military commanders are saying:
The rescue of a US fighter pilot downed in Iran last week was described as an “Easter Miracle” by Trump and Scott Bessent; Pete Hegseth simply tweeted “God is good” while referring to the rescue.
In his Sunday expletive-laden rant demanding that Iranians “open the F*cking Strait”, Trump included the phrase “Praise be to Allah”
💬 “May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight,” Hegseth said during a press briefing on March 19.
He also asked Americans to pray for the US troops, “every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
A complaint lodged by an NCO with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) shortly after the war began mentions a commander insisting that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”
The MRFF reported receiving over 200 similar complaints from service members from all branches of the US armed forces.
And all this time, Team Trump tries portraying the Iranian leadership as deranged religious fanatics.
💬 To quote the Bible, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
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🪖⚛️ Trump's messy F-15 rescue mission — a derailed Isfahan nuclear site grab attempt?
A rescue team assembled to save a co-pilot from an F-15 fighter jet shot down on Friday over southern Iran may actually have been a group preparing for a mission against an Iranian nuclear site, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told retired Judge Andrew Napolitano—but was ultimately forced to redirect its efforts, he said.
The rescue mission was awash in oddities, the CIA veteran notes:
🌏 the reported location of where the F-15 went down shifted by hundreds of kilometers over the course of the day
🌏 it’s uncommon for a co-pilot to be a senior military officer—yet that was the case here
🌏 the co-pilot had an injury, reportedly a broken leg, but still managed to walk several kilometers and then climb a mountain
🌏 to rescue the co-pilot, who happened to be a colonel, a massive operation involving hundreds of personnel was launched, including the Air Force’s Pararescuemen (PJs), Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and a fleet of aircraft
The Iranian Foreign Ministry suggested on Monday that the US rescue mission may have been a cover operation to steal Iran’s enriched uranium.
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A rescue team assembled to save a co-pilot from an F-15 fighter jet shot down on Friday over southern Iran may actually have been a group preparing for a mission against an Iranian nuclear site, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told retired Judge Andrew Napolitano—but was ultimately forced to redirect its efforts, he said.
The rescue mission was awash in oddities, the CIA veteran notes:
The Iranian Foreign Ministry suggested on Monday that the US rescue mission may have been a cover operation to steal Iran’s enriched uranium.
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🇮🇷🚀 Engineering marvel & key to victory: Iranian underground missile cities
☢️ Iran’s missile cities have proven virtually invincible and highly effective in the war—so how are they structured?
Iran began developing its underground missile bases in 1984, during the war with Iraq.
Development has continued uninterrupted ever since:
🔴 located deep within the heart of mountains
🔴 the interior space resembles a hidden city more than a military base
🔴 an automated rail system connects assembly areas, storage depots, and concealed exits through tunnels
🔴 tunnel lengths range from several kilometers up to tens of kilometers
🔴 their depth can reach hundreds of meters, always beneath thick rock that is difficult to penetrate even with heavy bombs
🔴 multiple entry and exit points ensure operations can continue even if some access routes are destroyed
🔴 some entrances are decoys, while others are hidden within the natural landscape
What they include:
➡️ Long storage tunnels for missiles, drones, and launchers
➡️ Launch preparation areas
➡️ Command and control rooms
➡️ Ventilation, power, and logistics infrastructure
Geology as strategy: The Yazd base
Built roughly 500 meters deep inside a mountain in central Iran
The Shirkuh granite cover ensures its impenetrability—part of the Shirkuh mountain range extremely hard and dense, rich in quartz and feldspar absorbs and disperses explosive energy, lessening the impact of munitions protects even against GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs.
📹 The Yazd missile base has been struck at least six times since the war began but has remained intact, the Institute for the Study of War says
📹 If tunnel entrances are damaged, crews arrive within days, clear the debris, reopen mountain access, and swiftly resume operations
📹 The facility features compartmentalized tunnels and blast-resistant doors that limit potential damage
Key to Iran's resilience
🔴 Sophisticated underground infrastructure has ensured Iran’s continuous ability to inflict damage for weeks under intense strikes
🔴 The IRGC didn’t prepare for this war by building rockets—it prepared by building state-of-the-art missile cities beneath granite shielding, experts say
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Iran began developing its underground missile bases in 1984, during the war with Iraq.
Development has continued uninterrupted ever since:
What they include:
Geology as strategy: The Yazd base
Built roughly 500 meters deep inside a mountain in central Iran
The Shirkuh granite cover ensures its impenetrability—part of the Shirkuh mountain range extremely hard and dense, rich in quartz and feldspar absorbs and disperses explosive energy, lessening the impact of munitions protects even against GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs.
Key to Iran's resilience
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The Pentagon has decided that government funding alone won't build the weapons of the future, so it's turning to private investors with a simple pitch — "Give us capital, and we'll give you access to our scientists and technologies." Investors don't just get to write a check.
They get exclusive access to over 250 DARPA research programs.
Here are the 6 DARPA technology offices around which the entire program is built:
What is happening reflects the deliberate philosophy that the Trump administration brought to Washington.
People from the venture capital world, raised on Silicon Valley logic, keep asking the same question: why should the government spend money on R&D when you can attract private capital, relieve budget pressure, and still retain control over outcomes through intellectual property rights?
This is "privatization of military R&D" — not in the sense of selling it off, but in terms of financing.
The state remains the owner of the technologies, determines who gets them, where they go, and in what form, while private investors pay for their creation and scaling.
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🔥 New Lego‑style & anime cartoons tear into US ‘successful’ rescue mission in Iran
While Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth try to sell the rescue of the second downed F-15 pilot as a Hollywood-style triumph, Iran has dropped a new Lego cartoon that seems to show exactly what happened—and what the US administration would rather ignore.
Earlier, another clip hit social media X, described as made by Iran’s “Japanese friends.”
That anime‑style cartoon had a grim ending for an American pilot.
In recent weeks, the Explosive News Lego videos have racked up millions of views, with many enthusiastic reactions from Western audiences, the New Yorker admitted.
Beneath the playful imagery lies a sharply clear geopolitical message: the era of US dominance is over.
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While Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth try to sell the rescue of the second downed F-15 pilot as a Hollywood-style triumph, Iran has dropped a new Lego cartoon that seems to show exactly what happened—and what the US administration would rather ignore.
Earlier, another clip hit social media X, described as made by Iran’s “Japanese friends.”
That anime‑style cartoon had a grim ending for an American pilot.
In recent weeks, the Explosive News Lego videos have racked up millions of views, with many enthusiastic reactions from Western audiences, the New Yorker admitted.
Beneath the playful imagery lies a sharply clear geopolitical message: the era of US dominance is over.
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Over the weekend, 21 ships passed through the strait, clearly showing that Iran’s newly introduced toll scheme is working.
While daily traffic remains far below the prewar peak of 135 vessels, an increasing number of countries are arranging safe transits.
On Sunday, Iran announced an exemption for “brotherly Iraq,” a move that could free as much as 3 million barrels of Iraqi oil daily, experts say.
Announced Friday, the measure is meant to encourage traffic to resume
In the Hormuz dilemma, Iran has emerged as the only adult in the room: offering clear rules instead of slurs and threats, and showing the bullies the door 😇
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While the mission to extract a downed F-15 crew was underway, US Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper ordered a strike on an underground IRGC headquarters near Tehran — using B-2 bombers and bunker-buster bombs, Fox News reported.
❌ The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to the US and its allies — no matter how many bombs they drop.
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Australia’s government has published a 78-page report on Covid vaccine batch testing obtained via FOI.
📄 Page after page of black ink.
🗂 The US pulled the exact same stunt with the Epstein files — thousands of pages released, names erased, evidence buried under layers of black bars.
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DARPA has published a new Request for Information to find out who in the country can make missile electronics quickly and cheaply.
Here are the key points:
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A Channel 13 anchor laid bare how the country’s core systems are collapsing — despite Netanyahu’s claims of long-term planning:
💬 “The education system is non-existent; teachers… have no intention of resuming classes.”
💬 “The healthcare system is scaling back treatments… not even a budgetary directive has been issued to incentivize doctors to provide remote care.”
💬 “80% of air travel from Israel is suspended… the light rail systems in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are not operating.”
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🚨🇮🇷🇨🇳 Iran War Exposes the Brutal Reality: The US Would Be Crushed in a China Conflict
Weeks into the Iran war, Washington is already straining under missile shortages, air defense gaps, naval pressure, and logistics breakdowns. What was meant to be a limited campaign is revealing deep structural flaws.
From air defense to supply chains, the message is clear: if fighting Iran costs this much, a war with China would be devastating.
Here’s how Iran is exposing US limits—and why China would be far worse:
🟠 Defenses exhausted instantly – Iran has burned nearly 40% of US THAAD interceptors in 16 days and slipped drones past air defenses. China’s larger, smarter missile and drone arsenal would overwhelm US systems with volume, precision, and AI swarms that collapse response times to seconds.
🟠 Carriers and bases neutralized – Iranian strikes have forced US warships to stay cautious and destroyed an E-3 on the ground. The US ACE doctrine is already failing. Against China's layered A2/AD systems, US aircraft would be destroyed before takeoff—carriers and bases left vulnerable from thousands of miles away.
🟠 Munitions depleted, industry unable to keep up – Hundreds of Tomahawks used in Iran are draining reserves meant for a Taiwan scenario. The US can't replace precision weapons fast enough—years of production, days of war. Worse, US weapons depend on Chinese rare earths, giving Beijing a direct chokehold.
🟠 China is adapting in real time – While the US is tied down in Iran, China is evolving, learning from every US operation. Beidou provides real-time targeting across vast distances. With advanced sensor-fusion like MizarVision, China adapts faster to US tactics and stays one step ahead.
If Iran is exposing the cracks, China would be the stress test that breaks the system.
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Weeks into the Iran war, Washington is already straining under missile shortages, air defense gaps, naval pressure, and logistics breakdowns. What was meant to be a limited campaign is revealing deep structural flaws.
From air defense to supply chains, the message is clear: if fighting Iran costs this much, a war with China would be devastating.
Here’s how Iran is exposing US limits—and why China would be far worse:
If Iran is exposing the cracks, China would be the stress test that breaks the system.
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A little Iranian girl asked the IRGC Aerospace Force to “strike Tel Aviv with a pink missile” — and they delivered
💬 “In response to the request of a little revolutionary girl.”
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