Jun 23, 2025 5:21:46 pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s spokeswoman angered President Donald Trump’s “America First” following by appearing to suggest the United States sits “next to Israel” in terms of being the best country in the world. Tammy Bruce made the quip during an appearance last month on the Israeli TV show i24 News.
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Iran claims it smuggled nearly all of its highly enriched uranium to a secret location before the United States launched strikes on nuclear bases in the country.
US President Donald Trump declared the operation a success, saying it took the bomb ‘right out of Iran’s hands.’
But it has now been claimed that most of the material, an estimated 400kg of 60 per cent enriched uranium, was moved away from the sites before Saturday night’s raid. Satellite images reportedly show convoys leaving three key sites in recent days.
Iranian state media have ramped up calls for attacks on US bases in the Middle East, with one declaring 50,000 US soldiers could be brought back to Washington in ‘coffins’.
According to Al Jazeera, state television’s Channel 3 showed a map of all US bases across the region highlighting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq. All are believed to be in range of Iranian missiles.
In quotes translated by Al Jazeera, the channel’s anchor Mehdi Khanalizadeh is purported to have said:
‘It is now clearer than ever, not just for the Iranian nation but for the whole peoples of the region, that all US citizens and military personnel are legitimate targets. We were negotiating and progressing through a diplomatic path, but you chose to spill the blood of your soldiers. The US president in the Oval Office chose to take delivery of the coffins of up to 50,000 US soldiers in Washington.’
While Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of the hardline Keyhan daily newspaper, wrote: ‘It is now our turn to immediately rain missiles down on the US naval force in Bahrain as a first measure.’
Seven B-2 stealth bombers swept into Iranian airspace undetected yesterday, dropping 14 ‘bunker-buster’ bombs on nuclear facilities as the US joined Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.
REGIME CHANGE ON THE HORIZON: Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who is believed to take over Iran if the current regime falls, promised swift action if he were put in charge of the country.
‘The minute this regime disappears, everything changes instantaneously,’ he vowed on Fox News.
‘And I know a lot of people are already excited about the prospect of being able to help us rebuild our country and Make Iran Great Again,’ Pahlavi said, using the phrase President Donald Trump had coined just hours earlier.
Russian ex-president Dmitriy Medvedev claimed in a post on X/Twitter early on Sunday that the US strikes on three sites in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow had backfired and led to the opposite result from what Trump had set out to achieve.
Medvedev claimed: ‘Enrichment of nuclear material – and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons – will continue.’
‘A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads’’
Russia last night warned Donald Trump had opened ‘Pandora’s box’ after the US President launched a ‘bunker buster’ raid on Iran’s nuclear prgramme – as the Iranian regime arrived in Moscow for talks.
CAT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT: Laura Loomer, a pro-Trump activist who said the president “just saved us all from a nuclear holocaust” by bombing Iran, noted the silence from some in Trump’s movement who had opposed US involvement.
“Can someone please conduct a wellness check on Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, Candace Owens and the entire MAHA crew?” she wrote on X, making reference to the “Make America Healthy Again” movement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporters who backed Trump.
Carlson, a former Fox News host and one of the loudest voices opposing US involvement in Iran, as of late Sunday morning had said nothing on social media about Trump’s bombing.
Owens, a conservative commentator who said on her YouTube show last week that “MAGA was a declaration of war on neocons” and accused Trump of fracturing his base, was perhaps the most vocal critic Saturday.
Owens, who regularly expresses anti-Israel views, pointed to the $100 million that pro-Israel donor Miriam Adelson gave a pro-Trump super PAC during the 2024 presidential campaign.
“If we had raised the 100 million Adelson gave him on Go Fund Me, maybe he would have kept his promises,” she wrote on X. “Guess we’ll never know.”
She also called his post on Truth Social announcing the bombing “utterly deranged.”
Trump, for his part, said the GOP was behind him and called for passage of his massive tax and spending package.
“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done. Our Country is doing GREAT. MAGA!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday.
DISHEARTENING DESCENT: Podcast host and comedian Andrew Schulz appears to have soured a bit on President Donald Trump, after a groundbreaking podcast interview with the president in 2024.
Schulz admitted in an interview with the New York Times that it was ‘disheartening’ to see the president pursue the deportation of working illegal immigrants who wanted a pathway to citizenship, as he had hoped for more ‘empathy’ from him on the issue.
When asked about the Middle East, Schultz praised him for developing the Abraham Accords and asked the president if he would pursue more diplomacy in the region if he was reelected.
Trump referred to a biblical prophecy in the book of Revelations about the end of the world, suggesting the escalation of war in the Middle East would lead to nuclear Armageddon.
You know, there are great philosophers that said the world will end in the Middle East. We’re not going to let that happen. You’ve heard that expression,’ Trump said. ‘We’re not going to let that happen, okay?’
Vladimir Putin met with the Iranian Foreign Minister in Moscow earlier today.