Jun 23, 2025 7:39:13 pm

Here’s what we know so far: – Iran has launched “Operation Glad Tidings of Victory” targeting U.S. forces. – At least 6 missiles fired at U.S. bases in Qatar. – Explosions heard over Doha, possibly intercepted. – U.S. jets scrambling over Saudi Arabia. – More missiles reportedly fired at U.S. bases in Iraq. – Alarms going off at U.S. air bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. – All U.S. bases in the region may be at risk. – Trump is back in the Situation Room with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Joint Chiefs. – Meidas Touch. 

I’ll keep you updated as this madness unfolds.

UPDATE: Iran coordinated its attacks on US military bases in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advanced notice of the launches to minimize casualties, Iranian sources told the New York Times.

Three Iranian officials said that Iran had to symbolically strike back at the US bombing raid on Saturday night, but wanted to counter in a way that gives all sides an ‘exit ramp’, the outlet said.

Iran has named the strikes on Monday as ‘O Abu Abdullah’, meaning ‘Blessings of Victory.’

SPIRAL OF MADNESS: Donald Trump is in the Situation Room with his top security officials for an already scheduled National Security Council meeting at this hour. The White House said that from there they are closely monitoring the progress of Iran’s attack on al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

The attack itself is not a complete surprise. The US has been braced for something like this happening since its attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend. All of the US forces in the Middle East have been on high alert and ready for an attack like this to come.

And of course the US won’t know for some time exactly what the scale of Iran’s attack has been. But once they do get that information, Trump and his leading officials will need to decide how they are going to respond. This is now a crucial moment, when we will see whether this conflict spirals into something larger, wider and more complex than the US had wanted, or whether it can be contained.

The US had hoped that they could get in with one surgical, tactical strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities and leave it at that. But an Iranian response was inevitable. We’re all waiting now to see now what it will provoke. Sara Smith BBC

EMPTY THREATS: The focus of concern is the Al Udeid airbase – which is both America’s biggest base in the region and the forward headquarters of Central Command, which covers the whole Middle East.

In May, Donald Trump visited the base as part of his trip to the region.

During a speech, he told service personnel: “As president, my priority is to end conflicts, not start them. But I will never hesitate to wield American power, if it’s necessary, to defend the United States of America or our partners.”

After the weekend strikes, the president said any retaliation by Iran would be “met by force far greater”.

Even though so far it seems that there have been no casualties, the president will feel enormous pressure to hit back – and prove that his threats are not empty.

Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, told reporters on Capitol Hill that he did not support efforts to require Congress to vote on authorizing the use of military force in Iran. “The commander in chief has Article II responsibilities. They’re very serious and important, especially in times like this. I think he used that authority judiciously,” he said. He dismissed efforts to limit that authority as “all politics.”

LIFTING THE VEIL OF DELUSION: An apocalypse is a revelation: seeing something which has been hidden. It comes from the Greek word, Apokálypsis, which means “lifting of the veil”, or finding out something secret. Often this secret is discovered in a dream or a vision. When used in everyday speech, it usually means “the end of the world”, based off of its religious use.

In religion, the word describes Armageddon (the end of the world). This might have come from the Greek words, apokalupsis eschaton, meaning all the secrets will be discovered “at the end of the æon, or age”. In Christianity The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. It describes the end of the world, and the second coming of Jesus Christ. – Wiki –

The truth of the matter is that the Book of Revelation is by far the most interesting in the Bible. Not because of some stupid apocalyptic vision, no, but because the author hid secrets and mysteries in his writings. He used coded language and numbers to hide knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes, sacred geometry, astronomy, stellar theology and so much more. Priests and pastors don’t understand the hidden meaning and therefore have misinterpreted the holy book to fit some deranged fantasy of death and destruction. Revelation is the key to unlocking the Bible.