Israel Targets America With Atomic Bombs

 Human Targets,

  "New York City", "Washington DC", "Los Angeles" and "Colorado", which contains Cheyenne Mountain and the complex under the Denver Airport:   

New Leak Reveals Israel’s ‘Samson Option’ Includes American Cities on Nuclear Target List
​  A trove of documents released this week, reportedly obtained through a cyberattack on Israeli military intelligence servers, appears to confirm long-speculated claims about Israel’s “Samson Option”—a last-resort nuclear strategy to destroy the world if Israeli existence is threatened.​   https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/06/new-leak-reveals-israels-samson-option-includes-american-cities-on-nuclear-target-list/

​Threatening their families on phone calls:  Israel Tried To 'Turn' Iranian Generals Against Ayatollah Just Before Bombs Fell   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-tried-turn-iranian-generals-against-ayatollah-just-bombs-fell

​  Well, "recently", anyway:  TRUMP NOW​  "I'm not happy with Israel." "I'm not sure Iran broke the ceasefire." "Israel violated the ceasefire. As soon as I made the deal they grabbed the biggest load of bombs you've ever seen. I'm not happy with them. I'm really unhappy that Israel, is attacking for one rocket that was a mistake that didn't land. Israel has been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they are doing."​   https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1937469688453448162

  (​Diplomatic) Gilbert Doctorow:  Transcript of RT interview, 24 June

There might just have been a logic to Mr. Trump’s actions, a logic which was proven in the last day by the announcement of a ceasefire.
The logic was that he, Trump, was preempting a nuclear strike by Israel on those very same sites. Let’s face it. Israel has been losing the war with Iran, losing it badly. We don’t know how badly because of strict military censorship in Israel, which means that the presence of the BBC and Reuters and the rest of it means nothing. They’re not allowed to do any real coverage of the war damage.
​  They only can show some pitiful destruction of apartments. So the general public has no idea that Israel is on the ropes. Israel’s infrastructure, essential to its economy, has been degraded. Its most important port, Haifa, has been largely destroyed or made inoperable because no merchant ship will go near Haifa for fear of being blown up by the Iranians. So the Israeli economy is badly wounded.​..

..I have information which I’ve used to come to the conclusion that Mr. Trump was preventing Israel from doing what it could do on its own to destroy those nuclear sites, which could only be nuclear weapons. America had conventional weapons which would do the job, supposedly. Mr Trump declared victory and he left Mr Netanyahu with nothing to say except to do what we see now, enter into a ceasefire.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/06/25/transcript-of-rt-interview-24-june/

​  Why Iran’s Use of Multi-Warhead Missiles Caused Significant Issues for Israeli Air Defences

Where the Fattah challenged Israeli air defences due to the near impossibility of intercepting it, with strikes launched at speeds of Mach 13-15, missiles with multiple warheads pose a potentially greater threat due to their ability to hit a range of targets with a single strike, while more cost effectively depleting Israel’s already increasingly strained anti-ballistic missile arsenal.​   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/why-iran-use-multi-warhead-missiles-israeli-defences

​  John Helmer,  “NO OTHER MILITARY ON EARTH COULD HAVE DONE IT” – HAS TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGED THE DAMAGE IRAN HAS INFLICTED ON ISRAEL WHICH THE US FAILED TO STOP, FAILED TO MAKE ISRAEL GREAT AGAIN​

​  The secret is simple: Israel was desperate to have Trump call the ceasefire in order to obtain emergency resupply of US air defence missiles. And Trump was in just as much hurry because the cost which Iran’s war has imposed on the US defence budget is more money than Trump currently has the legal authorization to spend.

​  According to this painstaking analysis of the available intelligence, “between the start of the war on June 13 and the announcement of a ceasefire on June 23, a race was under way. The Israelis were racing to destroy Iranian missiles and launchers before the Iranians launched enough missile salvos to deplete the Israeli interceptor magazine. Considering estimates placed Iranian ballistic missile stocks at about 2,000-3,000 before the war started, the Iranians would eventually exhaust Israeli interceptors if they weren’t attrited, making the left-of-launch or missile-defeat element of the Israeli strategy critical. If the Iranians had the missiles and launchers available to continue generating salvos against Israel, there would have come an inflection point in the amount of damage they were able to do, and that inflection point would have arrived once Israel ran out of interceptors.”​...

..Trump was compelled to announce his ceasefire on June 23  to save Israel from running out of interceptors as Iran accelerated its strikes, according to the rope-a-dope strategy​...

 ..“According to the FY 2025 Missile Defense Agency budget, each THAAD interceptor costs approximately $12.7 million. The minimum of 39 THAAD interceptors therefore cost over $495 million. The budget projects only 32 THAADs will be procured in FY 2026, so more than an entire year’s worth of interceptors were fired in twelve days (The production rate in FY 2025 was only 12 interceptors.)​ ...

​..The official Israeli state admission is that almost 90,000 Israelis fled the country through December 31, 2024.   The exodus this year, accelerating from June 13, is “Dunkerkian”, Cook says. For Israel and the Jewish diaspora, this war damage inflicted by Iran has reversed the national ideology of the Aliyah – that the Zionist state is the safe refuge for Jews. This is a regime-changing outcome for Israel, not for Iran.​..

​..“It is likely that many more interceptors have been used since not all the Iranian strikes were recorded in the videos. But these estimates provide an open-source baseline… Additionally, the U.S. has been aiding Israel in intercepting Iranian strikes. The U.S. Navy has reportedly been contributing and SM-3 interceptor debris has been spotted,”

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https://johnhelmer.net/no-other-military-on-earth-could-have-done-it-has-trump-acknowledged-the-damage-iran-has-inflicted-on-israel-which-the-us-failed-to-stop-failed-to-make-israel-great-again/

Andrew Korybko,  Five Reasons Why Iran & Israel Agreed To A Ceasefire

1. Iran & Israel Inflicted Unacceptable Damage To One Another ...
2. The Trump Administration Didn’t Want Another Major Regional War ...
3. Trump Unexpectedly Defied The Israel Lobby & Neoconservatives ...
4. The US Spun Its Bombing Of Iran As A Strategic Success ...
(?)5. Trump Is Totally Obsessed With Receiving The Nobel Peace Prize​   https://korybko.substack.com/p/five-reasons-why-iran-and-israel

  Simplicius,  Humiliation: Israel Tucks Tail After Failing All Objectives in War against Victorious Iran

Thus, Israel was slowly losing its capability to deal damage, and more importantly, rapidly losing its capability to reflect damage from Iranian ballistic missiles. Thus, a quick claim of “victory” was in order to wrap things up before the humiliation got too palpable for the general populace.
​  But how far does the deception go, exactly? Trump’s team continues to vehemently contend that Iran’s facilities were “completely obliterated”—specifically making certain to not leave it to guesses, or ‘open ended’ in any way.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/humiliation-israel-tucks-tail-after

Israel & The CIA Agree With Trump On 'Destruction' Of Iran's Nuclear Capability​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-agrees-trump-says-systemic-destruction-irans-nuclear-capability

"Irrefutable Press Conference":  US Worked On Plan To Destroy Iran's Fordow For 15 Years, But European Intel Says Uranium Stockpile Was Moved​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-live-pentagon-holds-irrefutable-press-conference-trumps-iran-strikes

​  That's convenient:  US Meeting With Iran Next Week, Trump Says, While Suggesting Nuclear Deal Is No Longer Necessary​   

"We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement, I don’t know. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary. I mean, they had a war, they fought, now they’re going back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not," Trump said during a news conference at the end of Wednesday's NATO summit in The Netherlands.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-meeting-iran-next-week-trump-says-while-suggesting-nuclear-deal-no-longer-necessary

​  US Reportedly Mulls Easing Iran Sanctions, Assisting Non-Enrichment Nuclear Program

"The Trump administration has discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program, easing sanctions, and freeing up billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds – all part of an intensifying attempt to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table, four sources familiar with the matter said," a fresh Thursday CNN report says.
​  "Key players from the US and the Middle East have talked with the Iranians behind the scenes even amid the flurry of military strikes in Iran and Israel over the past two weeks, the sources said," the report continues. "Those discussions have continued this week after a ceasefire deal was struck, the sources said."
​  The report says multiple early-stage proposals are under discussion, but all based on a key non-negotiable: that Iran must halt all uranium enrichment. However, this is one red line that Tehran has been insistent it won't give in to, as a matter of national sovereignty.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-live-pentagon-holds-irrefutable-press-conference-trumps-iran-strikes

​Some insights to the internal complexity of Iranian society from the son of an immigrant:  Iran, The Complexity Crisis, and War , Chuck Pezeshki   https://empathy.guru/2025/06/24/iran-the-complexity-crisis-and-war/comment-page-1/#comment-27503

Where Is Iran's Uranium? Top Secret Leaked US Intel Says Core Nuclear Components 'Intact'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-official-confirms-rift-ceasefire-fails-trump-vowed-israel-wont-strike-after-he

​  Ayatollah Claims 'Victory' Over Israel Which 'Almost Collapsed' In 1st Public Appearance Since Ceasefire

​"Despite all that noise, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic," he said, according to the national IRNA news agency. He also claimed to have "delivered a slap to America’s face."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-claims-victory-over-israel-which-almost-collapsed-1st-public-appearance

  Crude Slides After Trump Says China "Can Continue To Purchase Oil From Iran"

​  It was not immediately clear whether Trump's post meant that the US was removing sanctions on Chinese purchases of Iranian oil. If so, that would explain the quid-pro-quo that took place behind the scenes, with Trump convincing Tehran to lay its arms down in exchange for Iran no longer having to hide its exports to China, which were technically sanctioned but nobody enforced said sanctions as it would mean a spike in oil prices.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/crude-slides-after-trump-says-china-can-continue-purchase-oil-iran

​  Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children
​  A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023.​ Half of this number is believed to be Palestinian children.​   https://hlrn.org/activitydetails.php?id=qG5lZQ==

​  Over 1,000 Belgian activists stage mass blockade of companies supplying arms to Israel amid ongoing Gaza genocide

Around 1000 activists blockaded two Belgian companies that provide arms components to Israel on Monday, calling for an end to European complicity in the Gaza genocide.​   https://www.newarab.com/news/1000-belgian-activists-blockade-israeli-linked-arms-companies

​  El Al discounts:  Israel's national airline offers 'deep discounts' to lure back settlers who fled in droves

Egypt and Cyprus remain overwhelmed by fleeing Israelis, as regional officials warn of surveillance threats and activists condemn selective border treatment​ 

 The state-backed offer includes capped fares through the end of June – $99 from European cities and $649–699 from the US – roughly half the standard price. Once repatriation flights are full, remaining seats will become available to the general public.   https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-national-airline-offers-deep-discounts-to-lure-back-settlers-who-fled-in-droves

​  A special get-out-of-jail-free-off-ramp for Netanyahu:  Netanyahu’s corruption trial should be ‘canceled’ – Trump 

The US president has denounced the allegations against the Israeli leader as a “witch hunt”​  https://swentr.site/news/620549-trump-defends-bibi-netanyahu/

​  A "Socialist" and anti-zionist-genocide Muslim-Indian-American mayor for New York City?  What universe is this?  American public backlash at last?

Trump slams Zohran Mamdani as Republicans go on attack after New York mayoral primary​   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/25/new-york-donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-latest-us-politics-news

Google Searches For "Communist Control Act 1954" Soar After Zohran Mamdani's NYC Primary Victory​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-searches-communist-control-act-1954-soar-after-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-primary-victory

​  Wealthy attorney-Jonathan Turly, Escape From New York: Democrats Embrace Socialist For New Mayor

The question is whether wealthy individuals and corporations will accelerate the exit from New York in light of continued support for increasing tax burdens and public subsidies.
​  Eric Adams could still prevail over Mamdani as an independent in the general election. Cuomo has also not ruled out an independent run. However, the results of the election show the increasing hold of socialist politics on many New Yorkers.​   https://jonathanturley.org/2025/06/25/escape-from-new-york-democrats-embrace-socialist-as-new-mayor/

Polymarket Odds: Mamdani 73%, Adams 24%​:  Wall Street Panics As Socialist Set To Take Over New York, REITs Tumble At The Idiocy Of It All​    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wall-street-panics-socialist-set-take-over-new-york-reits-tumble-idiocy-it-all

​  Andrew Korybko ​shines a flashlight under the bed:  Trump’s Disbanding Of A Secret “Deep State” Working Group Raises Hopes Of Peace With Russia​   ​  Its inter-agency members sought to sabotage the Russian-US rapprochement.

​  According to Reuters, “Ideas ranged from tailored economic deals designed to peel some countries out of Russia's geopolitical orbit to covert special operations efforts”, the first scenario of which included a proposal to “incentivize” Kazakhstan into cracking down on Russia’s evasion of Western sanctions. That country has been drifting Westward for some time already, which could pose challenges for Russia and China as explained here in summer 2023, but it doesn’t appear that anything came from that scheme.
​  The second scenario, however, might have speculatively been connected to Ukraine’s strategic drone strikes against Russia in early June. No one can say for certain whether or not Trump knew about this in advance, but Reuters’ revelation about the existence of this previously unreported “deep state” working group lends credence to those of his supporters who claimed that he didn’t. After all, it’s entirely possible that this was orchestrated by them without his knowledge.​..

​..The Secretary of Defense recently announced that aid for Ukraine will be slashed in the next budget while the Secretary of the Treasury warned against new anti-Russian sanctions. Trump then opposed more such sanctions at the G7, blocked efforts to lower the Russian oil price cap, and stood up Zelensky.   https://korybko.substack.com/p/trumps-disbanding-of-a-secret-deep

​  Free Speech Travesty: German Pensioner Who Called Green Economic Minister Habeck An 'Idiot' Has Been Convicted

The case of German pensioner Stefan Niehoff became a major international story after police raided his home for calling Robert Habeck an “idiot” while Habeck was serving as Germany’s economy minister at the time. Now that Niehoff has been convicted — for sepearte offenses - it has become clear how far the German media has gone to create the perception that Niehoff is a Nazi to smear his name, when the exact opposite was true all along.​..

..In Germany, any kind of “unconstitutional symbol” basically means you were sharing swastikas or other symbols associated with the Nazi regime. Most people suddenly thought Niehoff was some kind pro-Nazi activist.
​  The reality is that he was comparing the left-liberal traffic light government, which was in power at the time, to the era of National Socialism. In other words, he was criticizing the Nazis, not praising them.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/free-speech-travesty-german-pensioner-who-called-green-economic-minister-habeck-idiot

​  Russia Begins Serial Production of Oreshinik Long Range Ballistic Missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23 confirmed that serial production of the Oreshinik intermediate range ballistic missile is beginning.

Russia is expected to produce 25 missiles per month, about 300 per year.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/russia-begins-serial-production-of-oreshinik-long-range-ballistic-missiles

​  Gilbert Doctorow,   ‘Judging Freedom’: How Weak Is NATO?

​  The reasons why the commitment of all NATO member states yesterday to raise their military budgets to 5% of GDP from the present 2% was political theater as much as the fawning of Secretary General Rutte over Donald Trump was theater.
​  However, this theater was not staged for our amusement. It had business to achieve, which was to prepare an exit ramp from NATO for Mr Trump and the USA.  Of course, the American president cannot take the country out of NATO in the legal sense, since that would require a two-thirds vote of Congress which he cannot expect to receive. But he can sharply curtail American contributions to the NATO budget and reduce US military forces on the continent now... The overriding message I was making is that we should pay attention not to the words of Trump and his associates, which are largely double-talk intended to confuse the journalists, whom Trump despises. We should follow the direct consequences of his actions.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/06/26/judging-freedom-how-weak-is-nato/

​  Kyiv Post:  NATO Commits $40B in Security Aid for Ukraine at Summit Kick-Off

Rutte: “The most significant and direct threat facing this Alliance remains Russia. Moscow continues to wage war against Ukraine with the support of North Korea, Iran, and China as well as Belarus.”​   https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55043

​  Trump denies discussing ceasefire with Zelensky
The US president has dodged questions about support for Kiev during a press conference at the NATO summit​   https://swentr.site/news/620540-trump-denies-ceasefire-zelensky/

​  Will Make Spain "Pay": Trump Threatens Tariffs Over NATO Defense Spending Holdout

NATO members have agreed to new commitment to significantly boost defense spending, aiming to raise military budgets to 5% of GDP over the next decade—more than double the current 2% benchmark—at the ongoing major annual summit being held in The Hague. NATO's 32 leaders proclaimed Wednesday: “Allies commit to invest 5% of GDP annually on core defense requirements as well as defense-and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-leaders-agree-5-hike-defense-spending-rutte-warns-no-opt-outs-or-side-deals

​  Specialist in cancer, virology and immunology/AIDS: Prof. Angus Dalgleish MD:
"I can tell you... at least 13 mechanisms whereby messenger RNA vaccines can induce or promote cancer... We [are seeing] brand new cancers present at stage four... And the more [mRNA jabs] you have, the greater your risk. It will rise exponentially."   https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/1937301512012578910

  I forget the word for "unwilling euthanasia": Meryl Nass MD,  ‘Heartbreaking’: Jury Sides With Hospital in 2021 Death of 19-Year-Old Admitted for COVID

Hospital doctors and nurses performed euthanasia against the will of 19 year old Downs syndrome patient against the will of her family, collecting lots more insurance dollars​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/heartbreaking-jury-sides-with-hospital

​  Public Reports Widespread mRNA Disease, Mass Injury and Death in New X Polls
81% say they or a loved one suffered serious injury, disability, or death from mRNA shots — 79% believe the shots responsible for over 1 million deaths.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/x-users-report-widespread-mrna-carnage

​  New pledge from RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to reform prior authorization of major health insurers
Several major health insurance companies are vowing to make changes to simplify their prior authorization process and improve Americans’ access to timely health care.​   https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/rfk-jr-dr-oz-pledge-reform-prior-authorization-major-health-insurers

  Charles Hugh Smith has a new book out, Ultra​-Processed Life:  Is Life Now a Snack?
What's changed isn't our hard-wiring. What's changed is our industrial and communications technologies' powers to activate and exploit our hard-wiring.​   What makes this interesting is it's something we can all observe in our daily lives--how the processes that make ultra-processed snacks so addictive and unhealthy have spread into every nook and cranny of life.​   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/is-life-now-a-snack

​  "Gold Is Money Good" - Ed Dowd Warns "Deflationary Scare" Will Prompt Fed Panic​ 

Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com has been forecasting “Danger of Deep Worldwide Recession in 2025.”  It looks like his thesis is turning out correct. ​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-money-good-ed-dowd-warns-deflationary-scare-will-prompt-fed-panic

​Why Trump is trying to hammer inflation and interest rates down:  Stockman: Washington's Fiscal Doomsday   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stockman-washingtons-fiscal-doomsday

​  Universe is built on three dimensions of time, new research suggests
A new theory challenges the idea of spacetime, proposing that the universe is fundamentally built on three dimensions of time.​  https://interestingengineering.com/science/time-has-three-dimensions

​Perceiving Reality (pictured with recent sunset sky in Yoakum)

WWF Style American Foreign Policy

   Rasslin' Fans,

  I'll briefly encapsulate progress on Israeli inducements to the US to enter total war against Iran, as Israel's population becomes war weary, defensive missiles run out, and Netanyahu has been outside the country the whole time, first in Greece, then in London, based upon flight tracking data.

  Netanyahu's coalition of aggressive revisionist-Zionists persists in power while it advances aggressive war for territory and elimination of regional resistance rivals. It has been straining the limits of Israeli support recently, as Jewish Israelis are driven out of their dwellings into air raid shelters. It has been losing its aura of invulnerability, but is still seen as a rabid dog with nuclear weapons. 

  The question arising is whether there is a political path to end the escalation towards Israeli use of nuclear weapons against other countries. American lawmakers are mostly owned by the well-funded Israeli interests, which they keep funding...

  Russians are trying to be constructive without assuming much more risk. Chinese are using their new railroad to Iran, and providing air defense missiles through Pakistan, while Trump makes a deal with Iran to bomb emptied Iranian underground nuclear facilities, without Iran shooting at the bombers, let Iran attack emptied US regional military bases, declare "Mission Accomplished" and have a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

  Israel and Iran sort of agreed privately, but Israel assassinated another Iranian scientist and his family, and heavily attacked Iran, so Iran shot off some missiles just before the deadline, and Israel sent more bombers to kill Iranians after the deadline. Trump profanely griped at "both" Israel and Iran, and Israel responded by saying "he knew we would attack".

  The most tense dynamic seems to be between the Netanyahu coalition maintaining power, and the increasing costs to Israel of the war which maintains them in power. They would "burn the country to rule over the ashes", as Sun Tzu wrote. 

  Netanyahu is in London, as far as we know, the traditional head of the imperial snake. Imperial finance needs WW-3 (lite?) to be able to write off some bad investments in the Ukraine war and elsewhere. 

  Finance comes first in this game, so Israelis may well be hostages to more incoming Iranian missiles, which almost completel spare civilians in targeting so far. There has not been enough killing of Israeli civilians to galvanize Jewish Israelis into supporting vengeance upon Iran (yet). Imperial financiers, European old money and bloodline familieswill not give up power willingly. No sacrifice of others is to great to maintain their power.

  Trump, to his credit, does appear to have made a show of fake-fighting to create the appearance of "going all the way for Israel",  to the brink of WW-3, through the appearance of an illegal, unconstitutional, unprovoked attack on Iranian underground nuclear facilities, which was actually a staged and "fixed" fight for the television audience. The Iranians did not send up one missile or fighter plane against the bombers on this arranged mission.

  Iran is declaring that it will continue "unlimited" nuclear enrichment, will exclude IAEA inspectors, who have provided intelligence to Israel, and will keep attacking Israel until Israel stops attacking Iran, since Israel started it. Iran will not tell the IAEA where the enriched uranium is stored, for obvious reasons.

  Iran and Israel are now starting the ceasefire over, as Trump does NATO.

  Israel is still baiting starving Palestinians with food and murdering them, as well as bombing the rubble and tents in which they seek shelter.

  Scott Ritter asserted promptly after the attack that Trump bombed 3 sites, 2 already bombed by Israel, and all already evacuated before the bombing, in order to save face and crow loudly, with the hopes of not really going to war with Iran (which is better than really doing it):  Ritter's Rant Ep. 9: Where's the Beef?

​  President Trump just sent the most sophisticated weapons in the US arsenal to bomb three empty sites in Iran. Why?​   https://scottritter.substack.com/p/ritters-rant-009-wheres-the-beef

​  Saturday night:  Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off’

The story: US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.” This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with "most" of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.
​ The details: The US bombings do not appear to have been conducted from any American military base in the region.
Reports indicate that at least three B-2 bombers flying from the US dropped six 13.6 ton (30,000 lbs) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs on the Fordow underground uranium enrichment site. Experts speculate that two bombs were dropped on each of Fordow’s two main entrances along with two MOPs on the ventilation shaft.
​  A submarine is believed to have fired 30 Tomahawk missiles at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility as well as the nuclear complex in Isfahan. Notably, both of the sites have been bombed by Israel in recent days.
​  Citing a “well-placed source,” CBS has reported that “Isfahan and its underground facility was probably a harder target than Fordow.”​   ...

..The damage: In his June 21 statement, Trump said the targeted Iranian facilities were “completely and totally obliterated,” warning that any potential future attacks would be “far greater and a lot easier.”​ ... However, initial data that allows a damage assessment is still lacking. Prior to the bombings, some studies suggested that multiple MOPs would need to be dropped in the same craters...

​..The future: Already under severe attack by Israel, Iran has little interest in a simultaneous all-out war with the US. Prior to the June 21 bombings, Tehran declared that it was open to resuming nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration—but only if Israel ceases its attacks​...

..As Amwaj.media previously reported, Israel’s focus on the necessity for Trump to strike Fordow appears to have been designed to convince him to enter a war with Iran. Indeed, Iranian authorities have already indicated that nuclear materials were removed from Fordow.​   https://amwaj.media/en/media-monitor/exclusive-iran-given-advance-notice-as-us-insisted-attack-on-nuclear-sites-is-one

​  Trucks already moved important assets out of Fordow, and satellite images show surface changes of bombing strikes:  

Satellite Imagery Flags "Unusual Activity" At Iran's Fordow Nuclear Site Days Before U.S. Strike​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/satellite-imager-flags-unusual-activity-irans-fordo-nuclear-site-days-us-strike

​  Simplicius has better intel. The trucks were dump trucks, filling up the entrances, exits and air-vents the American were about to bomb at Fordow, with dirt: 

Shayrat Redux? Trump's 'Invisible' Fleet Leaves Mirage of 'Devastation' in Iran

​  Iran had dozens of dump trucks carrying out “unusual activity” at Fordow two days before the attack.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/shayrat-redux-trumps-invisible-fleet

​Gilbert Doctorow with Glenn Diesen: U.S. Bombing of Iran as Political Theatre?   https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/glenn-diesen-us-bombing-of-iran-as

  Yesterday's Iranian missile attacks on evacuated US military bases and ports:  Missiles Inbound Over Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq As Iranian Retaliation On US Bases Underway   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-press-secretary-hints-iran-regime-change-claims-intel-said-weeks-nuclear

2 days ago; part of the show:  Medvedev Reacts: 'Number Of Countries' Now Ready To Supply Iran With 'Their Own Nuclear Warheads'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/medvedev-reacts-number-countries-now-ready-supply-iran-their-own-nuclear-warheads

​  Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, has criticised Israel for not being subject to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection programme, as it is not a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
​  Nebenzia made the remarks during an emergency session of the UN Security Council held on Sunday to discuss the recent US attacks on Iran.​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250623-russia-criticises-israels-exemption-from-nuclear-inspections/

​  But Bibi is in London...  Putin to Netanyahu: ‘Read My Lips—Stop Attacking Iran’ or ‘Prepare For Consequences’
“The West is providing Israel with diplomatic cover while fanning the flames of war,” a senior Russian diplomat stated. “They are sabotaging any path to peaceful negotiation.”​   https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/06/putin-to-netanyahu-read-my-lips-stop-attacking-iran-or-prepare-for-consequences/

​Secretive Monday meeting with nice words​; no real statements:  ​Iranian FM Araghchi says he had ‘very good’ meeting with Putin in Moscow​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/23/750068/fm-araghchi-very-good-meeting-with-putin-moscow

​  Saturday night Iranian attacks on Israel:​  Iranian missiles struck 14 strategic military sites in Israel’s Haifa, Tel Aviv last night: IRGC
IRGC launches 19th wave of ‘Operation True Promise 3’ with large number of offensive, suicide drones​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iranian-missiles-struck-14-strategic-military-sites-in-israel-s-haifa-tel-aviv-last-night-irgc/3607443

​Yesterday:  Israel Hits Tehran Electric Plant; Iran Hits Israeli Electric Plant Back - Multiple Targets Hit in Tehran Later   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/israel-hits-tehran-electric-plant-iran-hits-israeli-electric-plant-back

90% of Israeli strikes hit residential sites in Tehran​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233578/90-of-Israeli-strikes-hit-residential-sites-in-Tehran

​Sunday:  Iranian parliament moves to close Strait of Hormuz after US aggression: Lawmaker   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/22/750031/iranian-parliament-moves-close-strait-hormuz-after-us-aggression-lawmaker

Monday:  Widespread GPS Jamming Across Strait Of Hormuz; Six Supertankers Perform Abrupt U-Turns   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/supertankers-u-turn-hormuz-world-braces-iranian-retaliation

US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz​   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056pyv723vo

Monday evening:  Iran Reportedly Agrees To Trump-Backed, Qatari-Mediated Ceasefire With Israel   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-press-secretary-hints-iran-regime-change-claims-intel-said-weeks-nuclear

After Midnight in Iran:  Iran has not agreed to a ceasefire. Trump is lying again   https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/514877/Iran-has-not-agreed-to-a-ceasefire-Trump-is-lying-again

This morning, headed off to NATO Summit: "They Don't Know What The F**K They're Doing" - Furious Trump Slams Israel As Fragile Ceasefire Crumbles   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-press-secretary-hints-iran-regime-change-claims-intel-said-weeks-nuclear

'He Knew We'd Attack' - Israel Complains At Trump's Comments After Iran Ceasefire Falters​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-official-confirms-rift-ceasefire-fails-trump-vowed-israel-wont-strike-after-he

​  Iran Reopens Airspace To Commercial Flights As Ceasefire With Israel Finally Holds

​  The ceasefire seems to finally be holding as of early evening local time, despite the ongoing accusations of earlier violations when it was to take effect.
"Both Israel and Iran wanted to stop the War, equally! It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!" President Trump said on Truth Social. ​ ​(Were they all destroyed?​)
​  And China has belatedly weighed in, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying China supports Iran in achieving a "genuine ceasefire" - but following Beijing's condemnation of the US for striking the country’s nuclear sites.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-official-confirms-rift-ceasefire-fails-trump-vowed-israel-wont-strike-after-he

Israeli Forces Kill 43 Palestinians in Gaza, Including 20 Aid Seekers​   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/23/israeli-forces-kill-43-palestinians-in-gaza-including-20-aid-seekers/

​Children starving to death, though:  For most Palestinians, staying hungry is better​ than risking Murder By IDF life to get Food Aid​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250623-for-most-gazans-staying-hungry-is-better-than-risking-life-to-get-aid/

Only to ​designated​ ​target-sites​?...  Israel denied half of aid movement requests in Gaza over weekend: UN​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250623-israel-denied-half-of-aid-movement-requests-in-gaza-over-weekend-un/

​Borrowing until nobody will lend:  Trump At NATO Summit To Push 'Historic' 5% Spending Goal Amid Global Conflicts   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-nato-summit-push-historic-5-spending-goal-amid-global-conflicts

  Michael Hudson has been on for the whole petrobuck epoch:  War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world

The motivation for the attack on Iran has nothing to do with any attempt by Iran to protect its national sovereignty by developing an atom bomb. The basic problem is that the United States has taken the initiative in trying to preempt Iran and other countries from breaking away from dollar hegemony and U.S. unipolar control.

​  Here’s how the neocons spell out the U.S. national interest in overthrowing the Iranian government and bringing about a regime change – not necessarily a secular democratic regime change, but perhaps an extension of the ISIS/Al-Qaida Wahhabi terrorists who have taken over Syria.
​  With Iran broken up and its component parts turned into a set of client oligarchies, U.S. diplomacy can control all Middle Eastern oil. And control of oil has been a cornerstone of U.S. international economic power for a century, thanks to U.S. oil companies operating internationally (not only as domestic U.S. producers of oil and gas) and remitting economic rents extracted from overseas to make a major contribution to the U.S. balance of payments.
​  Control of Middle Eastern oil also enables the dollar diplomacy that has seen Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries invest their oil revenues into the U.S. economy by accumulating vast holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and private-sector investments.​   https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/22/michael-hudson-war-iran-us-unipolar-control/

​  Hollywood seeded Iran war narrative for years – WikiLeaks
Jewish screenwriters have allegedly pushed the image of an Iranian nuclear threat through film and TV since the early 2010s​   https://swentr.site/news/620340-holywood-jews-iran-war/

US Military Scrambles For Ways To Protect Bases From Drone Warfare

​  The use of kinetic systems that would simply shoot down a drone are out of the question on American soil, according to military personnel, as they are not cost-effective, and would also run the risk of injuring civilians or damaging property when the debris fell to the ground...​                                                     ​..While the military, and federal government, do have electromagnetic weapons that can knock out drones by interfering with their electrical and navigational systems, these weapons are typically poorly suited to an environment rich in aerial traffic because they affect all electronic systems within a given area...

​..Many such systems, including variants of weapons using lasers, microwaves, and particle and sound beams, are still in development, but they bring their own problems because of high energy consumption.
​  According to the Congressional Research Service, the Pentagon’s newest counter-drone weapons would need to draw 100 kilowatts of power to fire a laser in a counter-drone capacity.
​  That’s more power than the average American household uses in three days, and that figure does not include the additional power requirements for cooling the significant amount of heat generated by such weapons.
​  It makes defending military installations on U.S. soil from drone attacks an infrastructure problem as well as a defense problem.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-military-scrambles-ways-protect-bases-drone-warfare

Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting 'Worst Of The Worst' Illegals​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-hands-trump-huge-win-deporting-worst-worst-illegals

​  German police caught dropping off migrant in Dutch border city
A florist’s security camera captured the moment German police left a migrant across the border in the Netherlands, raising questions over "cold transfers" and the legality of the practice​   https://rmx.news/article/german-police-caught-dropping-off-migrant-in-dutch-border-city/

​Displacing thre cost to who? UK Government To Slash Industrial Energy Costs   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-government-slash-industrial-energy-costs

For AI,  not lasers, I presume:  New York To Build Gigawatt Nuclear Power Plant, Backed By Trump-Era Reforms   https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/new-york-build-1gigawatt-nuclear-power-plant-backed-trump-era-reforms

​  "Labor-saving devices":  MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
ChatGPT impairs memory and persistently suppresses brain activity—raising urgent concerns about cognitive offloading and long-term neural harm.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence

​  “Unintended Consequences” of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Millions of People in the Poorest Areas of the World Died of Starvation, Not COVID-19
People whose deaths were irrelevant, and Ignored by the Mainstream Media​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/unintended-consequences-covid-19-lockdown-millions-people-poorest-died-starvation/5892153

​ Pierre Kory MD, Medical Record Review Of the Twins Who Died After Vaccination And A Review Of The Literature Proving SIDS Is Caused By Vaccines

I was asked by Children's Health Defense and the parents to review the medical records of twins found dead in their bed eight days after multiple vaccinations. Related? Yes, says the hidden science.

​  Dallas and Tyson Shaw died on the night of the 7th day following their 18th-month well-baby visit, where they received five vaccinations during that visit - DTaP, Influenza, and Hep A.​..  They were generally healthy, typically developed children for their corrected age, with no issues with hearing or vision. They had also received all the ACIP-recommended vaccines up to that point, although at the time of the visit, they were “behind on DTaP for 3 months," until they both received them on the fateful day of 4/23/25.​..

​..The children were immediately taken to the ER on that day, 4/24/25, with documented complaints of “warmth” and "decreased activity." The ER doc documented that it was “likely a reaction to immunization,” but the chart also included a viral URI in the differential diagnosis. Sent home AFTER GETTING TYLENOL ( a risk factor for death, which I will not explore in this post for the sake of brevity).​..

 ..7 days after the vaccines, on April 30th, they were still having diarrhea. Mom tried to get them in to see the pediatrician, but there were no walk-in appointments available...​

​.."I went and cleaned up the living room and was getting ready to have them awake. I was waiting for them to wake up. When I went in there to wake them up is when I found them the way they were.​"
​  She then describes the way she found them - cold and "they It looked as if they had gone in their sleep. They were in their sleeping positions. I think it's called rigor mortis. Their faces were sleeping faces.​ I flipped over Tyson because I tried to shake him awake, and he didn't. I flipped him over and I saw him and immediately ran to the living room to grab my phone and call 911. And I went back into the room and sat on their bed, and then that's when I flipped Dallas over and saw her the same way.​" ...

..Imagine drowning in grief over the sudden deaths of your beloved babies while having to endure aggressive and accusatory questioning by detectives? Welcome to the even darker side of the childhood vaccine program, folks...

​..MY IMPRESSION AS TO THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE SHAW TWINS
IMPRESSION: Sudden death from severe apnea caused by recent vaccination at 18-month wellness visit. The underlying pathophysiology was likely due to micro-strokes and/or neuroinflammation in the respiratory control center in the brainstem, with micro-strokes caused by “blood sludging/clumping” from loss of zeta-potential due to the inflammatory and or hypercoagulable components of the vaccines.
​  The deaths occurred on the night of Day 7 post-vaccination, a time when apnea episodes spike post-vaccination as per this carefully done study from 1991.​   https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/medical-record-review-of-the-twins

​  What if the upside is fake?  Peter McCullough MD,  Should We "Trade" Human Life with Immunization Programs?

Americans Asked to Risk Their Lives with the Needle to "Save Millions'​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/should-we-trade-human-life-with-immunization

​  Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs/ ProPublica

Risky Medications: The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned.
​  Troubled Factories: The medications came mostly from plants in India where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs and falsified records.
FDA Secrecy: The agency did not proactively inform the public when drugs were exempted from import bans, and it did not routinely test the medications to ensure they were safe.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/threat-in-your-medicine-cabinet-the

We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market/ ProPublica​   https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-methodology-american-medicine-research

​  Medical researcher, Dr. Marian Laderoute may get to address ACIP,  Concerns About the Safety of the Spike mRNA Gene Therapy Products

Submitted to the ACIP for their Meeting on Vaccines​   https://hervk102.substack.com/p/concerns-about-the-safety-of-the

​  CDC Scientist Leaves Agency Over Split With RFK Jr.

Dr. Fiona Havers told The New York Times that she resigned from the CDC on June 16 because she disagrees with the approach to vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
​  “If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases,” Havers said.
​  Kennedy’s approach so far has included the narrowing of COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and the removal of all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
​  Kennedy has since named eight new members to the panel, which provides advice on immunizations to the CDC.
“I could not be party to legitimizing this new committee,” Havers told The New York Times.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-scientist-leaves-agency-over-split-rfk-jr

​Supporting Life (pictured just home from birth center for grandson to meet his new sister)​

Trump's Betrayal Of America

 Extremely Dubious,

​   I wonder what "God" he is praying to...  President Trump addressed the nation at 2200ET and said that with "massive precision strikes", Iran's nuclear facilities have "been completely and totally obliterated" in a "spectacular military success."

​  He warned Iran ("the bully of the Middle East") that if they do not come to peace then there are many other targets:
"There will be either peace; or tragedy for Iran worse than the likes of which we have seen over the last eight days."
​  "If peace does not come quickly," we will go after the rest of the nation with "speed and skill."
He ended the speech by saying "God bless The Middle East, Gold bless Israel, and God bless The United States."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/force-posturing-six-b-2-stealth-bombers-en-route-indo-pacific-ahead-trumps-intel

​  Meryl Nass MD:  I hate anonymous sourcing, but this NYT info is likely correct:
6 B2 stealth bombers dropped 12 [6 reported now]of the MOAB 30,000 lb [GBU 57] bombs on the Fordow site.
  1 additional B2 bomber dropped 2 of the bombs on Natanz.
In addition, 30 TLAM cruise missiles were fired from Navy submarines at the Isfahan and Natanz sites.
  We have heard nothing about the extent of the damage apart from what Mr. Trump has claimed, using superlatives to say Iran’s nuclear ability has been entirely destroyed.
  The widely reported sending of B2s to Diego Garcia and Guam was apparently a decoy. Guam is further from Iran than the US mainland is. Fox analysts think the B2s flew directly from the US with tankers refueling them en route.  

https://merylnass.substack.com/p/latest

  "US Declared War on Iran", "Only entry and exit tunnels at Fordow destroyed", Iran:  US Struck Fordow, Isfahan & Natanz Russians Broke Through the Defense Near Pokrovsk MS 2025.06.22   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bZwdjkzcUQ

​  Mike Mihajlovic,  Israel vs Iran: GBU-57A/B MOP Bunker Buster or Bunker Busted [i]

The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), developed by the United States, is one of the most powerful conventional weapons ever built — a non-nuclear ​"bunker buster" designed to destroy deeply buried and hardened underground facilities.
​  This article provides a technical breakdown of the MOP’s capabilities and limitations when targeting Iranian underground military sites, including nuclear facilities and command centers. We’ll explore how deep these bunkers are, what they're made of, and whether the MOP can actually destroy them.​ ​

​

  https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-gbu-57ab-mop-bunker

​Before last night's attacks:  Pakistan recommends Trump for Nobel Peace Prize   https://swentr.site/news/620141-pakistan-recommends-trump-nobel-peace-prize/

​  Iran accuses US of violating nuclear treaty with airstrikes
The country’s nuclear watchdog has reported no leaks or contamination at the targeted sites​   https://swentr.site/news/620194-iran-cassuses-us-nuclear-violations/

  Simplicius, June 20, 2025,  Israel Buckles as Iran War Shifts to New Drag-Out Phase

Today a round of urgent talks concluded in Geneva between European-American representatives and Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi. The talks reportedly went nowhere as Iran rejected calls to end all enrichment, and instead rebutted that Iran will not negotiate with anyone until all attacks by Israel first cease.​..

..Araghchi’s bold rejection seems to imply that Iran is not particularly desperate for an end to the hostilities, which can only indicate that its leadership views their chances in the escalating attritional war positively...

..Israel has begun racking up some serious damage against Iran since the last report. The latest compilation released by the IDF shows quite a few new Iranian radar sites hit by what is likely to be Delilah missiles...

​..Oryx’s team has apparently now engaged themselves in this conflict, and claim nearly ~80 verified hits on Iranian ballistic missile launchers thus far.
​  It brings us to the brief discussion of numbers. Sources claim Iran has anywhere from 3,000 to 28,000 total ballistic missiles, and produces roughly ~300 new ones per month, which is a relatively plausible number given what we know of Russia’s own production figures. 28,000 is likely exaggerated, and the lower end of the scale is a more realistic bet; no country really has stockpiles that large.​..

..Iran produces up to ~300 per month. This could also point to why Iran has cut down to launching only a dozen or so per day, as 10 per day multiplied by 30 days is precisely 300—this would allow Iran to essentially break even and launch just enough to continue the pace indefinitely without further depleting stockpiles.​ But on top of that, Israel’s ability to repel the strikes has been degraded as well, as per their own sources...

..That means Iran needs to fire nearly half as much, for the same effect. And this is shown by the graph above, where you can see that claimed “impacts” are similar despite the numbers launched being much lower than initially...

..Despite the reduction in the number of missiles in a salvo by the end of the first week of shelling, the number of recorded hits often remains approximately the same - at the level of 4-5 hits . This number was observed both with 50 missiles launched and with 20....

..Trump seems to have gotten major cold feet after realizing taking out ‘Fordow’ may either not be as simple as he’d like, or yield no practical results...

..Trump is cautious about the idea of striking Iran...  he is considering the option of limited strikes - only on Iranian nuclear facilities, in particular in Natanz and Fordow. This is not a full-scale war, but rather targeted actions to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions without getting drawn into a protracted conflict.
​  He claims to be in favor of giving Iran another two weeks...  But of course, recall that he used the ruse of negotiations before to allow Israel to sneak-attack Iran—so this could be another in a long line of lies...

..He also inadvertently confirmed that the issue was not that Iran was currently making a bomb, but rather ‘greedily’ stockpiling more civilian Uranium than ‘is necessary’. Trump presumes to dictate to sovereign nations which energy sources they can or can’t rely on for their needs...

..But most egregious of all was Trump’s despicable throwing under the bus of Tulsi Gabbard because she fell “off-message” with an increasingly narrowing clique of Svengali agents puppeteering Trump’s inner circle...  Trump shockingly implies Gabbard has no clue what she’s talking about, despite earlier appointing her precisely to be his top intelligence informant as Director of National Intelligence...   It’s clear Trump’s foreign policy has been hijacked by the Mossad, and he’s now dangerously sidelining the only people capable of providing him the real unadulterated truth about the ongoing situation...​ W hile Trump may have always been a proponent of a disarmed Iran, the fact remains that the current Iranian nuclear ‘flashpoint’ was not even an issue up until Israel started to lose the Gaza war...​   Facing collapse of his regime, Netanyahu suddenly and conveniently upped the rhetoric against Iran...

..Israel likewise continues begging Trump to ‘finish the job’ as if the plan all along was merely for Israel to “open up” the gates for US firepower...

..Israel never had the endurance to go twelve full rounds with Iran, and the hope was always that US would step in, which is why everything now depends on Trump and his tiny cohort of string-pullers.
​  But again, judging by Araghchi’s defiance, Iran does not seem in a particular hurry to genuflect to the Empire. This can only mean that Iran likes its chances...

​.."Maersk has suspended all vessel calls to Haifa, Israel’s only fully operational deepwater/hub port. With Ashdod Port constrained by its proximity to Gaza and Eilat Port now defunct due to the Red Sea blockade, Israel’s maritime access is approaching strategic isolation."
​ Recall that Israel’s airports are also now facing lockdown, with Israeli leaders forbidding people from permanently fleeing the sinking ship of a country. They may also be trying to use visiting foreign Jews as human shields to create more PR ‘tragedies’​...

​..One thing is certain, while Iran’s strikes may have declined, so have Israel’s notable hits, particularly after Iran launched a nation-wide dragnet which has thus far netted dozens of Israeli operatives. The Mossad, for the time being at least, has been critically weakened in Iran, which has resulted in a sharp drop-off of “successes”. Now Israel spins its wheels, striking empty or nonessential ‘nuclear sites’ to no effect merely to evoke a sense of momentum for its flagging operation, while Iran slowly reorganizes itself and puts the country on a wartime footing.
​  After the initial ‘splurge’ and fireworks, we now enter a new slug match phase that will test each country’s endurance. The US continues arraying massive forces everywhere from Saudi Arabia to Diego Garcia and could tip the scales in Israel’s favor should Trump commit to a massive long-haul operation. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves in thinking the US would not face dire consequences for this: Trump had only just bragged that “wages were up” to the highest level in 60 some-odd years, and was again tooting his horn on the ‘economic miracle’ he’s presiding over. The closure of Hormuz and oil prices spiking to ungodly levels would crush that miracle and send Trump’s ‘golden age’ into the sewer, which is surely foremost on his mind as he hovers his finger over that red button.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/israel-buckles-as-iran-war-shifts

​  UN votes 152 to 5 telling Israel to get rid of its nuclear weapons
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 152 to 5, to tell the Israeli apartheid regime to get rid of its nuclear weapons, which are illegal under international law.​   https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/31/un-vote-israel-nuclear-weapons/

Putin’s Message to the West at SPIEF: Your Dominance is Over – BRICS+ is the Future​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250620/putins-message-to-the-west-at-spief-your-dominance-is-over--brics-is-the-future-1122304150.html

​  With his honor intact:  'Worst Ally': Army Colonel Removed From US Joint Chiefs Staff Over Israel Criticism​   

A United States Army colonel has been removed from his position on the Pentagon staff supporting the Joint Chiefs after his Israel-critical social media posts were publicized by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Until this week, Army Col Nathan McCormack led the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Levant and Egypt branch. That team is part of the Joint Staff J5, which proposes strategies, plans, and policy recommendations to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Within hours of Tuesday's JNS report, McCormack was yanked from his post​.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/worst-ally-army-colonel-removed-us-joint-chiefs-staff-over-israel-criticism

​  Escobar: Iran Now First Line Of Defense For BRICS & The Global South

​  By now it’s clear even for the deaf, dumb and blind that this was never about the Iranian nuclear program, or the “effort” to construct a Trump-owned JCPOA 2.0. It is about the lifelong Zionist axis obsession: regime change in Tehran.
​  That is the Holy Grail, dreamed of since the late 1990s, capable of opening the door for the deeply troubled Empire of Chaos of Iran’s immense wealth in natural resources – from energy to rare earth deposits, thus prolonging the life of the multi-trillion-dollar-indebted Empire.
​  The extra bonuses are even more seductive: cutting off China from a matter of national security – energy imports – and from crucial New Silk Road connectivity corridors, in tandem with opening a monster abscess in Russia’s underbelly.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-iran-now-first-line-defense-brics-global-south

​  Doc​ Robinson sent this circuitous flight log of a US military plane flying from Crete to London over water on June 20 solstice, avoiding the airspace of all countries who are signatories to the International Criminal Court.  I had previously seen a flight log of the Israeli plane that Bibi often uses flying to Greece on Friday the 13th, just before Israel attacked Iran, so I figured he was likely in Greece, as did my Greek friend and her Greek military friends, as per her conveyance of that rumor.   https://xcancel.com/MeNMyRC1/status/1936055133785264539    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gt4_rozWsAAz6LL.jpg

Each can carry two G​BU-57 bunker buster bombs:  Force Posturing: Six B-2 Stealth Bombers En Route To Indo-Pacific Ahead Of Trump's Intel Meeting​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/force-posturing-six-b-2-stealth-bombers-en-route-indo-pacific-ahead-trumps-intel

​  Saturday 5/21/25:  Israel Strikes Iran's Isfahan Nuclear Facility Amid Escalating Air War​    A primary nuclear facility in Iran’s Isfahan province was targeted by an Israeli airstrike, though local authorities have reported no radiation leaks.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-strikes-irans-isfahan-nuclear-facility-amid-escalating-air-war

​  Friday, June 20:  Israel again under fire from Iran, with about 25 missiles launched

According to the report, sirens went off in areas including near Tel Aviv, and at least one loud explosion was heard during the attack​   https://tass.com/world/1977467

​  TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Al Jazeera reported that THE israeli regime's Channel 14's live broadcast headquarters in Haifa was targeted by IRGC missiles.​  The developments comes after the Israeli regime targeted the IRIB headquarters in Tehran on Monday.​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233384/Iran-targets-Israel-s-Channel-14-headquarters-VIDEO

​  Your tax dollars at work:  Israel’s war with Iran costs $200M a day, raising pressure for swift end

Israel’s war with Iran is costing the country an estimated $200 million per day, according to early assessments reported by The Wall Street Journal—a staggering figure that is quickly becoming a major constraint on the duration of the conflict, Anadolu reports.
​  The most expensive burden is the interception of Iranian missiles, which alone can run into tens or even hundreds of millions daily, the WSJ reported on Thursday.
​  Systems like David’s Sling and Arrow 3—each interception costing between $700,000 and $4 million—have been activated repeatedly in response to over 400 missiles launched by Iran in recent days.
​  Offensive operations are also increasing costs. Deploying Israeli F-35s over 1,000 miles to hit targets in Iran costs approximately $10,000 per hour per jet, in addition to the price of precision bombs like JDAMs and MK84s.​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250620-israels-war-with-iran-costs-200m-a-day-raising-pressure-for-swift-end/

Iranian Missile Strikes Hit Key Israeli Intelligence and Command Buildings

​..The Fattah seeing its first combat use on June 18, and using a hypersonic glide vehicle to bypass Israeli defences. Among the Israel targets recently successfully hit by Iranian strikes have been the IDF technology base in Be’er Sheeva, serves as the Computer Security Directorate of the Israel Defence Forces. An attack using a single ballistic missile was able to hit the facility after evading interception. A Unit 8200 intelligence facility in the Negev Advanced Technologies Park, which serves as the centre for its cyber defence directorate, was also successfully targeted in a missile strike.​   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iranian-missile-strikes-israeli-intel-command

​  Iran Deprives Israel of Oil Refining

​  Israel has lost its oil refining capacity indefinitely and could face serious fuel problems, writes S&P Global Commodity Insights. The country could face a fuel crisis after Iran fired missiles at the Haifa refinery.
​  Tel Aviv is without functioning refineries for at least several weeks. The outages at Haifa and at a second refinery in Ashdod, which is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance, will turn Israel into an importer of petroleum products.​   https://en.topcor.ru/61161-iran-lishil-izrail-neftepererabotki.html

Third hospital in Tehran deliberately targeted in a week of Israeli aggression​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/20/750005/third-hospital-tehran-deliberately-targeted-in-week-israeli-aggression

Especially if you kill the leader who says "no": US Intel: Iran Likely To Pursue Nukes If US Joins Israel's War - Trump Worried About 'Libya Scenario'​    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-intel-iran-likely-pursue-nukes-if-us-joins-israels-war-trump-worried-about-libya

 False-Flag-Bait:  USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Will Arrive In Mideast Waters This Weekend

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uss-nimitz-carrier-strike-group-will-arrive-mideast-waters-weekend

Fresh anti-missile supplies at great cost, not readily replaceable:  5 U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Destroyers Now in the Mediterranean Sea​   https://news.usni.org/2025/06/20/5-u-s-ballistic-missile-defense-destroyers-now-in-the-mediterranean-sea

​  Ghost flights spotted from China to Iran as Beijing signals entry into conflict
At least five such flights have taken off from China since June 14, only to vanish from radar as they approach Iranian airspace.

​  Their listed destination was Luxembourg, but none of the aircraft entered European airspace, according to FlightRadar24 and The Telegraph data.
The Telegraph described them as “mystery transport planes.”​   https://interestingengineering.com/culture/china-ghost-flights-to-iran-tracked

​  Hitting only Israel so far:  TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) – The Iranian President has declared that his country will give a firm and decisive response to the aggression by the US-backed Israeli regime.
President Masoud Pezehskian made the comments in a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday ni​ght.​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233462/Pezeshkian-says-Iran-s-response-to-aggression-is-decisive

Israel focuses its bombing on displaced people’s camps in Gaza, Civil Defence says​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250620-israel-focuses-its-bombing-on-displaced-peoples-camps-in-gaza-civil-defence-says/

​  Slaughter​ and starve the families:  Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Palestinians seeking aid continue to be killed near distribution sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

​  At least 34 Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded by Israeli fire while waiting for humanitarian aid in central and southern Gaza Strip, hospital sources told Al Jazeera.
At least 82 Palestinians were killed across Gaza by the Israeli army on Friday, sources said, including several in an attack where jets bombed a house west of Deir el-Balah.​   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/20/at-least-35-killed-in-new-israeli-attack-on-gaza-aid-seekers

​  Israel army kills 3 children among 16 aid seekers in Gaza since Saturday morning
People killed while waiting for humanitarian aid at Israeli army-controlled distribution sites, report eyewitnesses​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-army-kills-3-children-among-16-aid-seekers-in-gaza-since-saturday-morning/3607176

​  The previously imprisoned drug-dealer, released and armed by Israel to interdict food aid to his brothers and sisters, is shunned by his family-clan:  

If left unchecked, Abu Shabab’s Israel-backed militia promises nothing but disaster for Gaza​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250620-if-left-unchecked-abu-shababs-israel-backed-militia-promises-nothing-but-disaster-for-gaza/

​  Trump needs to go to The Hague in shackles:  Trump Calls For Special Counsel To Investigate 2020 Election As Texas Launches Separate Inquiry Into 2024   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-calls-special-counsel-investigate-2020-election-texas-launches-separate-inquiry

Alleged Minn. Assassin Says Gov. Tim Walz Wanted Him To Kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alleged-minn-assassin-says-gov-tim-walz-wanted-him-kill-sen-amy-klobuchar

Who Ran the Autopen, Why are Then Not Arrested, and Why Are the Actions Signed Off On Still In Force?​   https://joehoft.com/who-ran-the-autopen-why-are-then-not-arrested-and-why-are-the-actions-signed-off-on-still-in-force/#google_vignette

​  Would you volunteer to be a judge, perhaps, sir?  Obama Demands A Ministry Of Truth

​  "We want diversity of opinion. We don't want diversity of facts,” claimed during an interview this week with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson. "That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media.”
​  Obama then flat out called for government regulation of social media platforms to curb the amplification of of what he described as “hateful" and “polarizing” public figures, while respecting First Amendment rights, claiming that censorship is essential to addressing business models that purportedly erode public trust.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-demands-ministry-truth

​  Jessica Rose Ph.D.  Josh Guetzkow, Retsef Levi et al. hammer home risks of COVID-19 injections to pregnant women

Particularly in gestational weeks 8-13... color me shocked​   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/josh-guetzkow-retsef-levi-et-al-hammer

​  Steve Kirsch on the unspeakable mass poisonings:  The Czech data reveals the truth about the COVID vaccine. Is that why no epidemiologist or infectious disease expert will touch it?

​  The Czech Republic record level data shows the COVID vaccines were neither safe nor effective. Is that why I'm the only guy willing to talk about what it says publicly?​   ​

  https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-czech-data-reveals-the-truth

​  Meryl Nass MD,  Want the MMR to be safer and more efficacious? Give it to older children. The data are incontrovertible

​  "In 2-dose recipients, VE [vaccine efficacy] was greater with older age at first dose, from 93% at 12 months to 97.5% at 15 months. The risk of measles was 2 to 4 times greater when children were first vaccinated between 12 and 14 months versus 15 months. Older age at the second dose or longer interval between doses did not influence this observation."​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/want-the-mmr-to-be-safer-and-more

​Meryl Nass MD sets the stage with factual context:  New agenda for CDC vaccine committee raises eyebrows/Pharma Letter with my educated comments   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/new-agenda-for-cdc-vaccine-committee

​  A Midwestern Doctor makes the case against wearing sunglasses outside, amongst other things:  Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Revolutionized Medicine

Why Did it Disappear?​    https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/ultraviolet-blood-irradiation-revolutionized

​Moderately Irradiated (pictured with grandson yesterday at children's show-farm)​