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Morbid Symptoms: War on Iran and the Epstein Class

Image by Mohammed Ibrahim.

On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military assault on Iran under the banner of Operation Epic Fury. The operation, involving large-scale air and missile strikes across multiple Iranian targets, marked another significant escalation since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. Critics have since renamed the campaign “Operation Epstein Fury” or “Operation Epstein Files,” arguing that the sudden recourse to war appears designed to divert attention from a political scandal engulfing the presidential administration—one that, in their telling, dwarfs both Watergate and the sordid indiscretions that haunted the presidency of Bill Clinton.

During recent congressional testimony concerning Clinton’s relationship with the deceased financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna told reporters that she believed Epstein “was an intelligence asset running some form of honeypot operation.” For years, rumors have circulated regarding Epstein’s possible connections to intelligence services such as Mossad and the CIA, allegations he treated with a certain........

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