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Why I’m Changing My Mind About Trump’s Naval Blockade of Iran

Why I’m Changing My Mind About Trump’s Naval Blockade of Iran
20.08.2026 60

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In an Alternate Universe, Iran Hangs Mamdani as a Zionist

In an Alternate Universe, Iran Hangs Mamdani as a Zionist

On February 28, the mayor of New York stood in front of a camera and called his own government’s war “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war...

18.08.2026 60

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Iran’s Easier Nuclear Target Is Washington, Not Jerusalem

Iran’s Easier Nuclear Target Is Washington, Not Jerusalem

On November 5, 1979, Ruhollah Khomeini gave the United States a name that has outlived him: the Great Satan. Israel he called the Little Satan, a...

17.08.2026 70

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Could Trump’s Iran Rhetoric Ever Turn Explicitly Nuclear?

Could Trump’s Iran Rhetoric Ever Turn Explicitly Nuclear?

Trump’s threats against Iran already run near the ceiling of what a president can say out loud. In April, hours before a deadline he had set for...

15.08.2026 70

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Wars Do Not End the Way Trump Thinks They Do

Wars Do Not End the Way Trump Thinks They Do

The demand is documented and can be stated precisely. In June 2025, during the twelve-day war in which American bombers struck three Iranian nuclear...

14.08.2026 60

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The Signs That Would Prove Iran Has a Nuclear Bomb

Eight of the world’s nine nuclear powers detonated a device before anyone called them nuclear powers. The ninth is Israel, and its case has gone...

12.08.2026 80

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Israel Is Surrounded Today. Are You Aware of What Comes Next?

Since October 2023, Israel has fought on six fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Five of them were not countries in any useful sense....

10.08.2026 70

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How Do You Negotiate Hormuz and Neutralize Pickaxe Mountain at the Same Time?

It cannot be done. Not this way, not that way, not some clever third way nobody has thought of . Not with more time. Not with more money. Not with a...

07.08.2026 60

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The Gulf Must Choose: Iran’s Missiles Today or Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Tomorrow

The attack was ready. Trump said so himself. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on August 2, he explained his decision to call off a planned...

05.08.2026 70

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The Gog and Magog War: What’s Still Missing?

Ezekiel was a priest deported to Babylon in 597 BCE, eleven years before the Temple fell. His oracles run from roughly 593 to 571 BCE, and two...

03.08.2026 150

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How a Cornered Israel Could Drag the Whole World Into Nuclear Winter

Nine countries hold nuclear weapons. Eight of them can lose a city and still be a country the next morning. Russia could absorb a strike on Moscow and...

01.08.2026 70

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Iran Is Emotionally Ready to Use a Nuclear Weapon

The nuclear age has held for eighty years on two emotions: the dread of one’s own annihilation, and the horror of the innocent’s. Tehran keeps...

30.07.2026 70

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Seal Every Door Before You Finish the Job

If Iran has completed the nuclear weapon, the surrender scenario disappears. If subjected to a massive attack, they could respond with a launch. The...

29.07.2026 60

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Collapse Pickaxe Mountain’s Entrances and Force Iran to Reveal What It Hides

Collapsing the entrances cannot destroy the mountain, but it forces Iran to reveal what lies inside. There is a visible frustration watching two...

28.07.2026 60

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Demolishing Pickaxe Mountain with a Nuclear Bomb Inside

In my previous analysis of the Pickaxe Mountain facility, I outlined the immense tactical hurdles facing a conventional assault. We established that...

27.07.2026 60

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Destroy Everything Around Pickaxe Mountain. Then Invade.

In my previous article, The Nuclear Option for Pickaxe Mountain, I concluded that a nuclear strike cannot solve the facility. The limitation extends...

26.07.2026 70

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The Nuclear Option for Pickaxe Mountain

In June 2025, while the Pentagon debated whether GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators could crack Fordow, two defense officials admitted a deep...

25.07.2026 100

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Israel Will Join the US in Striking Pickaxe Mountain

On Tuesday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump promised to hit Pickaxe Mountain “very heavily” and claimed Iran could do nothing to stop it. Hours...

23.07.2026 200

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Israel Has a New Reason to Worry About Trump’s Safety. His Name Is JD Vance.

In June, after signing the Iran memorandum, the Vice President of the United States turned on America’s oldest Middle Eastern ally. He told...

21.07.2026 80

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Any Ground Operation in Iran Costs Trump. Except One.

He was forty-one and promoting a book on deals when The Guardian asked him about Iran. Kharg Island, he replied. He would do a number on it. If they...

19.07.2026 80

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Destroying Pickaxe Mountain Will Take Far More Than Fordow Did.

On Monday afternoon, speaking with Hugh Hewitt, President Trump was asked whether he would insist on inspectors reaching the deep tunnels of a...

15.07.2026 70

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We Want to Hear Mojtaba Khamenei…At Least

On July 11, one day after burying his father, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard released a fresh written statement in the name of Supreme Leader Mojtaba...

11.07.2026 70

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Trump Attacked Iran. A Window Opens for Israel.

The United States struck Iran for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, and Iran responded by targeting American military bases in Kuwait and...

09.07.2026 70

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Why I Believe Mojtaba Khamenei Is Dead

On the morning of February 28, in the opening blow of the war Israel named Operation Roaring Lion and Washington named Operation Epic Fury, a joint...

08.07.2026 70

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Israel Restrained Itself at Nasrallah’s Funeral. Will It at Khamenei’s?

On February 28, on the first day of the war, a joint United States and Israeli strike killed Ali Khamenei in his Tehran compound. He was 86, and had...

05.07.2026 60

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Trump Opened Pandora’s Box in Iran. Who Can Close It Now?

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel opened Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Weeks earlier, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...

02.07.2026 70

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Israel Trusted Trump. Iran Studied Him.

Iran was bombed through late February and March. Its supreme leader was killed, its ports blockaded, its oil revenue cut to a trickle. By Trump’s...

27.06.2026 80

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How Much Did the World Cup Influence Trump’s Iran Decisions?

In August 2025, months before a single match kicked off on American soil, Donald Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk and pressed his cheek against the...

24.06.2026 100

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Israel Should Prepare to Defend Dimona and the Rest of Its Territory Alone

In June, US Vice President JD Vance reminded the Israeli ministers who had criticized the new understanding between Washington and Tehran that two...

22.06.2026 90

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Pay Iran One Dollar to Dilute Its Uranium in Public, Then Give It the Rest

On June 17, the Jerusalem Post reported that the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran lets the regime dilute its enriched uranium...

19.06.2026 70

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Iran Wants 60 Days to Build the Nuclear Bomb (Part 2)

On June 17, leaked drafts of the fourteen point memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, reported by Bloomberg and obtained...

17.06.2026 70

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Persia Bred Top-Tier Diggers for Millennia. Why Leave Its Uranium Buried?

In the second week of June 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators reported that a deal was within reach, a CNN report citing five sources familiar...

14.06.2026 100

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Trump Cried Wolf and the Wolf Didn’t Come. But the Lion Might.

On June 11, 2026, President Trump announced that a “great settlement” with Iran was close to completion, that a memorandum of understanding could...

12.06.2026 100

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Trump Just Cried Wolf Again. Will the Wolf Come This Time?

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be attacking Iran again that same day, complaining that Tehran keeps...

10.06.2026 80

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Iran Should Remember That Samson’s Hair Grew Back

“Let me die with the Philistines.” Judges 16:30 On June 7, 2026, Iran fired ten ballistic missiles at northern Israel, hours after Israeli...

08.06.2026 100

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The Strategy Is to Provoke Iran’s Implosion

Implosion: the violent collapse of a body inward upon itself, occurring when external pressure exceeds the pressure within. The opposite of an...

06.06.2026 80

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Iran Can Keep Its 440 kg of 60% Uranium, but Only Diluted to 3.6%

On May 28, 2026, United States and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire in the three-month war by sixty days and...

30.05.2026 100

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The Technology to Neutralize Hezbollah’s Drones Already Exists

Israel ordered the evacuation of two hundred thousand residents from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday and began striking Hezbollah...

28.05.2026 80

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You Want to Light Up the Dark Side of the Moon, or What?

Tehran has said it for more than twenty years. The uranium is peaceful. The program is civilian. The enrichment is for energy. The line has survived...

27.05.2026 100

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Iran Wants 60 Days to Build the Nuclear Bomb

The world is about to exhale. The terms of the deal are out, and they read like relief. A 60-day truce. The Strait of Hormuz reopened, the mines...

24.05.2026 100

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Iran Won’t Give Up Its Uranium and the Hormuz Strait. Trump Knows It.

It has become a constant. In late March, the president gave Iran forty-eight hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or watch its power grid burn. The...

23.05.2026 100

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Intelligent Autonomous Robots May Be the Solution to Hezbollah’s Drone Threat

Hezbollah lost roughly 90% of its rocket arsenal during the Gaza war, and Iran, its strategic patron, is in economic collapse. And yet the most lethal...

18.05.2026 100

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Lamine: Use Your Brain, Grab a Pen and Write an Opinion

You are eighteen, you have just won La Liga, you have tens of millions of followers, and you have celebrated however you saw fit. I believe you have...

15.05.2026 100

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Why Israel Should Fear a Hantavirus Outbreak Amid War With Iran

The watch window has just opened The outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship that left Ushuaia on April 1...

13.05.2026 100

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The Hondius Hantavirus: A Chain of Errors in the Spread

The accountability question after the ship arrives The MV Hondius is expected at the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife in the early hours of Sunday, May...

10.05.2026 100

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The Principal Risk of Hantavirus Lies in Its Long Incubation Period

An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...

08.05.2026 150

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Will Trump Fold to Iran or Crush It Before Beijing Meeting Next Week?

Air Force One departs for Beijing on May 14. Between now and then, President Trump must decide whether he lands in the Forbidden City under a...

06.05.2026 90

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Congrats! You’ll Be Sent to the Stone Age

Iran does not believe Trump. That is the simplest explanation for what is happening, and the most dangerous one. On April 29, at four in the morning...

01.05.2026 100

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OK! Let’s Give Iran Everything It Asks For

Fine. Granted. All of it. Every point of the ten-point plan. Every sanction lifted. Every asset unfrozen. Every obedient vote at the Security Council....

24.04.2026 90

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Saul, Saul, Why Are You Persecuting Me?

On Sunday, April 19, 2026, a photograph began circulating on X. It was posted by the Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi. The image showed a soldier...

23.04.2026 100

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