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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...
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...
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...
If Iran has completed the nuclear weapon, the surrender scenario disappears. If subjected to a massive attack, they could respond with a launch. The...
Collapsing the entrances cannot destroy the mountain, but it forces Iran to reveal what lies inside. There is a visible frustration watching two...
In my previous analysis of the Pickaxe Mountain facility, I outlined the immense tactical hurdles facing a conventional assault. We established that...
In my previous article, The Nuclear Option for Pickaxe Mountain, I concluded that a nuclear strike cannot solve the facility. The limitation extends...
In June 2025, while the Pentagon debated whether GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators could crack Fordow, two defense officials admitted a deep...
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...
In June, after signing the Iran memorandum, the Vice President of the United States turned on America’s oldest Middle Eastern ally. He told...
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...
On Monday afternoon, speaking with Hugh Hewitt, President Trump was asked whether he would insist on inspectors reaching the deep tunnels of a...
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...
The United States struck Iran for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, and Iran responded by targeting American military bases in Kuwait and...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
In June, US Vice President JD Vance reminded the Israeli ministers who had criticized the new understanding between Washington and Tehran that two...
On June 17, the Jerusalem Post reported that the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran lets the regime dilute its enriched uranium...
On June 17, leaked drafts of the fourteen point memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, reported by Bloomberg and obtained...
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...
On June 11, 2026, President Trump announced that a “great settlement” with Iran was close to completion, that a memorandum of understanding could...
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be attacking Iran again that same day, complaining that Tehran keeps...
“Let me die with the Philistines.” Judges 16:30 On June 7, 2026, Iran fired ten ballistic missiles at northern Israel, hours after Israeli...
Implosion: the violent collapse of a body inward upon itself, occurring when external pressure exceeds the pressure within. The opposite of an...
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...
Israel ordered the evacuation of two hundred thousand residents from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday and began striking Hezbollah...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...
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...
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...
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....
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...
On April 17, President Trump told Reuters that the United States will recover Iran’s enriched uranium in cooperation with Tehran. “We’re going...
On April 8, 2026, one day after President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a televised statement...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered the United States Navy to blockade all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. On Monday at 10...
In the winter of 588 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. His armies encircled the city, erected siege walls, and severed every...
“Open the Strait of Hormuz — or there will be consequences unlike anything seen before.” That was, in essence, the message from the President of...
On the eve of Easter 2026, a person dressed in black placed an explosive device at the entrance of the Israel Centre in Nijkerk, Netherlands. The...
In my previous article on this blog, I argued that the 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are the only variable that determines who wins...
The Only Variable That Matters On March 23, President Trump announced a five-day postponement of strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure,...
The missiles were already flying when the answer started to become clear. The Night Before the Bombs On February 24, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete...
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