Iran NOT massively attacking like Israel and America…
But inflicting damage, injuries and deaths even as the media narrative of massive American might give way to the Reality of War …..
Iran HAS been fighting in bits and pieces for a LONG time….
America has NOT….
Israel has also NOT faced a foe as strong as Iran….
Iran can’t over power these two countries militarily…..
But?
It IS causing both some pain….
Donald Trump IS walking a American political tightrope….
(Colin Powell quote that Gen. Caine IS surely aware of…..‘You Break it…You Own it’
This IS the start of ANOTHER ‘War’ in a foreign country that already HAS American soldier’s dying …
Oil and gas prices are bound to go up….
We have a report on an Iranian school that was bombed with over 100 children killed….
The same Donald Trump who started a WITHDRAWAL FROM Afghanistan IS Now in a fight with Iran for regime change , nukes and missiles that can’t reach America….
His polling numbers are bad ….
Will all this send them to WORSE?
IS Donald Trump AGAIN helping Democrats retake the US House and maybe even the US Senate in 10 months?
Donald WAS warned….
General Caine called it…..
Not Pete Hegseth….
For now?
Regime change seems to be off the table….
One can be sure Israeli and US attacks ARE focuses on Irans Nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs….
Trump, who has NOT out in public, return’s to Washington….
He says Iran may want to ‘Talk’?
The United States and Israel unleashed a second day of intense airstrikes and bombing runs on Iran, hitting more than 2,000 targets, as Iran launched retaliatory barrages against Israel and Persian Gulf countries. One strike killed three U.S. soldiers at a base in Kuwait.
President Trump expressed condolences for the slain American troops and predicted there would be more causalities in the coming days. “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends,” he said. “That’s the way it is. Likely be more.”
On Saturday, the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation had succeeded in killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died in an Israeli missile strike based on U.S. intelligence. Mr. Trump repeated on Sunday his call for the Iranian people to take control of the government.
But amid fears of a wider conflagration with no clear endgame, Mr. Trump also said that Iran’s new leadership had let him know they wanted to speak to him and that he was willing to do so. The Iranian government did not publicly respond to his remarks.
The three U.S. troops killed in action in Kuwait, who were not identified, were the first Americans to die in the war with Iran. At least nine people were killed in Israel, and at least four people were killed in attacks across the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, according to official reports tallied by The New York Times.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that its air force was again bombarding “the heart of Tehran,” the Iranian capital. The military said it had struck Iranian missile launchers, air defense systems, command centers and headquarters of the government, and missile launchers.
The United States kept up a barrage of strikes on Sunday targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program and trying to sink the Iranian Navy, a U.S. Central Command official said. American stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 pound bombs, struck Iran’s “hardened” ballistic missile facilities. American strikes destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and sank at least one warship, the military said.
Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, earlier on Sunday announced that an interim committee would run the country until a successor to the supreme leader was chosen.
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Oil tanker ablaze: Videos verified by The New York Times showed an oil tanker, the Skylight, ablaze off the coast of Oman on Sunday. It was one of three ships in the Persian Gulf that reported coming under attack after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed it had targeted American and British tankers in the region.
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School death toll: Iranian state media reported that dozens of children had been killed at a girls’ elementary school near a naval base. The death toll at Shajarah Tayyebeh school in southern Iran rose to at least 115 people on Sunday, according to Iranian state and state-affiliated media. It appears to be one of the worst mass casualty events of the American-Israeli bombing campaign so far.
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American casualties: The United States Central Command said that several other troops “sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions and are in the process of being returned to duty.” Read more ›
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Strikes in Israel: Iranian missile barrages repeatedly targeted Israel on Sunday, forcing much of the country into fortified shelters. The Israeli ambulance service said nine people killed and nearly 30 others wounded in Beit Shemesh, a city west of Jerusalem, amounted to the worst casualty event in Israel since the conflict started. Read more ›
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Iranian succession: The Israeli strikes killed several other senior Iranian figures in addition to the supreme leader, Iranian state media said. The power to choose a new supreme leader rests with the Assembly of Experts, a conservative body of clerics. In the meantime, Iran’s president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist of the clerical Guardian Council will be in charge. Read more ›
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Shipping effects: The fighting shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply, according to shipping companies and Tasnim, Iran’s semiofficial state media. Maersk said it was halting some shipping through the Red Sea, hundreds of miles to the west.
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Other Middle East Countries fired on by Iran….
Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Gulf states in retaliation after the barrage of American and Israeli strikes over the past two days. The majority of the Iranian attacks were intercepted, according to the governments of the Gulf countries.
Iran has launched at least 390 missiles and 830 drone attacks across the Persian Gulf, home to several U.S. military bases, according to government reports. The United States Central Command said on Sunday that Iran had attacked more than a dozen locations in the region, including civilian centers like airports, hotels and residential areas.
On Sunday, the United Arab Emirates’ Defense Ministry said 541drones had been fired on the country, and 506 of them had been intercepted. It added that Iran had fired 165 ballistic missiles, of which 152 were destroyed, and 13 fell in the sea.
Bahrain’s state news agency said the country’s air defense systems had shot down 45 Iranian missiles and nine drones.
Qatar’s Interior Ministry said in a televised address on Saturday that 66 missiles had been fired by Iran, but did not clarify how many had been intercepted. At least 16 people were injured, it said. On Sunday, the Defense Ministry said it had intercepted 18 ballistic missiles, but did not say if others had made direct hits.
Kuwait’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the country’s air force had intercepted 97 ballistic missiles and 283 drones over two days. At least one person was killed and more than 30 were injured, the authorities said…
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A strike on a girls’ school kills 115, Iranian state media says
At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran on Saturday, health officials and Iranian state media said.
The search for survivors in the rubble of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school in the southern town of Minab ended Sunday, according to Mohammad Radmehr, the governor of Minab, Iranian state media reported. It appeared to be the deadliest attack in the ongoing American-Israeli bombing campaign….
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Trump’s attack on Iran risks alienating war-weary supporters
Approaching midterm elections and a growing battle over the party’s post-Trump identity heighten the political stakes of military action…
For some voters, Trump’s decision marked a clear break from the isolationist posture that once defined his political appeal. While the more hawkish wing heralded the opening salvo, others in the partyaccused Trump of betraying the populist ideology that propelled him to power. In interviews and on social media, many Trump supporters — both prominent conservatives and rank-and-file voters — were careful to withhold final judgment until seeing whether the president could swiftly end the conflict he started. Others reaffirmed their support for Trump.
Ultimately, the Iran operation poses a test of how much warTrump’s coalition will tolerate from a president who promised to end them —particularly if a prolonged fight brings economic pain to everyday Americans.
“The base is solid with President Donald Trump, and they want him to succeed,” said John McLaughlin, a longtime Trump pollster. “It’s about national security and stopping Iran, a terrorist state, from getting nuclear weapons and killing any more Americans.”
The political stakes of the military action are heightened by the approaching midterm elections, when the party of a sitting president often faces stiff headwinds. Polls show Trump’s approval ratings are at 39 percent, the lowest since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Republicans are worried they could lose control of Congress….
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Beyond the immediate electoral math, the Iran strike has also sharpened a longer-running debate inside the party over what a post-Trump identity might look like — and which faction of a divided GOP will ultimately dominate.
Blake Neff, producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” wrote on X that right-leaning friends were messaging him in dismay about the Iran strikes:
“This is extremely depressing.”
“Never voting in a national election again.”
Neff warned: “If this war is a swift, easy, and decisive victory, most of them will get over it. But if the war is anything else, there will be a lot of anger.”
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Trump has repeatedly cast himself in his second term as the peacemaker the world needs, claiming credit for ending or averting conflicts abroad and arguing that his leadership will accomplish what traditional international institutions, such as the United Nations, have not.
He swept into office under the banner of “America First” isolationism but has adopted a muscular foreign policy approach, “peace through strength.” He bombed nuclear sites in Iran in the summer, toppled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and now has unleashed a barrage in the Middle East that he said is aimed at regime change…
MAGA allies long skeptical of foreign intervention have so far largely stuck by the president,even as many questioned his evolution. Trump officials cast the strikes on Iran last summer as a limited intervention meant to take out a nuclear threat — and pushback within his coalition faded as the conflict ended without morphing into a broader war.
But each conflict has threatened more entanglement abroad than the last, testing the movement’s tolerance.
“Trump, who is very news-cycle savvy, is addicted to the glamour and the attention that foreign interventions engender him and his administration, even though they are not making him more popular,”…
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The U.S. strike could be a big success, he said — “if we’re not entering a long-term military conflict that’s going to result in the deaths of Americans that don’t really want to fight it.”
- The US-Israeli combined force appears to be increasingly targeting the Iranian internal security apparatus, which is consistent with the US-Israeli stated objective of toppling the Iranian regime.
- The regime has formed a leadership council to temporarily assume the responsibilities of the supreme leader. The council includes the president, the judiciary chief, and a senior hardline cleric.
- The IDF outlined a three-phase plan to achieve air superiority over western and central Iran, which will enable the combined force to achieve its objectives. This approach mirrors what Israel did in June 2025.
- Iran may have started attacking maritime traffic around the Strait of Hormuz. Iran seeks to impose a cost on the United States and its partners and compel them to pursue a ceasefire before toppling the regime.
- Iran has sustained its missile and drone strikes across the region, some of which have impacted civilian locations around the Gulf and Israel.
Newsom threw at Trump on Iran attacks on Feb 28
Gavin Newsom lit into Donald Trump over the strikes in Iran, casting the attack as a sign of ‘weakness’ and meant to distract from the president’s abysmal poll numbers.
“It stems from weakness masquerading as strength,” Newsom told a San Francisco audience during a Saturday night event to promote his new memoir. “It stems from the complete failure of this administration, this president who’s historically unpopular.”….
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Hezbollah launches missiles at Israel from Lebanon, IDF says
Hezbollah fired several missiles from Lebanon towards Israel on Sunday, two days after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the IDF said.
Why it matters: This would expand the current conflict to another country in the region and threatens to seriously destabilize Lebanon.
While seriously degraded by almost daily Israeli strikes over the past year, Hezbollah is still Iran’s strongest and most important and strongest proxy in the region.
The latest: Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the missiles launch and said it was a retaliation for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The Israeli military said it was conducting retaliatory strikes in Lebanon, including in Beirut….
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