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I wonder what things the US is going to cover up, paper over and twist with the distraction of war? I can only imagine what back room deals are going on while we payback the Islamists for 1979.
They are paying us back for 1953....? You know when we overthrew their elected government...
 

Strait of Hormuz & Persian Gulf Update | March 4, 2026 | US Sub Sinks Iranian Ship | Russian LNG​

An update on the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. There are reports of an attack on a containership in the Strait, several ships were also hit outside the Strait. There was also an attack by a US submarine against an Iranian corvette off Sri Lanka and by a suspected Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel against a Russian LNG tanker in the Mediterranean.

00:00 March 4 Update
04:30 Can the US Navy Escort Ships through the Strait?
08:58 Can the US Underwrite War Risk Insurance?
17:38 US Navy Sinks Iranian Corvette off Sri Lanka
20:18 Natural Gas Sector & Attack on Russian LNG
24:44 Container Sector & Black Swan Event
27:13 Cruise Ship Sector
28:21 Port Status
28:34 Conclusion
 
There certainly seems to be 'something' to the taking dow the City of London story...

Being interested in money and PM's over the years I wondered why the British Pound was always worth more than the US dollar. I think I'm starting to understand the reason... The City of London has been hiding in the shadows quietly pulling ALL the strings....


I told you.

And on my show this morning, I just told you again:

The City of London literally **shit itself** when Trump did this.

Trillions of dollars worth of capital flight from the Transnational Crime Syndicate of Big Club Pirates™ to the U.S. under Trump control over just the last 12 months.

The people who used to have world trade locked down tighter than a drum are watching all the capital flight in mounting horror. They're no longer in control of any of it.

 

𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡…​

Consider this.
For 46 years the Iranian regime and its proxies have attacked Americans.
Embassies bombed.
Marines killed.
U.S. troops murdered with Iranian weapons.
And almost every time…
Washington did nothing.
𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡
Today we dismantle every one of them.
They claim:
• Trump has no plan
• He violated the War Powers Act
• Iran was not an imminent threat
• America is simply caving to Israel
Let’s walk through them.
But first Americans need to understand something the media rarely explains.
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬
For more than four decades the United States has been in a shadow war with Iran.
Americans attacked.
Americans killed.
Iran used proxies.
Washington issued warnings.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Here are just a few examples.
𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦 — 1979
President: Jimmy Carter
66 Americans taken hostage.
52 held for 444 days.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None
𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗥𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 — 1983
President: Ronald Reagan
241 U.S. Marines killed.
63 killed at the U.S. Embassy earlier that year.
Iran-backed Hezbollah responsible.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None
𝗞𝗛𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 — 1996
President: Bill Clinton
Truck bomb at U.S. Air Force housing in Saudi Arabia.
19 American airmen killed.
Nearly 400 wounded.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None
𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗤 — 2005–2008
President: George W. Bush
Iran supplied militias with Explosively Formed Penetrators designed to destroy U.S. armored vehicles.
Estimated 600 American troops killed.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None
𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗫𝗬 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 — 2023–2024
President: Joe Biden
More than 100 rocket and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria.
Dozens of American service members wounded.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None
For 46 years the pattern never changed.
Iran attacked through proxies.
Americans died.
Washington warned.
𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟭 — “𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡”
False.
Carrier strike groups moved.
Bombers repositioned.
Missile defenses surged.
Military operations of this scale take weeks of preparation.
That’s not chaos.
That’s planning.
𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟮 — “𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧”
Also false.
Congress must be notified within 48 hours.
That happened.
The president then has 60 days of authority, with an optional 30-day extension.
Up to 90 days total.
This debate is less about law…
and more about political theater.
𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟯 — “𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧”
Imminent threat depends on three things:
Capability.
Intent.
Time.
Iran had uranium enriched near 60%.
Weapons-grade uranium is 90%.
At that point the remaining gap becomes weeks — not years.
When a regime that chants “Death to America” approaches nuclear capability…
imminent is not a debate.
𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟰 — “𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟”
This ignores military reality.
Israel could strike Iran.
But Israel could not eliminate the threat alone.
Iran’s military infrastructure is massive and hardened.
Neutralizing it requires assets only the United States possesses.
Strategic bombers.
Carrier strike groups.
Advanced bunker-penetrating weapons.
That isn’t caving.
That is coordinated strategy.
𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬
The United States cannot declare regime change as its mission.
The Constitution limits the president’s authority to neutralizing threats to America.
Destroy the capability.
Remove the threat.
If the Iranian people choose to change their government afterward…
the world will welcome it.
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬
For forty-six years the cycle repeated.
Iran attacked.
Americans died.
Washington warned.
Again.
And again.
And again.
At some point a nation must decide:
Will it keep managing the consequences…
or finally remove the source of the threat?
Donald Trump did not start this conflict.
It began in 1979.
For decades presidents warned Iran.
Trump is the first one who decided the cycle had to end.
What do you think?
𝗌𝗁𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝗎𝗍𝗁 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗈𝗎𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗀𝖾 𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖾 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖿𝖾𝖺𝗋

 
The 1st casualty of war is the truth. US propaganda machine is in full force.

Today they announced they got the Iranian dude who orchestrated the attempted assassination on our President. Well, then it was President elect or former President. People buy into this BS 100%.

I think the one honest thing they said was by accident. Thats when they admitted that Israel was under imminent threat so we had to go in. Of course Israel is always under imminent threat so I call BS on that one as well. If they were under a threat then why didn't Iran attack them? They decided to wait until we had carrier groups and missile destroyers in the area?
 
We’ve been fighting iran endlessly for most of my life, indirectly. Hoping this “ends” it. Certainly tips global power back in our favor with oil control.
 
We’ve been fighting iran endlessly for most of my life, indirectly. Hoping this “ends” it. Certainly tips global power back in our favor with oil control.
Not our favor as these wars NEVER benefits the American people, our zionists and pedophiles will do good of course and that's what matters.
 
 
For those that were hoping for a war with Iran, you must have been hoping for a Kamala win. Trump comes right out and says she will take us into a war with Iran.
 
He lied, we fell for it, Trump sucks Israeli dick all day, everyday...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but wait til we learn that Iran really HAS been the number one source of terror in the world.

What if they're the ones funding all these non-spontaneous riots on demand here in the US?

There's a lot we aren't privy to.

Same thing with the City of London pulling colonial strings for the last thousand years... then there's the IRS... I seem to remember we're paying taxes and that money goes right to the crown... 'interest?' funding Jolly Ol' England...? No wonder they don't want Trump using tariffs!

Suffice to say there's things we think we know because the media tells us so, and then there's things that we don't know going on behind the scenes.

Expand your thinking... https://us.europathelastbattle.net/watchnow-beta-test.html

If you don't think the deep state hung their hats on every Q post you got another thing coming!

"We are saving Israel for last.
Very specific reason not mentioned a single time."
Q
 
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I'm getting tired of explaining this, but I'll do it again because there is so much stupidity out there.

Here is the Seven Step Plan:

1. Decapitate Iran's leadership and destroy its military.

2. A new regime comes to power that will no longer fund Hamas/Hezbollah.

3. Without Iranian arms and cash, Palestinians have no choice but to make a lasting peace with Israel.

4. With the Palestinian conflict ended, the Gulf Arab countries will have the political breathing room to fully engage with Israel as a regional partner.

5. Peace in the Middle East, at long last.

6. Trump once again gets rebuffed for the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of a transgender Coptic nun in Madagascar who rescued a species of hermit crabs.

7. Profit.
 

The United States Navy deployed a laser weapon to this war.

CENTCOM released footage of the HELIOS system mounted on a destroyer operating off Iran’s coast. The New York Post, citing sources familiar with the operation, reported HELIOS has been used against Iranian drones during Operation Epic Fury. In early February 2026, weeks before the war began, HELIOS took out four drones in a live test. USNI Proceedings confirmed it.

Whether HELIOS has recorded confirmed combat kills in this war is not yet publicly verified by primary military sources. What is confirmed is that the system is deployed, operational, and pointed at the same airspace through which Iran has been sending hundreds of drones and missiles every day.

Here is why that matters regardless of the kill count.

Every Patriot interceptor costs $3 to $4 million per missile. Every THAAD interceptor costs $10 million. The UAE has intercepted more than 755 drones and 172 ballistic missiles since this war began. Run that arithmetic at even conservative figures and you are looking at several billion dollars in interceptor expenditures across the Gulf in under a week.

HELIOS runs on electricity.

The marginal cost of firing a laser is essentially zero. The ship’s generator produces the power. There is no missile to reload, no magazine to deplete, no resupply ship needed. Against a Shahed drone that costs $30,000, a laser engagement costs less than the electricity bill for a large apartment.

The economic architecture of drone warfare has been Iran’s most sophisticated strategic weapon in this conflict. Flood the defenses with cheap munitions. Force the defender to spend $1 million to stop a $30,000 projectile. Do that a thousand times and you have imposed a billion-dollar tax on the defense while spending thirty million on the offense.

HELIOS breaks that equation at the physical level.

If directed energy weapons can absorb even a fraction of the drone saturation that has been overwhelming Gulf air defenses, the cost asymmetry that makes Iranian drone doctrine viable begins to invert.

Iran spent years developing the doctrine that makes Shaheds strategically valuable.

The United States just deployed the technology that may make that doctrine obsolete.

This war is the first real combat test of whether it works.

 
The peace of slavery for Palestinians, I can see why they are not interested...Greater Israel project takes over a bunch of other countries cause G-D promised it to them...Welfare for Israelis goes way up as Social security is canceled for Americans....No thanks.
 

I have got update from inside Iran for those who are genuinely worried.

Mainstream media is spreading nonsense to exploit your worry and save the regime.

My mom called this morning, she had to call cause internet’s cut again (it is a war crime). Explosions are louder than the 12-day war, but everyone is calm: strikes are precise, mostly away from homes. For nearby targets (mosques, IRGC/Basij bases in neighborhoods), people get phone warnings to evacuate first, consistent with 12 day war.

Even near Persian new year holidays, families are staying home as President @realDonaldTrump and Prince @PahlaviReza advised, avoiding schools and public spots because the regime uses them as human shields.

That’s why we in exile thank @POTUS and @netanyahu : they go to great lengths to protect civilians while the regime deliberately hits crowded areas to cause maximum casualties, not just in Israel, but also in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Qatar.

Our only real worries: the regime itself, their faulty Chinese missiles, and their constant use of human shields.

Remember 2020: after striking the US base in Iraq, they shot down a civilian Iranian plane full of families and kids, hoping Trump would hit back so they could play victim (a Russian-style tactic). They miscalculated, Trump didn’t retaliate and we painfully saw what this regime is truly capable of.

Stay calm. No one wants war, but this cancer leaves no other option but surgery.

Be patient, stay hopeful, and pray for American & Israeli heroes and for Iranians to come through safely.

And please share this video with your friends. You shouldn’t trust MSM on this topic. My instagram id is @iranidaturan
 
Guts, God, and missiles...and knowing they will bankrupt us...
 
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