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mountains are in the way...



best I can figure it would be @ 400 miles...

 
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Be easier to just surrender, this embargo only affects the US and Israel...bet Trump wishes he wasn't a pedophile.
 

HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just said a leaker AIDED AND ABETTED Iran, leaking to the fake news information about the search for an American airman

PRISON.

"When they did that, all of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life!"

"They put this mission, that man at great risk, and HUNDREDS of people looking for him!"

This leaker then prompted Iran to put out a BOUNTY on an American troop.

Trump will seek JAIL TIME if the media outlet does not reveal who it was. LOCK THE LEAKER UP.

"The person that did the story WILL GO TO JAIL if he doesn't say!"

"As you probably know, we didn't talk about the first one for an hour, and then somebody leaked something, which we'll hopefully find that leaker, we're looking very hard to find that leaker, and talked about there's somebody missing."

"They basically said that we have one and there's somebody missing. Well, they didn't know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information!"

"We think we'll be able to find it out, because we're going to go to the media company that released it. And we're going to say, national security, give it up or go to jail."
 

Common Sense​

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@grey4626 on X
F*** the leaker.
To the sniveling, sociopathic Judas who slithered from the fetid bowels of the deep-state bureaucracy and leaked the exact grid coordinates of our downed F-15E Weapons Systems Officer to Iranian Quds filth…hear this with crystal clarity:
President Trump is coming for your scalp with the cold, surgical precision of a Hellfire seeking a target.
You didn’t just compromise an op.
You didn’t just risk one American warrior’s life after his Strike Eagle was blown out of the sky over hostile territory.
You weaponized classified real-time intelligence against your own countrymen, handing the enemy the kill shot on a silver platter while that Wizzo was evading capture for forty-eight hours with nothing but an emergency beacon and balls of depleted uranium.
That is not a “leak.”
That is textbook aiding the enemy under Article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, punishable by death.
That is espionage under 18 U.S.C. §§ 793 and 794...the same statutes that put the Rosenbergs in the ground and should have buried every single one of your spiritual predecessors.
Psychologically, you are a textbook case of malignant narcissism fused with ideological psychopathy:
a broken, power-drunk husk whose fragile ego requires the ritual sacrifice of American heroes to feed its delusions of grandeur.
You hate the warrior caste because their existence exposes your own cowardice.
You leak because the sight of Trump directing combat search-and-rescue with dozens of aircraft, Special Forces, and combat air cover makes your shriveled soul seethe with envy.
Pathologically, you are no different from the treasonous clerks who sold out our Afghan allies or the leakers who got SEALs killed...a metastatic cancer that must be excised before it rots the entire Republic.
President Trump already ordered the full-spectrum hunt.
Good. Now finish it.
Drag this traitor...whether uniformed, civilian, or some hybrid deep-state abomination...into a military tribunal with the same lethality we used to pull our brother out of Iran.
No civilian lawyers.
No media circus.
No plea deals.
GITMO is too good for you, but it will suffice:
orange jumpsuit, steel cage, endless nights listening to the wind howl over Cuban concrete while you contemplate the lives you tried to end.
Rot there until the sand runs out of your hourglass, you worthless fucking traitor.
Every service member you endangered is watching.
Every patriot with a rifle and a memory is watching. The Republic remembers.
And justice...real, biblical, unrelenting justice...is already sharpening its blade.
Find them. Charge them. Convict them.
Bury them at Gitmo.
 
Israel is anti peace. Probably still controlled by The City of London.


Trump threatened to jail whoever leaked the missing pilot story. Turns out it was Netanyahu's favorite journalist.

Amit Segal, one of Israel's most influential political commentators and a journalist so close to Netanyahu that the PM reportedly offered him a cabinet position, just confirmed on Telegram that he broke the story about the second missing airman.

Trump blamed the leak for tipping off Iran, which then offered bounties for the pilot's capture:

"The person that did the story will go to jail"

So now what? The leak didn't come from American media.

It came from inside Israel's political-media ecosystem, from a journalist with direct proximity to the Prime Minister's office.

That raises an obvious question about where Segal got his information and why it was released during the most sensitive rescue operation of the war.

When pressed by the New York Post, Segal backpedaled, saying he's "not sure" he was first and pivoted to "I will protect my sources."

Will Trump follow through on his threat against an Israeli journalist connected to the government he's fighting alongside? Or does this quietly disappear?

The answer will tell you a lot about how this alliance actually works.

Source: Newsweek, Telegram
 
I'd say no to #7.

BREAKING: Iran has delivered its highly anticipated "10-point" response to the US' "15-point peace plan."

Iran's 10-point plan includes:

1. Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again
2. Permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire
3. End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon
4. Lifting of all US sanctions on Iran
5. End to all regional fighting against Iranian allies
6. In return, Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz
7. Iran would impose a Hormuz fee of $2 million per ship
8. Iran would split these fees with Oman
9. Iran to provide rules for safe passage through Hormuz
10. Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations

President Trump's "deadline" for a peace deal with Iran is 25 hours away.
 
Empire vs Sovereign Nation States

Easter Death Hoax Exposed as Trump Rescues Airmen From Iran​

This Easter weekend, as a social-media death hoax about Donald Trump spread widely, the episode highlights two claimed U.S. achievements: a daring operation that recovered a two-man F-15 crew from inside Iran and the first time since 1972 that four American astronauts rounded the moon. Barbara Boyd frames these events as evidence of America’s “right stuff” returning, alongside Trump’s push to expand U.S. nuclear energy capacity and a broader shift away from the Petrodollar system toward a regional “Board of Peace” centered on economic development. She describes escalating pressure on Tehran tied to reopening the Strait, ongoing peace negotiations, and Gulf States aligning closer to Israel, while criticizing France, the UK, and Canada for defending a “rules-based international order” and prolonging the war in Ukraine. The episode argues Trump’s leadership reflects a willingness to persist despite threats and institutional opposition.
 

Simultaneous War: Rescue and Ruin

In a single 48-hour window, the U.S. executed two radically different missions over Iran—one to save a life, the other to erase a command structure.

According to CENTCOM sources, B-2 stealth bombers dropped 30,000-pound bunker busters on an underground IRGC headquarters near Tehran, targeting a deeply buried command node. At the exact same time, SEAL Team 6 and special operations forces were on the ground in the Zagros Mountains, fighting to extract a downed F-15E weapons systems officer.

One mission was about precision destruction. The other was about bringing an American home.

The rescue operation was layered and unconventional—CIA deception, coordination with Israeli intelligence, a deliberate aircraft self-destruct, and a second extraction attempt under fire. Both crew members ultimately survived. The pilot had already been recovered days earlier in total secrecy to protect the second airman still behind enemy lines.

The B-2 strike sent a different message entirely. While operators risked everything to save one man, bombers overhead delivered the most powerful conventional weapons in the U.S. arsenal, collapsing reinforced underground infrastructure in a single blow.

Same directive. Same command. Same window.

President Trump addressed the nation hours later, calling the rescue an “Easter Miracle,” while also signaling massive escalation. He spoke of a war ending “within weeks,” but in the same breath warned of bringing Iran “to the Stone Ages” if demands aren’t met. Ceasefire talks remain uncertain, deadlines loom, and the threat of expanded conflict—including potential ground operations—remains on the table.

So far, Operation Epic Fury has cost 13 American lives and left 365 wounded.

What just happened wasn’t just a rescue mission or an airstrike—it was a glimpse of how modern war is being conducted: parallel operations, psychological signaling, and overwhelming force deployed simultaneously across domains.

One story was meant for the public.

The other was meant for Iran.

And the next move will decide which one defines what comes next.

Aerial Salute

A U.S. B2 stealth bomber visits an American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf and shows what it can do in the air.

Due to the size of the B2 stealth bomber, it simply cannot land on an aircraft carrier, but it certainly put big smiles on the faces of the crew.
 
Why would anyone be stupid enough to make a deal with the US? Has the US ever honored a treaty or agreement of any kind since it's inception?
 
Saw him say this on a tv interview.

Trump floats US toll on Hormuz - Splash247

The tussle for control of the Strait of Hormuz has entered a new phase, with US president Donald Trump suggesting the United States could itself charge tolls on vessels transiting the waterway, a dual-corridor system emerging under Iranian and Omani management, and two Qatari LNG tankers blocked...
splash247.com
 
Military targets hit on Kharg Island. Maybe a prelude to ground attack?
 
This is a long read, but informative.

"On April 1, 2026, Trump gave a speech about Iran. He said the war was nearly over but vowed to hit Iran extremely hard for two to three more weeks. Gold fell 3 to 4 percent the next day. Oil surged to $105 a barrel. The dollar strengthened. Rate cut expectations collapsed from 25 percent to 12 percent overnight.

Think about what that means.

Gold falls when the dollar strengthens. The dollar strengthens when interest rates stay high. Rates stay high when oil prices push inflation up. Oil prices push inflation up when a war keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed. The same war Trump is fighting to open the Strait. The same Strait that London’s Brent crude benchmark has priced since 1988. The same benchmark that Lloyd’s charges war risk premiums against every time a tanker tries to pass through it.

One speech. Gold down 4 percent. Oil up 7 percent. Lloyd’s premiums up. London prices the disruption. Washington fights the war.

That arrangement has a word for it. It is not partnership. It is not alliance. It is the insertion fee. Paid in blood and oil and basis points. Every time the Strait closes."

the rest of the story:

The System That Owns You. How It Was Built. Why It's Breaking.

Control Through Necessity
nofilterjustfacts.substack.com
 
Back in 2020 during Covid none of it made sense. Shutting down everything and printing gazillions of dollars.
Here we are in 2026 and once again, none of this makes sense. O evidence presented to support the claims of Iran doing or working on anything. In fact according to our intelligence agencies the evidence is exactly the opposite of what Trump and his team are saying.
 
Spot on


Sarah Adams
@sarahadams
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1h
It’s amazing how many people on this platform have clearly never watched a real negotiation with a terrorist regime or any terrorist entity for that matter. This isn’t sunshine and rainbows. It’s pressure, consequences, and making it unmistakably clear that if the Iranian regime won’t change their ways, they highly risk being ended.

Let’s get something straight, because this keeps getting butchered, the civilization he is talking about ending is the Islamist regime, the assholes that took over 47 years ago and literally ruined the original Persian civilization in Iran that no one in the west seems to ever show empathy for. That distinction shouldn’t be this hard. And no, they shouldn’t be forced to be subservient to terrorists for another 50 years because you with 50,000 followers on some social media echo chamber said so.

While some rush to defend a failed terrorist state, that same regime has been hanging teenagers this whole past week. I’ve seen zero concern over that, they’ve also been sending 12 year olds to be cannon fodder. Spare me the outrage.

And to those immediately spiraling into “this means nuclear war,” please chill and relax a little. All this literally is ending a future nuclear threat. Not every hard-line equals global catastrophe. That’s not how this works. You’ve grown so used to watching terrorist pandering that you don’t even recognize what resolve looks like. The regime are paper tigers let them fold or make a choice that will lead to their ultimate demise.

As Winston Churchill put it, “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”
 
"Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us." Sun Tzu
 
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