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JUDGE REINSTATES CRITICAL VOTER SYSTEM

July 8, 2026

   If you click on the link you can listen to the article.   Nancy

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/trump-appointed-federal-judge-smashes-ruling-foreign-born/

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge SMASHES Ruling by Foreign-Born Activist Judge — REINSTATES Critical Voter System to Root Out Illegal Alien Voters

by Jim Hᴏft  Jul. 7, 2026

he radical Left’s desperate scheme to flood American elections with illegal non-citizen votes just hit a massive, Trump-shaped brick wall in Florida.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida has OVERRULED a highly controversial order by a far-left, foreign-born activist judge in Washington D.C., officially REINSTATING President Donald Trump’s powerhouse election security system.

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system upgrades, which allow patriot states to instantly screen voter rolls and purge illegal aliens, is back online.

Last March, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at preserving and protecting the integrity of US elections.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” Trump’s executive order said.

“Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,” Trump said.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, on June 22, 2026, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued her 75-page crackpot ruling blocking the Trump Administration’s common-sense updates to the SAVE database.

She whined that the federal government had “knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote” and accused the administration of “haphazardly combined and repurposed” data.

Sooknanan, a Biden appointee with a long record of radical rulings, had already blocked President Trump from deporting Guatemalan children back to their home country when Guatemala itself requested their return. She also shut down an FTC investigation into far-left Media Matters. Now she’s trying to protect illegal aliens on American voter rolls.

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ARMING THE KURDS – WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

July 8, 2026

The author of this article, Sam Faddis, is a retired CIA under cover operative who spent much of his career in the Middle East.   Nancy

https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/lets-tell-some-truth-about-what-really?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=rcku4&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

Let’s Tell Some Truth About What Really Happened With The Supposed Plan To Arm The Kurds In Iran And Overthrow The Ayatollahs

Sam Faddis
 Jul 02, 2026

 

According to the Jerusalem Post, a major plan to topple the Iranian regime using Kurdish forces, backed by Israeli air support, was all ready to go this spring, but Trump vetoed it at the last minute. Israeli sources are accusing Vice President J.D. Vance of leaking the entire operation to President Erdogan in Turkey (officially Turkiye). Vance is blamed for leaking information and thinking he knew better than the ‘seasoned strategists” in Israel who put together this “plan.”

J.D. leaked the plan. The Turks got angry. Trump killed the operation.

Great story, but it needs to be filed in the fiction section. Let’s talk about what really happened, according to our sources in Turkey.

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The Israelis came up with a plan to arm an Iranian Kurdish group based in Northern Iraq and have them topple the Iranian regime. The group in question is called Komala. Its members are Communists. They have a camp near Sulaymaniah in Kurdistan. There may be, charitably, 500 fighters there. The group’s presence inside Iran is minimal. The suggestion that these guys were going to take on the Basij, the IRGC, and the Iranian army and win is laughable.

Komala is also penetrated thoroughly by Iranian intelligence. If you meet with a Komala representative, the report on your meeting is in Tehran before you can type it up and send it to Washington.

So, there was never any credible plan to use Komala to do anything inside Iran. This op was dead on arrival.

Now to the Turks…

The Turks have a massive intelligence presence in Kurdistan. The Turks fought a very long, very bloody war against the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) inside Turkey. Maybe as many as a third of Turkish citizens are Kurds. The Turks remain very worried about any effort to build a Greater Kurdistan and pull pieces of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran into a new political entity.

If you are in Kurdistan, talking to anybody about arming Kurds to overthrow the Iranian government, Erdogan knows it. In fact, he knows you are coming before you get there and probably has a copy of the meeting notes compiled afterward. Keep in mind who you are dealing with. These are the heirs to the Ottomans, who themselves learned everything they knew about intrigue from the Byzantines.

The idea that the Vice-President of the United States would have to leak intel on this hair-brained Israeli plot to Erdogan is laughable.

So, let me tell you what I think is really going on.

The Vice-President is making some progress in getting the President to accept that the Israelis misled him about the prospects for regime change in Iran. The Israelis remain fixated on the idea that more of the same, i.e., more operations focused on attacking Iranian leadership and security forces, will somehow produce a popular uprising. The Israelis see things like funerals of senior Iranian leaders as targeting opportunities.

The Israelis continue to cling to the mistaken idea that the Iranian regime is about to fall. It just needs a little push. Five hundred Communist Kurds, many of whom haven’t been inside Iran for many years, ought to do the trick.

The President saw it was a dumb plan. He killed it. The weapons the Israelis sent, by the way, are still sitting in secure storage in Kurdistan waiting to be picked up.

Here is the reality. The brutal Iranian regime in Tehran is nowhere near falling. If you want it gone and you want a popular uprising, then you need to involve some professionals in this country, build a covert action campaign, keep its operations secure, and plan for the long haul.

There are a lot of other players in the region. If you start arming the Kurds, the Turks are going to lose their minds. Prepare for that and figure out how to manage it. If you start using Kurdistan as a base for ops inside Iran, the first people to feel the pain will be the Kurds, who have already suffered many missile and rocket attacks in response to their support for the United States. Sort out how to defend against that before you move.

Bottom line – either build a real covert action campaign or move on. This is not a business for wishful thinking and half measures.

And whatever we do, let’s stop listening to stupid stories like how Vice-President Vance saved the ayatollahs.

OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROBLEMS

July 6, 2026
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/4/americas-first-major-offshore-wind-project-running-plagued-problems/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ScTpu57oZeFCMS0aLj7r2OZcczPH9FHEfx8FTzl1wKg%3D&bt_ts=1783335119138

Problems threaten fate of nation’s first offshore wind farm

By Susan Ferrechio – The Washington Times – Saturday, July 4, 2026

What to know

  • Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey celebrated the completion of Vineyard Wind.
  • Vineyard Wind is the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
  • The project faced lawsuits and opposition from the Trump administration.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey recently celebrated the completion of Vineyard Wind, the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm that she pledged would lower electricity rates and remove tons of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

The project was completed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard despite lawsuits from residents and environmentalists, as well as the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-wind policies.

Still, Vineyard Wind’s future is murky. Its turbines produce less than half the energy promised. The project’s developer is embroiled in a bitter legal battle that company executives say threatens to turn Vineyard Wind’s 62 turbines into a “dormant wind farm graveyard.”

Officials in the Democratic-led state are enthusiastic about the project’s future. Workers completed the installation of Vineyard Wind’s final three turbine blades on March 13. Soon afterward, state officials locked in a 20-year purchase agreement that sets the average rate of electricity the turbines produce at $69.50 per megawatt-hour, a cost that could beat the state’s natural gas pricing during some of the coldest winter weeks.

When fully operational, Vineyard Wind will have the capacity to provide 806 megawatts of electricity, enough to power up to 400,000 homes, Massachusetts officials said.

“Having energy independence instead of being beholden to foreign interests and the oil companies and utility executives who are lining their pockets is the way we’ve got to go in Massachusetts,” Ms. Healey said at a June 24 event in New Bedford celebrating the completion of the project.

Vineyard Wind’s construction is finished, but the project is a long way from generating the electricity promised or delivering the output needed to keep the wind farm financially viable.

In a May 1 court filing, Vineyard Wind CEO Klaus Moeller said the project’s current average output is roughly 300 megawatts, and 13 of the 62 turbines are not yet activated.

Significant remedial and repair work is needed to address “recurrent operational issues,” Vineyard Wind officials said in court documents.

The problems include sensors that repeatedly trip, causing the turbines to shut off and curtailing their performance and power generation.

Threatened with being left in the lurch, Vineyard Wind is suing to prevent turbine supplier and installer GE Vernova from walking away from the project and maintenance contract, which Vineyard Wind officials said would make it impossible to finish work on the turbines and maintain them to the standards needed to produce electricity.

The two sides are battling over a $360 million payment that GE Vernova said Vineyard Wind developers owe for installing the turbines.

Vineyard Wind has withheld the funds. It argues that the money is a down payment for the $853 million GE Vernova owes for catastrophic damages caused when one of the turbine’s 351-foot blades snapped off in July 2024.

The shattered blade dumped 57 tons of broken fiberglass, foam and plastic into the ocean. Much of it landed on the pristine beaches of Nantucket. Federal officials shut down the project for months while GE Vernova officials investigated. They discovered a broken blade that had folded over because of a manufacturing defect — one that subsequently required replacing nearly all the installed blades in the project.

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BIRTHRIGHT BETRAYAL-SUPREME COURT

July 3, 2026

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mike-davis-dissecting-supreme-courts-birthright-betrayal?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rcp-today-2026-07-03&mc_cid=3c7d46c0af&mc_eid=9ae33e270c

MIKE DAVIS: Dissecting the Supreme Court’s ‘birthright’ betrayal

Roberts and Barrett joined three liberal justices to block Trump’s executive order under the 14th

 Amendment

By Mike Davis   July 2, 2026

The Supreme Court just delivered its most disastrous ruling in generations in Trump v. Barbara. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices to block President Donald Trump’s executive order and hand over birthright citizenship to the children of tens of millions of illegal aliens and birth tourists from China and other enemy nations.

The majority ruled that the 14th Amendment, which was passed after the Civil War to give former slaves equal rights, mandates citizenship to nearly anyone born on U.S. soil, even if they entered illegally, even if they’re a foreigner who hates America, even if they’re only here on a temporary visa and even if they are gaming our system as a Chinese birth tourist.

Under this logic, American citizenship means nothing but birthplace. Forget heritage, patriotism or common values. All that matters is location.

This decision destroys what it means to be an American. It ranks among the court’s very worst, alongside Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Roe v. Wade (1973).

Justice Samuel Alito warned in dissent, “This is one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a serious mistake.”

Justice Alito is a gentleman. This was more than a serious mistake. John Roberts’ disastrous decision, joined by the court’s four women, could be fatal for our country.

The damage cannot be overstated. At the core of sovereignty is the power to decide who enters the country and who becomes one of its citizens. Otherwise, we live at the mercy of billions of foreigners. Citizenship defines who shares in America’s blessings and burdens, who upholds its values, who honors its history and who joins its social contract. It will ultimately determine whether the United States is a nation or just a place.

The American people built the New York skyline, tamed a vast frontier, defeated fascism and communism, landed on the Moon and created the freest and most prosperous and powerful country in human history. Deciding who we invite to join us is the most consequential choice our nation can make. Once citizenship is granted, it is rarely undone. Citizenship confers full and equal rights, including the right to vote and claim every economic and social benefit.

Yet this ruling puts the newborn child of an MS-13 gangster who crossed the border illegally days earlier on equal footing with the descendants of generations of Americans who fought world wars, built this country from nothing and died for its future.

The national security implications are terrifying.

As Justice Alito noted, a child born here to an enemy visitor from China or another hostile power, then raised abroad to hate the United States, would have lifelong citizenship and the right to vote in every election. That child could even run for president of the United States.

The votes of professors Roberts and Barrett, who call themselves originalists, are especially despicable. Anyone with a reasonable historical understanding of the 14th Amendment could never conclude it was intended to endow citizenship to children of illegal aliens or foreigners with no allegiance to this country. Ratified in 1868 to secure citizenship for freed slaves after the Civil War, the amendment’s pivotal qualifier — “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” — deliberately excludes children of diplomats and children of invading soldiers.

The Supreme Court recognized this principle in Elk v. Wilkins (1884), ruling that Native Americans born on reservations were not entitled to birthright citizenship under the amendment because they were subject to the jurisdiction of — and owed their allegiance to — their tribes instead of the United States. Congress later extended birthright citizenship to them by statute in 1924.

If Native Americans born here and who have lived here for thousands of years are not constitutionally entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, the children of illegal immigrants, foreign criminals and fraudster tourists certainly cannot be. Until now. The amendment’s ratifiers could never have imagined, let alone intended, citizenship for the children of millions of unvetted illegals or for a birth-tourism industry that’s funneled hundreds of thousands of foreigners, especially from China, into the country for this purpose.

But Roberts, Barrett and three liberals put their vanity over our sovereignty, national security and country. This ultimate betrayal is unforgivable

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VIDEO – HOSPICE FRAUD IN CALIF

June 27, 2026

 

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HISTORY OF THE IRGC

June 27, 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),[a] also known domestically as Sepah[b] or Pasdaran[c] and internationally as Iranian Revolutionary Guards,[15] is a multi-service primary force of the Iranian Armed Forces. It consists of five service branches: Ground Forces, Aerospace Force, Navy, Quds Force, and Basij. It is led by a commander-in-chief, who is appointed by and reports to the Supreme Leader of Iran.

The IRGC was officially established by Ruhollah Khomeini as a military branch in May 1979 in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. Whereas the Iranian Army (the Artesh) protects the country’s sovereignty in a traditional capacity, the IRGC’s constitutional mandate is to ensure the integrity of the Islamic Republic.[16] Most interpretations of this mandate assert that it entrusts the IRGC with preventing foreign interference in Iran, thwarting coups by the traditional military, and crushing “deviant movements” that harm the ideological legacy of the Islamic Revolution.[17][18]

The IRGC has approximately 125,000 personnel, as of 2024. The main body is the IRGC Ground Forces, which focus on maintaining internal order, but have recently moved towards expeditionary warfare also, projecting power for the Islamic Republic.[19] The IRGC Navy is now Iran’s primary force exercising operational control over the Persian Gulf,[20] serving as a de facto coast guard. The IRGC Aerospace Force is responsible for the Iranian ballistic missile program and act as the country’s space force.[21] The Basij, a paramilitary volunteer militia that serves as the IRGC’s auxiliaries, has a further approximately 90,000 active personnel.[22][23] Lastly, the Quds Force is a unit specialized in unconventional warfare, military intelligence and clandestine operations, responsible for arming, training, advising and, in some cases, commanding pro-Iranian non-state actors abroad—such as Hezbollah and the Houthis.[24] It operates a media arm, known as “Sepah News” within Iran.[25] Currently, the IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by Argentina,[26] Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Dominican Republic Ecuador, the European Union, Honduras, Israel, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, and the United States.[27][28][29][30][31]

Originating as a radical ideological militia, the IRGC has taken on a growing role in nearly every aspect of Iranian politics, economics (including energy and food industries) and society. In 2010, BBC News described the organization as a “business empire”.[32] In 2019, Reuters described it as “an industrial empire with political clout”.[33] IRGC’s expanded social, political, military, and economic role under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—especially during the 2009 presidential election and the suppression of post-election protests—has led many Western analysts to argue that it has surpassed even the country’s ruling clerical class in terms of political power.[34][35][36] In 2026, Reuters described the IRGC as a “state-within-a-state“.[37]

 

THE EVIL IRANIAN IRGC

June 26, 2026
 
If President Trump, through his negotiations, leaves the IRGC in control of Iran, the people of Iran will not be able to rise up against this truly evil regime.   Nancy  
 
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Listen to this powerful exchange with former CIA operative Sam Faddis as he recounts the brutal aftermath of the massacre of more than 30,000 student protesters in Iran. He describes the unimaginable horror families faced when they were finally given permission to claim the bodies of their loved ones. The details are heartbreaking and serve as a sobering reminder of the human cost of tyranny. AW

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FINAL HOURS – NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES

June 24, 2026
 

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THE PERSIANS

June 23, 2026

This is a great read.  If any of you have access to ‘Trump or JD, please forward this to them as it may help with the “negotiations” !!    Nancy

This is a must-read document. It explains the futility of using the MOU as a means to change the IRGC’s strategy of destroying Israel and the U.S.

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The Persians

Call Them People Not Like Us

Michael R Shevock

Mar 12, 2026

November 2013, I was listening to an NPR interview of State Department Ambassador John Limbert as he talked about his date with history. He was the man who’d been sent to meet Mohammad‑Ali Najafi, the Head of Iran’s organization for cultural heritage at the United Nations in New York, and hand over a priceless artifact known as the Silver Griffin. This was a big deal. It had been seized by US Customs a decade earlier, and the refusal on the part of the US government to repatriate it was emblematic of our then poor relations with the Islamic Republic. With unconcealed pride, Mr. Limbert described how moved with emotion Mr. Najifi was to receive the gift, and how this goodwill gesture opened the door to meaningful dialogue. In the trademark way all NPR interviewers mete out understated but impactful validation while sounding oh-so thoughtful and really-really smart, his hostess fell short of proclaiming this coup as equal to Sadat going to Jerusalem, but only barely.

I saw things differently.

This retired public servant believed and believes that if Mr. Limbert was sincere in his assessment of Najifi’s reaction, he was played for a fool. I have my reasons. The good ambassador stated in the interview that, subsequent to the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979, personal contact between US State Department personnel and their Iranian counterparts had been basically non-existent. I had just retired from my in-the-weeds federal career where, among other things, I worked undercover as an international arms dealer – for about fifteen years.

As you might guess, many of my clients were from the Middle East, and a healthy fraction of those were Persians. I took my job seriously. I studied the history of Iran. I read the Koran. I lived abroad for five years, and traveled extensively in what we call Central Asia. I enjoyed some success, the way such things are measured. As pertains specifically to Iran, I had two big takeaways: (1) When negotiating with Persians, we Americans are metaphorically wrestling an opponent way above our weight class. Persians are black belts in the art of charm and persuasion. (2) When an American believes he truly understands the Persian mind, he’s making colossal mistake. Work with them long enough, and one is certain to encounter behavior that, to our way of thinking, makes no sense whatsoever. Their logic is not our logic.

I’m not contending that any contest with Iran is doomed to fail. On the contrary, I succeeded. But I did so armed with the knowledge that my adversary came to the table with strengths I did not possess, and I knew to a certainty that predicting his behavior with absolute confidence was a fool’s errand.

There is a popular expression in American English that I believe exists in no other language: ‘What you see is what you get.’ In matters of business and diplomacy, Americans can be jarringly direct. We might be industrial and technology heavyweights, but, culturally, we are conspicuously uncomplicated. We are often regarded as clueless and insensitive. This is especially true for those monolingual Americans who are certain they are anything but, as if arriving with unearned confidence was the same as actual empathy and understanding.

Could we be otherwise? For well over a century, America was peopled by Europe’s trash can – those tired, poor, huddled and unwashed masses, yearning to breathe free. A disparate collection of nationalities, many illiterate in their native languages, came and plowed virgin land, filled factories, and stampeded to gold fields – realizing lifestyles that hardly lent themselves to genteel niceties.

Western civilization had a great start with Athens and Rome, but we suffered a five hundred year stutter-step with the Dark Ages. While our forebears were dressing in rags and living in filth, Persian society (like the rest of the Middle East) was building on and refining its social heritage. Farsi speakers (Iranians) employ a rigid language structure that goes way beyond formal and informal methods to articulate the pronoun ‘you’. Depending on the status dynamic in play, different verb forms are employed, honorific titles matter, and, when showing respect, they employ indirect forms of expression that, in America, would be crudely deemed comic parody. We, on the other hand, routinely initiate interactions in a commercial venue with “I want” or “give me,” never even considering it might be appropriate to acknowledge the other party’s humanity with a simple greeting.

We design airplanes and computers. Our scientists will cure cancer. Socially, however, we’re still lagging. Our children are oblivious (and getting worse) when it comes to showing respect for elders. We always excelled at vulgarity, which is weirdly gaining ground. That is not the way of the entire world.

 

All over the Middle East, the culture of the bazar is evident. In the lands of the Bible, theatrical haggling is more than an art. For the sons of Persia, it is life itself. When one negotiates with an Iranian, one is up against millennia of uninterrupted refined social evolution. Case in point: in 2023, the Biden administration worked out a prisoner release agreement, wherein the Iranians released five Americans who had been wrongfully arrested in Iran, and the US released five Iranian nationals imprisoned in the US – along with freeing up $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil revenue held in South Korean banks, as well as allowing another $10 billion to be paid to Iran by Iraq for electricity. Presumably, but not confirmed, Secretary of State Blinken was allowed to keep his underwear.

IRAN HAS NO INTENTION OF FULFILLING TRUMP’S PEACE DEMANDS

June 23, 2026

 

 
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22647/iran-not-fulfilling-trump-peace-demands

Iran, Like Hamas, Has No Intention of Fulfilling Trump’s Peace Demands

by Con Coughlin
June 23, 2026 

  • Iran’s “more rational” and “far less radicalized ” chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who signed the MOU electronically, afterwards appeared on television where he vowed to avenge the supreme leader’s death with the “liberation of Jerusalem.”
  • While the continued fighting between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon was given as one explanation for the cancellation, it is now clear that senior members of the Trump administration have raised serious concerns about whether Iran has any genuine interest in negotiating a final peace deal.
  • Concerns that the Iranian regime, in particular, is not serious about negotiating an end to its nuclear activities intensified following reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Trump and other senior officials, prior to the signing of the memorandum, that evidence gathered by US intelligence agencies raised serious doubts about Iran’s willingness to make the nuclear concessions the White House is seeking in any final deal.
  • As with Iran’s approach to peace negotiations with the Trump administration on its nuclear programme, Hamas is trying to give the impression in public that it is being cooperative while behind the scenes it is making no effort to comply with the disarmament demands.
  • Who is supposed to stop them after Trump is no longer president? The Gulf Arab states have become used to importing labor for jobs they prefer not to do; being shot at might be added to that list.
  • Whether the Trump administration can achieve what Trump would like remains to be seen…
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Hardly has the ink on the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding that US President Donald J. Trump signed with Tehran had a chance to dry than it has become abundantly clear that Iran has no serious intention of abiding by the agreement’s demands — namely abandoning its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and re-establishing freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

At a press briefing on June 16 at the G7 summit in Evian, France, Trump gave an upbeat assessment of the current Iranian regime’s willingness to negotiate, saying they “are very rational people,” in contrast with Iran’s rulers before the outbreak of the war, saying they were “totally irrational people and those people are now gone,” following February’s assassinations of many key regime figures, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ali Khamenei has subsequently been replaced by his son Mojtaba Khamenei, who was evidently wounded injured in the attack that killed his father, and has not been seen in public since replacing his father. Even so, Trump said on June 17 that he believed Iran’s newly-appointed Supreme Leader was “younger. I think more rational,” while praising the new regime, declaring:

“I think they’re very smart, I think they’re far less radicalized, I think they’re very good.”

Iran’s “more rational” and “far less radicalized ” chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who signed the MOU electronically, afterwards appeared on television where he vowed to avenge the supreme leader’s death with the “liberation of Jerusalem”:

“[J]ustice for our Imam lies in the liberation of Jerusalem. A hundred Netanyahus are not worth the shoelace of our leader. We must stand with this sense of honor, this perspective, and this ideal, and carry out this mission.”

Despite these positive remarks about Iran’s interlocutors, Trump also accepted that there were no guarantees that the Iranians would act in good faith during the negotiations that are due to take place while the new 60-day ceasefire is in place, when key issues such as the future of Iran’s nuclear programme and the future status of the Strait of Hormuz are supposed to be finalised.

The president insists that any backsliding on the part of Iran during the negotiations could result in the US resuming its military offensive against the mullahs.

“It’s a memorandum of understanding,” Trump said. “If it doesn’t get done in 60 days, that’s all right, we go back to bombing.”

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TRUMP’S IRAN DEAL

June 21, 2026

 

In my humble opinion, The leaders of the IRGC need to be eliminated  just as the US and Israel eliminated  the top  mullahs of Iran  . The people of Iran will then be able to take over the government.  As long as the IRGC stays in power, there will never be peace in the Middle East or the world.  Nancy

 

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  • Pierre Rehov: Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’
  • Amir Taheri: Iran: Did Trump Cave In?

Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’

by Pierre Rehov  •  June 21, 2026 at 5:00 am

  • The 14-point text is unambiguous on the point the White House is most eager to fog. It commits the United States, “with regional partners,” to develop a “plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran” — $3 billion of which has, according to the unsurpassed journalist, Lee Smith, already been sent to Iran through by way of the United Arab Emirates. The president has called reports of that figure “fake news” and insisted nobody is putting up “ten cents.” The clause nevertheless sits prominently in the document he signed.
  • Only one question really matters: what does the agreement, if honored by Iran, deliver? It leaves enriched uranium inside Iran, concedes a right to enrichment that was recently a red line, permits the Iranian ballistic-missile program Trump now defends supposedly because other countries have missiles too, and pours reconstruction money into an economy whose ruling institution is the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
  • An interim framework can easily be a device for extracting one concrete concession — opening the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz — while the other clauses quietly expire.
  • Trump has repeated that if the deal collapses he will return to force – but who will do that after he is no longer president?
  • Each Israeli reprisal can trigger an Iranian walkout, and each walkout hands Washington a legal pretext to resume the war it paused. If Trump, however, is reluctant to use force against Iran again now, why should anyone think that he would be more inclined to use it later?
  • Without a united opposition to inherit power and without an army to seize Tehran, talk of liberation is a consolation, not a strategy. The war degraded the regime; it did not remove it — and nothing in this agreement will. In fact, the MOU promises to enrich the IRGC again so that it can tighten its hold on the Iranian people even more viciously.
  • So the memorandum sits there, looking like the clumsiest concession an American administration has made to a sworn enemy in a generation…
  • The regime in Tehran, which has waited out many American presidents and means to wait out another, is betting they are bluffing about everything except the check.

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What does the agreement, if honored by Iran, deliver? It leaves enriched uranium inside Iran, concedes a right to enrichment that was recently a red line, permits the Iranian ballistic-missile program Trump now defends supposedly because other countries have missiles too, and pours reconstruction money into an economy whose ruling institution is the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Pictured: A Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

After a war launched in February to end the Iranian nuclear threat, the United States has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the lifting of its naval blockade, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, and an immense $300 billion reconstruction fund for the very regime the U.S. Air Force spent weeks degrading. The triumph turns out to be a recipe for everything Iran wanted and could not win on the battlefield.

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Iran: Did Trump Cave In?

by Amir Taheri  •  June 21, 2026 at 4:00 am

  • [Iran] continues to execute opponents, confiscate the assets of critics, organize mass arrests across the nation, and funnel funds to proxies in the region.
  • The only change that has happened is that in the past few days it has raised a claim to the exclusive ownership of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • The Majlis of which Ghalibaf is speaker has passed at least three laws forbidding any negotiations with the American “Great Satan”.
  • The Majlis also put a $50 million price on the US president’s head.
  • What we have so far is a 60-day extension of a shaky ceasefire with a list of desiderata to haggle over.
  • Will the projected 60-days of talks produce anything resembling peace and stability in the region as many pray for? The outright answer I could give is a firm no.
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UK RAPE GANG REPORT

June 19, 2026

 

 
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Immigration / June 19, 2026    By Emmy Griffin

The UK Rape Gang Report Exposes Betrayal and Cowardice

The permitted predation of Islamic rape gangs in the United Kingdom is utterly horrifying and worse than we were ever led to believe.

Natives of the United Kingdom have been utterly betrayed by their own government. Actually, betrayed isn’t a strong enough word. They were sold out by a treasonous government that allowed radical Islamic migrants to enter their territories to wage a covert war — at the cost of a quarter-million women and girls being raped, trafficked, and otherwise sexually enslaved. This has been going on unchecked for almost eight decades.

The official “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” from MP Rupert Lowe has been released, and the first thing that needs to be made clear is that 87% of the rape gangs comprised Muslim men and even women. One imam in Oxford believes the number is actually closer to 95%.

As the report states, “The overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds — predominantly of Pakistani heritage, although smaller groups from Somali, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved.”

These crimes were committed all over the UK. According to the report, “We found that the same unspeakable crimes occurred in at least 149 local authority districts — close to 40% of all such districts across the United Kingdom.” Can you imagine if 40% of the U.S. were taken over by Islamic rape gangs that tortured women and children? I don’t think Americans would wait for the long arm of justice. Their Second Amendment rights would be exercised.

These gangs have been effectively operating with impunity in the UK since 1955, and each step of the way, the socialist Labour Party has been complicit, as these gangs operated in Labour districts. However, the UK’s National Health Service is also complicit; there are countless stories from survivors about how they were raped, went to the hospital for care, and no one questioned how they got their injuries. Hospital staff essentially stitched them up and sent them right back into the arms of their abusers.

Those who did speak up — medical workers, social workers, etc. — faced consequences socially, lost jobs, and even got threatened with property seizure. According to the report:

Social care professionals, campaigners, and public activists who raised evidence of still ongoing grooming, trafficking, financial abuse of children in care, and institutional cover-ups faced suspension, defamation proceedings, dawn raids, asset freezes, fabricated charges, gagging bail conditions, and career-ending isolation.

Authorities assured them that full investigations had taken place when none had occurred, and records were destroyed. Senior officers and elected members acknowledged concerns as credible yet took no remedial action. The state did not merely ignore whistleblowers; it punished them to protect the gangs and its own reputation.

The Tory and Scottish parties weren’t off the hook, either. Even when the Tories were in power, they did nothing to stem the flow of immigration or push to investigate the rape crimes. They upheld the status quo set forth by the Labour Party. The entire UK government stood by out of cowardice and a lack of political will.

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IF YOU LIKE THIS IRAN WAR, WAIT TILL THE NEXT ONE = SAM FADDIS

June 18, 2026
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