Showing posts with label Mid-East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mid-East. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Big Day for World Peace

'A big day!' Trump makes bold prediction after Iran ceasefire agreement

'Iran wants it to happen, they've had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said in the wake of his ceasefire agreement with Iran, there could be a "Golden Age of the Middle East."

"A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they've had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!" Trump exclaimed on Truth Social.

"The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process.

"We'll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just 'hangin' around' in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!"

The president added: "The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear 'Dust.'

Read more at WND

Friday, March 20, 2026

Marines being sent to Mid-East

Pentagon Deploying a 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East

In the past week, U.S. officials have confirmed two separate amphibious ready groups have been dispatched to the region amid ongoing fighting with Iran.

An additional force of U.S. warships and an attached Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) is set to deploy to the Middle East amid ongoing combat operations against Iran, The Epoch Times has learned.

The USS Boxer amphibious ready group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), currently based out of San Diego, California, are set to sail across the Indo-Pacific region to reach the waters of the Middle East, according to a U.S. military source familiar with the matter.

A combined ARG and MEU can consist of around 5,000 sailors and Marines. These additional troops would join around 50,000 U.S. troops already deployed to the Middle East as joint U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran continue.

Thus far, no U.S. ground troops have entered combat with Iranian forces.

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Monday, March 16, 2026

Stop attacking your neighbors, says Hamas

Even terrorists in Hamas think Iran's attacks on neighbors go too far

Islamic regime has unleashed missiles at Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

The radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas urged Iran to stop attacking its neighbor in the Persian Gulf in a Saturday statement.

Iran responded to the U.S. military's Operation Epic Fury by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones at targets in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

The seemingly indiscriminate retaliation prompted the terrorist group, which has been backed by the Iranian regime, to express "deep concern" about the conflict in its first such appeal to the regime.

it calls on its brothers in Iran not to target neighboring countries. It also calls on all countries in the region to cooperate to stop this aggression and preserve the bonds of brotherhood among them."

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Arab world unification against Iran

Operation Epic Fury Triggered Something Iran Never Saw Coming

Iran dragged 7 Arab countries into a war against them

Iran spent 40 years telling its Arab neighbors it was their friend.

Then it fired 700 drones at Dubai's Palm Island.

Now seven Arab nations just signed a joint statement calling Iran "indiscriminate and reckless" – and the Middle East map just changed forever. Iran Struck Dubai and Saudi Arabia While Claiming to Target US Bases.

Here is what Tehran did not want you to know: Iran didn't just shoot at American bases.

The Islamic Republic launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones directly at civilian targets in countries that had nothing to do with Operation Epic Fury.

Footage showed an Iranian drone slamming into an apartment tower near Bahrain's capital. The Burj Al Arab caught fire. People fled smoke-filled passageways at Dubai International Airport.

The UAE alone detected 689 Iranian drones. Forty-four got through.

Within 36 hours of Iran's retaliatory strikes, every single GCC member state had been hit. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called his counterparts across the Gulf and pledged "all capabilities" to their defense.

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State Department orders American citizens to depart the Mid-East

US urges citizens to immediately depart over a dozen Middle Eastern countries

The U.S. Department of State on Monday called on Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, amid U.S-Israeli strikes against Iran.

Mora Namdar, the State Department's assistant secretary for consular affairs, said U.S. citizens should leave using available commercial transportation "due to safety risks."

The warning came after the department, in recent days, updated its travel advisories for several countries in the region to recommend against travel.

Monday's advisory applies to Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.The U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, announced earlier on Monday that its personnel had departed the site "due to a threat."

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Iran Negotiations proceeding

President Donald Trump is considering deploying a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East

as negotiations with Iran resume, signaling that military force remains firmly on the table if diplomacy fails

In an interview on Tuesday, Trump told Axios that the potential deployment would be part of a broader effort to pressure Tehran as talks restart following last year's brief but intense conflict.

"Either we will make a deal or we will have to do something very tough like last time," Trump told Axios.

The U.S. and Iran resumed negotiations last Friday in Oman — their first talks since the 12-day war in June — even as the Trump administration continued a significant military buildup in the region. Trump said he expects a second round of talks to take place next week.

Despite the military posture, Trump expressed confidence that diplomacy could succeed, saying Iran "wants to make a deal very badly" and is approaching talks more seriously due to U.S. pressure.

"Last time they didn't believe I would do it," Trump said, referring to U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in June. "They overplayed their hand." "This time the talks are very different," he added.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Kushner and Witkoff ended the "Word Games" for Peace

Jared Kushner Reveals How 'Stupid Word Games' Impacted Middle East Negotiations

Jared Kushner opened up about his role in brokering the recent Gaza ceasefire during an in-depth interview on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, describing years of failed diplomacy in the region as “stupid word games.”

Appearing alongside U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Kushner detailed how the pair helped mediate the deal between Israel and Hamas following their two-year conflict. Host Lesley Stahl said the two men relied less on traditional diplomatic tools and more on “the intensely personal techniques of real estate dealmakers,” including “dangling presidential promises, protections or punishments.”

Kushner told Stahl that, at its core, the negotiation was not complicated. “We wanted the hostages to come out. We wanted a real ceasefire that both sides would respect. We needed a way to bring humanitarian aid into the people,” he said. “And then we had to write all these complex words to deal with the 50 years of stupid word games that everyone in that region is so used to playing.”

He said both sides ultimately wanted the same outcome — peace — but needed help navigating the political language that had bogged down prior negotiations.

Stahl pressed Kushner and Witkoff about their extensive business ties to Middle Eastern countries and whether that presented conflicts of interest...typical of her. Kushner dismissed the criticism. “What people call conflicts of interest, Steve and I call experience and trusted relationships,” he said. “If Steve and I didn’t have these deep relationships, the deal we were able to get done — that freed these hostages — would not have occurred.”

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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Hegseth preparing for Escalation in Mid-East

Hegseth makes moves in Middle East as Israel-Iran conflict rages

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized military dependents to evacuate the Middle East, as tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran raise concerns of a wider war in the region.

As reported by Fox News Digital, the order impacts the U.S. Central Command, which includes bases in countries like Iraq, Syria, and Bahrain.

"The safety and security of our service members and their families remains our highest priority and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is monitoring the developing tension in the Middle East. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents from locations across the CENTCOM AOR," a defense official said.

As tensions continue to mount, Hegseth announced he is deploying additional U.S. forces to strengthen America's "defensive posture," a sign that the White House is preparing for the conflict to escalate.

“Protecting US forces is our top priority and these deployments are intended to enhance our defensive posture in the region,” Hegseth wrote on X.

The newly deployed forces include an aircraft carrier and several refueling aircraft, Reuters reported.

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Monday, May 19, 2025

President Trump's Mid-East trip

How Trump stunned the world as he flipped America's Middle East policy on its head

Moments after President Donald Trump was escorted to Air Force One by United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president popped his head into the press cabin.

He had just walked up to the plane on a baby blue red carpet - a final pop of pomp after his showy nearly four-day sweep through the Middle East.

The 78-year-old president visited a trio of countries in just three and a half days, with a schedule that stretched late into the evening with opulent state dinners every night.

He had referred to the whirlwind trip as an 'endurance test' and repeated that sentiment to the press.

'You have great stamina, also. We all have stamina. You needed it. That was a test. I think they were giving us a test,' Trump said with a laugh, commending his hosts in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

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Qatar has been an enemy of this country for years. How can American universities allow their faculty to justify terrorism? Because many of them are funded – bought – by Qatar, a country with a vested interest in spreading extremist ideology.

I don' trust Steve Witkoff's opinion on Qatar or President Trump's. They both have been manipulated by Qatar, in my opinion. Time will tell.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump’s Ambitious Middle East Vision | Explained

"It’s a new type of approach--that if everybody will just calm down, there’s a great opportunity to make money and be profitable. And that would include the disarmament, nuclearly, of Iran and the inclusion of Israel in the body politic."

Friday, May 16, 2025

Trump's Art of the Arabian Gulf 😄

The Art Of The Gulf: Trump’s Tactical Feint In Middle East Diplomacy

During his May 2025 trip to the Middle East, Trump weighed a symbolic but potent gesture: announcing that the US would henceforth refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf.

This would have aligned with the naming conventions of America’s Gulf Arab allies, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, who have for decades referred to the waterway as Al-KhalÄ«j al-Ê¿ArabÄ«.

The gesture, while semantically superficial for most Americans, would have carried outsized weight in Arab capitals. It would have signaled alignment with Arab narratives of regional primacy and further isolated Iran at a moment of strategic recalibration.

Iran, however, was quick to object. Tehran considers the term “Persian Gulf” not merely a geographical label but a symbol of national identity and civilizational pride. Iranian officials have gone so far as to call alternative names “illegitimate and void,” and have launched international protests over perceived slights, as in the infamous 2010 cancellation of the Islamic Solidarity Games.

By signaling willingness to side with Arab nomenclature, Trump put Iran on the defensive, creating precisely the sort of diplomatic dilemma he could later exploit.

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Monday, October 14, 2024

Sting operation catches U.S. Army Traitor

U.S. Army Member Receives 14-Year Sentence for Assisting ISIS

A U.S. soldier, Cole Bridges, has been condemned to a lengthy prison term for his attempts to aid ISIS.

According to The Hill, Cole Bridges was sentenced to 14 years for planning attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East.

In 2019, shortly after joining the U.S. Army, Bridges, also known by the pseudonym Cole Gonzales, fell under the sway of jihadist propaganda.

His radicalization deepened over time, largely consuming digital content that influenced his subsequent actions against the Army he served.

Read about everything this traitor did

14 years is not long enough!

Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Biden-Harris-Walz mess

Biden/Harris--try a little honesty about Israel

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend.

A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] should remember that.”

Yet the thin-skinned and triggered Biden’s prickliness poorly hid—or perhaps revealed—the truth: This current administration knows that it is responsible for the current explosion of the Middle East and the particular dilemmas of Israel.

Biden further revealed his blame-gaming of the Israeli government when asked another loaded question about purported Netanyahu election interference, saying, “Whether he’s trying to influence the election, I don’t know.”

Election interference?

Biden apparently forgot who just flew Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into swing-state Pennsylvania, just as early and mail-in voting there began, to lobby for more aid even as he trashed candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance to a left-wing magazine.

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

U.S. sending more troops to Mid-East

US Strikes Iran-Backed Houthis In Yemen, Adds Forces To Region

ANALYSIS – Are we getting closer to war with Iran? Even as Biden-Harris claim to want to avoid a wider war in the region, and Israel and Iran launch major strikes against each other, the U.S. military on Friday struck over a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen using both aircraft and warships.

While some local media sources claimed the UK participated in the strikes, a British government source said the UK was not involved. Strikes also reportedly targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province.

Since last November, the Houthis have targeted over 100 ships, sunk two and hijacked another. The group says it is launching the attacks to protest Israel’s war in Gaza, but U.S. officials say many of the ships targeted have no connection to Israel’s war.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

We're at War

USS Bulkeley

US Navy Destroyers Thwart Iranian Missile Threat To Israel

Dramatic scenes unfold as American warships engage in a high-stakes defensive operation.

As reported by Newsweek, the United States Navy has released video footage showcasing its destroyers intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles in defense of Israel.

The interception took place in the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.

The operation involved two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the USS Bulkeley and USS Cole, which fired a total of twelve interceptors to counter the incoming Iranian missiles. This defensive action was part of a broader response to a barrage of approximately 200 ballistic missiles launched by Iran, targeting various locations in Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that the combined air defense systems of Israel and the United States successfully engaged 180 ballistic missiles fired from Iran. While acknowledging that some missiles did reach Israeli air bases, the IDF emphasized that the impacts were ineffective, resulting in no damage to Israeli air force aircraft.

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

We are at War and no one is talking about it

US Personnel Wounded in Attack Against Base in Iraq

Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said Monday, in what has been a recent uptick in strikes on American forces by Iranian-backed militias.

The attack comes as tensions across the Middle East are spiking following the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran, in suspected Israeli strikes. Both groups are backed by Iran.

The U.S. defense officials said troops at al-Asad air base were still assessing the injuries and damage. Earlier Monday, Iraqi security officials confirmed the attack, but no group has claimed responsibility.

The attack comes amid extremely high tensions in the Middle East, as the US has been bracing for Iranian retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week.

Israel has not commented on the killing of Haniyeh. Hezbollah in Lebanon has also vowed retaliation on Israel after the assassination of one of its top commanders in Beirut less than a day before Haniyeh’s killing.

It also comes just days after Austin ordered additional military assets to the region, sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East.

US officials have long blamed attacks on troops in Iraq and Syria on Iran-backed militia groups.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Destruction of America

Biden’s $500 Million Bet Against American Energy

Joe Biden is a criminal!

The Biden Administration announced that it is approving $500 million in financing for oil development in the Middle East. The funding will be directed primarily to Bahrain and comes as the U.S. braces for a new oil shortage by the end of next year.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank will be the vehicle for the payments designed to increase foreign oil and gas production. The payment will be five times the amount initially authorized by Congress and is the latest episode in Biden’s mission to destroy domestic energy production.

This funding follows the administration’s pattern of imposing stringent restrictions on domestic oil and gas production. The measures include the most restrictive offshore oil and gas leasing schedule in U.S. history and the cancellation of seven oil and gas leases in Alaska.

Additionally, the Biden Administration has attempted to remove millions of acres of federal lands from potential oil and gas development. This move contrasts sharply with the increase in U.S. oil production toward the end of 2023, primarily due to state and private land activities.

Biden, in three long years, has totally destroyed the United States economy...on purpose.

When is the next revolution?

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Never underestimate the enemy. Especially one backed directly by Iran

Admiral Downplayed Threat, But Houthis Severed Undersea Cables

By Paul Crespo, February 27, 2024

"ANALYSIS – I was surprised when in mid-February the commander of the Office of U.S. Naval Intelligence (ONI), Rear Adm. Michael Brookes, publicly downplayed the threat that Iranian-sponsored Houthi rebels in Yemen might slice a web of undersea communications cables in the region, saying it was unrealistic.

This, after the Iran-backed terror group, and its ally, Hezbollah, had posted veiled threats to do so on social media in December, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.

The threatening posts featured maps of the Red Sea area, including the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, where fiber-optic cables run, jeopardizing communications and financial data between Europe and Asia.

And now, these terrorists have done just that. This, despite, or maybe enabled by, Joe Biden's limp-wristed military response to their constant attacks in the region."

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Biden launching war all on his own!

Joe Biden just shredded the Constitution by giving the military this one illegal order

Committed to his complete disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, Joe Biden just gave the military this one illegal order that has left Republicans sick to their stomachs.

President Biden has already illegally launched a war by ordering bombing campaigns against Syria and Iraq.

The move comes in response to 3 brave American soldiers losing their lives to a drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.

Biden spent the last week warning the terrorists who led the attack about exactly how he would respond, so when the strikes took place, they were hardly effective.

Biden just initiated a new front in a Middle Eastern war without requesting authorization from Congress, as the Constitution requires.

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And he calls Trump a dictator! LOL 😉