IRAN AND US-ISRAELI WAR

Let’s be clear: the reason Trump has dragged this nation into war with Iran, against the will of the American people, is to distract from accusations that he raped a 13-year-old child.

That victim’s story appears in the Epstein files. Reporters from The Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, decided to investigate—and today, they published their findings: elements of the victims story do, in fact check out. Here is their reporting:

A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.

Her alleged encounter with Trump sometime around 1984 remains unproven, and the White House March 7 said there is “zero credible evidence” that the woman’s account is true.

Using archived government records and news accounts, The Post and Courier found that the woman provided verifiable details to agents about her family background and its legal entanglements. She offered the name of an Epstein business associate on Hilton Head Island who became a central figure in the drama, with specifics that are reflected in public records.

The accounts describe an early phase in the mid-1980s of potential criminal conduct by Epstein that involved sexual activities with minors on Hilton Head. The alleged victim told the FBI she was under constant pressure from him to recruit more girls there to “come party” with him and his “disgusting” older friends. The incidents almost always involved drugs and alcohol and turned violent with hair-pulling and beatings, according to the woman.

Epstein went on to command a global sex trafficking ring that roped in hundreds of woman, including many teenagers. He faced federal charges of sexually trafficking minors when he died in his federal prison cell in 2019.

In her account about Trump, she claimed that he forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984. But she provided foggy details to FBI agents, including that the alleged encounter with Trump happened when she traveled north to New York or New Jersey with Epstein, who was a fixture in elite society then. Decades before he sought the presidency, Trump had already become a prominent presence in the New York business and social scenes.

A friend of hers also reported the allegations about Trump to the FBI in 2019. The bureau cited her allegations in an email circulated within the agency and recently made public by the Justice Department. She asked that her friend be protected.

Of the details that The Post and Courier found supported by public records, none related directly to the alleged victim’s claims about Trump.

The Post and Courier is not identifying the woman in keeping with its policy on sexual assault victims. The woman did not respond to messages seeking an interview, and her attorney, Lisa Bloom, a leading sexual assault lawyer, declined comment.

To identify key players in the woman’s account and attempt to evaluate her claims, the newspaper scoured court records, police reports and old newspaper clippings in multiple states. It also deployed a reporter to the West Coast to retrace her steps in a journey that began on a tony resort island along the South Carolina coast.

The alleged victim claimed that Epstein had business contacts in Hilton Head and lived temporarily on the island in two residences. One associate, she said, was a businessman in Ohio who took over a small real estate company on Hilton Head that hired her mother as a broker in the mid-1980s. The associate, who commuted to the island from the Cincinnati area, dated her mother as well, she said.

Records show the woman’s mother bought property in Hilton Head in 1981 for $55,000. At one point, her address was steps from Coligny Beach, now the most popular oceanfront for visitors to the island beaches. She moved often, records show.

In local classified advertisements, the company that employed her mother marketed long-term rentals of homes and villas. It offered an array of lodging, from a seaside cabin to a fully furnished locale at the Four Seasons Resort, with access to a jacuzzi, tennis and handball courts.

Her mom rented one home to financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to the alleged victim. She told federal agents that her mother advertised in a flyer that she, then 13, could provide babysitting services. Epstein, the woman said, summoned her to the house where he began his pattern of abuse.

The Ohio associate who hired her mother also had sex with the teen several times and physically abused her, she told agents. She described him as a man with grey hair and “big ears.” She told agents she believed he was affiliated with a Cincinnati-based college. The Post and Courier confirmed that he was a board member of the for-profit school.

Local newspaper accounts from that time described problems with drug use among the young who were hanging out on Hilton Head’s beaches. The alleged victim said Epstein, who provided marijuana, cocaine and pills to her and others, brought “fat” older men to a pool gathering at a resort hotel.

She only recalled encountering Epstein once in a non-sexual situation, telling agents she bumped into him at a Rick James concert in Savannah, Ga., when she was around age 15. She said he got her drunk. Newspaper records show the “Super Freak” musician performed regularly in the Savannah area at the time.

At one point, her mother became aware that Epstein had nude photos of the teen from their sexual encounters and was demanding money to keep them hidden, the woman told the FBI. The victim said she had seen the photographs in his bedstand, leading to a violent encounter when he discovered her snooping.

She said his extortion demand caused her mother to steal funds from her real estate company.

Epstein had departed investment and trading company Bear Stearns in 1981 after an internal investigation of his trading practices. Around the time of the allegations, he was operating a company he founded in New York. Epstein worked as a troubleshooter for wealthy clients, advising them on issues like corporate embezzlement and offering investment strategies.

The alleged victim said her mother’s boss — the Epstein associate from Ohio — and his company accountant helped the mother fix the books so she could pay off Epstein. The alleged victim told agents that the episode was so stressful her mother began drinking again. Her mother later went to prison near Columbia, the woman told agents.

Records confirm that her mother was implicated in such a crime around this time.

In October 1985, the S.C. Real Estate Commission froze her business escrow account and temporarily suspended her license, according to a local newspaper accounts.

A commission spokesperson, responding to a Post and Courier request, said the records were not immediately available. But other documents show the mother’s boss at the real estate firm sought criminal charges against the mother the following year. She was accused of stealing $22,000 from the escrow account, records show.

Months later, she was charged with six counts of forgery for writing bad checks, a crime she had been accused of in the past as well. Signing off on the charges was then-Solicitor Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh Jr., the grandfather of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh.

Lawyers who represented the mother either declined to comment or did not recall the case. A deputy who transported her from Sumter to Beaufort County after her arrest told The Post and Courier he did not remember picking her up.

The mother ultimately pleaded guilty to all charges, was sentenced to probation and ordered to make monthly $150 restitution payments until she paid off the debt.

She failed to make those payments, and the daughter told the FBI she tracked down her mother’s old boss to ask him for help. She said the Epstein associate coldly told her not to call again and he did not care if she “ended up in the gutter.”

In 1990, a court in Charleston found that the mother violated parole by traveling abroad without permission and by failing to meet the payment schedule.

The alleged victim told the FBI her mother was sent to a state prison near Columbia. State officials confirmed details of the mother’s incarceration.

By that time the daughter was 17 or 18 years old and had moved to Summerville. She left Hilton Head High School before graduating. Records confirm that she attended the school, and it appeared that FBI agents had obtained a copy of its yearbook, “The Halcyon.”

The mother and her daughter remained physically close over the years, living near one another at various times.

Records show that her mother was accused by a Charleston woman of breaking and entering her home in 1996, and sued for eviction by a landlord in Washington state in 1998. She and her daughter eventually both ended up out west. And there, the daughter would level the accusations that have now placed her at center stage in the Epstein saga.

Years after the events on Hilton Head, the woman said both she and her mother felt that Epstein was tracking their movements. Both faced suspicious calls and frightening incidents.

In addition to detailing her abuse at Epstein’s hands, the woman offered vague details across three interviews about her encounter with Trump. She said the incident occurred when he was a leading developer with a new casino in Atlantic City. She said she was led to Trump in a “very tall building with huge rooms.” The future president instructed others to leave the room, she said, and allegedly told her, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.”

She said he unzipped his pants and forced her to perform a sex act. The alleged victim told the FBI she “bit the (expletive) out of it,” causing Trump to slap her across the face and curse at her.

It is unclear from the interview records how long she stayed in the New York area, but she had family connections in the state.

In her talks with the FBI, the woman also detailed calls to her mother at an assisted living facility on the West Coast, where both of them had settled. The Post and Courier verified that the mother used a private nursing care home as an address in her declining years. A death record matches the mother’s age and name, but Washington state does not publicly release other identifying details.

It is common for sexual trauma victims to have trouble recollecting specifics of abusive incidents, according to experts. The FBI recognized this during its decades-long Epstein investigation and provided free counseling services to victims.

One agent involved in the woman’s interviews with the FBI was a psychologist, trained in victim trauma. Critical elements of the woman’s story are difficult to verify without the ability to call witnesses, conduct sworn interviews and subpoena financial records. It is unclear whether the FBI attempted such an investigation.

The woman repeatedly told FBI agents she believed it served no purpose to tell her story because the events occurred so long ago. Trump had also been elected president in 2016. She informed agents in August, 2019 that she wanted them to know she had sued Epstein’s estate, in case it posed a conflict with their investigation.

In a statement to The Post and Courier, Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations “baseless accusations from decades ago’’ that “are backed by zero evidence or facts.” She described the alleged victim as "a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history."

After her time with Epstein, the alleged victim accumulated a record of criminal charges, drug dependency and domestic turmoil. She had a daughter and was prosecuted for filing false claims for food stamp applications. The alleged victim avoided prison by completing a drug diversion program.

The alleged victim had a turbulent domestic life, with three marriages including one that lasted only a few weeks. Her mother shows up in court records as a witness in a violent domestic incident between her daughter and her first husband, who declined to speak when a reporter approached him at his door.

The alleged victim eventually returned to the East Coast and lived with relatives in Georgia, developing a romantic relationship with a terminally-ill man who was saving money for his funeral.

She stole an envelope filled with cash from him and spent a year in the county jail for it. Her public defender told The Post and Courier that she described her life to him as having been permanently scarred by her experience with Epstein.

IRAN AND US-ISRAELI WAR

What’s happening right now in Iran is not Israel’s war. It’s not a Jewish vendetta, it’s not a Middle East skirmish that has nothing to do with the rest of us, and contrary to Tucker Carlson, it has nothing to do with Chabad. You need to know what’s actually going on.

Washington severed diplomatic ties with Iran under the Carter administration after Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. That was 1979. 

Since then, EVERY administration, Carter, Reagan, Bush (senior), Clinton, Bush (junior), Obama, Biden, and Trump, has said that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. The White House recently documented 74 separate instances of Trump making that case, calling it “longstanding, bipartisan American policy.” This isn’t a new position. It isn’t a right-wing position. It’s what every administration has believed for half a century.

So why did it take until now? Because Iran kept moving the goalposts, and the world kept letting them.

By May 2025, the IAEA reported that Iran’s cache of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium had surged by roughly 50 percent in just three months, putting Tehran one step away from having enough material for ten nuclear weapons. 

That’s not some little vague threat. That’s a countdown.

The head of U.S. Central Command testified that if Iran decided to sprint toward a nuclear weapon, it could produce enough weapons-grade material for a simple device in one week, and enough for ten weapons in three weeks. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it plainly: “They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons.” When you’ve built the engine, loaded the fuel, and pointed the car at the wall, it doesn’t matter much whether you’ve pressed the gas yet.

Iran spent years insisting its program was civilian. All the while, it was moving toward weapons capability. According to reporting sourced by the Institute for International Political Studies, Khamenei had authorized development of miniaturized nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles as recently as October 2025.

Now let’s talk about China, because this piece of the picture is critical.

China is not a bystander in this story. Iran is central to Beijing’s entire overland trade and energy strategy. Iran sits at the heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the infrastructure network connecting East Asia to Europe through land-based transport and Persian Gulf energy routes. Without stable access through Iranian territory, Beijing’s supply chains have no viable alternative. Iran exported more than 520 million barrels of crude oil to China in 2025 alone. Only Saudi Arabia supplied more. China buys over 80 percent of Iran’s oil. This isn’t ideological solidarity. It’s a dependency that neither side wants disrupted.

Which brings us to the Strait of Hormuz.

Roughly 13 million barrels of oil per day moved through the Strait in 2025, about 31 percent of all seaborne crude in the world. 

About 45 percent of China’s oil imports pass through it. Iran has threatened to close it. And here’s what that threat actually produced: China is now in direct talks with Iran, pressing Tehran to allow crude oil and LNG vessels safe passage and to hold off on targeting tankers or key export hubs. When Beijing’s energy supply is on the line, the anti-American posturing has real limits.

Here’s what this all adds up to.

The United States didn’t stumble into this war because Israel asked nicely. It acted on a threat that five decades of American presidents acknowledged and mostly kicked down the road.

Iran was weeks away, not years, from having the material needed for nuclear weapons. It had long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases and allies throughout the region. It had a weapons development program it had been lying about for years.

Calling this Israel’s war ignores fifty years of American policy, multiple rounds of failed diplomacy, and a nuclear program that was running out of road.

The world needed someone to act. The better question isn’t why it happened. It’s why it took this long.

I AM THE GOD OF THE WORLD

As the Iranians get closer to naming their next supreme leader, President Donald Trump said Sunday the new leader "is not going to last long" if the Iranians don't get his approval first.

"He’s going to have to get approval from us," the president told ABC News. "If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it."

He added, "I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again or worse let them have a nuclear weapon."

When asked if he would be willing to approve someone with ties to the old regime, Trump replied, "I would, in order to choose a good leader I would, yeah, I would. There are numerous people that could qualify."

Seeming to offer yet another justification for this war, Trump said Iran was planning to take over the entire Middle East, and suggested he stopped them from doing so.

"They are a paper tiger. They weren’t a paper tiger a week ago, I’ll tell you. And they were going to attack," he said. "Their plan was to attack the entire Middle East, to take over the entire Middle East."

He also hasn't ruled out sending in special forces to seize Iran's enriched uranium: "Everything is on the table. Everything."

A senior administration official told reporters last week that Iran has enriched enough uranium to get to weapons grade material in 10 days or less.

Much of the uranium is believed to be held at the sites bombed during Operation Midnight Hammer -- Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow -- according to the official.

"In theory, if we had physical control of that territory, if we had physical control of those places where it's located, we could send our people in and dilute it on premise," the official said.

Over the weekend, Trump met with the families of the six U.S. fallen soldiers.

"No, not at all," he said. "The parents would be upset if I did that. The parents said to me, every one of them, please sir, win this for my boy, and in one case a young woman, as you know. Please, win this for my child."

He added, "It was a beautiful event. It was a beautiful, beautiful event, where I met the parents. They were devastated but proud."

Trump said he wouldn’t predict how long the war would last when pressed on a timeline.

"I don’t know. I never predict. All I can say is we are ahead of schedule both in terms of lethality and in terms of time," he said.

Last week, the president told reporters this war would last just four to five weeks.

In the interview, the president also dismissed rising gasoline prices as a "little glitch."

"I think it’s fine. It’s a little glitch. We had to take this detour," he said. "I knew exactly what was going to happen with the detour. But the nice part is we sank 44 of their ships which is their entire navy. We’ve knocked out their entire AirForce. We’ve knocked out all of their communications, telecommunications. Their anti-aircraft systems are gone. They have absolutely no defense. All they have is talk."

Some of the president's longtime supporters have raised questions about this operation, but Trump denied there's been any pushback from his base.

"It’s more popular than ever. It’s a very MAGA thing what we’re doing. A very very MAGA thing," he said. "Because otherwise we won’t have a country either, we’ll be hit. And MAGA is all about saving America … I’m at the highest point I’ve ever been with MAGA."

FESTUS KEYAMO IS NOW THE MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

Earlier today, I was at the State House, Aso Rock, Abuja, where I was part of an 11-member committee inaugurated to ensure the smooth sailing incorporation of the Grid Asset Management Company Limited (GAMCO) which was proposed by Mr. President and approved last Wednesday at the Federal Executive Council. 

President Tinubu hopes to fast-track a quick-fix solution to the endemic problems of stranded power, grid management and transmission in the country’s electricity sector by this new initiative. 

The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, who performed the inauguration on behalf of the President, said the committee was critical to the realisation of President Tinubu’s aspirations in Nigeria’s power sector.

The Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of existing laws, regulations, policies, and institutional frameworks governing the electricity value chain, including generation, transmission, distribution, and market operations.

It will examine the implications of the Electricity Reform Laws (2025) and related unbundling arrangements on asset ownership, management, and regulatory oversight. It will identify areas of conflict, overlap, or inconsistency between the proposed GAMCO framework and extant legal and regulatory instruments.

BY FESTUS KEYAMO.

Should a country that depends on tourism ban an entire nation's passport holders on principle?

The Maldives officially banned Israeli passport holders from entering the country after President Mohamed Muizzu ratified an amendment to the nation's immigration law. The parliament passed the measure unanimously, citing what the government called "continuing atrocities and ongoing acts of genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people." Israel has denied all genocide allegations.

The ban was years in the making. The Maldives first suspended diplomatic relations with Israel in 1974, and in 2014 announced a boycott of Israeli products during a previous Israeli military operation in Gaza. In 2023, more than 11,000 Israelis visited the Maldives, but arrivals dropped 88% in early 2024 as public pressure grew. Tourism accounts for roughly 21% of the country's GDP, making the move economically significant for a nation of just over 500,000 people.

Israel's Foreign Ministry responded by advising its citizens to leave the Maldives and avoid future travel there.

EXAMINING THE WAR IN THE MIDDLEEAST

This war is a tragedy for the people of Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and USA.  Here is what Israeli journalist and peace activist Alon Mizrahi wrote today (via Tim Boivin): “We are witnessing history. Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, fucking up US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isn’t ready to see it.

In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world. American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. We’re talking a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke. 

We are seeing radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece being destroyed in an instant. We are seeing entire military bases being abandoned and burned, decimated and destroyed. And I’m telling you from my knowledge, the US has never suffered such devastation in its entire history, except maybe Pearl Harbor but that was one attack. 

No enemy in a normal war has done to the US military what the Iranians are doing to the US military right now. This defies belief. The military situation is so bad that censorship blocks practically every piece of new information about this war. If you’ve noticed we’re being exposed to less and less every day. 

Thirty-five years ago during the first Iraq war, we were being shown endless footage from Iraq. The smart bombs and the cameras were a novelty back then, but every night we were being shown night footage. Now we are seeing almost no video. 

Understand this! This is supposedly the worlds biggest military power having the worlds biggest air capabilities and for 4 days when the US is on the offensive, supposedly and is supposed to be breaking through Iranian defenses we are seeing NO signs of American domination over Iranian skies. Where is all the footage of our planes flying over Tehran or any part of Iran for that matter? 

American soldiers can not even dream of setting foot in Iran. And to understand how desperate this war is, that on the 4th day you’re already hearing the craziest suggestions and ideas from the Trump administration. They are suggesting to send military escorts for oil carrying vessels coming out of the Persian gulf. What are you even talking about?! You want to send American ships into the range of thousands of Iranian missiles? NO ONE can pass through the strait of Hormuz right now. 

The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting this idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the FUCK are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran?! It seems like the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how massive it is? What do you mean invade Iran?! You think a 10,000 man militia can invade Iran?! Or even 50,000?! Or 100,000?! Iran will swallow them. 

The US and Israel have already lost this war. The US and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have huge bombs and can explode buildings, but they will not win this war. Iranians military infrastructure and weaponry is so far underground ALL OVER IRAN. There is no way for the Americans and definitely not the Israelis to reach any of it. They are FUCKED. 

They have started something they have no chance of bringing to an end. When this is over the US will never come back to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.” 

-Alon Mizrahi, Israeli journalist and peace activist.

TRUMP ABANDONS ISRAEL AS TEL AVIV SMOKES: THE BETRAYAL IS REAL

The current spectacle is that of a mirror-image betrayal. Netanyahu, the architect of chaos, is choking today in the smoke of his own bets. His panic—this almost pathetic request for 'clarification' addressed to the White House — betrays a naked truth: he has lost control of the blaze.

The Likud's arrogance has been shattered against the ballistic reality of 2026. Tel Aviv under the rubble and Haifa in flames are not incidents of course, but the death certificate of the 'total victory' strategy. Netanyahu knows that if the Iranian missiles have penetrated the Dome, his only political survival now depends on an escalation that Washington is perhaps no longer ready to finance.

Behind Pete Hegseth’s martial bravado, the White House tenant is beginning to see his own end in the reflection of burning oil wells. Trump is not an ideologue, he is a pragmatic narcissist. He knows that a second term bogged down in a global recession and stratospheric pump prices would ruin him.

The secret channels via Oman are not rumors, they are lifebuoys. Trump is looking for a way out to save his balance sheet, even if it means leaving Netanyahu alone in the face of the ruins of his hubris. The 'vassal' is beginning to realize that his supremacy is more afraid of financial markets than of Jerusalem’s anger.

Netanyahu does not fear war; he fears the peace that is being negotiated without him, because it will be the prologue of his own trial.

KIM JONG UN

Kim Jong Un, is the leader of North Korea. He has been in power for 14 years, having taken over in 2011, after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il.

North Korea is one of nine countries that are known to have nuclear weapons. These countries are:

▪️ United States

▪️ Russia

▪️ China

▪️ France

▪️ United Kingdom

▪️ India

▪️ Pakistan

▪️ Israel (though Israel doesn't confirm or deny)

▪️ North Kore

I have noticed that sometimes people do not know the difference between North Korea and South Korea, so let me give you a very brief summary.

THE BACKGROUND!

For many centuries, Korea was one united kingdom ruled by different dynasties. At this point there was no North or South Korea.

In 1910, Japan took control of Korea and made it a colony. Japan ruled Korea for 35 years. Many Koreans tried to resist Japanese rule, but Japan remained in control.

In 1945, Japan lost World War II. When Japan was defeated, it also lost its colonies. Japan itself went under American rule for a while.

Korea, which had been a Japanese colony, was shared between America and the Soviet Union. No Korean citizen was consulted in this decision.

The Soviet Union took the northern half, while the United States took the southern half. That is how we ended up with North Korea and South Korea.

In the north, the Soviets supported Kim Il-sung, who became the leader of North Korea. He was the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong Un.

In the south, the United States helped create a new government. Syngman Rhee became the first president of South Korea.

So as they became separate countries, North Korea and South Korea inherited the ideological differences between America and the Soviet Union. Both governments in the North and South claimed to be the true government of all Korea. Each side wanted to unite the country under its own system. Because of this, tensions grew between the two sides.

The leader of North Korea, Kim Il-sung believed he could quickly defeat South Korea and unite the whole peninsula under his rule. He also received support from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and later from China.

In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. This started the Korean War. America fought on the side of South Korea. The war lasted from 1950 to 1953, and millions of people died.

In 1953, North Korea and South Korea signed a ceasefire that stopped the fighting. However, they never signed a formal peace treaty, so the Korean War never officially ended, technically they are still at war.

The 1953 ceasefire agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone, commonly known as the DMZ. It is a four-kilometer-wide strip of land that separates the two countries. Heavy weapons and large military forces are not allowed inside this zone.

Even so, it is one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world. Large armies stand on both sides of the border, watching each other every day. The DMZ helps prevent war, but the tension never truly disappears like two neighbors who refuse to speak, only watching each other across the fence.

South Korea is a democracy, while North Korea is a dictatorship. In North Korea, power is concentrated in the hands of the leader and the ruling party. Political opposition, independent media, and public criticism of the government are not allowed.

While North Korea focuses heavily on the military, South Korea has focused more on economic development. As a result, South Korea has built a very strong economy. Today, the economic gap between the two countries is very large.

I’m sure we all know that the global technology giant, Samsung is a South Korean company. Most of the Korean films that become popular around the world are also produced in South Korea, which has a large and successful film industry. Other big global brands such as LG, Hyundai, and Kia are also South Korean companies.

I must emphasize that this is a condensed summary, obviously I left out a lot of detail.

Taffy Theman

THE FAREWELL MESSAGE?

Is Obasanjo Set To Go HOME?

Ninety-four-year-old olusegun Obasanjo wrote a soul-shaking letter to Nigerians. Does that mean he is about to le@ve this world? Here are the words he wrote . He has already said that he is bidding farewell to l!fe…

My fellow Countrymen,

People tell you that life is very long. “Live easily,” they say. “There’s still plenty of time.”

I am ninety-four years old as I write these lines, and I say with complete certainty: that is not true. Life is not long; it is as brief as the blink of an eye. Now that I am about to le@ve this world, my heart wishes to entrust a few truths to you.

I earned wealth, saw respect, built a name—but tonight all of it feels like dust lying in the corner of my room. If I stretch out my hand, nothing will go with me. The things I held close to my chest all my life now feel like sand slipping through my fingers.

Before I go, I want to lighten my heart. Some things have remained buried inside me for seventy years. I do not want you to lie on a bed one day, remembering your past life, and feel a sting in your heart with every memory.

The first truth: Stop living in the waiting room.

A large part of my life passed in waiting.

In school, I thought life would begin once I got my certificate.

When I got a job in the army, I waited for the weekend.

After marriage, I waited for my children to grow up.

When they grew up, I waited for retirement.

I treated every present moment as just a phase, as if real life was waiting somewhere ahead. I kept staring at the distant horizon and never felt the ground beneath my feet. Today I understand there is no final destination. The journey itself is life—and instead of living it, I merely passed through it.

I still remember a rainy Tuesday. I was thirty years old, sitting in my office, staring at the clock. Rain was pouring outside, and inside my heart was restless. I wanted time to pass quickly. I wanted to escape that day.

Today, if someone asked me, I would give all my earnings to relive just that one day—the chair, the silence, the sound of rain against the glass, and the strength in my legs.

Perhaps you are doing the same. You say, “I’ll be happy when I get promoted. I’ll feel peace when I have more money. My life will be complete when I find the right person.” You are selling today in exchange for tomorrow—and that tomorrow may never come.

Do not waste your days like this. One day you will realize those ordinary days were the most precious.

The second truth: Gold cannot be eaten.

I spent fifty years building an empire. Long hours of work. Missed my children’s birthdays. Even during festivals, my mind was stuck at the office. I saw the waiting in my wife’s eyes and comforted myself by saying, “I’m doing this for them.”

I bought a big house, an expensive car, fine clothes. I believed these things increased my worth, made me appear bigger in the eyes of others.

Now that my departure is near, I realize none of it will go with me. The house will belong to someone else. The walls will be painted according to someone else’s taste. The car will end up in a junkyard. The money will remain just a number. Tonight it cannot hold my hand or tell me not to be afraid.

I remember a day when my daughter called me into the garden. She had found a tiny insect and wanted me to sit with her and watch it. There was joy in her eyes. I said, “Not now, I’m busy. I’m earning money.”

She quietly turned away. The sadness in her eyes still burns my heart. I lost a precious moment with my daughter in exchange for a few paper notes.

If you are exhausting yourself only for a paycheck, pause. Your workplace will replace you quickly—but your home will never forget you. Gather wealth of memories, not possessions.

The third truth: Tear down the walls around your heart.

When I was young, I thought I was strong. I never apologized first. I hesitated to speak what was in my heart. I believed that if a man softened, people would see him as weak. I rarely expressed love—perhaps afraid my image of toughness would break.

I had a brother. We grew up together. Played in the same courtyard. Sat at the same table. Shared joys and sorrows. One day, we became upset over something trivial.

Today, honestly, I do not even remember what it was. Maybe money. Maybe an argument. But at that time I was certain I was right. I decided he would come first.

Days passed, then months, then years. On every festival my heart wanted to pick up the phone—but ego stood in the way. I kept telling myself there was still time.

One day the phone rang—but it wasn’t him. The news came that he had suffered a sudden stroke and passed away. I stood before his cold face, and my insistence on being right felt meaningless.

I was right—but I was alone. Ten years of laughter, ten years of conversations, ten years of festivals—I had laid them all at the feet of ego. That day I understood: some relationships are saved not by logic, but by love.

If you love someone, say it today. If you are wrong, apologize today. There is no promise of tomorrow.

The fourth truth: Fear is a false shadow.

At twenty-two, I wanted to become a writer. I had a notebook filled with ideas, dreams, stories. But I never wrote a book about those dreams and stories. I was afraid people would laugh, that I would fail, that I would not be taken seriously.

I chose the safe path and spent my life fulfilling other people’s dreams. Today my hands tremble. Even if I want to, I cannot hold a pen properly. My eyes have grown dim. That book is still inside me—and perhaps it will be buried in silence with me. Instead of it, I wrote "My Command", and "Under My Watch".

The real tragedy of life is not death; it is the dreams we kill while we are alive.

Perhaps the cemetery is the richest place in the world—because buried there are all the unwritten novels, unsung songs, and unstarted dreams.

Do not add to that silent treasure. Do not keep postponing the desire in your heart. Take a step. Even if you stumble, at least you will be able to say, “I tried.”

Better to step into the river once than to stand on the shore forever thinking about it. “If only” is the most painful phrase. In old age, it wakes a person in the silence of the night.

The ticking of my clock now sounds clearer. I have laid down the stones of worry, ego, and fear. I am now just a helpless human being—just as I was on the day I was born—empty-handed.

You are still alive. You have another day. Do not waste it. Look at your hands. Move your fingers. Feel your breath. It is all a miracle.

Do not wait until you are ninety-four to realize how beautiful life is. Feel it now.

I am about to close my eyes. I hope my words find a place in your heart like a seed.

Live—not for me, but for truth. Live from the heart. Live fully for yourself. Live for your loved ones.

Live now.

Goodbye…

Summary:

Life is not long; it is as brief as a blink. Stop living in the waiting room. Gold cannot be eaten, and relationships sacrificed at the feet of ego never return. Do not bury your dreams in the graveyards of fear—live today.

🕯️🌙💔

IRAN HAD A MEETING WITH INDIA BEFORE THE US-ISRAELI WAR

Apparently, President Trump and PM Binyamin Netanyahu were not interested in negotiation. They only went through it to keep the Iranian regime at ease with a plot to kill them.

As at Friday, Iran had already made unprecedented concessions. Being attacked was the last thing on their minds since in next round of talks was supposed to be today.

Boom! Israel had their own plans. And as usual, the US tagged along.

THIS IS AN ARTICLE OF A MAN WHO WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATIONS 

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

Peter girnus..

Why did Ayatollah Ali Khamenei risk his life by holding a meeting with senior officials during airstrikes in Tehran?

Khamenei chose to not go into hiding, he may have not known how much threat he was under, but trying to change Iran by eliminating him making him a martyr was the wrong move. The Puzzle of Iran just became far harder to put back together in a better way.

There is a generally accepted rule in war, end all predictability. Ayatollah Khamenei had been at war since well before 1979 and the ousting of Shah of Iran. He had been arrested no fewer than 8 times during the rule of the Shah of Iran. In 1980 during the first year of the Islamic Revolution, he would be horribly wounded by a cassette recorder with a bomb placed inside it. He would lose the use of one arm and hand. As time went on he would become a senior revolutionary leader, and his lineage dating back to the beginnings of Islam and the Shia faith, would assist his rise. In 1982, he was one of only three Iranian leaders to push for an all out invasion of Iraq and to not accept a ceasefire. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini would change his plan of succession and instead of appointing Ayatollah Montezari, Kahamenei was chosen. In his time as Supreme Leader, Khamenei saw Iran repel the Iraqi invasion of 1980, and to manage to fight for a stalemate war, where Saddam Hussein saw no victory and instead reluctantly accepted Iran’s courage though never publicly. In the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War Saddam Hussein would attempt to push Iran to normalize relations with Iraq to creating a Untied front for possible U.S. aggression in the region. Khamenei likely never took this as a real possibility. Khamenei would show over and over that his actions were taken with a deep belief based on Shia theology and less on pure pragmatism. Khamenei’s interpretation of Shia belief would be the cause for his continuation of the belief that Atomic Weapons represented a course of action not sanctioned by his belief system. He issued a fatwa against the development of Atomic Weapons.

Ayatollah Khamenei, was a key factor for why Iran still has not developed Atomic weapons. While many in the West do not take the Fatwa at face value, however the fact that in 2026 Iran still has not developed a weapon with an Atomic Program which goes back decades should lend some credibility to this. In fact, the U.S. justification for war in Iraq and now Iran reeks of absolute ignorance and deceptiveness. No case for war existed, as Iran was potentially was years if not decades away from even being able to develop true atomic weapons. The U.S. has changed the reason for war on Iraq no less than five times, and for Iran in just the last few days three to four stories have been supported.

Ayatollah Khamenei, seemed prepared to become a martyr and hence when his time came he simply accepted it. He likely knew that whatever would replace him or his government, would be worse than his form of governance. The Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the worst events of the 20th century. Unfortunately, Islamic revolution took place with tacit approval from the US. The U.S. is counting on a group of people to emerge who will come out and say Iran abandons it’s atomic program and is open to the U.S., this is not likely to happen. Instead, a hardcore element in the IRGC is likely to take over even if it takes a civil war. The only way to have had a real change in governance was to continue with engagement and the use of sanctions. It seems that Ayatollah Khamenei knew far better than anyone what lays in the shadows of Iran’s realities. Regardless of how we view Iran’s regime, it is clear changing it for the better is not going to be an easy task, and military intervention is likely only going to make matters worse.

HISTORY BEHIND-THE IRAN AND US-ISRAELI WAR

I am sure by now we all know that the Supreme Leader of Iran was killed in a major military attack carried out by Israel together with the United States.

I am going to explain why this is happening in very simple English, so that anyone who knows nothing about politics can understand.

As you may know, Israel and Iran are both in the Middle East.

The Middle East is a group of countries in Western Asia. These countries include:

▪ Iran

▪ Israel

▪ Saudi Arabia

▪ Iraq

▪ Turkey (a part of Turkey is in Europe)

▪ Jordan

▪ Syria

▪ Lebanon

▪ Kuwait

▪ Qatar

▪ Oman

▪ United Arab Emirates

▪ Yemen

▪ Bahrain

The Middle East has a lot of oil. 

Oil brings money, but it also brings problems. Powerful countries from outside the Middle East want control and influence there because of oil. America has been involved in Iran since the 1940s, sometimes as a friend and sometimes as an enemy.

Inside the Middle East, countries also compete with each other for regional power, politically, economically and religiously. The religion side is often overlooked. For example people often forget that Saudi Arabia and Iran fight for religious dominance in the Middle East. This is because the religion of Islam has two main denominations namely Shia and Sunni. Iran is mostly Shia and Saudi Arabia is mostly Sunni.

But ofcourse, the biggest rivalry in the Middle East is actually between Israel and Iran.

Israel depends on its strong army and support from the United States. It sees Iran as a serious threat. Iran has threatened to destroy Israel. These threats were made as early as 1979 by Iran’s first Supreme Leader, and I will explain that later.

At the center of the Israel–Iran conflict is the belief among hardline leaders in Iran that Israel should not exist as a country.

In Palestine, Israel has killed many civilians, bombed homes, hospitals and schools, stopped food and aid from getting in.

Iran supports Palestine. It calls Israel's actions crimes and even genocide, and helps groups that fight Israel by giving them money, weapons and training.

The other cause of this war is Iran's nuclear program. 

Israel wants to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons because Iran has threatened to destroy Israel before. But Iran says its nuclear program has nothing to do with nuclear bombs. However Israel doesn't believe this.

It is worth mentioning that nuclear weapons give countries an extra layer of security. 

For example, North Korea built nuclear weapons to protect itself from outside threats.

Because North Korea has nuclear weapons, attacking it would be very dangerous. That makes Western countries think twice. It is therefore not unthinkable that Iran wants the same level of protection. But Israel says no. America also says no.

By the way, I have noticed that some people think America ONLY attacks other countries because of oil. That is not always true.

America acts based on its own interests.

Those interests are not always about money or oil.

Sometimes they are political or strategic. For example, Afghanistan does not have large oil reserves. But America still sent its military there.

I am saying this because some people believe that if a country has no oil, then it does not matter to America. That is not true.

Korea does not have major oil resources. Yet during the Korean War, America fought to defend South Korea. This shows that oil is not the only reason America gets involved in other countries. Sometimes the reasons are political, military, or strategic.

In June 2019, Donald Trump even visited North Korea. He became the first sitting U.S. president to step onto North Korean soil when he crossed the DMZ to meet Kim Jong Un.

Clearly, oil is not the only factor in American foreign policy. So the claim that America does not attack North Korea simply because it has no oil is false.

💥Now let us look at U.S-Iran relations👇

After the Second World War, America became more involved in the Middle East to stop the Soviet Union from spreading its influence. Oil had become very important to global power. America strengthened its relationship with Iran because of Iran’s oil.

In 1951, a new Iranian leader named Mohammad Mossadegh came to power. He took control of Iran’s oil and said it should belong to Iran. He nationalized the oil  industry. This was during the Cold War era when America and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power and influence around the world.

In 1953, America sponsored a coup in Iran as a response to the nationalization of oil. This coup led to the rise of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, commonly known as the Shah. This man went on to rule Iran for 26 years.

The Shah was a harsh ruler, but he was friendly to America. The United States ignored his human rights abuses because he supported American interests. During this time, Iran was a close ally of America and also had good relations with Israel.

However, many Iranians hated the Shah. One of his strongest critics was a religious leader named Ruhollah Khomeini, an Ayatollah. Remember an Ayatollah is a very senior Muslim leader in Iran. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini strongly criticized the Shah. He also criticized Western influence, and America’s role in Iran. Because of this, he was forced into exile in the 1960s. Even while in exile, Khomeini sent recorded messages back to Iran, telling people to oppose the Shah.

Public anger grew. In 1979, the Shah was removed from power in a revolution. That is how Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became Supreme Leader and how Iran became an Islamic Republic.

The new Iranian government was strongly against America because many Iranians believed America had interfered in their democracy in 1953 and had supported a dictator for many years.

Later in 1979, Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. American diplomats were held hostage for 444 days.

From that moment, Iran and America became enemies. As Israel became closer to America, Iran’s new leaders saw Israel as a Western creation in the Middle East that was harming Muslims. This belief shaped Iran’s long-term policy toward Israel.

This supreme leader who was recently killed was known as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He had been in power since 1989, having taken over after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

So why did they kill him?

Well, if you want to destabilize a regime in a time of war, you eliminate its leader. Not every country can survive a sudden leadership crisis in a time of war.

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INCREDIBLE MID-AIR ESCAPE: US JET REPORTEDLY EVADES IRANIAN STRIKE

Tensions escalated dramatically on February 28 following reports that an American fighter jet successfully evaded an incoming Iranian “Shahed” missile during what has been described as a surprise attack.

According to early accounts circulating online, the aircraft deployed rapid countermeasures and executed evasive maneuvers mid-air, narrowly avoiding impact. Footage and defense sources suggest the pilot reacted within seconds, releasing flares and altering flight trajectory to escape the incoming threat.

The incident has intensified discussions surrounding the ongoing standoff between Iran and the United States, with analysts warning that such encounters could further inflame regional instability.

The development also fuels political debate back home, especially among supporters and critics of former President Donald Trump, as conversations about foreign policy, deterrence, and military posture resurface online.

🌍 What This Means

 • Rising military tensions in the region

 • Increased risk of retaliatory strikes

 • Heightened global security concerns

 • Possible diplomatic fallout

As always with fast-moving geopolitical events, further verification and official statements are expected in the coming hours.

This is a developing story.

YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE

They blindfolded his own officials before taking them to meet him. It was not enough.

In the final weeks of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s life, Iranian security protocols reached a level of paranoia without modern precedent. Senior officials who needed to meet the Supreme Leader were physically blindfolded before being transported to his location. Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was blindfolded before being driven to Khamenei’s hideout, then traveled onward to Oman for diplomatic meetings. This was not metaphorical. This was an intelligence service so terrified of penetration that it could not trust its own leadership with the coordinates of its head of state.

Khamenei had retreated into a private underground bunker in Tehran, his second time hiding since the twelve-day war with Israel in June 2025. The bunker sat within a complex network of interlocking tunnels. According to senior Iranian military officials, the two deepest bunkers could only be penetrated by American munitions. Khamenei was not in either of them.

The CIA had been tracking his movements for months, mapping routines and security patterns. During the twelve-day war, American agencies learned how Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard communicated and moved under pressure. That knowledge built the surveillance networks and predictive models that followed him from compound to compound.

On June 17, 2025, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he knew exactly where Khamenei was hiding. He called him an easy target. He said the United States had no intention of killing him, at least not at that time. Ten days later Trump wrote that he had saved Khamenei from an ugly and humiliating death.

Eight months of warning. The President of the United States told him publicly, on a social media platform, that American intelligence had located him. Khamenei responded by going deeper underground, blindfolding his own ministers, and shrinking the circle of trust to almost nothing.

On Saturday morning the CIA determined that Khamenei would chair a high-level meeting of Iran’s political and military leadership at a secure compound in central Tehran. The intelligence offered what the New York Times described as high fidelity on his position. The original strike had been planned for nighttime. The timing was changed to morning to catch the leadership assembled in one place. Then GBOOOM!

The blindfolds did not work. The bunkers did not work. Eight months of warning did not work. The most paranoid security apparatus in the Middle East could not outrun a surveillance architecture it could not see, could not understand, and could not counter.

You can blind your own people. You cannot blind the satellites of America.

#viralpost #iran #us

ALI KHAMENEI WAS KILLED WITH MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.

Iranian state media has reportedly confirmed that Ali Khamenei was killed alongside members of his family during coordinated airstrikes carried out by the United States and Israel on Tehran.

According to the broadcast, the Iranian Supreme Leader died after precision strikes targeted a high-security bunker within his palace compound. The announcement was delivered in an emotional transmission, with authorities declaring 40 days of national mourning across the country.

Donald Trump described the operation as successful, writing on Truth Social that the strike eliminated “one of the most evil people in history,” adding that the action represented justice for both Iranians and Americans.

Satellite images released after the attacks reportedly showed extensive destruction around the targeted compound, while Iranian sources claimed Khamenei’s body was recovered from the rubble following missile strikes that began around 9 a.m. local time.

Iranian media also reported that the Supreme Leader’s daughter and grandchild were among those killed in the bombardment.

The Israeli military said the joint operation eliminated several senior Iranian military figures, including Defence Minister Amir Nasirzadeh and Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Pakpour, with unconfirmed reports suggesting that dozens of high-ranking officials may have died in the strikes.

Earlier reports from Iranian authorities had dismissed claims of Khamenei’s death as foreign propaganda before the confirmation was eventually announced by state television.

Benjamin Netanyahu urged Iranians to rise against their government following the strikes, describing the situation as a historic opportunity for political change.

The attacks have triggered retaliatory missile and drone strikes by Iran targeting U.S. military bases across the Middle East, further escalating tensions in the region.

PRIORITIZING CULTURE - THE NEED FOR ACTION AND INTERVENTION

Prioritizing culture transforms Africa’s future by shifting it from a "raw-material economy" to a global hub of innovation and creative value. Culture is not and should not be seen as mere "decoration" but as essential social infrastructure and strategic capital that drives both economic prosperity and social stability.

This transformation occurs across several key dimensions. 

(1). Economic Revitalization through the Creative Economy.· 

- Prioritizing culture allows Africa to leverage its youngest-in-the-world population to drive GDP growth and job creation. 

- Exporting Value: Instead of remaining dependent on raw materials, African nations can become net exporters of cultural value in sectors like film, music, fashion, and digital content.

- Formalizing the Sector: By structuring and financing informal creative sectors and protecting Intellectual Property (IP), the continent can prevent  "brain drain" and ensure that cultural assets are not appropriated without benefit.

- Trade and Tourism: A culture-centered strategy supports the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) through cultural trade and boosts tourism by maintaining its authenticity.

(2). Social Cohesion and Youth Engagement

- Culture acts as the "glue of society," mitigating fragmentation and providing a sense of purpose for the "youth bulge".

- Strengthening Narratives: It reduces ethnic and religious tensions by reinforcing shared narratives and collective consciousness.

- Combating Radicalization: By providing belonging and economic 

opportunity, a strong creative ecosystem addresses the "identity confusion" 

that can lead to radicalization and migration pressure.

- Living Culture: Moving beyond just heritage preservation (who Africa was) to  investing in contemporary creativity (who Africa is becoming) ensures that the continent's identity remains dynamic and evolving.

(3). Strategic Identity and Governance

- Prioritizing culture fundamentally changes how African nations engage with the world and govern themselves.

- Soft Power and Global Influence: Investing in culture allows Africa to shape its own global narrative and challenge historical distortions, gaining significant geopolitical leverage.

- Indigenous Policy Design: It ends "psychological dependency" on imported 

development models. When development is anchored in indigenous 

knowledge systems, policies align more effectively with the lived cultural realities of the people. In summary, treating culture as a strategic priority transforms the African development challenge from a purely technical pursuit of "infrastructure" into "a civilization project", fueled by identity, imagination and confidence.

GIVE DONALD TRUMP A WHIFF ON MONEY

Trump just sold the United States military for the price of a luxury jet and some crypto deals, and American soldiers are now fighting a war that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Netanyahu bought and paid for.

His own Secretary of State admitted days before the strikes that Iran wasn't enriching uranium. 

Trump himself bragged he already "obliterated" their nuclear program last June. Iran had even agreed in Thursday's Switzerland talks to never stockpile enriched uranium. By Saturday morning, bombs were hitting Tehran while children walked to school.

Every justification this administration has offered collapses under its own weight. So ask the only question that matters: who's getting what they paid for?

Qatar gave Trump a $400 million Boeing 747, a flying palace he keeps personally after leaving office through his presidential library foundation. The UAE routed $2 billion through a crypto transaction into the Trump family's financial firm. The Saudis parked $2 billion with Jared Kushner's fund the second he left government.

And who was running America's Iran negotiations right before the bombs fell? Kushner himself, pockets lined by Iran's chief rival, alongside Steve Witkoff, Trump's real estate pal whose son recently courted Qatar's sovereign wealth fund for family business.

Then there's Israel. Netanyahu wasted no time joining the assault, calling on Iranians to "cast off the yoke of tyranny." Destroying Iran has been his white whale for decades, and with Israeli elections coming in October, a joint military campaign against Tehran is a political gift that shores up his standing with voters. 

Netanyahu gets to play wartime leader on America's dime while Trump plays tough guy in a baseball cap from Mar-a-Lago. A match made in hell.

The operation explicitly aims to topple Iran's government and destroy its military, the exact outcome Gulf monarchies and Israel have dreamed about for decades. They just couldn't do it alone. So they bought a president who'd do it for them.

Those same Gulf states were publicly pushing diplomacy and privately urging the administration not to strike, performing concern for the cameras while the wire transfers had long since cleared.

Trump once said Obama would start a war with Iran to win reelection. Obama never did. Now Trump, drowning politically before the midterms, did exactly what he accused someone else of plotting.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S OLD TWEETS RESURFACED ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA

As the United States and Israel launched a coordinated strike on Iran on Saturday, a decade-old tweet by US President Donald Trump, in which he predicted that then President Barack Obama would attack Iran, has resurfaced and gone viral across social media.

On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated missile strike on Iran with massive explosions reported across Tehran and multiple other cities in a dramatic escalation that threatens to push the Middle East toward a wider conflict.

The offensive, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” targeted key government and military establishments, including the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian President.

Immediately after the attack, Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes against Israel, and the confrontation expanded further. Iranian ballistic missiles struck several US military installations across the Gulf, including Al Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, the service centre of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain’s Juffair area, Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. Loud explosions were heard and flashes were seen in surrounding areas, according to reports.

TRUMP'S 2013 VIRAL POST

In a 2013 post on X, widely shared in the wake of the attacks, Trump wrote:

“Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!”

The resurfacing of the post has drawn renewed attention as military conflict erupts in the region after the US and Israel strikes Iran.

When Obama began his second term in 2013, substantive negotiations with Iran were reportedly stalled. According to a 2016 White House press release, the P5+1 (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and China, facilitated by the European Union) made efforts “to engage in serious and substantive negotiations with Iran with the goal of reaching a verifiable diplomatic resolution that would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Things changed after Hasan Rouhani won the Iranian presidential election. A letter from Obama to Rouhani reportedly focused on advancing nuclear negotiations, leading to talks in Oman and subsequent understandings that renewed P5+1 negotiations at the United Nations General Assembly in September of that year.

The 2016 release noted that the P5+1 and Iran had agreed on the Joint Plan of Action, an interim agreement that effectively froze Iran’s nuclear programme while providing some modest sanctions relief to allow both sides to assess each other’s commitment to a comprehensive solution.

However, in his first term, Trump pulled the United States out of the JCPOA in 2018, marking a sharp reversal in US policy toward Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

KHAMENEI MOVED TO SECURE LOCATION

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is believed to have been moved to a secure location following the strikes. The attacks came as diplomatic efforts were reportedly underway between Tehran and Washington concerning a nuclear deal.

Confirming the attacks on Iran, President Trump asserted that Tehran “can never have a nuclear weapon” and said, “Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”

The resurfacing of Trump’s old tweet as the current conflict unfolds underscores how past criticisms of foreign policy are being revisited in the context of renewed hostilities between the US, Israel and Iran.

AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI

With bombs and missiles flying non-stop, it is impossible for any news organization to keep track of everything happening on the ground in Iran... so let’s look at the bigger picture.

(1) The Muslim World: It is now confirmed that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei is dead. One thing is clear... the Muslim world is not rallying to Iran’s side. Once this conflict is over, there will be change in the Middle East. I fully expect both the Abraham Accords and the Gaza Board of Peace initiatives to gain renewed urgency. That region now knows that the US is calling the shots and that none of them want to cross Israel’s military capabilities.

(2) Russia and China: If you are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, you are watching what is unfolding militarily and you fully understand that your nations currently cannot compete with the United States. While Russia still maintains the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, their conventional military forces just do not compare. Likewise, while China is quickly advancing in terms of technological advancement and quantity of military assets, they still lag behind. However, in order to maintain stability in Asia and support our allies like Japan, South Korea, etc., the US will have to change strategies and increase the mix of assets in theater... and this will require a significant increase in military investment... something Democrats will oppose.

(3) NATO and the EU: For decades, European leaders have placated Iran and have shown they do not have the backbone to actually “solve” global issues. Unlike Trump’s first term in office, this second term has seen the Europeans significantly tone down their criticisms of Trump and they have been reluctant to challenge him. When they do, Trump has swiftly put them in their place. Whether you like him or not, Donald Trump is a force of nature... a generational leader who is forcing Europe to do things they refused to do during prior US presidential administrations. .. things like committing to up their NATO contributions to 5% of GDP.

(4) The Rest of the World: In Central and South America, we are seeing a rise of conservative political leaders, while watching the socialist and communist leaning leaders moderate. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a mission to repair the relationship between the US and our southern neighbors, with a focus on bringing Cuba back into our orbit. These leaders are watching the decisive actions being taken by the Trump administration and are coming to the realization that they can no longer depend on Russia and China to prop them up. Panama is kicking China out of the Panama Canal... Mexico is beginning to get serious about dealing with the narco state operating within its borders. We are seeing the same type of things play out in Africa.

Trump has many options to wind down the Iranian operations. This may last days or weeks, but with the death of the Supreme Leader, there will be rising calls for this to end. In my opinion, it is vital for the US to finish the job... Iran’s military assets and manufacturing facilities must be destroyed to the point it is impossible for them to again threaten their neighbors and spread terror around the world.

IRAN. ISRAEL. USA. WAR HAS STARTED: Are you financially prepared — or are you about to get wiped out?

Today — February 28, 2026 — the US and Israel launched joint military strikes on Iran.

Missiles hit Tehran. Iran fired back. US military bases in Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait are under attack RIGHT NOW.

The Middle East is on fire.

And while the world watches in shock… I'm not shocked. I've been warning about this for YEARS.

Here's how we got here — because nobody's talking about the FULL picture:

December 2025 — Iran's economy collapsed. The currency cratered. Prices exploded. Millions took to the streets in the BIGGEST protests since 1979.

The Iranian regime's response? They massacred their own people. Over 30,000 dead.

June 2025 — The US already bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran rebuilt. Quietly.

February 13, 2026 — President Trump publicly called for regime change in Iran.

February 26 — Last ditch peace talks in Geneva. FAILED.

February 27 — The US told its embassy staff in Israel to GET OUT.

February 28 — TODAY. Missiles flying. Bases burning. World War III has begun.

This didn't happen overnight. The writing was on the wall for anyone paying attention. But most people were too busy watching Netflix to notice.

Here's what the RICH know that the poor and middle class don't:

Wars are not random. Wars are FINANCIAL events.

20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz — right where Iran is firing missiles today.

If that strait shuts down, oil hits $200 a barrel. Maybe more.

And then what happens?

Everything gets more expensive. The dollar gets weaker. 

The stock market bleeds. And YOUR savings account gets quietly destroyed by inflation.

The poor and middle class will wonder what happened.

The rich already prepared.

Rich Dad taught me this: In times of crisis, "SAVERS are LOSERS."

When governments go to war, they PRINT money. Trillions.

To fund the bombs, the ships, the bases.

Every dollar they print makes YOUR dollar worth less. This is not conspiracy. This is history. This is math.

WWI — inflation exploded. WWII — inflation exploded. Vietnam — inflation exploded. The US is already $38 TRILLION in debt. Now add a massive war in the world's most critical oil region.

Who pays for that? YOU DO. Through inflation. The slow, invisible theft of your purchasing power.

So what do you do RIGHT NOW?

The same thing they ALWAYS do when governments panic:

(1). Gold — Governments can't print it. When missiles fly, gold rises. It has for 5,000 years.

(2). Bitcoin — People's money. No government controls it. No central bank can debase it.

(3). Real Assets — Hard assets that inflation cannot destroy.

The scariest part of today isn't the missiles. It's the lost lives and the financial crisis which will follow after that.

The question isn't "Will this affect me?" It will.

Prepare now. Not tomorrow. NOW.