The Iranian supreme leader faces his biggest threat yet after more than three decades in power

Lee Keath & Rosie Slater | The Independent | Tuesday 13 January 2026

Ali Khamenei. Photo by Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has spent more than three decades consolidating power by crushing internal threats.

But his leadership faces its most significant challenge yet as widespread protests against his leadership continue to grow across the country, with millions of Iranians taking to the streets to demand regime change.

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Peloni:  Why is Trump’s America First policy standing in line behind China?

by Gordon G. Chang  •  Gatestone Institute  •  February 20, 2026

The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Commerce has also decided not to impose a ban on the U.S. operations of Chinese state-owned China Telecom.  Photo by NANSZEIQ HAZEIW 500 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

• The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Moreover, Commerce recently has not implemented a number of other obviously needed restrictions on Chinese technology and Chinese companies.

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Mudar Zahran

Map showcasing the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan) in 1923. Photo by Shuaaa2 – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The Simple Truth: Jordan did not gain independence in 1946. It officially and legally remained part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the morning the Mandate ended on 15 May 1948. All Mandate laws and international conventions applied to it as part of the British Mandate for Palestine until the British departure, not as the regime claims that a “kingdom was established” in 1946.

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Peloni:  Trump emonstrating that there more than one way to get a job done.

Harold Hutchison Media Reporter | Daily Caller | February 20, 2026

Pres. Trump gives press conference following announcement of SCOTUS ruling against his use of IEEPA. Screengrab via Youtube. 

President Donald Trump announced Friday he was using different legal authorities to continue tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

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Peloni:  Ben Shapiro warns against missing the opportunity to literally make the world a safer place to live.

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Peloni:  FM Sa’ar gives a great speech at the UN

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Peloni:  I worried about this possibility when the Saudi’s came to Washington and did an about face on their objections regarding any attack on Iran.  Saudi Arabia know how to obtain what they want, and once again, it appears that they have come to bring Washington to support Saudi interests rather than the reverse – a long accepted practice between Riyadh and Washington over the years.  This time, however, marks an altogether new level of concern as the Trump administration has dropped the requirements for guardrails preventing nuclear enrichment and the SNAP inspections to ensure compliance.

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Peloni:  Coordination between state security services to lock down citizens is a frightening and emerging feature of totalitarianism, but the quashing of dissent is not exclusively a feature of regimes such as China and Iran.  We are all of us old enough to recall when stolen elections were deemed to be a feature of such regimes as Iran, but the practice of employing electoral selection rather than political elections failed to remain outside the realm of Western democracies, did it…

Inside the Infrastructure That Silenced a Nation

Aynaz Anni Cyrus | Feb 18, 2026

Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash

Iran’s protest suppression is no longer a purely domestic operation. It is now reinforced by Chinese technology, security doctrine, and training infrastructure.

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Jonathan Feldstein

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest in Phoenix AZ. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Marjorie Taylor Greene, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

It’s said that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth. Sadly, that was displayed recently by someone with whom I was once friendly and who hosted me multiple times on his radio program, enthusiastic about my work building bridges between Jews and Christians in support of Israel.

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Peloni:  Deradicalization is an important step in dealing with the threat from Gaza, but let us be clear that only Israel has the interest in implementing a program which will silence the radicals in the Arab street.  While the UAE has made remarkable strides towards doing so within their own borders, is it reasonable to believe that they would do the same in Gaza when the UAE was among those who called on Israel not to invade Gaza at the beginning of the war and for Israel not to neutralize Hamas at the end of the war?  The radicals in Gaza are an Israeli problem and it requires an Israeli solution.

Peloni:  Dr. David Wurmser discusses Trump’s Board of Peace.

Peloni:  Videos don’t lie, but people do.

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Peloni:  As I have noted many times, the US has PLENTY of laws which might be used to target those who support and carry out terrorist attacks, and it is only a lack of political will which prevents serious penalties from being exacted for those who violate the laws described below, which go on being violated on a daily basis.  The failure to fully employ these laws as they were intended to be applied has cost many American lives, among many others, and this will continue to be true so long as evil is left to fester unabated while being fed millions of US dollars every year.

The U.S. secretary of state should consider designating the Palestinian Authority, PLO and their associated proxies as Foreign Terrorist Organizations due to active concealment of their violations.

Leonard Grunstein | Feb 19, 2026

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The Taylor Force Act (22 USC 2378c-1) was named in memory of Taylor Force, a U.S. veteran and graduate student who was visiting Israel and was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist. The Palestinian Authority awarded the terrorist’s family a stipend for his homicidal efforts, under its longtime “pay for slay” program.

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Peloni:  Oy vey…

Peloni:  Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (JISS President; former DG of Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs) and Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Amnon Sofrin (former Mossad Intelligence Directorate Chief) provide an important analysis of Trump’s initiative with the Board of Peace and its likely lack of success.  

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by Peloni & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin’s February 15 Sunday Show:

Mark opens his Sunday, February 15 show: speaking about the current Iranian Regime being one of the most consequential foreign policy challenges facing the United States today, while also noting how this challenge is met will shape the future for generations to come. (The conflicts of interest of the US Commander-in-Chief President Donald Trump with the enemy Qataris, were never mentioned by him or his 2 guests following his opening.)

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Peloni:  The fantasyland depictions of peace discussed by the Board of Peace ignores the very real dilemma which the IDF faces on a daily basis, where repeated attempts by Hamas operatives to kidnap Israeli servicemen go on unabated, all while noting that should the IDF detection of these serialized butchers fail, these barbarians will happily revisit the horrors of October 7 upon the Israeli people all over again.  Even more concerning is that among the force named to do the heavy lifting needed to achieve peace, ie the International Security Force, there are to be included Indonesian forces who are likely capable of dealing with threats which rise against their own homeland, but which should never be trusted to do the same with regards to the security and safety of Israel, a nation which Indonesia does not recognize and whose sentiments are strongly tied to support the likes of Hamas instead.  This entire process is a gross disregard of everything the Israeli people have sacrificed and endured over the past two and half years, as there appears the expectation of peace forthcoming from the Board of Peace will be just as imaginary as the expectation of stability forthcoming from the International Stabilization Force.

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Peloni:  A must read article.  Dealing with the radicalization within Gaza is not something which should be left to others to do.  Indeed, this is something which only Israel can secure for herself, but for this to take place, it requires Israeli governance to return to Gaza.  Unfortunately, this is something which Netanyahu has divorced himself from doing since the beginning hours of the war without any sign of alteration, as responsibility for Gaza has been handed over the to the auspices of the Board of Peace and its varying cast of characters who all share a single fact: that none of them but Israel will enforce any security for Israelis, as their interests, even for those nations who should be counted most closely to Israel such as the US, have a different set of interests which will qualify any attempt at peace as being something less than necessary for the protection and security of the Israeli people.

By MARTIN SHERMAN

The recipe of deradicalization for Gaza is likely to prove a dangerous and unrealistic pipe dream.

Popular support seen during Hamas 35th Anniversary Celebration, Dec. 14, 2022.  This was just three years ago. Screengrab via Youtube. 

One of the most persistent—and pernicious—myths being bandied about in the debate over how to achieve some peaceable resolution to the violence induced by radical Islam in Gaza is the proposed “panacea” of “de-radicalization” of extremist Islamist elements. The rationale underlying the prescription of deradicalization is as glib as it is deceptive.

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Andrew Benjamin | Feb 18, 2026

BREAKING: Even before the Political Theater going down at Munich news conferences and the negotiating table in Doha are over, expect SHOCK & AWE in the Perisian Gulf – and what’s left of Gaza City. Actually, the gig was up last June.

REMEMBER THIS: Help is on the way, and this President keeps his promises!

The gig is also up at the now-outed leftwing Trump-Deranged antisemite podcasts of Taquar Catarlson, CON-dace Owens, and Steve Bannon.

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