by Amir Taheri  •  Gatestone Institute  •  September 27, 2026

Iranian students climb up U.S. embassy gates in Tehran.. By Unknown author – revolution.shirazu.ac.ir, Public Domain, Link

• In 2009, the October surprise worked in the opposite direction. A coalition of pro-American Islamic politicians and clerics fomented a popular uprising in Tehran in the hope that incoming Democrat President Barack Obama would offer a helping hand, as Carter had done in February 1979 against the Shah.

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Update:  Sec. of State Marco Rubio, as if in response to Stephen Bryen‘s question, “More to come on this in the coming days…”  See video below.

PELONI:  How broken is England’s legal system where a suspected terrorist is released on bail, but people tweeting concerns over Islamist in the UK and people protesting unrestricted migration policies are left in jail, presumably because they are a threat to society.

Stepen Bryen | Weapons and Strategy | Sept 28, 2026

? U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that a suspected bomb plot near RAF Fairford in England was the work of a “foreign actor.”

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— Open Source Intelligence (@osint42) September 29, 2026

The British Police say that the five men arrested in connection with a suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford are all British nationals. Nothing has yet been said officially about who was behind the plot. The risk to US assets and personnel in the UK remains extremely high.

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Peloni

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Elections spawn irresponsible rhetoric and unsubstantiated libels, but the simple truth is that there was plenty of warning available for any reasonable person who was not already decidedly certain that Hamas was not going to attack because they were opportunists rather than ideologues.  This was part of the old Conceptzia which had intelligence warnings being ignored when they should have been acted upon.

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PELONI:  Fascinating review article by Reuel Marc Gerecht depicting the Iranians as the true source of their own misery if not destiny.  I think there is much evidence to support the import influence of Western efforts to bring about what we are facing today in Iran, but the truth remains that the people of Iran are not entirely voiceless and in expressing their voice in last January’s elections, we saw the consequences of them doing so without an alliance with those on who they might find real support and on whom they might be able to trust with their survival.  Nonetheless, these stories described below provide an important corollary to what toll the West has played in the influencing the Iranians to where they stand today, and in weighing both the agency of the Iranian people alongside the artful influence and support of the Western world is likely the only way in which the Iranian people might be returned to a state of true sovereignty for what comes next.

REVIEW: ‘Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran’ by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

Reuel Marc Gerecht  | Sept 27, 2026

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Screengrab via Youtube

A recurring problem with contemporary books about the Islamic Republic is that authors often deny Iranians the agency they deserve. Especially on the left, Western and Iranian journalists and scholars can embrace this crippling sentiment since it’s been a way to cast off blame for the ugliness—the primitiveness—of the Islamic revolution and the theocracy that followed.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | Sept 28, 2026

Parade of Palestinian Mujahideen, Hadi Mohammad, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

A “Palestinian” photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza, has recently revealed how Hamas ensures favorable coverage for itself, and at the same time, grotesque coverage of the IDF, by reporters in Gaza. More on his revelations can be found here: “Journalist admits: Anti-Israel narrative driving protests is based on Hamas lies,” by Ahmad Sharawi, New York Post, September 21, 2026:

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Jonathan Feldstein

From my balcony in the Judean mountains, I can see the lights of Jordan on a clear night and the skyline of Amman at sunrise. On other nights I simply look south and east and know that the same Iranian missiles and drones from the Houthis in Yemen threatening my children and grandchildren are also threatening the mosques, holy cities, the oil fields and very capitol that keep the House of Saud in power. That is the uncomfortable intimacy of this region. We are not friends. We are not yet even fully acknowledged as legitimate neighbors. Yet Riyadh is knocking on Jerusalem’s door like a man who has four wives and seeks out his mistress for marital counseling.

Let’s call it what it is. Saudi Arabia is treating Israel as that secret mistress.

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PELONI:  See more extensive coverage on this story here:  “Hero farmer who foiled RAF ‘terror bomb’ says security forces should be red-faced”.

Was this an attempt by Iran to attack the US B-1 & B-2 Bombers stationed in England?

Also note the close timing between this event and Trump’s address to the nation later today which is curiously being aired during the afternoon hours in the US rather than in the evening…Instead it will be aired to coincide with the evening hours in the Middle East.

By Pamela Geller | September 27, 2026

Chaos in the UK as five men arrested on suspicion of plotting a car bomb attack at RAF Fairford. Three vans are being examined, bomb disposal teams remain at the scene, and the base is on the highest US threat alert.

This is a major security emergency still unfolding.

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Avi Abelow

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It’s insane.

Nearly three years after October 7, suddenly, more and more headlines are appearing about alleged warnings Netanyahu supposedly received before the Hamas massacre, accusing him of ignoring them.

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Do Not Let What Happened to My Birth Country Happen Here

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  September 26, 2026

Islamist-leaning influence is growing in America, in media, activism, local projects, and electoral politics. Consider figures such as Zohran Mamdani, now mayor of New York City; Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan; Imtiaz Mohammad, a Republican candidate for the Florida House; and the influential streamer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned alongside these kinds of candidates. Pictured:
US Senate candidate for Michigan Abdul El-Sayed meets voters at Michigan Technological University. October 22, 2025. Photo by Conlan Houston – Flickr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

• A dangerous trend is unfolding in America: please do not let what happened in my home country happen here. Many people refuse to see the gradual creep of Islamist ideology into nearly every sector of American society: media, politics, community organizing, education, and public discourse. These are what the stages of an Islamic revolution look like. It advances quietly and methodically — an ideology that prioritizes its religious doctrine over national identity, Sharia constitutions over non-Islamic ones that are made by made by man, not by Allah.

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“On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters intimidate me from entering the building.”

by Daniel Greenfield | Sept 25, 2026

Every time you hear leftists go on about ‘freedom of the press’, remember they don’t believe a word of it. They’ve had no problem pushing for censorship of opposing media outlets and targeting them between 2016 and 2021 in the United States. They’ve hounded even the most moderate journalists out to make way for radicalizing papers. They’ve spent the past few years insisting that Bari Weiss, a liberal lesbian who voted for Obama, is a right-wing monster who should never be heard and hounded her out of the New York Times.

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Victor Satya | Sept 26, 2026

Few things are more efficient than political language when it comes to simplifying reality: erase the armies, the regimes, the militias and the wider regional ambitions, put Israel and Palestine on opposite sides of a hyphen, and call the result a conflict.

This is how we got the “Israel-Palestine conflict.”

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PELONI:  In this video, the question arises as to whether the films of October 7 should have been shared publicly.  I think the answer is not an easy one to explain, but if we look back in the wake of the Holocaust, the question must be considered as to what would have taken place in they 80 years which followed if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower did not force public viewing of the actual sites of the Holocaust by as many as possible as well as attempting to document as many of the evidences of horrors which were broadcast around the world, in which the viciousness of those films both educated and informed the world in the decades which followed about the consequences of what really happened in Nazi occupied Europe to their Jewish population.  Notably, this didn’t stop the ethnic cleansing of Jews from all of Arabia, nor did it stop the pogroms which awaited the Jews in Eastern Europe who survived the war.  Nonetheless, none could easily claim to be ignorant of what took place in the Holocaust, and for many I suspect those films and the testimonies which accompanied them would have an impact in the Western world which helped make the last century the golden age of Jewry in the world.  Hence, would there have been a similar result following public viewing of the unedited raw footage of October around the world?  Or would the rise of Jew Hatred which has succeeded despite the attempt of replicating Gen. Eisenhower’s efforts in 1945.

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