Peloni:  Additional concerns from an early poll:   Two years, out, Vance remains clear frontrunner for 2028 GOP primary

President Trump reportedly cracking down on opposition to the emerging Iran deal, and is threatening to fire any administration officials who refuse to back an interim agreement.

By World Israel News Staff | June 15, 2026

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – J. D. Vance, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Vice President JD Vance has played a central role in shaping President Donald Trump’s increasingly critical view of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israel Hayom report on tensions inside the White House over the emerging US-Iran agreement.

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By Hugh Fitzgerald | June 14, 2026

Anti-aircraft guns (Samavat 35mm Anti Aircraft Guns (Oerlikon 35mm)) guarding Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran by Hamed Saber, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Hmm. What’s wrong with this picture? Trump keeps saying, and Vance dutifully echoes him, that a deal is “close” that will ensure that Iran surrenders all of its stockpile — some 140 kg. — of uranium that had been enriched to a just-below-weapons-grade of 60%. But surely, then, Iran shouldn’t be making it harder — perhaps impossibly harder — for that uranium to be retrievable.

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Peloni:  Israel is the model around which the Westphalian system of nation states will be revived or fail.  Only thru the the active support of national identity informed and enforced around a nation’s sovereign actions will the model of nation states survive.  Bravo to Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar whose efforts advocating these realities have led the state with a sense of vision and significance which must be harnessed and pursued in order to succeed in this endeavor.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement | Ribonut.co.il | June 15, 2026

Israeli flag at Masada Public Domain. Wikipedia

At a time when the West is grappling with a crisis of identity and the rise of fundamentalist Islamism, Israel is doing more than defending itself—it stands on the front line of a broader struggle for freedom, identity and democracy.

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Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki describes the important context about Iran’s manipulation which Washington seems oblivious regarding Iran’s having manufactured the crisis in Beirut which ultimately brought Trump to sweetened the deal for Iran.

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Peloni:  This was a very important clarification.  I am glad to see Netanyahu make this stand.  I only hope that he can hold up under US pressure in the coming days.  As we move closer to the new deadline for the signing of the deal which has theoretically already been adopted, the pressure for him to capitulate to Washington’s demands will likely increase.

National security minister: Israel is ‘grateful to Trump, but not a banana republic’

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 15, 2026

IDF soldiers operating in Southern Lebanon area, June 11, 2026 Photo: IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel is not bound by the Lebanon clause of the Iran deal, which would restrict Israel’s actions against the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

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Janet Levy:  It’s Not “Aid” to Israel.  It’s a Long-Term Strategic Investment of Enormous Value.  Here’s how.

First:  No other recipient of American military “assistance” provides the level of economic benefits, security, military support, innovation, and strategic returns.

Second: 74% of Israel’s allotment must be spent on American-made defense goods and services. By 2028, that percentage will reach 100%. The money does NOT leave the American economy.

1.      Intelligence Cooperation

Israeli intelligence provides information on terrorist organizations, weapons proliferation networks, cyber threats, and regional developments.

Israel confronts Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Iranian-backed militias, and other groups, many of the same threats the U.S. faces.

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Peloni:  This is a very important article.  It delineates the importance and potentially disruptive power of the Kurds in any deal struck with Iran, not withstanding the fact that any deal struck with Iran will fail.

Hence, it is critical to reflect upon the possibility of a Kurdish-US alliance which might emerge in the wake of the MOU negotiating period should this period come to rendering little to recommend the deal as actually supporting Trump’s designs for the region, which seems likely.

“Kurdish YPG Fighters” by Kurdishstruggle, CC BY 2.0

JAFAJ STRATEGIC BRIEFING | 2026-06-14

THE KURDISTAN WILD CARD: WHY AMERICA’S MOST RELIABLE NON-STATE PARTNER WILL DETERMINE THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF ANY U.S.–IRAN AGREEMENT

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President Trump on Truth Social:

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Peloni  & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin’s Show on Fox News of June 13, 2026. His 2 guests were (1) 4 Star General Jack Keane, and (2) US Senator Rick Scott (R – FL)

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | June 14, 2026

Photo by Unknown author – English.khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

*While the Ayatollah’s negotiators benefit from a marathon-like state of mind – which is a prerequisite for a long term, productive outcome – Western negotiators are severely undermined by their sprint-like state of mind, which is prone to impatience and “kicking the can down the road”.

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Peloni:  Pay particular attention to Tina Ghazimorad‘s comments about the IRGC.

Arlene Kushner | June 14, 2026

President Trump Pointing. Screenshot via Youtube

After all of the off and on, all of the mixed messages, US President Donald Trump is on the verge of caving to Iran. The majority of US citizens are understood to be opposed to further American fighting with Iran, and so Trump, a political pragmatist, is looking for a way to stop the fighting – falling back on a “deal,” which he would undoubtedly, and maddeningly, portray as a “victory.”

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X

June 9

The Egyptian Army  for Rent, and It’s Present Here in Places You Wouldn’t Expect.
Special Intelligence Information from the Rabbi of the Arabian Island.

* Egyptian forces have entered Lebanon as part of an agreement stipulating that the contact points near southern Lebanon and the Israeli borders will be manned by Egyptian soldiers, not Lebanese soldiers, as part of the ceasefire. This means the Egyptian Army will protect Israel’s borders instead of the Lebanese Army, which we don’t trust because it contains Hezbollah elements.

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Leon Kushner | Leon’s The World is Upside Down | June 13, 2026

Trump. Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikipedia 

I won’t soon forget how almost everyone on the Left kept their mouths shut when their leaders: Clintons, Obama, Biden, Sanders, Harris, Schumer, AOC and too many others to mention, all tried and continue to try to destroy our world. When Biden was clearly suffering from dementia, the Left was either mute or denied what everyone saw and heard in plain sight. Who was running the country for 4 years? No one knows and yet no one on the Left spoke up. Not a word.

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Peloni:  Are these the terms of Trump’s deal with Iran?  Probably not.  Afterall, should we trust Iran, the masters at manipulation and negotiation which they are, to tell us the truth about anything?  No, we should not.  Notably, while it is in Trump’s interest to maximize the success of his deal going into the US midterm elections no matter the reality, the Iranians’ interest lie in shading the deal as a US surrender, again, no matter the reality.  But such as we are hearing now, the terms are described below by Iran, and they are pretty devastatingly dispiriting.  You can expect the attempt to link Lebanon to the Iran deal, which is not included in the essay below to be a major point of contention, but Netanyahu will have a difficult time accepting such linkage, and Washington should stop supporting the Iranian myth that Lebanon is Iranian territory.  It isn’t, and if it is, let us drop all pretense and bring the war to Beirut in full measure.

By Parisa Hafezi | Reuters | June 14, 2026

STRAIT OF HORMUZ:

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Update:  YNET reports that Trump is warning Iran that if they launch an attack on Israel which results in an Israeli attack and the peace talks being derailed that he will hold Iran responsible for the consequences which follow.  They are also reporting that Trump is simultaneously condisering additional concessions to Iran if they will sign the deal today.  These could include the lifting of the blockade and restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz.

Peloni:  See Trump’s outrageous response to the Beirut attack at the bottom.  He is once more affirming Iranian suzerainty over Lebanon, and linking Israel’s lack of freedom of action to his negotiation needs with Iran.  Meanwhile Iran has committed to responding to the attack in Beirut, and Trump is simultaneously pressuring the Iranians to not respond too dramatically following which he is pressuring Bibi to not respond at all.

‘For every violation – fire’ – Ministers call for Netanyahu to respond to every Hezbollah violation

All Israel News Staff | Published: June 14, 2026

Explosion in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, June 13, 2026. (Photo: IAF screenshot)

Following several reported ceasefire violations over the weekend, including three separate drone attacks on Israeli territory Sunday morning, the IDF conducted strikes in the southern Beirut district of Dahiyeh, a known Hezbollah stronghold.

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Peloni:  Mahmoud Nabavian is a well known hardliner within the Iranian political establishment.   In a recent comment made regarding the US-Iranian deal, he demonstrated the fact that the Iranians already saw themselves as having won the war, based on the fact that the goals of halting their nuclear program, triggering economic collapse, and causing regime change had all failed to materialize.  Hence, from this perspective, he expresses a sense of cognitive dissidence while trying to grasp why Iran should partake any negotiated settlement at all.  So, as you read his summary of the deal, understand the sense of angst he is actually delivering in being subjected to the severity of the terms as he understands them.  It really is revealing of how complete the Iranians feel the West lost the war, and suggests potential faultlines which may cause the deal, as good as it is for the Iranians, to still meet significant opposition from within the Iranian command structure. H/t TheIranWatcher

Mahmoud Nabavian, Deputy Chairman of the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament, sharply criticized the proposed agreement with the United States:

The United States has told the Iranian side that it will secure a $300 billion reconstruction budget for the country… pic.twitter.com/m6nPoc64uM

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 14, 2026

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Iran provinces and counties in 1956.  Image by 4nn1l2 – Own workThis file was derived from: National and Province Statistics of the First Census of Iran November 1956 – Vol. 01.pdf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Four Star retired General Jack Keane, former U. S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, is one of the most perceptive analysts anywhere today regarding the conflict being waged with the previously Arabized and Islamized usurpers of native Iran’s proud Zoroastrian, more tolerant, and glorious pre-Islamic past.

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Peloni:  Indeed, the alliance between the Liberal World Order of Globalists has used the financing of Islamist factions and Islamist migration to impair and destruct the nation states which formed the previous order based on the Westphalian system of sovereign states.  The invasion of the West could not be so easily subdued without Western financing and Western compliance while all of this took place behind the cloak of secrecy, both within Europe and America (recall the role of feeding Islamic terrorists by USAID and open US borders).  Unfortunately, the question still remains whether having now revealed the role which Western leadership has played in mounting the demise of Western society, can the genie of the Islamist invasion in the West be placed back in the bottle, or is the West on a roller coaster ride to self destruction from which there is no off ramp.  Will the people of Europe and America succumb to the plots of their globalist overlords, or is there a way back to restoring the primacy of liberty and freedom over the yoke of servitude and dhimmitude.  The answer to this question, of course, is yet to be written, and the people of the West, now being made aware of what has been designed for them must choose to either take back their liberties or to hand their newly won second citizen status to the successive generations.

And this isn’t even the only way that the West is bringing on its own destruction.

by Robert Spencer | June 12, 2026

Red Green Alliance. Image via AI

Shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain has become notorious in recent years for a two-tier justice system in which Muslim migrants receive preferential treatment over native Britons. Those who dare to protest this and other injustices are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, while the Labour government continues to cover up Muslim rape gang activity and turn a blind eye to migrant criminality in general.

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Peloni:  The development of counter drone technology is proceeding, but the timeline of maximizing integration strategies and achieving battlefield dominance will be in the coming years, not months.  The consequence of this reality will come at significant battlefield costs.

Counter Drone Technology is Gaining Traction

Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Jun 13, 2026

Blaze following successful Iranian attack on US Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain in March 2026. Screengrab via Youtube

Drones have not only become a potent battlefield weapon but they also have deep strike capability. Ukraine has used them to stymie Russia on the battlefield and to destroy high value targets on Russian territory, including critical infrastructure and important military installations.

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