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Peloni:  Is Turkey going to continue in its role as the catfish of the Middle East, swallowing nations as they lie defeated and vulnerable to Turkish sourced intrigues as was seen to be the consequence of Israel having hollowed out Hezbollah in Syria?  Is this what is fueling Trump’s preference of Regime Transformation over Regime Change as described by Mike Doran in a recent podcast?

Jonathan Schanzer | Mar 4, 2026

By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

The US military and the Israeli Defense Forces continue unleashing their might on the Iranian regime — and precise intelligence, overwhelming firepower and a bit of good luck could soon usher the downfall of the Islamic Republic.

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Peloni:  This is an important article.  Washington needs to recognize the legal hurdles of legislation aimed at dealing with Sharia which have limited potential of dealing with the problem.  Amy Mek describes both the problems inherent in anti-Sharia legislation and the how best to preserve Western values in the face of the expansion of Sharia inside the US by reinforcing protections of actual religious freedoms.

Amy Mek | X | Mar 4, 2026

Dame Justice. Photo by Sang Hyun Cho – Pixabay, CC0, Wikipedia

To Our Leaders:….

Well-intentioned bills that try to stop courts from enforcing Sharia-based decisions if they violate our rights sound good on paper. But they almost always fail in reality.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | March 05, 2026

Is the threat from the Ayatollah regime only a Middle Eastern concern? Think again. This video explores why the Iranian regime’s “Great Satan” ideology places the US directly in its crosshairs, completely independent of its hostility toward Israel.

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by Gerald A. Honigman

Kurdish Soldiers Qameshli, Syria. Photo by Yan Boechat/VOA – Voice of America, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Recently, President Trump sent out a mass mailing asking if fellow Americans supported his long delayed military actions in Iran.

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Peloni:  This report of a Kurdish ground incursion was initially sourced to Fox News, but in the hours which have passed since the report first became public, there is no clear evidence on the ground of an actual incursion taking theplace.  Furthermore, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan has denied the accuracy of this report is accurate, despite the reports from US and Israeli sources.  So, with this in mind, was this an actual info op, intended to threaten the Iranian regime of the potential use of the Kurdish and other separatist groups in Iran so as to draw them to the negotiating table?  One consequence for all of this is that IRGC forces are currently targeting Kurdish  opposition strongholds, something which should not have been altogether unexpected following reports by Trump of having interest in using these opposition forces for the purpose described in the below report.   

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Seth J. Frantzman | Mar 4, 2026

Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. Photo by William LewisDerivative: User:MathKnight – WikiCommons: File:230322-F-UT528-1038 – Red Flag-Nellis 23-2, 22-24 Mar, 2023.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

Israel has carried out 1,600 “strike sorties” against Iran since the joint US-Israeli military operation began on the morning of February 28, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 4. Iran has responded by launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, resulting in 10 people killed and dozens wounded over the first four days of the conflict.

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Israel under simultaneous fire from Iran & Hezbollah | IDF orders evacuation of entire southern Lebanon | CENTCOM says operations ‘ahead of schedule’ 

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 4, 2026

16:35 – No reports of victims, limited damage after Hezbollah and Iranian attacks over past hour

There were no reports of injuries or significant damage after numerous drone and rocket attacks were launched by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border areas, and by Iran, which fired a ballistic missile that triggered alarms across central Israel, including the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv areas.

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MEMRI | March 4, 2026

Iran’s Ambassador to Qatar Ali Saleh Abadi (center) with Qatari Foreign Ministry official Ibrahim Yousef Fakhro (right) and Qatari Minister of Environment and Climate Change Abdullah Al-Subaie. Screengrab via X, February 5, 2026

In the weeks before the launch of the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Qatar conspicuously sided with Tehran – politically, diplomatically, and in the media – despite its ostensible role as a strategic ally of Washington and as a mediator between the U.S. and Iran. The warming between Doha and Tehran was evident first and foremost in the increasing diplomatic contacts between them in that period, alongside Qatar’s blatant disregard for the popular protests in Iran and their violent suppression by the Iranian regime.[1] Thus, on January 31, 2026, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Aal Thani, met in Tehran with the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani.

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Rabbi Jacob Herzog | X | Mar 3, 2026

Translated by Peloni

Image via X

The fate of Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia in detail:

* The Gulf will never return to how it was on the twenty-seventh of last February. The Gulf will not return to how it was on the night of the war with Iran. The element of trust and stability has ended forever, and I will give you the details now.

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The United States and Israel have launched a joint  military campaign against Iran, employing a historic level of bilateral cooperation. While each nation has its own codename for the ongoing operatoin, Operation Epic Fury by the U.S. and Roaring Lion by Israel, their unified effort began with the aim of dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, destroying its ballistic missile and drone capabilities, eliminating its navy, and decapitating its leadership. The ongoing operation follows months of bilateral planning coordinated between U.S. Central Command and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which also included daily coordination their respective leaders, ie CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir. 

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Peloni:  Erin opens with a monologue chastising Megyn Kelly for her offensive and inaccurate claim that American soldiers are fighting for Israel.  Later, in an interview with Elliot Abrams, Abrams raises the concern that it is a mistake that Pres. Trump has not directly addressed the American people from the Oval Office, and adds his weight behind the lack of clarity for the aims of the war in Iran.  He notes that the support for Trump entering this war is not strong, and that this might be strengthened with an Address to the Nation and better explaining what the aims of the war actually are.  Erin next talks with Israeli DM Gideon Sa’ar.  They address casualties of the war as well as effect of the Iranian strikes on the Arab countries.  Among other matters, they also discuss the emerging conflict in Lebanon and what victory in Iran might look like.

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Peloni:  Hypocrisy is a favorite undertaking of Western leaders in challenging that Israel should simply be more conciliatory as they are relentlessly attacked, that they should be more tolerant as terror attacks fill Israeli streets, and that they should be more restrained as threats made against them by hostile terror states are put into action.

by Seth Mandel | Commentary | Mar 2, 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starme. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street. Photo by Number 10 – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Iran in October 2024 were carefully designed to avoid hitting Iran’s nuclear program or destroying its energy infrastructure. They did, however, prove to Tehran that Israel had the capability to hit targets inside Iran virtually at will and to take control of Iranian airspace.

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US has sunk ‘the entire’ Iranian Navy, says CENTCOM chief Adm. Cooper: ‘We’ve just begun’

All Israel News Staff | Published: March 4, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit on the end of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas at the Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, October 13, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok –Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

U.S. President Donald Trump denied that Israel had forced the U.S. into launching military strikes on Iran on Tuesday, claiming that, if anything, it was he who may have forced Israel, based on his belief that Iran was planning a preemptive attack.

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The Iranian examples.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Mar 04, 2026

Photo by Kevin Kandlbinder on Unsplash

The world was astounded when beepers began exploding across Lebanon killing and maiming the top echelon of the Hezbollah terror regime. It turned out that Israel had set up an export company that delivered lethal communication equipment directly into the hands of their enemy agents which exploded when Israel paged them.

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Peloni: The stark honesty and earnest context with which this essay is framed should serve as an eternal promise that that which was suffered on October 7 should never lose the fragile solemness which marked the terrible horrors of that day, and which should characterize it for all time. A sense of cold helplessness swept over not just our people but the whole world that day, as the streams of terror were screamed thru chats, phone calls, and emails, only to find that ever greater horrors were to be later revealed as having been enshrined in the personal recordings of Go-pro’s made by the terror hordes. These recorded trophies were of course meant to be later cherished in some future memorialized vicarious retelling of their fiendish revelry of ‘having killed Jews,’ something explained further in the surreal confession of one of the celebratory terrorists relating his acts of happy barbarism with his family in real time.  Indeed, the striking contrast which stands between this celebratory mindset of these savages and the solemnity surrounding the acts of terror perpetrated on their victims should reveal itself as the proper distinction between abject evil and the decency of mankind – in essence, it is the difference between the barbarians of old and modern civilization.  So, as explained by Norma Zager below, “it will always be too soon to laugh at this new level of malevolence that has infected the civilized world,”  and this is because there is no humor to be found in a war being waged to retrograde the modern world back to the state of subjugation and depravity as was normal in 7th Century Arabia, and this should be understood to be even more true while the outcome of that war is still before us.

By Norma Zager

Most comedians are familiar with a question they ask frequently of an audience when doing topical humor.

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Peloni: Yishai Fleischer interviews Dr. Mordechai Kedar and they discuss the fallout surrounding the execution of Khamenei.  Towards the end of the interview they raise the topic of what the endgame of the war might be, to which Dr. Kedar asserts rather conclusively that the outcome will see Iran being broken apart.  So, will the final outcome of the liberation of Iran come to be realized in the form of multiple smaller states?  This debate between the continued unity of Iran and it being dissembled into a series of states based on the member ethnic groups is best described by Dr. Martin Sherman and Dr. Harold Rhodes in characterizing the benefits and rationales for these two models for the Day After the Mullahs.  Personally, I think the better outcome for everyone will be found in multiple smaller states, and this likelihood is increased as Pres. Trump has recently suggested that he might make use of the militant groups associated with the separatist ethnic groups.

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Peloni:  Mike Doran and Gadi Taub discuss the conclusion that when Trump calls for Regime Change in Iran, he is actually signalling Regime Transformation, as explained below.  An important point confirming this suggestion is Trump’s recent comment explaining that many of the potential future leaders with whom he contemplated possibly engaging actually died in the attack alongside Khamenei.

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A very interesting and thought provoking conversation by Mike Doran and Gadi Taub regarding the future paths of war and peace in Iran.  In the first 30 minutes, Mike argues that Trump is straddling the line between premiere policies pursued by both Obama and George W. Bush, i.e. the JCPOA and regime change, both of which Trump has been highly vocal in criticizing over the years.  He argues that Trump is in fact trying to not be Bush while also not being Obama leaves him with the choice of pursuing regime transformation rather than preserving or replacing the regime in Iran.

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The US and Israel air forces struck with precision, based on exquisite intelligence, and wiped out the wicked Ayatollah and his evil senior leadership team in one fell swoop. And that’s for starters.

Leonard Grunstein | Mar 3, 2026

IDF strikes inside Tehran, Mar 1, 2026. Screengrab via Youtube. 

Iran’s aggression against the United States:

It began, shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, under the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader, with the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and holding of 52 American hostages.

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