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New Trump move 'puts us in danger' of 'brutal' Iran 'retaliation': conservative
Donald Trump's latest move "puts us in danger," according to a former Republican strategist Wednesday.Conservative anti-Trump activist Rick Wilson, who co-founded the Lincoln Project and hosts the group's podcast, published a Substack post called The Only Thing Trump Obliterated Is The Truth in which he argues that Trump's "boasting triumphalism about Iran puts us in danger."For starters, according to Wilson, Trump's move to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities wasn't the big success the president is claiming."No matter what, he was going to declare total victory. It’s as ludicrous as the claims that he’s 6’4” and 225lbs, that he won the 2020 election, or that he’s ever given a woman an orgasm," Wilson wrote. "The reality, as usual, is more complicated, and since we live in the real world, not in his lurid power fantasies, it is more dangerous."Wilson stresses that, while the military did their job perfectly, Iran's nuclear setup is just too complex to be bombed away in a one-day attack."In the real world (you know, the one not curated for Truth Social dopamine hits), Iran’s nuclear program is not just a collection of buildings. It’s a network of facilities, knowledge, materials, and scientists, some hidden, some mobile, and all guarded by one of the most ruthless internal security forces on the planet," Wilson wrote. "Iran’s nuclear apparatus has redundancies, backups, and tunnels deeper than Trump’s daddy issues."Wilson added that Trump is "dreaming if he thinks this will be free of consequence for America." He notes the consequences will be "brutal."Answering the question of, "So what does Iran do now?" Wilson says, "Iran’s IRGC fights in the shadows, with murders, bombings, kidnappings, and cyber warfare. They won’t respond with a giant red button push and a convenient missile launch.""Retaliation will come, but not in the form Trump fantasizes about," the strategist added. "What’s far more likely are asymmetric responses: a car bomb in a European capital targeting American or Israeli diplomats. American tourists snatched and held hostage. A mysterious fire at some American shipping or logistics hub in Iraq. A cyberattack that cripples Gulf oil infrastructure. A drone strike on a U.S. ship in the Red Sea. Attacks on the American power grid in the peak of this hellish summer. Maybe even a targeted assassination of American troops in Europe or the Middle East."He added:"Iran’s response won’t be broadcast with a countdown clock. It’ll come like all their dark work, in ways that are deniable, precise, and bloody. They’re masters at using proxies to execute their horrors."Read the full post here.
‘Deeply unserious’: Karoline Leavitt mocked for blasting ‘flat-out wrong' intel
The Defense Intelligence Agency is disputing President Donald Trump's assessment that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated," CNN reported Tuesday. Now that the White House is trying to spin the news, press secretary Karoline Leavitt is drawing ridicule from online critics.In a statement to CNN, Leavitt claimed, “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration."The denial-non-denial drew swift mockery. CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene highlighted a key quote from the report, "The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said they disagreed with it.”Rolling Stone politics reporter Nikki McCann Ramírez quipped, "There are moments when you can very clearly tell that Karoline Leavitt is a 27 year old and this right here is one of them.""I’m sorry, so she is admitting the assessment says what it says, she is admitting it’s so sensitive that they classified it as Top Secret, but they’re claiming it’s wrong? Are we classifying false information?" asked national security lawyer Bradly P. Moss. "One problem with 'everyone around Trump has to talk like Trump' is that the U.S. government is now loaded with officials incapable of basic communication. This is simply not a credible statement, and that's without taking into account that Karoline Leavitt lies about everything all the time," wrote defense attorney Max Kennerly on Bluesky."Don't miss this incredible spin from WH press sec Karoline Leavitt, who claims the US intel assessment is 'flat-out wrong,'" mocked Status News' Jon Passantino."Deeply unserious people," blasted film and television editor Jennifer Van Goethem. "Obliterated, not," joked former White House reporter Ron Fournier.Jim Roberts, contributing editor to The 74, agreed, citing Trump's characterization, "So, not 'totally obliterated.'" He also posted a photo of former President George W. Bush standing below a "Mission Accomplished" banner in 2003."It gets even better*: Karoline Leavitt is now saying this assessment is 'flat-out wrong' and leaked by a 'low-level loser,'" cited Stephen Rea, senior researcher at the Critical Internet Studies Institute. "*'Better' for people who like dark schadenfreude. Tbc, all of this is awful, hundreds of Iranian and Israeli civilians were killed, and it’s all indefensible."Author Don Winslow commented, "Notice the statement from @PressSec Karoline Leavitt does NOT say the assessment is fake or wrong. Its specific language actually confirms it is true. NOTHING was 'obliterated' Trump hyped it and lied like he does everything."However, Nadav Pollak, lecturer at Reichman University on the Middle East, criticized, "I have to say the speed in which US intel agencies leak to the press is truly insane. Now to the content of the assessment - I find it hard to rely on assessments without understanding the underlying intel sources. Is it based on Sigint? Visint? BDA analysis? (1) . Second, with all due respect to the DIA, isn’t it the same agency that 'assessed' that Kyiv will fall in 15 days? Or that Israel won’t be able to defeat Hezbollah? Or that Israel won’t be able to operate freely in #Iran? Maybe we should doubt more their assessments (2)"He urged folks to beware of "assessments," particularly when being leaked to the press. "And BTW, from my experience, sometimes it takes weeks for the country being bombed to even understand what damage was done, so I don't think we have definitive answers now. Wait several weeks before you deem it a failure (4)," he added.
'Flat out wrong!' White House seethes as secret report undercuts Iran claim
A new report obtained by CNN from the Pentagon's intelligence division concluded that President Donald Trump's strike on Iran only set back the country's nuclear program by months.Sources briefed on the report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, told CNN that it drastically undercut Trump's claim that the facilities had been "obliterated"."Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed," CNN's report said. "One of the people said the centrifuges are largely 'intact.'""So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops," the person revealed.CNN's Natasha Bertrand pointed out that intelligence agencies were still gathering information."But based on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by US Central Command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the Defense Intelligence Agency, has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months," she said. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged the existence of the report but insisted the Trump administration disagreed with it."This alleged assessment is flat out wrong and was classified as top secret, but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous low-level loser in the intelligence community," Leavitt said.Watch the video below from CNN.
'A step backward': Lindsey Graham dumps all over Trump's 'ceasefire'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Donald Trump's effort to negotiate a ceasefire between Iran and Israel could be "a step backward."During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Graham said he was not optimistic about the ceasefire."I want to praise President Trump and his team for Operation Midnight Hammer," Graham said. "As to the ceasefire, it's a good thing if it leads to peace. It will be a step backward if it leads to the ability of Iran to rearm and retool.""And the head atomic scientists in Iran, the one who's still alive, said they're going right back to enrichment," he continued. "So I'm not so sure we've solved the problem yet.""Would I characterize you as optimistic in this moment?" Fox News host Sandra Smith asked. "I will not be optimistic until I hear the Iranian regime say publicly, we recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation and the Jewish people's right to live in peace with the rest of the region," Graham insisted. "When they say that, I will have a sense of optimism I don't have today.""There can be no peace between Iran and Israel until Iran decides to change your policy, which is the regime policy of destroying the state of Israel and killing all the Jews," he added. "Until that changes, nothing really changes. The program has been decimated, but the people who are in charge will come right back at Israel.""So I'm looking for regime change in this sense: for Iran to abandon its desire to destroy Israel, to recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation."Watch the video below from Fox News.
'Find an offramp — quickly': Expert delivers grim warning to Trump
One foreign policy expert is warning President Donald Trump that he should "find an off-ramp" in his conflict with Iran. National security analyst Joe Cirincione, who serves as the vice chair of the board of directors of the Center for International Policy, told MSNBC on Monday afternoon that Iran appears to be taking steps forward to publicly ramp up its effort to build nuclear weapons. MSNBC host Katy Tur cited reports that the Iranian parliament agreed to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy."Well, that could be seen as a step towards their withdrawal from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. They are a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Cirincione explained. "It bans them from having nuclear weapons. This is the kind of step they would take if they were, in fact, intending to move towards the construction of a nuclear bomb."Tur asked if that was the case, what advice he would give the United States. "Find an off ramp quickly, as the IAEA director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, told the U.N. Security Council over the weekend, it looks like Iran has," Cirincione urged. "In fact," he added, they "moved some of their highly enriched uranium gas out of the facilities that we're in. We know from satellite imagery, we could see trucks moving into some of these facilities before the airstrikes, apparently moving some of this gas. We don't know where it is. The IAEA doesn't know where it is. We've seen no indication from the administration that they know where it is. And this is the danger. While these strikes have certainly conducted damage to the facilities, as you were just discussing, it doesn't appear that we got the 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium."He noted that it could be "fed back into centrifuges" at other sites, which are unknown to the intelligence community. They could convert it to the core of a bomb within five days and "build 10 bombs" within two weeks. "They may have already done it."See his clip in the video below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be
Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize
Islamabad says US president helped resolve India conflict but critic says ‘Israel’s sugar daddy in Gaza’ not candidate for any prizePakistan has said it will recommend Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize for his work in helping to resolve the recent conflict between India and Pakistan.The move, announced on Saturday, came as the US president mulls joining Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear facilities. Continue reading...
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