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Tucker Carlson Denounces Trump’s Iran Attack as ‘Absolutely Disgusting and Evil’

Carlson's criticism is notable as he recently visited the White House and has long warned against armed conflicts in the Middle East. 

 

By Joe DePaolo 

 

Mediaite

Feb 28, 2026

 

 

 

Tucker Carlson has come out strongly against the the U.S-Israel attack on Iran — ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports.

Karl posted a video to X, Saturday, in which he revealed that he reached out to Carlson for his take on President Donald Trump’s decision to attack. And Carlson was unsparing his assessment.

“Absolutely disgusting and evil,” Carlson said — according to Karl.

The criticism is particularly notable given that Carlson visited the White House just last week in an apparently effort to retain his influence with the president. Carlson has long warned of the dangers of another armed conflict in the Middle East.

Karl explained why he sought out Carlson’s take on the news.

“[Carlson is] just one person, a prominent one in Trump’s movement,” Karl said. “But this is a momentous and potentially defining or maybe redefining move for President Trump. He got into politics, in part, promising to end what he called forever wars. He was harshly critical of the war with Iraq. He claimed that he had always been against it. And now he finds himself starting what could be a major conflict with Iran.”

IRAN STRIKES BACK AS THE SUPREME LEADER AIN'T NO MO

Dubai's famous Burj Al Arab hotel ablaze after being 'hit by suicide drone' after Iranian kamikaze attacks on Palm Jumeirah and Bahrain skyscraper

 

By Robert Folker 

 

Daily Mail

Feb 28, 2026

 

 

Footage captured the moment the five-star Palm Jumeirah Fairmont Hotel was hit and set ablaze by an Iranian missile

 

Dubai's famous Burj Al-Arab hotel caught alight after being 'hit by an Iranian suicide drone' as Tehran launched UAV attacks on Western enclaves across the Middle East today in retaliation for US air strikes.

Footage showed the five-star hotel ablaze with Dubai authorities saying debris from an intercepted drone caused the fire at the city's famed luxury hotel.

Nearby four people were hurt at Dubai's popular Palm Jumeirah hotel  after being hit by a suicide drone launched from Iran hours after US and Israeli air strikes hit Tehran

Suicide drones also attacked residential skyscrapers in Bahrain, with missiles launched from Iran hitting US bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.

Dramatic footage and images captured the moment the Palm Jumeirah Fairmont Hotel in Dubai was hit by a Shahed drone, with an Iranian suicide drone also striking a tower block in Bahrain.

The Dubai media office confirmed four people were injured in the strikes on the hotel, which is popular among Western tourists, with witnesses saying ambulances had rushed to the scene.

'Dubai Civil Defence has confirmed that the resulting fire is now under control. Four individuals sustained injuries and have been transferred to medical facilities,' it added.

Video footage also showed the moment a high-rise building in Bahrain, believed to be the luxury apartment building Era View Tower, was struck by an Iranian suicide drone, hours after strikes targeted the major US naval base in the state.

A huge fireball erupted towards the top of the high-rise building, with debris scattering and falling onto the surrounding area below. It is not known at this stage if there are any casualties.

Iran also hit the US's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, with a huge mushroom of smoke captured billowing into the sky following an explosion.

Dubai authorities said debris from an intercepted drone caused the fire at the city's famed luxury hotel 

 

Footage showed the Burj Al-Arab hotel ablaze after being 'targeted by an Iranian suicide drone'

Dubai authorities said debris from an intercepted drone caused the fire at the city's famed luxury hotel

The Palm Jumeirah Fairmont hotel was hit by a Shahed suicide drone launched from Iran hours after US and Israeli air strikes hit Tehran

Suicide drones also attacked residential skyscrapers in Bahrain

Smoke rises from a burning building in Bahrain, believed to be the luxury apartment building Era View Tower hit by an Iranian drone strike

Four people are said to have been injured in the attack, according to the Dubai media office, with witnesses stating ambulances rushed to the scene

A huge fireball erupted towards the top of the high-rise building, with debris scattering and falling onto the surrounding area below. It is not known at this stage if there are any casualties 

Smoke rises after Iran carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of the US's 5th Fleet in Bahrain 

 

The US and Israel launched strikes on targets in several Iranian cities on Saturday, including the offices of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, sending explosions and plumes of smoke over the capital, Tehran. 

Israeli media outlet Channel 12 said unnamed Israeli sources revealed there were 'growing indications' the leader had been killed during this morning's air strikes or that he was 'hurt at the very least'.

Iran has so far launched revenge attacks across the region, with missile strikes in Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Videos posted on social media show the famous Palm Jumeirah Fairmont Hotel - which is popular with tourists - on fire, with plumes of smoke billowing into the sky, something Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned in a call with her Emirati counterpart.

The sheer speed of the missile - which is said to be able to fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound - can be heard on video footage cutting through the air before blasting into the hotel. 

Located a half-an-hour drive from Dubai International Airport, rooms at the opulent hotel average £292 a night, while guests wanting a more upmarket stay in the presidential suite can spend closer to £828 a night.

The hotel is located on Dubai's famed man-made island The Palm.

Hundreds of thousands of British nationals are currently thought to be present in the Gulf. 

British influencer Will Bailey, who has just landed in Dubai and was sitting poolside at the hotel, said: 'That was metres away from us. Look at this.

'That is the Fairmont hotel in Dubai. Oh my God, oh my God.'

He added: 'Oh my days, over the beach club is f****** mental. Literally directly above us. That is insane. They were so loud.

'I have no words. In the safest city in the world. Wow.'

Meanwhile Samantha, who lives in Dubai Hills, saw the missile pass over her head some 26km away from the hotel.

'It's panic. Total panic. I saw it passing above my head', she said, speaking to the Daily Mail. 'I'm stressed out because any one little part of a missile could come on top of our building.'

And with the United Arab Emirates having said it has now 'partially and temporarily' closed its airspace as a precaution, according to state media, Brits trying to flee the country have found themselves stuck. 

One such passenger was forced off a plane from Dubai back to London just minutes after boarding as flights in and out of the Emirati nation were grounded.

Mike Boreham was on the British Airways flight 108 to Heathrow Airport with hundreds of others when the UAE came under fire from retaliatory Iranian missiles.

He told The Independent: 'We were all boarded. The flight is completely full.

'About ten minutes after the "boarding complete" announcement, we were told airspace is closed.'

The UAE evacuated the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, amid the attacks, Turkiye Today reported, as all flights in and out of Dubai have been cancelled.

After the UAE's airspace was closed, many flights heading to Dubai were forced to return to their starting points.

Services by Emirates from Dublin, Turkish Airlines to Istanbul and LOT Polish Airlines to Warsaw were all grounded as the country locked down.

Many major airlines have similarly cancelled or diverted flights to and from the Middle East amid safety concerns.

Bosses at Heathrow Airport, which is the UK's busiest air terminus, have urged passengers to check with their airline for updates. 

The British Foreign Office's travel guidance for Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Oman now advises travellers to 'remain vigilant, follow local authority advice and take shelter if advised'.

It has also warned against all travel to Israel and Palestine and has urged Brits already in other Middle Eastern countries to 'immediately shelter in place'.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: 'Due to the threat posed by escalation in the region, we recommend against all travel to Israel and Palestine.

'On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel commenced joint military action in Iran. Israeli airspace has now closed.'

British nationals in the region have been urged to take 'sensible precautions', including following advice from local authorities, staying away from military facilities and making sure their travel documents are up to date.

Any people from the UK in Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait have also been advised to immediately shelter in place.

The update read: 'Remain indoors in a secure location, avoid all travel and follow instructions from the local authorities.'

Israeli sources said today that President Donald Trump specifically targeted Iran's supreme leader in its first wave of joint missile strikes with Israel.

Both Khamenei's palace and compound in Tehran are reported to have been destroyed in today's operation.

Two Israeli television networks said Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump were shown the image after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's body was recovered from the rubble of his compound. 

It comes after Israel's Prime Minister had said in a televised address on Saturday evening that 'there are signs' that Iran's Supreme Leader is dead.

Netanyahu said airstrikes have destroyed Khamenei's compound, adding that 'all indications show this tyrant is no longer with us'.

However, Iran's Foreign Ministry said earlier this evening that the Supreme Leader and the country's president were both alive and well.

'They are all safe and sound,' a spokesperson told Sky News.

Video footage from Tehran shows smoke billowing into the sky above Khamenei's compound this morning, which is understood to be used as his official residence in the Iranian capital.

'Senior Israeli officials were informed of Khamenei's elimination,' reported public broadcaster Kan. 

Screams and giggles could be heard ringing out from a nearby rooftop as onlookers watched the blast. 'Oh my God they hit it. They struck it. Oh my God,' one woman shouts.

It comes after it was reported that the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and 'architect' of the regime's brutal crackdown against protesters is already said to have been killed in the strikes.

Israeli sources said they believed that IRGC commander General Mohammad Pakpour has been eliminated, adding that several senior military officials are understood to have been killed.

Elsewhere, a wave of US and Israeli strikes also hit Bushehr, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Isfahan and southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure and an area said to be housing Iran-supporting militia groups in al-Nasr, Iraq.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump told the Ayatollah to either 'surrender or die' as he announced the US had launched strikes across several cities in Iran.

He said: 'To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity.

'Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death.'

Iran said there would be a 'crushing response' and launched missiles across Israel including in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

In a statement, the country's military said that all US 'bases, resources and assets' are 'legitimate targets'.

Dramatic footage showed the moment Iran hit the US's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, with a huge mushroom of smoke billowing into the sky following an explosion.

Iran also targeted US infrastructure at Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, sparking fears the Middle East may now be on the brink of all-out war.

Explosions have also been heard in the Syrian city of Damascus and in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, apparently as a result of Israeli missile interceptions.

The Operation has been named 'Lion's Roar' by Israel and 'Epic Fury' by the US Department of Defense, which Trump has renamed the Department of War. 

 

People take cover from incoming missiles fired from Iran at an undergoing train station in Tel Aviv

Israelis taking shelter at an underground train station as they prepare for retaliatory missile strikes

An image shows smoke billowing from a building after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday morning

 

It is understood that the UK did not participate in the attacks, and Sir Keir Starmer said Iran must 'refrain from indiscriminate military strikes' in a joint statement with the leaders of France and Germany, condemning the country's attacks on its neighbours.

UK citizens have been urged to shelter by the British embassy in Doha, while Qatar also warned residents via an alert to stay indoors and away from military bases.

The UK withdrew its diplomatic staff from Iran on Friday due to security worries, while staff in the British embassy in Tel Aviv and their dependents have been moved to another location by the Foreign Office. 

The UK Government said its priority is 'the safety of UK nationals' in the Middle East but that it is 'ready to protect our interests'.

A Government spokesperson said: 'Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and that is why we have continually supported efforts to reach a negotiated solution.

'Our immediate priority is the safety of UK nationals in the region and we will provide them with consular assistance, available 24/7.

'As part of our longstanding commitments to the security of our allies in the Middle East, we have a range of defensive capabilities in the region, which we have recently bolstered. We stand ready to protect our interests.

'We do not want to see further escalation into a wider regional conflict.'

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she supported the strikes on Iran, describing the Tehran government as a 'vile regime' that 'carries out attacks on the UK and on our citizens', sought to build nuclear weapons and 'brutally repressed pro-democracy protests only months ago and murdered thousands of its own people'. 

Meanwhile, Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi has urged Iranians to prepare for an uprising and to take to the streets in the midst of the Islamic Republic's collapse. 

He warned civilians to stay at home for now and to prepare to mobilise, ready for his instructions. 

Describing the US's attacks as 'humanitarian intervention', he reminded security forces they had sworn to protect the Iranian people and not IS and its leaders. 

He urged that if they did not switch sides, they would 'sink' alongside the current regime and Supreme Leader Khamenei. 

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also warned the Iranian regime 'must not be armed with nuclear weapons'. 

'My brothers and sisters, citizens of Israel, a short time ago, Israel and the United States embarked on an operation to remove the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran. 

He said the regime had 'spilled our blood', and 'murdered many Americans, and massacred its own people'. 

 

Israelis run for cover after Iran unleashed retaliatory strikes in the country 

People run for cover following explosions in Tehran on Saturday 

A man looks on as a plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran 

An image shows smoke billowing from a building after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday morning

 

'This murderous terrorist regime must not be armed with nuclear weapons that would allow it to threaten all of humanity,' he said. 

'Our joint action will create the conditions for the courageous Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands.

'The time has come for all segments of the Iranian people - the Persians, the Kurds, the Azeris, the Baluchis, and the Ahwazis - to throw off the yoke of tyranny and bring about a free and peaceful Iran.

'Together we will stand, together we will fight, and together we will ensure the eternity of Israel.'

In Tehran, witnesses heard the first blast by Khamenei's office on Saturday morning. Iranian state television later reported the explosion, without offering a cause.

There have also been unverified reports of explosions in other locations across Iran including Isfahan, the third biggest city, and Tabriz.

More explosions struck Iran's capital after Israel said it was attacking the country. Authorities have offered no casualty information from the strikes.

Meanwhile, Iran shut down its airspace and mobile phone services were cut as internet access dropped by over half, according to NetBlocks.

Israel has warned its own citizens to prepare to take cover if the Iranians fight back, with sirens already being heard across Israel.

The country's Defense Force said: 'This is a proactive alert to prepare the public for the possibility of missiles being launched toward the State of Israel.'

Airspace above Israel was closed to civilian flights following the strike this morning.

The explosions come as tensions rose between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear programme. 

Earlier today, Trump denounced the regime as the 'world's number one stage sponsor of terror', which had recently killed 'tens of thousands of its own people as they protested'. 

'It has always been the police of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon,' the US president added.

 

Rubble and destroyed buildings in Tehran after the US and Israel launches strikes on the city on February 28, 2026

Smoke billows into the sky of Tehran after Israel launches a second wave of airstrikes on February 28, 2026

A woman runs with her dog for shelter in Haifa, northern Israel after the US and Israel launch strikes on Iran

 

'I will say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.'

'This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the US armed forces,' he later added. 

He then turned his address to the 'great proud people of Iran', saying that their 'hour of freedom' was at hand. 

Warning them to stay sheltered and at home, he urged them to 'take' their government after the US operation is over.  

'This will probably be your only chance for generations,' he said. 'For many years, you have asked for America's help, but you never got it.'

'No president was willing to do what I was willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is willing to give you what you want.

'So let's see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. 

'Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is in your reach. 

'This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass. May god bless the brave men and women of America's armed forces. 

'May god bless the United States of America. May god bless you all.'

IN PRAISE OF TRUMP

Trump’s courageous decision to face Tehran head-on

More kicking the can down the road, appeasing Tehran’s nuclear program, missiles and its relentless quest for terror, is not an option. The reality is that the regime must go. 

 

By Jonathan S. Tobin 

 

JNS

Feb 28, 2026

 

 

An “NBC News” live feed airs a clip from U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social video announcement in the White House James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 28, 2026. He announced that the United States and Israel had launched an attack on Iran Saturday morning.

 

The strongest argument that President Donald Trump’s political opponents can muster to decry his decision to order American forces to join with Israel to act against Iran is that he is launching a “war of choice,” rather than seeking to avert an imminent threat to American interests or security. Even his sternest critics, such as the editorial page of The New York Times, acknowledged that the government of Iran is not merely a brutal oppressor and a constant threat to the rest of the Middle East as well as to the West, but also combines a “murderous ideology with nuclear ambitions.”

Every U.S. president for the last quarter-century has asserted that America will never let Iran get a nuclear weapon and was prepared to use force to prevent that from happening. But only Trump seems to have fully grasped the stark nature of the threat that Tehran poses to the United States—and the world.

Halfway measures won’t work

And now, after last year’s U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, followed by a renewed effort at diplomacy that predictably failed due to the Islamists’ intransigence, he has faced up to the choice that the West has always confronted with respect to Iran. The Iranian threat cannot be ignored, reasoned with or appeased. It cannot be pressured through sanctions or bribed, as former President Barack Obama once put it, “to get right with the world.” Halfway measures that combine threats of force with elements of other approaches also won’t work.

Since they seized power 47 years ago, leaders of the Islamic Republic have been animated by one big idea—a religious war to the death against the non-Islamic world. Their slogans of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” are not talking points or empty rhetoric. They are the essential purpose of the regime’s existence. Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. It is responsible for numerous attacks on Western and American attack, as well as for helping to foment and organize the genocidal war waged against Israel by its main terrorist auxiliaries and allies: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

And that is why Trump’s willingness to declare his intention to topple the Islamist regime is not so much a “war of choice” as one of necessity. It has been put off for decades by his predecessors, who lacked the vision or the will to see that the West simply cannot allow a government whose aim is to spread terror and intimidate America and its allies to continue to carry out those threats.

In the end, it will be up to the Iranian people, who have in recent months taken to the streets to protest their oppressors and been slaughtered by them in the tens of thousands, to seize control in Tehran. Neither the United States nor Israel seeks to occupy Iran or impose a government on it. It is hoped that some regime elements will conclude that Iran must change and work with protesters to end the long Islamist reign of terror there. But both nations are entirely in the right in acting to strip this murderous regime of its military hardware and facilities that would fulfill its ambitions for weapons of mass destruction, as well as to take out its criminal leaders.

Undoing the mistakes of his predecessors

Seen in that context, Trump’s bold move is neither reckless nor an invitation to another “forever” war to bog down American forces and drain them of their ability to resist aggression elsewhere in the world. It is, instead, a long-put-off and entirely necessary action designed to prevent the Islamic regime from continuing its destructive and bloody war on the West.

If there is anything the world should have come to understand in the last 47 years, it is that there is no living with a regime wedded to a generational jihad against all those who do not share its medieval religious fanaticism, including Western nations, Israel and Arab nations who want no part of this mad quest. Nothing short of its overthrow will be enough to stop its long-running campaign first to destroy Israel and then the West.

That is a stark truth that the Western and American foreign-policy establishment has spent the last few decades trying to ignore.

Former President George W. Bush, distracted by his unsuccessful wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, prevaricated on Iran, leaving the problem to his successors. Obama sought to appease Tehran. His 2015 nuclear pact actually guaranteed that the regime would get a nuclear weapon rather than preventing it. That empowered and enriched the mullahs, thus increasing the Islamist regime’s ability to inflict terror and instability throughout the Middle East, and to advance its quest for regional hegemony. Former President Joe Biden ineffectively sought to revive that same failed policy.

In his first term, Trump correctly understood that sooner or later, an American leader was going to have to face up to the disaster that Obama had created. He abandoned the nuclear deal in May 2018 and sought, via a “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions, to force Tehran to understand that it must not only abandon its nuclear quest but its war on the West and Israel as well. The religious fanatics who run Iran might never have surrendered their ambitions, and we will never know if that approach would have succeeded had Trump been re-elected in 2020. Biden’s decision to return to Obama’s disastrous policies and effectively end sanctions ensured that diplomacy would never succeed in dealing with the threat. And then, the spectacle of America’s disastrous and rapid retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021 helped convince Tehran that the United States was too weak and feckless to resist it.

Those colossal blunders led directly to Iran’s renewed push to dominate the Middle East and eliminate all obstacles to that goal. The Hamas-led, Palestinian-Arab terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, were the most obvious result of Biden’s retreat.

The subsequent war, however, didn’t work out as Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei thought it would.

Israel was unprepared and badly damaged on Oct. 7. But despite the efforts of the Biden administration to hamstring its war of self-defense against Hamas in Gaza and Iran’s Hezbollah auxiliaries in Lebanon, which started attacking from the north on Oct. 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF persevered, and the terrorists weren’t granted impunity for their crimes. That happened amid an international propaganda campaign on social media, in city streets and on college campuses aimed at demonizing the Jewish state. Though Hamas was allowed to survive in part of the Strip and should not be left in place, it is badly weakened. Just as important, Hezbollah and its arsenal, which was long thought to be too strong for Israel to challenge, suffered devastating defeats in 2024.

That, in turn, led to the fall of the Syrian government—led by longtime dictator and Iran ally Bashar Assad—in December of that same year.

A historic opportunity

These catastrophic reversals of fortune also had the effect of reviving efforts by the majority of the Iranian people, who oppose its repressive regime, to take to the streets these past two months and seek an end to the mullahs’ tyranny. The subsequent mass murder of civilians again illustrated to the world the necessity of no longer tolerating or enabling these Islamist oppressors. The weakness of its rulers, along with the 12-day joint U.S.-Israel military offensive that degraded three nuclear sites last June, gave Washington the chance to make history and change the direction of the Middle East from one dominated by Iranian terror to one where reason can prevail.

Still, Trump gave diplomacy another try, sending his Mideast envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to meet with Iran’s representatives and attempt to work out a deal that would, unlike Obama’s pact, actually end the nuclear threat and avoid more fighting.

But rather than choosing to take advantage of this offer, the regime behaved as it has always done—refusing to seriously negotiate while clinging to its “right” to have a nuclear program and refusing to discuss its missiles or terrorism. While their delaying tactics worked like a charm on Obama and his envoys, who eventually bowed to all of Iran’s major demands, Trump was having none of it.

As with so much of what Trump has done with respect to Israel, this again proves that it is the president—and not his liberal and left-wing critics—who grasps the hardcore realities of the region. Putting off a confrontation that strips the Islamist regime of its ability to go on threatening the world hasn’t worked. Drastic action that will topple the mullahs can no longer be put off.

Trump’s opponents and those who have been cheering on the war Tehran was waging on Israel and the West speak of the unintended consequences of this conflict and how they may undermine American interests. But what he is doing is merely a long-postponed push to cope with the consequences of past efforts to appease Iran that led to so much spilled blood. That was the result of Washington following the establishment thinking that Trump has rightly rejected.

A fight to defend American interests

This is no rerun of Bush’s Iraq war. Nor has Trump failed to make the case for dealing with the Islamist regime. Like those who pushed for ceasefires after Oct. 7, the failure to finish off the government that has been waging war on the West and Israel throughout its existence has brought continued war rather than peace.

Nor, despite the claims of the conspiracy theorists and antisemites that increasingly dominate the conversation on both the left and the far right, is this a war that Jerusalem has pushed Washington into waging. Iran’s efforts to annihilate the State of Israel and aid global entities intent on slaughtering Jews are reason enough to make the regime’s end a desirable goal. But in confronting a government that has never wavered from its pursuit of a war on the West, Trump is defending the interests of the United States and its citizens. An evil terrorist regime armed with nukes and missiles is a direct threat to Americans and the civilized world. Throughout its history, it has never hesitated to kill innocents or to seek to harm allies of the United States.

Apologists for Iran and its genocidal goals—on both the left and the right, whether motivated by hatred for Trump or Israel—are outraged by Washington’s decision. It is possible, as some fear, that failure in Iran will boost these destructive forces. But defeat is not an option for the United States, Israel or the West. One way or another, the Iranian regime cannot be allowed to go on terrorizing the world. It must be defeated, and then hopefully replaced, with one that will forsake the nukes, missiles and terror that far too long rendered it an outlaw rogue state.

Trump has shown that he dares to defy the conventional wisdom that the Washington liberal establishment has used to justify inaction or appeasement of Iran. As he did when he moved the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, pulled out of the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, brokered the Abraham Accords and then joined with Israel to inflict grave damage last summer on Tehran’s nuclear program, the president is again correct to refuse to listen to his critics. Though the path ahead will present grave challenges and dangers the administration and its Israeli allies must successfully navigate, the decision to strike—and to topple the mullahs—was both wise and necessary.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

A turning point in the world

Sirens in Israel signal not panic but hope for a region no longer dominated by the Iranian regime's imperial ambition. 

 

By Fiamma Nirenstein 

 

JNS 

Feb 28, 2026

 

 

People take cover from incoming missiles fired from Iran at an undergoing train station in Tel Aviv, Feb. 28. 2026.

 

The Shabbat sirens sent Israelis into shelters again and again, yet the atmosphere remained composed, almost resolved. The Israeli public understands that history sometimes accelerates suddenly, and that when it does, hesitation becomes more dangerous than action.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed the moment in stark terms: Israel is confronting a regime that for decades has killed Americans, shed Jewish blood and brutalized its own citizens, while striving for nuclear capability. The objective of this war is therefore not tactical but historical. It aims to end a permanent threat.

This is what many observers fail to grasp. The American aircraft flying alongside Israeli jets above Tehran represent more than a military maneuver—they sketch a future Middle East no longer dominated by Iranian imperial ambition. Remove the permanent menace and diplomacy becomes possible, because negotiation without coercion can finally exist.

U.S. President Donald Trump could have delayed, accepted another partial nuclear arrangement, or relied on the Iranian regime’s promises regarding enriched uranium. Instead, he concluded that the danger had reached strategic clarity. The choice was not imposed by immediate necessity but by long-term responsibility: a decisive shift rather than endless postponement.

Iran’s power rests on a web—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other proxies—combined with missiles and nuclear ambition aimed far beyond Israel. Ending that network reshapes global security, not merely regional stability. Israel functions as the forward shield, but the consequences reach Europe, the Gulf and beyond.

The reaction across the Middle East already reflects this. States long threatened by Tehran quietly align. A broader architecture emerges—from the Gulf to India and the Eastern Mediterranean—built on shared interests rather than shared fear. Even global rivalries, including Russia’s reliance on Iranian weapons, feel the tremor.

Europe hesitates, speaking the language of concern rather than judgment. Yet history rarely offers moral symmetry.

The Iranian people themselves show the clearest understanding, risking their lives to celebrate blows against their oppressors. Their courage exposes the true dividing line.

They too applaud the Israeli strike on Saturday that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, the cruel leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989.

This moment is therefore exceptional: nations acting not merely for advantage but to dismantle a system of intimidation and fear. Recognition may come slowly. But the possibility of a freer Middle East and a new world has already appeared. Once visible, it cannot easily disappear.

LANDLORDS PISSED OFF AT MAMDANI'S DIRECTOR OD MAYOR'S OFFICE TO PROTECT TENANTS

NYC landlords fire back at ‘racist’ Mamdani aide’s claim that ties homeownership to ‘White supremacy’

Socialist housing official Cea Weaver previously said property should be treated as a 'collective good'

 

By Nikolas Lanum  

 

Fox News

Feb 28, 2026

 

 

Mamdini and Cea Weaver

 

New York City landlords are sharply criticizing remarks from a top housing official in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration who previously linked homeownership to white supremacy, calling the comments “racist” and dismissive of immigrant property owners.

Cea Weaver, a longtime housing activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was tapped by Mamdani to be his director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

Speaking about housing policy and equity in a March 2021 DSA video, Weaver said, “For centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, and we are going to…in transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it differently.”

“Families, especially White families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have,” she added.

Weaver also faced backlash for a 2019 tweet where she wrote, “private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of White supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”

Weaver’s statement drew the attention of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who told Fox News that the “Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is on high alert as to the radical agenda promised by Mayor Mamdani, much of which is at odds with our federal Constitutional and civil rights norms.”

New York City small property owners who spoke with Fox News Digital say Weaver’s views are “insulting,” and paint landlords with a broad and unfair brush.

Jan Lee, a third-generation Chinatown property owner and board member of the Small Property Owners of New York (SPONY), said Weaver’s comments ignore both history and the lived experiences of immigrant landlords.

 

 

Jan Lee previously told Fox News Digital many immigrant landlords came to America to escape socialist and communist countries.

“I think that the true socialist views toward housing and taking housing away from people like myself is the racist element in this,” Lee said. “I think when you start to lump all of us together and say that we’re all the bad thing that’s keeping people out of housing, that’s racist. We’re right out of the gate in this administration, starting off with extreme hostility for property owners.”

Lee emphasized his family’s deep roots in the city, noting that his family has been housing providers in New York City since the early 1900s.

He pushed back forcefully on the notion that property ownership equates to White supremacy, pointing to the history of immigrant communities striving and struggling to acquire a piece of the American dream.

“I think comments from a White woman individual who’s now in this seat of government saying that home ownership is some form of White superiority hasn’t lived the life of my family and many of the families who are small property owners of New York who are not White,” Lee said. “Black owners were barred from owning property. There were laws made against Chinese about Japanese Americans in the United States for owning property, so to say that owning property is a form of White supremacy is completely, completely out of line.”

“And it denies the history that many people of color have had to leave. It’s very insulting when you have the privilege that she has to sit there and say these things in 2026 without understanding that when my family bought our properties, the Chinese Exclusion Act existed. We weren’t even allowed to come into this country,” he continued.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first major U.S. federal law to ban a specific ethnic group, Chinese laborers, from immigrating to the U.S. It suspended immigration for 10 years and denied citizenship to Chinese residents. It was not repealed until 1943.

Ann Korchak, board president of SPONY, echoed Lee’s concerns and called the rhetoric divisive.

“I think that language like that is insulting,” Korchak said. “[Weaver] should come to a SPONY meeting and she would be blown away by the diversity of our organization.”

“New York has a rich tradition of immigrants kind of reaching the American dream through property ownership,” she said. “So many of our members and others who don’t even know that we exist came to America because they didn’t have rights in wherever they came from. Owning property is something that was unattainable to them from where they came,” Korchak said.

“To say that it’s racist to own property is an insult to every single immigrant who ever came here,” she added.

In a January statement announcing Weaver’s appointment, Mamdani said, “You cannot hold landlords who violate the law to account unless you have a proven, principled and tireless fighter at the helm. That is why I am proud today to announce my friend Cea Weaver as the Director of the newly reinvigorated Mayor’s office to protect tenants.”

Weaver said last year that she found her past comments about homeownership and White supremacy “regretful” but, according to the New York Post, stopped short of an apology.

“I think that some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today, and are regretful,” she told NY1. “I do think my sort of decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing sort of stands on its own.”

Lee argued that anti-landlord rhetoric from the Mamdani administration negatively impacts both housing providers and tenants, leaving renters at the mercy of large corporations.

“I think that working face-to-face with real property owners, understanding who they are, their value to the community, and what will keep them in the community is more important than starting off with someone who is vitriolic, who’s very hateful toward property owners and actually sees property ownership through a very narrow myopic lens [and] can only hurt tenants and property owners themselves,” she said.

He also alluded to broader consequences if small landlords are pushed out.

“If you really care about the tenancy and the quality of life of tenants in New York City, particularly those people who are people of color, you should not want small property owners, particularly people who have been embedded in the community for a long time, to leave,” Lee said.

As the Mamdani administration begins shaping its housing agenda, comments from landlords highlight an early and pointed divide between City Hall’s tenant-focused leadership and the city’s small property owners.

According to Korchak, small property owners feel unfairly targeted by rhetoric they believe oversimplifies a complex housing crisis and disregards the immigrant experience.

She also noted that immigrant families in her organization see property ownership as the culmination of years of sacrifice.

“Either immigrants or children of immigrants, grandchildren of immigrants know the sacrifice that either they made themselves or their parents or grandparents made to buy a piece of property,” she said. “To be just shot down and criticized for their desire to do that is grossly unfair.”

Weaver and the mayor’s office did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

GANG DECIDES NOT TO COMMIT ARMED ROBBERY BECAUSE OF NEW GUN CONTROL LAWS

Local Gang Member Cancels Planned Robbery After Learning New Gun Law Takes Effect Monday

 

by Tyler James 

 

That Oregon Life

Feb 26, 2025

 

 

 

PORTLAND, OR — In a stunning triumph for modern public policy, local gang member Rico “Lil Torque” Martinez announced Sunday night that he has canceled a planned armed robbery after discovering that new gun control laws officially take effect Monday morning.

“I mean, I was gonna do it,” Martinez reportedly said while carefully disassembling what authorities describe as “several extremely non-compliant items.” “But once that law kicks in? I’m not trying to break any rules.”

According to sources inside the crew, the robbery had been scheduled for 12:05 a.m. Monday — a detail Martinez now admits was “poor timing in hindsight.”

“We were ready,” said one associate who asked to remain anonymous for legal and, apparently, ethical reasons. “Masks? Packed. Escape route? Timed. Group chat? Lit. Then Rico checks his phone and goes, ‘Yo… fellas… capacity limits.’ And that was it.”

Witnesses say Martinez immediately called an emergency strategy meeting at a folding table behind a vape shop, where he addressed the team with what one member described as “a surprisingly thoughtful tone.”

“He said, ‘We might be gang members, but we’re not animals,’” the associate recalled. “He reminded us there are waiting periods now. We have to respect that.”

The new legislation includes expanded background checks, updated magazine restrictions, and additional purchase regulations — measures Martinez insists he plans to “fully honor moving forward.”

“I didn’t even know criminals were allowed to own more than ten rounds anymore,” he said. “Guess I’ll just have to reschedule.”

Policy advocates hailed the decision as proof the system works.

“This is exactly the outcome we hoped for,” said one supporter of the bill. “When gang members pause violent crime to review compliance guidelines, that’s how you know reform is effective.”

Martinez confirmed that while armed robbery is temporarily off the table, he and his crew are pivoting toward “non-firearm-based opportunities” until they can ensure full regulatory alignment.

“We’re thinking maybe unarmed intimidation,” he said. “But only after we double-check local ordinances.”

At press time, Martinez was reportedly refreshing the state legislature’s website to make sure no additional updates might interfere with a separate carjacking scheduled for next week.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of the satires published by That Oregon Life. If you fell for it the joke's on you. 

COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND USED TO BE RULED BY MARXISTS, BUT THAT IS NO LONGER SO

College of the Mainland drops $2,700 fee for early college students

 

By David Mercado

 

The Galveston County Daily News

Feb 26, 2026 

College of the Mainland

 

TEXAS CITY -- Students enrolled in College of the Mainland’s Collegiate High School program won’t have to pay a $2,700 annual fee starting fall 2026 after trustees voted Monday to eliminate the charge.

Trustees voted to waive the fee for students who qualify under the state’s Financial Aid for Swift Transfer program and to create a financial assistance program for students who don’t qualify but demonstrate financial need.

“At College of the Mainland, making education accessible to every student is our responsibility,” President Dr. Helen Brewer said. “When state funding allows us to reinvest directly back into our students, we do. Removing this fee protects opportunity for families and strengthens the long-term economic future of our region.”

The fee was previously covered by participating school districts. Several districts notified the college they’d stop covering the cost for the 2026-27 academic year and instead require families to pay it, college officials said.

The Collegiate High School program currently enrolls 249 students. Of those, 146 qualify under the state program and 103 don’t, according to college records.

Under the state’s funding formula, the college receives $58.52 per credit hour for eligible students. That amount includes reimbursement for standard tuition plus a $27.52 supplement, which offsets the loss of the annual program fee, administrators said.

Before the change, program revenue relied on two sources: a $31 per credit hour fee and the $2,700 annual program fee.

With the state reimbursement in place, projected revenue under the revised structure totals about $598,800, covering the program’s budget without creating a deficit, administrators said.

The program has surplus grant funding from previous years that could help stabilize the budget if enrollment shifts.

The Collegiate High School program is one of two dual-credit options offered by the college. In traditional dual credit, students take college-level courses at their high school, online or on the college campus and pay tuition under standard dual-credit arrangements.

In the Collegiate High School pathway, students attend classes on the college campus in a structured cohort while completing high school graduation requirements. Many graduate with an associate degree before earning their high school diploma, reducing the time and cost required to complete a bachelor’s degree, officials said.

The revised fee structure takes effect in fall 2026. Additional details about the financial assistance program are expected to be shared with families and partner districts ahead of the 2026-27 academic year, according to the college. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: My son recently took me by COM where I taught from 1970-1993. I didn't recognize the place because it was now 10 times as large as when I was there. 

GOOD MOVE ..... NOW IF TRUMP COULD SHUT DOWN THESE MARXIST INSTITUTIONS WE WOULD BE MUCH BETTER OFF

Hegseth bans military from attending Princeton, Columbia, other elite universities: 'Wokeness and weakness'

War secretary announces ban for 2026-27 academic year, calling Ivy League schools 'factories of anti-American resentment'

 

By Brie Stimson  

 

Fox News

Feb 27, 2026

 

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities such as Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown and Yale starting with the next academic year.

 

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities like Princeton, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown and Yale, starting with the 2026-27 academic year.

Hegseth added that the ban would also include "many others," claiming the higher education system has been "poisoned from within from a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose."

Hegseth’s announcement comes after he similarly banned active-duty service members earlier this month from attending Harvard starting next year.

He accused the universities of gorging themselves for decades on a "trust fund of American taxpayer dollars only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain."

He claimed the universities had replaced "the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weakness."

"This is not education, this is indoctrination," he added.

"The Department of War is finished subsidizing the corruption of our own in uniform class," he said. "We’re done paying for the privilege of our enemies’ wicked ideologies to be taught to our future leaders. We’ve had enough."

"We cannot and will not send our most capable officers, senior officers, into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold."

Hegseth added that the department would also hold itself accountable, starting with a top-to-bottom review of "our own internal war colleges, ensuring they are once again bastions of strategic thought, wholly dedicated to the singular mission of developing the most lethal and effective leaders and war fighters the world has ever known." 

NOTABLE SUICIDE ... ROBERT CARRADINE, COUNT DRACULA'S SON

By Howie Katz

 

                         

Robert Carradine of the famous John Carradine acting family passed away on February 23  at the age of 71 following a nearly two-decade battle with Bipolar Disease.

His death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's office.

 

John Carradine with sons Christopher Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Bruce Carradine and Mike Carradine in 1979.

 

Robert's father John was considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was best known for portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979).

Three of Robert's four brothers,  David, Keith, and Bruce, also turned to acting. Robert's tragic death will be mourned by many movie followers.

AND THEY WONDER WHY CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERED ANTI-BUSINESS

By Bob Walsh

 

Lauren Sanchez (seated, on right) is the chair of the California Air Resources Board. 

 

 

The California Air Resources Board is a tremendously powerful body of unelected government officials.  They have just approved rules, which have the force of law, putting into place the state's Climate Disclosure laws for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions required by SB 253 and SB261.  These rules take effect on August 1 of this year.

These rules apply to U. S. companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue mandating emissions reporting and companies of with more than $500 million in annual revenue must report climate risk disclosure.  It should be noted that these are not necessarily CA based companies but rather companies that do any business whatsoever in CA.

These companies are required to make extensive and expensive "mea culpa" reports to the state of CA confessing their sins.  Pretty much any emissions source can be covered, such as customers driving to and from business locations to purchase goods or services or vehicles being operated by third parties to deliver goods as well as manufacturing.  

There are some exemptions, notably including the insurance industry.  

It is not clear how many companies (if any) will say "fuck you" and shut down business operations in sunny California.

EXCREMENT HITTING THE AIR CIRCULATION DEVICE IN IRAN

By Bob Walsh

People watch as smoke clouds rise over the rooftops of Tehran.

 

 

It seems that Donald Trump is actively pursuing regime change in Iran.  Assuming the media has it right the head of the Iranian army and the head of the Revolutionary Guard have both been terminally rehabilitated.  The Ayatollah may, or may not, be alive right now.  The bombs are falling and Donald Trump is actively soliciting action by the Iranian people after the bombs stop dropping.  

It would be nice of the Iranian people are able and willing to achieve regime change from within.  It would be GREAT if they can manage to change the structure of the government away from a repressive theocracy to something resembling a modern more-or-less secular democracy.  That might be a bridge too far.  

I have no doubt that both us and the Israelis are backing dissident groups within Iran.  I hope it is successful.  

In the next few days we should have an idea of which way the wind is blowing.  

If Trump can pull this off it may be his legacy.  There are worse things to be remembered for.

NOTABLE DEATH ... NEIL SEDAKA

By Bob Walsh

 

 

Neil Sedaka moved on to whatever comes next yesterday at the age of 86.  I thought his song Calendar Girl was absolutely one of the great pop songs of the 1960s.  He was a very talented guy.   

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" was also one of his great hits.

ASSHOLE OUT ON BOND MURDERS TWO MISSOURI COPS

By Bob Walsh

 

 

Deputy Gabriel Ramirez, suspect Richard Bird , Deputy Michael Hislope.

 

 

Richard Dean Bird was, by any reasonable definition, a violent asshole.  Back in 2014 he was charged with attempted first degree murder for shooting at deputies who responded to a theft in progress at a construction sight.  He copped a plea.

On February 18 of this year he was in court in Stone County, Missouri, for thievery and tampering with evidence.  He was released on $50,000 bond.  In Missouri bond is supposed to be set for both public safety and likely court appearance.

On February 23 Bird shot and killed Christian County Sheriff's Deputy Gabriel Ramirez during a traffic stop.  He was tracked down to Stone County where he engaged the deputies with gunfire.  Bird killed Deputy Michael Hislope and wounded a deputy from Webster County and a deputy from Christian County.    Bird had a lengthy history of violence including shooting at cops.

Bird did not survived the encounter.