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Middle East War Special Edition
IRAN
Quote:Russia has been aiding Iran in “many different directions” in its war with the US and Israel, Iran’s foreign minister confirmed — just days after it emerged that Moscow was sharing intelligence about the location of US forces in the Middle East.
“A military cooperation between Iran and Russia is not something new. It’s not a secret,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“It has been in the past, and it’s still there, and will continue in the future,” he added, describing the relationship between Moscow and Tehran as “a very good partnership.”
Pressed on claims that Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran about the location of US forces in the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back against “Operation Epic Fury,” Araghchi confirmed:
“They are helping us in many different directions.”
“I don’t have any detailed information,” he added.
It comes after multiple sources revealed late last week that the Kremlin had been informing the Islamic Republic of the locations of American warships, aircraft and other military assets since the US-Israeli airstrikes began Feb. 28.
Since the war broke out, Iran has fired thousands of drones and missiles at US assets in the region.
Still, US United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz insisted that whatever intel Russia was providing “hasn’t been very effective” given that US forces have been “decimating” Iran’s military fleet.
“So whatever they’re providing, if they’re providing anything, hasn’t shown to help them very much,” Waltz said.
Meanwhile, the Iranian foreign minister rejected calls for a cease-fire — claiming Iran needed to “continue fighting for the sake of our people.”
Quote:Iran issued a chilling pledge of allegiance to its new supreme leader — a personalized missile — as the Islamic Republic unleashed a fresh barrage of drone and missile attacks Monday.
“At your service, Sayyid Mojtaba,” the message scribed on the side of the projectile says.
The new missile was unveiled on Iranian state TV — just hours after Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was named his slain father’s successor.
His appointment comes after President Trump warned that the new leader of the tyrannical regime would need “US approval” in order to survive.
“If he doesn’t get approval from us, he’s not going to last long,” he told ABC News.
Trump previously cast a damning verdict on Mojtaba, the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, describing him as “unacceptable” and “a lightweight.”
Trump said he wanted a figure who could “bring harmony and peace to Iran” and said he had to be “involved” in the appointment of the new leader.
Mojtaba was previously sanctioned by the US government in 2019 on claims he was “representing the supreme leader in an official capacity” despite never being elected.
Despite never holding elected office, analysts branded Mojtaba a “mini-supreme leader,” and said he was his father’s “gatekeeper.”
Despite the change at the top of the clerical regime, Iran continued its retaliatory strikes, unleashing a barrage of missile attacks on Gulf nations.
Saudi Arabia intercepted four drones reportedly heading to a Shaybah oilfield, while Bahraini state media reported 32 people, including children, were injured in an Iranian drone attack south of the capital.
Saudi Arabia has described Iran’s attacks as “reprehensible,” Al Jazeera reported.
Iran has also fired ballistic missiles, one of which was shot down by NATO air defenses, according to Turkey.
US Air Force personnel are based at the Incirlik military base in southern Turkey.
Quote:A surviving senior Iranian leader issued a chilling threat against President Trump early Tuesday in response to the commander-in-chief’s own warning of a massive escalation of “Death, Fire and Fury.”
Ali Larijani, head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, shared a Tuesday night Truth Social post by Trump in which the president threatened to hit Iran “TWENTY TIMES HARDER” if it thwarted oil supplies.
“Iran does not fear your paper threats,” Larijani wrote defiantly on X.
“Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation,” he wrote. “Watch out for yourself — lest you be eliminated!”
Larijani previously issued a fiery warning to President Trump on Saturday, insisting that he must “pay the price” following the highly successful US and Israeli air strikes that have wiped out much of Iran’s top brass.
His latest defiance came as Trump warned of further escalation if the Islamic Republic meddled with pil supplies.
“If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far,” Trump warned in his late-night post, saying that “Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them.”
“This is a gift from the United States of America to China, and all of those Nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait. Hopefully, it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated,” he wrote, with his now trademark sign-off: “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Oil prices fell sharply in early Tuesday trading following Trump’s comments that the war will end “very soon.”
RUSSIA
Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin declared “unwavering support” for Iran as he congratulated Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on being tapped as the Islamic Republic’s new leader.
Putin fired off a telegram to Khamenei — the son of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — on Monday, vowing the Kremlin would remain a “reliable partner” to Iran amid the ongoing war.
“At a time when Iran is opposing armed aggression, your tenure in this high post will undoubtedly require great courage and dedication,” Putin’s message said.
“I am sure that you will honorably continue your father’s work and unite the Iranian people.”
Khamenei — who has already been dismissed by President Trump as a “lightweight” — was chosen as the regime’s new leader just eight days after his 86-year-old father was killed in US-Israeli strikes on his Tehran compound as Operation Epic Fury got underway.
US GOVERNMENT
Quote:President Trump revealed Monday that he will confer with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about when to end the military campaign against Iran, suggesting the decision would be “mutual” between the US and its Middle Eastern ally.
“I think it’s mutual … a little bit,” Trump told the Times of Israel in a phone interview, adding that he and Netanyahu have “been talking.”
“I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” the president added.
Trump previously suggested that the war against Iran could last approximately four weeks, but other members of his administration have been reluctant to provide a specific timeline.
The president has also demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran, and the White House has stressed that the objective of the Operation Epic Fury campaign is to degrade Iran’s navy and ballistic missile arsenal as well as ensure the regime does not obtain a nuclear weapon or continue to arm terrorist proxies across the Middle East.
The initial wave of attacks Feb. 28 wiped out dozens of senior leaders in Iran, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son Mojtaba was announced as his successor Sunday.
Having previously dismissed the younger Khamenei as a “lightweight” and “unacceptable to me,” Trump told the Israeli outlet that “we’ll see what happens” in response to his elevation.
The younger Khamenei, who also lost his wife and mother in the US-Israel strikes, is widely seen as a hardliner. He has never held a government position before.
Elsewhere in the interview, Trump hailed the collaboration between the US and Israel as the war entered its 10th day.
“Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it,” the president said. “We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.”
At times, the US and Israel have seemingly differed over the approach to the war with Iran. On Saturday evening, Israel carried out a series of strikes on fuel depots in Iran that went much further than the Trump administration anticipated, Axios reported.
“The president doesn’t like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn’t want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,” an adviser to Trump told the outlet.
Last June, Trump waited more than a week before joining Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, eventually green-lighting the use of 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to blow up Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Trump tells Post he’s ‘nowhere near’ ordering Iran ground mission at nuke facility — ‘not happy’ with new leader
Trump tells Post he’s ‘nowhere near’ ordering Iran ground mission at nuke facility — ‘not happy’ with new leader
Quote:WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post on Monday that he’s “nowhere near” ordering US troops into Iran to safeguard nuclear material at Isfahan — as he kept his cards close on how he plans to handle the country’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
Trump played down a possible mission to retrieve highly enriched uranium from an underground facility near the historic Persian capital after a flurry of news reports said the option was on the table.
“We haven’t made any decision on that. We’re nowhere near it,” Trump said.
Trump also said he is “not happy with” Khamenei, 56, replacing his father, Ali Khamenei, as leader of the theocracy over the weekend, but didn’t repeat his earlier threat to kill any successor who assumed power without his input.
“Not going to tell you,” Trump said about his plans for the younger Khamenei. “Not going to tell you. I’m not happy with him.”
Trump, who spoke by phone from his Trump National Golf Club in Doral, Fla., as a TV played in the background, tamped down speculation about possible ground troops at Isfahan after telling reporters on Air Force One Saturday afternoon that “we haven’t talked about” the possibility.
But news outlets, including Semafor, NBC News, and Axios, reported the same day that the scenario was under consideration.
The New York Times reported Saturday that satellite imagery revealed excavation equipment last year after Trump ordered the site to be bombed with Tomahawk cruise missiles in June — with two other sites flattened with more powerful bombs dropped by B-2s.
The uranium is enriched to 60% purity — a relatively short jump to the 90% needed for nuclear weapons.
Trump told The Post last Monday that he would not rule out deploying ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary.”
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” he said.
Trump’s coy response to Mojtaba Khamenei, meanwhile, followed overt threats ahead of his election.
Mojtaba, a former gatekeeper to his father, is considered a hardliner with strong links to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Quote:WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post on Monday that he has “a plan” to tackle surging oil prices caused by the war with Iran and that people would be “very happy” — sending oil prices tumbling nearly 30% from the day’s highs.
“I have a plan for everything, okay?” Trump said in a brief phone interview Monday on the 10th day of the joint US-Israeli war with Iran. “I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy.”
Trump did not provide details, but he has a variety of options, including releasing oil from strategic reserves.
The US is urging the G7 group of western democracies to collectively release 300 million to 400 million barrels of oil — or more than a quarter of current reserves — CNBC reported Monday.
Energy ministers from the group — which includes Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — will discuss the plan Tuesday after initial talks Monday involving finance ministers.
The president last week sought to calm markets by offering warship escorts and a new reinsurance program to entice companies to risk transiting the Persian Gulf — while boasting that Iran’s entire navy is on the seafloor.
The precise impact of Trump’s efforts on trading is unclear.
The cost per barrel of Brent crude oil spiked to $119.50 — 65% higher than the pre-war price — on Monday morning before sliding downward both before and after Trump voiced confidence in fuel stability.
The cost per barrel settled below $90 Monday afternoon — still much higher than $72.48 on Feb. 27, the day before the conflict began.The average cost of gasoline in the US was $3.478 on Monday, according to AAA — up more than 57 cents from $2.902 one month ago before the war.
The cost of energy has a significant pass-on effect on other goods, which Trump is scrambling to prevent after tamping down inflation to an annual rate of just 2.4% in January.
Trump regularly boasts about lower gas prices on his watch and touted his energy policies Feb. 27 during a visit to Corpus Christi, Texas — hours before the initial attack on Iran.
Quote:President Trump declared the war with Iran “is very complete” and “far ahead of schedule” — as he also considers taking control of the Strait of Hormuz trade route under siege by the Islamic Republic.
Trump hailed Operation Epic Fury as a success on Monday, suggesting that his previous prediction of a multi-week war may not be necessary.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” the president told CBS news.
“[Iran has] no navy, no communications, they’ve got no air force. Their missiles are down to a scatter,” he added. “…”If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.”
“We’re very far ahead of schedule,” Trump said of the war, which is in its second week.
Trump had previously said that he expected the war to last at least “four weeks or so” to accomplish America’s goal and decimating Iran’s ballistic missile program and its nuclear enrichment program.
Trump was interviewed by CBS hours before he told Republican lawmakers that the war against Iran will be a “short-term excursion.”
“We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil,” Trump said in remarks during a House Republican conference meeting in Miami, “And, I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion.”
During the Florida meeting, the president also gloated at the intensity of the attack on Iran over the past week.
“Iran was supposed to be this big, powerful country. We wrapped the hell out of them,” the president added. “I don’t know when they cry uncle, but they should’ve cried it two days ago. But they don’t have anything left.
“We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.”
Along with praising the more than 3,000 targeted strikes against Iran’s regime so far, the president floated the idea of having the US take over the Strait Of Hormuz, a vital commercial shipping route where about 20% of the global oil supply flows through.
Passage through the strait has been effectively halted since the war began, with Iran attacking merchant vessels that attempt to go through the route.
Quote:President Trump confirmed Monday night that he was “not happy” with the choice of Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader of Iran, claiming in an interview that “I don’t believe he can live in peace.”
Trump also told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst that his understanding was that the Tehran government “want to talk badly” about ending the US-Israel war, which entered its 11th day Tuesday.
“It’s possible, depends on what terms, possible, only possible,” Trump told Yingst while aboard Air Force One en route to Washington from Miami. “You know, we sort of don’t have to speak anymore, you know, if you really think about it, but it’s possible.”
Hours earlier, the president had given a glowing assessment of Operation Epic Fury to reporters at his Trump National Doral Miami golf club.
“They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment, it’s all been blown up,” the president said of Iran’s military strength. “They have no radar. They have no telecommunications, and they have no leadership. It’s all gone.
“So, you know, you could look at that statement. We could, we could call it a tremendous success right now as we leave here. I could call it, or we could go further and we’re going to go further.”
The president defended the timing of the operation, which began Feb. 28, telling Yingst that “if we had waited three days, I believe we would have been attacked” by Iran.
“When we attacked them first, we knocked out 50% of their missiles, and if we didn’t, it would have been a much harder fight,” said Trump, adding: “No other president had the guts to do it … I didn’t want some president who hasn’t got the courage in five years or ten years to go in.”
The commander in chief confirmed that he was told last month by special envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner that Iranian officials had claimed to have enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs.
“I said, ‘You know, they’re not playing this smart. Because they’re basically saying that I have to attack them,'” Trump told Fox News. “They should have just said, ‘We’re not going to build a nuclear missile.'”
According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), American forces have hit more than 5,000 targets in the first 10 days of Operation Epic Fury, including more than 50 Iranian ships that have been recorded as damaged or destroyed.
In his remarks to reporters Monday evening, Trump indicated that “we’ve left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it. If we hit them, it’s going to take many years for them to be rebuilt.”
The president clarified that those targets are related to “electricity production and many other things, so we’re not looking to do that if we don’t have to. But they’re the kind of things that are very easy to hit but very devastating if they are hit.
“We are waiting to see what happens before we hit them. We could take them all out in one day.”
Quote:Three US B-52 bombers landed in the UK on Monday as part of a looming assault on Iran’s missile sites — as the Pentagon vows to claim air superiority over the Islamic Republic.
The B-52 Stratofortresses, which are capable of carrying up to 70,000 pounds of explosives, landed at the RAF Fairford airbase, in Gloucestershire, joining a fleet of B-1 Lancers that began arriving over the weekend.
Images from the Gloucestershire base, one of the few bases in Europe certified to operate America’s heavy bombers, showed the B-52s landing near rows of massive bombs stationed by the tarmac.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who initially refused to grant the US permission to use the UK’s airbases to attack Iran, said the build up at Fairford was necessary to defend the West from Iran’s alleged “scorched-earth strategy.”
Following the start of Operation Epic Fury, the Islamic Republic began a mass retaliation attack across the Middle East, threatening US and European allies.
The US has now deployed B-52s for the first time during the conflict, with the Cold-War era bombers capable of launching nuclear warheads, cruise missiles and other heavy bombs more than 1,500 miles away.
They were first introduced in 1952 and are one of the oldest aircraft designs still operating in the US military.
The heavy bombers are also capable of carrying the 30,000-lb. Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster bomb, which can destroy deep, underground facilities operated by Iran’s current regime.
Along with the B-2 Spirit, the B-52 serves as a key part of America’s Nuclear Triad, which aims to deter nuclear attacks by being able to launch nuclear warheads around the world by land, sea and air.
The appearance of the B-52s comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US would soon take over Iran’s airspace, promising “death and destruction from the sky all day long” to America’s enemies.
Quote:Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared the United States is “overwhelmingly” winning the war against Iran.
“We are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objective,” he declared during a press conference at the Pentagon.
He reiterated the mission objectives: destroy Iran’s missile stockpiles, their missile launchers and their ability to make them; destroy their Navy and “permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons.”
“We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated,” Hegseth declared. “But we do so on our timeline and at our choosing.”
Quote:Iran sent out a possible “operational trigger” to activate “sleeper assets” abroad after the war with America and Israel began, according to an encrypted message intercepted by the US.
The coded signal was sent out following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28, with the message appearing to hold instructions for “covert operatives or sleeper assets,” ABC News reported, citing a federal alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
The message could “be intended to activate or provide instructions to prepositioned sleeper assets operating outside the originating country,” the alert warned.
The US warning said intelligence had detected a broadcast station repeatedly transmitting a message to multiple countries outside Iran, according to ABC.
“While the exact contents of these transmissions cannot currently be determined, the sudden appearance of a new station with international rebroadcast characteristics warrants heightened situational awareness,” the memo said.
The alert also noted that the transmission that was intercepted was “likely of Iranian origin.”
Law enforcement agencies have been called to increase their monitoring of suspicious radio frequencies after the message was intercepted.
While there are no specific credible threats to the public as of yet, counterintelligence experts have warned of the potential for revenge attacks on US soil as a result of the war in Iran.
“If ever there’s going to be a Hezbollah cell or a Hamas cell act in the United States in a violent way, it’s now,” Chris Swecker, a former assistant FBI director, told Fox News after the war began.
FBI Director Kash Patel has said US counterterrorism and intelligence agents were placed on high alert, with his teams “working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats” on US soil.
A day after the war began, Ndiaga Diagne, 53, of Senegal, opened fire at a packed Austin bar, killing two people and injuring 14 others.
Quote:WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday that around 140 American service members have been wounded since the start of Operation Epic Freedom Feb. 28.
“The vast majority of these injuries have been minor,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement, “and 108 service members have already returned to duty. Eight service members remain listed as severely injured and are receiving the highest level of medical care.”
The statement did not elaborate on when or where the injuries occurred.
Seven service members have been killed by Iranian strikes — including six following a March 1 Iranian strike on a US base in Kuwait and one following a strike the same day on a base in Saudi Arabia.
An eighth American military member died on March 6 due to an as-yet unspecified medical emergency in Kuwait.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed earlier Tuesday that a “ballpark” of around 150 US military members had suffered combat injuries, in response to a Reuters report.
President Trump said Monday that he believes the risk to US troops was greatly diminished by the initial onslaught of US-Israeli strikes beginning Feb. 28.
“We’re going to go further. But the big risk on that war has been over for three days. We wiped them out in the first two days,” he said.
“We’re achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and some people could say they’re pretty well complete.”
Quote:America’s highest-ranking general said Tuesday that while Iran’s military is resisting the joint US-Israel assault on the Islamic Republic, Tehran’s military is not a tougher challenge than Pentagon planners expected.
“I think they’re fighting, and I respect that, but I don’t think they’re more formidable than what we thought,” Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon when asked what Iran was doing militarily to challenge US forces.
At the same news conference, Caine touted the dismantling of Tehran’s military assets, including more than 50 naval vessels damaged or destroyed.
In all, the US military has struck more than 5,000 targets in the first 10 days of Operation Epic Freedom, according to Tampa, Fla.-based Central Command (CENTCOM).
Iran has heavily relied on missiles and drones to retaliate against the US and Israel, with most barrages intercepted before reaching their intended targets.
Tehran, however, has managed to land multiple attacks, including one that killed six US servicemembers stationed in Kuwait on the first day of the war.
Another Iranian strike killed an American soldier stationed at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
Caine’s comments came shortly after War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US military would carry out its most intense day of strikes against Iran on Tuesday.
Quote:US forces obliterated several Iranian navy vessels — including 16 minelayers — near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday as President Trump warned the Islamic Republic against planting explosives along the critical global trade route.
The strikes came amid reports that Iran had already begun laying mines along the vital shipping lane — which carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply — despite Trump’s demands that it remain open and unaffected as tensions with the US and Israel escalate.
“If Iran has put any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump raged on Truth Social.
“If for any reason mines were placed, and they were not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a leave never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction.”
US Central Command (CENTCOM) shared footage on X of multiple vessels being annihilated.
Even after having more than 50 Iranian naval vessels destroyed, Tehran still has over 80% of its small boats and mine-layers to seed the strait with traps — a move that started Tuesday, CNN reported.
While the exact size of the nation’s mine stock is unknown, previous estimates suggested the Islamic Republic has access to roughly 2,000 to 6,000 hidden sea explosives on hand.
Trump warned against such action as his administration mulls taking over the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively been closed by Iranian strikes since the war began 11 days ago.
The Trump administration has been adamant about keeping the Strait of Hormuz open following repeated attacks on oil tankers in the waterway.
Quote:WASHINGTON — Republicans are careening towards a “disastrous” midterm election cycle if the military campaign in Iran rages on, Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime skeptic of foreign interventionism, warned.
Paul (R-Ky.) highlighted the plethora of political risks the war poses, from the potential for oil prices to rise to the price tag of the military campaign that is already polling underwater in early polling.
“We are behind the eight ball as far as the electoral process,” Paul bluntly assessed to Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria.”
That’s a reference to polling showing Republicans down against Democrats in surveys of voters’ generic congressional ballot preferences.
Republicans have widely been seen as the underdog in House elections due to the historical trend of the party in control of the White House losing seats in all but two midterm cycles since 1938.
“If you add in high gas prices, high oil prices, and if we are still bombing Iran with kinetic action — people don’t want to call it war — if there’s still kinetic action that causes oil to be over $100, I think you’re going to see a disastrous election,” Paul predicted.
Prices at the gas pump are now averaging $3.54 nationally, despite being below $3 before the Operation Epic Fury attacks against Iran began on Feb. 28, according to data from the American Automobile Association.
That sharp uptick in prices has seemingly been caused by traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, located off the southern coast of Iran, largely grinding to a halt amid the conflict.
Over a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil flows through that critical chokepoint annually. President Trump’s team has been exploring the possibility of having naval escorts accompany oil vessels through the turbulent Strait.
Crude oil jolted past $100 a barrel Monday, but has since dropped back down to $85.
USA
Quote:A far-left University of Maryland research assistant is facing backlash after appearing to joke about bombing parts of Los Angeles and Miami to kill Cuban and Iranian Americans who support President Trump’s military strikes against Iran.
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina made the incendiary remarks in a video that was streamed on YouTube on March 1 on a channel belonging to Cosmonaut Magazine, a socialist publication.
In the clip, Lakhdar-Hamina criticizes members of the Iranian diaspora who support US military action against the Iranian regime before launching into a shocking comment suggesting American cities with immigrant communities should be bombed.
“Seeing the Iranian diaspora just cheer on their country getting just bombed — there has to be an Olympic competition between the worst gusanos in the world on the podium, competing for gold,” Lakhdar-Hamina said in the video.
“You have the Cubans on the one side and the Iranians on the other, you know. Just bomb large swaths of LA and Miami. It’d be a better planet for it.”
The term “gusanos,” which translates to “worms” in Spanish, has historically been used as a slur by the Cuban communist regime to describe Cuban exiles and critics of Fidel Castro.
Los Angeles and Miami are home to large Iranian and Cuban American populations, many of whom fled authoritarian regimes in their home countries.
“I mean, just imagine being the kind of dog who cheers on your country getting bombed, thinking that somehow this is going to help your country at all,” Lakhdar-Hamina added.
A clip with the inflammatory comments was posted to X by Canary Mission, an organization that documents anti-semitism, among other things. Critics blasted the remarks as an apparent call for violence in two of the country’s largest cities, tagging the FBI and flagging the comments as “terrorism.”
The remarks come amid heightened political tensions over US military action against Iran, which has divided some diaspora communities between supporters of aggressive US policy toward the regime and critics who fear escalation.
“Just a member of the DSA encouraging terrorist attacks against Los Angeles,” Dick Lucas, a candidate running for California State Assembly, said on X. “I don’t care how good you think @nithyavraman is on policy, she is DSA, the party that hates America. I will never support her or any member of this organization.” Nithya Raman is a Los Angeles city council member who is running for LA mayor.
Former LA City Council candidate Sam Yebri posted this in response to the clip: “DSA members want to murder Iranian-Americans and Cuban-Americans who have lived through the socialism and fascism they advocate. That’s all you need to know about the violent hate group that calls itself ‘democratic socialists of America.'”
Quote:Dozens of student groups on college campuses across California have thrown their support behind the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran — despite Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting the operation as “illegal” and “without justification.”
“We express our profound gratitude and support for the U.S. and Israeli service members operating under extraordinary conditions,” the letter, signed by 120 student groups, reads. “We stand in solidarity with these courageous men and women, and their families, as they work to degrade the structures of terrorism and safeguard the security of their nations.”
At least 26 of the student organizations are based in California, including many schools within the University of California public system, as well as the California State University system — the largest four-year public university system in the United States — and private schools.
“For 47 years, the ruling Iranian regime has prioritized regional destabilization and proxy warfare over the well-being and aspirations of its own citizens,” the organizations wrote.
Signatories include a diverse range of groups, from chapters of national organizations like Students Supporting Israel at UC Berkeley and San Diego State, to campus-specific advocacy clubs such as Bruins for Israel at UCLA, Tritons for Israel at UC San Diego, and Trojans for Israel at USC.
Participation also extends to cultural and heritage-focused groups, including the Persian Community Hillel at UCLA and UC San Diego, Mishelanu at UC Santa Barbara, and the Jewish Student Union at UC Santa Cruz. Prominent institutions across the state are well-represented, with additional support coming from groups at Stanford University, UC Davis, and several California State University campuses, including Northridge and Long Beach.
“President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s air campaign against the regime is necessary and long overdue. A democratic Iran is essential for the freedom and security of the free world,” Delilah Hirshland, a student at UCLA, told The Post. “I wholeheartedly support a free Iran,” she added.
The war began when a joint U.S.-Israeli operation killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28 in a targeted strike intended to topple the regime, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. The U.S. and Israel launched the war’s heaviest airstrikes on Iran Tuesday, moving the conflict into its third week. Earlier this month, President Trump said the U.S. has already inflicted serious damage and expects the fighting to end sooner than the four-week timeline he initially set.
The casualties of the war include a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, allegedly hit by American missiles, killing dozens of children, along with U.S. service members who have also died in the conflict.
ISRAEL
Quote:Frightening footage from Monday shows an Iranian rocket exploding on an Israeli street in an attack that left one dead and another wounded.
The rocket — part of a cluster warhead that sprays bombs indiscriminately over its target — exploded in several cities in central Israel.
One man was killed and another was critically wounded at a construction site in Yehud. A third man was seriously wounded in Or Yehuda, medical officials told The Times of Israel.
Security footage capturing the Or Yehuda blast showed the quiet street with people going about their day, when the bomb suddenly burst in a ball of fire and sent a man toppling to the ground as the smoke and shockwave spread over the street.
A car driving nearby slowed to a stop, while people emerged from all around and ran to the blast site to help the injured.
Both the dead and wounded were in their 40s, according to the Times of Israel.
A third person was injured in another cluster warhead explosion Monday and hospitalized in serious condition.
The volleys were part of an ongoing campaign of Iranian barrages against Israel in response to its joint US attack on Tehran on Feb. 28 that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nearly 50 of the country’s top-ranking government and military officials.
EUROPE
Quote:Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son and successor of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reportedly amassed a portfolio of luxury London real estate since 2014.
A year-long investigation by Bloomberg revealed the younger Khamenei’s massive, hidden investment portfolio, despite US sanctions imposed against him in 2019. The reported assets included over $130 million in enviable UK property, along with other holdings ranging from high-end European hotels to well-funded bank accounts tied to Switzerland and the UAE.
The outlet traced Khamenei to a financial network that owns more than a dozen properties in London, including a collection of vacant mansions along The Bishops Avenue — London’s own “Billionaires’ Row,” which has historically attracted the likes of the Sultan of Brunei and Justin Bieber.
One of the London homes, Jersey House, cost £33.7 million ($45.3 million) when it last traded to Ali Ansari, a sanctioned Iranian banker, in 2014. The property boasts its own leisure complex and staff housing, but a caretaker told the Times of London that the 1.2-acre grounds now lie empty.
The hidden network backing these properties is allegedly funded by Iranian oil sales, Bloomberg reported, and routed through a network of shell companies and associates.
Bloomberg’s investigation revealed that the London portfolio is indirectly owned by Khamenei through Ansari, an alleged front man, and a shell company owned Ansari by registered to the Isle of Man.
The stately homes are believed to have been purchased for Khamenei beginning in 2013.
Two luxury apartments across from the Israeli embassy in London have also been tied to Khamenei. In addition to their proximity to the embassy, the homes are “a stone’s throw” from Kensington Palace. A counter-terrorism specialist told the Daily Mail that the apartments’ unique aspect poses “a serious security breach.”
The properties, located on a private road, are reportedly under watch by local police and a 24/7 private security team.
Ansari, himself sanctioned in 2025 by the UK for his financial support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, a branch of Iran’s military, has repeatedly denied through his lawyer any financial ties or personal relationship with Khamenei.
Reporting by Bloomberg contradicted Ansari’s claims, connecting the Iranian businessman to Khamenei via business ventures and private meetings.
Multiple properties along The Bishop’s Avenue sit in Ansari’s name or that of Birch Ventures, an entity linked to Ansari and registered to the Isle of Man.
Several of the impressive homes along the road have fallen into disrepair, including one derelict mansion partially destroyed by a fire in 2023, reporting by the Times revealed.
The two luxury apartments, purchased in 2014 and 2016 for a collective £35.7 million, are also reportedly owned through Ansari.
Quote:Ukraine has sent interceptor drones and a team of anti-drone experts to protect US military bases in Jordan from Iran’s killer drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
As Iran continues to launch its Shahed suicide drones across the Middle East, Zelensky said the US, Europe and 11 nations neighboring the Islamic Republic have requested aid on how to counter the explosive UAVs.
“We reacted immediately,” Zelensky told the New York Times of the American request that came last Thursday.
Ukraine has spent the last four years fighting against the Iranian-designed attack drones, which have been adopted by Russia and then replicated in mass for daily bombardments.
While the US has its own advanced Patriot interceptor missiles to counter aerial attacks, the missiles are pricey and in short supply, with Zelensky estimating that Middle Eastern nations burned through more than 800 of them in the first days of the war.
It was notably an Iranian drone strike that killed six US soldiers in Kuwait on March 1, as the US military and its allies were unable to intercept it in time.
The interceptor missiles also cost more than $3 million each to produce, about 60 times more than what a single Shahed costs.
Ukraine has been able to counter the Shahed drones on a tight budget, and Zelensky has vowed to assist any ally that needs help against Tehran.
“There is clear interest in Ukraine’s experience in protecting lives, relevant interceptors, electronic warfare systems, and training,” Zelensky wrote on X. “Ukraine is ready to respond positively to requests from those who help us protect the lives of Ukrainians and the independence of Ukraine.”
The US is reportedly leaning on that expertise as the army is rushing to deploy the counter-drone systems that have been tested in Ukraine to the Middle East.
The Merops drone killers are enroute to the region with a team of Ukrainians expected to be tapped to train US soldiers how to operate the UAVs, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The drone killers can fly at more than 180 mph and are small enough to be launched from a pickup truck and can autonomously target an incoming drone using radio waves, radar, or even the target’s heat signature, according to the outlet.
AUSTRALIA
Quote:Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who were visiting the country for a tournament when the Iran war began, a government minister said Tuesday.
The announcement followed days of urging by Iranian groups in Australia and by US President Donald Trump for the Australian government to help the women, who had not spoken publicly about a wish to claim asylum.
The team drew speculation and news coverage in Australia when players didn’t sing the Iranian anthem before their first match.
Early Tuesday, police officers transported five of the women from their hotel in Gold Coast, Australia, “to a safe location” after they made asylum requests. There, they met with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the processing of their humanitarian visas was finalized, the minister told reporters in Brisbane.
“I don’t want to begin to imagine how difficult that decision is for each of the individual women, but certainly last night it was joy, it was relief,” said Burke, who posted photos to social media of the women smiling and clapping as he signed documents. “People were very excited about embarking on a life in Australia.”
The women granted asylum were happy for their names and pictures to be published, he said. Burke added that the players wanted to make clear that they were “not political activists.”
Iranian state TV said the country’s football federation asked international soccer bodies to review what it called Trump’s “direct political interference in football,” warning such remarks could disrupt the 2026 World Cup, which begins in North America in June.
Naghmeh Danai said she was invited as a migration agent and member of the Iranian-Australian community to visit the women at a hotel Monday night and to reassure them about what was available to them in Australia.
“I told them that if you accept this offer, you will have a great future here. You will have more respect. You won’t be under a lot of suppression that you have been in your country. And they were thrilled,” Danai said.
“At the same time, it’s understandable that it was a very hard decision for them to make when they have family back home and when they just came here compete,” Danai added.
Quote:Members of the Iranian women’s soccer team were spotted in tears as they boarded a flight out of Australia Tuesday after at least seven of their teammates frantically sought asylum to avoid returning to the Islamic Republic amid fears of persecution.
At least one player refused to board the flight in Sydney at the last minute – making an at-the-wire plea to join a number of teammates who had already been granted asylum there, sources told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Another rogue player also made a Hail Mary pitch to remain behind, though it wasn’t immediately clear if she did so at the airport or before the team was bussed there.
The remaining athletes — flanked by chaperones and handlers — ultimately boarded the Malaysia-bound flight, including several who had tears streaming down their faces, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Five of the seven players — Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh and Mona Hamoudi — were officially granted humanitarian visas earlier Tuesday after escaping their handlers at the hotel where they’d been staying on the Gold Coast a day earlier.
They requested assistance from the Australian government to remain in the country after their refusal to sing the national anthem at an Asia Cup match last week sparked backlash, with Iranian state media branding them “wartime traitors.”
The rest of the team, meanwhile, boarded a bus at the hotel before flying to Sydney’s domestic airport.
Once in Sydney, the team boarded another coach and were escorted to the nearby international terminal. Footage obtained by Nine News appeared to show at least one person on that bus waving what appeared to be a torch through the window.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Australian officials and law enforcement were able to speak to the remaining players, including in private meetings, before they boarded the Malaysia-bound flight.
“Every single … member of that team was put in a situation where they were just with Home Affairs officials, where the people who might put pressure on them were nowhere near them at all, and they were given a choice,” he said.
“I respect their independence and agency with whatever decision they chose.”
The soccer players were all given the opportunity to speak with their relatives before making a decision, Burke said.
The asylum-seekers surfaced after President Trump on Monday urged the Australian government to offer safety to the players — warning they could potentially be killed if made to return to the Islamic Republic.
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USA
Quote:An Arizona inmate is suing Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos and his department, the investigators handling the Nancy Guthrie investigation, for over $1 million — alleging the top cop and his deputies put his life at risk by not adhering to COVID-19 protocols, according to court documents.
Christopher Michael Marx, an inmate at Pima County Jail, filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Arizona on March 5, while Nanos and his deputies have been criticized over the lack of any real leads in their months-long investigation into Guthrie’s disappearance.
Marx claimed in the filing that his life was endangered after a sheriff deputy at Pima County Jail was working between a unit where an inmate with COVID-19 was in quarantine and his unit, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
“This deputy was going back and forth working both units … our unit was on lockdown because this deputy was working both units,” Marx wrote in the lawsuit.
While working between the units, including serving dinner, the sheriff deputy allegedly did not wipe down his body to sanitize himself from the highly contagious virus, the filing continued.
Neither Sheriff Nanos nor his deputies were effectively trying to contain the coronavirus from spreading, which represented a “threat” to Marx’s safety, the documents alleged.
“This put my life in jeopardy with their action, constantly,” Marx wrote. “I could have died.”
The inmate — who was found guilty of shoplifting in late 2024, according to Newsweek — claimed that Nanos and the department violated Article Two of the Arizona State Constitution, known as the Declaration of Rights, through the threat to his safety and “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The inmate is suing for “an apology from the sheriff” and a whopping $1,350,000 so he can donate to two apartment buildings used to house the formerly homeless.
Marx’s lawsuit is also seeking that Nanos and the department ensure they properly disinfect their bodies while working between quarantined units.
Quote:The Arizona sheriff leading the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance resigned from his very first policing job to avoid being fired over embarrassing blunders — and posted a resume online that fudged the dates of his employment.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos stepped down from the El Paso Police Department in 1982 after racking up a laundry list of infractions — ranging from excessive force to off-duty gambling, to improperly using his siren and simple tardiness, the Arizona Republic reported.
Those missteps — including an allegation that he kicked a suspect in the head so badly they were hospitalized — landed Nanos with 37 days of unpaid leave in the early ’80s, and resulted in him finally being told to either step down or get canned, according to the outlet.
He took the resignation option — but messed up the dates in his publicly posted resume, which stated that he remained with the El Paso Department until 1984, two years longer than he was there, the local paper reported.
The sheriff’s office acknowledged the inaccuracy — calling it and another missed date “clerical errors” that had been corrected — but Nanos himself bristled and brushed it off when pressed.
“That’s your ‘urgent’ request? You sure you don’t want to go back to my high school and ask why I got swats from the principal? Good luck with your hit piece,” he told the Republic.
The resume discrepancy and eyebrow-raising nature of Nanos’s departure from the El Paso Police comes as the sheriff has been criticized over his department’s search for Nancy — the 84-year-old mother of “TODAY” show host Savannah Guthrie, who vanished from her Tucson home on Feb. 1 — which entered its fifth week with no leads and lots of errors.
Nanos has been accused of making confusing and contradictory statements about the case, and of leaving the scene of Nancy’s kidnapping so unsecured that reporters — even pizza deliverymen — were able to walk up to the front door.
The lack of suspects in the five weeks since Nancy was snatched has also led to criticism. Several “persons of interest” were questioned, but all were cleared — including a delivery driver who never even heard of 84-year-old — and investigators have not identified any real suspects.
But Nanos’ career hasn’t been all a blunder.
He led the investigation into the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords — an attack that left six dead and 13 injured — and has been sheriff of Pima County since 2021 after winning two consecutive elections.
He also climbed the department ranks to the top spot after joining as a corrections officer in 1984, following his departure from El Paso.
Even in El Paso — his first job in law enforcement, after joining in 1976 — Nanos received accolades such as “Officer of the Year” for dangerous work as a decoy to bait drug dealers and violent criminals who routinely mugged him.
Quote:One of Nancy Guthrie‘s neighbors has said a suspicious man took a “long look” at their street as he appeared to scope out the area on a key date before the 84-year-old went missing.
“He wasn’t going terribly quickly like a normal person who’s getting exercise. He was kind of going slowly, and when he walked by this street, he really took a long look at it,” Aldine Meister, who lives in Catalina Foothills, just north of Tucson, Arizona, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin.
“I’m getting ready in the morning, and I saw him out there, so I couldn’t make out his face. He was in kind of street clothes, not shoes that you’d walk in, and he had a baseball hat really low, and he was kind of hunched over, and he was kind of looking around, and he just didn’t fit,” Meister said.
Meister, who previously spoke out about the suspicious stranger, said she saw him on Jan. 11, three weeks before the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie disappeared.
The FBI has asked Guthrie’s neighbors for all Ring camera footage specifically from Jan. 11.
She revealed that she had spoken to the FBI about the sighting.
Guthrie was last seen Jan. 31 when she was dropped off at home by her son-in-law at around 9:30 p.m.
Her Bluetooth-enabled pacemaker disconnected from her cellphone at around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, leading investigators to believe she may have been abducted around that time.
With no suspects or persons of interest named and the case entering its fifth week, authorities are still holding out hopes that she is still alive.
On Monday, Arizona authorities said cadaver dogs used earlier in the investigation are not currently being deployed.
Friday’s discovery of a woman’s remains along a canal in Phoenix prompted speculation over a possible connection to Guthrie’s disappearance.
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Retired special agent Maureen O'Connell said the blood found in front of Nancy Guthrie's Tucson, Arizona, home could indicate a big clue.
O'Connell told NewsNation's Brian Entin that the fact there is no break in the blood droplets or footprints may indicate that Guthrie was carried from her home instead of walking out.
“I doubt that she walked out because there were no voids,” O’Connell said.
“So, let’s say the pattern of the blood is concentrated here, but the sphere is this big, it’s round, you would have a void here from one foot or from another foot or from something. There don’t appear to be any voids.”
“So, for me, in my mind, she’s wrapped up in something and they’re carrying her out,” she continued.
Quote:A former FBI agent has highlighted a damaged utility box that authorities are investigating in connection with the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department confirmed it is investigating a damaged utility box located around the corner from Nancy Guthrie’s home outside Tucson, Arizona, NBC's Today show reported on Wednesday.
The damaged box could be connected to a reported Internet outage in the area around the time of her disappearance in the early hours of February 1, which could have possibility disrupted video surveillance systems in the area, according to Today.
In a post on X alongside a link to a local news station's report about the damaged utility box, Jennifer Coffindaffer questioned if those involved in her abduction had tampered with the utility box.
“Did the perpetrators in Nancy's abduction tamper with a nearby electrical box?” Coffindaffer wrote on X. “That makes sense and the FBI is investigating.”
Newsweek has contacted the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.
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What To Know
Some of Nancy Guthrie's neighbors confirmed to NewsNation that the FBI has asked them about a disruption to Internet service on February 1.
One neighbor said security camera footage from that night Nancy Guthrie went missing is marked “not available."
The news that authorities are examining the utility box comes after Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News a week ago that investigators were "definitely closer" to tracking down the suspect.
In that interview, Nanos said investigators had not identified any of the clothing the suspect seen in the surveillance video was wearing but that they were looking into the possibility the suspect's backpack, which is sold exclusively at Walmart, may have been purchased online.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department confirmed last week that DNA from black gloves that were recovered about 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie's home had been traced to a local restaurant employee who was "not part of this investigation."
The sheriff's department did not disclose how the gloves were traced to the employee but previously said investigators would seek to use investigative genetic genealogy in the investigation.
Authorities said last month that DNA from the gloves did not match any entries in CODIS, the FBI's national database. The FBI had earlier said the gloves appeared to match those worn by the masked person seen in the surveillance footage.
Nanos also said that investigators were still facing challenges processing mixed DNA found at Nancy Guthrie's home that did not belong to her or those in close contact with her. The sheriff suggested the mixture could contain DNA from several people.
Quote:One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.
Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.
The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped.
Noel googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.
Earlier that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.
The FBI highlighted the eerie internet search in its 66-page forensic examination of the Bureau of Prisons desktop computers of Noel and Thomas. It was the only search highlighted.
When questioned during her sworn statement to the DOJ in 2021, Noel denied googling Epstein.
“I don’t remember doing that,” she claimed, according to a transcript. She said FBI records were not “accurate. I don’t recall looking him up.”
Noel, who has since been sued in Westchester County Supreme Court for alleged assault at her new job as a medical office assistant at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care, also claimed to investigators that everyone at the Manhattan federal lockup failed to do rounds and falsified records about it.
Quote:House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer revealed Tuesday that the panel intends to interview one of Jeffery Epstein’s prison guards – after The Post reported she googled the disgraced financier shortly before he took his own life.
Comer told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the committee will ask former Metropolitan Correctional Center guard Tova Noel to answer questions posed by the committee, but the Republican congressman noted that she hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing.
Noel was on duty during Epstein’s Aug. 10, 2019, suicide at the Lower Manhattan lockup.
She was one of two MCC workers accused of falsifying records to claim they checked on the sex predator the night before he was found dead.
“No one is accusing this prison guard of wrongdoing, but I will announce tonight on your show, we are going to ask her to come in and sit for an interview,” Comer told the host on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“We have a lot of questions,” Comer continued.
Noel, 37, googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record included in new Department of Justice documents.
Chase Bank also flagged several cash deposits in Noel’s bank account in a “suspicious activity report” to the FBI in November 2019, another DOJ file revealed.
A total of 12 deposits began in April 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit of $5,000 on July 30, 2019, according to the records.
Comer told Watters he believed the mysterious deposits to Noel were “concerning.”
“That’s something that, according to the DOJ documents, something they never looked into, never asked her about,” he continued.
“Honestly, most people on the committee aren’t confident one hundred percent that Epstein’s death was by suicide; we’re going to ask for Ms. Noel to come in for a transcribed interview.”
“Was Epstein’s death a suicide as the government has reported, or was there some other mysterious factor involved in his death?” he said.
Quote:New Mexico authorities have descended on Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico after a campaign to investigate the “macabre and strange” claims about the property.
The pedophile millionaire plotted to use the ranch as a baby factory to seed the Earth with more perfect humans, according to reports. He also allegedly buried the victims of deadly sex games there, filmed horrific child porn and had a bizarre labyrinthine garden that is now a massive hole in the ground.
Despite the horrifying claims about Zorro Ranch, there had never been a thorough search of the property by law enforcement.
Much of the new push to turn over the 33,000-square-foot compound came from a local radio host who received a horrifying tipoff in November 2019 — just three months after Epstein killed himself.
Eddy Aragon has spent the years since investigating the claims about Zorro Ranch, and he believes the secrets the property holds will horrify the world.
“This is way beyond just burying bodies at Zorro Ranch. This is something far more macabre and strange than you think or have thought of,” he recently told the Santa Fe New Mexican.
“These are things if I were to say them would make me seem crazy or conspiratorial, and it’s not,” he added.
He was the one who received the anonymous email about the compound.
“Did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G?” the message said, referring to Epstein’s paramour Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex,” the email added. “What is damning about Jeffrey Epstein is yet to be written.”
Maxwell, who is serving federal prison time after she was convicted of sex trafficking charges, has not been charged of any crimes related to deaths at the Zorro Ranch.
Quote:The NYPD said a device found in Carl Schurz Park near Zohran Mamdani's residence, Gracie Mansion, was examined and determined not to pose a threat.
The all-clear was given at 2:40 p.m.
Mamdani wrote to X, "Earlier today, a suspicious device was discovered in Carl Schurz Park, near my home at Gracie Mansion. The NYPD responded immediately and secured the area. Thankfully, the device has been determined to be non-threatening. Thank you to the NYPD officers and Bomb Squad members who acted quickly to ensure New Yorkers are safe."
Earlier Tuesday, police responded to a report of a potentially suspicious device just days after authorities said two men ignited a homemade explosive in an “ISIS‑inspired terrorism” near the New York City mayor's Upper East Side residence.
NYPD told Newsweek in a telephone interview that a "confirmed device” has been found.
In a post on X, NYPD wrote, "ADVISORY: Due to a suspicious device, East End Avenue between East 85th and East 87th Street, as well as East 86th Street between York Avenue and East End Avenue are closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Additionally, Carl Schurz Park is closed at this time."
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, a Democrat, responded to the news on X.
"I have been briefed by @NYPDPC on a suspicious device found in Carl Schurz Park in my district. To ensure our community remains safe, we encourage everyone to follow the NYPD’s guidance and stay away from the area," she wrote.
Unclear if Device Related to Earlier Gracie Mansion Clash
Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, both of Pennsylvania, face federal charges tied to Saturday’s incident, and police told NBC 4 News it was not yet clear whether Tuesday’s response was related.
On Saturday, an improvised explosive device was thrown during clashes between anti-Islam demonstrators and counter-protesters outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife. Monday, a criminal complaint said the men admitted to being inspired by the Islamic State extremist group.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the two men of acting in support of ISIS in a press release on Monday afternoon. Attorney General Pam Bondi described the act as an "alleged ISIS-inspired act of terrorism that could have killed American citizens."
The incident came as two protests were held outside of Gracie Mansion: “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer” and a counter-protest called “Run Nazis Out of New York City." Balat allegedly threw an explosive device toward the protesters just after noon, the DOJ said.
Immediately after, he allegedly ran to another location and received another device from Kayumi and ignited it near where several police officers were standing, the DOJ said. He then jumped over a barricade and was arrested by police officers.
CANADA
Quote:Shots were fired outside the United States consulate in Toronto on Tuesday morning, police said.
Toronto Police said in a post on social media that they responded to reports that someone "discharged a firearm" at the consulate on University Avenue, near Queen Street West, at about 5:30 a.m. local time. No injuries were reported, police said.
A spokesperson for the Toronto Police did not provide any further details about the incident when contacted by Newsweek early Tuesday.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. State Department for comment via email.
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What To Know
In a post on X, police said responding officers located evidence that a firearm had been discharged at the scene.
In another post shortly before 7 a.m., police said officers were investigating the incident and they had no information on a potential suspect.
Part of University Avenue near the consulate has been closed for the investigation.
What People Are Saying
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in a statement posted on X: “The shooting that took place at the U.S. consulate early this morning is an absolutely unacceptable act of violence and intimidation aimed at our American friends and neighbours. I’m glad to see that the Toronto Police are investigating and I expect that police at all levels will bring every resource to bear to find the people who did this.
“Everyone at all levels of government and across Canada needs to make clear that there is zero tolerance for this sort of intimidating and dangerous behaviour, and that we will do whatever it takes to prosecute and punish the people responsible to the fullest extent of the law.”
What Happens Next
No suspect has been identified or arrested in connection with the incident.
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