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Trump has announced that Iran must make peace after the US military struck three nuclear facilities and “completely obliterated” them. In his address, the US President thanked God, saying, “We love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them.”

Trump has ordered surgical strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear sites, in the latest development in the Middle East crisis.

Six GBU-57 bunker buster bombs were used on Fordow from three B-2 Bombers. Thirty Tomahawk missiles sent from submarines or carriers in the region were used on the other two nuclear sites.

Donald Trump Addresses Nation, Thanks US Military, Israel and ‘in Particular, God’.

President Trump said this about the strike:

A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.

Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.

If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.

For 40 years, Iran has been saying, “Death to America, death to Israel”.

They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs – that was their speciality.

We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate, in particular, so many were killed by their general, Qassem Soleimani.

I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.

It will not continue.

I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.

I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done and, most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.

Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that’s so. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan “Razin” Caine – spectacular general – and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.

With all of that being said, this cannot continue.

There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.

Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.

There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.

Tomorrow, General Caine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8am (12:00 GMT) at the Pentagon, and I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God.

I want to just say, “We love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them.” God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

World is Safer

The result of this? The world is now a safer place. And this sends a clear message to the rest of the Middle East, China and Russia that there is a new sheriff in town. Biden or Kamala would never have done this, and Iran’s nuclear weapons program would still be going full tilt.

But the Israel and America haters will still claim that Iran was never involved in this, despite what the International Atomic Energy Agency and others have documented. But this confirms it: An Iranian official told Reuters,

“If it’s a choice between halting uranium enrichment and going to war — we choose war.”

Six GBU-57 bunker buster bombs were used on Fordow. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Of course it is early days yet, and Iran will lash out and try to strike back, even as its military capacity is further weakened each passing day. But the isolationists, pacifists, Israelphobes and the America-last brigade are already up in arms.

So let me offer a few brief points – inconvenient truths if you will:

• The number one state sponsor of global terrorism cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
• A regime that chants “death to America” cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
• An Islamist death cult seeking an apocalyptic end of history cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
• A theocratic hate state that regards Israel as the “little Satan” and America as the “great Satan” cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

Peace Through Strength is What’s Needed

But the leftists and those of the woke right refuse to get it. We hear the same old baloney; ‘war solves nothing;’ ‘give peace a chance;’ and ‘but others have nuclear weapons; ‘what about other threatening states?’.

A few bits of mental and moral clarity here.

Of course other rogue states have nukes. That is NOT the issue. A pre-emptive strike in this regard is always preferable and wiser than trying to deal with nukes after the fact. For example, Bill Clinton had the opportunity to take out North Korea’s nuclear weapons’ program when he was president, but he refused. Now it is too late of course.

And of course countries like China pose a threat, and will make a move on Taiwan. Worrying about it will not help – nor will appeasement. One week after Chamberlain met with Hitler in Berlin in 1938 and came back proclaiming ‘peace for our time, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and WWII proceeded apace.

We have the same clueless appeasers and isolationists today who just want Israel and the US to do nothing and sing ‘Kumbaya’. THAT is how war and annihilation happens. Peace through strength is the need of the hour now, and like Reagan before him, Trump is in the right place at the right time.

‘Great Day for the US and Peace’: Ezra Levant

Canadian writer and publisher, Ezra Levant, offers this commentary which is worth sharing.

U.S. President Donald Trump just announced that the U.S. has bombed three nuclear bomb facilities in Iran. Here are a dozen reasons why this is a great day for the United States, for peace, and for the “America First” movement.

1. Trump has called for the removal of Iranian nukes for more than a decade — long before he even ran for office. He’s done it at least 100 times.
2. His explanation is as simple as it is obvious: Iran is run by a death cult that longs for an apocalypse and it has demonstrated that. Letting them have nuclear weapons would be tantamount to letting a terrorist group have nukes, as opposed to a rational state like China or India.
3. Trump’s vision of America First does not mean pacificism or appeasement. It means America isn’t into nation-building, or into foreign entanglements. A surgical strike is the opposite of an entanglement. It’s like when Trump lobbed a few cruise missiles at Syria in his first term, or when he cleaned out ISIS in a few weeks. Short and sharp.
4. Trump also didn’t risk Americans — he let Israel clean up Iranian air defences for a week.
5. Qatar-paid influencers have been talking about “no war for Israel”. But Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t ask for U.S. intervention. The opposite, actually — since October 7, 2023, he has wanted America to stop telling Israel to fight with one hand tied behind its back, like Biden did.
6. People forget how anti-American Iran has been under the mullahs. “Death to America” is their slogan; they kidnapped American diplomats in the 70’s; they murdered 200+ U.S. Marines in the 1980s. They have been a large menace in Iraq, likely responsible for most U.S. deaths there. They harboured the Taliban after 9/11. They tried to assassinate Trump personally. They are America’s enemy as much as Israel’s.
7. Israel wiped out Hezbollah and the bulk of Iran’s military and terrorist regime (with the U.S. doing the one special mission that Israel does not have the technology to do). No-one could possibly think the world isn’t safer today. This is not the start of a world war — Russia has made it clear it’s going to stay out of it. If anything, this clears the way for the next round of Abraham Accords, the peace agreement between Israel and its Muslim neighbours that Trump started in his first term.
8. Watch the price of oil in the days ahead. It will not spike — things are more stable in the Middle East now, not less so.
9. In terms of regime change, most of the world, except for Qatar-paid influencers, wants the Ayatollahs to go, and the Shah’s son could be a successor. The Iranian people are largely liberal and secular and educated and somewhat wealthy. It’s not like Afghanistan or Somalia, which are failed states. Iran could move forward under a normal government. But even if it doesn’t, a defanged Ayatollah is not much of a risk to anyone.
10. The main risk in the weeks ahead is Islamist terrorist cells across the west. In fact, that’s what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said to Trump this week: according to the Daily Telegraph, he warned that Iranian sleeper cells in the UK could be activated. But that’s a UK immigration and policing problem, not a U.S. military problem.
11. Under Trudeau and now Mark Carney, Canada has no role other than issuing press releases that no-one of any consequences considers. Except that in recent weeks, the Israeli government has warned that members of the Iranian regime may flee to Canada — where there are already hundreds of Iranian operatives working unmolested by police.
12. The world is more peaceful today than it was before. And America’s reputation is markedly stronger than under Biden. Whether you’re Russia, China, North Korea or Yemen, it’s pretty obvious now that when Trump says, “you have 60 days to negotiate a peace deal”, he means it. America’s back — no more Obama pallets of cash.

The world is less dangerous. America’s enemies are weaker. Its friends are stronger. Not a drop of American blood has been spilled. This is what America First looks like.

What do you think?

Yours truly,

Ezra Levant

Psalm 83

Regardless of how one views the modern state of Israel, this passage stands out:

“O God, do not keep silence;
    do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
    those who hate you have raised their heads.
They lay crafty plans against your people;
    they consult together against your treasured ones.
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
For they conspire with one accord;
    against you they make a covenant.” (Psalm 83:1–5)

Post Script

Just hours before the US strike on Iranian nuclear sites, I did a 28-minute interview on the Israel-Iran situation. See the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBM3nxLx6hc

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Originally published at CultureWatch. Image via YouTube/The White House.