For the first time in history, you’ve got to be a multi-millionaire to take advantage of the 99-cent special at the local Iranian McDonald’s. That’s because it now requires two million of Iran’s rials to equal a single U.S. dollar. That means a rial is worth 28,571 times less than it did when the Islamic Republic took power in 1979. Well done, ayatollahs!
The nation’s infrastructure continues its collapse, and President Trump recently reported that large segments of the nation’s military are not receiving paychecks. But somehow they still have money to continue work on their nuclear facilities in Pickaxe Mountain and to attempt their piracy of ships as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
All Clear through the Strait of Hormuz
Speaking of the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump has announced mine-free passage through the highly traveled waters.
“All mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” the president posted. This follows comments by the president a couple of days earlier declaring the strait to temporarily be “an American territory.”
While you’re at it, Iran, you may want to warn the IRGC to watch their backs, too. The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on key leaders of that Iranian military organization.
A Nicer Brand of Bad Guys
On Monday, the U.S. removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, only Iran, Cuba, and North Korea remain on the naughty list. As one scans the geopolitical landscape, it seems like this catalog of names should be getting longer rather than shorter. But President Trump is determined that Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa succeed in his role, and this move opens up doors for Syrian trade. I would agree with his sentiment, if not for al-Sharaa’s track record both as president and back in his terrorist days when he went by the nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
The relationship between the U.S. and Turkey also continues to thaw. This is very concerning as Erdogan and company are supplanting Iran as the greatest global enemies of Israel. Columnist David Harris summed up why America should beware of Turkey in a brief but thorough post on X:
Turkey occupied Gaza for 400 years. Never offered independence. Turkey massacred 1.5 million Armenian Christians. To this day, never acknowledged the genocide. Turkey was neutral and profited from the war against the greatest evil in history—German Nazism. Turkey has occupied 37% of EU member Cyprus since 1974. Turkey has suppressed aspirations of tens of millions of Kurds. Turkey jails political dissidents and journalists. Turkey hosts Hamas and other terrorists. Turkey conspires with radical, anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood.
And we’re supposed to take morality lessons from Erdogan and company? Give me a break!
Iran’s New Terroristic Low
The state media of Iran aired a video suggesting a $10 million reward for the whereabouts of Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump. The U.S. Secret Service affirmed the video’s existence and announced that they were taking all precautions to protect the young man. This isn’t the first time they have targeted an enemy’s family.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that one of his sons was targeted for assassination in Miami last year.
“This is an unbelievable case. Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to murder him, tried to murder one of my sons,” said the incredulous PM.
When Facts Outweigh the Lie
The intentional starvation campaign by Israel against the Gazans has been a prominent talking point for liberals and antisemites since soon after October 7. But recent studies have definitively proven that deception for the evil slander that it is.
On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz posted a quote from The Free Press, stating, “A researcher [in Gaza] who has overseen teams collecting malnutrition data in the Horn of Africa remarked that she had ‘never seen’ the emergence of obesity and excess weight in a place that was declared only a year earlier to be suffering from famine.”
Once again, facts outweigh the lie.
