Edmund DeMarche
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@EDeMarche
Executive editor at Trends Journal. Formerly: @FoxNews, @CNN, @NYPost, @columbiajourn
Please tell me more about how Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Should we have waited until their ballistics could reach Bermuda?
💢 BREAKING: Iranian missile strikes Dimona in southern Israel An Iranian missile struck the Dimona area in southern Israel during a new wave of launches from Iran on Saturday, with video showing a direct impact and fire at the scene. 1 boy was moderately injured, and 19 others were lightly injured in the strike, Israel’s Magen David Adom said, according to Times of Israel.
JUST IN: Trump reportedly planning for peace talks that would pause Iran’s missile program for 5 years & reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 Trump on opening the Strait of Hormuz: "It's a simple military maneuver. But you need ships, you need volume. NATO could help us but they so far haven't had the courage. Including China, the countries that use it... "
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, with senior military commanders having submitted specific requests aimed at preparing for such an option if such a decision is made by President Trump, multiple sources briefed on the discussions told CBS News. Preparations include how to handle the possible detention of Iranian soldiers and paramilitary operatives, such as where Iranian prisoners-of-war would be sent, two sources said, with the U.S. Army’s Immediate Response Force (IRF) under the 82nd Airborne Division and roughly 5,000 Marines from 11th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit deploying to the Middle East.
