C Steven Tucker

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time so that my children can live in peace." - Thomas Paine

The Iran war is not drift. It follows a coercive sequence: terms, pressure, pause, then renewed pressure. After failed diplomacy and rising nuclear risk, Washington saw force as the remaining option. Whatever its costs, the war is reshaping Iran and the regional balance. Read more: parpanchi.substack.com/p/the-coercive…

قلت لكم ان مشكلة مضيق هرمز هي مشكلة تأمين الان تجهز حكومة ترمب تأمينا لكل السفن في الخليج وبذلك تكون قد سحبت البساط من تحت السيطرة البريطانية على أسواق التأمين، وحصلت على موطأ قدم غير مباشرة في كل المواني الخليجية، كما تحصل على كل المعلومات: الكميات والنوعيات ومن اين والى اين. بطريقة او بأخرى ستسيطر الولايات المتحدة على مضيق هرمز لعقود قادمة، وبعد ان تنتهي من الاعدادات الحالية ستنتقل إلى مضيق باب المندب…

If Bukele can do this in El Salvador, we can absolutely do it in America and Europe… It’s simply a lack of political will.

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That’s what Trump knows when he’s out there taking on the global liberal elite: He’s created a new anti-terror coalition in the Middle East based not on the myth of exporting democracy but on the reality of shared interests.

“The Iranian regime poses no threat to the world.” Honestly, every time I hear that sentence - usually from a politician or a very comfortable diplomat - I mentally put a big red X on their ability to understand geopolitics. Not disagreement. Disqualification. Let’s walk through this slowly, for the well-meaning but dangerously naive. In what world is it normal for a state to recruit 700,000 fighters from across Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan… arm them, train them, and deploy them as transnational militias outside the authority of their own countries? In what world is it normal to effectively hijack the political, economic, and military decision-making of a neighboring state like Iraq, while simultaneously fueling civil wars in Syria and Yemen that have left millions dead and tens of millions displaced? In what world is it normal that half of a country’s armed forces - namely the IRGC - is designated as a terrorist organization by dozens of countries… and yet continues to operate, fund, arm, and expand? And here’s my favorite. In what world is it normal for a regime to transfer ballistic missiles (multi-warhead systems with ranges exceeding 2,500 km) to a terrorist non-state actors like the Houthis? Let me simplify that. Sovereign-level strategic weapons… handed to narco terror militias. Militias that traffic in narcotics, humans and chaos. And somehow, we’re told this is… not a threat? Even NATO countries like Germany or Italy don’t field that kind of range in their arsenals. But a militia in Yemen does? Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here. And all of this is happening in a region that holds roughly 60% of global oil and gas reserves, and controls the world’s most critical maritime choke points - Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal. So let me ask the obvious question. If this is not a threat… what exactly qualifies? Explain it to me like am a 5 year old!! Do we wait until global energy flows collapse? Until maritime trade is strangled? Until missiles start landing beyond the region? At what point do we graduate from “not a threat” to “perhaps mildly concerning”? Because from where I’m sitting, the regime isn’t preparing to become a threat. It already is one. Oh, I forgot .. All of the above is happening while the same terror sponsoring regime is seeking nuclear weapons and in actual control of 460 kg of highly enriched uranium enough for 11 nuclear bombs!!🤦🏻‍♂️

The combined forces of the U.S. and Israel are doing massive damage to Iran’s war-making capabilities and degrading its repression apparatus. This is a key military objective — to severely weaken your enemy — as old as time. We’re winning. More to do to decisively win.

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In 1822, Muslims captured two Greek Christian women and attempted to force them to convert to Islam. The women refused. As punishment, they were smeared with honey on their heads and tied up in the open, exposed to the stings of wasps as well as to the abuse of passersby. The wife of Zafeirakis was built into the wall of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki up to her neck. She was left there for days, exposed to the entertainment of the wild mob that gathered to curse her and strike her protruding head with sticks. She did not waver for a moment. Strengthened until her last breath by prayer, she never abandoned her Christian faith. Her martyrdom lasted five days. A passing gypsy woman, seeking to hasten her end, threw a large stone at her head. Thus, the blessed woman delivered her heroic soul into the hands of God, Whom she had never denied. The other Greek Christian woman, Maria, also refused to renounce her faith. For this, Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she was martyred. The historian Eustathios Stougiannakis writes: “The acute venom that diffused into the veins of the martyr from the bites, however, killed her in a sweet lethargy. Praying until the last moment for her executioners, she invoked the Most High and the Virgin.” The lifeless bodies of these holy women were eventually thrown into the sea.

Our latest on why Iran cannot be left with any missile program that threatens the U.S. and its neighbors. nypost.com/2026/03/25/opi…

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SECRETARY RUBIO: The people who run Iran are religious fanatics. Look at what they are doing: attacking embassies and hotels. Imagine what these people would do if they had a nuclear weapon. The President’s not just doing a favor for the United States, but for the world.

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.@POTUS on midterms: "If Democrats had won in 2024, our country would right now be a nation in terminal decline...Iran would long ago have had a nuclear weapon...Our military would be woke, politicized, starved for resources. ICE would be effectively abolished."

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IRGC navy commander Alireza Tangsiri oversaw efforts to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. According to every Israeli network, he has been eliminated.

WATCH: "We should not allow Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, to set the global price for food and gas" UAE Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh in an exclusive interview with @BretBaier, warns Iran’s actions could have global economic consequences, with critical energy and supply routes at risk.