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US strikes Iran’s oil-critical Kharg Island — as Trump warns ‘whole civilization will die’
The US
unleashed targeted strikes on Iran’s critical Kharg Island on Tuesday —
as President Trump chillingly declared that “a whole civilization will
die tonight.”
Roughly 50
strikes were carried out on military targets on the Islamic Republic’s
oil-critical stronghold, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing
senior US officials.
Kharg Island,
which is one-third the size of Manhattan and located in the Persian
Gulf, controls roughly 90% of Iranian crude oil exports.
The mission
included airstrikes along the northern side of the Island, hitting
military bunkers and storage facilities, air defense systems, and other
military facilities, an official told NBC News.
Probe to snare Iran rescue leaker 'underway' as Trump threatens jail for imperiling arduous operation
Trump says leak put the missing airman and hundreds of rescuers at 'great risk' during search mission
An
investigation is "underway" to determine who leaked to the press that
one of the two American airmen was still missing after their fighter
jet was shot down in Iran on Good Friday, a White House official told
Fox News Digital.
During a Monday
afternoon press conference centered on the successful rescue mission,
President Donald Trump said his administration is working "very hard"
to determine who the leaker is, which he said put the missing pilot at
greater risk.
"We think we'll
be able to find it out because we're going to go to the media company
that released it, and we're going to say, 'National security, give it
up or go to jail,'" Trump said.
"When they did
that, all of a sudden the entire country of Iran knew that there was a
pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life.
And it also made it much more difficult for the pilots and for the
people going in to search for him."
Artemis II launch live updates: NASA reveals breathtaking photos from far side of the moon in historic first
NASA’s Artemis II saw astronauts orbit the moon in a mission the likes of which have not been seen in more than 50 years.
On Monday, the
four-person crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, specialists Christina Koch and
Jeremy Hansen and pilot Victor Glover — had their historic flyby of the
moon.
The mission’s
showstopper event gave the astronauts the world’s first-ever glimpses
of parts of the lunar dark side, which they described as being
“impossibly rugged” and “alien” — and broke the historic record set
more than 50 years ago by Apollo 13.
Terrorist killed, two others seriously injured in gun battle outside Istanbul’s Israeli consulate
At least one
terrorist was killed and two others seriously injured in a 10-minute
gun battle with cops outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul on
Tuesday, authorities said.
The terrifying
ordeal erupted near a permanent security checkpoint just outside the
building that houses the consulate in the Turkish capital, according to
authorities and witnesses.
Footage showed
one of the attackers — wearing a dark top and backpack — firing shots
from an automatic rifle and a handgun as he moved among white police
and security buses.
Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan Leaders Meet With Witkoff on Iran
Egypt's foreign
minister has met with President Donald Trump's envoy and regional
counterparts as part of a renewed push to de-escalate the conflict
involving Iran, according to a statement released by the Egyptian
government on Tuesday.
The Egyptian
Foreign Ministry said Badr Abdel-Aty held talks with U.S. envoy Steve
Witkoff, Iraq's Fuad Hussein, and Pakistan's Mohammed Ishaq Dar during
meetings on Monday, reports NBC News.
Also attending was Jean Arnault, the U.N. secretary-general's personal envoy for the Middle East.
The discussions
focused on "an assessment of the rapidly evolving situation and the
efforts being made to reach understandings between the United States
and Iran to achieve de-escalation and reduce tensions," the ministry
said, describing the moment as a "critical juncture and delicate
turning point" for the region.
Wild video shows fireball consume Panama Canal’s Bridge of the Americas, killing one
Apocalyptic
footage shows the moment a fuel tanker exploded under a bridge near the
Panama Canal, almost engulfing traffic in a fireball.
Orange flames came perilously close to consuming vehicles in Panama City on Monday, according to footage shared online.
The fireball
shot up the side of the Bridge of the Americas, which spans the Pacific
entrance to the Panama Canal, and thick, black smoke billowed into the
sky.
The ‘violent’ reality of ejecting from an F-15 faced by brave US pilots revealed: ‘Instantaneous 10 to 20 Gs of force’
A Navy veteran
pulled back the curtain on the “violent” experience airmen like the
ones on the downed F-15E endure when ejecting from an aircraft —
revealing the emergency maneuver includes little to no parachute
training.
Matthew “Whiz”
Buckley, a Topgun graduate and president of the No Fallen Heroes
Foundation, told The Post that the Air Force colonel and his pilot made
“a pretty stark choice to either die or eject” last week when they were
shot down over Iran.
Few would know better than Buckley, who piloted F-18 Hornets in 44 combat missions during two tours in Iraq.
“You’re always
worried about the condition of the aviator and aircrew, if they had to
eject, because ejecting is one of the most violent experiences a body
can go through,” Buckley explained, noting that no human is built to
withstand “instantaneous 10 to 20 Gs of force.”
Buckley
described the “rocket ride” combined with “500 miles an hour of wind
blast” as a recipe for disaster if the ejector’s body isn’t in the
perfect position.
Pentagon Seeks $4.5 Billion to Rebuild Tomahawk Stockpile
The Pentagon is
preparing to request roughly $4.5 billion in fiscal 2027 to replenish
Tomahawk cruise missile stockpiles, underscoring the growing strain on
U.S. military resources amid sustained global operations.
According to a
Bloomberg Government report, the funding push comes after heavy use of
the long-range, sea-launched missiles in recent conflicts, including
the war with Iran, where hundreds have reportedly been fired.
The surge has raised concerns inside the War Department about maintaining readiness for future threats.
Tomahawk
missiles remain a cornerstone of U.S. strike capability, allowing the
Navy to hit targets from long distances with precision.
Iran’s elites escape regime’s brutal rules — with traitorous hypocrisy
By Nazee Moinian
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite,” wrote American playwright Tennessee Williams.
I thought of
Williams’ scathing quote when news broke this weekend that two Iranian
women, 47-year-old Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina
Sadat Hosseiny, 25, had been arrested by US immigration officials in
Los Angeles.
The niece and
grand-niece of the notorious Major Gen. Qassem Soleimani, slain head of
the Quds Force, had been living luxe lives in Los Angeles.
And the hypocrisy does not end there.
While the
Islamic Republic is killing its women for the “sin” of showing a strand
of hair, Afshar and Hosseiny have used their social-media accounts,
stocked with lavishly staged photos of themselves in barely-there
outfits, to heap praise on Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the
regime’s terror activities.
GOP started the gerrymander fight — but in Virginia, may not have the guts to finish it
By Daniel McCarthy
This year’s
midterm elections aren’t just about who wins in November — they’re
about who wins the fights over gerrymandering taking place right now.
Nowhere is the
battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where voters just six years
ago approved a constitutional amendment to take partisanship out of
congressional redistricting.
Now Democrats want to make an exception to the rule that Virginia voters approved by a nearly two-thirds majority in 2020.
They want this
year’s congressional map to be drawn up by their own state legislators,
erasing the districts set up by the bipartisan board established by the
amendment just a few years back.
