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Ed: What I find fascinating about this editorial choice is the idea that there was a need to watch this live at all. Nepo Babytollah, aka the Cardboard Mullah, wasn’t even on the air in person or by audio. This was literally a news presenter reading a statement while a translator presented a version in English. What was the compelling need to show this as it unfolded?

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Off the Press: “Well, they should kill him, too…hopefully he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I do absolutely support having Israel to just eliminate him, you know, along with any other parts of the leadership,” [Senator John] Fetterman said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Tonight.”

“I mean, I’m always going to support that. I think it’s a good thing to continue to eliminate leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian, too,” he added.

Ed: Indeed. Mojtaba is dead already, though. If he were alive, he’d have delivered this statement himself. His father knew enough to make sure to be seen while giving these speeches and making these declarations. 

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Ed: I don’t think CNN has much standing to call out lies in the first place, but that’s especially true after this week. And at least Trump showed up for his own event. 

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NY Post: Piers Morgan asked Mehdi Hasan a whopping seven times in a row whether he was happy Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was no longer ruling Iran after his assassination – but the former MSNBC host refused to answer, calling it a “loaded question.” …





“Are you pleased that Saddam Hussein is not ruling Iran?” Hasan asked Morgan during a heated back-and-forth.

Morgan quickly replied: “Yeah.”

“But you opposed that war like I did?” Hasan said. 

“Yeah,” Morgan said again. “Those two things are perfectly compatible.”

Ed: They are, although it’s a pretty nuanced distinction. The reason Hasan won’t answer is that Hasan sympathizes with the mass-murdering tyrant and the terror regime he ran. One can oppose the war as a bad policy choice while recognizing that the removal of a bloodthirsty tyrant is still a good outcome. 

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Ed: As others have pointed out, tanks would play an important role in suppressing a popular revolt and protecting the regime’s leaders, wherever they may be. We are not going to invade Iran, so there is no other good reason to target these positions and armored materiel except as a means to plow the ground for an organic regime collapse. 

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Times of Israel: “You can lead someone to water, you cannot make him drink,” says Netanyahu. “We will create optimal conditions to do this, including airstrikes as we did yesterday, as we are doing these days, to try to give them the space needed to take to the streets.”

Even if the regime in Iran does not fall, says Netanyahu, “it will be much weaker.”





“It’s simply a different Iran — it no longer threatens as it did before,” he continues. “It is not the same power. It’s not the giant bully that nothing can be done against and that no one can unite against.”

He says that countries are uniting with Israel against Iran, both in overt ways and in “other ways that will become clear later.”

Ed: This is smart messaging, in terms of expectations-setting at home. Trump has done the same thing here in the US. We are focused on ensuring that Iran can no longer threaten anyone, but we are also setting up the conditions by which a popular revolt could succeed. 

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Ed: The reason I support this full-out punitive expedition is that we have literally tried everything else over the last 47 years. We have tried to cut deals with Iran (the Iran-Contra scandal was a complicated mess in an attempt to work with the regime), we have tried economic sanctions, we have tried economic benefits … and the mullahs keep pushing for nuclear weapons and funding terrorism around the globe. The Iranian regime was never going to change its policies of war against the US and the West. Even if the regime survives this war, and it might, at least it will not pose anywhere near the same threat level as it did before June 2025 and February 2026. 





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Hugo Timms at Spiked: We regularly hear the refrain that schools need to get back to ‘old-fashioned’ methods of teaching. But how far back should they go? And, while we’re at it, to which society? Labour councils in the north of England have attempted to clear up this confusion for us. Seventh-century Arabia, at the dawn of Islam, is their answer.

In a document titled ‘Sharing the Journey’, multiple Labour-run councils have told schools that drawing pictures of humans could be ‘idolatrous’ to ‘some Muslim’ pupils. Music lessons could also conflict with the religious injunctions of Islam, on the grounds that ‘music is traditionally limited to the human voice and non-tunable percussion instruments as in the days of the prophet, when they were only used in marriage ceremonies and on the battlefield’. Dancing and physical activities also need to be carefully policed so as to ensure there is no ‘physical contact between male and females’, nor ‘performing in a manner that might encourage immodesty or sexual feelings’.

This is, to put it mildly, disturbing. These councils – they include Leeds, Oldham, Tameside and Kirklees – are effectively advising schools to look to the Taliban for educational inspiration. 

Ed: Right problem, wrong source. The Taliban have no influence outside of Afghanistan. This is coming from Iran and, to some extent, Qatar. This is one of the effects of allowing Iran’s radical Islamists to metastasize for 47 years, especially while Labour and other Leftists in the EU pushed for open-borders immigration policies. 

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Ed: Since when did attacks on the Trump administration need to make sense?

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Ed: Exactly. This is not new at all. It is a tradition within the military that is not just well established, it has also been well covered by the media for decades. It’s so well known, as I argued yesterday, that the media noted the surf & turf meals served in the last week of February as a potential signal that strikes on Iran would soon commence (although the assembly of the armada made that obvious too). 

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NY Post: The madman who opened fire at Old Dominion University on Thursday, killing a retired military officer instructing an ROTC class, has been identified as an ex-National Guard soldier convicted of trying to support ISIS, The Post has learned.

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, stormed into a classroom inside ODU’s Constant Hall and asked if it was an ROTC class. When someone confirmed that it was, he launched the suspected terror attack, shooting the professor several times, law enforcement sources said. …

In 2017, Jalloh, a former member of the Virginia National Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to ISIS and the ISIL, according to the Department of Justice.

A naturalized US citizen from Sierra Leone, Jalloh left the National Guard and became a devoted follower of Anwar al-Awlaki, the slain leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in the Arabian Peninsula, the DOJ said.





Ed: A student in the class stabbed Jalloh to death to end the shooting. The big questions here are these: Why was he out in 2026 after getting an 11-year sentence in 2017? And why was he still in the US, rather than having his naturalized citizenship stripped and deported on release from prison, whenever it took place? 

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Ed: Indeed. 

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ABC News: Jill Biden is breaking her silence about Joe Biden’s decision to abruptly end his 2024 presidential reelection bid under pressure from Democrats concerned about his age, health and viability against Republican Donald Trump in a rematch of their 2020 campaign.

A political spouse for nearly 50 years, Jill Biden said she has never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week stretch when her husband ended his political career, instead saving her thoughts for the pages of her soon-to-be-released memoir.

Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on Wednesday announced that her book, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” is scheduled to be published June 2.

Ed: Breaking her silence? Child, please. First off, Jill Biden has hardly been silent since her husband was exposed as a senile old man being pushed to run for a second term by Biden Inc and Democrats. Second, anyone expecting honesty from “Dr. Jill” about that episode and anything else over the last six years is just as cognitively impaired as Biden himself, or as high as Hunter when hangin’ with hookers. 





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Ed: Let’s go out with a really great story about people helping people.

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