But the mullah’s propaganda machine is running hot:
The US issues a new warning, demanding Iran accept defeat or face more brutal attacks, as Tehran rejects talks and vows to continue defending the country. Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.news/cx3sxw
More Evidence that U.S. Was Right to Act before Iranian Missile Threat Grew
The rulers in Iran are hoping to move the war to a theatre more favourable to their side: the negotiating table. But one of Iran’s nonstarter demands is an unconstrained missile program – days after the regime fired at the American and British military base at Diego Garcia… read full story
But the mullah’s are winning, right?
When you read the below, PLEASE DON’T LAUGH TOO HARD 🤣🤣🤣
The spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbiya (خاتم الأنبياء)- the central joint military headquarters of Iran, responsible for coordinating large-scale operations across the country’s armed forces: “Considering that all… pic.twitter.com/e3g83ugKfW
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council, is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union and military alliance comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The council’s main headquarters is located in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
GCC Secretary-General al-Budaiwi says that Iran’s actions, including the attacks and closing the Strait of Hormuz, has “overcome all red lines”.
US threatens Iran to accept defeat or be “hit harder” than ever before, as Tehran rejects talks and pledges to continue retaliating.
US-Israeli strikes on Iran continue as Iranian missiles target central and northern Israel.
Israeli forces pound Lebanon as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is expanding what he calls a “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon.
At least two people killed and three injured from falling debris in Abu Dhabi. Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia intercept Iranian missiles and drones.
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.
CNN Just Admitted the Real Reason Iran’s Mullahs Are Scared to Escalate
Even CNN can’t hide the truth anymore.
In a rare moment of clarity on mainstream television, Bloomberg Editor-at-Large Bobby Ghosh told Anderson Cooper exactly why Iran’s regime is desperate to avoid real war with the United States.
“They’re fighting for their existence,” Ghosh said. “They know that if they lose this war, their biggest problem will not be American bombs from the air. Their biggest problem will be their own citizens, who will be hanging them from lampposts in Tehran.”
He continued: “They’ve done so much damage to their own country and their own people for so long that there’s a lot of resentment built up there. They can’t afford to show any weakness.”
That’s it. The mullahs aren’t holding back out of strength or clever strategy.
They’re terrified of their own people. After decades of brutal repression, stolen elections, crushed protests, and economic ruin, the Iranian street is a powder keg.
One major defeat and the regime knows the payback will be swift and final.
This is the dirty little secret the foreign policy blob never wants to say out loud: the greatest threat to the ayatollahs isn’t America. It’s the Iranian people finally rising up and settling scores.
The regime has spent years building a police state precisely to prevent exactly that outcome. Now even CNN is forced to admit the obvious: weakness invites the noose.
The mullahs aren’t strategic masterminds. They’re cornered thugs who know their own citizens hate them more than we ever could. And that fear is the only thing keeping them from going all-in.
Hundreds have been arrested as Iran cracks down on ‘traitors’ following killing of Larijani, Soleimani.
An Iranian woman walks across posters depicting images of US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as she takes part in the al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people, on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran on March 13, 2026 [AFP]
Iranian authorities have announced hundreds more arrests across the country, as well as operations to counter what they describe as “traitors” aligned with the interests of the United States and Israel.
The Ministry of Intelligence said in a statement that 111 “pro-monarchy cells” in 26 of Iran’s 31 provinces were stopped overnight into Wednesday from launching acts opposing the country’s theocratic establishment that toppled a US-backed monarchy in a 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iranians have for millennia celebrated the eve of the last Wednesday of the year with a fire festival called Chaharshanbe Suri, which welcomes Nowruz, the Persian New Year. But authorities urged pro-establishment backers this year to take to the streets and retain control while security forces arrest any dissidents, amid the US-Israel war on Iran.
The ministry claimed that a number of weapons were also discovered from arrested individuals, and renewed its call on the public to report any suspicious activity.
As Iran imposes a total internet shutdown on more than 92 million people for a third week, the ministry said 21 people were arrested specifically for sending videos to “terrorist” media outlets outside the country. It said two shipments containing 350 Starlink satellite internet terminals were confiscated while being smuggled into Iran.
The state-run Fars news agency said some of the dozens arrested in the city of Karaj near Tehran had “burned images of and insulted the martyred supreme leader”, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war on February 28. Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei has since been picked as Iran’s new supreme leader.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the US is sending messages through different mediators, which “does not mean negotiations”, while a diplomatic source saidTehran sees a 15-point US plan as “extremely maximalist and unreasonable”.
The White House has delivered a sharp message to Iran, saying President Donald Trump prefers a peaceful path, but is prepared to “hit harder than they have ever been hit before” if necessary.
The people don’t matter, the regime clings to power at any cost….
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the US is sending messages through different mediators, which “does not mean negotiations”, while a diplomatic source saidTehran sees a 15-point US plan as “extremely maximalist and unreasonable”.
The White House has delivered a sharp message to Iran, saying President Donald Trump prefers a peaceful path, but is prepared to “hit harder than they have ever been hit before” if necessary.
The Pentagon is expected to order roughly 3,000 troops from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East “in the coming hours,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Iranian media is reporting loud explosions in central and western Tehran as well as in Isfahan.
Loud explosions were reported by Iranian state-affiliated media and eyewitnesses across Tehran and Isfahan on March 24–25, 2026, as part of continued strikes targeting military, intelligence, and industrial sites. Blasts struck central and western Tehran, including near the Supreme Leader’s office and Parchin, while Isfahan and other cities experienced multiple, severe explosions.
The spokesturd of Iran’s top military command says country’s armed forces will fight “until complete victory”.
The comments by Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, carried by state television, said: “Iran’s powerful armed forces are proud, victorious and steadfast in defending Iran’s integrity, and this path will continue until complete victory”.
The general did not say what “complete victory” would look like, but it appeared likely Iran’s military was trying to warn against offering concessions in any possible negotiations with the US.
The New York Times’ warning about “Islamophobia” relies on its readers’ ignorance of facts that it likely didn’t report about, or report about fully and accurately. The Times is all about constructing a narrative to support leftist political causes, not reporting the news. So it downplays and misrepresents jihad attacks, ignores Muslim declarations of imminent takeover, remains willfully ignorant about the Sharia imperative to conquer and subjugate non-Muslims, and then presents concern about Islam and Sharia as irrational racism, bigotry and “Islamophobia.” Well, sure, that’s what it is, once you’ve eliminated all the facts. Continue reading Iran sez no talks with US as Trump vows to ‘hit harder’
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) March 24, 2026
One of the best 3 minute videos you’ll ever watch.
This is EXACTLY what happened in Canada over the last 20 years. Melanie Phillips (ex-Guardian journalist) nails the left-wing wokeism takeover perfectly: “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient.
US President Donald Trump announced that discussions are ongoing with Iran to “determine whether a broader agreement can be reached”, saying that “this time, Iran means business; they want to settle. They want peace”.
Tehran denied that talks with the US are taking place, with Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying such claims are “fake news” and being “used to manipulate financial and oil markets”.
‘False flag attack’: Iran denies claims it fired missiles at Diego Garcia
Esmaeil Baghaei denies the long-range missile attack on the base, which could change the war’s calculus for US allies.
Reporter: “what about the Strait of Hormuz, who is going to be in control of that?”
Trump: “uhhh, be jointly controlled …”
Reporter: “by who?” Trump: “maybe me … me and the Ayatollah”
In his latest comments to the press, President Trump reiterates the US and Iran had preliminary talks over the past few days, had very good discussions with Iran, and that’s why energy strikes were postponed temporarily. He described that this time, Iran means business, they want to settle, and Trump stresses “we will get it done I hope.” Meanwhile speculation and theories of secretive backchannel dealing abound.
This ritual has become a defining feature of modern geopolitics. International law appears not when militias are armed, not when rockets are fired, not when terrorist proxies expand across borders — but precisely when someone tries to stop them. The target of this sudden legal panic was the regime governing the Islamic Republic of Iran, a state whose regional strategy has long revolved around funding proxy groups and projecting power through militant networks.
Yet the debate quickly shifted away from those realities and toward something far more urgent: Whether Israel and the United States had filled out the correct legal paperwork before acting. It is a curious inversion. The regimes least constrained by international law invoke it most loudly, while the countries that actually take the law seriously are the ones most frequently accused of violating it.
Polling throughout the nearly three-week U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran has consistently shown near-unanimous backing for President Donald Trump’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury among the MAGA base and overwhelming support among Republicans, while a new Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday finds that a majority of likely voters overall say the operation has been succeeding.
Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION
No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof.
@VDHanson
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In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going – Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving.
Markets have reversed earlier moves after Donald Trump said the US and Iran had had “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East”.
Donald Trump says the US and Iran have held “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East” over the past two days, resulting in his decision to halt all US strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure for five days.
Earlier, Iran’s National Defence Council says any attempt to attack the Iranian coast or islands will cause “all communication lines in the Persian Gulf to be mined” as a deadline imposed by US President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz expires today.
How did we get here?
Trump’s message saying the US and Iran had “productive conversations” and that military strikes against Iranian power plants were delayed for a five-day period comes after days of tension.
The message comes at the end of a 48-hour deadline that Trump had imposed on Iran to allow the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its power plants, in what would have been a major escalation.
In response to Trump’s threat, Iranian political and military officials warned that they would strike energy and oil facilities across the region and in Israel, and that they would completely shut down the waterway through which a fifth of global oil passes.
Trump claims US held ‘very good and productive’ talks with Iran on ending war
The US president says his administration has held “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East” with Iran over the past two days.
“Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, witch will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the department of war to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions,” he said in all caps on his Truth Social page.
At what point in time did they slip ‘multiculti” into the list of Australian values?
This is the level of security that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese needed to walk through the heavily Muslim Sydney suburb of Lakemba this morning.
Islamist extremists straight up tried to mob him and lynch him. If he didn’t have twenty bodyguards and AFP agents… pic.twitter.com/ADKBCDmHkw
“Australian values include multiculturalism— and if you’re not proud of multiculturalism then you’re not proud of modern Australia.” — Labour MP Andrew Leigh
Labor turds keep regurgitating the same crap. Strange that we never got our say about this multiculti experiment that will surely end with our displacement.
The uni-party has proven itself a terminal threat to our nation.
They are systematically liquidating our sovereignty, our culture, and our future to satisfy globalist masters who hold us in contempt.
We are at a critical juncture, we either reclaim our country through the ballot box, or we face a future where the peaceful path is closed to us.
This is not just another election cycle, this is the final opportunity to secure our inheritance. Our ancestors did not grind, fight, and die for this land only for us to watch it be surrendered to traitors without a struggle.
Support One Nation or accept the reality of having no nation at all. We owe it to our posterity to exhaust every peaceful option before the alternative, which will inevitably be dark and volatile and the only path left to us.
I love Australia, and I will not stand by while they kill it.