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No one seems to notice that for all of MAGA's blather about terrorists sneaking across from the border, there have been no terrorist attacks by Iranian proxies.

I had a bad night last night and did not get moving until 11 AM today. This has been going on for almost three weeks now. Please bear with the following being a bit dated.

  

  

 

The view from Turkey: 

Top US anti-terror chief quits over Iran war, cites Israeli pressure 

The director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned Tuesday, declaring he could not “in good conscience” support President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, while noting that the conflict was launched without an imminent threat and under pressure from Israel and its lobbying network in Washington.

Kent said on social media that Iran "posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

There was no immediate comment from the White House.

Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote. As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, he was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.

A new crusade: How US-Israeli language justifies war against Iran 

U.S. President Donald Trump’s remark, “Any time I want it to end, it will end,” together with his demand for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” captures the tone from Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s language does the same from the Israeli side. He has spoken of “two existential threats,” described the conflict as a struggle between “the children of light and the children of darkness,” and cast Israel’s war in the language of civilization versus barbarism.

The White House presented the campaign under the slogan “Peace Through Strength” to “Crush Iranian Regime, End Nuclear Threat.” At the same time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Tehran as a “death cult” driven by “prophetic Islamist delusions.”

Taken together, these are not simply emotional wartime remarks. They reflect a broader institutional discourse repeated across the White House, the Pentagon, the Israeli political and diplomatic establishment, and the media in both countries.

That discourse does not present Iran as a strategic rival within a harsh regional power struggle. It presents Iran as something beyond normal politics: a uniquely dangerous, irrational and morally illegitimate actor. Once that framing takes hold, domination begins to sound like order, escalation begins to sound like necessity, and war begins to look like the only reasonable response.

 From the Irish Times: US allies reject Trump call for escorts on Strait of Hormuz 

Trump also said the US has hit 7,000 targets and sunk more than 100 ships so far. “They have been literally obliterated. The US and Israel are doing what should have been done many years ago”, he said.

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the Strait of Hormuz remained open. “It is only closed to our enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies,” he said.

 

 

I have to go out some time. Cold and snowy here. Ending this report now.

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