Day: June 23, 2025

The DARK TRUTH about Iran’s regime

“We’ve seen this movie before,” Glenn Beck warns after President Trump bombed Iran. The last time Islamists attacked America, the country united to destroy them. So, Iran may want to think twice before retaliating. But will Iran care about the consequences? Glenn explains the dark truth about Iran: this isn’t a “Muslim” nation. It’s an evil, fascist regime.

Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Says a Transition Plan is in Place If/When Khamenei Falls What do the people of Iran want?

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The Iranian regime is a scourge to its own people, to Israel and to the West, so to see it fall would be an occasion for celebration. According to Trump:

Iran was “a few weeks away” from developing a nuclear weapon before Israel launched strikes last week…adding that he now seeks “total and complete victory,” not a ceasefire.

But the question of what comes after is another matter. While regime change is not the same thing as nation-building, it is understandable why so many want the current regime to fall. In reading the plethora of reports circulating about the Iranian Islamic regime’s downfall, there is no certainty about what might replace the regime should it fall. One also needs to keep in mind that a majority of Western media has long become activist media, and given their anti-Israel bias, they lack credibility in reporting and analysis.

French President Emmanuel Macron also weighed in, but he is a leftist globalist who has shown little goodwill to Israel given the historic truth about its deadly enemies. Macron is not so fond of his own country, either, given his open-door immigration policies. He has not protected Western interests; also, he has a habit of calling for “ceasefire” whenever Israel justifiably and prudently retaliates against its enemies and is winning. He did ask one reasonable question, however, that highlights the uncertainty of the fall of the Iranian regime: “Does anyone think Iraq in 2003 or Libya a decade later were good ideas?” Although a valid point for discussion, every situation is different. Iraq and Libya were not nuclear states, and Iran is perhaps the only country where many of its people were celebrating Israeli attacks on their own country.

As Iran continues to grapple with political unrest and calls for reform, Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, is an important figure in discussions and debate about the future of Iran. His role could become increasingly central as he provides needed insight, direction and even a possible future role for himself in an Iran free of its current regime. Not only has Netanyahu stated that Israeli attacks “pave the way for Iran regime change,” but Pahlavi is calling for regime collapse.

In 2013, Reza Pahlavi established the National Council of Iran in Paris, comprised of an exiled opposition group. He now lives in America, where he has long been an active voice for regime change in Iran for secularism, human rights and democracy. That vision is a solid one, which will certainly be backed by the dissidents of Iran, by Israel and the US, unlike in the cases of Libya and Iraq, where regime-change efforts lacked vision and a solid plan.

Well-known Iranian-Canadian human rights advocate Shabnam Assadolahi, who was arrested and imprisoned at age 16 for eighteen months in Iran’s most notorious prison, Evin, gave me a statement on Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s role in leading Iran’s transition:

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is a legitimate and unifying figure, widely recognized by Iranians—particularly those inside Iran—as the trusted leader to guide the country through the critical transition following the fall of the Islamic Republic’s occupying regime. For decades, millions of Iranians have upheld the memory and legacy of the Pahlavi era not only with nostalgia but with renewed calls for national revival, justice, and secular governance.

During nationwide uprisings, particularly in 2017, 2019, and 2022, powerful chants such as «رضاشاه، روحت شاد» (“Reza Shah, may your soul be blessed”) and «ولیعهد کجایی، به داد ما بیایی» (“Crown Prince, where are you? Come to our aid”) resounded across cities and villages alike—despite brutal repression. These are not empty slogans; they are a direct mandate from a people yearning for principled leadership and national sovereignty.

The Iranian people have called upon Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to lead the transitional phase and prepare the country for a genuinely free, fair, and democratic election—one conducted without interference from the United Nations or any foreign entities whose historical involvement has either empowered theocratic tyranny or compromised Iran’s independence. The future of Iran must be decided by Iranians alone.

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has repeatedly emphasized his commitment to secular democracy, human rights, and unity across ethnic and religious lines, positioning himself as a transitional figurehead—not for personal power, but for the restoration of a democratic republic or constitutional monarchy, as freely chosen by the Iranian people.

Now, more than ever, as the occupying regime loses its grip, the people’s voice is clear: the path forward must be rooted in national dignity, historical continuity, and self-determination. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi embodies these principles and stands ready to serve—not rule—the people of Iran in this historic transformation.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addressed speculation during a press briefing with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine, that the recent U.S. airstrikes on Iran were not aimed at regime change. Hegseth says the operation was solely focused on neutralizing nuclear threats. The comments followed Trump’s announcement of “very successful” precision strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan.

America is the only country with the B-2 plane that is capable of carrying the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” — with the ability to penetrate the mountain under which the Fordo centrifuge operation was hidden.

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Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".

Ilhan Omar Hates America So why is she here? To destroy it.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is deeply disappointed in her adopted country, and of course it is all the fault of none other than Donald J. Trump. While virtually all leftists hate Trump with hysterical, lunatic intensity, Omar goes them all one better, and she is in the process of transforming Trump-hatred into a veritable new art form. Watch for her to get an NEA grant any minute now.

Omar has gone all the other Trump-haters one better by claiming that Orange Man Bad is not just a new Hitler who is destroying “our democracy” (the term leftists like to use to refer to their own hegemony), but that he is destroying the country itself, reducing it to the level of a third-world hellhole.

This is ironic for numerous reasons, not least of which is the fact that it was the Biden regime that Omar favored, not the Trump administration that Omar hates, that opened the southern border and brought in millions of migrants. Many of those migrants immediately became a drain on the economy. Others committed various crimes, some of which involved unspeakable atrocities. Meanwhile, their presence further weakened national unity and social cohesion. It was Omar’s friends and colleagues, her fellow leftist apparatchiks, who did far more to reduce the U.S. to third-world status than Trump ever did.

Nevertheless, The Hill reported Tuesday that Omar declared that Trump’s efforts to stop the Los Angeles riots, which were themselves dedicated to stopping his efforts to deport some of those illegal migrants, were turning the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into “one of the worst countries.”

Trump’s efforts to stop the rioting led her to compare America unfavorably to the idyllic and carefree Somalia of her youth: “Can you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military is on our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president’s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade — it’s really shocking.”

Shocking? Maybe. Fictional? Certainly. In reality, there is nothing unconstitutional about the president restoring order, and an appeals court has sided with Trump in his legal fight against California Commissar Gavin Newsom over the deployment of the National Guard in the riots. Omar, however, has a narrative to push, and to do so, she enthusiastically wrapped herself in the old red, white and blue: “It should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, ‘This is not the country we were born in. It’s not the country we believe in. This is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values.’ And we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week.”

What’s that? You didn’t know Ilhan Omar had such a patriotic concern for “our Constitution, our ideals, our values”? In June 2024, video began circulating of former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire standing next to a beaming Omar and saying: “The interest of Ilhan is not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somali people and Somalia. The success of Ilhan is the success of Somalia.”

That video followed one in which Omar gave a speech in which she said: “We Somalis must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S. The U.S. government will only do what Somalis in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else.” She says that the U.S. government “must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia… Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”

A third video contains footage of Omar from 2022, once again speaking in Somali to a Somali audience. She begins by saying: “We must fix our roads.” Nothing wrong with that, except that she isn’t talking about the roads in her congressional district. She is talking about roads in Somalia. Omar continues:

I am an American migrant in the U.S. Congress. But I am a Somali girl, a girl with your lineage, a girl with your language, a girl with your religion, that was a young child taken from her country, that misses her country and wishes to live there, and share with its people. I am hopeful in the future that me and my children will be able to raise our kids in this land, where I was born and raised. To make that possible, there is a lot that we need to work on together to make our land a more stable and prosperous place. It is felt by all.

She loves Somalia and longs to live there. She thinks America, meanwhile, is among “the worst of countries.” Yet despite her expressed hope in the 2022 video, she is likely to remain in the country she hates. After all, there is so much more work to do in order to ensure its destruction.

Newly released satellite imagery showcases aftermath of “bunker-buster” bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility

373879 01: A B-2 Spirit bomber, center, flies with two F-117A Nighthawks, July 19, 2000 above dramatic clouds. The B-2 Spirit is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force)
A B-2 Spirit bomber, center, flies with two F-117A Nighthawks (Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
12:31 PM – Sunday, June 22, 2025

Newly released satellite images showcase the aftermath of the 30,000 pound “bunker-buster” bomb the United States dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities.

The U.S. operation, known as “Midnight Hammer,” occurred on Saturday night, utilizing over 125 aircraft including seven 8-2 stealth bombers, multiple fighter jets, dozens of air refueling tankers, as well as a guided missile submarine and multiple reconnaissance aircraft, according to Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force Gen. Dan Coats in a Sunday briefing.

The attack struck three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan.

Before and after images reveal how the entire topography of the mountain protecting Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment site changed following the detonation of 14 separate 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs, the first operational use of the weapon, according to Caine.

“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine stated.

Entire sections of the once-brown mountain are seen covered in light grey ash with visible holes seen penetrating the mountainside.

Meanwhile, Iranian state TV channels are reporting that the enriched uranium reserves “had been transferred from the nuclear centers” to a separate location prior to the attacks, according to Hassan Abedini, a deputy political head of Iran’s state broadcaster.

Satellite images prior to the attack pointed out an “unusual” line of vehicles near the entry point of the Fordow facility, which may have been when Iran supposedly moved the enriched uranium, although the claim remains unconfirmed.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General confirmed the U.S. attacks while also noting that there “has been no increase in off-site radiation levels after the recent attacks on the three Iranian nuclear sites.”

“It is clear that Fordow was also directly impacted, but the degree of damage inside the uranium enrichment halls cannot be determined with certainty,” stated Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on Sunday.

Despite Iranian state TV claiming that Iran moved their stock of enriched uranium, social media users argued that Iran may not have moved their stock at all, and definitely not utilizing the “unusual” line of trucks seen piled up at the Fordow site prior to the attack.

X user “@dataalerta” argued that the trucks seen at the Fordow site “are dump trucks, not uranium-shipping trailers… To move/transport uranium they’d use 48Y-type cylinders in sealed trailers, not open-bed trucks full of sand. Hauling uranium that way would be logistically unsafe, legally impossible, and operationally reckless. And if you, a civilian, can spot this on commercial imagery, do you really believe the world’s best-equipped intelligence services wouldn’t notice?”

The user’s argument may potentially point to the theory that the trucks were utilized to reinforce the tunnels leading to the nuclear sites in an attempt to dampen the effects of the U.S. airstrikes, rather than pointing to the Iranian claim that the uranium was moved.

The MOP “bunker-busters” are capable of penetrating up to 200 feet below-ground prior to exploding, making them extremely useful in this specific U.S. operation.

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Russian leader claims multiple nations are ‘ready to directly supply Iran’ with nuclear weapons following U.S. attack

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 24: Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev looks on prior to the Victory Day military parade in Red Square marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. The 75th-anniversary marks the end of the Great Patriotic War when the Nazi's capitulated to the then Soviet Union. (Photo by Ramil Sitdikov - Host Photo Agency via Getty Images )
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev looks on prior to the Victory Day military parade (Ramil Sitdikov – Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
2:01 PM – Sunday, June 22, 2025

Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev warned that multiple nations are “ready” to supply Iran with nuclear warheads following the United States’ airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.

Medvedev, a former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council issued a series of X posts following the United States’ attack against Iran.

Medvedev stated Iran’s “enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.”

Medvedev also claimed that a “number of countries” are “ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads,” without directly naming any of the supposed nations, although Russia has consistently backed Iran’s nuclear program.

“The US is now entangled in a new conflict, with prospects of a ground operation looming on the horizon,” Medvedev added. “Donald Trump, once hailed as the ‘president of peace,’ has now pushed the US into another war.”

Medvedev’s comments come as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that he will be traveling to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss an Iranian response to the United States.

“We enjoy a strategic partnership, and we will always consult with each other and coordinate our positions,” Araghchi stated.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the U.S. strikes, arguing that they “flagrantly violate international law.”

“The irresponsible decision to subject the territory of a sovereign state to missile and bomb attacks, whatever the arguments it may be presented with, flagrantly violates international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry stated on Sunday.

Additionally, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on Sunday that the United States will suffer “everlasting consequences” as a result of its military action against Iranian nuclear facilities, while characterizing Iran’s nuclear program as “peaceful.”

“The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations. The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior,” Araghchi wrote in an X post.

“In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people,” he added.

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