News and Views: June 23, 2025

More than Iran: Was the U.S. strike a global power signal? 

While the strike achieved its stated aim—halting Iran’s march toward nuclear weapons capability—it also broadcast a not-so-subtle message across the globe: don’t misread American restraint as inability.

n an era where U.S. deterrence has been questioned—from the South China Sea to the Donbas—this operation may have been designed to recalibrate the balance. Screenshot

Ten Iranian Questions: VD Hanson 

1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan?

Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding fashion. Operationally, the destruction of the nuclear sites seems to have gone perfectly, in contrast to a long history of America’s Middle East debacles from the failed 1980 Carter rescue mission to the 2021 flight from Kabul.

   The long-overdue message to Iran is that there are finally consequences for a half-century effort of killing Americans, promising death to the U.S. and Israel, and attempting to murder a U.S. president.

   It’s also surreal to see leftist critics now say that Trump deviated from past presidents’ heroic, peaceful efforts to negotiate an end to the Iranian nuclear threat, when suddenly, after assuming office, Trump was apprised that Iran was weeks away from getting a bomb...

Democrats Got Caught in a Huge Lie About Trump’s Iran Strike  The White House, contrary to the manufactured narrative, conducted its due diligence and reached out to leaders on both sides of the aisle. The administration’s outreach efforts were comprehensive, but in a detail that speaks volumes, the top Democrat in the House was apparently unavailable to take a call of such national security importance. 

   Leavitt revealed the specifics of the outreach, exposing the disingenuous nature of the complaints.

   "In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn't be reached," she explained. "We tried him before the strike and he didn't pick up the phone, but he was briefed after, as well as Chuck Schumer was briefed prior to the strike."

Here's How They Did It 

For those of you who need a tick tock of the bombing runs, now officially known to the rest of us as "Operation Midnight Hammer," this is for you. This timeline includes the feints and assets used. It contains foundational videos and photos about the assets using the timeline established by Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine along with additional details learned since the operation wrapped.

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UK: Gaza militants break into Royal Air Force base to sabotage military planes  Pro-Palestinian militants from the group Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base in England on Friday and attempted to sabotage two military planes, throwing paint into their engines.

More than 100 women attending music festivals across France stabbed with syringes and injected with unknown substances Before I even knew what kind of individuals perpetrated these needle attacks, I already knew—we probably all do—and it wasn’t the few white Frenchmen left but…Muslim migrants. While most of the creeps are still on the lam, a Bangladeshi suspect has been arrested as well as another man who shouted at his victim in Arabic, claiming to be a doctor.

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The Church Suffering: Christian Persecution in Africa and Latin America  Nigerian Christians face the bloodiest persecution against Christians in the entire world, as the decades-long genocide by Islamists continues to escalate. While Christians currently represent about half of the country’s population, according to ICC, the massacres that have left tens of thousands dead in recent years continue to occur...

Suicide Attack on Damascus Church Leaves at Least 20 Dead   Witnesses on the scene said that the destruction was extensive and that the attack may have claimed a large number of fatalities. The rescue service on the scene stated that they could initially confirm 15 fatalities. Later, the state-controlled news agency Sana reported that the number of dead had risen to 20.

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Tom Homan Warns of Iranian Terror Sleeper Cells Allowed into the U.S. by Joe Biden's Open Border Policies 

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ChatGPT Will Help Kids Access ‘Gender-Affirming’ Resources Behind Their Parents’ Backs  Parents across the country trying to protect their children from radical gender ideology have another nemesis to worry about: artificial intelligence. 

   ChatGPT will encourage gender-confused kids to reach out to radical LGBT organizations, obtain so-called “gender-affirming” resources like chest binders behind their parents’ backs, and direct them to YouTube channels that contain graphic reviews of fake male genitalia, a Daily Wire investigation found.

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New report exposes how chemical abortions are tainting America's water supply  More than 40 tons of aborted fetal remains and abortion pill byproducts have seeped into America’s water supply, according to a bombshell new report released this week by Liberty Counsel Action.

   The 86-page report examines a wide variety of records and research to find serious deficiencies in the oversight of how the abortion industry disposes of its “medical waste,” starting with a fateful erroneous prediction in the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) original approval of mifepristone that the drug would only have a minimal environmental impact, with the question of disposal largely overlooked, both from chemical byproducts of the pills themselves to the flushing of aborted remains down users’ own toilets after use.

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