By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – June 30, 2025 The president seems to be taking seriously these indications that the Iranian regime still seeks avenues to retaliate against the U.S. If it ever faced a real threat to its existence, the Islamic Republic has been suspected of having the capability to activate its terror cells in the West, according to...

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last…

‘The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,’ Khamenei said.

By: Jonah Goldberg – thedispatch.com –  June 25, 2025 Applying a cost-benefit analysis to the Iran strike. When events are moving fast, it sometimes makes more sense to talk about how to think about events rather than what to think. Washington is full of people desperate to win the argument about what to think about the last couple weeks. Trump...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2025 The ‘deep state’ abides, in a different form. No one at the Pentagon who compiled the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) preliminary, “low confidence” assessment of the battle damage done by the United States to Iran’s nuclear facilities intended that analysis as a political document. Those who leaked this highly classified review...

The concession comes after reports of a U.S. intel assessment which found that the strikes did minimal damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

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…

Trump’s decisive action against Iran’s nuclear sites could reshape Middle Eastern dynamics.

Without Donald Trump, this doesn’t happen.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 23, 2025 Iran’s feeble retaliation shows how damaged the Khamenei regime is. Iran fired 14 ballistic missiles at U.S. troops in Qatar on Monday, and in typical fashion claimed to have “destroyed the American air base” in retaliation for U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites. Here on Planet Earth, the base was...