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You can listen to me read this essay here:Why isn’t anyone talking about the husband of ‘Screaming Mary’ and the father of soon-to-deported Eissa Hashemi?Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary” is in the news as her son, Eissa Hashemi has been arrested and faces deportation from the United States. That makes for great news headlines. But I’m far more interested in her husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi. One has to search hard to find information about him. I did that search and I will tell you who he is, but first, a little reminder about “Screaming Mary” and some questions about her son. In the video above (if you can stand her jarring ‘screaming’ voice), Masoumeh Ebtekar, defends the irony of her son studying in American when she was the Iran ‘79 hostage-taker spokeswoman ready “to shoot American hostages in the head.” Critics yell: “You climbed the Embassy wall but sent your kid to the US.”(Ebtekar scoffs) “My son went there to study just like you. What am I supposed to do?”What, indeed? He only followed in the footsteps of his mother and his grandfather, who both benefited from a top-notch American education before returning to Iran to become involved in Khomeini’s revolution, as Ebtekar did. Her hatred of the country which so generously helped her mirrors that of current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil, who will now, at last, be deported. As Secretary Marco Rubio explained:"Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country. America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families — and under the Trump Administration, it never will."Hashemi and his wife were professors at The Chicago School in Los Angeles. I can find no instance where Eissa Hashemi or his wife said or did anything to indicate they are enemies of the United States. Yet, how can we be sure they are not currently involved in subterfuge or will be in the future. As I wrote about extensively in The Islamic States of America, jihadist sleeping cells exist in the United States just waiting to be awakened. Is it better to be safe than sorry and expel family members of jihadists or is this an injustice. I’m interested to know your thoughts by the end of this essay. Returning to the life of Ebtekar, she was rewarded for her loyalty to Ayatollah Khomeini and rose through the ranks of the regime, serving as a vice president as recently as 2017-2021. You can find out more about her past in an interesting 1981 New York Times article that asks the question: WONDER WHAT’LL BECOME OF ‘MARY’ IN TEHERANOf far more interest to me was one line that I read in an obscure article, stating that Ebtekar married one of her fellow hostage-takers. Really? Who was it? I searched and could find nothing about him until I came upon the article below. Ebtekar might have been out there screaming in the media, but her future husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi, was behind the scenes and a far more dangerous person. While she takes the headlines currently, he remains obscure to this day, and one must wonder why. Keep in mind as you read this article that forty-seven years ago, students like Ebtekar’s husband used their enrollment in prestigious universities as a front for their revolutionary goals. This pattern remains unchanged to this day among members of Islamic radical groups. They are ideological operatives far more than they are traditional undergraduates. Again, we see the similarity between Ebtekar’s husband all those years ago and current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil. We must ask the question, why did it take us so long to figure this out? And still, millions of Americans protest against it, to the extent of even electing a Twelver Islamic devotee like Zohran Mamdani to become mayor of New York City. Incredible. Here is the one place where I found Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi’s bio, in Grokipedia: Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi is an Iranian former intelligence official and revolutionary activist recognized as one of the core leaders of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, the group responsible for the November 4, 1979, takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, which initiated the 444-day Iran hostage crisis.[1][2] As a key participant in the operation, Hashemi helped coordinate the storming of the compound, capturing 52 American diplomats and staff, an event that escalated tensions between Iran and the United States and contributed to the collapse of the Algiers Accords.[3] The seizure of the U.S. Embassy … was planned by a small core group of radical Islamists … with Mohammad Hashemi among the key ringleaders coordinating the operation…. Hashemi, who had not attended university classes for over a year and thus was not an active student, focused on logistical preparations and recruitment, including enlisting Masoumeh Ebtekar for her English proficiency to interrogate captives and handle communications.[9][10][11]Execution commenced shortly after dawn, as Hashemi ritually washed and pra

You can listen to me read this here:I’ve been off of Substack for the past week, spending time with my children and grandchildren. But today, I wanted to share these thoughts. This is so beautiful. Despite persecution, Christians across the East celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. Their voices cannot be silenced. The bells continue to ring.On Palm Sunday in Nigeria, at least twelve people were killed by Muslim fighters in this mostly Christian city. There are numerous examples of the targeted attacks on Christians in Nigeria, yet the New York Times claims the genocide of Christians in Nigeria is false. By 2023, 50,000 Christians had been killed in Nigeria since 2009, but of course, we must believe the New York Times. This is the battle of words that we wage. Despite intensifying persecution of Jews, not only in the East but across the West, my Jewish friends continue to celebrate. In Israel, this has meant celebrating Passover in a parking garage turned into a bomb shelter. In Europe, Jews must pass walls that say:Yet, we are supposed to close our hearts and minds to this horrific reality and look the other way. WE WILL NOT. For the past year, I have been rereading J. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings epic saga. There are many parallels to what we face today. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”Each of us must make a choice every day of what we will do with our limited time and how we will fight this battle. Jews and Christians must stand together as one, even as outside forces do everything they can to tear us apart. Some of us are warriors on the battlefield. I think of the two US pilots who were rescued deep inside Iran. One was rescued immediately. We could not have rescued the other without the help of our greatest ally, Israel, which provided intelligence to help locate him. Then there were the Iranians who blocked the road leading to the area where the airman hid. We all have a part to play. Most of us are not taking up a sword to fight. But we can fight with our words. The Bible says:“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12Now, more than any time in history, that battle of words is sweeping across the world, hatred magnified a billion times by algorithms, replacing truth with lies. The most important battle in history had nothing to do with armies. It was a spiritual battle between spiritual forces beyond anything we can comprehend. Jesus did not enter Jerusalem on a fighting steed, with an army. He entered on a donkey, humble, willingly going to his death, knowing that his resurrection was the only way to save humanity. As C. S. Lewis said in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “There is a deeper magic.”The White Witch didn’t know or had forgotten that deeper magic. She thought by killing Aslan she would be victorious. But all she did was ignite the deeper magic, the magic of ultimate love and self-sacrifice and thus the salvation of Narnia and her own downfall. We don’t know the whole story because we are in the middle of it. We must trust God’s wisdom. As Bilbo Baggins advises:“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” We don’t know what awaits us, but we must go out anyway because as Galadriel says:“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” I am a small person, but that doesn’t stop me from doing all I can to change the course of the future. To whomever that sounds silly or pretentious, I can only say again, we all make our choices of what we will do with our time. The world is dark, indeed, and it will grow darker. I pray along with my Jewish friends that we stand firm, knowing that true victory is not of the world. If you have not yet subscribed to BREAK FREE MEDIA, please do! I especially appreciate my paid subscribers without whom I could not continue this war of words. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to my short commentary here:'I know how Ayaan Hirsi Ali feels. She is tired. I am tired. We are all tired. But we are undefeated. We will never be defeated because we speak the truth. We are not afraid to say it, even as the Western world becomes more hostile towards us. It is no longer the far-left and the far-right that are against us. Mainstream Republicans and Democrats, and across Europe, Canada, Australia and the UK, would rather support tyrannical Islamic regimes than the democratic state of Israel. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), like TPUSA, just exposed how popular vilification of Jews has become.Jack Posobiec, a conservative commentator and online influencer, said age 45 is a dividing line, with the younger cohort more likely to question the party's steadfast support of Israel. Youth on both sides of the aisle are hearing the same lies about Jews and Israel. These opportunists are counting on the next president—whether Republican or Democrat—turning not only on Israel, but on Jews in the United States and anyone who stands with them. Notice that powerful figures like Tucker Carlson et al are positioning themselves against traditional Republicans so they can go either way when the time comes—claiming allegiance to either party of a new one. Imagine for one moment, as a Christian or a Jew, if Israel no longer existed. It is obvious what will happen! The first chance Muslims got, they built Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Jews most sacred site, King Solomon’s Temple. In Istanbul, they have turn Hagia Sofia into a mosque. Across the west they are buying up churches and attacking synagogues. Jerusalem is and has always been the ultimate battle ground, where spiritual forces are gathering.How long would it be before the Christian Holy sites in Jerusalem and across Israel would be desecrated? The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Garden of Gethsemane. There would be no more pretending in places like Bethlehem and Nazareth. The fire of hatred burning across the Middle East would spread throughout the Western world. Indeed, it already has. Billions of people, many of whom call themselves Christians, are so eager to see the downfall of Israel that they are welcoming their own destruction with open arms. I discovered Ali’s book, Infidel, on one of my trips back home from Egypt. Her story was riveting. I understood it so well. Her spiritual journey to become a Christian was instrumental in my conviction to reaffirm my faith. At that time, when I was in Egypt, it was impossible to even suggest “infidel” was the word Mohammed used to describe unbelievers in the Qur’an; or that Muslims were commanded to kill all infidels; or that this was central to Islam and taught by imams in mosques around the world. This truth had been hidden from people in the West. They received a watered-down version of Islam, easy to do since very few Westerners speak Arabic. As a writer, if I had dared to say we are just infidels to them, I would have been pilloried and called an “Islamophobe.” But I saw the truth, I experienced it for myself while living in Luxor. I am grateful to courageous former Muslims like Ali who must have 24/7 protection because they are now “apostates” with fatwas taken out against them. Whoever kills Ali will go straight to paradise. Reading about Ali let me know I was not alone. It let me know I was not wrong. From the moment I realized the truth of Islam and got out of Egypt, I resolved to speak out, no matter the cost. I do not write or speak because of sensationalized videos I saw on social media, like so many “influencers” who claim to be experts when they have never even been to these countries, let alone lived there. Or, like Carlson, they are flattered and treated like royalty in Qatar, a country of 300,000 Muslims citizens served by 2 million kafala slaves. I am one of the few Westerners who experienced Islam in the Middle East by living there and is talking about it. Not as a privileged foreign influencer or businessman, but as the locals live, married to a local Muslim man in a village on the west bank of the Nile, in Luxor. And yet, somehow, I am the one who doesn’t know what I’m talking about. My voice is purposely suppressed. It is people like Tommy Robinson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali who are now being called extremists. Oh, the irony. We are all being silenced online, in ways that are not as obvious as being sent to a gulag. But don’t worry, the gulag will come. As one example of this war of words, when I searched online “al-Aqsa mosque built on top of Solomon’s Temple”, this is the first answer I got (followed by many similar ones):The Al-Aqsa Mosque is indeed built on the Temple Mount, which is where the Hall of Solomon, part of the Jewish Temple, once stood. This mosque is one of the oldest and most significant in the world, with its construction predating Jewish claims about Solomon's Temple. Islamic sources affirm that the mosque was originally built as a house of wors

“What we’ve experienced the last two years, we can’t fathom it because we’re in it. But we’ve experienced the greatest miracles that we’ve seen in centuries.” ~ Rabbi Uri PilichowskiFrie sent this to me on X. This is one of the reasons why I find X invaluable for research, because I find gems like this video. I also connect with wonderful people like Frie who are fighting the same battle of words. Rabbi Pilichowski gives a jaw-dropping account of the miracles that Israel has experienced over the past two years. * To the exploding pagers, described by an intelligence officer as beyond the imagination that anyone would put that into play. 3,000 Hezbollah fighters taken out of action. Zero Israeli soldiers killed. * To the precise attack of taking out twenty commanders in one building because they decided to meet in person rather than use technology; in Syria 350 planes go off on 350 missions, bombing every single Syrian air force jet, every single navy boat, eliminated every single general, nuclear scientist, chemical scientist and took southern Syria as a buffer zone. Zero Israeli soldiers killed. * To the attacks on Iran and this is so fascinating, with little-known information about the fighter jets. Best case scenario with an operation like this would be 60 dead pilots. Israel suffered no losses. An unexplainable miracle. * This is truly incredible. He talks about the miracle of how many of the missiles from Iran hit and hit hard and yet, for example, one hit a building where US military personal stayed. Half the building was destroyed, yet not one US military person even went to the hospital. Engineers looked at the building and couldn’t explain it. He goes on to talk of other even more incredible miracles. * The attacks from Iran should have resulted in 80 to 100,000 Israelis dead. Israel lost less than 40 people. * February 20, 2025, he recalls the 5 buses that were inexplicably set to blow up at the wrong time, in the night when they were parked and no one was in them. 1 mistake is understandable, but 5 mistakes. If they had blown up when they were supposed to blow up, it would have been worse casualties than Oct 7th.* To the miracle of Oct 7th because yes, it should have been much worse. Yahyah Sinwar inexplicably sent the jihadists in too soon. This is really something to hear. What Rabbi Pilichowski says is so important to remember: Because we are in the middle of these events, we don’t see them as clearly as we would if we were looking back at them from the future. This is why we must tell the stories and spread the news as far and wide as we can. Relaying these stories is more important than in the past, because we fight against a new enemy, AI algorithms that seek to silence the voices of truth. If we do not spread the word, how will future generations know about these miracles that can inspire them to fight further. They will have been buried beneath piles of nonsensical “information.”My father, Dave Hunt, set this example for me, telling our family during evening devotions, as well as from the podium, in churches, at universities and around the world, stories of the miracles of Israel’s wars, from 1948 to 1967 to 1973. The miracles of this war in Gaza, as you will see from this video, are even more incredible. The entire world is coming against Israel and God is protecting his people. So, please listen to this short, inspiring video, like it, and pass it on. You can find Rabbi Uri Pilichowski’s website at HERE and on X at HEREYou can find Frie on X HERE This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read this commentary here:I just realized it’s St. Patrick’s Day! How could I miss it when Maggot Mamdani’s speech was all about how “Palestinians are left to weep alone.”Wait, what? Congratulations, moronic mayor! You managed to turn even a day for the Irish into a tirade about Palestinians oppressed by the “genocidal apartheid state of Israel.” I can hardly wait for the 4th of July!I bet he’ll give a rousing speech about how the proletariat rose up against the Czars; the Palestinians are rising against Israel and workers in the US need to do the same.Then, we have Ireland’s forever depressed-looking socialist president Catherine Connolly, dropping “saint,” and calling him “Patrick.” Yes, that’s right. Far be it from her to miss the chance to politicize anything. “Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants” she said and then went on to praise rabid Jew hater, former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson:Here is Elisha Wiesel, son of Elie Wiesel’s, blistering response to Mamdani, who also referenced Mary Robinson, so you all know how offensive this is:Today, Mayor Mamdani celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by spreading the vicious blood libel against the Jews, claiming that we had perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. He platformed and praised Mary Robinson, the previous President of Ireland, whose leadership of UNHCR was forever marked by the stain of the antisemitic Durban conference, from which the American delegation resigned in protest.Read here what my father wrote in September 2001, days before 9/11, expressing his profound disappointment in Mary Robinson and the hatred against Jews she had allowed to foment at Durban through the United Nations. Elisha Wiesel - March 17th, 2026FROM ELIE WIESEL’S PRIVATE ARCHIVES:The Durban Conference will go down in History as an enterprise of shame. Instead of being an important international gathering of goodwill, it became a circus of slander. Conceived as a world gathering against hatred, it turned into a mean spirited meeting of hatred.I was supposed to be there. Both Kofi Annan and Mary Robinson tried their best to persuade me, especially since I was a member of the small “Committee of Eminent Persons”, created by the UN High Commissioner, to help with the proceedings. But when I read the working documents I resigned. Antisemitism, which is the oldest group prejudice in History, didn’t even figure in the program. What did figure was something about “holocausts such as the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Israelis”.Mrs Robinson called me several times. I had lunch with the UN Secretary General, whom I had known for years. I explained to both why I simply cannot be part of an event that is so outrageously anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish. They claimed that the language would be changed. But the trouble was the content. I warned the UN Secretary General that the Conference, the way it was being prepared, will remain a moral disaster in the annals of social and political conduct among nations.For the content was sheer vicious hatred whose reverberations must revolt all decent and civilized people. Secretary Powell and his colleagues were outraged. Their courageous stand deserves support and praise.The American and Israeli delegations left; others did not. I wish European and South-American delegations had followed their example. Their explanation is that they will work from the inside to work out another draft resolution. It’s too late. The damage was done.Hatred is like cancer. It goes from cell to cell, from limb to limb, from person to person, from group to group. We have seen it at work in Durban. Even respected personalities such as Kofi Annan somehow lost his way and said things that are unworthy of him.With the Durban scandal in the background, how can the world expect Israel to trust the United Nations? And how can good people, idealistic people have faith in its mission to bring nations together in an atmosphere of dignity?The Durban conference will be remembered as a forum dominated not by anti-Israelis but by antisemites. That militant Palestinians hate Jews that is known. It is enough to hear the various Islamic leaders harangues and read schoolbooks printed by the Palestinian Authority: they preach hatred and violence not against Zionists but against Jews. Their slogan, naked and brutal, which is everywhere the same, has been felt and heard in Durban too: “Kill the Jews!”What hurts is not that Palestinians and Arabs voiced their hatred but that so few delegates had the courage to dissociate themselves from them. It is as if in a weird and frightening moment of collective catharsis, they all dropped their masks and showed their true faces.Through the infamous Durban conference, History is giving us Jews a signal. And we had better learn to decode it. Elie Wiesel - September 4th, 2001I just left New York City a few days ago, although I will still be going back often. Today in New York, they celebrate the Irish

I am traveling quite a bit right now, many responsibilities. I managed to get laryngitis so I cannot record anything. This coming week, I will just concentrate on my book, which is truly almost finished and will be traveling more, resting my voice, so send a little prayer for my recovery as I am not able to rest very much!Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I absolutely love this young man, Shabbos Kestenbaum. I hope Dennis Prager passes his cloak on to him when the time comes. I hope you enjoy what he had to say about Ruth and Naomi. I always loved the story of Ruth and Naomi. I heard it often as a child in Sunday School. In this excerpt from Kestenbaum’s speech, at the first Judeo Christian Zionist Congress (JCZC) last November, he touches on the story as an illustration of the love and devotion Christian Zionists, and in particular Evangelical Christians, have for Jews. “When American students at Harvard University and Columbia and Penn and Yale and UCLA took down their mezuzahs out of fear of religious discrimination, you put yours up. You told American students on college campuses that your fight is our fight, that your struggle is our struggle, your pursuit of justice and peace, that’s our pursuit as well.”This alliance between Christians and Jews is in danger of being torn apart. Why? Because as long as that powerful alliance holds, the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews will never be achieved. It might surprise people to know that the vast majority of Zionists around the world aren’t Jewish. Most of them are Christians and amongst those Christians, most of them are Evangelicals. Calev Myers, a dual U.S.-Israeli national, conducted a poll and found that, “The vast majority of Israelis have no idea who an evangelical Christian is, or that they even exist, or that they could be beneficial for the State of Israel.”Polling suggests that evangelicals are among the demographic groups in the United States that remain most strongly supportive of Israel. In the United States, the propaganda war has recently focused on demonizing Christian Zionists, with a special focus on Evangelicals. Theology that most people never heard of is suddenly being thrown about in sensationalized sound bites, everything from the Rapture (bad) to Dispensationalism (really bad), to Replacement Theology (really, really good). I will spare you the details of what it all means—and that’s the point. It’s too complicated and too boring for people with 5-second attention spans to understand, so it’s conveniently reduced to 20-second sound bites that people take as gospel truth because it’s told to them by their favorite influencer. The louder Christian Zionists/Evangelical Christians raise their voices in support of Israel and the Jewish People; the louder will be the voices of those who hate Israel and the Jewish People as they try to discredit them. In fact, it’s Evangelicals who really hate Jews and want to see two-thirds of them dead, didn’t you know that? In February, the Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress held its first conference, declaring that they were fighting back against this war of words. The JCZC wants the world to know that true Christians will never abandon Jews or their homeland, Israel. As Ruth says: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die; and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also if I ought but death part thee and me.” (Ruth 1:16-17 KJV)I never imagined growing up in the Plymouth Brethren church that what I learned on Sunday mornings about dispensationalism would be attacked as heresy on the world stage, as part of a battle against Jews and Israel. Over the past three years, prominent so-called Christians such as Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper, Pastor Joel Webbon, and the man leading the Christian Nationalist movement, Pastor Dough Wilson, whose congregant is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, have all attacked Christian Zionists/Evangelicals as heretics and dispensationalism as heresy. All of the above-mentioned people are aligned with JD Vance and all of them want to see a merger of church and state. They defend that merger as biblical, but it is the antithesis of Jesus’s teachings. But the ultimate reason behind the hatred of both ultra conservative Christian Nationalists and ultra-liberal Christians against Evangelicals is because Evangelicals believe in the literal meaning of Scriptures. Quoting from Dispensationalism by Jean Gibson:This means its plain, normal sense, including figures of speech. It does not deny the facts stated; nor, is it a “woodened literalism” or “letterism”. It is objective, consistent and unifying for the totality of Scriptures. It did not “spiritualize” or allegorize” the

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” I Timothy 6:12Every so often, I like to share a little bit of what I do when I’m not writing. It helps to understand why I’m so hard-hitting with my words. Not only that, I hope it inspires others to get up and move. I know what I do is extreme, it can be anything. I’m happy to say that at almost a year after my hip replacement surgery, I’m back to training pretty intensely, hitting the bag and even jogging. No kicking, not sure if I will ever do that again. But there is never an excuse for not being the best that you can be with what God has given you. I escaped an abusive marriage by starting to run in Kensington Gardens. Every day, I ran a little bit further. It got me out of my head. It stopped me from wallowing in self-pity. Every day, no matter how many excuses I could give myself, I made the choice to put on my old running shoes and walk out that door. Once I got out of the marriage, I started training in martial arts and progressed to full contact fighting. Along with my faith in Jesus, the importance of which I could never over-emphasize, this physical (and mental) training became a lifelong DISCIPLINE. The word discipline is very important. It is not about feelings; it is about commitment. Making that commitment, no matter how you feel, is how you overcome. It is how you get stronger. In the video below, it’s all about footwork. Boxing is more complex than it looks. If your feet aren’t right, nothing else is right. It’s like your mind and your spirit, you have to be standing on a firm foundation that you reenforce daily, or when the first attacks start coming, you will fall. Here is one of my classes. I don’t teach anymore although sometimes I still teach one-off special classes. As I do with my writing, I love nothing more than giving of my knowledge to others, hopefully inspiring them to overcome discouragement and uplift their spirits. My classes, like my writing, are not for the faint of heart. Another class. When you know you give your best, no matter what that is, because everyone is NOT the same, you get stronger. That’s how it works. At the end of class, you can go home satisfied that out of all the choices you could have made that day—like sitting in front of a screen, doom scrolling—you made the best choice. And that’s it! Now I’m going to a little cafe to write and then I’m going for a hike! God bless you all this week! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I am traveling today and will be doing quite a bit of traveling over the next couple of weeks. But I wanted to get this out immediately. You can listen to me read this analysis here:“To the Iranian people. Your hour of freedom is at hand. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny.” ~President TrumpOne-time or recurring donations can be made at Ko-FiToday, as the might of America’s military gathered in protection around Israel, Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran. What Israel did to Tehran this morning: Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself.We are hearing that Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Head of the Judiciary in Iran was eliminated. He gave the death sentence to thousands of protesters.Below you can hear joyous laughter as it appears Khamenei's home compound has been hit. I pray the tears of joy do not turn to tears of sorrow. What has Iran done so far in response? It has not attacked Israel. It launched strikes on US military bases in 6 Arab Gulf States. Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck.UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with.Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning.Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities.Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself.Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications.Understand what this means. In retaliating against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign MUSLIM ARAB nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating.Granted, the IRGC attacked US military bases, but these are bases in neighboring countries. Presumably, Iran hopes to create a wedge between the United States and these nations. On the other hand, Iran could be pushing these nations into a closer alliance with the US. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next.It remains to be seen what those coalitions will be. What did Iran achieve from all its belligerent threats of destroying America and Israel?One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything.In contrast, Isreal’s precision strikes hit all of its targets. This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again. (from Shanaka Anslem Perera)The escalation marks a significant widening of the conflict, with the potential for counterattacks from multiple fronts.The question remains how Gulf States respond if their own people are killed. How about Turkey? There are a significant number of Turks working in these countries. How will Turkey respond to casualties? I have been following with great interest what Mosab Hassan Yousef has to say about all of this. (expressing anger at his comments against evangelical Christians) Here is what he said today:Toppling the regime in Tehran without a day-after plan, no exit strategy, no replacement? It’s proof of how reckless the leaders calling the shots are when millions of lives hang in the

JD Vance just told the Washington Post that he views Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Huckabee as: “a really good conversation that’s going to be necessary for the right, not just for the next couple years but for long into the future.”Just exactly what will that “conversation” develop into if JD Vance becomes president?Worldwide DNA testing of Jews? Because at this point, why after testing the DNA of every Jew in Israel why stop there? Who is supposed to do this testing on Jews? Would a coalition be formed of Jew-hating scientists, like the coalition of Jew-hating nations that will now send troops to Israel’s borders to breath down its neck? Will the “conversation in the future” turn into the next president determining that Jews in Israel have no right to the land based on the results of tests, fulfilling Hitler’s dream of the Final Solution? If Jews don’t have a right to live on this tiny piece of land, they will be exterminated by the military of hostile Muslim nations who will conveniently be positioned right on Israel’s border, having said very clearly since Israel’s inception that they intend to wipe Jews off the face of the earth and control all of Israel. As if Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis weren’t enough, now it will be all nations. And then what? Once the Jews of Israel are dealt with should it be decreed that all Jews worldwide be tested and identified, thanks to science, as Tucker Carlson so horrifically says? During Covid, they did massive worldwide testing—with a lot of mistakes. Why not apply the same strategy to determining who is and isn’t a Jew, because they have a “burning passion” to “figure out who these people are?” This is not a debate. This is not asking questions. This is Nazi rhetoric that should have been condemned unequivocally by the president and vice president. Instead, it is being normalized. Some are comparing Tucker Carlson to Hitler, and indeed, Hitler would love all of this. But I would rather compare Carlson to Joseph Goebbels. He has the ear of the potential next president of the United States, while the current president remains silent. There is no more middle ground, only far-left and far-right, and they are both just as bad. Goebbels said:“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”Over and over again, Tucker Carlson repeats his lies, and they are believed by a growing mob. Many people shrug it off. Oh, it’s just an online phenomenon, it isn’t real, it isn’t to be taken seriously. They didn’t take Hitler and his band of psychos seriously at first, either. Not until it was too late. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe