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Best of the Web: How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:41 UTC
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The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president's deepest fears to keep him on the war path.

"I got him before he got me," an ebullient President Donald Trump remarked to a reporter when asked about his motives for authorizing the killing of Iran's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 28, 2026.

With his off-the-cuff remark, Trump revealed that anxiety about his own assassination at the hands of Iranian agents influenced his decision to initiate a US-Israeli regime change war that has already resulted in American casualties, the bombings of schools and hospitals inside Iran, devastating Iranian retaliatory strikes on US military bases and embassies, and a spiraling global economic crisis.

Trump's generalized fears of assassination were well-founded. He was nearly killed in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 by a 20-year-old engineering student named Thomas Crooks who managed to fire eight rounds at the former president from a rooftop, slicing his ear and missing his head by a hair's breadth. Two months later, a drifter named Ryan Routh was arrested after hiding for hours in the shrubbery outside the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh had been spotted after pointing an assault rifle toward a Secret Service agent as Trump played golf 400 yards away.
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Attention

A history in 4 Psy-Ops: Has Iran ALWAYS been a member of the Club?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian Org
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:40 UTC
Psy-Ops
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When the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twitter with this comment:
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I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it.

There's ample evidence to show we're already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the Covid "pandemic". Iran's vital, early role in the Covid operation is one of the facts that most strongly requires us to be cautious about the current war narrative , but it's a development that likely predates that era-defining psy-op.

In fact, I would argue that an examination of the recent history of Iran shows that they have consistently taken part in psy-ops and media narratives, and that this demonstrates collusion with Western governments and indeed the globalist factions therein.

Starting with the birth of the current regime itself...
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Network

PALENTIR: The AI Arms Dealer of the 21st Century

Freddie Ponton
21st Century Wire
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:30 UTC
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Palantir's algorithm declared Iran a nuclear threat on June 12, 2025. Forty-eight hours later, the bombing began. The company that supplied the "evidence" for war had already sold targeting software to the Israeli military, and its executives had publicly called regime change an "investment opportunity." When the strikes started, Palantir's stock surged eleven percent in a week. Military analysts now dub the campaign "Operation Epic Fury," describing it as the first AI-directed war in history. The same company selling data and battlefield technology to the IDF supplied the "evidence" that justified the US and Israel strikes on Iran.

This is not intelligence. It is the automation of mass violence for shareholder value, rendered in the sterile vocabulary of "platforms" and "solutions."

Comment: For more on Palantir:
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Arrow Up

Are US Pacific bases just Chinese hostages?

Godfree Roberts
Here Comes China
Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:21 UTC
Thanks to China's rare earth restrictions, the US cannot replace the high-technology weapons it is using in Ukraine and the Middle East. Washington just announced that it cannot defend any of its allies in the area apart from Israel, yet will still exhaust its defensive missile inventory within a week. - Godfree.
US Pacific Bases
© Here Comes China
In the annals of military history, bases have often been the linchpins of empire, the forward redoubts from which great powers projected force and deterred foes. Yet in our era of hypersonic missiles and precision-guided swarms, one must ask: have these bastions become mere hostages?

The United States' network of 92 installations encircling China — Guam, Kadena in Okinawa, Yokosuka in Japan — stand as testaments to Cold War strategy, but historical precedent and immutable strategic principles suggest they are now liabilities, vulnerable pawns in a game where Beijing holds the initiative: the American public, ever pragmatic in its isolationism, will not trade the incineration of Los Angeles for the rubble of Guam. Nor should it.

Pearl of the Pacific

Consider the lessons of the Second World War, that cataclysmic forge of modern strategy. In December 1941, Japan's audacious strike on Pearl Harbor demonstrated the peril of fixed naval bases in an age of carrier aviation. The US Pacific Fleet, moored in neat rows, was decimated not because of tactical ineptitude but because bases are inherently static targets, ripe for pre-emptive annihilation (the Navy's main Middle East base at Erbil was annihilated by Iran yesterday).
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Stock Down

The trust in the dollar is collapsing - The Bretton Whoops

No01
Gold and Geopolitics
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:26 UTC
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The world didn't wake up one morning and decide to distrust the dollar. It was a process. Gradually, then suddenly, as these things tend to go.

It started with Venezuela. In 2019, Caracas asked the Bank of England to return its own gold - 31 tonnes, sitting in a vault in London, belonging to the Venezuelan central bank. The Bank of England said no. The justification was creative: London had decided to recognise a man who had never won an election as Venezuela's "legitimate" president, so it couldn't very well hand $2 billion in gold to the actual government. Problem solved. Maduro was a dictator, everyone agreed he was terrible, and so the consensus was essentially: who cares.

Everyone filed it under "rogue state gets what it deserves" and moved on.

Comment: This war adventure by the Epstein fury coalition will be way more expensive than the mere ammunition and armament used and destroyed. The dollar credit card already maxed way beyond the limit is becoming unuseable fast. The same as the trust got completely eroded.

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Bizarro Earth

'Boots on the ground' would turn Iran into Iraq 'on steroids'

Imran Khalid
The Blaze
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:05 UTC
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© Scott Peterson/Getty ImagesUnited States Marines during the Iraq War
"I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground," Donald Trump told the New York Post this week. Referring to Iran, he added that while he probably doesn't need them, he would deploy ground troops "if necessary."

With those words, the administration cracked open a door most American strategists hoped was bolted shut by half a century of hard lessons.

Modern American military history is a graveyard of campaigns that began with overwhelming tactical success and ended in strategic failure.

Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign, has already delivered what hawks in Washington have wanted for decades: the decapitation of Iran's top leadership. The strikes that killed Ali Khamenei were meant to trigger a rapid collapse of the Islamic Republic. Early evidence points to something messier — and more dangerous.
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Oil Pipeline

U.S. offers India a 30-day waiver for buying Russian oil as Iran war deepens energy supply worries

Priyanka Salve
CNBC
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:39 UTC
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© Sergei Guneyev/APThe Sheskharis oil terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia
After slapping 25% "penalty" tariffs on India for buying Russian crude — revoked last month — the U.S. on Thursday issued a 30-day waiver to New Delhi for purchasing crude from Moscow as the Iran war upends global supplies.

The West Texas Intermediate oil surged 8.51%, or $6.35, to close at $81.01 per barrel on Thursday in the biggest single day gain since May 2020. Global benchmark Brent rose 4.93%, or $4.01, to settle at $85.41 per barrel.

The waiver on purchasing Russian oil will help ease supply worries globally, as India is the world's fourth biggest refiner and and fifth largest exporter of petroleum products. Brent and WTI crude fell over 1% on Friday, and were last trading at $84.42 and $79.92 per barrel, respectively.

New Delhi, also the world's third largest oil importer, had been replacing Russian oil purchases with supply from Middle East, experts said, but with the conflict affecting energy supplies from the Gulf countries, it is starting to shore up energy from Moscow.
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Skull

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say

Natasha Bertrand, Alayna Treene, Zachary Cohen, Clarissa Ward, and Vasco Cotovio
CNN
Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:31 UTC
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The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN.

The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.


Comment: So in the end, Trump acts no differently than all the previous presidents since Kennedy was assassinated.


Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been striking Kurdish groups and said on Tuesday that it targeted Kurdish forces with dozens of drones.

The CIA support for Iranian Kurdish groups began several months before the war, one of the sources and a senior Kurdistan Regional Government official said.
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Black Magic

Clinton depositions: Bill pervs out over Epstein memories, Hillary goes berserk, and they both shamelessly lie

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:17 UTC
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© Jewel Samad/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesHillary Clinton concedes 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump
Top viral moments from the Clinton depositions

The House Oversight Committee dropped more than nine hours of raw video from Bill and Hillary Clinton's closed-door Epstein depositions on Monday, where the pair were questioned over their longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Here are a few of the most memorable moments:

1. Bill Clinton Smirks While Flipping Through Epstein Photos; The #1 clip on the entire internet: Bill casually thumbs through old pictures with Jeffrey Epstein, nodding and smiling - until his lawyer lunges in and yanks them away.


Comment: The New York Post reported:
Hillary Clinton's team demanded 'beauty lighting' and custom background for Epstein deposition: source

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's team demanded she receive "beauty lighting" for her House Oversight Committee deposition and ordered a blue-paneled backdrop from a specialized shop so that it didn't appear as though she was in a "hostage situation," a source familiar with the situation told The Post.

Clinton's team had meticulously labored over nearly every visual detail of her begrudged sworn testimony about late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, keen on ensuring that she looked as flattering as possible.

To that end, her team had a staffer sit in her spot before the deposition and bark out commands for tedious adjustments on the set at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in New York, the source said.

Hillary Clinton's team was extremely mindful of the visuals of her deposition, a source told The Post. House Oversight Committee

They had requested the "beauty lighting" from the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, which controlled the lights and repeatedly pushed to have the camera shifted to the left on several occasions in order to get the most flattering angle of Clinton's face.

At one point, they brought in white tablecloths with the intent of reflecting overhead stage lighting to minimize shadows on her face and lessen the harsh contrast from that lighting.

The customized blue-paneled backdrop was developed by a local specialized vendor within about seven hours after Clinton's team concluded it did not like the vibe of the original black curtains in the background.

Many of the requested modifications for Clinton's Feb. 26 deposition benefited her husband during his sworn testimony the following day.
Killary seems to think she is still Secretary of State. Who's going to tell the hag?

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Bizarro Earth

Iran signals 'prolonged war' as US strikes go deeper

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:54 UTC
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© CNN/Social MediaPlumes of smoke seen in Isfahan, Iran, on March 4, 2026
Tanker hit by "large explosion" off Kuwait, leaking oil

Here are some of the most critical developments unfolding in the US-Iran conflict:
  • A "large explosion" took place on a tanker 30 nautical miles south east off Mubarak Al Kebeer, on the coast of Kuwait. The tanker, which was at anchor in the Khor al-Zubair lightering zone - a critical area for loading Iraqi heavy fuel oil exports - began taking on water following the blast, and is leaking oil into the Gulf, which could have a disastrous environmental impact.
  • Iraqi Kurdistan govt statement: Not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is patently false.
  • The U.S. Senate rejected a War Powers resolution that sought to force President Trump to end or seek congressional approval for military strikes on Iran, allowing the administration to continue operations without the restriction: CBS
  • Iran says it hit US warship with missiles 600km away in Northern Indian Ocean using Ghadr 380 Talayieh missiles (1000+ range, can change course mid-flight)
  • The Marsh Mclennan unit marsh risk met with the trump administration to discuss creating a government-backed insurance mechanism to help ships resume transit through the Strait of Hormuz, as threats from Iran have driven up energy prices and disrupted oil flows: WSJ
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