Israel’s warning to Trump, and the Mordechai precedent

Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Iran strikes U.S. base in Kuwait despite Trump’s diplomatic pause, as regional attacks multiply

Until now, Iran had largely limited its retaliation to strikes following direct American attacks on Iranian territory. Tuesday’s reported strike came instead just days after President Trump halted a planned large-scale US offensive against Iran to give diplomacy a final opportunity.
Iranian state-linked outlet releases video calling for assassination of Melania Trump, threatens Barron

Tasnim, a Persian-language news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a video Monday urging supporters to assassinate First Lady Melania Trump and threatening the president’s 20-year-old son, Barron.
Iran closes tomb of Mordechai and Esther, citing renovations. Sources say security threats are the real reason.

The notice named a single cause: ongoing repairs. Sources familiar with the situation tell a different story, one involving threats from extremist elements inside Iran.
Israel warned Trump of new Iranian assassination plot, sources say, as ceasefire frays

Israel’s warning this week landed at the exact moment the ceasefire had begun to fracture. While Trump weighs how far to go against Tehran, Iran’s new leadership is publicly promising blood for blood.
U.S. strikes Iran for fourth straight day. IRGC answers by hitting five Gulf nations.

US forces struck Iranian military targets for a third consecutive night into Monday, hitting more than 140 sites in the heaviest barrage since the fighting flared anew last week.
Trump declares U.S.-Iran truce “over” after Tehran’s tanker strikes, warns regime would use nuclear weapon “if they had it”

“I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. They’re vicious, violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”
The Gaza flotilla extremists and Iran: What has been missed

The spotlight on the funeral events for Iran’s late leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran has exposed some of the most rabid anti-American and anti-Israel extremists for what they truly are.
Tucker Carlson accuses Israel of “apartheid,” vows to build third party after break with Trump

The remarks mark the most explicit break yet between Carlson and both the Republican establishment and the Trump administration he once championed.
The rescue teams found them in a corner, still holding hands

On the morning of March 1, 2026, as Iranian ballistic missiles streaked toward central Israel, Ronit Elimelech did what she always did when sirens sounded: she made sure everyone else got out first.