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CENTCOM Chief: Iran’s Forces ‘Severely Degraded,’ Terror Proxies ‘Cut Off’ — ‘Every Objective for Epic Fury Met’

CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday that Iran’s military capabilities have been “severely degraded” across “every domain” following the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic Republic, declaring that every military objective set out for Operation Epic Fury had been achieved while asserting that the Iranian regime’s terror proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — have been “completely cut off” from weapons supplies and support from Tehran.

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Iranian Terror Commander Makes Surprise Visit to Baghdad

Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the foreign operations Quds Force unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Sunday for meetings with Iran-controlled politicians and militia groups — a clear attempt by Iran to influence the new government that is taking shape in Iraq.

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Burgum: ‘Essentially, Iran Is Now the IRGC’

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stated that Iran is essentially being run by the IRGC. Burgum said, “[E]ssentially, Iran is now the IRGC. It’s — we’re down to a sanctioned terrorist group.

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McFarland: IRGC ‘Not Going to Ever Settle’

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser K. T. McFarland said that the IRGC is never going to come to an agreement. Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[H]ow do you balance…pressuring the regime without suffocating the

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Trump Rejects Iran’s Latest Response as ‘Totally Unacceptable’ — ‘They Will Be Laughing No Longer’

President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected Iran’s latest response to the American offer to end the conflict as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” warning Tehran it would “be laughing no longer” after reports indicated the regime refused key U.S. nuclear demands while pushing for sanctions relief, frozen assets, an end to the naval blockade, and control over the Strait of Hormuz.

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Shipping Remains Slow at Strait of Hormuz Despite Ceasefire

Ship-tracking services reported on Thursday that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at less than 10 percent of its normal level, despite Iran ostensibly promising to halt terror attacks on civilian vessels as part of its ceasefire agreement with the U.S. and Israel.

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‘For a Bright Future’: Iran Urges Youth to Form ‘Human Chains’ at Power Plants and Bridges as Trump’s Deadline Nears

Iranian authorities are urging young people, students, artists, athletes, and volunteer groups to form “human chains” around power plants across the country just hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for a deal expires, effectively gathering civilians at infrastructure sites the United States has explicitly threatened to strike.

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By Way of Deception: Trump, Ratcliffe Detail CIA Subterfuge Mission Saving U.S. Airman Concealed Deep Inside Iran

President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Monday detailed a high-risk rescue deep inside Iran in which U.S. forces — aided by a CIA-led “deception campaign” — raced “against the clock” to locate and recover a wounded airman concealed in a mountain crevice, “invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA,” after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down, while evading capture for nearly two days behind enemy lines.

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