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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.

President Donald Trump watches as CIA Director John Ratcliffe speaks with reporters in the

‘Time Is Running Out’: Trump Warns Iran It Has 48 Hours to ‘Make a Deal or Open Hormuz’ Before ‘All Hell Rains Down’

President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Iran that “time is running out” and gave the regime 48 hours to either “MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT” before “all Hell” would rain down, escalating his pressure campaign on the 36th day of Operation Epic Fury as the White House signaled that Tehran is rapidly running out of time to avoid even harsher consequences.

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach

Who Is Running Iran? CIA, Mossad Search for Signs of Unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — ‘No Proof He’s at the Helm’

U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies are scrambling to determine who is actually running Iran after the regime’s newly installed “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei — who has not been seen or heard from publicly since the opening strikes of the war that killed his father — again failed to appear publicly for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with officials warning there is “no proof that he is taking the helm” and describing the situation as “beyond weird.”

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Iran’s ‘Crown Jewel’ Hit — Trump: U.S. ‘Obliterated Every Military Target’ on Kharg in Historic Mideast Raid

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States carried out what he described as “one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East,” declaring that U.S. forces “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Iran’s strategic Kharg Island — the regime’s so-called “crown jewel” and primary oil export hub — while warning Tehran its vital energy infrastructure could be targeted next if it interferes with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the media after disembarking from Air For