LOS ANGELES (aOC).--Reports from  the White House and wire services report with bated breath a peace deal with Iran designed to end the 12-week old Iran War, but, more importantly, reopens the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping and requires Iran to negotiate on its nuke program.  President Donald Trump engaged in a masterful military operation in Iran, working with Israel to complete what was unfinished from the 2025 12-day war nearly one year ago.  Israel and the U.S. did much damage last year to Iran’s underground...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Striking an Irania missle launcher site and two mine-laying boats in Sourthern Iran, Presiden Donald Trump sent a loud message to the mullah government in Tehran that he’s ready to escalate the war if Iran doesn’t agree to a peace deal soon.  Iran accused the U.S. of violating the ceasefire agreement, something Iran has a ignored over the last month, continuing to strike commercial vessels in the Hormuz Strait.  Iran’s Republican Guard Corps [IRGC] continues to use its heavily-armed swift boat...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump dropped an unexpected line on his Truth Social platform saying that he wanted Iran and other Arab Gulf States to joine the 2019 Abraham Accords, recognizing Israel as a trading parter.  While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to bomb Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, Trump raised the thorny subject of Arab states joining the Abraham Accords.  Trump added the Israel issue to divert attention from the real issue concerning Iran’s 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched...

LOS ANGELES (oc).--President Donald Trump, with help from Pakistan Pirme Minister Shehbaz Sharif, move closer to peace deal with Iran, ending all economic sanctions and the war in Lebanon against its Hezbollah proxy militia.  Trump negotiated brilliantly, letting the mullah government know that time is on his side while he enforces with the U.S. navy a blockade on all Iranian ports, preventing Iran from supplying product to its global customers like China and India.  Trump stood fast over the pressure to end the war, even...

LOS ANGELES (oc).--President Donald Trump said a deal with closer beteen the U.S. and Iran on ending the 12-long war, where over a month-long ceasefire has given both sides the chance to resolve the conflict.  Thanks to the good will of Pakistan playing mediator, the two sides have a chance to end the bloodshed and disruption to world oil supplies.  But Iran’s demands for sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz remains a sticking point together with Trump’s demand to  take custody ot Iran’s 1,000 pound stockpile of 60%...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Iran’s mullah leaders and President Donald Trump continue to trade barbs over Islamabad-brokered peace talks, with Iran rejecting all of Trump’s conditions for peace, like surrendering its 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium.  Trump has told Iran that peace talks are at the borderline of or resuming bombing on Iran’s energy infrastructure, something Trump doesn’tr want to do, preferring to resolve the crisis with diplomacy. Iran refuses to acquiesce on very basic issues for resolving the war,...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Postponing renewed bombing in Iran, President Donald Trump hopes Iran makes a serious effort to show it has no plans for an A-bomb in the immediate or distant future.  Trump has wanted Iran to commit to curtailing its nuclear enrichment activity, assuming after all the bombing of underground enrichment sites that it’s still happening.  But Trump wants in any peace deal an agreement to curtail nuclear enrichment activity, in addition to opening up the Hormuz Strait without conditions-or-restrictions to...

LOS AGNELES (OC).--At the request of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, President Donald Trump postponed more bombing, recognizing the diplomatic activity has picked up since he returned from China. Iran’s has rejected Trump’s past peace proposals, demanding custody of Iran’s 1,000 pounds of 60% weapons grad uranum.  Trump also wanted Iran to  halt any uranium enrichment for 20 years, in large part because former President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], halted uranium production for...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump warned Iran again to make a deal to end the Iran War or face more U.S. and Israeli bombing, telling the mullah government that nothing will be left of the current government.  Trump has issued similary warnings in the past, agreeing only reluctantly to take Pakistin up on a temporary ceasefire to give diplomacy a chance. Iran’s mullah leaders, run largely by the Iranian Republican Guard Corps [IRGC], rejected Trump’s peace proposals, insisting the U.S. pay Iran war reparations and...

RLOS ANGELES (oc).--eturning from China, President Donald Trump faces an angry liberal press, slamming his trip to China as a publicity stunt.  Far from a PR stunt, Trump managed to restore U.S.-Chinese relations, something former President Joe Bide almost destroyed saying in 2022 that he would commit U.S. soldiers to battle China over Taiwan.  No one really knows Biden’s mental state at the time of his public remarks, violating the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act singed into law by President Jimmy Carter to recognize only one...