LOS ANGELES (oc).--President Donald Trump said March 4 that he would escalate the war with Iran if they don’t open up the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday two drone boats attacked Thai-flagged tankers, setting them ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz.  Tankers from the Arab Gulf States have bypassed the Persian Gulf knowing Iran would attack any ship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.  Iran doesn’t claim sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz yet Iran routinely mines the Strait when its in conflict. Trump and Israeli Prime...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Hitting a Thai-fl;aged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran claimed they would send oil to 200 a barrel, playing on world public opinion to stop President Donald Trump and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s war with Iran.  With daily ordnance falling all over Iran, there’s not much left to Iran’s military capability other than its ballistic missile program now with dwindling supplies of Shahed drones-and-missiles and launchers.  Iran’s launchers have been decimated around the country but still have...

los angeles (oc).--President Donald Trump reassured markets yesterday saying the Iran war was near complete, apparently abandoning any hope of regime change.  Appointing the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei shows that the mullah regime has no intent of surrendering power with no popular uprising in Iran.  Iran’s public has been beaten into submission after the latest bloody crackdown where at least 36,000 street protesters were slaughtered by Iranian authorieis with thousands more jailed awaiting...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Iran’s so-called Assembly of Experts picked 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khemenei, as Iran’s next Supreme Leader.  Kept out of the public for most his career, the younger Khamenei is considered even more hard line that his father, prompting President Donald Trump to say his pick was “unacceptable.”  Trump had wanted to pick Iran’s next leader so the war could be resolved, something Iran now says will go on indefinitely.  Iran says the war will go on but every day that the...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump has some big decisions next week on the Iran War, not in its tenth day causing unintended consequences for U.S. and world oil markets.  Oil sparked Friday, March 6 to over $90 per barrel, causing pump prices in the U.S. to spike to over five dollar a gallon in California.  Wall Street has shed over 2,000 points off the Dow Jones Iindustrial Average with the Nasdaq following close behind.  So, when it comes to Trump’s wish in Iran that he could get the mullah regime to cave in, it...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump told Iran to unconditionally surrender to allow him to pick new leadership to take the country into a bright and more prosperous future. Trump’s pitch to Iran while he’s at war invited the elite Republican Guard Corps and Basij militia to lay down their arms for face near certain death.  U.S. and Israeli fighter jets have waged a blistering campaign to degrade Iran’s military defenses, nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile programs, rendering the country incapable of an real...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump fired 54-year-old former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Homeland Security.Kristi Noem has been embroiled in controversy over the shooting deaths by Immigration, Customs Enforcement [ICE] Jan. 7, 24 in Minneapolis demonstrations of 37-year-old Rene Nicole Good and 37-year-old Alex Pretti,  Noem defended Border Patrol agents fiercely, antagonzing an already volatile situation regarding Trump’s immigration enformcement policy.  Noem became the story by grandstanding in her job,...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Challenging President Donald Trump’s right under his Article 2 commander-in-chief authority, Democrats seek to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution, requiring the president to get congressional approval for engaging in military intervention.  With politics, not patriotism, fueling  Democrats in Congress, Democrats and the fake news only want to make Trump look bad before the 2026 Midterm elections.  But military intervention is a serious matter, that Trump team of foreign policy, intel and defense...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Vowing to avenge the deaths of six U.S. soldiers, President Trump served notice to Congress and the skeptical press that the war would go on for weeks, not end anytime soon.  Trump knows when the war end, it’s because Iran has capitualated to Trump calling the shots on a new form of government.  For 47-years, Iran has lived through a nightmarish crackdown by Islamic clerics, imposing a strict form of Shiite Islam on its prior secular population.  So many ordinary Iranians have lost their...

LO ANGELES (OC).--After fighting President Donald Trump on his peace plan in Ukraine, the European Union [EU] showed a surprisingly muted response with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying Iran is a terrorist state.  So, if the EU opposes Trump peace plan in Ukraine, why do they apparel back his war with Iran?  Trump made clear that nuke talks with Iran in Geneva went nowhere, largely because Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi walks on egg shells when it comes to Iran’s later Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . So, when...