LOS ANGELES (OC).–Arriving in the port of Haifa, Israrel the world’s largest aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford docked to send Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a loud message. Khamenei has let many loud U.S. messages to fall on deaf ears, especially when it comes to Iran’s nuclear enrichment or ballistic missile programs. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump last week he was more concern about Iran’s ballistic missile program than its disabled nuke program. Docking the Gerald R. Ford in Haifa tells the whole story about any possible U.S. military action in Iran. It lets the world know that Israel and the U.S. have a seamless military operation, something more obvious today under President Donald Trump than ever. Past U.S. presidents had a hot-and-cold relationship with Israel, ofter picking the Palestinian side to show impartiality.
Sending the Gerald R. Ford to Haifa lets Ayatollah know that Trump is serious about stopping the massacre of street protesters in Iran. No one thinks that the Ayatollah would sign another nuke deal or, as Netanyahu wants, curb its ballistic missile program. Iran has been dealt many blows since the 12-day-war with Israel in June 2025 where Trump joined the mission to hit Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment programs with B-2 Stealth bombers. Israel and the U.S. found out in the June war that Iran has virtually no air defenses, leaving Netanyahu to continue on destroying Iran’s ballistic missile program. When the war ended June 24, Trump, not Netanyahu, decided after a flawless Iran mission to call it a day, stoping Netanyahu from continuing on to destroy the Ayatollah’s ballistic missile capability Trump has something different in mind this time around.
Positioning the Gerald R. Strike group within striking distance of Iran shows that Trump wants regime change in Tehran after 47-years of mullah rule. Watching street protestes get killed excecution style or hung to death in the public square has been a brutal reminder that the Ayatollah has run a Nazi-like regime for 47-years. Trump said publicly to the Iranian people that help is on the way. Iranians trapped living in Iran or exiled around the world want Trump to finally end mullah rule. Trump doesn’t know yet how an interim government would work but the son of the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi has volunteered himself to lead Iran on a temporary baisis. Ending mullah role won’t come easily because the Ayatollah has no intent of surrendering power without a fight. Trump’s military planners are preparing for every contingency to end mullah rule.
Reading Trump’s crystal ball isn’t easy because he could very well use the presence of the carrier strike groups to trying to get a diplomatic solution. But as time goes by, it’s clear that the Ayatollah won’t back down, due to his lack of open communication with his military advisers. Ayatollah thinks that Trump is bluffing when it comes to topping his mullah government. Whether you’re a betting man or not, Trump would not deploy the largest asset in the U.S. miilitary to Haifa if he wan’t close to striking Iran. Trump’s intel officials have given him the precise coordinates for hitting Ayatollah in his bunker in Tehran, assuming he’s not moving around to avoid a possible strike. Ayatollah remembers what happened to his dear friend and patron Hezboallh Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah Sept. 27, 2024 when Israel dropped a bunker-buster bomb on his Beirut headquarters.
Trump faces and unrelenting a Democat and fake news onslaught at home doing anything possible to discredit every aspect of his presidency. When he steps up Feb. 24 to the State-of-the-Union, he’ll get resounding boos from the Democrats side for those that show up. Chances are many Democrats will boycott the State-of-the-Union to prove their constituents how tough they are heading into the Midterm election. Democrats tried to make the same case in 2024, only to find their sales pitch on deaf ears. Voters rejected former Vice President Kamala Harris’s arguments that Trump was a fascist dictator. Democrats continued Kamala’s 2024 campaign strategy into 2026, hoping they can gaslight voters to think the country needs a leftist to run the show. New York’s new leftist Mayor Zohren Mamdani found out the hard way what happend in the recent blizzard.
Watching the build-up of America’s biggest Petagon assets in Israel and the Mediterranean hints that Trump could pull the trigger at anytime. He’s knows from his advisers that he won’t get a new nuke deal nor will he get the Ayatollah to stop massacring his own citizens. Iran’s exile community have begged Trump to take down the 47-year-old mullah government that’s brought nothing but misery to what’s left of the Iranian people. Anyone with resources left Iran years ago knowing that there’s very little opportunity to survive and thrive in the Islamic Republic. Khamenei’s mullah corruption knows no bounds, using the coutry’s wealth to enrich himself has his junta of power. Iran’s population at home or abroad would be thrilled it Trump finally took Ayatollah out of his barbaric rule. Murdering his own people because they protest on the streets for a better life epitomizes the brutality of 47-years of Shiite Islamic rule.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
