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Hegseth Confirms He wants $200B to Restock America’s Bombs, Missiles Post-Iran War: ‘It takes money to kill bad guys’

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appeared to confirm Thursday that the Trump administration is contemplating asking Congress to approve $200 billion in supplemental defense funding amid the war in Iran.

On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had asked the White House to make the $200 billion request to lawmakers in order to replenish America’s munitions stockpile, though it was not clear when or whether the Trump administration would decide to do so.

“As far as the $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously,” Hegseth told reporters. “It takes money to kill bad guys. So we’re going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we’re properly funded for what’s being done.”

The amount requested is believed to be far beyond what the US has actually expended so far in its sweeping bombing campaign to cripple the Iranian regime, indicating a wider goal of beefing up America’s defense industrial base amid fears that the ability to rapidly produce weapons domestically has degraded over time.

“An investment like this is meant to say, ‘Hey, we’ll replace anything that was spent.’ And now … we’re reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom,” Hegseth added. (Read more from “Hegseth confirms he wants $200B to restock America’s bombs, missiles post-Iran war: ‘It takes money to kill bad guys’” HERE)

US War Stocks Getting Destroyed by War, Iran has Shot Down a Staggering 10% of US Reaper Drones

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More than a dozen unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drones have been lost in combat as part of operations against Iran, two U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

The Reaper drones were lost either to Iranian missiles or were destroyed on the ground by incoming fire. . .

The loss of this number of Reapers is indicative of how many of these key unmanned aircraft must be operating as part of the U.S. operations against Iran.

The Air Force announced its final five-year purchasing contract for Reapers in 2020, and manufacturer General Atomics closed the production line last year after building 575 of them. The final lot cost about $16 million each when purchased in a batch of four, according to C. Mark Brinkley, a General Atomics spokesman. (Read more from “US War Stocks Getting Destroyed by War, Iran has Shot Down a Staggering 10% of US Reaper Drones” HERE)

Panicking Trump Aides Left Scrambling by Counterterror Chief’s Shock Resignation Bombshell

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The White House had no idea Donald Trump’s top counterterrorism official planned to post his damning resignation letter protesting the Iran war on social media, according to a report. . .

But he blindsided the White House by posting his bombshell resignation letter on X, where it has been shared more than 250,000 times, causing the president major embarrassment, a senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal.

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said the letter contained “virulent anti-Semitism,” while South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham accused Kent of repeating the “oldest storyline in the world” that “if it weren’t for the Jews, we’d all be safe.”

It was previously reported that Vance, who had been skeptical of launching a war with Iran, knew Kent planned to resign and urged him to inform Trump and Wiles first.

A spokesman for the vice president told the Journal that Vance “believes that it’s imperative for the national security team to remain cohesive, trust one another, and avoid mouthing off to the media about internal deliberations.” (Read more from “Panicking Trump Aides Left Scrambling by Counterterror Chief’s Shock Resignation Bombshell” HERE)

US Drops 5K-pound Bunker-Buster Bombs on Underground Missile Sites near Strait of Hormuz

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The US military dropped 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on underground Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, according to authorities.

The massive attack announced by US Central Command came as the war with Iran had stanched the flow of shipping through the vital Persian Gulf waterway.

“Hours ago, US forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz,” the regional command said on X around 7 p.m. ET.

“The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait,” CENTCOM added.

A US official told CNN that the munitions were the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator, an explosive first released by US aircraft in 2021. (Read more from “US Drops 5K-pound Bunker-Buster Bombs on Underground Missile Sites near Strait of Hormuz” HERE)

Iranian Police Commander Pleads with Israeli Agent ‘Please Come Help us’ in Dramatic Leaked Call

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A senior Iranian police commander recently told an agent of Israel’s renowned Mossad intelligence service “I swear on the Koran I’m not your enemy” and begged the Jewish state to “please come help us” overthrow the Islamic Republic, according to the contents of a leaked phone call.

The call, reported by the Wall Street Journal Wednesday, was one of several placed by Israeli intelligence threatening Iranian security officials and their families by name if they did not stand aside in the event of a popular uprising to overthrow the mullahs.

“We know everything about you. You are on our blacklist, and we have all the information about you,” the Mossad agent told the police commander in Farsi. “I called to warn you in advance that you should stand with your people’s side. And if you will not do that, your destiny will be as your leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]. Do you hear me?”

“Brother, I swear on the Koran, I’m not your enemy,” the commander responded. “I’m a dead man already. Just please come help us.”

The US and Israel have sought to create the conditions for the Iranian people to take down the theocratic regime by systematically striking its military infrastructure and targeting top political leaders for assassination, respectively, since Feb. 28. (Read more from “Iranian Police Commander Pleads with Israeli Agent ‘Please Come Help us’ in Dramatic Leaked Call” HERE)

Top US Security Official Quits, says Iran did Not Pose Immediate Threat

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A top security official in U.S. President ​Donald Trump’s administration resigned over the war in Iran on Tuesday, saying the country had posed no imminent threat ‌to the United States.

Joe Kent, who headed the National Counterterrorism Center, is the first senior official in Trump’s administration to resign over the conflict, now in its third week.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear ​that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote in a ​letter posted to social media.

Some experts have said an imminent threat would be required for the United ⁠States to launch a war under the international law of war.

Kent’s letter to Trump included “false claims,” said White House spokeswoman Karoline ​Leavitt in a statement. (Read more from “Top US Security Official Quits, says Iran did Not Pose Immediate Threat” HERE)

Israel Claims to Have Eliminated Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani

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The Israeli military on Tuesday announced it has eliminated Iran’s de facto leader, Ali Larijani, with an airstrike.

If the remnants of Iran’s government confirm his death, he will be the highest-level leader of the terrorist regime to be eliminated since Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei died in the first hour of the war, and he could prove to be a greater operational loss than the elderly cleric was.

“I was just informed by the Chief of Staff that the Secretary of the National Security Council, Larijani, and the head of the Basij — Iran’s main suppression body — Soleimani, were eliminated tonight and joined the head of the destruction plan, Khamenei, and all the thwarted members of the evil axis in the depths of hell,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.

Gholamreza Soleimani was the commander of the Basij, the thuggish militia deployed by the Iranian regime to keep its people in line during uprisings.

Soleimani assumed command of the Basij six months ago, meaning he was in charge during Iran’s violent suppression of the “Bloody November” protests in 2019, the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in 2022, and the massive popular uprising in January 2025. The regime admitted to murdering almost 10,000 of its own people to suppress the latest uprising and some observers believe the true death toll was over three times that high. (Read more from “Israel Claims to Have Eliminated Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani” HERE)

Trump Has Plans To Avoid Iranian Refugee Crisis — But War May Make It Inevitable

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Many Americans fear U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran could spark another refugee crisis, but experts say the Trump administration has policies in place designed to prevent that outcome — even if officials have not clearly communicated the strategy.

Researchers with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told the Daily Caller that Trump’s war plans, Middle East travel restrictions and the refugee system’s current structure suggest the administration is not preparing to admit refugees at scale and instead expects Iranian migrants in the United States to return home.

“I think it’s safe to say there’s no plan for a wave of new Middle Eastern refugees to the United States of America,” Secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth said March 5. “I think, as the president has pointed out for a long time, there are a lot of countries in the region who would be capable of providing that kind of support if need be.”

Statements from the administration on this concern have been few and far between, and Hegseth’s admission that he merely “thinks” he is portraying the administration’s goals could signal to skeptics that the administration may not be as coordinated as one would hope.

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie told Congress earlier in March that “a sustained war with Iran will not stabilize the region, it will radicalize new generations of terrorists, and it will send more swarms of refugees into Europe and the United States.”

Republican Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles joined him in saying that the U.S. cannot take refugees from Iran or the Middle East, saying, “it’s time for them to build their own government and make their land great again.” (Read more from “Trump Has Plans To Avoid Iranian Refugee Crisis — But War May Make It Inevitable” HERE)

Trump Briefed Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is ‘Probably Gay’

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Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, may be gay, according to intel reportedly briefed to President Donald Trump last week.

Trump and several intelligence officials reportedly laughed after being briefed on the allegation, including one senior official who “has not stopped laughing about it for days.” Despite the reaction, U.S. intelligence sources believe the claim is credible, the New York Post reported Monday. One source told the Post the claim comes from “one of the most protected sources that the government has.”

Mojtaba had a “long-term sexual relationship” with a former tutor and made “aggressive” sexual advances to men taking care of him, sources told the Post. A 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks was included in the report, which stated that the new Ayatollah married “late in life” and underwent two years of medical treatment in the United Kingdom for “an impotency problem.” The late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suspected his son was gay and feared it could corrupt and undermine his leadership of the Islamic Republic, where homasexual conduct is illegal, the Post wrote.

Mojtaba succeeded his father as the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader on March 8. Trump previously called the new Ayatollah “lightweight” in a phone interview with Axios, saying he was “unacceptable.”

The supreme leader was strangely absent from his own inaugural address, releasing a written statement instead of appearing on camera. The president later doubted whether Mojtaba was still alive, saying, “So far, nobody’s been able to show him.” (Read more from “Trump Briefed Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is ‘Probably Gay’” HERE)

Trump Demands Iran ‘Surrender,’ says he’s Hearing New Leader ‘not alive’

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s military has been “decimated,” claiming the U.S. has wiped out the country’s air defenses and severely weakened its forces.

Asked whether he was ready to officially declare victory against Iran, Trump said he was not declaring it over yet but argued the damage to Tehran’s military has been significant.

“There’s no reason to,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I think I’d just say they’re decimated. … If we left right now, it would take them ten years and more to rebuild. But I’m still not declaring it over.”

Trump said U.S. operations have “taken out” Iran’s air force and air defense systems, leaving the country with “no air defense whatsoever,” and argued Iran’s missile and drone capabilities have also been sharply reduced.

Trump added that the U.S. and Israel have “similar objectives” regarding Iran and that the two countries’ militaries are “very well coordinated.” (Read more from “Trump Demands Iran ‘Surrender,’ says he’s Hearing New Leader ‘not alive’” HERE)

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