“Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message.”
President Donald J. Trump, February 28, 2026
The decisive battle in the 47-year-long war the Islamic Republic of Iran declared on the United States is at hand. Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time. That moment was at 8:15 this morning Iran time. Daylight. The target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.
Reuters confirms strikes targeted the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei and Pezeshkian survived the strike is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now, observed Shanaka Anslem Perera, an Australian Middle East analyst. In any event it looks like someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If the strikes hit the room and they survived it is still catastrophic for the regime.
Click here for a presentation prepared by CHQ Editor George Rasley for the American Security Council Foundation on why war with Iran is inevitable.
In a statement delivered late last night President Trump laid out the justification for launching the ongoing air campaign and warned that there could be American casualties in such a massive operation.
The initial strikes on key targets and individuals of “Operation Epic Fury” were carried out in conjunction with Israel, where it is known as “Operation Shield of Judah.”
In his remarks announcing the beginning of the battle President Trump vowed to completely eliminate the Islamic Republic’s military, saying:
While American and Israeli aircraft have owned the skies over Iran, battle has not been without Iranian retaliation. As part of a simultaneous attack against five countries in the region it appears there was a missile strike on the US Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ near Manama, Bahrain, casualties – if any – are unknown at this time.
And
The attack on Saudi Arabia apparently backfired as it brought the host of Islam's most sacred sites into the war on the American side against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Predictably the Islamists in Congress came out against the operation, with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota issuing a statement saying the strikes were about religious bigotry, not America’s national security.
However, many Republicans and even Pennsylvania’s Democrat Senator John Fetterman quickly came out in support of the operation.
And somewhat surprisingly, so did the government of Canada.
Whether past Presidents were willing to admit it or accept it, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979, here are a few examples:
The weakness of Iran’s system of Wilayat al-Faqih has never been more obvious and the opportunity to undermine it from within rarely greater. If we want to end the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the time to decapitate the Iranian theocracy and assist the Iranian people in replacing it with something else is now. Click here for a presentation prepared by CHQ Editor George Rasley for the American Security Council Foundation on why war with Iran is inevitable.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
President Donald J. Trump, February 28, 2026
The decisive battle in the 47-year-long war the Islamic Republic of Iran declared on the United States is at hand. Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time. That moment was at 8:15 this morning Iran time. Daylight. The target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.
Reuters confirms strikes targeted the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei and Pezeshkian survived the strike is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now, observed Shanaka Anslem Perera, an Australian Middle East analyst. In any event it looks like someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If the strikes hit the room and they survived it is still catastrophic for the regime.
Click here for a presentation prepared by CHQ Editor George Rasley for the American Security Council Foundation on why war with Iran is inevitable.
In a statement delivered late last night President Trump laid out the justification for launching the ongoing air campaign and warned that there could be American casualties in such a massive operation.
The initial strikes on key targets and individuals of “Operation Epic Fury” were carried out in conjunction with Israel, where it is known as “Operation Shield of Judah.”
In his remarks announcing the beginning of the battle President Trump vowed to completely eliminate the Islamic Republic’s military, saying:
We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We are going to annihilate their Navy. We are going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces and no longer use their IEDs or roadside bombs as they are sometimes called to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.
While American and Israeli aircraft have owned the skies over Iran, battle has not been without Iranian retaliation. As part of a simultaneous attack against five countries in the region it appears there was a missile strike on the US Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ near Manama, Bahrain, casualties – if any – are unknown at this time.
And
The attack on Saudi Arabia apparently backfired as it brought the host of Islam's most sacred sites into the war on the American side against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Predictably the Islamists in Congress came out against the operation, with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota issuing a statement saying the strikes were about religious bigotry, not America’s national security.
However, many Republicans and even Pennsylvania’s Democrat Senator John Fetterman quickly came out in support of the operation.
And somewhat surprisingly, so did the government of Canada.
Whether past Presidents were willing to admit it or accept it, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979, here are a few examples:
- The Teheran Embassy hostage taking (1979)
- Hostage taking in Lebanon (1982 - 1992)
- The Beirut Marine Barracks and U.S. Embassy bombings (1983)
- Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988)
- Mining the Persian Gulf and harassment of shipping (1988)
- Truck bombing at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (1996)
- Provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers (2000 – 2001)
- Iranians Charged with Cyber Plots Against U.S. Banks, Dam (2016)
- Iranian Spy Ring, Ahmadreza Doostar and Majid Ghorbani, Indicted for spying in the United States (2018)
- Ongoing assassinations and attacks on U.S. interests, including terror plots right here in the United States
- Ongoing supplying anti-American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan with training, sophisticated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) and other weapons
The weakness of Iran’s system of Wilayat al-Faqih has never been more obvious and the opportunity to undermine it from within rarely greater. If we want to end the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the time to decapitate the Iranian theocracy and assist the Iranian people in replacing it with something else is now. Click here for a presentation prepared by CHQ Editor George Rasley for the American Security Council Foundation on why war with Iran is inevitable.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
