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The United States is Bracing for Iran’s response After President Donald Trump launched strikes on Iranian nuclear energy sites on Saturday. It was the first time that the United States has bombed the Islamic Republic directly.
The United States has struck Iranian nuclear installations, including the Fordo Clé site, with 14 GBU-57, 30,000 pounds “Bunker bombs”, according to the American army.
On Sunday, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, said that even if the United States did not want the war, it will act quickly and decisively when our people, our partners or our interests will be threatened “.
THE a few days are particularly worrying, according to two defense officials and a senior White House official. It is not known whether reprisals would aim for locations abroad or national, or both, the officials said.
While the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Arabhchi warned against the “eternal consequences”, the experts say that the country has limited options.
Constraints
Iran’s ability to strike is narrower than it was in the past.
Ha Hellyer, the main partner of the Royal United Services Institute based in London, told NBC News that Iran always had the power to attack, “but only because the Israelis had not withdrawn all their missile launchers.” Iran still has around 40% of its launchers, said HeLlyer.
The Iranian proxy network has also been beaten by years of attrition with Israel and the United States, its most important ally, Hezbollah in Lebanon, said that it would not join the fight against Israel.
Iran can also lack faithful support for its neighbors – some Gulf nations have not completed themselves by condemning American attacks against Iran, calling for a de -escalation.
Cyber-mans
The cyber-capacity of the bodies of the Islamic Guard is great, and the United States consider Iran one of its four main opponents in cyberspace with China, North Korea and Russia.
While Iran lacks unions of robust cybercriminals from Russia or large Chinese teams of sophisticated digital spy, the United States has accused in recent years of working for IRGC.
If Iran made reprisal cyber attacks, they would come in the wake of Several series of cuts At the main Civil Cyber-Defense Agency for the Trump Administration, the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. The two former CISA directors both warned that administration cuts make American infrastructure more vulnerable to pirates.
‘Meet the press’
Vice-president JD Vance said that the United States was not at war with Iran, but with the Tehran nuclear weapons program.
During an interview on NBC News “Meet The Press”, moderator Kristen Welker asked the vice-president if the United States was now at war with Iran.
“We are not at war with Iran,” said Vance. “We are at war with the Iranian nuclear program.”
Vance too refused to confirm with 100% confidence that the country’s nuclear sites had been completely destroyed.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., on the other hand, collapsed People that Trump acted without authorization from Congress.
“Congress can declare war or cut funding. We cannot be the commander -in -chief. You cannot have 535 chief commanders,” said Graham, referring to the number of representatives and senators.
But Senator Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Said that the president can act militarily “when there is a clear and imminent threat to American citizens, in the United States, to the fatherland”.
“This was not the case here,” said Kelly.
Brief policy
- Tongues: Across the country, the margins of 20 points in the Republican counties won at the turn of the century have been transformed into 50 points margins Or more in recent years. Political competitiveness at the local level is replaced by the loyalty of landslides to a single party.
- Fight: After more than three months in the detention of ice, the student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil University returned to the New York region, Where his heartbreaking test began – and swore to continue to express themselves against the war in Gaza.
- Well, it’s “clumsy”: The former mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, is Considering a race for the presidency in 2028And admits the potential to take his friend and ally the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, “will be embarrassing”.
The war on porn brings together strange bed companions
Feminists, religious crusaders and “male alpha” influencers are improbable allies in the old battle of decades on the content of adults – and They are on a sequence of victories.
Anti-Porno activists have prompted States to implement laws on online age verification, while some politicians are pursuing aggressive prohibitions on explicit content.
Culturally, the opinion that porn is harmful not only for women, but also for men and the sexual development of young people has made significant breakthroughs.
Once considered a margal moral crusade, the war against porn has increased a multi-formidable and dominant force over the past decade. The leaders of the porn industry recognized their current battle against Deepfakes, the content of minors and revenge porn, in particular Pornhub, which deleted millions of unaccounted videos from its website in 2020 following allegations according to which the site showed problematic content.
Gail Dines, a key figure in the anti-porn movement for more than 30 years, said that the objective was not necessarily to ban porn, but argued that the industry had “sown the seeds of its own destruction”.
NBA to top his champion in match 7
Everything comes down to that. The NBA final. Match 7. The Trophy of the Larry O’Brien championship in play.
After a season filled with memorable matches (and one Returning bread on Indiana wild pacers), the NBA decides its champion when the Oklahoma City Thunder and the star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Host Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers at the Paycc Center.
NBC News will cover Match 7 live from OKC. Follow all the action here.
Notable quote
I think their parents did not have them well enough.
Esther Yang, New York Yoga Instructor
A casting of candidates in the grip of scandal Testing the limits of what New York voters will forgive, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams and Anthony Weiner are not lacking in their political campaigns this year.
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- In the wake of the decision of the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plan to form theirs impartial group.
