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Experts Warned For Years That A War With Iran Would Happen This Way

Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month, reporting the following:

“Key Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, were surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched against U.S. and Israeli targets across the region, including in countries long assumed to be off-limits: Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, a state that had both harbored Iran’s terrorist proxies and served as a conduit for backchannel diplomacy between the U.S. and Hamas. The response shattered the assumption that Tehran would confine itself to performative retaliation. In internal deliberations before the war’s launch, Hegseth had pointed to Iran’s muted reaction to Trump’s past attacks as evidence that calibrated force could impose costs on Tehran without triggering a broader war. Hegseth ‘was caught off guard. There’s no question,’ says a person familiar with his thinking.”

Pentagon misjudged Iran response ahead of war, report says

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expected limited retaliation from Iran before the war, but “was caught off guard. There’s no question,” a person familiar with his thinking told Time.

The report says Hegseth had… https://t.co/jXamN04aHc

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 2, 2026

It’s so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran’s retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I’ve been paying attention to this issue I’ve been reading experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region.

A few examples:

A 2006 Oxford Research Group paper titled “Iran: Consequences of a War” warned that Iran has numerous options at its disposal in the event of a US attack, and that the “most significant of these would be any possible retaliatory Iranian action to affect the transport of oil and liquefied natural gas through the Straits of Hormuz,” adding that stopping Iran from doing this “would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, leading to a fear of attack which alone would have a formidable impact on oil markets.”

A 2007 Cato Institute paper titled “The Iraq War and Iranian Power” warns that “Iran possesses the largest ballistic-missile inventory in the Persian Gulf — missiles which can reach Israel, Saudi Arabia and US military bases in Iraq,” and that “experts argue Iran could also use the ’oil weapon’: blocking the 34km-wide Strait of Hormuz and conducting submarine and anti-ship missile attacks against ports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf Cooperation Council states.”

A 2012 NPR article titled “Can Iran Close The World’s Most Important Oil Route?” features then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledging that Iran absolutely can block the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tehran has “invested in capabilities” which specifically enable them to do so.

A paper from the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy and the Center for a New American Security titled “IN DIRE STRAITS? IMPLICATIONS OF US-IRAN TENSIONS FOR THE GLOBAL OIL MARKET” warns of a potential scenario “that includes damage to Gulf oil infrastructure and a temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”

These weren’t a bunch of keffiyeh-wearing peaceniks making these assessments, they were deeply entrenched swamp monsters entirely loyal to the US empire. They opposed war with Iran not because it would be an evil act of unforgivable mass murder, but because it would be bad for the imperial power structure.

For people who say it couldn't be predicted that the Iran war would be this consequential for the global economy, watch this 2012 video of former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski

He predicts what did in fact happen: "[Iran] can hurt us a lot... Can you imagine… pic.twitter.com/T3SgDtkKKl

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 1, 2026

Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton recently tweeted that other administration officials had warned the president to dismiss Bolton’s urging to attack Iran because of the easily foreseeable consequences of that war, saying “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare.”

I have zero military training or expertise — on military matters I’m just some schmuck with internet access — and yet nothing Iran has done has surprised me. It’s playing out exactly how the experts warned it would play out. There’s no way any literate, thinking person didn’t see this coming; when they say they didn’t, it’s because they’re either lying or amazingly stupid.

Trump’s war machine is either made up of liars, morons, lying morons, or (most likely), an eclectic mixture of all three.

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Trump warns Iran to reopen strait of Hormuz by Tuesday or face ‘hell’

Donald Trump issued an expletive-laden warning on Sunday that Tehran had until Tuesday night to reopen the strait of Hormuz or the US would obliterate Iran’s power plants and bridges. Iran’s parliament speaker responded with a warning that the US president’s “reckless moves” would mean “our whole region is going to burn”. The latest threat of escalation in the five-week war followed the rescue of a second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter by US commandos, ending a two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran.

Iran distributed images showing the wreckage of several aircraft, but did not deny that US forces had rescued the officer who had taken cover in a mountainous area while American special forces and Iranian troops raced to find him. Trump has extended deadlines at least twice for Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz, which has sent the price of oil shooting up, and shifted his deadline again from Monday to Tuesday in his expletive-laden post, before later making clear he meant Tuesday night.

The US president posted on his Truth Social website: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Crude oil prices opened higher on Monday, with the West Texas Intermediate – the US benchmark – rising 1.86% to more than $112 a barrel and Brent climbing above $110.

Trump separately suggested that there is a “good chance” of an agreement with Iran on Monday, telling Fox News that negotiations were taking place. “If they don’t make a deal and fast, I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil,” he said.

Trump RAGES at Iran in UNHINGED Easter Post

‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called on the regime to “open the fuckin’ strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards”, as he threatened to further attack the country’s energy and transport infrastructure. The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

It comes as the Trump administration hurtles towards another self-imposed deadline – this time, Tuesday evening – for Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz. One of the world’s most critical shipping lanes for oil and gas, the strait has been effectively shut since the US and Israel launched war on Iran at the end of February, causing oil prices around the world to skyrocket to record highs.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former staunch ally turned Trump critic, said everyone in the Trump administration who claims to be a Christian needs to “beg forgiveness from God” and intervene in the president’s “madness”. In a lengthy post on X, the former Republican congresswoman wrote: “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.” She went on: “The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.

“You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.”

Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Trump’s rant resembled that of “an unhinged madman”. He wrote on “Happy Easter, America. As you head off to church and celebrate with friends and family, the President of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media. He’s threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies. This is who he is, but this is not who we are. Our country deserves so much better.” Bernie Sanders, an independent US senator, called it “dangerous and mentally unbalanced”. He said on “One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.”

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Despite propaganda coup of F-15 crew rescue, downing is reminder to US that Iran can fight back

Donald Trump will inevitably claim the rescue of the second crew member of the downed F-15 fighter as a propaganda triumph, though the 48-hour drama is a reminder that an undefeated Iran is able to fight back and inflict costs on the US. It also ought to be a caution for a White House still contemplating whether to launch a ground operation in Iran to seize an island in the Persian Gulf – particularly if there a serious ambition to extract Iran’s highly enriched uranium from deep underground.

In military terms, a single episode like this does not matter much to the US. Losing aircraft, whether shot down or in accidents, is part of war. The US had 218 F-15E Strike Eagles and 55 C-130s in its special force command before it attacked Iran, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A full-scale US search and rescue operation was politically necessary to prevent Iran from capturing either member of the crew. The capture of one or both would have been a coup for Tehran, reviving memories of the US embassy hostage crisis of 1979-80, which did so much damage to the then president, Jimmy Carter.

There is no doubt that Iran – bombed in excess of 15,000 times so far – is being battered by the relentless US and Israeli airstrikes. But Tehran can still turn relatively small US or Israeli losses into a propaganda victory, whatever the state of its troops or air defences, precisely because they have been infrequent. In an asymmetric conflict, the weaker side only has to get lucky once.

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Iran strikes Kuwait’s oil infrastructure before Opec+ supply talks

Iranian drones have struck Kuwait’s oil infrastructure, causing “severe material damage” that threatens to further disrupt oil supplies already hit by the US-Israel war on Iran. The drone strikes on Sunday came hours before members of the Opec+ group of major global oil suppliers gathered to discuss how to bolster output despite Iran’s effective closure of the strait of Hormuz shipping route.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had attacked petrochemical plants in Kuwait, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation reported damage and fires at its subsidiaries. The company said fires had earlier broken out at its Shuwaikh oil sector complex, which houses the oil ministry and KPC headquarters, after a separate drone attack. Iranian drones also reportedly hit an office complex for Kuwaiti government ministries, which caused significant damage but no casualties, while local media reported two power and water desalination plants had been attacked.

Meanwhile, Iran’s central military command rejected an ultimatum by Donald Trump, who had threatened to destroy vital Iranian infrastructure if Tehran did not accept a peace deal within 48 hours. On Saturday, an Israeli attack on Iran’s petrochemical plants killed at least five people, according to Iranian media reports.

The drone attacks on Kuwait are just the latest hit to Middle Eastern oil infrastructure since the US and Israel started the war against Iran at the end of February. Israel’s attack on a production facility in Iran’s largest gasfield at South Pars in mid-March triggered retaliation by Tehran, which subsequently struck Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex. That came days after drones struck oil storage facilities at the port of Salalah in Oman.

Members of Opec+ said on Sunday that repairing energy facilities damaged in recent attacks would be costly and take a long time, and would potentially hit global oil supplies well into the future. They also stressed the “the critical importance of safeguarding international maritime routes to ensure the uninterrupted flow of energy”. The group, which consists Opec members and other oil-producing countries, reportedly agreed in principle to raising output by 206,000 barrels a day in May, according to Reuters. However, the agreement remains largely symbolic while Iran continues to effectively block the strait of Hormuz.

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Worker for US defense contractor killed in Iraq as colleagues say they are pressured to stay

A man employed by the US defense contractor V2X has been killed in a drone attack on Erbil airbase, amid concerns from colleagues that they are being placed in harm’s way and pressured to remain in Iraq despite security risks, five sources said. The worker, from Kenya, died in a night attack in his sleeping quarters on the base on 24 March. Another five workers were injured. They are from Kenya and India, and are among a group of about 45 workers employed by V2X who have remained on the base. One of the workers is in a critical condition with severe burns, sources said.

V2X has almost 300 employees in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, who are mainly American, Indian and Kenyan. Other US defense contractors active on Erbil’s military base, including Lockheed Martin and Amentum, evacuated their staff several weeks ago, according to V2X workers interviewed, who question why efforts have not been made to repatriate them. Lockheed Martin and Amentum did not respond to requests for comment. The interviewees, who have asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by the company, describe an ongoing culture of fear among employees and perceived hostility from management.

The majority of V2X employees in Erbil have been staying in a hotel in the city since the outbreak of the conflict. Workers interviewed said that when they ask company management about safety or evacuation plans, they become hostile, four workers said. “People are scared. Rather calming people, leadership threaten our jobs,” said one source.

V2X has told its employees in Erbil that the security situation is not severe enough for the company to arrange an evacuation. They have been told that should they want to leave, it will be regarded as a “voluntary evacuation” and that they have resigned from their jobs. Employees were told by one senior manager that they would be blacklisted from being rehired by the company in the future if they were to leave.

“Nobody is speaking up to leadership because we are afraid. They said they have no legal responsibilities to us if we decide to leave. We are on our own,” said a second source.

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Trump White House Pushes Satellite Firm to Withhold All Images of Iran War

The satellite firm Planet Labs told customers, including major news outlets, that it was acting on the Trump administration’s request as it announced it was implementing “an indefinite withhold of imagery” in Iran and across the Middle Eastern countries where the widening conflict started by the US and Israel is unfolding.

The Saturday announcement, said UK rights campaigner Sarah Wilkinson, was a sign that images of the war will be censored “to hide the truth.”

Planet Labs sent an email to journalists who have regularly used the company’s satellite images to report on the US-Israeli bombing of Iran and Iran’s retaliatory actions on Saturday, saying that after receiving a request from the US government, it was “moving to a managed access model... and releasing imagery on a case-by-case basis and for urgent, mission-critical requirements or in the public interest.”

Washington Post reporter Evan Hill suggested the announcement would limit reporters’ access to information from “one of the most important US-based commercial satellite imagery providers on whom most media outlets rely.”

The announcement comes as Iran’s military capabilities have reportedly exceeded US expectations, with US intelligence reporting Iran has retained many of its missile and mobile launchers and casting doubt on the Pentagon’s claims that the US is severely diminishing Iran’s missile stockpile.

The White House’s request for a suspension of satellite imagery was the latest sign that “Trump’s war is going swimmingly,” said podcast host Mark Ames sardonically.

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Archbishop for US Military Says Iran War Is Unjust Under Catholic Teaching

The Catholic Archbishop for the US Military Services has said the US-Israeli war against Iran is unjust, according to Catholic teaching, as Catholic leaders in the US, Rome, and the Middle East continue to criticize the conflict.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in an interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that was recorded on Friday and aired on Sunday. He was asked if the conflict could be justified under the Catholic Church’s Just War Theory, which traces its roots to St. Augustine of Hippo, who died in the fifth century.

“I would think under the Just War Theory, it is not [just],” Broglio said. He added that there was a “threat with nuclear arms” but that the war was “compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized,” though there was no evidence either before the June 2025 war or the current conflict that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons.

Broglio was also asked about US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s efforts to portray the US war as one sanctioned by God. “It’s a little bit problematic in the sense that the Lord Jesus certainly brought a message of peace, and also, I think war is always a last resort,” he said. The archbishop added that he believes it’s hard to “cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord.”

Israeli Army Scraps Goal of Disarming Hezbollah in Lebanon Occupation

The Israeli military has issued statements today indicating that the war goal of fully disarming Hezbollah, initially presented as the entire pretext for the invasion of southern Lebanon last month, is being dropped on the grounds that it is “unrealistic” to think they’d be able to accomplish the goal, and “not required” for the war to be won.

What’s the new pretext? Ultimately, the occupation of Lebanon’s south seems to now be an end unto itself, with the “goal” of invading and occupying the area south of the Litani River now to create an occupied “buffer zone” south of the Litani River.

Army officials said they need to be “modest” about what can be accomplished militarily, and fully disarming Hezbollah would require conquering the whole of Lebanon, “something that is not planned.”

3-Year-Old Was Abused While Waiting Months to Be Released From Detention Under Trump Restrictions

President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services and its office in charge of providing care for unaccompanied immigrant children have been named in a civil lawsuit alleging that a three-year-old was sexually abused after immigration officials separated her from her mother at the US border, while her father waited for months to be reunited with the child.

The girl crossed the border with her mother last September but was separated from her mother after the woman was charged with making false statements, according to The Associated Press. She was sent to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which operates under HHS and places children in foster or shelter settings.

When Trump took office for his second term in January 2025, the average time a child was under ORR’s care was 37 days, but as of February children were remaining in shelter or foster settings for an average of 200 days.

The process through which ORR releases children to the care of their parents or sponsors has grown more arduous under the Trump administration, and in the case of the three-year-old, she waited for five months in foster care while the government repeatedly told her father it couldn’t make an appointment for him to be fingerprinted.

Court documents state that during that time, the girl reported being sexually abused by an older child who was living in the same foster setting in Harlingen, Texas. She told a caregiver that she had been abused multiple times and had suffered bleeding as a result.

ORR only told her father that there had been an “accident” in foster care. Officials did not tell him the result of a forensic exam and interview of his child, but the older child accused of the abuse was removed from the foster setting.

“I asked them, ‘What happened? I want to know. I’m her father. I want to know what’s going on,’ and they just told me that they couldn’t give me more information, that it was under investigation,” said the father, who is a legal permanent US resident and spoke to the AP anonymously to protect his daughter’s identity. “She was so long in there... I just think that if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened.”

The Trump administration has claimed its new restrictions for sponsors and family members seeking custody of their children who are in ORR’s care have prevented traffickers from illegally bringing children into the US and have kept unaccompanied minors safe.

Family members like the three-year-old’s father are required to submit to income verification, home inspections, and DNA testing.

The new procedures were immediately followed by a drastic jump in child detention times, according to the AP.

Legal advocates have filed lawsuits challenging the new restrictions on the grounds that they can cause prolonged detention for children. Lauren Fisher Flores, the legal director of the American Bar Association’s ProBar project and the attorney representing the girl’s family, told the AP that the organization has worked on eight habeas corpus petitions on behalf of children who have been detained for an average of 255 days.

In the girl’s case, the government finally allowed the father to be fingerprinted after attorneys sent a letter to ORR, but still did not provide a timeline for his daughter’s release. His lawyers then filed a habeas petition, prompting the government to release the child to her father.

During the legal challenge, the father learned the details of what ORR had called an “accident” that happened in the foster setting.

“To have your child abused while in the government’s care, to not understand what has happened or how to protect them, to not even be told about the abuse, it is unimaginable,” Fisher Flores told the AP. “Children deserve safety and they belong with their parents.”

Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say

Proposals to deploy reflective mirrors and up to 1m more satellites in low Earth orbit could have far-reaching consequences for human health and ecosystems, leading sleep and circadian rhythm researchers have said. Presidents of four international scientific societies representing about 2,500 researchers from more than 30 countries are among those who have raised concerns in letters to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The regulator is considering plans by the start-up Reflect Orbital to illuminate parts of the Earth at night using reflective satellites, as well as applications from SpaceX that could dramatically expand satellite numbers in low Earth orbit.

“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,” said the presidents of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, the Japanese Society for Chronobiology and the Canadian Society for Chronobiology.

They said altering the light-dark cycle could disrupt biological clocks that regulate sleep and hormone secretion in humans and animals, migration in nocturnal species, seasonal cycles in plants and the rhythms of marine phytoplankton that underpin ocean food webs. They urged regulators to conduct a full environmental review and set limits on satellite reflectivity and cumulative night sky brightness. Prof Charalambos Kyriacou, a geneticist at the University of Leicester and president of the EBRS, said: “We’re saying, please think before you go through with this, because this could have global implications for things like food security. Plants need the night. You can’t just get rid of it.”

Reflect Orbital hopes to use satellites equipped with large reflective mirrors to redirect sunlight on to areas roughly 5km to 6km wide “on demand”, with brightness adjustable “from full moon to full noon”. The company says the system could extend solar energy production into the evening and provide lighting for construction projects, disaster response and agriculture, with illumination delivered only to locations approved by local authorities. Meanwhile, SpaceX has proposed launching up to 1m satellites to create a giant solar-powered computing network in orbit designed to run artificial-intelligence workloads. The company says the system could reduce the energy and cooling demands of terrestrial datacentres.

Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park

Thousands of people gathered at the steps of the Texas capitol on Saturday to protest against the construction of a border wall through Big Bend, in a show of bipartisan opposition to the White House’s plans. More than 2,000 people attended the rally, according to Texas Public Radio, holding signs with slogans such as “No Big Bend NP Wall,” “Big Love for Big Bend” and “No al Muro” – Spanish for “No to the Wall.” Organizers gathered postcards from protesters to deliver to Greg Abbott, the Texas governor who has yet to weigh in publicly on the border wall expansion plans at Big Bend.

César Blanco, a Democratic state senator, said his office had been flooded with messages from constituents sharing stories of their love for Big Bend and their opposition to marring it with a border wall. “There’s nothing like that region anywhere in the world,” Blanco said. “It’s a place where families make memories together. We all agree that border security matters,” he added. “But we don’t have to harm our communities in the process. We don’t have to destroy the ecosystem to achieve it. We can do it the right way. We can do it thoughtfully with the people that live in those communities.”

Brandon Herrera, a rightwing gun YouTuber running for the congressional seat that includes Big Bend, described opposition to building the wall there as “something we can actually agree on”.

“Democrats don’t want this wall in Big Bend,” Herrera said. “Republicans don’t want this wall in Big Bend. Independents don’t want this wall in Big Bend. Sheriffs don’t want this wall in Big Bend. The tourists don’t want this wall in Big Bend. Nobody wants this wall in Big Bend.”

Other speakers raised concerns about a border wall’s impact on the bighorn sheep and black bears that need access to the river. Several described wall construction as a form of federal overreach. Anthropologist Carolyn Boyd said current plans threaten to wall off or destroy dozens of rock art murals. “These are not just archeological sites,” Boyd said. “They are sacred landscapes. They are libraries of human knowledge. They are the voices of 175 generations preserved on canyon walls. And many of these places remain sacred to Native American communities today.”

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A Little Night Music

Curley Weaver & Fred McMullen - DeKalb Chain Gang

Frank Edwards - We Got To Get Together

Curley Weaver - You Was Born To Die

Frank Edwards - Terraplane Blues

Frank Edwards - Throw'd Your Time Away

Curley Weaver - Sweet Patunia

Curley Weaver - No No Blues

Frank Edwards - When the Saints Go Marching In

Frank Edwards - Sweet Man Blues

Curley Weaver - She don't treat me good no more

Frank Edwards - Chicken Raid

Blind Willie McTell & Curley Weaver - Wee Midnight Hours