ESCALATION IN THE GULF: A CRITICAL ULTIMATUM TO IRAN!!! As tensions reach a boiling point in the Middle East, the U.S. Secretary of Defense has issued a stark ultimatum to Iran: comply with demands or face severe military escalation. In a dramatic series of strikes, the Israeli Air Force has obliterated key Iranian missile production sites, claiming to have dealt a devastating blow to the Ayatollah regime. With over 230 airstrikes executed in just 24 hours, the clock is ticking for Iran as the Revolutionary Guards scramble to maintain control amid fears of an uprising. As President Trump prepares for potential ground invasions and the United Arab Emirates aligns itself with U.S. forces to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz, the stakes have never been higher. Meanwhile, Iran’s threats to retaliate against American companies in the region heighten the sense of impending conflict. With the balance of power shifting and the specter of war looming, one haunting question remains: will diplomacy prevail, or are we on the brink of a catastrophic confrontation that could engulf the entire region?

The American Secretary of Defense is issuing an ultimatum, a deal or escalation.

Israel is preparing for an escalation in American military activities against Iran.

And so, Israel is increasing the pace of this fighting.

The Israeli Air Force struck critical infrastructure in Iran and dealt a death blow to Iran’s ballistic missiles.

In just the last 24 hours, our forces destroyed 20 weapons production sites in Iran and Israeli air force struck a chemical plant that served as infrastructure for weapons production for the Ayatollah regime.

Trump said today, “The war against Iran will not continue longer, much longer”.

The Sencom commander said in a special update, “We are moving towards a sustained, decisive outcome against Iran.

The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help and to join a force to open the Strait of Homus.

Iran is moving into a regime of military dictatorship.

The Iranian president tried to reach Muchapa, the new supreme ruler, and was blocked.

We will soon bring you all the details.

After a month of war, Iran’s president and foreign ministers were seen in the streets of Tehran.

And out of fear of an uprising, the revolutionary guards have started recruiting militants from Iraq to support their own agenda.

and Iran they’re threatening again and this time they are saying that they will destroy the American companies starting tomorrow and a couple of surprise has the prime minister of Canada became ambassador I’m Pinto and with me is Mati Shashani and we are boots on the ground that bring you all the truth about what’s happening in Israel and also all the truth about what is happening in our neighborhood the Middle East.

And this is the close of day 33 of the Roaring Lion War, or by its American name, epic fury.

So, to the question that everybody wanted answered, what do 900 kilogram bunker buster bombs do?

It turns out that the American bombers left absolutely no chance for the underground storage site of Iran’s most dangerous missiles which exploded in the secret city of Isvahan.

And according to the satellite imagery, it is possible to estimate that several missiles that were inside those tunnels exploded after they were hit by the American strike.

And it appears to have been an especially successful operation.

So, in the last 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force carried out more than 230 strikes over the past day against the regime targets, including ballistic missile launchers that are prepared for launch and weapons production sites.

The Air Force has now completed a powerful wave of strikes in Tehran, in which around 20 production sites and intelligence centers were destroyed using 80 precision munitions aimed at ballistic missile production sites and air defensive systems.

And at the same time, infrastructure at the Revolutionary Guards Air Force headquarters was also attacked.

And in addition, the Israeli Air Force attacked an Iranian factory that operated under civilian cover and transferred sensitive chemical materials to the regime’s military operations and projects.

The factory supplied fentinile to the organization SPND which is represented for the development of chemical weapons in Iran.

That’s what they’re doing.

And the IDF emphasized that the strike was intended to damage the nonconventional production chain while taking precautionary measures to reduce harm to civilians.

And this morning, the IDF revealed unprecedented data on the scale of the attack in Iran that includes more than 800 strike sorties that were carried out.

5,000 new targets that were identified later in the like a lion operation that took place before and also 230 strikes that were carried out in the last 24 hours alone.

In total, more than 7,000 targets have been attacked across all arenas.

The United States continues to reinforce its forces in the region and is preparing options for a ground invasion and increased pressure on Iran.

President Trump is weighing a diplomatic move against a military escalation while Israel is increasing its strikes and its coordination with Washington for every kind of scenario that will develop.

and including an expansion of the confrontation with Hisbala in Lebanon.

The United Arab Emirates intends to join a US-led military campaign to open the strait that is vital to its economy.

This is after absorbing thousands of missiles and drones.

It is pushing for a United Nations resolution that would allow a direct confrontation to break Iran’s choking grip, but it may also act without one.

And in the meantime, it has banned Iranians from entering its territory.

An unusual warning from the United States to its citizens in the Middle East.

Iran is planning an attack on Saudi Arabia, shelter in place until further notice.

The Revolutionary Guards threatened to attack facilities of American technology companies in the Middle East and declared that for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed.

Iran is moving into a regime of military dictatorship.

As a result of the war, the revolutionary guards in Iran have shifted to a military security rule.

And the question is being asked how the appointment of MTA and the loyalty of the revolutionary guards are changing the balance of power in Iran and reducing the influence of the religious establishment.

Iranian President Pzan tried again and again to meet with Muchaba, but the revolutionary guards blocked his moves and pushed the government to the sidelines.

Trump told the world yesterday, “Iran has been destroyed.

The hard part is over.

Go get oil”.

In an interview with the New York Post, the American president said that the Strait of Homus would be opened once again once this war ends and called on the countries that use the strait to go and open it.

In the goals of the war, Trump said, “We are taking away their nuclear capabilities and we have already achieved regime change”.

President Trump is abandoning the countries that dependent on the Strait of Hormuz, making clear that the United States will no longer help opening the shipping lanes and suggesting that its allies should build a little courage and behind the scenes there is international drama.

We will soon discuss why France did not allow American aircrafts to pass over its territory.

And the American Secretary of Defense or actually Secretary of War Pete Hagstar stated today that the campaign against Iran is entering a critical phase and made clear that Thran has no real ability to change the course of the events.

Brigade 8 is crushing in the north in south Lebanon and also terrorists are fleeing.

The forces eliminated dozens of terrorists in face-to-face battles and destroyed strategic terrorist infrastructure in order to expand the security zone.

Kizbala turned the Christian village of Kawazak in Lebanon into a missile launching base against the will of the residents there.

And in recent hours, a severe warning was sent to the terrorists exploiting churches and minority communities as human shields.

The IDF will act with force to remove the threat.

The Israeli Air Force eliminated the head of the engineering branch in the Lebanese cores of the Kuds forces or by his stage name, the tunnel man.

For 20 years, this man managed dozens of underground projects for Hisbala and for the Assad regime.

A secretbala smuggling route was exposed in Syria and gives us a look into the problem.

The smuggling of weapons and terror along the Syria Lebanon border is presenting Damascus with a growing challenge in front of Hizbala.

After all, the Syrians are also trying to get rid of thebala terrorists.

And the prime minister of Canada, he’s joining.

Yeah.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carne is attacking IDF activities in Lebanon and calling it an illegal invasion.

In an outrageous statement, Canary claimed that the Lebanese government is acting against Hisbala while ignoring the ongoing threat to Israel sovereignty.

And this morning, splitting missiles from Iran hit several sites in central Israel.

In Blat, an Israeli city in the center, an 11year-old girl who was in her bed was critically wounded.

There was an improvement in her condition of and the condition of a 13year-old boy whose condition was initially described as very serious.

So destruction at the scene in Tel Aviv.

Fire from Iran also reached the south south of Israel after a Houthi missile was intercepted this morning.

There is still a lot ahead of us.

So let’s dive into the details.

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Almost happy Passover.

How are you doing >> to you?

Happy Passover to you and to all our viewers at home.

Sam, what a wonderful celebration of freedom.

This time it’s a work in progress on certain fronts.

What’s up?

>> Yeah, I’m doing good.

as you said, preparing all the food, cleaning the house, everything that we need to do ahead of the celebration of Passover.

And yet again, an evil enemy tries to destroy the Jewish people of Israel.

And looks like we are still here.

I’m still here.

I’m not AI, by the way.

You can count my fingers.

And Mati looks a little bit fake, but maybe you can prove that he’s real by answering and letting us know.

>> I’ll do this.

letting us know what’s going on >> nowadays.

Fingers in front of the face.

>> Exactly.

So, so more troops are coming into this region and at the same time we hear Donald Trump actually criticizing the United States allies of not doing enough in order to open the straight of Hmus and battle the threats from Iran.

Where are we standing on all of this?

>> Yeah, thank you.

I think one of the most interesting developments we’ve seen in recent let’s call it days and weeks uh is Trump’s relationship and the White House relationship to the international community and their refusal or their hesitancy to engage in any type of substantial war and to stand with their allies.

This is apparent on two different fronts.

One just the other day Trump says to in a public it’s not exactly a tweet in a in a social media post he says the following.

says, “For those countries who are missing jet fuel, come and get it.

Come and take it.

We’ve done the dirty work for you on the ground versus Iran.

Come and get the jet fuel because it’s waiting for you.

Come and pull it out of the hands of the Iranian regime”.

In other words, help open up the straight of Humuz, which is something he’s called them to do several times in recent weeks.

He said, “Where are these people?

We don’t need you for this fight.

We’re strong enough on our own, but you should be here on the ground with us fighting for this”.

And I’d say across the board, we haven’t seen that kind of a substantial response.

Then it gets even more severe.

In recent days, Trump has been floating the idea of completely disbanding NATO.

Uh in recent weeks, he’s talked about the fact that uh NATO countries or NAT neighbor NATO members who don’t contribute about 5% of their GDP to the defense industry.

Uh should be forbidden for even having an opinion on what NATO does.

Uh but in recent days, it’s escalated.

Now he’s talking about the fact that NATO possibly isn’t effective, isn’t relevant.

I believe it’s all a pressure campaign to change the way other countries look at their partnership in international treaties.

No longer can they say, “Oh, yes, we’re here.

We have a seat at the table, but we don’t contribute anything”.

And the US and in this case also Israel go and do their dirty work.

Uh but instead of that, they should be having people on the ground fighting.

They should be sending the ships to aid in the straight of Hummus.

they should be contributing and building an army that can stop the forces of Putin of uh of Russia as they try to fight in Ukraine or elsewhere.

And the same goes on to any other uh future conflict.

So it’s a very interesting development and a lot of pressure from the US regime against countries who have a lot to say but do very little after they talk.

>> Yeah.

And talking about the latest threats that we hear from the Ayatollah regime towards the US companies, meaning every annihilation of a leader will be an equation of a destruction on an American company.

Is that a feasible threat?

And are they talking about companies that have bases in the Gulf States and in the Middle East?

Yeah, it’s all of the above.

It’s both to attack targets in the Gulf States, which they’ve done already.

They attacked they they attacked Amazon web server uh uh server farms in I think the first week of the war.

They’ve attacked quite a few ships that are related to let’s call it western companies and they’ve made threats and also tried to carry out attacks against many companies both in cyber warfare and in acts of terrorism.

So not not an exclusive threat or event.

Can they do substantial damage?

The easy answer is no.

Uh they can’t.

when it looks at what the Iranians can do versus what the Americans, the Israelis, and anyone who would join that alliance can do, uh, it, you know, it far outweighs what the US can do to the Iranians, far outweighs any damage that the Iranians would be able to to carry out.

We’re not even seeing yet half of the damage that the US and Israel can carry out against the Iranians.

We’ve literally been holding back on the damage that can be done to them.

And that’s important to note.

Uh, they’re not the only ones that have choice.

They’re not the only ones who are, you know, figuring out where things go in the negotiation.

There’s a lot more that can be done as far as damage to the Iranian regime that has yet to be done.

>> Yeah.

Well, okay.

That’s encouraging to know, Mati, because already there are thousands and thousands of targets that were destroyed all across Iran.

What’s keeping this regime from collapsing?

And who is actually leading the country?

Is it the president or who we haven’t seen at all or somebody else?

I I don’t know.

It seems like there’s several different factions that are controlling different parts of of what’s happening in the country.

You know, still we don’t see any uh substantial information or let’s call it video recordings or anything.

Definitely public appearance from the Supreme Leader.

We are seeing some of the ministers in the government including Pashan appear in public uh in recent days to try to sort of uh you know raise morale within their uh their population.

But in the way things seem to be operating there seems to be both centralized command and decentralized command in Iran as in there’s a government that talks but there seem to be a lot of field commanders that essentially do what they think is the right thing to do at the time and roll with that.

uh which means even if we’re talking to one faction in the government, it doesn’t mean that government controls every single force in the country.

There still is centralized government.

There still is some kind of hierarchy there, but it’s not 100% across the board.

And it seems that in recent days, we’re hearing the rumors of where those cracks appear in one side not being able to talk to the other or not wanting to talk to the other side.

uh possibly fighting for power, possibly afraid of leaks, uh possibly concerned that uh that they’re not as strong as they really think they are in certain areas.

So, they’re acting in a very cautious and sometimes uh conflicting internal way.

>> Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Mati, and before we move on to the next day of phase, can you explain to our viewers why we are celebrating Passover and how is it connected to what’s happening now in this war?

Yeah, I mean the >> this is a rabbi question, Mati, not the Middle East senior correspondent question.

>> Well well sadly this year the two of them the two of them come together.

Uh so so the the story of Passover is the story of the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt from the tyranny of a foreign enemy who wanted to destroy every last Jewish person and set their armies on the track to do that.

God supernaturally saves the people of Israel.

If you’re not familiar with the story, uh, open your Bibles, uh, read in the book of Exodus about how God brings the people of Israel out.

It ends in it’s end of Genesis.

Go into into Exodus to read how God really saves the people of Israel.

And what we celebrate, and this is a commandment passed down through Moses all the way till our days, is to tell our sons and daughters on that day what the Lord God has done for your people.

how he saved you with a mighty arm, uh, with swift action from an enemy that was greater than you, how he brought you back to the land, how he kept and sustained you on the way to that land.

And today, more than ever, we’re still living in that same miracle.

And I want to say this to anyone at home.

If you have any doubt whatsoever about God’s faithfulness and the relevance of biblical literature, biblical story, biblical uh faith in in our day and time, I mean, the parallels are just too common, too great to miss.

Uh once again, a biblical scale diabolical enemy has risen against the people of Israel to destroy them.

a king, in this case a uh, you know, an Ayatollah with a funny outfit and a scepter in his hand says, “I’m here to destroy the Jewish people.

We’re going to do everything we can to bring them down”.

And just look at the last two and a half years.

They haven’t been easy.

It’s been a a road of of turmoil and challenges for the people of Israel, but we get to sit down with our families.

I’m joining with my extended family tonight, dozens of people, uh to tell our kids, some of them are very young kids, our toddlers, how God has once again saved the people of Israel.

And if anyone here has doubt uh that there’s an answer to prayers, if anyone here has doubt uh that the God has been faithful to the people of Israel, uh you shouldn’t have that doubt anymore, especially on Passover.

Uh look at what is happening right now.

uh Israel is flying over the skies of Iran after destroying or pushing backbalah Hamas uh several other enemies, the Houthis in our region and keeping the peace internally within the country.

We’ve been supernaturally saved countless times from the missiles, the rockets of our enemies.

And here we are standing strong, standing for the most part safe, for the most part healthy, uh for the most part at peace uh you know with our children.

This Passover is a little different uh as in the times of uh Ezra and Nehemiah.

You know, on the one hand, there’s a sword.

On the other hand, uh the the the tools of rebuilding this nation, of celebrating with this nation, but that’s how it is this year.

We’re celebrating God’s faithfulness, but really cognizant, really clear about the fact that the reality that we’re living in is not natural.

It’s supernatural.

It’s it’s miraculous.

It’s biblical, as we say.

And the commandment is tell your children how God has saved you.

And we get to tell them that story once more.

And I’ll end with one last story is I was showing my kids uh last week I went to Aad to the to the site where a ballistic missile from Iran fell in the center of a neighborhood where all the houses were full of sleeping families uh or families within their homes uh just a couple days before I arrived there.

And I showed them the picture and I said, “Kids, I want you to see this.

Look at my phone.

Here is the uh the target.

Here’s where it hit.

It hit in the middle of a dirt patch, in the middle of buildings.

Any other direction, and there would have been dozens of casualties, dozens of killed, both women, children, and uh men uh in the city in southern Israel.

And if anyone looks at that and doesn’t see a miracle, well, they need to go get their eyes checked.

And that’s a reality we’re living in.

Y a reality of miracles one after the other, of God’s provision one after the other.

And I’ll just end with one last word of encouragement for people, which is God said he would be faithful, but he never ever said it would be easy.

That’s not in the Bible.

He said it was going to be challenging.

He said it would be trying times.

And that’s it.

That’s what it is.

But to see God’s promise in our lives, uh you really have to sometimes sweat and sometimes bleed to see that that uh promise fulfilled.

And here we are in Israel 2026 Passover enjoying the blessing of what God has done in our beautiful, safe uh and healthy country.

Albeit we’re still fighting a war in several fronts, but again, God has been faithful and he will continue to be faithful.

So, I say this to you and to our viewers, may this be a blessed Passover for everyone.

>> Thank you.

Happy Passover to you and your family and to all of the viewers that are joining us just now.

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So I have a very important update to share with all of you.

Mayor Panim’s branch, this is a partner that provides humanitarian aid and food to need Israelis.

So their branch in Dimona, a city in the south of Israel, was hit with a missile.

After a direct missile strike in that area, the building suffered severe structural damage and is now completely unsafe to use.

What was once a place of warmth, dignity, and daily meals is now filled with broken glass, debris, and instability.

More than 470 residents were displaced in this attack from their houses and thousands of homes were affected.

And right in the middle of it, Mayopanim, a lifeline for so many, was deeply impacted.

Inside the building, ceilings are at risk of collapse.

Electrical and plumbing systems have been destroyed.

Entire sections of the facility need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

And yet the meals have not stopped.

Their work have not stopped.

Even without the building, even in crisis, the team continues to provide food every single day to those who depend on it.

So emergency operations continue, but they’re not enough.

We need to rebuild, not just to restore what was lost, but to bring this place back to life.

a fully functioning, dignified space where people can once again receive meals with respect consistently to receive care.

Government support may cover part of the damage, but it will not restore the heart of this place.

That depends on all of us.

If you want to stand with the people of Israel, the people of Deona particularly that was hit.

If you want to help rebuild this place, this place of hope, we invite you to give today.

You can visit bless-israel.

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Again, you can do it by donating at bless-israel.

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They’re helping feed those that need help in Israel.

Practical help with volunteers on the ground.

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And this morning opened once again under fire over central Israel.

An Iranian cluster style missile came in and struck several impact zones in Blak in Tel Aviv and the greater central area.

An 11year-old girl was critically wounded while laying in her bed.

A 13-year-old boy whose condition was first defined as severe is now showing improvement, thank God.

And heavy damage was recorded at several sites and earlier a Houthi missile was also intercepted and later in the day additional launchers were recorded towards the south and towards the north.

The question now is not only how many missiles Iran still has left, but whether day 33 marks the moment of transition from the systematic destruction of Iran’s production infrastructure to a broader American escalation that could reshape the entire war.

This is the closing summary of day 33 of the roaring line war by its American name, epic fury.

And this day is connecting several fronts into one single story.

On one side, Israel accelerated the pace of strikes and hit the heart of Iran’s weapons industry once again.

On the other side, the United States is signaling that the coming days will be decisive, preparing additional military options while still keeping a diplomatic pressure and a channel open for negotiations.

And in the middle of all of this, the Ayatollah regime is undergoing a deep internal shift.

less religious leadership, more direct control by the revolutionary guards, more fear, fear of uprising, fear of the people of Iran, and more signs that Thran is now being run through a nervous military security machine, not through a normal state structure.

Let us begin with the Israeli front because that is what set the tone for this day.

The cluster style missile from this morning was not just another routine launch.

This is a weapon designed to spread the threat across several points, create confusion, multiply impact zones, and complicate the interception and the civil defense.

The result was several scenes in the center of the country, the critical wounding of an 11year-old girl, severe damage in civilian neighborhoods, and another reminder that even as Iran’s missile array is being worn down, its remaining capability is still dangerous.

That’s exactly what Netanyahu said last night as well.

Iran’s terror armies still have a residual ability to file.

Not the ability to decide the war.

Not the ability to run a broad campaign the way that once imagined, but still an ability to inflict pain, to surprise, and to exact a price from Israel’s civilian rear.

From here, we need to move directly to what Israel did over the past 24 hours to shorten the life of that threat.

And the answer is a great deal and at a very high intensity.

The Israeli Air Force carried out more than 230 strikes in a single day.

That is the updated number that we need to work with tonight.

The targets included ballistic missile launchers that are ready to fire, weapons production sites, air defensive systems in Thran, and additional regime infrastructure.

And at the same time, the broader scale of the campaign was also revealed.

More than 800 attack sorties, about 16,000 munitions, more than 5,000 new targets identified since the war began, and over 7,000 targets struck across all the fronts.

These are the numbers of a deep war of attrition, not of a one-time wave of strikes.

But the numbers alone do not tell the whole story.

We need to understand exactly where Israel chose to strike today.

What location in Thran?

A concentrated series of attacks was completed against 20 weapons production sites and strategic research and development centers.

More than 80 precision munitions were dropped on those targets.

And amongst them was a site producing critical components for ballistic missile engines, a missile engine testing site, a factory producing air defensive systems, and infrastructure inside the Revolutionary Guards Air Force headquarters.

The operational meaning is clear.

Israel is no longer satisfied with destroying a single launcher or one warehouse.

It is hitting the engine, the production component, the laboratory, the engineering line, the test phase, and the headquarters directing the whole chain.

In other words, it is not only removing missiles from the equation, it is attacking the ability to build the next generation of these weapons.

And that is why today we can already speak of a real blow to Iran’s ballistic missile system.

when a factory for casting and filing warheads with explosives is hit.

when a site developing ballistic missiles and components is hit, when an R&D center for anti-tank missiles, small surfaceto-air missiles and other weapon systems is hit, and when Tehran’s own air defensive systems are struck.

The result is a situation in which Iran is not only firing less, it is also building less, testing less, and recovering less.

Just as important, Israel also moved last night against Iran’s non-conventional track.

The air force struck an Iranian plant operating under civilian cover that transferred sensitive chemical materials to the regime’s military projects.

And according to the intelligence, the plant supplied finently to the SPND organization, the body responsible for chemical weapons development in Iran.

Here it is important to be precise.

This was not just another civilianl lookinging facility that was caught in the middle.

It was defined as a key area in the supply chain for chemical weapons development.

That is why it was also emphasized that special precautions were taken in order to minimize the harm to civilians.

And this operation shows that Israel is not striking only what is already being launched against us.

It is also striking what may appear later in the form of a different kind of weapon, one more dangerous and more carefully concealed.

And at the same time, Israel also continued striking air defensive systems inside Tehran itself.

The footage released today shows precise attacks on air defensive batteries across the city.

This matters because every strike like that does two things two things at once.

It protects the Israeli aircraft from the missions that come after makes the area safe and it also exposes how difficult it was it has become for Iran to defend the skies of its own capital at all against our forces and against the Iranian planes.

And when Israel can hit Thran’s air defensive infrastructure over and over again, that is no longer just a tactical success.

It is a statement about the depth of the air superiority that has been built over the course of the last month.

Now we move to the American axis because it hangs over this entire day.

US Secretary of W delivered the sharpest message yet.

Deal or escalation.

According to him, the coming days will be decisive and there is nothing that Iran can do to stop what is coming.

He said that Trump wants an agreement but if Iran refuses the war will continue with a higher level of intensity.

He also pointed to a drop in the volume of Iranian launchers.

Spoke about desertions inside the country and hinted that the struggle around the straight of Homus already includes both public plans and classified ones.

And alongside Hexac came the update from Sentcom.

the commander, Admiral Brad Cooper.

He spoke of a sustained and deep defeat of Iran and of its ability to project power across the region and beyond its borders.

He described a reality in which the Iranian Navy barely sails, its aircrafts barely fly, and most of its air defenses have already been destroyed.

He also revealed a force presence of more than 50,000 American troops in the region.

That number tells us that Washington is not holding only a theoretical threat.

It is building the mass required to shift to almost any of the scenarios that have been discussed in recent days.

And here we need to ask what is really being built behind the scenes.

The picture that emerges is one of several parallel options.

seizing Karak Island, breaking Iran’s grip on the Strait of Homus, carrying out a military extraction of the enriched uranium, or launching an even higher and heavier wave of strikes against the energy and the water infrastructure.

the reports about the arrival of thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, the deployment of thousands of Marines, and the possibility of more than 17,000 American ground troops at Iran’s doorstep.

All of this is not background noise.

This is force generation.

Trump may still prefer a diplomatic victory image, but at the same time, he’s building the military option in parallel so that he can apply pressure until the final moment.

Against that backrops Trump’s own statement, and today they sound almost contradictory, but in reality they are part of the same method.

In one interview, he says that the war against Iran will not continue much longer.

In another, he says that the hard part is already over.

In a press conference, he says that soon the United States will leave Iran, that fuel prices will fall, and that Iran has been pushed back to the Stone Age in terms of its ability to produce nuclear weapons.

He also says that he’s no longer especially worried about uranium buried deep underground.

In other words, Trump is signaling in two directions at once.

Towards Iran that it’s time that time is running out towards the American public that he does not intend to sink into an openended war and towards Americans allies that what they want to achieve they may now have to help achieve on their own.

And that brings us to home.

Because if until a few days ago the talk was that Washington might end the war even without reopening the strait, today the picture shifts slightly.

Trump still says that other countries can go and open it themselves.

But now a new track is emerging.

The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help reopen the Strait of Homus by force.

According to the picture taking shape, Abu Dhabi is pushing for a UN decision that would authorize such an operation.

But it is also examining the participation in a military effort even without full international backing.

From its point of view, the STOI is simple.

Homus is a lifeline to its economy, its energy exports, its shipping, its commerce, and its status as a stable regional hub.

The moment that Iran chokes that straight, it is not only hitting ships, it’s attacking the Emirati model itself.

That explains why the United Arab Emirates is already taking unusual steps.

It has reportedly banned Iranians from entering its territory.

It has reportedly shut down the Iranian institutions in Dubai.

It is reported to be examining a real military role including mine clearance support, base support, use of jobly elort and perhaps even air support.

And that indeed happens.

If that indeed happens, it would be a historic turning point, the first Gulf state entering the war as an open fighting party against Iran, not merely as a quiet partner.

And at the same time came an unusual American warning to its citizens across the Middle East against the backdrop of intelligence that Iran is planning an attack on Saudi Arabia.

And here once again we see the same pattern that has followed the past several days.

Iran feels the pressure intensifying and so it tries to widen the circle and threaten those pressing alongside Israel and the United States.

The more realistic the possibility becomes of a regional coalition against Iran’s chokeold in the Gulf, the more tan signals that it is prepared to escalate against the Arab states themselves.

And in the midst of all of this, the revolutionary guards moved to a new category of threats.

This time they did not speak only about the military bases or uninformed forces and uniforms.

They threatened that starting tomorrow they would destroy American companies, declaring that facilities belonging to major US technological companies in the Middle East would become legitimate targets.

The list includes names like Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta and IBM.

Here it is important to understand that a lot lies behind the threats.

Iran identifies technology, communications and artificial intelligence companies as part of the planning, tracking and intelligence ecosystem.

So it is trying to threaten not only the American military but also the civilian technological American ecosystem operating in the region.

This is a sign of weakness, but it is a dangerous kind of weakness.

A regime hit hard will often shift towards softer targets, less military, more civilian.

Now we need to look inward into Thran itself because if the outside looks chaotic, the inside now looks like a transition to a different type of rule.

The information gathered today points to Iran effectively moving into a military dictatorship.

Masud Pakistan, the Iranian president reportedly tried again and again to reach the supreme leader Muchame and was blocked.

The revolutionary guards stopped his move, pushed the government to the sidelines and turned themselves into the main authority in decision making and according to the assessments, the appointment of Much does not reflect a return to stable religious rule.

On the contrary, it reflects a religious shell placed over a military security regime effectively run by the revolutionary guards.

This internal rupture is crucial for understanding any future negotiation.

If in the past the Iranian structure rested on a balance between religious legitimacy, state institutions and military force, now the power has moved almost entirely into the military mechanism.

The religious establishment remains mostly as a stamp, not as an independent decision-making center.

Muchapa appeals more like a symbolic figure than a leader holding full control.

And when the revolutionary guards prevent the president from having direct access to the center of power, the meaning is one.

If negotiations happen, they will not be conducted with a normal civilian government.

They will be conducted with a nervous, suspicious, more extreme and much narrower military structure.

That also explains the contradictory scenes that seen overnight in the streets of Tehran.

On one hand, the Iranian president and former minister Abbas Arashi were documented walking openly in the streets during Republic Day events.

Arashi even said that he came to draw energy from the streets and stressed that there are no negotiations, only exchanges of messages.

On the other hand, the very fact that they are going out in public now suggests that the regime feels the need to display presence, display stability and show that the internal front has not collapsed.

It is a show of strength but also a sign of fear.

When a ruling system is confident, it does not need to stage images of resilience.

When it is under pressure, it sends the president and the foreign minister out into the streets.

Inside Iran, the fear runs even deeper.

Not only fear of another Israeli strike, but fear of the Iranian street itself.

That is why today it was also reported that Iran fears an uprising and is bringing in militias from Iraq to suppress the population.

According to that information, the revolutionary guards requested that pro-Iranian Shi militias which are already acting against American targets sent thousands of their members to join the besiege suppression network.

Some of them have reportedly already been seen in southwestern Iran near the Iraqi border.

The meaning is dramatic.

The regime is no longer relying only on its local repression.

It is beginning to import extreme Shiite manpower in order to hold the streets.

This is one of the clearest signs that the internal threat is now seen in Tehran as real.

If the revolutionary guards are allocating Iraqi militias to urban control, that means that they are not afraid only of the skies.

They are afraid of the day after or perhaps even the night after.

They understand that damage to the missile system, production centers, air defenses, and governing institutions can spill quickly into the squares, into the universities, into the markets, and the ordinary people asking who is actually in charge of Iran anymore.

Now, we move to Lebanon because day 33 was significant there as well.

The fighters of brigade 8 under division 91 continue crushing kisbala terrorists in close quarters combat and expanding the security zone.

The picture from the ground is one of hard fighting inside villages, systematic clearing of houses, the elimination of dozens of terrorists who tried to set ambushes and the destruction of deep terror infrastructure built over many years.

missile depots, observation posts, headquarters and tunnels.

All of it is being exposed and destroyed.

This is not just another limited buffer operation.

This is the construction of an area clean of Kizbala, one that will not allow future anti-tank fire, infiltration attempts, or the return of a direct threat over the northern border.

Within that same context, a particularly sensitive front was also exposed today.

Was taken over the Christian village of Kawazakah in southern Lebanon and turn it into a launch base for terrorist operations.

From that civilian space, rockets, anti-tank missiles, and additional terrorist infrastructures are being operating.

And according to the picture that has emerged, kizbala operatives are deliberately basing themselves in Christian villagers on the assumption that proximity to churches and minority communities will create immunity and reduce the likelihood of an attack.

That is why a severe warning was sent today.

The IDF will act forcefully to remove the threat even from such areas.

If operational necessary, it will happen.

This is an important detail because it once again shows how uses not only Shiite civilians as human shields, but also other minorities in Lebanon.

Inside the Lebanese Syrian Axis, an especially important target was also taken out.

The elimination of Makti Wafi, head of the engineering branch in the Lebanese core of the Kuds forces.

This was the tunnel man, an engineer who operated for about 20 years and advanced dozens of underground projects for his and for the Assad regime in Syria.

Y oversaw the construction of underground infrastructure for stowing advanced weapons and served as a key link in the chain connecting Thran, Damascus and Beirut.

his elimination.

It’s not only an existing project, but also the ability to reconstruct, engineer, and rebuild the underground Lebanon tunnel system that tried to establish beneath the surface.

That same threat leads us to Syria because today the hidden smuggling route along the Syria Lebanon border was exposed once again.

For Damascus, this is a growing problem.

The Syrians are also trying to get rid of hisbala, but the terrain is still full of corridors, crossing points, and old infrastructure built over many years.

That means that the campaign in Lebanon cannot really end without dealing with the Syrian depth as well.

The place where the weapons, training, and logistics are still moving.

And above all of this, the wider diplomatic front is also hanging in the air.

And today, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carne stepped into it with a statement that was received in Israel with outrage.

Carne condemned the IDF maneuver in Lebanon and called it an illegal invasion even while claiming that the Lebanese government itself is is not acting enough against.

So in doing so he created a deeper frustrating picture acknowledging the threat in theory while condemning the military action designed to remove it and that is why in Israel this line is being seen as giving whatever noi or not a political cover.

Let me say this again.

Canada and their prime minister is giving terrorist organization political cover in Lebanon and accuses the IDF, the only army that is trying to dismantle the threat of this terrorist organization of doing something illegally.

So when you connect all of this, the picture of day 33 becomes very clear.

Israel is increasing the pace and deepening the damage to Iran’s chains of production through their launch, engineering, and the research.

United States is holding Iran under a military diplomatic ultimatum while simultaneously preparing a possible escalation.

The United Arab Emirates is examining open entry into the fight over Homus.

The revolutionary guards are pushing Iran towards military dictatorship and impro and importing militias from other countries to suppress the internal unrest.

Basically importing terrorists to act as bodyguards against the people of Iran.

Hisbala is being pressured in the field, pushed deeper into the civilian arenas and losing not only engineers but infrastructure and freedom of action.

This war appeals closer than ever to a point of decision in its current phase, but also closer than ever to the opening of a dangerous new stage.

And the question now is whether the coming days will bring a deal or the American escalation that everyone is already preparing for.

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And the best thing that you can do, especially tonight as we are about to enter the Passover season, is to pray.

First of all, thank God for being faithful to all of us in whatever situation.

Thank God for performing biblical level miracles today.

Keep praying for wisdom to our leaders, for the IDF soldiers, for all the US and the Allied forces that are here in this region defending us.

Pray for wisdom.

Pray for the children of Deona that were hit.

Pray for all the children of Israel that need to run to bomb shelters.

And keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

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