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					<description><![CDATA[While ruled by the Shah of Iran, life in Iran was good. After the &#8220;Islamic Revolution&#8221; in 1979, that all changed. Sharia-observant leaders stripped women of all rights, including what to wear, weren&#8217;t allow to drive, were denied education, and in too many cases, being forced to marry crusty old men while at the ripe [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While ruled by the Shah of Iran, life in Iran was good.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranian-women.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-28142 alignnone" title="Iranian women before 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranian-women.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="150" /> </a><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranians-at-the-beach-befor.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28144" title="Iranians on the beach before 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranians-at-the-beach-befor.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="150" /> </a><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-before-1979.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28145" title="Iran before 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-before-1979.jpg" alt="" width="128" height="150" /> </a><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Life-in-Iran-before-1979.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28146" title="Life in Iran before 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Life-in-Iran-before-1979.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><br />
After the &#8220;Islamic Revolution&#8221; in 1979, that all changed.</p>
<p>Sharia-observant leaders stripped women of all rights, including what to wear, weren&#8217;t allow to drive, were denied education, and in too many cases, being forced to marry crusty old men while at the ripe old age of six, and could be stoned to death for a variety of &#8220;misdeeds&#8221;.</p>
<p>The barbarism that became Iran was accepted, condoned or conveniently ignored.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-after-1979.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28148" title="Women in Iran after 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-after-1979.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="150" /> </a><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Women-in-Iran-after-1979.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28149" title="Iran after 1979" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Women-in-Iran-after-1979.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="150" /> </a><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Stoning-women-in-Iran.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28150" title="A woman prior to being stoned to death in Iran" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Stoning-women-in-Iran.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mohammad-Javad-Larijani.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28152" title="Mohammad Javad Larijani" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mohammad-Javad-Larijani.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a></strong>“When we say our women should enter the community, we should have provided them with a very safe work and social environment. <strong>Stoning is a very important restraining law to protect the marriage contract of families.”</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202301144423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secretary of High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani, 1/14/23</a></p>
<p>According to that piece, their <em><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;judiciary placed a moratorium on stoning in 2002 and it was replaced by the death penalty more than a decade ago.&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p>Remember that when you hear ignorant young people, mummified activists like Jane Fonda and deranged blabbermouths like Tucker Carlson express horror about the freeing of a nation and demand things go back as they were because life in Iran was just peachy!</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><span style="color: #333399;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Jane-Fonda.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28156" title="Jane Fonda, Los Angeles, 2/28/26" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Jane-Fonda.jpg" alt="" width="84" height="150" /></a></span><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/democrats-erupt-over-trumps-iran-strikes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats Erupt Over Trump’s Iran Strikes</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15601711/ilhan-omar-mistake-persian-wars-ramadan-iran.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Ilhan Omar spreads false claim about America attacking Muslims during Ramadan</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tucker-carlson-denounces-trump-iran-152159775.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson Denounces Trump’s Iran Attack as ‘Absolutely Disgusting and Evil’</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/28/anti-trump-nonprofits-began-mobilizing-anti-war-protesters-10-minutes-before-trump-announced-strikes-n3812387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nonprofits Began Mobilizing Anti-War Protests 10 Minutes Before Trump Announced Strikes</a></strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;Right now we are witnessing the horror of an unnecessary, unprovoked war of choice, waged by the Trump administration. This dangerous and insane war against Iran not only violates international law and our constitution and War Powers Act, but risks exploding into a vast war of mass proportion, taking the lives of many, including U.S. service people.&#8221;</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-03-01/jane-fonda-tucker-carlson-agree-on-this-trumps-iran-war-is-bad-betrayal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jane Fonda, Los Angeles, 2/28/26</a></p>
<p>Leave aside the fact that <span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">Democrats didn&#8217;t say shit when then-President </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Barack Obama</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3"> conducted military operations in Libya, drone and airstrikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia al-Qaeda and affiliated groups, and airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria without congressional approval; Democrats didn&#8217;t say shit when then-President </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Joe Biden</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3"> ordered airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, and airstrikes in Iraq and Syria without congressional authorization. </span>Many soldiers were killed and injured on their watches and they stopped keeping count.</p>
<p>During this latest turn of events, even our media had to reluctantly report that unarmed &#8220;peaceful protesters&#8221; were being mowed down by the regime.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-vigil.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28202" title="Candles are placed next to printed portraits of some of the civilians killed in protests in Iran on Jan. 24, in Inner Alster, Hamburg.Gregor Fischer—AP" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iran-vigil.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/more-than-7000-dead-in-irans-crackdown-on-protests-activists-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>More than 7,000 dead in Iran&#8217;s crackdown on protests, activists say</strong></a><br />
<strong><a href="https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000, According to Local Health Officials</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Over 36,500 killed in Iran&#8217;s deadliest massacre, documents reveal</a></strong></p>
<p><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">Now </span><span class="r-18u37iz">RINOs</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">, </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Democrats and the new Supreme Leader</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3"> are complaining about </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Donald Trump</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">&#8216;s strikes to end </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Iran</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">&#8216;s attacks on the </span><span class="r-18u37iz">United States</span><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3"> and the world.</span></p>
<p>Because they know what&#8217;s best for the Iranian people.</p>
<p class="sc-1qsi45b-0 sc-qvufca-2 gbPKFW jUIKSm" style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-reaction-trump-iran-strikes-b2929503.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>MAGA rebels Massie and MTG echo sentiments by prominent Democrats including House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer</strong></a></p>
<p>Those &#8220;Republicans&#8221; are calling the Trump strikes &#8220;America Last&#8221; but if you were to go back and count, &#8220;Death to America&#8221; appears to have been winning. It&#8217;s the kind of thinking that allowed Iran&#8217;s proxies to <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/19/iranian-and-iranian-backed-attacks-against-americans-1979-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actually target and kill Americans</a> for decades.</p>
<p>A lot of Americans&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Beirut-bombing.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28166" title="U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut 1983" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Beirut-bombing.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="135" /></a> <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Marine-barrack-Beirut.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28165" title="U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut 1983" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Marine-barrack-Beirut.jpg" alt="" width="195" height="135" /></a> <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/marine-barracks-1983-attack.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-28167" title="U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut 1983" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/marine-barracks-1983-attack.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>William Cohen, lawyer, author, and politician; Les Aspin, politician and economist,, William Perry, academic and businessman, none of whom had any military experience, were the Secretaries of Defense during President Bill Clinton&#8217;s terms. Donald Rumsfeld, who had no military experience, was the Secretary of Defense during President George W. Bush&#8217;s terms.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>1983:</strong> Beirut barracks bombing: Hezbollah operatives killed 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service members in a truck bombing of a Marine compound.</span></p>
<p>I think it could be argued had Donald Trump been president at this time, the Beirut bombing alone would be all it took for him to finish off the Iranian regime and all that follows may never have occurred.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>1983, 1984:</strong> U.S. Embassy bombings in Beirut and Kuwait: Iran-backed militants attacked diplomatic facilities, killing Americans.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Khobar-towers.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28179" title="Khobar Towers complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Khobar-towers.jpg" alt="" width="151" height="100" /></a>June 1996: </strong>A truck carrying 5,000 pounds of explosives blows up the Khobar Towers, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in the Saudi Arabian town of Khobar. Nineteen Americans die and some 500 people are injured. The Iran-backed Hezbollah Al Hijaz, a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, is deemed responsible.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>August 1998:</strong> With the assistance of Hezbollah, al Qaeda suicide bombers almost simultaneously blow up the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounding thousands. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, al Qaeda developed “the tactical expertise for such attacks months earlier, when some of its operatives — top military committee members and several operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them — were sent to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-23811 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11-150x112.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="112" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11-150x112.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11-768x573.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11-80x60.jpg 80w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NYC-9-11.jpg 780w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>September 11, 2001:</strong> While the </span><a href="https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf">9/11 Commission Report</a><span style="color: #333399;"> concludes that Iran had no foreknowledge of al Qaeda’s attacks on the World Trade Center, the report indicates that Tehran facilitated the travel of some of the terrorists. <em>“In sum,”</em> the report notes, <em>“there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers.”</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>2003-2011:</strong> Iranian-backed militias kill at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Iranian training and material support for Iraqi militias during the surge greatly increased the difficulty of U.S. forces to combat the insurgency and included some of the deadliest weapons used against American troops, including explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).</span></p>
<p>Ash Carter, an academic with no military experience, was the Secretary of Defense and was followed by former Air Force officer/CIA analyst and university president Robert Gates during President Barack Obama&#8217;s terms.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>2003–2011</strong> <strong>Iraq War</strong>: Iranian-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops, using advanced weapons like explosively formed penetrators (EFPs).</span></p>
<p>There were no direct Iranian attacks against Americans during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ain-al-Asad-Airbase.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28170" title="Ain al-Asad Air Base, Anbar, Iraq" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ain-al-Asad-Airbase.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="100" /></a>January 2020</strong>: Iran directed a ballistic missile strike on Ain al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, causing traumatic brain injuries in over 100 U.S. troops.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>October 7, 2023:</strong> Hamas kills at least 48 Americans and kidnaps at least 12 Americans in a massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>October 2023–2024</strong>: Over 216 attacks by Iran-backed militias targeted U.S. bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, involving drones, rockets, and missiles.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>January 28, 2024</strong>: A drone attack on Tower 22 in Jordan killed 3 U.S. soldiers and injured 47.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>June 23, 2025</strong>: Iran launched 14 ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites; one communications dome was hit, but no casualties were reported.</span></p>
<p>For time, I left out smaller attacks but it didn&#8217;t take long for Iran&#8217;s remaining leaders to take advantage of the cover and defense from American leftists&#8230;.</p>
<p class="entry-title" style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ayatollah-arafi.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28175" title="Ayatollah Alireza Arafi" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ayatollah-arafi.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="100" /></a><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/iranian-ayatollah-arafi-is-appointed-supreme-leader-after/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Iranian Ayatollah Arafi Is Appointed Supreme Leader After Khamenei’s Death – Led Chants of “Death to America!” During His Sermon</strong></a></p>
<p>Like the Mossad doesn&#8217;t already know where Arafi rests his head at night.</p>
<p>There was little outrage by Democrats when prior to leaving office, President Obama authorized the unfreezing of Iranian assets and gave them pallets of cash, even while knowing that money would pay for future terrorism operations all around the world.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Obama-cash-to-Iran.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28154" title="&quot;Officials acknowledged the payment was linked to the prisoner release.&quot;" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Obama-cash-to-Iran.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="100" /></a>The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash <em>(consisting of Swiss francs, euros, and other foreign currencies)</em> to Iran. The money was owed as part of a failed arms deal prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but payment coincided with the release of four Americans held in Tehran.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigating-obama-administrations-400-million-payment-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PBS, 8/4/16</a></p>
<p>We were always assured by Democrat presidents that the United States didn&#8217;t negotiate with terrorists for the release of hostages and then went right ahead and did so. Definition of insanity, anyone?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/American-hostages.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28153" title="The taking of American hostages at the US Embassy, 11/4/74, " src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/American-hostages.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="100" /></a>The Iranian people were subjugated by a regime that was never democratically elected and seized power at the onset of what was called the &#8220;Iranian hostage crisis&#8221; in 1979 where the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over and Americans were held hostage for over 400 days.</p>
<p>Many Iranians fled to countries like the United States to escape the strict imposition of Sharia tyranny. It&#8217;s past ironic that so many of those today who&#8217;ve taken to American city streets to protest <strong><a href="https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4418396/us-forces-launch-operation-epic-fury/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Operation Epic Fury</a></strong>, a military action taken by President Trump because the regime continued trying to produce weapons-grade nuclear materials and again denied access to their facilities to United Nations observers. The <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-meaningful-life/202409/the-paradox-of-trump-derangement-syndrome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TDS</a>-afflicted were quick to condemn an operation they deemed unnecessary because they&#8217;ve never had to survive under those barbaric conditions for over a generation.</p>
<p>But they know what&#8217;s best for the Iranian people.</p>
<p>Not even a full twenty-four hours after the joint military action by the Israel and the United States had happened, the usual Trump-haters in the media just had to piss on the long overdue elimination of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his generals&#8230;.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">&#8230;</span><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/03/01/washpost-touts-khamenei-man-easy-smile-and-love-poetry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post Touts Khamenei as Man With an ‘Easy Smile’ and Love of &#8216;Poetry&#8217;</a></strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s really got leftist heads exploding are Iranians on the ground waving Israeli and American flags, praising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and actually likening President Donald Trump to&#8230; wait for it&#8230;.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">“Every Iranian is celebrating the powerful actions of #DonaldTrump. He’s like Jesus for us. He’s a savior of the Iranian people. We will always be grateful to him.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://x.com/BobParksBnR/status/2027952263352774762" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@ariel_oseran, 2/28/26</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7tGwC6_eA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;I have been singing, screaming, celebrating with my people,&#8221; Iranian-American journalist says.</a></strong></p>
<p>Despite Iranian journalists who work for American news companies celebrating the long-awaited liberation, we&#8217;re now being told to be cautious as pundits and so-called experts who&#8217;ve written white papers, taxpayer-funded jet-setting State Department envoys and staff who achieved nothing outside over the decades, are now pissing on a day millions of Iranians in-country and around the world are #MostlyJoyful for a day they&#8217;ve prayed for.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2026/03/01/unlikely-unlikely-unlikely-ms-nows-barry-mccaffrey-predicts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Unlikely, Unlikely, Unlikely&#8217;: MS NOW’s Barry McCaffrey Predicts Failure In Iran</a></strong></p>
<p>Kamala Harris is <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5760764-kamala-harris-opposes-iran-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not happy</a> with <em>&#8220;dragging the United States into a war the American people don’t want&#8221;</em> even though she was too busy to ask us and once <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sherrishowtv/video/7368967563834854698" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dribbled out</a>, <em>&#8220;I think it important to find those moments of joy and not feel guilty about that&#8230;.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-khameni-celebrations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iranians Take to the Streets to Celebrate Khamenei’s Death</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranians-celebrate-worldwide-supreme-leader-khamenei-killed-israeli-strikes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iranians celebrate worldwide after supreme leader is killed in Israeli strikes</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1292752712672721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iranians tear down a statue of the Ayatollah Khamenei in Galleh Dar, Iran</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranians-celebrating-in-Los.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28158" title="Iranians celebrating in Los Angeles" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Iranians-celebrating-in-Los.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a>Those oh-so inconvenient optics of leftist protesters in many American cities, but with the exception of bought-and-paid-for exhibitionists in New York City, there were much bigger and happier celebrations all across the United States and the world the media was forced to cover it.</p>
<p>Sure, the next for weeks and months will be important as those remaining in the regime choose to either succumb and work for elections and a new Iranian government or lash out in a desperate attempt for self-preservation.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/irans-guards-say-they-struck-us-aircraft-carrier-uss-abraham-lincoln/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iran’s Guards say they ‘struck’ US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/world-news/us-israel-attack-iran-live-updates-after-airstrikes-launched/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US says they all missed: ‘LIE’</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/world-news/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-irans-ex-president-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s ex-president who said ‘Israel must be wiped off the map,’ killed in Israeli airstrikes</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4368864/posts">Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei is dead in air strike</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2028162701474791475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Iranian Regime is actively targeting civilians and has attacked more than a dozen locations</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/protesters-storm-us-consulate-pakistan-least-9-dead?intcmp=xpal_foxnews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Protesters storm US Consulate in Pakistan, at least 9 dead</a></strong></p>
<p>And the next few weeks and months will be interesting, abroad and locally.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/03/thanks-to-democrats-potential-iranian-terrorists-are-already-on-american-soil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thanks To Democrats, Potential Iranian Terrorists Are Already On American Soil</a></strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s again Democrat politicians and the pundit class being the predictable Debbie downers because Donald Trump did something they didn&#8217;t believe possible as they were unaffected, fat, happy, comfortable and could be bothered even fucking trying.</p>
<p>They know what&#8217;s best for the Iranian people and American lives really don&#8217;t mean shit.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Parking on Capitol Hill, when you don&#8217;t have the appropriate stickers on your car, can be challenging. But if you&#8217;re a sitting member of the House of Representatives, your options increase when you don&#8217;t have to observe laws or any sense of courtesy. Rep. Thomas Massie posted a 2015 video of Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Parking on Capitol Hill, when you don&#8217;t have the appropriate stickers on your car, can be challenging. But if you&#8217;re a sitting member of the House of Representatives, your options increase when you don&#8217;t have to observe laws or any sense of courtesy.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Rep. Thomas Massie posted a 2015 video of Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton parking poorly near the Capitol in an escalating Twitter feud between the two lawmakers. The Kentucky Republican recently wrote on Twitter that his office &#8220;will not comply&#8221; with Washington, D.C.&#8217;s vaccine mandate to enter some public spaces, such as restaurants and entertainment venues. Norton, who represents the district as a delegate in the House, as the city is not a state, responded she would provide sandwiches for Massie&#8217;s staff who are vaccinated but &#8220;afraid they&#8217;ll get fired if they order in.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">&#8220;If that description fits you and you&#8217;re hungry, [direct message] me and my staff will be in touch,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;DC has your back.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Massie taunted Norton in response, tweeting the resurrected video and asking her not to drive to get the sandwiches.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://gazette.com/news/thomas-massie-resurrects-eleanor-holmes-norton-parking-video-in-escalating-social-media-feud/article_f885b809-20b9-54e5-a595-2a7cbf4e64c1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gazette, 1/18/22</a></p>
<p>Good call&#8230;.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Speaking exclusively to FOX 5&#8217;s Tom Fitzgerald on Thursday, Norton said she was late for a TV interview, in an area where she doesn&#8217;t normally park, and wasn&#8217;t expecting construction or the six-point turn she would need to execute in order to park. Norton&#8217;s staffers say the car next to her reported no damage. Capitol Police say no report was ever made.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/exclusive-eleanor-holmes-norton-explains-botched-parking-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 5, 3/26/15</a></p>
<p>Must be nice.</p>
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