Iran is perturbed that Israel targeted an allegedly mothballed base “previously linked to Iran’s nuclear program.” Satellite images confirm “damage to a number of military sites in Iran from Israeli air strikes.” That seems to indicate it was more active than the Ayatollah wants to admit.
Nuclear program targeted
A structure designated as Taleghan 2 was once linked to Iran’s nuclear ambitions by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Israel isn’t talking but the BBC saw some satellite images which verify which targets were hit.
That was one of them. The airstrike conducted Saturday, October 26, involved “sites experts say were used for missile production and air defense.”
The before and after photos clearly show craters where various buildings used to stand at “a major weapons development and production facility at Parchin.” That’s conveniently located about 18 miles from Tehran.
It’s been identified as part of Iran’s rocket production industry. Clues indicate the sort intended to carry nuclear warheads. Experts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies seem to think so.
Analysts with high powered magnifiers compared “high-resolution satellite imagery taken on 9 September with an image captured on 27 October.” Four structures on the site “have been significantly damaged.” Maybe more.
One of them is the infamous Taleghan 2. International nuclear inspectors were real suspicious of the place back when Barack Obama and John Kerry were flying pallets loaded with cash to Iran.
International nuclear inspectors were real suspicious of the place.
Evidence of Uranium
When the International Atomic Energy Agency popped in for a visit, they didn’t find any actual uranium. All traces of atomic research or weapons production had been carefully sanitized. Not carefully enough to fool the Geiger counter though.
“In 2016 the IAEA found evidence of uranium particles at the site, raising questions about banned nuclear activity there.” They couldn’t prove it but were convinced something shady was going on at the location.
Israel apparently thinks it was back in production. While they were in the neighborhood, IDF dropped a few bombs at Khojir, just a hair to the northwest of Parchin.
According to Fabian Hinz with the IISS, “Khojir is known as the area with the highest concentration of ballistic missile-related infrastructure within Iran.” They won’t be building any nuclear tipped ICBMs for a while.
Coincidentally, Khojir was also “the site of a mysterious large explosion in 2020.” The images confirm “at least two buildings in the complex appear to have been severely damaged.” Besides that, the Israelis hit “a military site at Shahroud.”
That one “has also sustained damage.” While not directly nuclear related, “this area is significant because it’s been involved in the production of long-range missile components.” Nobody wants the Ayatollah to have the ability to put any kind of warhead on a long-range missile.
Former President Donald John Trump is the winner of the 2024 presidential election, and will become the first person to win back the Oval Office after losing a reelection bid since Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892.
Trump — the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president — secured a path to a 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College with a victory in Pennsylvania, one of the “blue wall” states he won in 2016, and where he campaigned vigorously throughout the campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris turned in a strong showing among female voters. But she underperformed among urban voters and young voters that she needed to turn out to hold off the red tide outside the big blue cities.
Ballots were still being counted as of early Wednesday morning, and final results will not be known in several states for hours, days, or even weeks. The battle for control of Congress was still undecided: Republicans won control of the Senate, but control of the House still awaited results in close California congressional races.
But the presidential election was called far earlier than many observers and analysts had anticipated was possible (aside from Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow, who told Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot 125 on November 3 that he expected Trump could do so well that the final results could be in early on Tuesday evening).
Some projections even suggested that Trump could win the national popular vote with a strong showing in California.
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) will ascend to the vice presidency at the age of 40, the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history. His success may be a signal that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement will live on for decades.
In victory, Trump completed what is indisputably the greatest political comeback in American history. Cleveland, too, faced a closely and bitterly divided country in the wake of the U.S. Civil War. But Trump faced multiple prosecutions; two assassination attempts; censorship on social media; overt media bias; and even efforts to intimidate his lawyers.
Harris built her candidacy on the idea that she represented a “new generation” of leaders, as the first black, female, and Indian vice president. She relied heavily on the issue of abortion rights but offered few other policies to voters.
She was never meant to be the candidate; she took the nomination only after President Joe Biden was forced to quit the campaign after a disastrous debate performance in June that shook Democrats’ confidence in his mental stamina.
Harris never won one primary vote. She is now the second female candidate to fall short of the prize. But she put up as good a fight as Democrats could have hoped for in circumstances that would have been tough for any incumbent.
Trump overcame doubts about his rhetoric; his role in the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021; and concerns about his own age. He ran a focused, disciplined, and even innovative campaign in the closing weeks, reaching out to unusual constituencies, including black, Muslim, and Hispanic voters. Many lawsuits and much rancor still awaits; Democrats may try to block Trump by claiming he is an “insurrectionist” within the ban imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
But for now, after one of the most improbable campaigns in the long annals of American politics, the voters have selected the leader who will preside over the 250th birthday of the country.
Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris are seen on a screen at an election watch party at the U.S. Embassy on Nov. 6, 2024, in Beijing, China. | Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump is projected to win the U.S. presidential election, making him the first person to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president since Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.
Around 1:15 a.m. Eastern time, Fox News called Pennsylvania, a key swing state worth 19 Electoral College points, for Trump, pushing his total up to 267 while Harris remained at 214.
A little before 2 a.m., after calling Wisconsin for Trump, Fox News projected the Republican nominee as the winner of the election.
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"The greatest comeback in political history," tweeted popular Republican political activist and podcaster Brilyn Hollyhand. "He’s been impeached, beat, raided, indicted, arrested, and shot. This morning he won."
Cedric Richmond, co-chair of the Harris campaign, told those gathered at her watch party at Howard University that she would not address supporters on Tuesday evening.
This year has seen one of the more atypical presidential election cycles, with Trump running after being convicted of multiple felonies while Harris was installed as the Democratic Party's nominee after President Joe Biden quit the race.
People gather to watch the U.S. election results at a party hosted by Democrats Abroad Thailand at The Roadhouse Barbecue on Nov. 06, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. | Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
Trump secured the GOP nomination in March, having easily won several state-level primaries and besting early favorites, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The nomination was clenched even as Trump continued to face several legal battles pertaining to both his alleged attempts to override the results of the 2020 election and also allegations of sexual assault.
In May, before he officially accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges by a New York jury in the “hush money” case.
The felony counts were tied to falsifying business records stemming from an allegation that Trump paid porn star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) $130,000 back in 2016 to conceal an alleged extramarital affair from 2006 while he ran for president.
For his part, Trump has denied the allegations, claiming that the prosecution was politically motivated, and has appealed the ruling.
During the Democratic Party's primary season, Biden easily won enough delegates to secure his party's nomination. He was initially set for a rematch against Trump, whom he had defeated in 2020.
However, growing questions over the 81-year-old’s mental fitness, especially following a widely panned debate performance against Trump in June, prompted many to call for his resignation.
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On July 13, at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed on top of a building and opened fire and attempted to assassinate Trump. He hit the upper part of Trump's right ear while he was speaking and killed one rallygoer and severely injured two others. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper soon after.
Eight days after the attempted assassination, Biden posted a statement to his X account announcing that he was dropping out of the race and would instead “focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Biden endorsed Harris for the nomination, with many party officials and Democrat politicians backing the vice president, which led to her being installed as the new presidential hopeful.
The decision to replace Biden with Harris was not without controversy, as groups like Black Lives Matter argued that allowing her to get the nomination without a “public voting process” made the DNC “a party of hypocrites.”
In September, Trump survived a second assassination attempt when an armed 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh got as close as 300 yards from Trump when he was at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida.
A Secret Service agent spotted Routh, however, and opened fire. Routh fled the golf course but was eventually apprehended by authorities soon after the incident.
As Election Day drew near, numerous polls had either Trump and Harris holding a slim lead over their opponent nationwide, with many political experts disagreeing on a likely outcome.
Trump is the first person to serve two non-consecutive terms as president since Democrat President Grover Cleveland, who was first elected president in 1885, lost reelection to Republican Benjamin Harrison in 1888, but then won the rematch against Harrison in 1892.
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