My thoughts on the U.S.-Iran MoU… at 3am because I’m in Canada and very jetlagged! Safe to say the winner is Iran, fight about it in the comments 💁🏽♀️
1/10 The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cost Iran approximately $276M/day in lost exports and disrupt $159M/day in imports, a combined economic damage of ~$435M/day, or $13B/month.
Over 90% of Iran's $109.7B in annual trade transits the Persian Gulf. Oil/gas accounts for 80% of government export earnings and 23.7% of GDP. Kharg Island alone generates ~$53B/year, or as I noted to @TIME, "$78 billion a year in energy revenue.
🚨“WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Office Members, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is SAFE and SOUND!” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
Fox News can confirm that the 2nd crew member of the downed F15E fighter jet has been rescued and he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran. That according to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources in the region. The Weapons Systems Officer ejected along with the pilot when their F15E Strike Eagle they were flying was struck Thursday night (early Friday local time) in southwest Iran.
The WSO used the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon.) US Special Operations rescue forces to include PJs (United States Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs) and many layers of elite rescue forces took part in the complex, layered mission to both find the crew member and also keep the Iranian forces who were hunting the American weapons system operator at bay. There are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appear to have been injured and dead Iranian members of the IRGC and Basij who were looking for the downed American crew member. Fox has learned there was fighting on the ground but no Americans killed during the operation. “It was a very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member,” a well placed source briefed on the operation told me. Many different branches of the US military were involved in the rescue.
Fox News can confirm the A10 Warthog that crashed Friday was involved in providing cover for the rescue teams searching for the pilot. That A10 crashed in Kuwait (first reported by ABC Friday) but the A10 pilot managed to eject safely and was rescued. There was destruction of aircraft which have sensitive equipment on board, I am told, all part of this complex CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) mission.
The F15E was pretty much destroyed on impact. Two rescue helicopters were hit by enemy fire on Friday and crew members onboard were injured by enemy fire but managed to make it out of Iran.
There were a lot of elements to this rescue, I am told.
FOX: We can confirm that the second crew member of the downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued, and that he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran
Mr. @SecMullinDHS, as you step into your new position I ask you to provide particular consideration to the status of Iranian students and professionals in the United States who may be at risk of immigration complications due to Presidential Proclamations 10949 and 10998. Many of these individuals fled the Islamic Republic’s because they believe in freedom, democracy, and the values this country stands for. They are also contributing to the United States every day.
They arrived in this country legally, followed the rules, respect this country and its system of law and order and are among the most dedicated and accomplished contributors to American society. I ask that you and your department consider these factors, plus the personal and political risk many of these young people would face if sent back to the criminal regime in Iran.
America’s concerns for its national security and the threat posed by the Islamic regime to the homeland are entirely justified. To that end, my office stands ready to provide you and your colleagues with regime operatives, propaganda agents, and influence networks for investigation and removal from the United States.
Thank you for your consideration.
@AlirezaNader@PahlaviReza Alireza it's disgusting that you are referring to Azadeh Movanei as a reliable source and quote her writing. This is a reminder from your post:
https://t.co/KRkg6QjyrR
Azadeh Moaveni, the former “gender expert” at @CrisisGroup: “There is no vibrant human rights movement inside Iran.” Interestingly, Moaveni travelled to #Iran this year to get married. Traveling back to Iran is a great risk for most #Iranian-Americans.
Iran is not the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s civilian infrastructure belongs to the Iranian people and to the future of a free Iran. The Islamic Republic’s infrastructure is the machinery of repression and terror used to keep that future from becoming reality.
Iran must be protected. The regime must be dismantled.
I ask President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to continue targeting the regime and its apparatus of repression, while sparing the civilian infrastructure Iranians will need to rebuild our country.
With the support of the US and Israel, and above all the sacrifice of Iranian patriots, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand.
Long live Iran!
He doesn’t support the war of liberation because he supports the murderous Islamic Regime. The regime that has destroyed and controlled Persian culture through force for 47 years.
Disgusting. How long until Iranians rise up and reclaim their country . . .
Iran regime hangs 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi for protesting regime | Fox News https://t.co/vXyAB7wJEI
'BARBARIC MOVE': The Iranian regime carried out the public execution of a 19-year-old wrestler despite U.S. pressure and global pleas against the move.
Reports say champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi was killed in a public hanging for protesting against the regime, as the Islamic Republic tries to snuff out the ongoing movement seeking to topple it.
"His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society, as seen with Navid Afkari and others executed despite international outcry."
https://t.co/yg0vt3W36e
We are all against the Islamic regime in Iran. But you don’t need to be anti-Iran in order to be anti-regime.
STOP DISRESPECTING IRAN’S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, YOU IDIOTS.
Middle East expert, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, explains how the fanatical Islamist regime can be overthrown without American or Israeli boots on the ground.
https://t.co/xGYZg4vPc6
The biggest non-kinetic action the US & Israel could take would be to help Iranians get around this total internet blackout. Would aid in internal coordination, getting critical information out, & undermining the control the regime has over its people.
Let's get it done.