Donald Trump, just lashed out against Iran while deliberately bypassing his own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
During her briefings, she repeatedly warned that demonizing Iran and Russia would backfire spectacularly. But Trump, high above the clouds aboard Air Force One, ignored her entirely. Instead, he growled to reporters:
“I’m not looking for a ceasefire… I want a real end. With Iran giving up entirely on nuclear weapons... I don't care what she (Gabbard) said."
But there’s a problem: Even U.S. intelligence confirms Iran isn’t building a bomb. And Trump knows it.
This isn’t strategy. It’s desperation wrapped in theatrics, the dying gasps of a hegemon whose outpost is imploding in real time.
And... Over to Iran, it didn't hit Israel back with some symbolic strike, it chose to rewrite warfare.
Over the past week, Iran has unleashed a masterclass in calibrated attrition and perception warfare.
➤ 10 and counting waves of missiles and drones — many launched with stealth precision, slipping past radar and shrouded in electronic silence.
➤ In Tel Aviv and central Israel, missiles struck shelters and infrastructure before sirens could even sound — a near two-minute delay in the alert system, enough to transform “safety zones” into impact sites.
➤ Entire defense grids were thrown into disarray by one of the most sophisticated GPS jamming and cyber disruption campaigns in modern conflict. Command posts were blinded. Communications severed.
➤ OSINT accounts collapsed, footage censored, and multiple independent channels silenced — many later revealed to be linked to Israeli intelligence cutouts.
But this wasn’t about kinetic destruction alone. This was psychological domination.
The streets of Tel Aviv didn’t just shake from explosions. They shook from uncertainty. Delayed reaction. Total confusion.
Tehran has demonstrated what its generals already knew: It never needed nuclear weapons. It needed to weaponize time, silence, and doubt.
Strategic Patience is Dead. And So is the Samson Option.
Iran has now officially declared that it will no longer tolerate pre-emptive strikes or slow genocide. Tehran’s new military doctrine is clear: The era of waiting is over. The new goal is total demilitarization. No more warnings.
No more tolerating red lines being crossed.
And as for the infamous Samson Option? That old nuclear bluff, once whispered to terrify the region, is now a hollow relic.
Why? Because the Samson Option was always psychological theater — a “final strike” meant to paralyze the Global South with fear. But it’s too toxic now, even for the death cult in Tel Aviv. The world has moved on.
Russia, China, and the Axis of Resistance have made clear: any such move will bring final consequences.
Tehran doesn’t fear the Samson Option. It’s already mentally defeated it.
The Empire Has Lost Initiative. Tehran Has Seized It.
While Trump poses for cameras, sidesteps Tulsi, and parrots outdated scripts, Iran is dismantling the architecture of fear itself.
From Mossad and Aman HQ to military bunkers near Glilot, to Haifa burning, Tehran’s precision strikes have exposed the soft underbelly of Israeli intelligence and "security".
Entire floors gutted. Fires burning at Aman command centers. Senior officials eliminated. Air defense operators resigning. Military suicides rising.
Meanwhile, in the streets of Haifa and Tel Aviv, dual-passport holders pack their bags. Governments from France, China, and Germany begin evacuation plans. Even the U.S. State Department whispers of “emergency contingencies.”
And yet the Western press pretends this isn’t happening. But it is. The world saw it. The Global Majority felt it.
Trump demanded an end. Iran is delivering it, just not the one he imagined.
Because Tehran has already won the psychological war. And now, it’s winning the strategic one, with patience abandoned, precision embraced, and fear turned on its source.
Writing by The Islander News
In today's report from the Russian Federation of the continuation of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had losses of 2,125 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade, and 36th Marine Brigade near Glubokoye, Lipsy, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, one MLRS launcher, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 44th, 67th, 115th mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 103rd, 110th territorial defence brigades, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Rozovka, Nadiya, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's...
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army aviation and artillery strikes conduct reconnaissance-search actions to locate and eliminate the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory to the south of Alekseyevskoye, Safonovka, and Sheptukhovka.
▫️Attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd, 61st, and 115th mechanised brigades, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade toward Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and more than 30 Ukrainian troops.
▫️Aviation and artillery strikes along with actions of defending troops inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware clusters near Borki, Fanaseyevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost, and to the south of Kurilovka.
▫️One U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher was destroyed by a missile strike near Bezdrik (Sumy ...
The banner of the unit was captured in battle by the Rifle Battalion of the 1st Guards Slavic Brigade.
Also, the Storm unit of the 1st Slavyanskaya captured the next object “Cheburashka”, and the 2nd battalion captured the next dacha area (in front of the Khimik microdistrict).
In addition, Russian fighters today cut the road from Lastochkino to Avdeevsky coke plant.
In this report AFU had loses of 1,350 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops hit three mechanised brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade have been hit near Andreyevka, Kondratovka, Mogritsa, and Marino (Sumy region).
In Kharkov direction, units of a mechanised brigade of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade have been hit near Udy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and an ammunition depot.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian elements damaged two mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade near Kupyansk, Olgovka, Sobolevka, Senkovo (Kharkov region), and Karpovka...
In this weekly report the AFU had loses of 9,130 soldiers.
Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range air-based high-precision weapons as well as using Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile systems and unmanned aerial vehicles against the infrastructure of a military airfield.
From 21 to 27 June, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out six group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack drones, which hit enterprises of the Ukrainian military industry, fuel and power infrastructure and port facilities that supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine, anti-aircraft radar stations, ammunition and fuel depots, an arsenal of torpedo and mining weapons, manufacturing shops, facilities for the storage and launch of attack unmanned aerial vehicles, military airfields, temporary deployment areas of the AFU, nationalists, and foreign mercenaries.
During the week, units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Aviation, unmanned ...
In this report AFU had loses of 1,415 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one air assault brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Novaya Sech, Solyaniki, Khrapovshchina, Varachino, Yunakovka, and Sadki (Sumy region).
In Kharkov direction, formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades were hit near Udy, Ivashki, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 185 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, nine motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns, to include one UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzer. One electronic warfare station, one ammunition depot, and two materiel depots were neutralised.
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line. The Russian ...
