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'The [Iranian] regime is very unlikely EVER going to give up on that objective'

Nuclear watchdogs have long been concerned about Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, and more recently, in 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency found uranium particles at Iran's Fordo facility enriched to 83.7 %, which is dangerously close to weapons-grade.

WorldNetDaily spoke to former CIA officer and Iran expert Clare Lopez. As of Feb. 8, noted Lopez, Iran has 274.8 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60%. That's a significant 92.5 kilogram increase in its stockpile since November 2023. If enriched to approximately 90% or more, that would provide enough highly enriched uranium to create six nuclear weapons, according to the IAEA.

Unfortunately, according to the Institute for Science and International Security, "The IAEA's ability to detect diversion of [Iran's] nuclear materials, equipment, and other capabilities to undeclared facilities remains greatly diminished."

All things considered, Lopez is gravely concerned. Thus she is thankful that President Donald Trump has "committed to reestablishing the maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian regime," to include enforcing sanctions and other economic measures. "By shutting down the Iranian oil export sector, it will cut off access to the international financial system," she explained.

Trump has not ruled out military involvement, according to a letter recently sent to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Lopez expects the president to be open to negotiation of a nuclear deal as he has stated, she believes allowing Iran to ultimately possess "a deliverable nuclear weapon" is not something Trump would condone.

Following the letter, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected nuclear talks with the United States, suggesting "such negotiations aren't aimed at solving issues."

But in a statement posted on X on March 9, Iran's U.N. mission said: "If the objective of negotiations is to address concerns vis-à-vis any potential militarization of Iran's nuclear program, such discussions may be subject to consideration."

"The problem," Lopez said, "is that the [Iranian] regime is very unlikely ever going to give up on that objective, especially while on the cusp of deliverable nuclear weapons as we speak." What's more, she warned, Iran likely already has "a handful of warheads."

Last month, she wrote, "At a January 31 press briefing, Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)'s Washington, D.C., office, Alireza Jafarzadeh, provided alarming new information about the Iranian regime's race to fit nuclear warheads to its arsenal of solid-fuel Ghaem-100 ballistic missiles." The hold-up, she told WND, is that "attaching a warhead to the nose cone of a missile is not an easy thing. It's not like screwing a lid on a jar."

On Oct. 1, 2024, Iran launched approximately 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, most of which were intercepted and shot down by Israeli air defenses with the help of U.S. forces. Lopez warned, "These ballistic missiles were nuclear capable, but they were not armed with nuclear warheads at the time." Thus she is extremely concerned over the potential devastation that could occur should Iran be able to build missiles tipped with nuclear warheads.

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'We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved'

The popular social media site X, run by billionaire Elon Musk, is the victim of a "massive cyberattack" Monday.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Elon Musk said in a post at 1:25 p.m. Eastern.

"We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …"

Worldwide users of the site formerly known as Twitter, on Monday have been experiencing intermittent outages.

Monday afternoon, Musk told Larry Kudlow on Fox Business: "We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area."

Reports confirmed posts were not loading for users in the United States, United Kingdom, France and India over various time frames.

A report from Newsweek said the hacking group called "Dark Storm Team" reportedly was claiming responsibility for the DD0S attack.

Dark Storm is known, according to the report, "for its sophisticated cyber warfare attacks and successful hacks of high-security systems."

The report explained, "According to Orange Cyberdefense, the group was formed in 2023 and has a pro-Palestinian focus."

It recently had promised cyberattacks on various sites involving NATO countries, Israel and nations that support Israel.

Cloudflare said the obvious signs of a DDoS attack, which involves simultaneously directly millions of queries to one website, are "when a website or service suddenly becomes slow or unavailable."

The Independent described the outage as "major and global."

The report said, "More than 40,000 users in the U.S. reported having issues at the peak, according to the monitoring website Down Detector. Elon Musk, who bought X in 2022, didn't mention the outage on his own account. He posted earlier on Monday that X is 'the top source for news on Earth.'"

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Hamas advocates and other terror-supporting students on American campuses, if they are foreign, are in trouble now.

Officials in Washington have announced that the first visa has been revoked for an "alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions."

The target was identified as a "university student."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the agenda, "The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists."

The administration of President Donald Trump has identified a crackdown on foreign malign influences, and terror support, as two of the nation's problems on which it is working

A report at the Gateway Pundit said, "This marks the first such case since President Trump's order to expel foreign Hamas supporters studying in the U.S. on student visas."

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Social media is delivering a verdict of "treason," not just from one commenter, but many, after the revelation by Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, that the Joe Biden administration allowed some 4,000 people from Asia to use an ISIS-linked network to illegally enter the U.S.

Of that crowd, about 100 were arrested, but only eight eventually were deported or jailed, she confirmed.

On a visit to the nation's southern border, which was left wide open during the Biden regime but now is closed down under the Trump administration, she confirmed that the 4,000 from central Asia came to the U.S. during Biden's tenure using an "ISIS-affiliated network."

That would include "hundreds of known terrorists and [people] associated with known terrorists," she said.

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Representative tried to publicly bully President Trump during address to Congress

For one member of the Democrat party in the U.S. House, which already has been condemned as "pathetic" and "petty" for members' outrageous actions during President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress this week, it's getting worse.

With a 224-198 vote on Thursday, the House censured Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for his outlandish stunt in which he stood up while Trump was speaking and badgered him.

The Washington Examiner said 10 Democrats joined Republicans in approving the resolution that came from Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.

The report listed the 10 as Reps. Ami Bera, D-Colo., Ed Case, D-Hawaii, Jim Costa, D-Calif., Laura Gillen, D-Calif., Jim Himes, D-Conn., Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.

Progressives in the Democrat minority "joined Green when his censure resolution was being read, singing 'We Shall Overcome,' while lawmakers could be seen in heated conversations with one another on the House floor," the report said.

Green had promised he would stage his stunt all over again.

Green also has promised to create articles of impeachment against Trump, a move which would be destined for failure.

Democrats, in fact, when they were the House majority during Trump's first term, fabricated impeachment claims against him twice, including one after he had left office, voting for them each time only to see their agenda collapse in the Senate.

While Green staged the most flagrant stunt protesting Trump's speech, other Democrats held signs like "Resist" and such.

The party as a whole has been ridiculed widely for members' refusal to applaud various Americans who were highlighted in Trump's speech, including a teen accepted into West Point, and a young girl murdered by illegal aliens, for whom Trump renamed a wildlife refuge, and such.

A censure is a public reprimand from the full House.

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An announcement from the Department of Justice has confirmed that it is dropping a Joe Biden-era lawsuit that tried to force abortion on physicians and nurses in Idaho.

Biden claimed the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act overrides state life protections and demanded that pro-life states such as Idaho allow abortions if they were required to "stabilize a woman in a medical condition."

The Idaho law already permitted an abortion "on the subjective, good-faith medical judgment of a doctor who believes the life of the mother is threatened," the report explained.

Idaho's attorney general, Raúl Labrador, has argued in a court hearing the Biden lawsuit that the two laws had no conflict, and eventually a Boise hospital network sued as the administration of President Donald Trump was taking over, expecting the case would be dropped.

Claims had included that women had to be airlifted out of the state for abortion.

Kelsey Pritchard, of SBA Pro-Life America, told the Daily Signal, "The PR stunts that the abortion lobby and abortion advocates pull, with things like that and furthering the misinformation on women's ability to get care; that is what is, actually needing women to be confused and doctors to be confused, because the laws are pretty straightforward."

At the same time, B. Lynn Winmill, who was given the job as a judge by Bill Clinton, issued a temporary restraining order that blocks Idaho's Defense of Life Act form being enforced, pending a hearing.

"Of course, this is from an activist Clinton-appointed judge, but at the end of the day, Democrat abortion extremism cost the Democrats the election, and Biden's weaponization of the federal government is over, and the will of the people on this is very clear," Pritchard told the publication.

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After President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, establishment media tried to push back on a specific claim about experiments on "transgender" mice funded by American taxpayers.

In response, the White House hit back at the president's detractors.

"The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check [the president's statement], but President Trump was right (as usual)," noted White House staff in a press release.

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem led federal raids by ICE agents in northern Virginia Tuesday morning, despite the fact the operation had been leaked by Vanity Fair congressional reporter Pablo Manriquez who gave advice on eluding capture.

"We will not be deterred by leaks. If you come to this country and break our laws, we will hunt you down," Noem said on X.

"Successful enforcement operation this morning – getting MS-13 members, 18th Street gang members and perpetrators of sexual crimes off our streets."

She later noted the raids were successful: "Northern Virginia is safer this morning after a successful operation getting criminal aliens and gang members off our streets. Thank you to our brave enforcement officers."

In the wake of the operation, Noem was mocked by Aaron Fritschner, the deputy chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who represents the Arlington neighborhood where one raid occurred.

"Secretary Noem wore a flak jacket to give herself added protection from the ongoing free weapons fire in the dangerous war zone of Arlington, Virginia," Fritschner said, adding, "Known dog-killer appears on the loose in Northern Virginia, keep your pets safe folks."

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President Donald Trump is thrashing Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for "supposedly" saying a deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia "is still very, very far away."

"I wanna see it end fast. I don't want to see this go on for years and years," Trump said at a White House news conference Monday.

"Now, President Zelensky supposedly made a statement today in AP – I'm not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was an incorrect statement – but he thinks the war's gonna go on for a long time. And he better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying."

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IRS officials have decided to conceal the home addresses of some 700,000 people suspected of being in the United States illegally, according to a report from the Washington Post.

The decision came on a request from immigration enforcement officials for those locations, and it was the IRS "rebuffing" attempts by the administration of President Donald Trump to gain access to that information for his crackdown on illegals.

The report noted that the Internal Revenue Service had promised "undocumented immigrants" over the years that it would protect their information and it would be safe for them to file income tax documents "without fear of being deported."

And the IRS said the law doesn't allow the release of personal information, even to another government agency.

AT the time, the IRS claimed, "There is no authorization under this provision to share tax data with ICE."

The report said an estimated one-half of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country file income tax returns, filing with individual taxpayer numbers, or ITINs, as they are ineligible for Social Security numbers.

The report credited this population with paying billions of dollars in federal taxes.

The report said the Washington Post got access to a memo in which Department of Homeland Security officials asked the IRS to link the names with a last known address, phone number or email, and the request was a followup to a DHS request weeks ago that would let immigration officials turn over a list of names to the IRS in order to get home addresses.

The publication said five anonymous people familiar with the scenario made those claims.