US Intelligence Contradicts TrumpStein: Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, is not currently building one, and does not seek to build one

From [HERE] On May 5, 2026, President Trump told a group of young children in the Oval Office that “we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.”

Trump also told the children, “Iran with a nuclear weapon…maybe we wouldn’t all be here right now… I can tell you, the Middle East would have been gone. Israel would have been gone. And they would have trained their sights on Europe, first, and then us.”

According to the White House website, Trump warned Iran against having nuclear weapons on 74 occasions prior to the war.  Since the war began on February 28, 2026, Trump has discussed Iranian nuclear issues in at least 20 documented public appearances, based on the Senate Democrats’ Trump transcript archive and Roll Call’s Factbase transcript database.

Some of Trump’s more pointed claims:

About six weeks into the current war, on April 16, 2026, Trump said Iran “would have had a nuclear weapon within one month” if the U.S. had not used B-2 bombers to strike Iranian civilian nuclear energy facilities during the June 2025 war on Iran.

About one month after the war began, Trump said on March 27, 2026, “the Iranian lunatics refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons” after the June 2025 war.

And on February 24, 2026, just four days before starting the current war in Iran, Trump said that Iran was “warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, and in particular nuclear weapons, yet they continue. They’re starting it all over…”.

Trump’s statements go beyond saying ‘Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.’ He has repeatedly claimed that Iran was weeks away from having one, that U.S. strikes stopped Iran from obtaining one, and that Iran was trying to rebuild or continue a nuclear weapons program.

But Trump’s claims are not supported by the record. In fact, official statements from U.S. intelligence, the State Department, the IAEA, and others state that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, is not currently building one, and does not seek to build one.

US Intelligence, Government Agencies & Figures

The CIA claimed that Iran had a nuclear weapons program before 2003, but for more than two decades, they have assessed that Iran halted that program in 2003 and is not seeking a nuclear weapon.

The broader U.S. Intelligence Community has reached the same conclusions in official assessments:

• Joe Kent, who resigned as Trump’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center citing his opposition to the war in Iran, wrote on May 8, 2026: “One of the many tragedies of this war is that before the war began, the U.S. Intel Community, including CIA, was in agreement that Iran wasn’t developing a nuclear weapon & that Iran would target U.S. bases in the region & shut down the Strait of Hormuz if they were attacked by Israel & the U.S.”

• About three weeks after the war started, on March 18, 2026, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard stated, “As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer [in June 2025], Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There [have] been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.”

• On the same day, the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community was released. The report, reflecting the conclusions of the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, did not state that Iran has a nuclear weapon or an active nuclear weapons program. Instead, it said Iran was seeking to recover damaged nuclear infrastructure, had denied inspectors access to key facilities, and remained under U.S. Intelligence Community monitoring for WMD-related capabilities and actions.

• Also on March 18, 2026, one day after Joe Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, he was asked whether Iran was on the verge of creating a nuclear bomb. Kent replied: “No. They weren’t three weeks ago when this started, and they weren’t in June either.” Kent also said Iran had a fatwa, or legal decree, barring nuclear weapons and that “we had no intelligence to indicate that fatwa was being disobeyed.”

• About five weeks before the war started, the Department of Defense released the 2026 National Defense Strategy on January 23, 2026, stating that “Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER [in June 2025] … obliterated Iran’s nuclear program.”

• Four days after the 2025 war on Iran began, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on June 17, 2025: “Director Gabbard stated publicly in March [2025] that the Iranians were not actively pursuing a bomb… I’ve seen nothing in recent intelligence that contradicts what Director Gabbard said.”

• Two months before the 2025 war on Iran began, the U.S. State Department released its Arms Control Compliance Report in April 2025. The report said, “The United States continues to assess that Iran is not currently manufacturing a nuclear weapon, although it has undertaken activities that better position it to produce one, if it so chooses.”

• More than two months before the 2025 war began, Gabbard testified on March 26, 2025: “The [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini [Khamenei] has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”

• Also in March 2025, the Director of National Intelligence’s Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community stated that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.”

• On January 10, 2025, CIA director William Burns said, “We do not see any sign today that any such decision has been made,” to weaponize their nuclear program.

• On October 7, 2024, Burns said there was “no evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon,” and if it did, the U.S. and its allies would most likely be able to detect such a step soon after it was taken.

• The April 2024 U.S. State Department Arms Control Compliance Report said, “The United States continues to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons development activities that we assess would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device.”

• The 2013 CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence review repeats the National Intelligence Estimate’s (NIE) core judgment: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” 

• On September 27, 2013, President Obama said, “Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President Rouhani has indicated that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.  I have made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.” 

The United Nations’ Nuclear Watchdog

• About six weeks after the current war began, Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, said on April 6, 2026, “While there has been no evidence of Iran building a nuclear bomb, its large stockpile of near–weapons grade enriched uranium and refusal to grant my inspectors full access are cause for serious concern,” adding that “unless and until Iran assists the [IAEA] in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues, the Agency will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.”

• Roughly a week after the war started, Grossi said on March 4, 2026, that there was no evidence that Iran was currently building a nuclear bomb and that the IAEA had not found proof Iran was developing a nuclear weapon.

• On Oct. 29, 2025, when asked whether Iran was developing nuclear weapons, Grossi said: “No, they are not, and they were not. I want to be very clear on this.” He also said the IAEA’s June 2025 report, “said clearly that Iran did not have such a programme” and that “we do not see anything that would give rise to the hypothesis of any substantive work going on there.”

• On June 20, 2025, one week after the 2025 war on Iran began, Grossi said, “The IAEA can guarantee, through a watertight inspections system, that nuclear weapons will not be developed in Iran.”

Massa Media Spells Ritual Mass Hallucination on Memorial Day: ‘US Soldiers Die for Our Freedoms’ [not for White Supremacy or Corporate Policy; ‘Steal and Murder’ to Maintain Global Imbalance of Power]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Memorial Day – the U.S. “government” celebration of invasion and murder as there was no declaration of war in Korea, Viet Nam, Panama, nor Iraq. 2) the celebration of British Foreign policy, i.e. steal and murder rather than produce goods for the acquisition of wealth and the maintenance of the global imbalance of power (force).

Former Fauci Aide Indicted for Conspiracy to Hide Government Records on COVID Origins - but Don't Expect TrumpStein Administration to Follow Through

From [HERE] A federal grand jury today indicted a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly using his personal email account to hide communications about the origins of COVID-19 while shaping the public narrative that the virus emerged from nature instead of from a lab.

Dr. David Morens, 78, who served in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Office of the Director between 2006 and 2022, faces five charges, including conspiracy, destruction of records in federal investigations and concealment of records. Fauci led the NIAID until his departure in December 2022.

Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 5 to 20 years in prison.

According to the indictment, dated April 16 and unsealed Monday in federal court in Maryland, Morens used his personal email account to shield communications from federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

The indictment also lists two unidentified co-conspirators who allegedly collaborated with Morens to conceal and destroy federal records.

According to Fox News, the emails between Morens and other government officials allegedly included “discussions about COVID research, efforts to influence funding decisions, and exchanges related to messaging on the virus’s origins.” [MORE]

FDA Knew of Better Method to Detect Sudden Deaths After COVID Injections — But Refused to Use it.

New documents obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson reveal that Biden-era federal health officials refused to use a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccination signals in VAERS — even though they knew the tool they were using was broken and failed to pick up on safety signals, including sudden cardiac death.

Biden-era health officials rejected a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccine safety signals — and instead deliberately continued using a broken method because they didn’t want to “feed in to [sic] anti-vaccination rhetoric,” according to a report released today by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

The report — “Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals” — includes emails from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials who told an FDA researcher to “cease and desist” using the updated tool to analyze COVID-19 vaccine injury reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

The FDA knew as early as 2020 that the method they were using was inferior and that a better one existed, according to the emails.

Ana Szarfman, M.D., Ph.D., a then-FDA medical officer and safety data mining developer who worked in the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), tried repeatedly to get FDA officials to switch over to the improved tool. [MORE]

Kennedy Gives Johnson Data That Reveals How HHS, CDC and FDA Hid COVID Shot Death and Injuries

Misleading People to Destroy Informed Consent: No, Covid Injections Didn’t Save Millions of Lives, Hospitalizations in United States

One of the most pressing issues facing the scientific and medical communities is the catastrophic loss of the public’s trust in accepting their advice and/or recommendations. And it’s overwhelmingly due to their own actions and statements.

There are books’ worth of examples worth of examples. Such as the early part of the pandemic when they flip-flopped on masks, from claiming that they didn’t work to stating that getting 80% of the public to wear them would end the pandemic in a matter of weeks, to their claims that the lab leak was a racist conspiracy theory, and all the way to absurdities such as predicting the Super Bowl in Florida would be a “superspreader event.”

Or the mass panic when states like Mississippi and Texas ended their mask mandates, or when the mandate on airplanes was lifted…and nothing happened afterward.

But certainly nothing may have damaged their trust more than the steadfast assertions that the COVID vaccines were able to stop infection and transmission. And one study and analysis from a heavily credentialed group of experts on the vaccines shows how committed they were to misleading people in order to suit their political and ideological aims. [MORE]

A Sambo Latino Houston Cop said She “Hates NGHRS" and 'Loves Using Authority to Practice Racism [for her masters].' Will the White Liberal DA Exonerate the NGHRS She Arrested and Helped to Convict?

DISFLUENT, STUPID COP WAS PROBABLY A DEI HIRE. From [HERE] A sambo Latino officer with the Houston Police Department has been relieved of her duties after bragging about using the N-Word in a now-viral video, according to a report.

The cop, named in various reports as Officer Ashley Gonzalez, also boasted in the clip about an incident in which she beat up a Black person.

An investigation into the video has been launched, and Gonzalez has been relieved of her duties, sources from the department told KPRC-TV.

The clip, which shows Gonzalez ranting to the camera while sitting in her car, has been widely condemned by members of the local community.

“The amount of times that I will always and forever say that I f*****g hate [racial slur],” the former cop says.“‘Oh, we were slaves,’” she added in a mocking voice. “I don’t give a f***, [racial slur], like for a f*****g reason you guys were f*****g slaves.”

The woman went on to say that she “whooped the f*** out of that [racial slur’s] a**,” recounting an alleged incident involving the unnamed man and her purse.

“Y’all don’t know how good it felt to say [racial slur] out loud,” she said. “Oh my God, I felt like I was back in the Marine Corps, [racial slur].”

The police officer goes on to say that she grabbed a man by the neck while hurling the racial slur at him.

“I felt like the world just stopped, like, it was just peace,” she added, before uttering the slur several more times.

Sources from the HPD told KHOU 11 that Gonzalez graduated from the police academy in January 2024. The channel also confirmed that Gonzalez has served four years with the USMC.

Records from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement obtained by Fox 26 stated that Gonzalez had spent eight hours completing a “cultural diversity course.”

Gonzalez also spent three hours working on an “implicit bias in social justice” course.

Community activist Dr. Candice Matthews told KHOU 11 that the language used in the video caused “discord between the community and law enforcement.”

“And that’s not what we want,” she said. “In fact, it also caused a discord between Hispanics and African Americans.”

Matthews added that her team is urging anyone who has had contact with Gonzalez to come forward and that they are investigating possible civil rights violations.

According to the HPOU, the HPD “prides itself as being the most diverse police department in the nation.” [MORE]

Despite Constitution, Liberals Arrest/Kill Blacks who They Think Carry Guns: OH Cops who Attacked Unarmed Black Man Had No Reason to Believe He Had a Gun Other than being Black and Driving an Impala

From [HERE] The same Ohio cops captured on video earlier this month forcing a Black man out of his car after pulling him over for not using a turn signal were involved in a separate incident with another Black person that resulted in a $27,500 settlement in January.

The latest video shows Dayton police officers Riley Brown and Elyzabeth McDonald forcing a 20-year-old Black man out of his car after he pulled into his own home without using a turn signal on April 1.

According to the arrest report, the cops pulled Jeffrey Johnson Jr. out of the car after demanding to know if he had any guns in the car but rather than answer them, he attempted to call his mother. But the arrest report provides no explanation as to why they even suspected he may have had a gun in the car, other than being a Black man driving a Chevy Impala.

In fact, they provided no explanation as to why they even decided to follow him in the first place, other than to “ascertain a license plate” – which is basically fishing for a reason to pull him over.

The cops continued following Johnson until he pulled into his driveway without using a turn signal, which was when they pulled him over.

They then claim in their report that they smelled weed coming from the car but they evidently did not find any weed or guns because all they charged him with was obstruction, resisting arrest, driving without a license and not using a turn signal.

Johnson’s female passenger recorded the video and posted it to TikTok with the following description, where it has been viewed more than 734,000 times as of this writing, accusing McDonald of snatching the phone from Johnson and throwing it on the floor of the car.

She also said they have a history of being harassed by the same cops.

“We have had 4 encounters with these officers and have became a target these are the only officers we ever have bad experiences with and something needs to be done before it’s to late no one cares about situations like this until someone is dead,” she wrote in the description of the video. [MORE]

Contrary to The Dependent Media’s Propaganda, Data Shows Iran Has Successfully Transported at Least 10.7 Million Barrels of Crude Oil through the Strait of Hormuz

From [HERE] and [HERE] The reported transit of at least 34 Iran-linked vessels through the Strait of Hormuz despite a declared U.S. naval blockade immediately reframes the operational credibility of maritime interdiction as a coercive geopolitical tool under conditions of contested enforcement.

The movement of approximately 10.7 million barrels of crude oil—valued at around US$910 million (RM3.46 billion)—within days of the blockade’s initiation demonstrates that Iran retains a functional export pipeline even under direct U.S. naval pressure.

Statements by U.S. leadership describing “total control” of the chokepoint stand in measurable tension with commercial maritime intelligence data, creating a credibility gap that carries both operational and strategic consequences for deterrence signaling.

The divergence between independent tracking analytics and official military claims introduces uncertainty into assessments of blockade effectiveness, complicating escalation management in a region where miscalculation risks rapid kinetic spillover.

This evolving dynamic unfolds against the backdrop of a fragile ceasefire environment, where economic warfare measures intersect with military posturing, amplifying the risk of unintended escalation in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.

The ability of Iran-linked vessels to continue transiting the Gulf despite heightened enforcement pressure highlights the enduring resilience of asymmetric maritime logistics networks developed over decades of sanctions exposure.

The operational tempo observed since April 13, 2026, suggests that enforcement actions, while disruptive, have not achieved a level of saturation required to fully interdict tanker traffic in a high-density commercial shipping environment.

The persistence of these transits indicates that Iran’s maritime export architecture is sufficiently distributed and redundant to absorb interdiction pressure without systemic collapse, thereby sustaining both economic throughput and strategic leverage in ongoing negotiations.

This leakage dynamic also forces U.S. naval planners to confront escalating resource demands, as maintaining credible interdiction across multiple vectors requires expanded surveillance, boarding operations, and force projection assets over an extended operational timeline.

Consequently, the emerging pattern reflects a shift from decisive blockade enforcement toward a protracted contest of attrition in which both sides test endurance thresholds across military, economic, and geopolitical domains. [MORE]

TrumpStein and Massa Media Pause Their ‘Oil First’ Agenda To Perform False Flag: Data Shows Searches for “Cole Thomas” in “Israel” Before “the Shooting.” Instant Bio/Crime Confession Diary Forthcoming

No Rational Reason to Presume Liars are Telling the Truth. From [HERE] and [HERE] Authorities identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, a Los Angeles suburb.

According to public records and materials reviewed by CNN, Allen worked as a teacher and video game developer and is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he studied engineering.

Carroll said Allen is believed to have been a guest at the Washington Hilton. FBI agents assembled overnight outside a property linked to Allen in Torrance, with police tape cordoning off part of the street. Police secured his hotel room and are examining its contents.

Allen faces two charges. The first is using a firearm during a crime of violence, and the second is assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, according to US Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Additional charges may follow.

He is set to be arraigned in federal court on Monday. According to initial reports, no motive has been established, with Trump describing him as a "lone wolf" who appeared to be "sick". 

An image circulating widely on social media purportedly shows Allen wearing an "Israel Defense Forces" (IDF) shirt. Al Mayadeen English has not been able to independently verify the image's authenticity.

Google Trends data shows Israeli searches for Allen's name spiked to 49 in late January, four months before the White House Correspondents' DINNER

What is verifiable, though, is that Google Trends data shows a sharp spike in searches for Allen's name in "Israel" over three months before the shooting, then no interest at all for weeks. The trend was circulated on social media and then independently verified by Al Mayadeen English.

A second surge in Israeli searches for his name occurred on the night of April 25–26, appearing to begin before the attack took place.

Google Trends data shows Israeli search interest in Allen surging on the night of April 25–26, with spikes appearing before the attack had taken ..

Call Drops as Fox Reporter Insinuates that False Flaggotry May be Afoot in DC

On a Daily Basis Trumpstein and Massa Media Create Reality: Making American Psheeple Believe ’the US is Dominating Iran’ as Its White Empire and System for Protecting Gulf Monarchies Collapses

From [HERE] . . . None of these commentators acknowledge what is likely the strongest blow that Iran has landed against the US. The Islamic Republic has undermined what’s called the petrodollar regime, a system in which the US promises to militarily protect the Gulf monarchies in exchange for these states putting money they earn from oil sales into US assets—most notably Treasury bonds. The arrangement, which has been in place since 1974, subsidizes US borrowing costs and keeps the US dollar as the de facto global reserve currency.

Bloomberg (4/6/26) reports that the war on Iran “broke the petrodollar,” because the conflict is “categorically different” from other political, military and economic crises of the post-1974 period:

Gulf producers can’t get their oil out. The Strait of Hormuz closure has stranded their barrels along with everyone else’s.

Gulf states including Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the UAE collectively cut production by at least 10 million barrels per day in March. Saudi Arabia and the UAE can export reduced volumes through alternative pipelines. But those routes handle only about a quarter of normal Strait throughput at full capacity, and they are under active Iranian drone and missile threat. Qatar declared force majeure on exports of liquified natural gas after strikes on its Ras Laffan facility.

Thus, Iran has shown that it can hinder, and possibly destroy, a central plank in the architecture of the US empire. Stephens, Thiessen and the editorial boards of the Journal and the Post appear to be deluding themselves about the gravity of this development. Iran has successfully resisted subjugation, largely by jeopardizing a key instrument of US global hegemony, but these authors have gone on writing as if Washington were in a position to force Iran to surrender to its diktats.

These observers traffic in illusions about a virtually omnipotent US that can indefinitely control the world through force of arms, consequence-free. Op-ed writing is supposed to be persuasive. In that regard, these authors have failed spectacularly. [MORE]

No Matter How Many Liberals Black People Elect, the NYPD Continues to Racially and Spacially Profile Them: 2 White Cops Brutally Beat and Target the Wrong Man During Another "Which [NGHR] Hunt" in NYC

A Black man was brutally beaten by white cops in a case of mistaken identity inside a Brooklyn liquor store, leading to an internal investigation by the NYPD.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the actions of the officers “extremely disturbing and unacceptable” in a social media post on Wednesday.

Officials said the officers were undercover to investigate complaints of drug sales in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, right across the street from the liquor store.

One of the cops “successfully purchased crack cocaine” on the street and arrested the suspect, according to the NYPD. Then the officers saw a man “who matched the description” of the dealer’s associate: “wearing a white shirt and green shorts,” an NYPD spokesperson said.

Following the violent arrest, investigators found that the man had no connection to the drug sale or the dealer, according to the NYPD. He was charged with resisting arrest and received an appearance ticket.

Racist suspect NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said both officers were placed on modified duty and had their guns and shields removed. [MORE]

DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. NYC, A CITY CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS IS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY [MORE] ENJOY YOUR ILLUSIONS AND GET OUT THE VOTE!

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Which-Nigger – any native Black American who is routinely racially and spatially profiled for arrest as a likely target-suspect. A “Which Nigger” is never guilty by association—but guilty by simply being—a Black man in the wrong place at the wrong time near any alleged or actual crime, waiting for the “justice” railroad (oncoming train) and unaffordable legal representation thereby leaving him with a public defender that will ensure he will be afforded some extra time in prison.

Which-hunt – a code-word in racist white supremacist police force parlance meaning “let’s hunt down which nigger did it.”

The GOINTELBRO Reps in the Congressional Black Caucus Support the Reauthorization of FISA Section 702, which Allows Warrantless Surveillance Similarly Used to Surveil Blacks and Kill Their Leaders

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

GOINTELBRO – Government Operative Incognegro Notifying The Enforcers Liberating Blackamerica’s Racist Oppressors. A Gointel-bro is a sorry-ass sophisticated hanky-head, coin-operated, Sam-Bohican, Snigger on the payrolls of the F.B.I. (or any other alphabet threat agency) as an undercover informant to foment divisiveness in Blackamerica’s ongoing centuries-long struggle for socioeconomic advancement as a people. Sniggers are equal in intent, and bound by the same flaw—covertly soul-selling out the potential self-determination of his people for the sake of his Massa’s overtly racist, statist or fascist law. (See: Snigger, COINTELPRO, Sambo, Black Flask Brigade, BOHICAN & Coin-Operated)

This week, the Congressional Black Caucus will quietly support an effort to reauthorize surveillance powers that were used to spy on Black Lives Matter activists in 2020, the Prospect has learned. According to multiple congressional sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, CBC support for the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) comes after Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the powerful ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, successfully lobbied CBC leadership to stand down on reforming the vast intelligence authority.

Section 702 grants U.S. intelligence agencies the authority to collect communications data on foreign intelligence targets abroad. In practice, however, it has allowed those agencies to amass troves of data on American citizens. The National Security Agency (NSA) is one of many FISA authorities with warrantless access to Americans’ communications data, which the agency has been known to purchase from U.S.-based companies.

Privacy advocates like the Brennan Center for Justice contend that the intelligence community’s efforts to reduce the number of U.S. person queries completed under Section 702 only reflect known searches, as the FBI has “neither tracked nor audited these queries as required by law.”

According to The New York Times, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) greenlit the 702 program’s annual recertification in a classified ruling last month. The decision permits FISA authorities to collect communications data through March 2027, regardless of whether Congress extends the statute underpinning Section 702, which is set to expire on April 20. [MORE]

Make-Believe: According to FAIR there are Less than 5 American Reporters in Iran. If so, Massa Media Does Not Verify Most of Trump’s Claims and Merely Parrots Gov Propaganda to the Public

From [FAIR]A New York Times spokesperson issued a statement on X (3/31/26) in response to a FAIR article, “NYT Covers Iran War With No Reporters in Iran” (3/30/26). The Times‘ Nicole Taylor wrote:

This is a false portrayal of our work. We have repeatedly called on Israel to lift restrictions for journalists in Gaza, and we want to be able to send reporters into Iran safely, without restrictions, as well as to be able to work closely with local journalists without risking their security. Restricted access allows disinformation and propaganda to thrive, making our deliberate, fact-based reporting on the war even more essential.

Taylor claimed that FAIR’s article was a “false portrayal” of the Times’ work, but she failed to directly challenge any of the article’s claims.

First, FAIR never claimed that the Times didn’t call on Israel to “lift restrictions for journalists in Gaza.” Indeed, the paper did so in late July 2025, along with multiple other news organizations (New York Times, 7/27/25, 7/27/25).

Rather, FAIR criticized the Times’ decision to cover the Iran War without any reporters on the ground in Iran. We pointed out that multiple Times employees are reporting from and currently living in Israel, providing up-close and personal coverage of that country, in sharp contrast to its long-distance coverage of Iran.

Can the Times send reporters “safely” to Iran? As FAIR pointed out, CNN reporter Frederik Pleitgen—the only reporter for a US outlet to be granted a visa from Iran—recounts having no major issues reporting there (Guardian, 3/14/26). Other foreign journalists, like Canada-based Dimitri Lascaris and Reuters‘ Ahmed Jadallah, have also reported from Iran in recent weeks. [MORE]

The Iranian media battle

From [HERE] Many articles have been dedicated by Western mainstream media to the Iranian successful communication campaign launched during this war, and especially to the Lego videos that are going viral on the web.

The scale of this phenomenon is more significant than it appears at first glance, because this operation undermines one of the most strenuous and fruitful efforts undertaken by the United States since it adopted an aggressive imperialist foreign policy on the international stage.

This is why almost all Western articles, after expressing lukewarm appreciation for the quality of the videos, invariably go on to try to denigrate them—insinuating possible affiliations of the creators with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, or attempting to debunk their content ("the great Persian empire has nothing to do with the repressive, fanatical and religious obscurantism of the Iranian theocracy," reads an editorial published by a major Italian newspaper. The BBC takes care to point out that the videos would be “littered with factual inaccuracies”).

The problem is that all these attempts to contain the success of the Iranian operation fall flat, because they ignore—and this in itself is a significant fact—that the audience to which Iranian communication primarily addresses is not the same audience that reads BBC or Washington Post articles. It is a younger audience, one that has not yet absorbed decades of Western propaganda and is therefore still relatively open to different points of view. Unsurprisingly, this is the audience that, according to a recent survey from Pew Research Center, is showing an increasing hostility towards the blatant violations of every civil and moral law committed by "Israel", particularly in the last two and a half years.

On March 26, Forbes recorded 145 million views and tens of thousands of shares of the Lego videos produced by the Iranian enterprise Explosive Media.[MORE]

Ships leave Iranian ports in Persian Gulf despite US ‘naval blockade’

From [HERE] At least two ships sailing from Iranian ports crossed the Strait of Hormuz despite a blockade threat by the US military, maritime tracking reports have indicated.

The ships were among at least four Iran-linked vessels that used the route after Washington's threat, according to maritime data provider Kpler.

The Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Christianna crossed after unloading 74,000 tons of corn at the Iranian port of Bandar Imam Khomeini, passing Iran's Larak Island in the strait around 1600 GMT on April 13, Kpler data showed.

A second ship, the Comoros-flagged tanker Elpis, was near Larak Island around 1100 GMT and cleared the strait about 1600 GMT. It was loaded with 31,000 tons of methanol, having left the Iranian port of Bushehr on March 31, Kpler data showed.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) had threatened the blockade would target "vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas". [MORE]

'Israel' attacks civilians to hide its embarrassing military failures and out of pure sadism

From [HERE] Proving itself incapable of winning on any front, despite such vast power imbalances, the Zionist regime has developed various collective punishment doctrines over the years. This time, after getting battered by Iranian missiles and failing to achieve any strategic goal, it takes out its frustration on Lebanon and Gaza.

When the US-Israeli alliance launched its war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28, the Zionist regime’s Premier Benjamin Netanyahu openly gloated about getting what he had wanted for over 40 years. However, the moment he had been pushing for decades to reach failed to render the results the Israeli leader had hoped for.

US President Donald Trump, having initially agreed to Iran’s 10-point plan, before later backtracking, decided to announce a two-week cessation of hostilities with Iran. Within hours, having freed up its Air Force that had been bogged down in Iran attack operations, the Israelis were already targeting civilians across Lebanon, including bombing an ambulance in Tyre, south Lebanon. 

Hours after that came the horrifying Beirut massacre, during which the Israelis carried out over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes, demolishing dozens of civilian buildings without any notice. The result was the mass slaughter of more than 300 people, with an additional 1,200 left injured across the country in less than a day.

This was evidently no accident; the Israeli leadership had been claiming throughout the 15-month Lebanon ceasefire - which they violated over 15,400 times according to UNIFIL - that Hezbollah had been defeated, that it posed no threat to the northern settlements and would easily be dealt with. In early March, the Israeli victory narrative collapsed completely. [MORE]