Trump tells Iranians that this is their end, the people are to take over the government after we are done…
President Donald J. Trump on the United States military combat operations in Iran:
President Donald J. Trump on the United States military combat operations in Iran: pic.twitter.com/LimJmpLkgZ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026
JUST IN: Aerial images confirm Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s compound has been 100% OBLITERATED President Trump and Pete Hegseth have a clear objective. It’s being fully executed, SWIFTLY
🚨 JUST IN: Aerial images confirm Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s compound has been 100% OBLITERATED
President Trump and Pete Hegseth have a clear objective.
It’s being fully executed, SWIFTLY 🇺🇸
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 28, 2026
BREAKING: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia states they will join the US in operation against the Islamic Republic Regime after the IRI attacks US base in Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/zfRmnv3EOS
— Ellie Cohanim (@EllieCohanim) February 28, 2026
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump, the US military and Israel have KILLED IRGC Commander Mohammad Pakpour in strikes
He’s responsible for killing thousands of Iranians
SWIFT JUSTICE pic.twitter.com/fzNDudWLIP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 28, 2026
Love is like they’re systematically killing all of Iran’s leadership and taking out the rest of their nuclear capabilities. https://t.co/HYlodkfpJW
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 28, 2026
BREAKING: The U.S. and Israel have blown up the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran Iranians can be heard cheering the strike in this video which comes after Iran massacred tens of thousands of its own people last month Trump appears to be going for regime change
🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. and Israel have blown up the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
Iranians can be heard cheering the strike in this video which comes after Iran massacred tens of thousands of its own people last month
Trump appears to be going for regime change pic.twitter.com/gsCKALXG9s
— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) February 28, 2026
They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran. Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time. That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting. Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning.
Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime. Because Iran’s leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering. Every future meeting of Iran’s senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too.
This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure. In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience. Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously. Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran’s command cohesion. That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. Post at X
BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman FIRES BACK at Rep. Thomas Massie vehemently opposing President Trump’s strikes on Iran “That’s BIZARRE. I’d like to remind my colleague over in the House that Iran massacred 30,000 of their own people!”
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman FIRES BACK at Rep. Thomas Massie vehemently opposing President Trump’s strikes on Iran
“That’s BIZARRE. I’d like to remind my colleague over in the House that Iran massacred 30,000 of their own people!” pic.twitter.com/vV2d8dHDuz
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 28, 2026
The first 24 hours were Israel. The next 24 hours are America. Here is the force architecture that is now activating and what it is designed to do in sequence. Phase one already happened. Eleven F-22 Raptors from Ovda entered Iranian airspace invisible to whatever air defenses survived June 2025. Their mission was not to bomb. Their mission was to map every radar emission, destroy every surface-to-air battery that powered up, and create corridors of absolute silence through which everything that follows can pass undetected. This is what F-22s did to Russian S-300s in Venezuela. No interceptor fired. The entire network went dark. Iran’s rebuilt air defenses likely suffered the same fate in the opening minutes. Phase two is now. The USS Gerald R. Ford sits off Haifa with a full carrier air wing. Its position is not offensive.
It is a tripwire. Any Iranian missile that crosses Israeli airspace passes through the Ford’s Aegis radar envelope. An attack on Israel is now automatically an attack in the vicinity of an American carrier strike group. That is not an accident. That is the legal and operational trigger for full American engagement under self-defense. The USS Abraham Lincoln holds station in the Gulf of Oman, 850 kilometers from Iran’s southern coast, with a second full air wing and escort destroyers carrying 300 plus Tomahawk cruise missiles between them. Phase three comes overnight. Six F-16CM Block 50s confirmed at Diego Garcia. These are Wild Weasel variants, built specifically to hunt and kill radar systems.
They extend the suppression campaign that the F-22s began. Behind them at Diego Garcia sit the assets that end this: B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carrying GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the 30,000 pound bombs designed for one purpose on earth, punching through the reinforced concrete and mountain rock protecting Fordow. 113 additional fighters sit at European bases ready for deployment. F-35As, F-15E Strike Eagles, and more F-16s. Fifty fifth-generation stealth aircraft have been added to the theater in the last 72 hours alone. Fourteen tankers at Ben Gurion keep everything airborne. The logistics tail from 270 C-17 transport flights is now feeding a machine that can sustain high-intensity operations for weeks. Iran’s retaliation hit one civilian in Abu Dhabi with debris. America’s next phase will hit Fordow with penetrators that were designed during the Obama administration for exactly this moment. The UK denied Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford for strike operations. It does not matter. The B-2 can fly from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, refuel over the Atlantic, deliver its payload over Isfahan, and return without landing. It has done this before. It needs no permission from any country between takeoff and impact. The first day was the scalpel. The next day is the hammer. And the hammer does not need a runway in anyone else’s country to swing.
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