U.S. Forces Will Resume Naval Blockade Against Iran

https://t.co/g4XFtu2T2K

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 13, 2026

TAMPA, Fla. — At the Commander in Chief's direction, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will resume blockading maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on July 14 at 4 p.m. ET.

U.S. Retaliatory Strikes in Iran

.@POTUS on whether there will be consequences for Iran's violation of the ceasefire agreement:

"You'll find out. I don't like the fact that they took a shot yesterday — actually four, we knocked down three — at a ship... Will I respond? You're going to find out." https://t.co/QTpTs3H4mv pic.twitter.com/NA8QjIlh0h

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 26, 2026

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— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 26, 2026

Additional Self-Defense Strikes Against Iran Launched

U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 10, 2026

Iran's leaders underestimate President Trump.

Iran Attacks US Forces

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— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 7, 2026

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7.

Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces.

🚨 NEW: Fox News’ Bret Baier leads off this hour with breaking news: “The U.S. has carried out strikes on a key port in Iran, a checkpoint and a city. The U.S. says they were in self defense. A senior official telling Fox that today’s action does not constitute a break in the… pic.twitter.com/eYeaAztUYw

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 7, 2026

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 7, 2026

NEW: US military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas: Senior US official tells me, but this is NOT a restarting of the war.

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— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) May 7, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. JUST BOMBED IRAN — THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ ERUPTS 🚨

Iran JUST SWARMED U.S. Destroyers and STARTED SHOOTING 💥

AMERICA FIRED BACK HARD — STRIKE SITES OBLITERATED… “NOT A SINGLE SHIP HIT” 🔥🔥

“They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a… pic.twitter.com/8C4Q0qr7z8

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) May 8, 2026

Pray for peace.

Iranian Regime's Ships Destroyed

Two days ago, the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman, today they have ZERO. The Iranian regime has harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of Oman for decades. Those days are over. Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global… pic.twitter.com/nzdkMVMqZC

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 2, 2026

CENTCOM Update - Fourth Service Member Dies

CENTCOM Update

TAMPA, Fla. – As of 7:30 am ET, March 2, four U.S. service members have been killed in action. The fourth service member, who was seriously wounded during Iran’s initial attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.

Major combat operations continue and our…

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 2, 2026

Three U.S. Military Service Members Killed in Action

BREAKING: 3 U.S. service members killed, 5 injured in Iran strikes, Central Command says. pic.twitter.com/cZR4P1V1N4

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2026

CENTCOM Update

TAMPA, Fla. – As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury.

Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being…

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 1, 2026

"Earlier today, CENTCOM shared the news that three U.S. military service members have been killed in action. As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots, who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation... We send our immense love & eternal gratitude to the… https://t.co/AhuV4v3LGo

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 1, 2026

God be with the loved ones of the fallen.

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Headquarters Destroyed

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed more than 1,000 Americans over the past 47 years. Yesterday, a large-scale U.S. strike cut off the head of the snake. America has the most powerful military on earth, and the IRGC no longer has a headquarters. pic.twitter.com/WdpN7JBECr

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 1, 2026

Actions have consequences.

U.S. Strikes Against Iranian Proxies

Finally, it was the "time of our choosing."

CENTCOM Statement on U.S. Strikes in Iraq and Syria

At 4:00 p.m. (EST) Feb. 02, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups. U.S. military forces… pic.twitter.com/HeLMFDx9zY

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 2, 2024

One hour ago, Biden struck positions held by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Iraq and Syria.

Which is great, except the IRGC pulled its officers out of Syria yesterday pic.twitter.com/oYMN7heAPH

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) February 2, 2024

The Biden Regime chose to allow the IRGC to have time to prepare for retaliatory strikes.

Iran Kills 3 U.S. Service Members, Injures Dozens in Jordan

3 US service members were killed, 25 injured by a drone attack in northeast Jordan, near the Syrian border per CENTCOM pic.twitter.com/KwpNF4bJkx

— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) January 28, 2024

Read this thread for good explainer on Tower 22 and what is nearby and who makes up the so called Islamic Resistance of Iraq, an umbrella group of Shia, Iranian backed proxies who called themselves “Islamic Resistance of Iraq” or Hamas of Iraq post Oct 7. https://t.co/9DtX6GVJ7R

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) January 28, 2024

President Biden statement on 3 U.S. troops killed in Jordan pic.twitter.com/CC9uFxx0TB

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) January 28, 2024

FLASHBACK

BIDEN just two weeks ago—

Q: “Do you have a message for Iran, sir?”
BIDEN: “I've already delivered the message to Iran. They know not to do anything.”

— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) January 28, 2024

Obviously, Iran isn't listening to Biden's alleged message. Nothing like this happened when President Trump was in office. He withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and restored the "highest level of economic sanctions." Iran was dramatically weakened as a result.

Days after Biden's installation as president, he completely reversed President Trump's effective policies.

Simply put, Biden enabled Iran to kill Americans.

Biden's "'Don't' Doctrine" is deadly.

UPDATE: Eight U.S. service members have been medically evacuated from Tower 22 in Jordan, a U.S. defense official confirms to Fox News. At least 34 service members have been injured-- mostly TBI's. The number of TBI's is likely to go up as symptoms can take time to develop

— Liz Friden (@Liz_Friden) January 29, 2024

Dozens of U.S. Service Members Injured in Iraq and Syria

BREAKING: Two dozen service members were injured last week from the drone and rocket attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria, a U.S. CENTCOM spokesperson told Fox News - via @Liz_Friden

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 24, 2023

Sec. Blinken said today: "The United States does not seek conflict with Iran. We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran or its proxies attack U.S. personnel anywhere, make no mistake, we will defend our people."

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 24, 2023

Antony Blinken claims we don't want war but if Iran or its proxies want war we'll give it to them.

None of this insanity was happening when President Trump was in office.

Is Biden going to wait until a service member is killed to hold the Iran regime accountable?

Iran will keep pushing until there are serious consequences. https://t.co/2DxYh7nqNq

— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) October 24, 2023

Biden and his regime are stumbling and bumbling our way into World War III.

Remember all the Trump haters said that was something President Trump was likely to do?

They were completely wrong. The alleged adults in the room are weak, floundering idiots.

Terrorist Bombing in Beirut - 40 Years Ago

Today we remember the 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers who died 40 years ago in the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/4QQHNhaZA3

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 23, 2023

Exactly 40 years ago today at 6:22 am…Early on a Sunday morning, Oct 23, 1983, two truck bombs sent by Iran backed Islamic Jihad & Hezbollah struck buildings in Beirut housing US and French service members. 220 Marines, 18 sailors, 3 US soldiers, 58 French troops were killed.

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 23, 2023

40 years ago today, 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers were killed in a bombing at the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/PKhYHxCJgT

— U.S. Marines (@USMC) October 23, 2023

The sacrifice of our service members and the heroic efforts by Marines in the aftermath of the attack will never be forgotten.

Fair Winds and Following Seas.

— U.S. Marines (@USMC) October 23, 2023

Keep the sacrifice of these service members and their families in mind.

Iranian Drone Strike Kills American Contractor, Injures 5 Soldiers

One US contractor killed. 5 US troops and 1 contractor injured by Iranian drone strike on U.S. base in Syria. Biden orders U.S. Airstrikes in Syria in Response to Deadly UAV Attack: CENTCOM

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) March 24, 2023

#BREAKING: US launches air strikes against Iranian IRGC and affiliates targets in Syria in retaliation for an earlier Iranian affiliated drone strike that killed one US contractor and injured five soldiers.

Initially everyone thought the attack was Israel.

US service members… pic.twitter.com/zD8kkREKpG

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 24, 2023

Below is a statement from the CENTCOM Commander on the precision strikes in response to American casualties in Syria. pic.twitter.com/MIJeQh1VtD

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 24, 2023

None of this crap happened while President Trump was in office.

Biden and his regime are weak. The world knows it.

Isn't it great that Iran will have a nuclear bomb thanks to Obama and Biden?

Twitter Files, Part 8: *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*

2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. pic.twitter.com/2H2Sf49Xff

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

4. In 2017, a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts “we use to amplify certain messages.” The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one & “whitelist” abilities for the others. pic.twitter.com/LuMbMZDv8i

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

6. The CENTCOM accounts on the list tweeted frequently about U.S. military priorities in the Middle East, including promoting anti-Iran messages, promotion of the Saudi Arabia-U.S. backed war in Yemen, and “accurate” U.S. drone strikes that claimed to only hit terrorists. pic.twitter.com/IhqUDWJjQ9

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

8. One Twitter official who spoke to me said he feels deceived by the covert shift. Still, many emails from throughout 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of DoD’s vast network of fake accounts & covert propaganda and did not suspend the accounts.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

10. Stacia Cardille, another Twitter attorney, replied that the Pentagon wanted a SCIF & may want to retroactively classify its social media activities “to obfuscate their activity in this space, and that this may represent an overclassification to avoid embarrassment.” pic.twitter.com/lTNshDKOBv

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

12. In a May 2020 email, Twitter’s Lisa Roman emailed the DoD w/two lists. One list was accounts “previously provided to us” & another list Twitter detected. The accounts tweeted in Russian & Arabic on US military issues in Syria/ISIS & many also did not disclose Pentagon ties. pic.twitter.com/oANuodYwsN

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

14. In August 2022, a Stanford Internet Observatory report exposed a U.S. military covert propaganda network on Facebook, Telegram, Twitter & other apps using fake news portals and deep fake images and memes against U.S. foreign adversaries. https://t.co/dNH175YZmo

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

16. The Stanford report did not identify all of the accounts in the network but one they did name was the exact same Twitter account CENTCOM asked for whitelist privileges in its 2017 email. I verified via Twitter’s internal tools. The account used an AI-created deep fake image. pic.twitter.com/ODLvK7eFlH

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

18. The reality is much more murky. Twitter actively assisted CENTCOM’s network going back to 2017 and as late as 2020 knew these accounts were covert/designed to deceive to manipulate the discourse, a violation of Twitter’s policies & promises. They waited years to suspend.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

20. The conduct with the U.S. military’s covert network stands in stark contrast with how Twitter has boasted about rapidly identifying and taking down covert accounts tied to state-backed influence operations, including Thailand, Russia, Venezuela, and others since 2016.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

21. Here is my reported piece w/more detail. I was given access to Twitter for a few days. I signed/agreed to nothing, Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by a Twitter attorney, so what I saw could be limited. https://t.co/AgcFy71fE3

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022

No wonder "Waffle House" stopped being a late night trending topic.

CENTCOM Hacked By ISIS

Cyber Jihad?

AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS. http://t.co/iZULe4nTmp #CyberCaliphate
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) January 12, 2015

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— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) January 12, 2015

The Twitter account for CENTCOM was reportedly hacked by ISIS.

BREAKING NEWS: TWITTER ACCOUNT FOR US CENTRAL COMMAND APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN HACKED AND IS CARRYING PRO-ISIS MESSAGES http://t.co/sv8OmFopSu
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) January 12, 2015

I got some screen grabs before the account was suspended.

Zinni's Folly

Like so many other lib media darlings, former Clinton CENTCOM commander General Anthony Zinni has a history that proves inconvenient.

Zinni is being promoted as a principled man, daring to speak out against the evil Donald Rumsfeld, claiming "that he never saw any proof that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction."

But Zinni's own words have come back to haunt him. He has managed to discredit himself royally, and the lib media have pretended not to notice.

From Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters:

[A]another bizarre oddity concerning the media's acceptance of Zinni's current position is the revelation that in the year 2000, Zinni actually briefed senior Clinton administration officials concerning a massive military strategy to overthrow Saddam. As reported by the Chicago Tribune on October 2, 2000: "Zinni has briefed senior administration officials on a secret war plan that details how the U.S. military, with limited allied help, would seek to topple Hussein. The effort would be massive, involving possibly as many as half a million troops, according to one knowledgeable official."

The article continued: "Although he has confidence in U.S. forces, Zinni has no illusions that such a scheme could win public support, considering the cost in lives and dollars it would almost certainly involve." Yet, Zinni expressed his discontent with the U.S. policy of containment at the time: "'Containment is what you do when you can't come up with the popular will to take decisive military action.'"

Now, if Zinni believed that Saddam either didn’t possess WMD at that time, or wasn’t an imminent threat to American security and sovereignty, why would he be offering a plan that would involve up to 500,000 American soldiers to overthrow the dictator? Moreover, if all this plan needed to succeed was "the popular will to take decisive military action," why would Zinni be opposed to a war that was initially waged with huge public support that was lacking when he offered his own overthrow plan three years earlier?

Sheppard asks, "[W]hy hasn’t one major media outlet uncovered this October 2, 2000 story, revealed its existence to the public, and asked Gen. Zinni why he felt so strongly about overthrowing Saddam in 2000, but thinks it was a mistake to do it in 2003?"

It's a legitimate question, and it perfectly illustrates the media's slant.

Another point that the lib media fail to raise is that there are some 8,000 active duty and retired generals. A total of seven have come out against Rumsfeld.

Not exactly a groundswell of opposition, is it?

Nonetheless, the media keep pushing the significance of the retired generals' mutiny.
Bud Hiller's take on Zinni's embarrassing lack of credibility is worth reading, if you want a sip of truth with that gulp of propaganda being served up by the lib media.

Hiller writes:

Zinni, who now complains that President Bush cherry-picked pre-war Iraq weapons intelligence and misled the country into going to war, warned six years ago that Saddam Hussein's WMD program was the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

"Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region," Zinni told Congress on March 15, 2000.

"Despite claims that WMD efforts have ceased," the general-turned-war-critic said, "Iraq probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions, and is concealing extended-range Scud missiles, possibly equipped with CBW \[chem-bio-weapons\] payloads."

Then, Hiller offers a taste of the side of Zinni that the lib media have been drooling over.

"What bothered me," Zinni told TV host Tim Russert, was that "I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD.

"Now, I'd be the first to say we had to assume he had WMD left over that wasn't accounted for: artillery rounds, chemical rounds, a Scud missile or two. But these things, over time, degrade. These things did not present operational or strategic level threats at best."

In 2000, Zinni said, "Even if Baghdad reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains the scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."

Since Russert has been on an anti-Rumsfeld crusade for years, I guess that's why he didn't dig up Zinni's past statements to challenge him on that dramatic about face.

It's this sort of stuff that reinforces the notion of how thoroughly invested the mainstream media are in assaulting President Bush and the Administration.

I think the "Rage against Rummy" army is due to retreat.