Becoming Displaced For What?

 Nadene Goldfoot

  The Parchin military complex is located approximately 30 km (20 miles) southeast of Tehran, Iran. It is a massive facility focused on weapons production. Reports indicate it was struck by Israeli forces in October 2024, and later in June 2025 during conflict, with recent reports showing Iran rebuilding.

PARCHIN CYLINDER  Did the USA get these last year?  The Parchin cylinders are large, specialized metal chambers located at Iran’s Parchin military complex (southeast of Tehran) that the IAEA suspects were used to conduct high-explosive tests related to designing a nuclear weapon trigger in the early 2000s. The facility, involving a ~4.6 x 19-meter vessel, was allegedly designed for hydrodynamic experiments involving conventional explosives and potentially uranium, according to IAEA analysis.

Trump is at a dead end in deciding what to do now that Iran refuses to make a deal.  Trump is not happy with their stubborn decision.

In the meantime, everyone has been told to get to safer ground;  like Americans in Israel.  Trump has gone on and on for the past month, and still cannot face the fact of the Iranian insistence to have nuclear weapons so they can blow up Israel and of course, USA itself,   Yes, The Ayatollas are a hard one to fathom.  Trump is like the bully  who once he has to face his enemy is backing off and running.  I could be wrong and this could be a ruse to surprise Iran.  Now that is everyone has become displaced in this waiting game  of his, they may be off their guard.  It's getting old.  This window of opportunity is only open for a short time.  How long can the Revolutionaries keep up their strength?  

A Jewish lady by the name of Catherine Perez Shakdam has met senior Iranian officials and her experience tells her that they are more afraid of Netanyahu than anything.  Catherine Perez-Shakdam is a French journalist, political analyst and commentator. She specializes in West Asian and Islamic affairs. Shakdam is a former consultant for UNSC on Yemen and she is an expert on Islamic terrorism, radicalization and antisemitism.  During her studies at the University of London, she met a Muslim man from Yemen and later acted like she converted to Sunni Islam during their marriage. However, she later became a Shia Muslim and wrote several books and many articles about Shia Islam. She divorced her husband in 2014 and has custody of her two children. As of 2022, she now identifies as a Jew.  She was born a Jew.  She remains a Jew.  

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Perez-Shakdam

England and Sweden Ahead Of USA News

 :Nadene Goldfoot                             

Gothenburg rally marks 109 weeks of “No to Execution Tuesdays” and backs Iran uprising — February 24, 2025. " Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) is in Sweden. Located on the country's west coast, it is the second-largest city in Sweden after Stockholm. Founded in 1621, it is a major industrial city, a significant port, and the capital of Västra Götaland County. '"  This picture shows that the Revolution (Uprising) was even known in Sweden, but in the USA???

The UPRISING of last year is called a REVOLUTION  by those involved.  Tousi (tousi.tv)   in England seems to be the only video involved. He was found by me on YouTube.  

Uprising/Revolution shown by Le Monde:  GalleryImages that capture the scale of the brutally suppressed protests that swept Iran between December 28 and January 11 are rare. Some NGOs report at least 18,000 people dead. Iranian photographer Yalda Moaiery managed to transmit her images of the January 8 demonstrations and the funeral of a man killed by the regime.

The 2025–2026 uprising in Iran has seen a broad coalition of social groups join the anti-regime movement, including labor unions (oil/gas workers), pensioners, and students. Critically, residents in the religious center of Qom and various ethnic minorities (Kurds, Baluchis) have joined protests, while five major Kurdish parties formed a political-military alliance against the regime   

The deal with Iran that Trump was up against a wall about was this: " Iran enters critical talks on its nuclear programme with the US on Thursday, insisting a deal is in reach as long as Washington sticks by its willingness to concede Iran’s symbolic right to enrich uranium, allow Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and not to impose controls on Iran’s ballistic missile programme.'  

Tehran insists deal is possible if Trump abides by preconditions agreed with Witkoff and Kushner !!! Don't these two consider that the uprising/Revolution that was a buy-product of Trump saying he's come if lives were being taken was taken seriously and the young people of Iran are being slaughtered by the Ayatollah's henchmen?   NO DEAL CAN BE MADE WITH THIS AUTHORITARIAN REGIME !  IT IS LIKE MAKING A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL !  ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS WIPE OUT ISRAEL AND THE VERY BAD WESTERN USA ! Iran (Ayatollah present government) will say anything.  

                                               

View of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford arriving at the Port of Marseille, earlier in her deployment (Photo by Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying destroyers left the South China Sea and began heading to the Middle East last week. (US Navy: Brian M Wilbur)

As of February 27, 2026, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is positioned near the coast of Iran/Israel, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln in the region. This massive U.S. naval buildup, including over 16 ships, acts as deterrence amid high-tension nuclear negotiations and threats of potential military action. 

• U.S. Presence: The USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in the eastern Mediterranean/Middle East region on Feb. 27, 2026, following a four-day stop in Crete, bringing significant naval power to the area.
• Context: These movements are part of a major military build-up in response to ongoing tensions, with President Trump threatening action if Iran does not meet nuclear demands.
• Iranian Reaction: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval forces have conducted drills in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to disrupt oil routes. 

Simultaneously, a Chinese spy ship was reported tracking the U.S. carrier strike group in the Arabian Sea earlier in February 2026.

 

The Shah of Iran was forced to leave Iran when the Ayatollah took over  His son, now 65 years old, is the leader of the Revolution and says he will remain to do the job of getting elections available for the people.  It is to be a Democracy.  Reza Pahlavi (born October 31, 1960) is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and Empress Farah Diba. As the exiled Crown Prince and head of the House of Pahlavi, he resides in the United States and is a prominent opposition figure advocating for a secular, democratic Iran.  

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The Guardian is a prominent daily newspaper from the United Kingdom. Founded in Manchester in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, it moved its operations to London in 1964 and is now considered a leading British national newspaper, known for its centre-left, independent  journalism.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/us-iran-nuclear-talks-critical-stage-trump  Patrick Wintour and Aram Roston Wed 25 Feb 2026 18.49 EST

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Pahlavi#:~:text=Reza%20Pahlavi%20(born%2031%20October,Revolution%20led%20by%20Ruhollah%20Khomeini.

Business As Usual Making Money Hand Over Fist in Post Assad Era

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

                       Old Russian Katusha rocket launcher                 

The Jerusalem Post headlines is that in post-Assad era, Hezbollah’s era shrinks to cells, smugglers, and cheap rockets - analysis.  The Iranian proxy group once helped sustain Assad’s war machine; now it stands accused of running deniable operations with cheap hardware.                         

     I'll scratch your back while you scratch mine:  Lebanon to Syria through Hezbollah

Now Syrian authorities say what Hezbollah left behind looks different: a small group operating near Damascus with drones, Katyusha rockets, and, according to officials, confessions that the weapons came from Lebanon. This is the period of selling weapons to each other, just as Omran has said.

On February 1, Syria’s new government announced it had dismantled a cell it accused of launching rockets at the Mezzeh district and the nearby military airport. 

Hezbollah’s media relations office rejected the claims, saying the group “has no presence or activity on Syrian soil” and denying any links to armed movements in Syria.

Believing any terrorist group is one's first mistake.  They cannot tell the truth.  They gain their power by being believed, so  they say what they want you to believe.                          

• Hitler's Concept: Hitler wrote that in the "big lie" there is always a certain force of credibility, and that if a lie is large enough and repeated constantly, the masses will fall for it.

Israeli officials have issued warnings that they would strike Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including an airport, if Hezbollah intervenes in a potential U.S.–Iran conflict. 

The U.S. is evacuating non-essential embassy personnel from Beirut. 

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the Knesset saying the country faces “very complex, difficult days” amid rising tensions with Iran and reaffirmed Israeli readiness to respond forcefully to any attack.

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Jerusalem Post

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Omran Alhalabi

Syria is In Jeopardy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

Syria has become part of a supply chain of arms to Iran.  Money is made by those involved.  They sell back arms to Iran.  Following the collapse of the Assad regime in late 2024, the supply chain and geopolitical landscape involving Turkey, Syria, and Israel have undergone a major transformation, characterized by Turkey's growing influence in the north, Israel's targeted actions in the south, and an underlying, tense rivalry. Omran, a Syrian citizen,  is aware of all the nasty things that are happening to Syria as they are in the hands of Jolani as President.  The people are so tired of war that they have little strength left to fight against the man who pushed his way into the governing seat.  

Omran Alhalabi explains the business deals he has heard of that involve his country, Syria, putting it in Jeopardy with Jolani, a former terrorist who hasn't forgotten how to run things. 

   Claims say that Turkish girls were trafficked say investigating prosecutors 

Turkey has positioned itself as a key power broker in post-Assad Syria, aiming to stabilize the country, return refugees, and neutralize Kurdish militants, while Israel has focused on disrupting previous Iranian-Hezbollah supply lines and creating a demilitarized buffer zone.  Israel is doing that for their own defense, not for any gain like profit.  Also, Israel's friends happen to be the Kurds, and are trying to keep them from harm of other soldiers.  

Omran even mentioned the Epstein Files that Pamela Bondi hasn't shown involving Trump that could expose some of these deals.  We know how he likes a good deal.                

                             Putin of Russia, Trump of USA

Europe is in trouble, Omran related.    They have bunkers left over from previous war.  Germany, Austria and other countries have been getting ready for something big, like a biological or chemical attack, like anthrax, for instance. "As of early 2026, European nations, particularly in the east and north, are actively strengthening their civil defense infrastructure and upgrading emergency stockpiles due to heightened fears of a broader conflict with Russia. This preparation includes updating guidance on nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) threats, encouraging citizens to maintain 72-hour survival kits, and renovating aging bunkers or identifying new, rapidly deployable shelters. "  We know that Ukraine is fighting Russia alone; with no help at all from NATO.  Israel has been helping with medicines, etc.  If they ever take over Ukraine, the rest of Europe is exposed, and could cave in like France did in WWII.  Again, money is being made supplying arms, weapons of all sorts at this time.                                    

Out with the Squad and in with the Quad! Featuring Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem), Emily Schrader (Activist and Journalist), Ashira Solomon (African American Jew & Political Moderator) and Vivian Bercovici (Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel) will give a voice to everything Israel and Jewish from a unique female perspective. Here - Everything is on the table.  This is from Israel, and I get this news on youtube.  

I am ashamed.  All I hear on our news is about Samantha of ABC's kidnapped mother that hasn't been found who now has a million dollar reward if someone can tell where she is and the information gets her back home.  Trump and his entourage seem to know nothing about the alternative people of Iran's Ayatollah government who have already created a REVOLUTION with the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi at the helm, but still in the States.  They don't seen to understand that over 40,000 to even 120,000 or more, G-d forbid, have been slaughtered by the Iranian present government for their rebellious acts.  They haven't heard of them going into hospitals and shooting the injured from the REVOLUTION in the head.  All of this blood and gore is brought on by Trump saying that if they start killing people, he would come to their aid.  The people trusted him.  To this moment, and I'd like to see something happen right now, it hasn't happened.  So we hear how Trump wants to make a deal with the DEVIL, and one can't do such a thing.  To think that Syria will soon be in the mire of all this is very sad.  They could be the king pin to stopping it. 

That and Tariffs and buying countries such as Venezuela, Greenland, maybe Denmark, etc, Cuba,  when the East wing of the Whitehouse has been pummeled and destroyed, left a destroyed heap of trash with the promise of becoming a ballroom .  

Resource:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-9SE9mf2Rc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dS1cGdue_o&t=39s

https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/global-risks-eu-2026-what-are-main-conflict-threats-europe#:~:text=Europe's%20top%20risk%20in%202026,as%20on%20traditional%20military%20instruments.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prosecutors-investigating-claims-turkish-girls-were-trafficked

Syria's Concerned Citizen, Jack

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

I wrote a book about Jack Huffman, who dictated his life story to me.  He knew that I had written Letters From Israel, so thought that perhaps I could take on another story to write.  This time the communication was done, not in letters, but in messages.  It was just about at the time of the Syrian Civil War which started on March 15, 2011. Jack was about 30 years old then.  The Syrian Civil War began in March 2011,  originating from pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring that were violently suppressed by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Following the initial unrest, armed opposition groups formed, escalating the conflict into a full-scale war by the summer of 2011.  "

I got to share some things in our messages, and he to me.  I thought he was from New York, and was surprised to find he was in Syria!  That was a shock because Syria and Israel were enemies.  Here we were, becoming friends through messages.

Jack felt he was in a dangerous spot.  He was an engineer working on a building project in Damascus.  He had gone to college in Damascus and in Lebanon.  He had a step-mother and step sisters to think about.  They had decided to leave Damascus temporarily and move to Egypt.  

Here is a hotel in Egypt.  He lived in a neighborhood of like people probably all from Syria. The chapter I remember best writing about was the dog in his neighborhood and what the head of a terrorist group was going to do with it.  Jack saved its life, having a cat of his own and loving animals.   

We kept on communicating.  He thought he might be killed in the conflict so asked me to write a book.  After that, it was several years before I heard from him again.

He was back in Damascus. His real name was Omran Alhalabi.   

In Syria he had lived fairly close to the President Assad and had gone to school with his daughter.  In those days he was concerned about finding his birth mother, and working in Egypt.  He was keeping up with Assad's government dealings as well as the USA's.  

                                            

Icarius/Iakos of Sparta Found In Today's Syria

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                                                                        

    Laconia is a prefecture and region in the southeastern Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, with the city of Sparta serving as its capital. Situated in the Eurotas River valley, ancient Sparta was geographically defined by the Taygetus Mountains to the west and the Parnon range to the east.                                                              

                                                                           

      Omran Alhalabi is fighting like Iakos to change the reign in Syria of

 

Jolani. Now, we don't know about Omran, but his father, Mohammad, was a dairy cattle buyer and went out into the country for his business.  His father was also an Arab Mason .  In the 1940s, Freemasonry in Syria was a prominent, lawful, and elite social institution, with lodges often composed of Arab nationalists, intellectuals, and politicians, such as Prime Minister Ata al-Ayyubi. 

                                         Omran's father

•  Lodges included high-ranking politicians, businessmen, and intellectuals. Key figures included Ata al-Ayyubi (Prime Minister) and Hanna Malek (Secretary-General of the Syrian Premiership). : Contrary to being secret, lodges were officially registered with the government, paid taxes to the Ministry of Finance, and required a clean judicial record from the Ministry of Justice for membership.
•  Meetings often incorporated the Syrian national anthem, Humat ad-Diyar, and the three-star independence flag.  Lodges in the 1940s were often connected to the National Grand Lodge of Egypt or French Grand Orients. The influential role of these, often Christian or elite Muslim, members faded as the political landscape shifted, leading to an official ban by the Ba'athist government in 1965.  By that time, Omran couldn't join him as he was only 15.  
• These registered lodges, frequently linked to French Grand Orients, supported independence, displayed the flag with three stars, and included influential figures, functioning as a "who's who" of Damascus society until they were banned in 1965.  

Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, and now goes by his birth name, Ahmed al-Sharaa (or Ahmed al-Shaar).   He began using this name in official communiqués in December 2024 to rebrand himself and bolster his legitimacy as he took control of the country.                         

 Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has worked for years to rebrand himself, but has he truly broken from his extremist past?  Omran says Jolani is still Jolani and hasn't changed;  only his methods have.

The leader of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani—has worked for years to distance himself from his al-Qaeda roots, but establishing legitimacy in the eyes of the international community will be an uphill battle. There’s also a major question about whether Syria’s instability could cause it to once again become a safe haven for terrorist groups such as the Islamic State to flourish.

                                         Dr. Aaron Zelin

Zelin’s research focuses on Syrian politics in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime; he studied the group that took over the country for a decade and a half prior to Assad's departure. He also explores Sunni jihadi groups in the Levant, North Africa, the Sahel, and Afghanistan as well as the trends of jihadi governance, online mobilization, and foreign fighting. He has conducted field research in Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel. Zelin has also testified and served as an expert witness in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and with the Department of Justice in federal judicial terrorism trials.

Dr. Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he also directs the Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map project. Zelin is also a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, founder of the widely acclaimed website Jihadology, and a contributing writer for War on the Rock’s Adversarial newsletter. He is author of the book Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad (Columbia University Press), which was nominated for the Neave Memorial Book Prize in 2020. His second book, The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, was published in 2022 by Rowman & Littlefield. Zelin is currently working on a third book tentatively titled Heartland of the Believers: A History of Syrian Jihadism.

Foreign Policy reporter John Haltiwanger spoke with Washington Institute expert Aaron Zelin, who wrote a book on HTS, to find out more about Jolani’s origins, his efforts to rebrand, and what’s potentially in store for Syria now that he’s the country’s de facto ruler.

Foreign Policy: Bashar al-Assad is gone, and HTS has taken over in Syria. Can you talk about the evolution of Jolani and HTS and how we got to this point?  Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was a Sunni Islamist political organisation and paramilitary group involved in the Syrian civil war.

Zelin: Jolani was originally a foreign fighter in the Iraq War. He went from Syria to Iraq and joined up with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and [his organization] al Qaeda in Iraq. He spent some time in the infamous Camp Bucca prison. And then he became the emir or leader of the Nineveh region in western Iraq for the Islamic State of Iraq, which was essentially the predecessor group to what we now call the Islamic State. 

After the Syrian uprising began, Jolani talked to [Islamic State leader] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi about a project in Syria. By summer 2011, Jolani went to Syria to build a new organization called Jabhat al-Nusra. It was essentially an official branch of the Islamic State of Iraq... 

  Omran  must feel like Iakos of Sparta in trying to take down a terrorist President. Sparta was the  ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece.  Archidamus V, a 3rd-century BCE Eurypontid Spartan king, is a notable example of a leader perceived as weak who was removed by another. After fleeing following his brother Agis IV's murder in 241 BCE, he was recalled by Cleomenes III in 227 BC but was assassinated shortly after his return, with historian Polybius accusing Cleomenes of the murder.   Archidamus V was part of a turbulent era where Spartan leadership was often unstable, frequently involving internal power struggles and assassinations rather than external defeat.

Iakos or Agis I (flourished 11th century bc?) was an early Spartan king, traditionally held to be the son of Eurysthenes (in legend, one of the twins who founded Sparta). Because the Agiad line of kings was named after him, Agis was perhaps a historical figure. The 4th-century-bc Greek historian Ephorus attributes to Agis the capture of the city of Helos in Laconia and the reduction of its people to helot (serf) status.

Eurysthenes was a semi-mythical, 11th-century BCE founder and first king of the Agiad dynasty in Sparta, ruling alongside his twin brother, Procles, to establish Sparta's unique dual-monarchy system. As a Heracleid descendant of Heracles, he led the Dorian conquest of the Peloponnese and was considered the elder twin.

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About the Authors

Aaron Y. Zelin

Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where his research focuses on Sunni Arab jihadist groups in North Africa and Syria, foreign fighting, and online jihadism.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/what-know-about-man-who-toppled-assad

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/aaron-y-zelin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archidamus-V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurysthenes#:~:text=Eurysthenes%20(Greek:%20%CE%95%E1%BD%90%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B8%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82%2C%20%22,of%20the%20Kings%20of%20Sparta.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry_in_Syria#:~:text=Freemasons%20had%20to%20kiss%20the,some%20content%20of%20the%20meetings.

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