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Saturday, February 28, 2026

IRGC names Vahidi new commander-in-chief

 Brigadier General Ahmad Vahid  was chosen to replace Mohammad Pakpour as commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), it was announced in a statement.

Pakpour was previously pronounced dead, following the latest United States-Israel attacks on the country.

Not too long ago, the IRGC vowed to avenge the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promising to launch "the most formidable offensive operation in the history" against the US and Israel soon.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/IRGC-names-Vahidi-new-commander-in-chief/65768993

Trump offers Khamenei’s backers immunity now — or ‘only’ death later

 President Trump on Saturday offered the remaining Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the chance for “immunity” after a joint US-Israeli military operation wiped out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top Iranian leaders. 

Trump said the ayatollah’s supporters should back down now — or else they’d suffer grave consequences later.

“We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us,” Trump said in a social media post. “As I said last night, ‘Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!'”

Trump called the killing of Khamenei “justice.”

“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Trump went on to say Khamenei, who ruled Iran for over 36 years, couldn’t avoid American missiles.

“There was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do,” he wrote, adding: “This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.”

He urged the country’s military and secret police to work with the “patriots” to bring Iran together. And he warned the bombing will continue.

“The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!”

hamenei’s heavily fortified compound was destroyed in the bombing campaign. Around 40 top Iranian defense officials were also killed, according to Fox News.

Senior administration officials said Iran posed an “intolerable risk” to the US with its missile threat and, during negotiations, wouldn’t accept “free nuclear fuel forever” –- all of which led up to Saturday’s attack on Tehran.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sitting in front of a patterned background with two microphones in front of him.
This handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a religious gathering in Tehran on February 19, 2026.KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images

The US had “indicators” that Tehran was going to launch a preemptive strike against American assets in the region. A US official pointed to Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in the region, including ones in Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as evidence of the risk.

“The president decided he was not going to sit back and allow American forces in the region to absorb attacks from conventional missiles. We had analysis that basically told us, if we sat back and waited to get hit first, the amount of casualties and damage would be substantially higher than if we acted in a preemptive, defensive way to prevent those launches from occurring,” the official said.

Another senior administration official described the final talks with Iranian officials and revealed the astonishing offer the Americans made.

“One of the things we offered – we said, we will give you free nuclear fuel forever,” the official said. “And they basically said that didn’t work for them. They needed to enrich uranium.”

The Trump administration said Iran’s nuclear capabilities were destroyed in Operation Midnight Hammer last year, but were concerned that Tehran was preparing to ramp them up again.

That fear is one of the reasons the bombing will continue throughout the week.

Trump told Axios that he has options: “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days.”

The president’s MAGA base will likely not tolerate a drawn conflict. European leaders also have expressed their concern about the stability of the Middle East.

Trump, however, sounded confident that no matter how long the bombing continued, Iran was being neutralized as a threat.

“In any case, it will take them several years to recover from this attack,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/president-trump-announces-irans-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-is-dead-justice/

Iran said to have targeted CIA HQs in Dubai

 Iranian media outlets reported that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters has been targeted in Iran's strikes on Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The report remains unverified, however. Earlier on Saturday, Iran repeatedly attacked US assets in the United Arab Emirates and other countries in the region.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-said-to-have-targeted-CIA-HQs-in-Dubai/65768980

Iran vows massive attacks on US, Israel soon

 Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it would launch the most offensive military operation in its history against Israel and US bases in the Middle East. The threat follows the official confirmation from Tehran of the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes on Saturday.

"The most formidable offensive operation in the history of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will begin within moments toward the occupied territories and the bases of the American terrorists," the organization warned.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-vows-massive-attacks-on-US-Israel-soon/65768981

Attacks against NYPD officers rise in Mamdani’s first 2 months, cops irate over mayor’s insulting attitude

 Assaults against cops are snowballing.

Attacks against NYPD officers are up 3% in the first two months of the Mamdani administration when compared to the same period last year – and cops are fuming that his insulting attitude toward police is putting targets on their badges. 

There have been 253 assaults on NYPD officers so far this year, counting the two cops pelted by snowballs and ice in Washington Square Park on Monday, according to NYPD data.

Two officers were injured, one with a cut to his eye area and the other suffered a headache from getting hit in the head.DCPI

“The criminals and even some people who are sitting on the fence take their cues from the politicians and the prosecutors,” said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

“They can say ‘I assaulted a cop and [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg won’t prosecute me,'” he said. “‘I got the mayor advocating for me.’ So this is this is a golden opportunity. It’s going to be a long, hot summer is my prediction.”

There were no arrests during the incident in the famed Greenwich Village park.

Mamdani then repeatedly shrugged off the melee as a “snowball fight” and kids fooling around — but experts, cops and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch clapped back.

“A snowball fight is when you throw a snowball at me and I throw a snowball at you,” said Chris Herrmann, a retired NYPD officer and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 

Police were seeking three other people from the Washington Square Park melee.DCPI

“It’s not a snowball fight. It’s cops being attacked with snowballs.”

Some of the snowballs were the size of boulders, and many of the marauders were grown men, video shows.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was eventually arrested and charged with felony assault, but Bragg threw out the assault charge. He was charged with harassment and obstruction of governmental administration — a lowly violation and misdemeanor, respectively.

The NYPD released photos of four suspects.DCPI

The YouTube star had a prior arrest earlier in the month for an attempted robbery in the Brooklyn subway that he said was a prank he was filming for social media.

Tisch said Friday she “will not tolerate any attacks on my cops — period” during a promotion ceremony at One Police Plaza.

A police officer with more than two decades on the job said he and his coworkers are disgusted with Mamdani’s comments.

“He’s always told us that he doesn’t like us,” said the officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not permitted to speak to the media. “Now he’s showing us that he doesn’t like us.”

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, had a prior charge of attempted robbery on the subway from earlier in February.AP

Another veteran police officer said the people who attacked the officers were clearly out to hurt them.

“This was an ambush,” the officer said.

The frozen fracas is just the tip of the iceberg, critics said.

Mamdani, who has called for defunding the police in the past, posted on Twitter that cops were “racist,” “anti-queer,” “wicked,” and a “major threat to public safety” during the BLM riots of 2020.

He stopped his blatant anti-police rhetoric during the run-up to the 2025 mayoral election, but some police unions were angered over his support of a man who was shot after lunging at police officers with a knife in January.

The incident has exposed a rift between Mayor Mamdani, who called it a snowball fight, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who called for criminal charges.DCPI

The mayor visited Jabez Chakraborty in the hospital and said he shouldn’t face charges. Chakraborty, who is schizophrenic, was eventually indicted on attempted assault and weapons possession and held on $50,000 cash bail.

Recent high-profile assaults against NYPD officers included a scrum with migrant Tren de Aragua-linked punks in Times Square in May. In July, a female officer’s arm was bitten by a loon she was trying to arrest in the Flatiron District.

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said the increasing assaults “show why it’s dangerous for the mayor to downplay an attack on police officers.

The police were still looking for three people who participated in the melee.Getty Images

“Assaults on our members have gone up because those who target police officers are becoming bolder and bolder,” the union boss said. “They don’t believe they’ll face any consequences. The environment isn’t going to change until the justice system and every leader in this city starts backing us up.”

Policing expert Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at John Jay, said criminals “feel like they’re not going to get prosecuted.

“It’s the revolving door policy,” he said. “This guy, he’s charged with [obstructing governmental administration] and he’s out the next day. That sends the wrong message.”

https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/attacks-against-nypd-officers-rise-during-mamdanis-first-2-months/

Epstein Had More Female Accomplices: Some Were Masquerading As Victims

 by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

New revelations from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna expose Jeffrey Epstein’s network as a sophisticated honeypot operation likely tied to foreign intelligence, designed to compromise powerful figures through sex trafficking and blackmail.

Luna, leading the congressional probe, asserts the scandal runs deeper than previously known, with inconsistencies in plea deals for key female accomplices fueling suspicions of a cover-up to protect the elite.

Based on evidence reviewed in the investigation, Luna stated that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence-gathering operation, stating “In my professional opinion, I do believe it was a honeypot operation.”

“It has become very evident…that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence gathering operation,” Luna continued, noting “We might be able to get justice.”

She elaborated, “I do believe that Jeffrey Epstein was targeting many politicians, many influential people, especially in regards to economic policy. I do believe that it was possible that not just (Bill Clinton), but Secretary Clinton as well as a number of other people were targeted.”

Luna called for subpoenas on four women identified as co-conspirators: Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff.

These individuals received immunity under Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement, despite allegations of scheduling abuse, recruiting victims, and participating in acts.

Luna also highlighted other discrepancies, such as Susan Hamblin sending an email in which she told Epstein his “littlest girl was naughty,” yet receiving victim status and a plea deal.

The Congresswoman also pointed to Nadia Marcinkova, who sent explicit emails as an adult co-conspirator but was granted victim status.

Luna demanded, “The DOJ NEEDS to re-open these cases, adding that the “Previous DOJ let them off.”

She added, “Why were a number of Epstein’s co-conspirators given plea deals for trafficking minors? Child sex traffickers do not deserve plea deals or immunity. EVER.”

Barry Levine, author of “The Spider,” reinforced on Jesse Watters’ show that female co-conspirators received plea deals for trafficking.

Levine noted models from around the world were involved, echoing Luna’s foreign ties concerns.

Jesse Watters highlighted, “Hillary did seem perceptive to the idea.”

In another major development in the case, former President Bill Clinton testified under oath that President Trump was not involved at all with Epstein to his knowledge.

Clinton stated, “Trump has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved [with Epstein].”

Luna confirmed, “President Trump has been exonerated. He is not considered a person of interest in our Congressional investigation.”

She accused Democrats of smearing Trump, saying, “Democrats continue to insist otherwise to smear him and sabotage his presidency. It’s a political game to them.”

“We had cooperation, we asked the victims directly and he was exonerated,” Luna said.

Fresh documents from the mass file release have also revealed a shocking intrusion into the FBI’s NYC office on Super Bowl Sunday in 2023, resulting in the loss of approximately 100TB of evidence.

FBI Special Agent Aaron Spivack detailed the breach in a declaration, stating, “500 terabytes of data was gone as a result of the intrusion. I was able to recover about 400 terabytes of that data, however. I was told to Google how to recover the data. No one else tried to help us.”

Spivack described discovering unusual activity: “Around 3:30pm or so we located the log files and began combing through, which is when we noticed strange IP activity that took place yesterday from two IP addresses. The activity included combing through certain files pertaining to the Epstein investigation.”

He continued, “I reached out to one of the case agents to see if they were in the office yesterday, thinking that maybe they inadvertently changed a setting on the NAS or if they noticed anything strange about them.”

Further investigation revealed, “Around 4/4:30pm we dove into the IPs and checked all of our computers to see which had the IPs in question. One computer, our discovery computer, matched one of them and is located in a room next to the lab. The other IP is one we don’t recognize, but it is the same address as the IP on our network, leading us to believe it was a computer that accessed our network somehow.”

Spivack concluded, “We were not able to identify the computer, but it had to have accessed our network either by being plugged into the network, or possibly by telnetting in virtually.”

This breach raises serious questions about security lapses and potential efforts to suppress evidence in the Epstein case.

These disclosures build on anomalies detailed in our prior reports, where DOJ documents referenced Epstein’s death as a “MURDER” and highlighted red flags like mismatched autopsy details and missing footage.

The inconsistencies point to elite protection of the operation. 

Theories that both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were intelligence operatives linked to Mossad, other foreign entities and a “supra government” shielding elites have exploded online.

As demands for the full client list grow, these revelations expose a web of elite impunity. The public deserves unredacted truth to dismantle any remaining deep state shields.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/epstein-had-more-female-accomplices-some-were-masquerading-victims