When a retired military officer disappears from public view, it usually passes without much notice.

For nearly half a century, Iran’s Islamic Republic has been ruled by a clerical elite claiming divine authority over the state.

Texas Democrats just put on a show that would make reality TV producers blush... and not the good kind. In Tuesday’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, fiery U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett got trounced by state Rep. James Talarico. Instead of a graceful concession speech, Crockett rolled out the conspiracy playbook faster than you can say “stop the steal”—except this time, she was pointing the finger at Republicans for rigging her own party’s primary.

One thousand, seven hundred targets. Struck in just three days. These include IRGC headquarters buildings across multiple provinces, Iranian Navy vessels ranging from fast attack craft to larger surface combatants in the Persian Gulf and beyond, numerous ballistic missile production facilities and storage sites, sophisticated air defense networks with systems like the S-300 and indigenous variants, and deeply buried command-and-control bunkers designed to withstand conventional attacks.