Despite billions of US tax dollars spent and two weeks of planned #Pentagon & Israeli attacks on #Iran that have killed well over a thousand civilians, a “multitude” of intelligence reports from various govt agencies have furnished “consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger” of collapse. The hardline muslim govt “retains control of the Iranian public.” and similarly vetted assessments cast doubt on ability of rebel #Kurdish #militias to srly mount a sustained insurgency capable of destabilizing the state.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-intelligence-says-iran-government-is-not-risk-collapse-say-sources-2026-03-11/

@ElectricTrike in fact #Iran-backed #militias in #Iraq seem to exercise so much control to have blackmailed the governments into shutting down #oil products and refineries entirely to the point that #RollingBlackouts and #FuelScarcity already harm society.

Trump weighs support for Iranian militias to topple regime

https://misryoum.com/us/politics/trump-weighs-support-for-iranian-militias-to-topple/

Iran has 'zero' options left, former Top Gun pilot says Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley, retired Navy Top fighter pilot, analyzes Gen. Dan 'Raizin' Caine’s Iran briefing, warning that while the U.S. maintains total air superiority, 'friendly fire' remains the greatest...

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Blow after blow to the power of Iran and its proxy militias set the stage for US-Israel attacks

https://misryoum.com/us/politics/blow-after-blow-to-the-power-of-iran/

As Israel unleashed a sweeping military response to the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, assault by Hamas, it aimed punch after punch at the power of Iran, the militant group’s longtime sponsor, and its other proxies and allies in the region.The...

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Blow after blow to the power of Iran and its proxy militias set the stage for US-Israel attacks

As Israel unleashed a sweeping military response to the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, assault by Hamas, it aimed punch after punch at the power of Iran, the

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One of the most prominent Iraqi #militias, #KataibHezbollah, on Thursday issued a public statement urging its fighters to “be prepared to engage in a #war of attrition that may be prolonged & exceed the expectations of the #US administration.” It also issued a warning to the #Kurdish regional government in #Iraq “against collaborating with hostile foreign forces” that “could threaten its security & future.”

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Two officials with different #Iran backed #militias in #Iraq told The Associated Press that a meeting took place two months ago between Iranian officials & allied Iraqi militias to make plans for a response in case Iran was attacked, including distributing tasks among the Iraqi armed groups.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

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"Homan’s return has been welcomed by nearly all of the career ICE and CBP officials I’ve been in touch with, many of whom say that Trump’s deportation campaign—whose goals they largely share—will be more effective if it is more low-key and less provocative. That means returning to a focus on immigrants with criminal records (including those with nonviolent offenses such as illegally reentering the United States) and those who disobey deportation orders from immigration courts.

Homan has worked under Democratic administrations—he received an award from President Obama in 2015—and is well versed in the arguments about public safety and crime that ICE leaders have long used to defend the agency when its legitimacy has come under attack. It was Homan who, after Trump appointed him to lead ICE in 2017, famously said that officers would be freed from “the shackles” of tighter oversight. Now it’s Homan’s job to restore some of those restraints.

At the White House, Miller is still running 10 a.m. conference calls six days a week to issue orders and demand updates on the metrics that matter most to him: deportations, new-ICE-officer deployments, and prosecutions. ICE field commanders have not been waved off the ambitious arrest quotas he set last May, and they remain under orders to maintain staffing levels at 70 percent, even on the weekends, two current officials told me."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/minneapolis-ice-dhs-noem-homan/685916/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyRrxG88ijDh5CgB76wlvbSY

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ICE After Minneapolis

Trump’s team wants a reset on its mass-deportation goals, not a retreat.

The Atlantic

"Amid tensions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota and beyond, federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.

The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.

The shift comes as the administration has deployed thousands of masked immigration agents into cities nationwide. A week before the memo, it came to light that Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of the agency, had issued guidance in May saying agents could enter homes with only an administrative warrant, not a judicial one. And the day before the memo, Mr. Trump said he would “de-escalate a little bit” in Minneapolis, after agents fatally shot two people in the crackdown there.

The memo, addressed to all ICE personnel and signed on Wednesday by Mr. Lyons, centers on a federal law that empowers agents to make warrantless arrests of people they believe are undocumented immigrants, if they are “likely to escape” before an arrest warrant can be obtained."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

The New York Times