Operation Epic Fury has turned Iran into the most dangerous test of American power in a generation.
In the vacuum left by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, Mojtaba Khamenei steps into supreme authority under the shadow of an American president who publicly doubts he “can live in peace.”
From the first salvos on February 28, U.S. and Israeli forces have pounded thousands of targets: IRGC headquarters, missile plants, naval bases, submarines, command centers.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boasts that Iran’s air defenses are “flattened,” its submarine fleet gone, its ability to build new ballistic missiles shattered by overwhelming, precise force.
Trump’s message is clear: obstruct the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran will be hit so hard it may never rebuild as a functioning nation. Between a wounded theocracy and a president promising escalation, the question is no longer who blinks first—but what survives after they do.
