The early moves are being played out in a game of strike and counterstrike that could land the Middle East and this country in war within six weeks, maybe sooner. This publication has predicted this since election day.

Battle indicators include Iran recalling home spec op officers at their embassies, Iran ratcheting up the rhetoric to stir up an internal pretext for war after the likely joint US-Israeli operation that killed Iran’s top nuclear scientist, and the decision of the US to move the Nimitz Carrier Group back into the area. It had left station not long ago. The US 5th Fleet in Bahrain is likely on alert.

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FNC on the internal situation in Iran: “Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday demanded the ‘definitive punishment’ of those behind the killing of a scientist who led Tehran’s disbanded military nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic blamed Israel for a slaying that has raised fears of reignited tensions across the Middle East. After years of being in the shadows, the image of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suddenly was to be seen everywhere in Iranian media, as his widow spoke on state television and officials publicly demanded revenge on Israel for the scientist’s slaying. Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian scientists a decade ago amid earlier tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program, has yet to comment on Fakhrizadeh’s killing Friday. However, the attack bore the hallmarks of a carefully planned, military-style ambush, the likes of which Israel has been accused of conducting before.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Fakhrizadeh was “the country’s prominent and distinguished nuclear and defensive scientist.” He said Iran’s first mission after the killing was the “definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it”

Iranian President Rouhani said, “We will respond to the assassination of Martyr Fakhrizadeh in a proper time. The Iranian nation is smarter than falling into the trap of the Zionists.” Actually no, they’re not.

FNC on US naval preparations: “Hours after the attack, the Pentagon announced it had brought the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier back into the Middle East, an unusual move as the carrier already spent months in the region. It cited the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq as the reason for the decision, saying ‘it was prudent to have additional defensive capabilities in the region to meet any contingency.’ ”

That is a deliberate obfuscation. Though the phrase “any contingency” hints at the real reason the Nimitz Carrier Group was recalled to the region. All concerned know that the Biden administration will reenter the Iranian Nuclear Treaty and back down to the Iranians in any circumstance. Thus the US and our allies like Israel, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain, and Egypt know they have about six weeks to plan and launch an air/ground/cyber operation to destroy the Iranian nuclear capability for good. The Iranians know it too.