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CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (David Wurmser) - Qalibaf the monster

Over the last few days, the name of Muhammad Baqr Qalibaf, the former mayor of...

Over the last few days, the name of Muhammad Baqr Qalibaf, the former mayor of Tehran, keeps bubbling up as some sort of “Delcy Rodriguez” type figure, namely a relatively “moderate” regime figure with whom we might be able to do business were the government to fall to his control. Moreover, there are voices in Iran itself maneuvering to install Qalibaf instead of Mojtada Khamenei, son of the late, Ali Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader. This is a dangerous proposition that will make things worse for the United States, to say nothing of Iran and other affected countries. Venezuela is nothing like Iran. And for all her evils, Delcy Rodriguez, successor to Venezuelan cartel leader Nicolas Maduro, is practically benign compared to…Open

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - Iranian regime posed an imminent threat to US homeland: analysts

Original interview by NTD News

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the leader of an Iranian unit who allegedly made an assassination attempt on President Trump has been “hunted down and killed.” To find out more, NTD spoke to Grant Newsham, retired U.S. Marine Col. and former U.S. diplomat, as well as senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and Bryan Leib, foreign policy analyst and former executive director at Iranian Americans for Liberty. -Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Joseph Addington) - U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in Dramatic February Underperformance

State of the Union: Unemployment continues to creep up in 2026. The post U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in Dramatic February Underperformance appeared first on The American Conservative .

U.S. employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, far worse than economists’ expectations of a 50,000-job gain, while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in their latest report Friday.  The report also revised January payroll growth down to 126,000 from 130,000 and December to a loss of 17,000 from a previously reported gain of 50,000. The revisions make 2025 the first year with five months of net job loss since 2010. Health care payrolls fell, largely because a Kaiser Permanente strike temporarily sidelined 31,000 workers, while technology, federal government, transportation and warehousing also weakened. In addition, labor-force participation decreased, suggesting that some workers are giving…Open