Iran claims world will be 'astonished' by new weapons, Trump in 'deciding mode'

Iran claims world will be 'astonished' by new weapons, Trump in 'deciding mode'

• - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Monday that President Donald Trump is “always open to a deal” when asked whether the president would consider meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

• - IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said Tehran would change both its weaponry and targets in response to renewed U.S. military action, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.

• - Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Sunday reported that Trump said he is in “deciding mode” and warned Iran that “big things” could happen if Tehran does not “behave.”

  
  

  
  

  Iran warned Monday that it could deploy new weapons and expand the geography of the conflict if the United States launches another offensive, as President Donald Trump weighs his next move in the war.

  IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said Tehran would change both its weaponry and targets in response to renewed U.S. military action, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.

  “We will introduce new weapons with new capabilities into the battle, and the world will be astonished,” Mohebbi said, according to Iran International. He also claimed Iran has targets that have not previously come under attack and is prepared for a prolonged conflict.

  Trump, meanwhile, told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Sunday that he is in “deciding mode” and warned Iran that “big things” could happen if Tehran does not “behave.”

  "It's basically three things,” Trump said. “Wipe it out, let it rot with the economy, or make a deal."

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea in latest Pacific Ring of Fire activity

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea in latest Pacific Ring of Fire activity

Angela Fortuna 

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has once again rattled the Pacific Ring of Fire — this time in Papua New Guinea.

The earthquake struck at 9:17 a.m. UTC, and was felt across the island country. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at a depth of about 64 miles, approximately 30 miles from Kainantu.

The USGS said the population in this area resides in structures that are a mix of vulnerable and earthquake-resistant construction. Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides and liquefaction.

The agency reports that the quake happened on the Australia-Pacific plate boundary, which is about 2,500 miles long, spanning from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the Solomon Islands.

The UN Wants The Keys To AI - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The UN Wants The Keys To AI - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

 PNW STAFF

Artificial intelligence may become the most powerful information technology humanity has ever created. It will increasingly determine what people read, what children learn, how governments operate and, perhaps most importantly, what billions of people believe to be true.

So there is a question just as important as what AI will eventually be capable of doing:

Who gets to make the rules?

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres wants the UN to play a major role in answering that question. 

The organization has launched a Global Dialogue on AI Governance, created an international scientific panel on AI and is pushing countries toward greater cooperation over how this technology should be controlled.

AI certainly presents enormous risks. But before giving an international institution greater influence over the rules governing the world's most powerful technology, perhaps we should examine the institution asking for the keys.

This Is About More Than AI Safety

The UN's Global Digital Compact explicitly calls for enhanced “international governance of artificial intelligence” and says the United Nations has “an important role to play in shaping, enabling and supporting” that governance.

The architecture is already taking shape: scientific panels, global dialogues, international cooperation and interoperable standards.

Each sounds harmless enough by itself.

Together, however, they create something much more significant — an international framework capable of influencing how governments regulate a technology that could eventually mediate much of humanity's access to information.

And information is where this becomes especially dangerous.

Who Decides What AI Is Allowed To Tell You?

The Global Digital Compact doesn't stop with dangerous AI systems. It also addresses “information integrity,” misinformation, disinformation and hate speech while promoting international cooperation over how these issues should be handled.

That raises an enormous question:

Who determines what constitutes misinformation?

Increasingly, people won't search ten websites and compare competing arguments. They'll ask an AI assistant a question and receive one synthesized answer.

What caused this war? Was this election fair? What does the Bible teach about sexuality? Is this medical treatment safe? Is this religious belief hateful? Who has the historical claim to Jerusalem?

AI won't simply locate information. It will select, summarize, interpret and prioritize it.

Control the standards governing AI and you potentially influence the gatekeeper through which billions of people understand the world.

Israel Should Be A Warning

For Christians and supporters of Israel, the UN's record should immediately raise concerns.

Israel has faced extraordinary scrutiny throughout the UN system. The advocacy organization UN Watch counted 15 General Assembly resolutions concerning Israel in 2025 compared with 11 concerning all other countries combined.

Then came the UNRWA scandal. A UN investigation examined allegations involving 19 employees following October 7 and ultimately concluded that evidence concerning nine indicated they “may have been involved” in the attacks. Those employees were fired.

Now imagine similar institutional judgments filtering into artificial intelligence.

Who determines how AI describes Jerusalem?

Who defines “occupation,” “terrorism,” “resistance,” “settlements” or “genocide”?

Who determines whether Israel's biblical and historical connection to the land is legitimate history or religious mythology?

Today's diplomatic battles could become tomorrow's algorithmic assumptions.

And unlike a UN resolution that most Americans will never read, an AI-generated answer could reach hundreds of millions of people.

International institutions are run by people. They can be slow. They can succumb to political pressures. They can get things wrong.

Yet during a crisis, their conclusions can quickly acquire enormous authority.

Now imagine those judgments incorporated into AI systems answering billions of questions every day.

A mistaken press conference eventually disappears.

An assumption embedded throughout an AI information ecosystem can reproduce itself endlessly.

Previous generations worried about governments controlling newspapers, radio stations and television networks.

AI changes the scale entirely.

Imagine a generation that rarely reads primary documents or visits individual news organizations. People simply ask their AI what happened.

AI explains history. Summarizes news. Teaches children. Answers religious questions. Recommends financial decisions. Determines which sources appear credible.

Soon AI agents may conduct transactions, interact with governments and manage parts of people's digital lives.

Whoever substantially influences the rules governing those systems possesses something far more consequential than traditional media influence.

They influence the gatekeeper itself.

The Prophetic Dimension Is Difficult To Ignore

Revelation 13 describes a future system of extraordinary centralized power under the Antichrist, eventually reaching into something as basic as whether individuals can “buy or sell.”

For nearly 2,000 years, such worldwide control would have been practically impossible.

Not anymore.

Digital identity, biometric authentication, programmable digital currencies, mass surveillance, interconnected databases and artificial intelligence are creating capabilities ancient empires could never have imagined.

AI could become the connective tissue holding much of it together — identifying individuals, analyzing behavior, detecting prohibited activity, processing transactions, monitoring communications and determining access to digital systems at extraordinary scale.

Now place those technologies alongside the growing push for international governance.

The Bible describes a final period in which political authority, economic control and spiritual rebellion converge under one ruler. Our generation is constructing technologies capable of enabling levels of centralized control that previous generations could scarcely comprehend.

That should make Christians pay very close attention when the world's most powerful technology begins converging with increasingly ambitious systems of global governance.

The UN wants a greater role in governing AI.

But the deeper question is where this road eventually leads.

Because humanity is rapidly building an AI infrastructure powerful enough that whoever ultimately controls it could exercise a degree of influence over information, identity and economic participation unlike anything the world has ever seen.

And Scripture has already warned us that one day, someone will.

Majority Of Israelis Fear October 7-Style Attack From Judea And Samaria

Majority Of Israelis Fear October 7-Style Attack From Judea And Samaria

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Seventy-seven percent of Israelis, including 86% of Jewish Israelis, believe a large-scale terrorist attack modeled on the October 7 Hamas massacre could originate from Judea and Samaria, according to new polling data released by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). The number has climbed steadily for over two years, and it now sits alongside a defense establishment warning that the threat is not theoretical.

The JCFA survey, conducted September 2-4 among 703 Jewish and Arab Israelis by Dr. Menachem Lazar’s Lazar Research Institute, found that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 67% of all Israelis oppose establishing a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines. That opposition has held remarkably steady since October 7, 2023, according to the JCFA, which has now tracked the question across seven consecutive surveys spanning 30 months.

What has not held steady is fear of the West Bank itself becoming what the JCFA calls Israel’s “next front.” In February 2025, 62% of Israelis and 68% of Israeli Jews told JCFA pollsters they were concerned about an October 7-style attack from that direction. Nineteen months later, in the September 2026 survey, that number reached 77% overall and 86% among Jewish Israelis. Even on the political left, where respondents were evenly split at the start of the tracking period, 58% now say they are concerned, compared to 32% who are not.

The fear is not confined to abstract polling. Defense Minister Israel Katz announced this month that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have instructed the IDF to prepare for what he called “an all-out war” against Palestinian Authority officials and infrastructure if Israel identifies signs that PA-linked security forces are preparing an October 7-style assault. 

“If the security apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority and the bodies associated with them launch, or we know for certain that they are about to launch, an October 7-style terrorist attack against forces and Jewish settlements,” Katz said the IDF has been ordered to move against “all terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria.”

The warning follows research published by the JCFA in July, authored by Lt.-Col. (res.) Adv. Maurice Hirsch, documenting what he termed a “turning the guns” scenario: the possibility that Palestinian Authority security personnel, trained and armed under the framework of the Oslo Accords, could turn those weapons on Israeli civilians and soldiers. 

Hirsch’s study found that PA security forces have grown to roughly 70,000 personnel, some 133% beyond what the Oslo Accords permit, with the overage in Judea and Samaria alone reaching approximately 400% above the authorized limit. Those forces are now armed with rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched missiles, according to the study, and Hirsch identified four separate 22-kilometer routes by which PA forces could reach Israeli population centers in a short span of time.

When JCFA pollsters asked the Israeli public to rank the threats the next government should prioritize, the “turning of the guns” scenario in Judea and Samaria scored 3.6 on a six-point scale, placing it above concerns about Hezbollah’s rebuilding in Lebanon and behind only the reconstitution of Iran’s nuclear program and Hamas’s rearmament in Gaza.

Two years after October 7 reshaped Israeli public opinion almost overnight, driving opposition to Palestinian statehood from 69% to 79% in a matter of weeks, the numbers coming out of Judea and Samaria suggest that trauma has not faded. It has migrated. 

What began as a hardened consensus against a Palestinian state has become, three surveys and thirty months later, a specific and rising fear about where the next attack will come from. Israel’s defense establishment, judging by Katz’s warning this month, appears to be operating on the assumption that the public’s instinct is correct.

Iran's Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks

Iran's Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks

TYLER DURDEN

Iran's central military command has announced it believes the United States has made the decision to resume military attacsk on the Islamic Republic.

Citing the country's General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, state media IRIB states that "According to intelligence received, the US has once again decided - with the green light from certain regional countries - to resume actions against Iran during a joint meeting in a European nation."

At the same time Iranian leadership again warned US allies in the region that they'll be considered "complicit" if the US resumes it military assault on the Islamic Republic. The Iranian military HQ stated that "any mistakes will result in painful attacks."

Tehran further indicated Sunday that it is still awaiting Trump's response to its conditions for ending the war. Its chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf confirmed to AFP that Iran's demands were sent to Washington via the Qataris.

Starting Saturday night there was an avalanche of online chatter over potential new escalation, given President Trump abruptly cut short a visit to Camp David.

Some pundits saw in this a sign of some kind of imminent military action in the Middle East, also amid reports that extra military hardware is being sent to the region.

But others have suggested this is just setting up for another TACO moment, and reports of escalation is just the White House trying to instill fear and uncertainty in Tehran.

There's also speculation that Washington could be moving towards direct intervention in the Saudi-Yemen conflict, after the Houthis have been attacking key Saudi Aramco oil sites. Also, Riyadh has just come under attack for the first time of the war.

In the background is a new State Department warning to Americans to avoid all travel to the Middle East. A statement indicated that the Iran war could quickly worsen.

“This military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly. Americans outside the Middle East should seriously reconsider travel to and through the region,” the State Department said late Saturday on X. It said that Americans currently in the region should "exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions."

Russia downs 1,600 Ukrainian drones in ‘unprecedented’ attack during elections – Moscow mayor

Russia downs 1,600 Ukrainian drones in ‘unprecedented’ attack during elections – Moscow mayor

RT

Two civilians were killed and several others, including two children, were injured in Moscow Region during a powerful Ukrainian drone raid that was aimed at derailing Russia’s parliamentary elections, local officials said.

In a statement on Sunday, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said more than 1,600 UAVs were repelled since the previous day, adding that 450 UAVs were intercepted on approaches to the capital.

“The unprecedented attack was clearly planned to disrupt the elections. The enemy failed,” he said.

Several drones reached the premises of the Moscow Oil Refinery, where one unidentified facility was damaged, and one struck a residential building, according to Sobyanin, who said there were no fatalities in the capital.

The consequences of the raid, however, were much more destructive in the suburbs. Earlier in the day, Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov reported damage in the Ramenskoye District, southeast of Moscow, where a 44-year-old woman was killed and five others, including two children, were injured when a drone hit an apartment building in the village of Sofyino.

In the nearby city of Ramenskoye, around 400 people, including 70 children, were evacuated from a 21-story apartment block after falling drone debris sparked a fire on the roof, with 20 vehicles also damaged.

Another person was killed in the Orekhovo-Zuyevo District, where a private home was destroyed and caught fire during the attack. The victim was an elderly man who was inside the building, according to the governor.

Elsewhere in Moscow Region, a warehouse complex caught fire in Sofyino, and a drone struck an apartment building in Kotelniki, setting apartments on three floors ablaze. The authorities are still determining whether anyone was injured.

Private homes were also damaged in Kolomna and Yegoryevsk, while fires broke out at apartment buildings in the Leninsky District, Lyubertsy, and Lytkarino. A residential building and an industrial facility were damaged in Istra, with no casualties reported.

The massive raid struck Moscow and the surrounding region just hours before polling stations were due to open for the final day of Russia’s three-day parliamentary elections. Despite the attack, all 1,443 polling stations in Moscow opened on time, Moscow Election Commission Deputy Chairman Dmitry Reut told TASS.

Moscow has accused Kiev of undermining diplomatic efforts while publicly calling for renewed negotiations. On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Ukrainian leadership is “talking about peace” while doing everything to prevent peace and negotiations.

Earlier this month, Putin ordered large-scale retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in response to attacks inside Russia. Moscow has condemned the strikes on civilians as acts of terrorism, while maintaining that Russian forces only target military and defense-related facilities.

President Trump Reveals The Three Options He’s Considering for Iran as He Says: “Very Big Things Are Going to Be Happening…When Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?”

President Trump Reveals The Three Options He’s Considering for Iran as He Says: “Very Big Things Are Going to Be Happening…When Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?”

Cullen Linebarger

President Trump appears poised to take the Iranian War to another level after some interesting developments last night.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Trump cut his trip early to Camp David on Saturday night and touched down at the White House aboard Marine One.

At the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cut his trip to the US, canceled his visit to Texas, and flew back to Israel on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Iran issued a “Code 100,” its highest alert level for all armed forces. Then, a US Air Force B-1B bomber loaded with munitions took off from RAF Fairford Air Base in Britain.

As all of this was happening, Saudi Arabia started launching strikes in Yemen.

On Sunday morning, Trump spoke to Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst about the developing situation. Based on the president’s comments, something major is about to go down soon.

Trump told Yingst that he is in a “deciding mode” and that “very big things” are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future regarding the Iran War.

He went on to list the three options facing Iran as wiping them out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.

According to Yingst, Trump said the question going through his mind regarding Iran is “if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They’d better behave.”

Trump did say that he would probably be open to meeting with IranianPresident Masoud Pezeshkian after the regime sent a list of war-ending demands.

This would likely take place at this week’s United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, which Trump is scheduled to attend.

Trump also told Yingst that he is in “constant communication” with the Iranian-backed Houthis, and they have agreed not to fight the U.S.

Iran’s military command says it has been informed US plans to resume strikes

Iran’s military command says it has been informed US plans to resume strikes

 TOI STAFF

By REUTERS

Iran received information that the United States, with the backing of some regional countries, is preparing to resume actions against Iran, the country’s central military command says in a statement, according to state media.

The military says that any US attack will trigger sustained strikes on US bases and interests in the region, the report adds, warning that regional countries supporting US aggression against Iran will be considered parties to the conflict.

Netanyahu after West Bank attacks: We will hold all terrorists accountable

After a pair of terrorist attacks in the northern West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that “no terrorist is immune, nor are those who assisted them.”

“We will hold them all accountable — in Gaza, in Lebanon, and in Judea and Samaria,” he says in a statement released by his office shortly after a man was killed in a terror shooting near the Neve Tzuf settlement.

He says he instructed Israeli security forces to sent reinforcements to the West Bank, and to impose closures and carry out arrests. Netanyahu also orders that the home of a terrorist who was shot and killed after a separate attempted ramming attack today be demolished immediately.

“On behalf of all the citizens of Israel, my wife and I send our deepest condolences to the family of the victim of the attack and share in their profound grief,” says Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, President Isaac Herzog says in statement that terrorism will not break Israelis’ spirit.

“I bow my head in memory of the victim murdered in the terror attack,” says Herzog. “I share wholeheartedly in the grief of his family and community and pray for the recovery of the wounded.”

“On the eve of this sacred festival, let it be stated clearly: Terror will not break us, and it will not shake our spirit,” he continues. “We will stand against terror together, united, resolute, and full of faith.”

Police: Man shot in West Bank terror attack dies of his injuries

The Israeli man seriously injured in the shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Halamish has succumbed to his injuries, police say.

The man, in his 30s, had been inside his car at a natural spring in the area when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on bathers and fled.

Police say the man was taken to a hospital, where his death was declared a short while ago.

Police officers are operating at the scene alongside IDF troops to locate the terrorist.

The Arctic Front Of The "Cordon Sanitaire" Is The Most Threatening To Russia:

The Arctic Front Of The "Cordon Sanitaire" Is The Most Threatening To Russia

Andrew Korybko

The military-technical developments there aim to greatly mitigate Russia's nuclear second-strike capabilities via the Golden Dome in parallel with posing an unprecedented fifth-generation aerial threat via the F-35As that'll outmatch Russia's Su-57s by 10:1 without the US and 35:1 if it's included.

RT reviewed the 2026 Russian Military Yearbook, which is sponsored by the state arms company and meant only for senior members of the national security apparatus.

Their article can be read in full here, but the present piece will only focus on the part about "The Very Cold War". This is in reference to escalating NATO-Russian tensions in the Arctic. The Yearbook details NATO's large-scale military drills in the Arctic, its allies' arms build-ups, and their deep displeasure with Russia's Northern Sea Route.

Most alarmingly, the Yearbook mentioned that Finland plans to acquire 64 F-35As while Canada will receive 88 of them. It was separately reported that Norway already has 52 F-35As, which is more than double Russia's estimated 20 or so Su-57s, its fifth-generation analogue. Sweden doesn't yet have any fifth-generation fighters, but those other three Arctic states will have over 10x as many as Russia does. If the US' over 500 F-35As are included, then Russia's fifth-generation fighters will be outmatched by 35:1.

These statistics on their own show that the US is actively implementing its 2021 strategic plan for "Regaining Arctic Dominance" that was cited in the Yearbook, the latter of which also detailed some of NATO's new radar, drone, ship, icebreaker, missile, and other military-technical plans. They altogether lend credence to one of the cited Russian experts who warned that "Washington never abandoned the thought of redrawing borders in that area."

Here are five background briefings on this new front:

* 14 January: "Greenland Is The Crown Jewel Of 'Fortress America'"

* 21 January: "The US' Acquisition Of Greenland Could Lead To A Deal Over Canada's Arctic Islands"

* 21 May: "Finland Is On Track To Become One Of Russia's Most Intractable Foes"

* 6 September: "The Historical Russian-Swedish Rivalry Is About To Be Revived Later This Fall"

* 15 September: "Norway's Military Build-Up Against Russia Poses A Serious Threat To Arctic Security"

To summarize, Trump 2.0 is pursuing a three-pronged strategy against Russia:

1) build Golden Dome missile defense infrastructure in the Arctic to greatly mitigate Russia's nuclear second-strike capabilities; 

2) arm Canada and the Viking Bloc (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) to threaten Russia; and then 

3) likely push Russia's limits along the Northern Sea Route for the purpose of provoking a crisis that would then render this corridor dangerous and thus greatly reduce its use at minimum.

The pressure that the US is placing upon Russia along the Arctic front via these means complements that which it's also placing through Polish-led efforts in Central & Eastern Europeand Japanese-led ones in Northeast Asia. All of these fronts consist entirely of US mutual defense allies, but the Turkish-led one along Russia's entire southern periphery doesn't, yet a hypothetical special operation there (such as against Azerbaijan) might be deterred by the possibility of the US responding via the other fronts.

Simply put, a "cordon sanitaire" has been assembled around Russia, and this containment noose is being tightened the most by the military-technical developments along the Arctic front than anywhere else. Up till recently, this was the quietest front of the four, but that just shows that its members were moving silently to avoid attracting attention from Russia.

The latest Yearbook proves that the Kremlin had been monitoring them all along and is thus planning its response, however, so this front will likely heat up.