What is the Real Reason Trump Bombed Iran Today?

Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News

UPDATE:

Since the publishing of this article, Iranian Press has announced that Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has been martyred ^[1].

After weeks of speculation and reporting that the U.S. and Israel were about to bomb Iran, it finally happened earlier today, Saturday, February 28, 2026.

This story will now dominate news headlines for the next several days, at least.

I have purposely not reported on previous news reports about the “imminent” attack on Iran, because it was not clear yet if the U.S. was building up their military in the area to try and force Iran into some kind of deal, or if the Zionist Trump administration was waiting to see if the Epstein files saga would finally blow over and cease being part of the corporate news stream.

I have also been carefully monitoring the moves in the stock markets on Wall Street, because as long as the stock market kept climbing and enriching the billionaires, war was not really necessary.

Well apparently the dam broke this past week, as the most explosive report yet out of the Epstein files clearly showed a cover-up with the FBI and an alleged victim of abuse by Trump as a minor, and Wall Street took massive losses in the final day of trading this week as fears grew over the actual state of the U.S. economy, and the future of Big Tech.

Trump’s Epstein Problems that Will NOT Go Away

NPR ^[2] was the first corporate media source who reported on the Justice Department and FBI cover-up that links Trump to Epstein and abusing children.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

Excerpts:

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appear to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents ^[3] published at the end of January.

NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

The Justice Department declined to answer NPR’s questions on the record about these specific files, what’s in them and why they are not published.

After publication, the Justice Department reached out to NPR, taking issue with how its responses to questions were framed. Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre reiterated DOJ’s stance that any documents not published are privileged, are duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation.

Following NPR’s reporting, the House Oversight Committee’s ranking member, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., released a statement about the missing files.

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes,” Garcia stated.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have already been investigating this allegation against the president and will now open a parallel investigation into the DOJ’s decision not to release these particular documents.

Full article. ^[2]

This is a very serious matter, because if Trump’s DOJ broke the law, a lot of people should go to prison, including Trump.

Here is a 12-minute video from MS Now with Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, which will show just how serious and damaging this is.

(If the YouTube video doesn’t load, there is a backup copy here ^[4].)

Big Tech Stands up Against Trump??

The other big story this week that I was tracking was Anthropic’s refusal to “take the guard rails off” of its AI app that was being used by the Pentagon.

Anthropic stated that it refused to allow Claude, its AI app, to be used for “mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons.”

This infuriated Trump and his sidekick Pete Hegseth, who heads up the Department of War, who promptly “Black Listed” Anthropic after a Friday deadline passed.

This resulted in Anthropic’s Claude AI app to leapfrog OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini as the top AI app in the Apple Store. It became the #2 downloaded app altogether, after standing up to Trump.

From CNBC ^[6]:

Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple’s chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday, hours after the Trump administration sought to block government agencies’ adoption of the startup’s technology.

The rise in popularity suggests that Anthropic is benefiting from its presence in news headlines, stemming from its refusal to have its models used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons.

“The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution,”

President Donald Trump wrote in a Friday Truth Social post.

Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he asked that Anthropic be labeled as a supply-chain risk to national security, and therefore, no U.S. defense contractor would be able to draw on Anthropic tools.

“It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement.

“But given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider.”

Historically, other AI chat apps have been more popular among consumers than Claude. OpenAI’s ChatGPT sat at No. 1 on the App Store rankings on Saturday, while Google’s Gemini was at No. 3.

The Claude iOS app has gained momentum this month. On Jan. 30, it was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it bounced between the top 20 and the top 50 for much of February, according to data from analytics company Sensor Tower. The data shows ChatGPT has held on to the No. 1 spot for most of February.

Full article ^[6].

This has had a “ripple effect” across Silicon Valley, as The Information reported ^[5] in their weekend edition today, where employees at these Big Tech companies have been divided about using their technology for war in the Middle East, and in particular against Palestinians.

Military Worries Simmer at OpenAI, Google As Anthropic Hits Stalemate With Pentagon

Anthropic’s refusal to cooperate with the Defense Department is having ripple effects across Silicon Valley.

Excerpts:

The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over how the Pentagon can use the startup’s AI has turned into a standoff.

The agency has given the company a Friday evening deadline to give it unfettered access to its technology—or else be cut off from working with military contractors.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei continues to refuse to do so.

“Threats do not change our position,” he wrote in a blog post ^[7] published on Thursday.

“We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”

If the dispute involved only the Pentagon and Anthropic, the feud would still represent an intense, intrigue-filled drama.

But what’s now becoming clear is that the feud has implications extending beyond Anthropic, raising questions about what will happen next at Google, OpenAI and the other AI companies that have lined up military deals.

Amodei has refused to budge on two issues: He doesn’t want Anthropic’s AI used to surveil Americans or to make decisions on lethal autonomous weapons without human supervision.

And now OpenAI has told the Pentagon that it shares the same concerns, an OpenAI spokesperson said on Friday, declining to comment on how its own negotiations with the Pentagon were proceeding.

Within OpenAI, employees are watching the negotiations closely and discussing what it could mean for their company, according to a current employee. And more than 60 OpenAI employees and over 300 Google employees have signed on to a public pledge asking their companies to copy Anthropic’s safeguards.

Within Google, over 200 employees at the company’s AI research unit, Google DeepMind, signed a letter this week asking the company to ban uses of its AI involving mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Full article ^[5]. (Subscription needed.)

Was War with Iran Trump’s Last Shot to Save His Presidency?

The war with Iran has many implications, not the least of which is the control of the flow of the world’s oil. We can be sure that China and Russia are working behind the scenes with Iran supplying intelligence, and probably weapons, to keep the flow of oil flowing.

Since Trump already played the “nuclear weapons” card to justify his strikes against Iran last year, claiming that they put Iran’s nuclear program back decades to rebuild, this time he is claiming that the goal is regime change.

However, if the Trump administration’s hope was for a quick strike to take out Iran’s political and military leaders, they may have failed. Iran was much more prepared this time, after last year’s war, and have made a concerted effort to rid themselves of American technology, such as banning Musk’s Starlink Internet service.

At the time of my writing this, Israel and Trump are claiming that Khamenei was killed by a strike on his home, but Iranian officials dispute that, stating that is alive and well.

(If this YouTube video does not load, there is a backup copy here ^[8].)

 

Please be aware that the U.S. corporate media, whether Right or Left, has been handed their scripts as to how to cover this war. Be sure to also track the English news coming out of the Middle Eastern news sites to get a full picture.

PressTV.ir ^[9] – Iranian TV

Middle East Eye ^[10]

Al Jazeera ^[11]

Al Mayadeen ^[12]

I have been watching video clips come in from Telegram all day, and most of them are Iranian bombs falling on the rich Arab Gulf states’ most modern cities, such as Bahrain, Dubai, and the United Arab Emirates, home of the rich and wealthy.

Seeing a skyscraper being bombed in Bahrain is rather remarkable, to me.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Middle East, Bahrain is a small island that is accessible by bridge from the eastern portion of Saudi Arabia, where I lived for several years as an English professor.

I have been to Bahrain multiple times when I lived in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in the 1990s, and it is basically a very modern city.

From the initial video footage coming in right now, it appears that Iranian forces are concentrating on the rich Arab nations that have allowed the U.S. military to occupy their countries for many years, in return for access to their oil.

If that is the case, it is an interesting strategy by the Iranians, by targeting not only just U.S. military sources, but the major suppliers of OPEC.

Pepe Escobar just a while ago posted an image from X on his Telegram channel stating that Trump is already getting pressure to call for a ceasefire:

I don’t know if this is true or not, but it would not surprise me at all if these rich oil Sheikhs are frantically calling him up whining about their cities being bombed.

I would imagine that the members of the Saud family are not sleeping too well tonight….

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This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI) ^[14]

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