Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has gone underground, reportedly hiding out in a bunker out of fear of being wiped out by US airstrikes — as the USS Abraham Lincoln steams toward the Persian Gulf.

We are living in a time of kings and kingdoms shaking before judgment, as neither flesh nor blood but principalities are visibly at war on the earth. In today’s headlines, there are multiple reports that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has moved to a fortified underground shelter because of the growing threat of military action from the United States, including a U.S. carrier strike group steaming toward the Middle East.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Matthew 24:6 (KJB)

The Iranian regime, for decades antagonistic to both Israel and the U.S., now faces internal collapse and external pressure. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has bluntly stated its force has its “finger on the trigger” and remains ready to respond, while Iranian officials have warned that “any attack on Khamenei would be treated as all-out war.” Usually, Iran is just bluffing, and in an head-on confrontation they usually back down. But one of these days, mark my words, they won’t, and we’ll see some real damage done in the Middle East.

Iran’s supreme leader retreats underground, warned of likelihood of US airstrikes

FROM THE NY POST: The 86-year-old supreme leader has moved to a fortified shelter in Tehran connected to a series of elaborate underground tunnels after senior military officials warned of the increasing likelihood of an imminent US attack, Iran International reported, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Khamenei has left his youngest son Masoud Khamenei, 53, in charge of running the day-to-day management of the Islamic Republic, the Jerusalem Post reported. Masoud Khamenei’s emergency duties include being the primary communication channel with the regime’s executive branch, according to the report.

Iran has deemed the likelihood of US airstrikes to be high after President Trump announced Friday that warships were headed to the Middle East as a warning to the ayatollah, following a continuing war of words between the two leaders in recent days.

Trump boasted Friday that the US Navy was sending a massive “armada.”

The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, which includes three destroyers, is currently motoring from the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf region of Iran, Stars and Stripes reported. Publicly, Tehran has not backed down from heightened tensions with the US as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened to treat any attack against the supreme leader by the US or Israel as “an all-out war against us.”

It’s not the first time the supreme leader has holed up underground. Khamenei also went silent after retreating to a bunker last June, during the 12-Day War with Israel. He reportedly had even drafted a list of potential successors in the event he was killed in the short-lived conflict.

His latest X post this year threatened to go after both internal and international “criminals” who he claimed were responsible for the widespread protests that have gripped the nation since Dec. 28. Those protests — against a disastrous economy that came on the back of the worst drought the country has seen in decades — have seen regime forces gun down at least 3,000 civilians, with some groups claiming the death toll as high as 20,000. READ MORE

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posts unverified account of ‘sonic mystery’ directed energy weapon used in Venezuela attack.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just did a really, really weird thing. She’s the official spokesperson for the President of the United States, and on the official Press Secretary social media channel on X, she urged all Americans to “Stop what you are doing and read this…” What does she want us all to read? A completely unverified account by a “witness to the attack” telling us about mystery weapons ‘being used to ‘bring the Venezuelan security forces to their knees without a fight’. Hmm…

“Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.” Isaiah 26:2 (KJB)

I’ll be honest with you. When I first heard of this story, it sounded like a winner. A witness on the ground in Venezuela who watched it all unfold, describing the piercing agony of Maduro’s soldiers being brought to their knees with super-advanced ‘mystery weapons’ that sounded a like a Directed Energy Weapon. Wow, that’s great stuff! I was all set to run with that story until (insert the sound of screeching brakes) I saw it also posted on the White House Press Secretary’s social media page, tantalizingly unverified. You would think that for someone like Karoline Leavitt, who makes her living dishing out only verified accounts of what the president is saying, she could have taken 5 minutes and verified her post. But she didn’t. Why not? Maybe this account is true, but if it is, why is the official spokesperson for the president being so coy about it? It sounds to me just like the type of self-glorifying “press release” you’d expect from the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from WWII. Everything you need to make an informed decision follows below, please post your comments and let us know if you think this is all legit.

US used powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees during Maduro raid: witness account

FROM THE NY POST: The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.

In a jaw-dropping interview, the guard described how American forces wiped out hundreds of fighters without losing a single soldier, using technology unlike anything he has ever seen — or heard.

“We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,” the guard said. “The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.” Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared — “barely eight,” by his count — deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area. But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.

“They were technologically very advanced,” the guard recalled. “They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.” What ensued, he said, was not a battle, but a slaughter. “We were hundreds, but we had no chance,” he said. “They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute.” Then came the weapon that still haunts him.

“At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it,” he said. “It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside.” The effects were immediate and horrific.

“We all started bleeding from the nose,” he said. “Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt’s sharing of the post — captioned, “Stop what you are doing and read this…” — indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.

Stop what you are doing and read this…
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— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 10, 2026

An estimated 100 Venezuelan security forces were killed in the Jan. 3 attack, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. It is unclear if any of those were caused by the mystery weapon. The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.

“Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us,” he claimed. “We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The US has had so-called directed energy weapons technology for years, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post, noting that some systems have  the capability to produce at least some of the symptoms, including “bleeding, inability to move or function, pain and burning.”

“I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States,” he said. “They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.”

The guard said the raid has already sent shockwaves across Latin America — especially after President Donald Trump recently warned that Mexico is now ‘on the list.’ “Everyone is already talking about this,” he said. “No one wants to go through what we went through. What happened here is going to change a lot of things — not just in Venezuela, but throughout the region.” READ MORE

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U.S. military forces have successfully taken control of the Russian-flagged Marinera oil tanker in the North Atlantic Sea, it has been confirmed

This is a breaking news story, and events are being updated in real-time, but that said, it looks like Trump just authorized the military to take control of a Russian oil tanker, with new information now saying that the seizure has been successful. Will Russia take this lying down, or will there be serious consequences to it? In case you haven’t been paying attention, the entire world is entering into a period of geopolitical realignment, and that’s an understatement. War is coming, so buckle up.

“How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?” Jeremiah 48:14 (KJB)

The U.S. seized two oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela last month as part of its blockade of sanctioned oil shipments to and from the country. Trump said Tuesday that Venezuela would hand over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., as its vast reserves emerged as a key pillar of his plans — and a point of tension with Russia and China. Christian, things are heading closer and closer to an end times boiling point, make sure your lamps have plenty of oil, you’re gonna need it. We will update this story as more information becomes available. TO THE FIGHT!!!

US forces seize sanctioned, Russia-flagged oil tanker Marinara that eluded Venezuela blockade

FROM THE NY POST: US forces boarded and seized sanctioned oil tanker Marinera Wednesday morning, more than two weeks after it eluded a blockade around Venezuela and was reflagged as a Russian vessel in a failed bid to evade capture.

Military and Coast Guard personnel boarded the ship, formerly known as the Bella 1 and now called the Marinera, in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the British Isles, US European Command confirmed.

“The vessel was seized in the North Atlantic pursuant to a warrant issued by a U.S. federal court after being tracked by USCGC Munro,” the Stuttgart, Germany-based command said in a statement. “This seizure supports the president’s Proclamation targeting sanctioned vessels that threaten the security and stability of the Western Hemisphere.”

The ship dodged a sweeping US quarantine of vessels transporting oil to and from Venezuela — a blockade that President Trump imposed late last year ahead of Saturday’s arrest of the South American country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.

“The blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in FULL EFFECT — anywhere in the world,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth proclaimed after the successful seizure. READ MORE

How A Tanker Is About To Cause A Full-Fledged Russia-NATO War

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