BELLEVUE—A couple of hundred people made their voices heard at the Lion and Sun Rally in Downtown Bellevue on Saturday to protest against the atrocities of the Iranian Ayatollah regime and demanding justice for the roughly 40,000 Iranians killed in a January protest crackdown.
“People should know that the Islamists in Iraq and in Lebanon and other places in the Middle East have killed thousands of Americans without any nuclear weapons,” Hossein Khorram, former co-chair of the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy and Finance Co-Chair of the Washington State Republican Party, told the Lynnwood Times as he marched with rallygoers. “Now Islamic terrorism and ideologues, ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the Iranian regime want to put their hands on nuclear weapons. We should not allow that to happen. The day that happens, that’s going to be the first day we have to kiss our liberties and freedoms goodbye.”
Hossein shared that people he has spoken to have loved ones in Iran are telling them that they are afraid of the bombs from Operation Epic Fury but are “more fearful than Islamists taking over and controlling the situation after this war is over.”
Operation Epic Fury, launched on Feb. 28 at President Donald J Trump’s direction, has decimated much of Iran’s senior leadership and security apparatus in what officials describe as the largest concentration of U.S. firepower in the Middle East in a generation. Iranian state media confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening salvo, along with dozens of other top regime figures.
President Trump ordered the strikes after determining that diplomacy had failed and that Iran’s ballistic missile program and nuclear ambitions posed an imminent threat.
Among those killed in the initial strikes were several of Iran’s highest-ranking officials: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohammad Pakpour; Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh; senior Khamenei adviser Ali Shamkhani; Armed Forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri; and IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami. Nearly 50 regime leaders died within the first 50 seconds of the opening barrage, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
The operation has also claimed the lives of senior figures tied to Iranian-backed proxies, further weakening what the Trump administration calls the “Axis of Terror.”
As of April 3, the Pentagon reported 13 U.S. troops killed and 365 wounded in action supporting the operation.
A dramatic rescue operation unfolded on Friday and Sunday of a pilot and a weapon systems officer after their F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over southwestern Iran.
“This is a moment that ALL Americans, Republican, Democrat, and everyone else, should be proud of and united around. We truly have the best, most professional, and lethal Military in the History of the World. GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL,” President Trump released in a statement on the rescue operation by Navy SEAL Team 6 commandos, supported by other special operations troops, CIA assets and overhead air cover.
U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper said in a March 31 briefing that Iran’s military has been “decimated” while U.S. and partner forces have struck more than 7,000 targets with “speed and precision.”
Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and thousands of drones in retaliation, hitting every country in the Middle East and as far west as Cyprus.
Trump told reporters earlier this week that Operation Epic Fury is “nearing completion” however on Easter Sunday, President Trump announced he is giving Iran roughly 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping and reach a comprehensive peace deal, warning that failure to comply would trigger massive U.S. strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges starting Tuesday.
Trump wrote: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH!”
Iran’s retaliatory blockade of the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows — has effectively been shut down after the launched Operation Epic Fury almost six weeks ago.
Iran dismissed the latest warning as “foolish” and “unbalanced.” Ali Abdollahi, a senior Iranian commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said the gates of “hell” would be opened to the United States if it attacked civilian infrastructure.
Author: Mario Lotmore
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