Iran: The Long Expected Attack on Iran has Begun. What Happens Next?

Unlike the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, everyone on Earth knew this was coming.

The United States has been building up naval and air assets around Iran for months

while President Trump has talked about removing Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. After thousands of Iranian protesters were killed by their Ayatollahs in recent months, it is hoped that an attack that keeps Iran’s military and police distracted could provide the Iranian people with a chance to overthrow the unpopular regime of Islamic fundamentalists.

Iran’s people enjoyed far more freedom and modernity before the Islamic revolutionaries took over in 1979, overthrowing Iran’s Shah and taking American embassy staff hostage for over a year. Their culture and economy have been stalled for generations. Most of Iran’s people will be better off if they get rid of their current government.

Iran also has a long history of sponsoring terrorist activity. Are you old enough to remember the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 that killed 241 U.S. Marines? Or the bombing of the Jewish Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people in 1994? There is quite a long list of terrorist events sponsored by Iran, killing on every continent including events from from France to Kenya to the United States to Australia - and not that anyone has forgotten, Iran’s main proxies like the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Israel, and especially Hezbollah throughout the Middle East, were sponsored by Iran for terrorist events like the October 7 massacre that killed well over a thousand Israelis a few years ago.

So it is no surprise that Israel, the target of so many Iranian attacks, has again partnered with the United States to attack Iran. Some pundits - like Tucker Carlson, recently - have pointed out there is no direct Iranian threat to the United States. He seems to suggest that any American attack against Iran is really done for Israel’s benefit.

It’s true that Iran is not on America’s border and poses no direct military threat to the United States. But on the great global chessboard, Iran’s government has been an enemy since 1979 when they immediately took American hostages. If they want to chant “Death to America” and hijack planes and blow up buildings around the world they should expect that some United States presidents won’t just drop of pallets of hundred dollar bills to fund them like Obama did. Others like Trump will try to make sure they don’t develop nuclear weapons.

It’s easy to argue that an attack on Iran is more for Israel’s benefit than America’s. I would say the threat to America is just as real, but less direct. Israel is the bulwark of the West; if the Islamic world ever realizes how weak Western Europe is and wants to take it over as Nostradamus predicted would happen prior to 2028 - then mass immigration and destroying Israel almost have to be early steps in that plan.

If the world is viewed as a chessboard, China and Russia may be the other side’s king and queen, but Iran has long been the third strongest member of that alliance, like an annoying rook that can’t be ignored. In 2026, President Trump is no longer ignoring it. He is taking action to make sure that Iran, a dominant regional power in the Middle East, does not acquire the weapons needed to become a major power.

What Happens Next? Will the queen move to protect the rook? Will China come to Iran’s Rescue?

A recent article on Zerohedge says - not directly. “Beijing can adopt a model similar to its approach to the Ukraine conflict: refraining from direct participation while maintaining normal state-to-state relations with the party under attack, providing political and diplomatic support at the UN, and continuing economic engagement that doesn’t violate international law.

What we are witnessing is not traditional alliance politics, but something new: a form of strategic partnership designed for a multipolar age. China offers Iran diplomatic protection, institutional integration, visible military cooperation and an economic boost - all without crossing the line into a direct confrontation that would trigger a wider war.

For those asking whether China will “rescue” Iran, the answer depends on definition. If rescue means troops and battleships, the answer is no. If rescue means ensuring that Iran can survive, resist, and eventually negotiate from strength, the answer is quietly, persistently and strategically yes.”

Others report that China has already supplied Iran with defensive weapons including long range missiles like the Dong Feng 17 which can take out aircraft carriers. Don’t be surprised if the U.S. Navy loses at least one (as Nostradamus described WWIII would start with a Crusader navy taking major damage from Persia.)

Time will tell soon enough what comes next.