US_ Sen. Ron Johnson Urges Trump to 'Finish the Job' Against Iran (Charlie McCarthy - NEWSMAX)

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Sen. Ron Johnson Urges Trump to 'Finish the Job' Against Iran

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By Charlie McCarthy | Sunday, 12 April 2026 03:48 PM EDT


Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Sunday urged President Donald Trump to "finish the job" in Iran by making sure the regime "can never produce a nuclear weapon."

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Johnson argued that while the conflict with Iran may be complex and prolonged, the stakes are too high for the U.S. to back down before neutralizing the threat posed by Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

"We have to finish the job," Johnson said, emphasizing that success means ensuring Iran can no longer enrich uranium, threaten global energy routes, or sponsor terrorism.

Johnson framed the confrontation not as a war against the Iranian people, but against a regime he said has waged hostilities against America for decades.

He pointed to Iran's long history of backing terrorism and targeting American forces, arguing that decisive action is necessary to protect U.S. national security and global stability.

The senator's remarks come after high-stakes negotiations with Iran failed to produce a deal, raising the likelihood of continued conflict.

Johnson said he was not surprised by the breakdown in talks, describing Iran's leadership as deeply entrenched and prepared for confrontation after decades of defiance.

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OPINION_ Iran Sounds Like It's Scrambling to Save Face in Response to Trump's Action in the Strait (Nick Arama - TOWNHALL)

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Iran Sounds Like It's Scrambling to Save Face in Response to Trump's Action in the Strait

By Nick Arama | 5:15 PM on April 12, 2026

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AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein 


As we reported earlier, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would be taking control of the Strait of Hormuz, blocking ships as they cleared the area for mines, and then saying it would be open to all. Basically, they would be cutting off Iran's ability to use it as a chokehold.

Trump said they would not be allowed to profit from their actions in the Strait.

The US has also deployed minesweepers to the Strait of Hormuz to rebuild confidence among oil vessels seeking to traverse the critical chokepoint in the future.

“We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!” Trump warned. 

The U.S. already demonstrated that power by having two warships transit the Strait, and Iran was unable to stop them.


READ MORE: Here We Go: Trump Announces Major US Action in Strait to Shut Down Iran

US Navy Destroyers Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz Without Incident and Without Permission


So that's left Iran scrambling to save face.

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TIPSHEET_ This New Poll on Iran Is Eye-Opening (Joseph Chalfant - TOWNHALL)

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TIPSHEET

This New Poll on Iran Is Eye-Opening

Joseph Chalfant | April 12, 2026 6:00 PM

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With the conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran geared to restart after peace talks stalled on Saturday night, a new poll shows that President Donald Trump’s agenda with the Persian state is quite popular amongst Americans.

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Three fourths of respondents to the YouGov poll indicated that they believed that the objectives of Operation Epic Fury were agreeable, with nearly 90 percent stating that they believed that the Strait of Hormuz needs to be reopened and that oil needs to flow through the Gulf states once more. 76 percent desire a permanent end of Iranian nuclear weapons development.

Furthermore, more than half of respondents claim that it would be unacceptable to end the conflict if the Islamic regime continues to retain power.

Just hours after peace talks broke down, reportedly due to the Iranians wholly rejecting American demands, Trump announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be blockaded. The Iranians had made their demands clear that any oil shipments made through the Strait would be subject to a $2 million fee. Trump further indicated that ships which paid the fee would be subject to interdiction.

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TIPSHEET_ Strait of Hormuz Blockade to Begin on Monday at 10 A.M ET (Scott McClallen - TOWNHALL)

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TIPSHEET

Strait of Hormuz Blockade to Begin on Monday at 10 A.M ET

Scott McClallen | April 12, 2026 5:16 PM

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The U.S. will start the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Monday at 10 a.m. ET.

President Donald Trump announced the blockade on Sunday morning after negotiations failed. Iran refused to stop seeking nuclear weapons, Trump said in a Truth Social post.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will run the blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation. 

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EDITORIALS_ No asylum for America’s enemies (WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

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No asylum for America’s enemies

By Washington Examiner
Published April 12, 2026 5:00am ET | Updated April 12, 2026 1:32pm ET

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The United States has a ceasefire with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Our nation and Israel fought a 38-day war against an avowed enemy and the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. It did so while supporters of the evil regime lived in luxury on American soil.

The U.S.’s immigration vetting system is clearly broken. Foreign nationals who seek or support the downfall of the U.S. should not be allowed to live within its borders.

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OPINION_ Is Xi Jinping’s Reign at Risk? (Stu Cvrk - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Is Xi Jinping’s Reign at Risk?

China’s problems are mounting.

Security stand guard outside before the closing session of the rubber-stamp Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11, 2026. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Stu Cvrk
4/10/2026|Updated: 4/12/2026

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China observers have been speculating considerably on the stability of the Chinese communist regime over the past year.

The real estate crisis, the Trump reciprocal tariffs, the unsettling purges of senior military leaders and others (Politburo member and former Xinjiang chief Ma Xingrui was ousted in early April), and now the exposure of the apparent vulnerability of frontline Chinese armaments deployed to Iran to U.S. weaponry have placed extreme pressures on Zhongnanhai to the point that some are speculating that Chinese leader Xi Jinping may be in severe political danger moving forward.

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US_ Here We Go: Trump Announces Major US Action in Strait to Shut Down Iran (Nick Arama - REDSTATE)

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Here We Go: Trump Announces Major US Action in Strait to Shut Down Iran

By Nick Arama | 10:45 AM on April 12, 2026

The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com

AP Photo/Nathan Howard


As we reported on Saturday, the negotiations with Iran failed.

It was likely a foregone conclusion, but having done it, no one can say they didn't offer the choice to Iran to have some sense. But Iran, being Iran, chose to miscalculate again.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the main problem was the refusal to give up their nuclear ambitions, and there couldn't be a deal unless that was off the table. That was the main reason for Operation Epic Fury. He said that he could not let "Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people."

Then came the hammer on Iran. Trump said the U.S. would be blocking the Strait to clear any mines that Iran my have left, then they would be allowing ships through. He also indicated they would have help in that endeavor.

So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not. Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote.
"At some point, we will reach an 'ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT' basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, 'There may be a mine out there somewhere,' that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted," Trump continued.
"I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their 'Leaders,' are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition," he said.
"The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully 'LOCKED AND LOADED,' and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!" he added.

As we reported, U.S. ships had already passed through the Strait.


READ MORE: Iran Tries to Play Games, but Trump Just Let Them Know How Few Cards They Have

US Navy Destroyers Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz Without Incident and Without Permission


Now, Iran will likely try to attack the ships. They have missiles, drones, and they have small attack boats that aren't necessarily part of the regular navy, but the military likely anticipates those moves, as Trump indicated. Iran will not be able to overcome the U.S. military. The military had already been softening up the targets along the Strait that may have posed a problem.

Iran chose unwisely. Now they're going to find out that the control they thought they had isn't much.

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OPINION_ For Standing Up to Terror, World Owes Trump a Great Debt (Dick Morris - NEWSMAX)

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OPINION

For Standing Up to Terror, World Owes Trump a Great Debt

(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

By Dick Morris
Friday, 10 April 2026 06:48 AM EDT
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In the new asymmetric world of threatened global economic suicide, President Donald Trump has stripped the terrorists of a terrifying weapon in their toolbox: the threat that the collateral damage of their own and the world's economists' overreaction to the use of military force might sink economies globally.

In our incestuously interconnected economies, the ayatollahs and others have been able to threaten the world with the closing the Straits of Hormuz — that shaving off a few tenths of a point in economic growth would bring disastrous political consequences in our evenly balanced partisan alliances and calculations.

But now a political leader has summoned the courage to defy the threat and prove it to be hollow. By standing up, Trump has, in effect, told a timid world, "Bring it on and make my day!"

More than any strategic advantage that will come from calling Iran's bluff, is the tactical fact that it can no longer threaten global economic suicide.

Just as MAD — Mutually Assured Destruction — held global insanity in check during the Cold War, so mutually Assured Economic Destruction has threatened us since.

But not any longer. Trump figured out a way to beat it.

By decapitation strikes early in the war, he assured that enemy calculations would at least be sane and that the madmen were dead.

Just as nobody was willing blow up the world during the Cold War, Trump proved that nobody was willing to blowup their civilization by economic suicide.

It took a leader like Trump who had no skin in the game or oil at risk in the Straits of Hormuz to take the chance.

He did and his courage worked.

It was a messy process and the brinksmanship we witnessed caused more than a few migraines, but Trump has brought us through it — in great shape.

It was the fate of great writers and creators like Michalangelo and Tolstoy never to have finished their works of art and literature.

Now, the Donald Trumps of foreign policy may likewise never finish their works of diplomacy. The Gaza peace isn't complete, and we wait tensely to see if the Straits will remain open.

Now, we seemed to have turned the corner, and the process of peace begun.

The world owes Donald Trump a great debt.

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POLITICS_ Scott Bessent Warns Banks on AI Cyber Threat ( Charlie McCarthy - NEWSMAX)

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Scott Bessent Warns Banks on AI Cyber Threat

By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 10 April 2026 09:48 AM EDT


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly met with banking leaders this week to discuss the cyber risks posed by Anthropic's latest artificial intelligence model amid growing concern that rapid advances in AI could outpace safeguards designed to protect the U.S. financial system.

According to a report Friday by the Financial Times, Bessent convened executives from Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo while they were in Washington for a banking industry meeting.

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell also attended. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was invited but unable to participate.

The urgency behind the meeting centers on Anthropic's newly unveiled AI system, "Claude Mythos Preview," which experts say has demonstrated a strong ability to identify software vulnerabilities — capabilities that could be used defensively, but also weaponized by bad actors.

Anthropic acknowledged that its model can surpass most human programmers in detecting exploitable weaknesses, reportedly uncovering thousands of severe vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers, including some that had gone undetected for decades.

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WORLD_ New: US Navy Destroyers Lead Mine-Clearing Charge in Strait of Hormuz (Ward Clark - REDSTATE)

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New: US Navy Destroyers Lead Mine-Clearing Charge in Strait of Hormuz

By Ward Clark | 2:30 PM on April 11, 2026

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CREDIT: Department of Defense//US AFRICOM Public Affairs Office


The Strait of Hormuz, it is becoming apparent, is not and never will be an Iranian lake.

Earlier this morning, my fellow veteran, friend and colleague streiff informed us of the transit of the Strait by two United States Navy destroyers, the USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), safely transited the Strait of Hormuz.


Read More: US Navy Destroyers Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz Without Incident and Without Permission


Now, Central Command, which has operational control of United States forces in that theater, has announced the intent to begin mine-clearing operations. 

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