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Global Daily: The New Age of Empires

2 March 2026 3:10 RaboResearch

As we’d repeatedly warned, the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday morning, and not a ‘one-and-done’ strike aimed at more negotiations. Rather, it's an operation to destroy Iran’s nuclear program remnants, its ballistic missile production and stockpiles, its navy, and to back *regime change*. Both the U.S. and Israel are calling on the Iranian people to rise up as they physically remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council (IRGC) and Basij religious police. That said, it’s up to the Iranians and them alone.

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