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President Donald Trump called on CNN to fire the lead reporter of the “Exclusive” article published earlier this week that revealed an alleged leaked Pentagon study stating that Iran’s nuclear sites were not completely destroyed.

I also reported on this story, as did every single corporate media outlet, two days ago:

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed. One of the people said the centrifuges are largely “intact.”

“So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” this person added.

The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said they disagreed with it. (Full article.)

CNN publicly supported their reporter:

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— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) June 25, 2025

However, the next day the CIA came out with their own analysis, and the same three reporters at CNN who published the Pentagon leak story, wrote this one as well, but Natasha Bertrand was listed as the 3rd reporter, not the lead reporter as she was on the first one.

I actually learned about the Natasha Bertrand controversy and Trump’s desire to have CNN fire her from the Iranian Press.

Since this is such an obvious violation of Freedom of the Press that is enshrined in the First Amendment, I was curious to see how the U.S. Corporate media was reporting on this. It was not in the headline news for Google News, so I did a search on Natasha Bertrand, and ALL had the same article and the same headline as the new CNN article about the CIA claims, but from many other news sites, making it look like this was the main story.

This is a good time to remind our readers about “Operation Mockingbird“. The U.S. mass media through TV started in the late 1940s after WWII, about the same time that military intelligence was spun off into a new organization: The CIA.

Wikipedia has a decent page about Operation Mockingbird, and we have covered it also here on Health Impact News over the years.

These are probably the two best articles we have published on the controlled corporate media:

Here is a video from that first article that shows just how scripted the news is:

This is what the late, legendary Walter Cronkite wrote in the introduction to the 1996 book Censored – The News That Didn’t Make the News- And Why, by Carl Jensen. Walter Cronkite wrote:

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal…. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power… a strongly editorial power.

…we must decide which news items out of hundreds available we are going to expose that day. And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control. (Source.)

We saw this CIA Mockingbird media in full force during COVID, controlling the narrative and shutting down everyone else they could who disagreed.

A new billboard appeared almost immediately after the current ceasefire between Israel and Iran in Tel Aviv. I don’t know how long it takes to create and mount a billboard like this, but the fact that this happened almost immediately after the ceasefire, suggests the bombing on Iran’s nuclear sites was mostly just symbolic to provide a way for the U.S. and Israel to “save face”.

Realizing that Israel had to end the war as society was rapidly falling apart in Israel, this was obviously Plan B, which was for Trump to try and “make a deal” with other Middle Eastern Countries with Trump’s “Abraham Accords”.

Here is how the Cradle reported this today on their Telegram channel.

A new billboard spotted in Tel Aviv features PM Netanyahu, Donald Trump, and several Arab leaders, including Syria’s Ahmad al-Sharaa and Lebanon’s Joseph Aoun, under the slogan “The Abraham Alliance: It’s time for a new Middle East.”

While Syria and Lebanon have no ties with Israel and both have territory under occupation, Israeli officials are publicly marketing them as potential partners. National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi told a Knesset committee that Israel is in “direct daily dialogue” with Syria, while al-Sharaa has acknowledged “indirect negotiations” with Israel.

Hanegbi also named Lebanon as a candidate for normalization, and Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, claimed Beirut could join the accords before Saudi Arabia.

However, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has repeatedly stated that normalization is contingent on the establishment of a Palestinian state. .

Most of the figures shown in that photo, including Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) who is flanked on Trump’s right with Netanyahu on his left, are NOT part of the Abraham Accords. MBS has emphatically stated in the past that he could not become part of this agreement without the establishment of a Palestinian State, because he would be “stoned to death.”

On the recent visit to Saudi Arabia along with Trump and many Silicon Valley billionaires, MBS made it clear that any talk about Israel and Palestine was OFF LIMITS, as a condition to inviting them to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The original members who joined the Accords during Trump’s first administration, were the U.S., Israel, Bahrain, and the UAE. Sudan and Morocco also agreed to normalize relations with Israel, although Sudan’s agreement remains unratified as of 2024. (Source.)

And while Trump said yesterday that they were going to have talks with Iran very soon, Iran publicly denied that today.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied claims of a planned meeting with the US next week, contradicting statements by President Donald Trump. Araghchi said Tehran has no current intention to meet Washington and is still evaluating whether future talks serve Iran’s interests.

He added that previous negotiations were derailed after US and Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and Iranian authorities are reassessing the country’s nuclear program in light of the attacks, which will guide Tehran’s diplomatic approach moving forward. Source: The Cradle Telegram channel.

Even the White Press Secretary admitted today that nothing is scheduled yet.

The other HUGE news that was revealed today, unintentionally I am sure, was in an interview with “Special Envoy for Peace Missions” Steve Witkoff on CNBC. He actually admitted that the U.S. lifted some sanctions on Iran on the same day as the ceasefire, allowing Iran to ship oil to China through the Strait of Hormuz!

This shows clearly that China has been involved in this throughout, making sure the Strait of Hormuz was not shut down.

Skip the first several minutes where they spread the propaganda of the U.S. taking out Iran’s nuclear program, and how they believe that Iran will become part of the Abraham Accords now, and start at the 6:45 mark where he admits that the U.S. lifted some sanctions on Iran already, and how he tried to spin this:

The U.S. narrative that is being spun right now is pure PROPAGANDA, trying to hide the fact that Israel and the U.S. were totally defeated in obtaining their objectives by bombing Iran, which was regime change so they could control this area.

Other headline news from our Telegram Channel today.

Before the Iran war, the top news in Israel was “Qatar-Gate” where it was revealed that the U.S. and Israel were funding Hamas, even before Oct. 7, 2023.

There is a current criminal case pending against Netanyahu over this.

Now Trump wants all charges dropped against Bibi.

I wonder how the Israelis feel about this, since they just crawled out of their bomb shelters where they lived for the past 2 weeks?

Full article.

Reality: they know now they cannot force Iran to do anything, as they have the full support of China and Russia along with BRICS, and they also have hypersonic missiles that the U.S. and Israel CANNOT STOP.

Full article.

The tide has turned. BRICS is arising, Zionism is falling.

From PressTV:

Iran’s Defense Minister, Aziz Nasirzadeh, arrived in Qingdao, China, early on Wednesday to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers’ meeting.

The high-level summit, taking place over two days—Wednesday and Thursday—is chaired by Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun and brings together top defense officials from across the region.

According to a statement from the Chinese ministry of defense, Minister Dong held meetings on the sidelines of the summit with his counterparts from SCO member states, including Iran’s Nasirzadeh, Belarus’ Viktor Khrenin, Pakistan’s Khawaja Asif, Kyrgyzstan’s Ruslan Mukambetov, and Russia’s Andrei Belousov.

The SCO summit serves as a key platform for addressing regional security, counterterrorism cooperation, and broader military collaboration among member states.

Nasirzadeh’s visit comes just one day after a unilateral ceasefire was declared by Tel Aviv, marking the end of its recent aggression against the Islamic Republic.

During his stay in China, the Iranian defense minister is also expected to meet with senior Chinese leaders to discuss bilateral ties and regional developments, .

Elon Musk’s empire is rapidly imploding. Tesla is losing major market share to cheaper Chinese EVs, and now his second most prosperous company, Space X, which derives 100% of its revenue through Government contracts, is also in danger as Trump previously withdrew a Space X executive from leading NASA, and is now looking at Bezos’ Blue Origin to replace some of Musk’s contracts.

From RT.com:

The billionaire reportedly met the president at least twice in June with the aim of securing more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin

US billionaire Jeff Bezos is seeking to secure more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin, in an effort to capitalize on the feud between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Bezos reportedly met the US president at least twice in June, while the space technology company’s CEO, Dave Limp, visited the White House to hold talks with Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

The reported efforts come shortly after a dramatic public rift earlier this month between Musk and Trump over the president’s tax and spending bill. The spat escalated into an exchange of jabs on social media.

Bezos’s Blue Origin and Musk’s SpaceX have been competing with each other for years, the newspaper noted, emphasizing that SpaceX pulled far ahead after it began launching rockets at a record pace and became the main contractor for NASA.

Earlier this year, SpaceX secured a major $5.9 billion deal with the US Space Force for 28 flights planned for the years ahead. Another provider, United Launch Alliance, was awarded a $5.3 billion contract for 19 missions, while Blue Origin received $2.4 billion for seven launches.

According to the WSJ, Trump and Bezos discussed the president’s desire to see a crewed mission to the Moon during his term in office. Sources also told the paper that the businessman even invited Trump to his wedding this weekend in Venice. Trump reportedly declined due to scheduling conflicts.

From Peggy Hall:

So you think I’m too tough on Kennedy, eh? I didn’t “let the man work” and criticized him unfairly, huh? At least that’s what many people have been telling me.

So many in fact have fallen under the delusion of this man that I did an entire video called, “Bob Delusion Syndrome,” which I’m going to replay for you.

Means has been nominated by Donald Trump to be Surgeon General of the United States.

Casey Means owns/is heavily invested TWO companies that are all about WEARABLES and tracking your own personal medical data.

Casey Means is the daughter of a government insider named Grady Means who served as an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller and also worked for “NASA.”

Oh, and she is the founder/investor of a couple of “medical tech” companies that track your biomarkers.

What could possibly go wrong? (Full article.)

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Published on June 26, 2025