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Viewers of CNN and MS NOW are being kept in the dark about the illegal immigrant accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Sunday that the suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, is “a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien” who was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and released into the country under the Biden administration in 2023. Medina-Medina was released again one month later after being arrested for shoplifting.CNN and MS NOW have ignored the story through Monday night, according to network transcripts via Grabien Media, as well as their website search results.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH KILLING LOYOLA STUDENT RELEASED UNDER BIDEN, DHS SAYSRepresentatives for CNN and MS NOW did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.On Thursday morning, Gorman was shot in the back while walking along Chicago’s lakefront with a group of friends, who all attempted to flee after the suspect came towards them with a gun. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The story is reminiscent of the 2024 murder of Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal immigrant. At the time, the legacy press was frequently scolded by conservatives for downplaying or ignoring the killer’s immigration status. The liberal networks appear to be following a similar script, this time failing to mention a senseless murder altogether. President Donald Trump has called the murder of Gorman “devastating.” But anyone who relies on CNN or MS NOW for information would have no idea. The Chicago Police Department formally charged Medina-Medina on Sunday with murder in the shooting of Gorman. GOV PRITZKER IGNORED MY LETTER — AFTER HIS SANCTUARY POLICIES KILLED MY DAUGHTERIn a statement, the department said Medina-Medina was currently facing six felony charges: one count of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree attempted murder, three counts of aggravated assault involving the discharge of a firearm, and one count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, the department said.A police source also told Fox News Digital that the shooting Thursday was an apparent ambush, with the gunman reportedly wearing a mask or face covering. The suspect is believed to have been living in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Investigators have since recovered a gun believed to be connected to the killing, sources said, and are awaiting the results of a gunshot residue test. The suspect is being treated for tuberculosis and is expected to appear at a detention hearing on Friday via teleconference. DHS HONORS ILLINOIS WOMAN WHOSE CORPSE WAS ALLEGEDLY ABUSED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FREED UNDER SANCTUARY LAWSIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker, widely seen as a 2028 Democratic hopeful, issued a delayed response Monday afternoon after Gorman’s murder began dominating headlines in Chicago. But he took a moment to swipe at the Trump administration, which he accused of “politicizing” her death. “Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and Loyola University community grieving the senseless murder of Sheridan Gorman. Violent crime has no place in our streets, and we expect the alleged perpetrator to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. The Trump Administration needs to stop politicizing heinous tragedies and instead focus on real solutions, like reinstating federal funds to prevent violence that support our public safety efforts,” Pritzker said.

What Barry Manilow thought was a minor health issue turned into a major wake-up call when doctors discovered early-stage lung cancer. The legendary performer, 82, revealed that what began as minor discomfort ultimately led to a stage 1 lung cancer diagnosis — discovered only because of a doctor’s instinct to look deeper.In November, Manilow visited his doctor, complaining of hip pain. His doctor ordered an MRI of his pelvis, then, after hearing about two recent bouts of bronchitis, decided to scan his lungs, too. BARRY MANILOW OPENS UP ABOUT ‘AGONY’ OF LUNG CANCER SURGERY RECOVERY: ‘I AM GETTING STRONGER’”If he hadn’t done that, man … He saved my life, because there’s no symptoms for what I had. I could go on, nothing hurt — but they found the dot in my lung,” Manilow told People. “They called me and said, ‘Could be cancer.’ That’s a bad word. ‘Not me. F— you. I can’t have cancer.’”Further testing confirmed the diagnosis.The timeline moved fast. Within four weeks, Manilow was in surgery, undergoing a lobectomy to remove part of his lung. What followed was a brutal recovery, including seven days in the ICU.”I don’t remember it, thank goodness, because it was a nightmare,” Manilow says. “I’m one of the lucky ones; I don’t have to have chemo, radiation and all that stuff.”He first revealed the diagnosis in December 2025, stunning fans.Now, he’s speaking more candidly about what it means to survive something you never saw coming.”You just don’t even think about [how fragile life is]. And suddenly, you have lung cancer. But I’m still here. I’m not all here; there’s part of me that isn’t here — they took out a part of me, and now I’ve got to figure out, ‘What do I do?’” he said.Fox News Digital reached out to Manilow for comment.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSThe “Copacabana” singer is now cancer-free – and back on the charts.BARRY MANILOW CANCELS UPCOMING TOUR DATES DUE TO CONTINUING HEALTH ISSUESIn a recent video message, Manilow delivered a positive message to his fans and shared a major health milestone.”Hi everyone, Barry Manilow here. Well, looks like I made it, and I look fabulous, right?” he said, smiling.”You know, with everything that’s going on in the world, I wanted to check in and share some good news. In fact, it’s great news.”His latest single, “Once Before I Go,” topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, prompting him to joke, “How do you like that? I’m 100 years old with a top 10 single on the pop charts. Like my grandmother once said, next thing you know, they’ll be walking on the moon.”Manilow is gearing up for his 33rd studio album, “What a Time,” slated to release in June.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERLast year, the legendary singer’s health scare derailed his tour and forced him off the stage. In February, Manilow admitted he wasn’t ready to return to the stage at the time. “Just got home from visiting the surgeon. Very depressing visit,” he shared.Even with intense effort, he explained his body wasn’t cooperating.”I told him that I have been using the treadmill three times a day (I have), but that I still couldn’t sing more than three songs in a row before I had to stop,” he said.”The doctor said that my body had been through hell and that it needed time to heal. So, I’m going back to healing.”Manilow rose to fame writing iconic jingles like McDonald’s “You Deserve a Break Today” and creating chart-topping classics like “Copacabana,” cementing himself as one of the most successful pop artists of the 1970s and 1980s.

An extensive audit revealed a California school district allegedly issued diplomas to students in China in addition to potentially “unlawful financial practices associated with the district’s international program.”The Val Verde Unified School District (VVUSD) in Riverside, California, was audited by the county’s superintendent of schools in a more than 1,000-page review that alleges the VVUSD gave unauthorized diplomas to nonresident, Chinese students at the district’s “sister school,” Pegasus California School, in Qingdao, China.”Our audit, commissioned by Dr. Gomez, raises serious concerns about academic integrity, taxpayer fraud, and may even implicate national security,” Larson LLP partner Stephen G. Larson told Fox News Digital. “We found that a California public school district improperly issued diplomas to students in China, and the broader record shows those California credentials may have been used to create false legitimacy for students seeking entry into American universities.”FBI RAID INVOLVING LA SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT POSSIBLY TIED TO FAILED $6M AI DEAL, POTENTIAL CONFLICTRiverside County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Edwin Gomez had authority to commission the audit based on authority under Education Code section 1241.5(b) after a 2021 Business Insider investigative report raised questions about the school district.”Our responsibility is to safeguard the integrity of public education and ensure that taxpayer resources are used lawfully and transparently,” Gomez said in a statement. “This audit identified serious concerns that merit further review by the appropriate authorities,” Gomez added. “We will continue to act with integrity, follow the law, and ensure that the interests of students and the public remain at the center of every decision.”The audit identified evidence that California high school diplomas “may have been issued to students who did not meet applicable legal or residency requirements,” and that fraud and illegal fiscal practices were present in the school district. Fox News Digital sat down with Riverside County Sheriff and GOP gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco, who told Fox that the questionable partnership with the Chinese school is an example of corruption and fraud that exists across California.”This school in Riverside County shows how corrupt these people really are, where they couldn’t care less about taxpayer money, they couldn’t care less about their own schools, it’s how they can benefit themselves,” Bianco told Fox News Digital. “And so they benefit themselves by gaining, we have no idea how much money, by fraudulently giving diplomas to kids living in China.”TOP TRUMP ADMIN EDUCATION OFFICIAL EXPOSES BLUE STATE FINANCIAL AID FRAUD OFFENDERS”These kids from China now come into the U.S. and get accepted into these colleges and universities, and California students get nothing,” Bianco added.Chinese students who received diplomas through the partnership were allegedly promised acceptance to top U.S. universities.GOT A SCOOP ON CAMPUS? SEND US A TIP HEREThe audit revealed that teachers from the California school district allegedly taught at the school in China, and were provided living accommodations in furnished apartments. “Those who accepted a position at Pegasus took an unpaid leave of absence and did not receive a salary or benefits from VVUSD; Pegasus paid annual salaries and provided benefits, including medical and dental benefits, a fully furnished apartment with all utilities paid, and meals,” the audit reads.SIGN UP TO GET CAMPUS RADICALS NEWSLETTERAs for the content being taught to students in China, the report uncovered that “pages regarding Taiwan had been ripped out of the history books” and that many instructors were not credentialed appropriately. The report also alleges that “there is some evidence of potential bribes and/or kickbacks in the form of direct and indirect financial benefits” as a result of VVUSD’s leadership’s relationship with the Chinese school and claims there could be ties between the school and previous superintendent elections in southern California.CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COASTA spokesperson for VVUSD told Fox News Digital they are complying with the audit. “The District will continue to fully comply with the audit process regarding Val Verde’s partnership with Pegasus California School from 2016–2020,” the spokesperson said. “We remain focused on providing transparency and continuing to serve our students, families, and community.”Reports indicate that Pegasus California School was previously listed on their website, though it no longer appears under the list of schools within the district.The Pegasus California School website’s “news” section has not been updated since September 2024.

The 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement marked a turning point, when Iranians became more unified against the regime. The 2026 protests were the beginning of a new revolution.
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Charles Wald
Just a few months after leaving office, President Theodore Roosevelt, in his famous speech in Paris on April 23, 1910, titled Citizenship in a Republic, famously said that “the man in the arena” is the one who counts. This ageless quote can serve as a good guide for the United States in deciding who to count on when figuring out the future of Iran.
Operation Epic Fury was the right call. The Supreme Leader is dead. His defense minister, IRGC commander, and senior intelligence chiefs are confirmed killed. For forty-seven years this regime held the world hostage, and the Commander-in-Chief struck with precision and resolve. As a Air Force pilot, I salute the courage of that decision.
But I spent 35 years in the United States Air Force. I have planned and executed operations of exactly this kind. And I am telling you, with the bluntness my service demands: what we have started, bombs alone cannot finish.
Khamenei’s body is in the rubble, and the IRGC is still launching missiles at Israel and American bases across six countries. They have declared forty days of mourning and promised retaliation that will “stab America in the heart.” Killing the head did not kill the beast. It never does — not without a force on the ground to finish what the bombs started.
Iran is not a flat desert. It is a mountainous nation of 90 million people with a regime that spent forty-seven years building redundancy into every command structure and communications network. They killed over seven thousand of their own citizens in January alone. Cornered with no internal force to replace them, they will kill hundreds of thousands more. The only way to complete this through military force alone would require two hundred thousand boots on the ground — in a country four times the size of Iraq. No president will send that force. Nor should they.
The question is: what is the solution?
The answer is already on the ground.
On February 23 — five days before our missiles struck — roughly 250 fighters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (also known as the MEK) breached the outer security perimeter of the very same Motahari Complex we hit five days later. They engaged 8,000 defenders. They fought for hours. They disabled surveillance cameras from inside Khamenei’s compound with help from people within the regime’s innermost security circle. Over 100 were killed or captured. The rest withdrew and await redeployment.
You cannot fake what happened on Pasteur Street. You cannot breach a compound defended by 8,000 guards without years of intelligence penetration, deep organizational infrastructure, and a population willing to shelter you at the risk of their own lives. The regime can kill the fighters — but it cannot undo the fact that they reached the heart of Tehran five days before American missiles did.
And they have not stopped. MEK armed units attacked the IRGC garrison in Hashtgerd, twenty-five miles west of Tehran, inflicting heavy casualties. In Isfahan, Resistance Units destroyed the regime’s judiciary and intelligence ministry buildings. While our pilots strike from thirty thousand feet, these fighters are striking from the streets of Iranian cities. No cruise missile can replicate that.
I first came to know this movement when they were in Iraq. The MEK residents exposed critical intelligence about Tehran’s malign activities in Iraq that saved American lives, a debt we never repaid. I have since visited MEK members in Ashraf 3 in Albania and met Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Paris.
Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan reads like a constitution written by the Founding Fathers: separation of religion and state, free elections, gender equality, abolition of the death penalty, and a non-nuclear Iran.
As our bombs fell last week, her first message was not about power — it was about protecting civilians and children. Rajavi announced the NCRI’s provisional government, prepared since 1981, and declared: “Iran is not its regime. Iran is its people.”
That is not someone waiting for America to hand her a country. That is someone who has earned the right to lead one.
President Trump is a dealmaker. He knows a real asset from a counterfeit. Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last monarch who was deposed in 1979, has no organization inside Iran. His social media following is forensically documented as 89 percent bots. To put him in power would require sending 200,000 troops to place the crown on his head. He is not an alternative. He is a dependency.
The MEK reached Pasteur Street without a single American dollar, weapon, or soldier. That is the definition of a real asset.
The United States does not need to send a single soldier and does not need to occupy Iranian soil. Recognizing the National Council of Resistance of Iran and Mrs. Rajavi’s provisional government would send a powerful message. We should abandon four decades of demonization against the organized resistance manufactured by the very regime our bombs are now destroying. Our bombs cannot do it alone without a force on the ground. But there is a force on the ground — and they have paid for this moment with 120,000 lives.
President Roosevelt’s words were never more urgent. The credits belong to those in the arena. They are fighting right now for the same values invoked when President Trump told Iranians: “The hour of your freedom is at hand.”
It is the only deal that works.

Chuck Wald is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former deputy commander of U.S. European Command.
This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.
The post The Man in the Arena: Why Iran’s Organized Resistance Is America’s Real Ally appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote.

That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate.

The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember:

 

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the bill required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote. pic.twitter.com/1DCSzZ6jQS
— Nick (@nspin310) March 24, 2026
 

SCARBOROUGH: Do you know where your original birth certificate is?

BRZEZINSKI: Well, actually I do. Yes.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good.

BRZEZINSKI: The original?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Well, they’re going to kick you off the voter rolls if you don’t have it.

Scarborough, Brzezinski, and other co-host Willie Geist then went into a long back and forth on how Brzezinski’s mother didn’t know where she was born. Scarborough then made his big SAVE Act connection again:

See, but here’s a great – you know, not only does Mika not know where her original birth certificate is, which under the SAVE Act would get her kicked off the voter rolls, and then she’d have to come back and reregister, and she would find out on election day that she could not vote. And by the way, don’t be skeptical. Seriously, she had no idea where she was born. She still doesn’t.

He went on for more and said the “Trump act will kick people off the voter rolls. I have to go back and they will have to find an original birth certificate or buy a passport, which a lot of people can’t even afford groceries now. And so it’s very deliberate attempt to keep people off the rolls, you know.”

Scarborough finished that point and stated he supported government issued photo voter ID, but not the SAVE Act.

Maybe Scarborough should read up on the SAVE America Act and not spread lies about the need for an ‘original’ birth certificate.

 

Mika added a disdain for ICE agents into the opening 5 minutes of the program, yelling that she does not want them searching her bag.
This prompted Joe to ask, as any person would, “What’s in your bag?”
In response, Mika yelled about ICE agents being “trained for nothing.” pic.twitter.com/8IMulJIGZI
— Nick (@nspin310) March 24, 2026
 

To bring it all the way back, Brzezinski brought up ICE in airports, made fun of them, and then opined that she didn’t want them looking through her bag:

And ICE agents are milling around with masks off, which is not good for them since people are taking their pictures. taking their pictures. They don’t like that. I mean, it’s just awkward. Anyhow, I still don’t know what they’re doing there. Like what’s the function? Are they scanning our bags? I wouldn’t want that (…).

Scarborough, as any person would do, then asked “What’s in your bag.”

And to end it off, Brzezinski said, “ICE agents are trained for nothing!”

The combination and ICE hatred and SAVE Act derangement is seemingly just what liberal viewers need at 6 a.m. in the morning.

The transcript is below. Click “expand”:

MS NOW’s Morning Joe

March 24, 2026

6:01:08 AM Eastern

(…)

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Okay, but on capitol hill, there could be a deal to fund the department of homeland security before congress leaves town for a two week recess. That’s despite president trump again yesterday telling Republicans any funding for the agency has to be tied to the save America Act. We’ll dig into all of that.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We can dig as long as we want. That’s just not going to happen.

BRZEZINSKI: Okay. There’s that. Meanwhile, here in New York –

SCARBOROUGH: I mean, I’m just saying – I’m not even – That’s just a fact. You ask John Thune and other republicans, they’ll just say, that’s just not going to happen.

BRZEZINSKI: Well, he’s hoping for it.

SCARBOROUGH: Do you know where your original birth certificate is?

BRZEZINSKI: Well, actually I do. Yes.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good.

BRZEZINSKI: The original?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Well, they’re going to kick you off the voter rolls if you don’t have it.

BRZEZINSKI: My mom doesn’t remember where I was born. So its not like ,-

SCARBOROUGH: You know Willie, seriously, for most of Mika’s life she’s not known –

BRZEZINSKI: New York or Washington

SCARBOROUGH: – where she was born. I said –

WILLIE GEIST: Where you were born?

SCARBOROUGH: – where were you born. Her mom’s like, “I don’t – you know it. It was the 60s.”

BRZEZINSKI: New York, Washington

GEIST: You still don’t know.

BRZEZINSKI: Well, I think I did a deep dive into this [inaudible] and now I can’t remember. So – like mother like daughter

SCARBOROUGH: I think she ended up being born in Manhattan. But –

BRZEZINSKI: Was it Manhattan?

GEIST: She ended up being born in Manhattan.

SCARBOROUGH: It might of been Jersey.

GEIST: Started somewhere else

BRZEZINSKI: I think they they were living in Georgetown.

SCARBOROUGH: You guys were living in the swamps of Jersey. Might of been Georgetown. 

See, but here’s a great – you know, not only does Mika not know where her original birth certificate is, which under the SAVE Act would get her kicked off the voter rolls, and then she’d have to come back and reregister, and she would find out on election day that she could not vote. And by the way, don’t be skeptical. Seriously, she had no idea where she was born. She still doesn’t.

BRZEZINSKI: Okay, but that’s not the story. This – 

GEIST: Does your mom know? Sorry, yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: She never really knew she. It was the 60s, but she was an artist. Yeah. I mean, come on.

HAGAR CHEMALI: But you didn’t change your last name, so that’ll help you.

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, exactly. Okay. All right.

SCARBOROUGH: So anyway, so but they’re really saying this Trump Act will kick people off the voter rolls. I have to go back and they will have to find an original birth certificate or buy a passport, which a lot of people can’t even afford groceries now. And so it’s very deliberate attempt to keep people off the rolls, you know.

BRZEZINSKI: Republican or Democrat.

SCARBOROUGH: By the way, I’ve always said voter id, that’s fine. Driver’s license or another government issued deal. Or if the voter registration office wants to get, you know, let people get –  that’s even better because then you’re giving people who don’t have a photo id, government issued photo ID. But this thing is crazy and it’s never going to pass what they’re talking about.

GEIST: And the way the president and others are trying to sell it is this is just a voter OD bill. All you have to do is have a picture ID and that’s all we’re asking. That’s not true.

SCARBOROUGH: That’s not true.

GEIST: There’s much, much more in there, restrictions on mail, in voting and what you’re talking about here, these things that are buried in, they want you to think it’s just voter ID. It is not. There are other restrictions on voting that go deep within this. And also meanwhile, the president is lumping all this other stuff into the bill about trans athletes and everything else.

SCARBOROUGH: (Laughs)

GEIST: Catch all, omnibus thing.

SCARBOROUGH: It’s not going to work –

BRZEZINSKI: Okay, meanwhile, here in New York –

SCARBOROUGH: – and republicans know it’s not going to work and chaos in the airport keeps on getting worse. The TSA agents work for free right now.

BRZEZINSKI: And ICE agents are milling around with masks off, which is not good for them since people are taking their pictures. taking their pictures. They don’t like that. I mean, it’s just awkward. Anyhow, I still don’t know what they’re doing there. Like what’s the function? Are they scanning our bags? I wouldn’t want that. Okay –

SCARBOROUGH: What’s in your bag.

BRZEZINSKI: Well, I just – no. I just – they don’t appear to be very good at their jobs

SCARBOROUGH: (Laughs) She walked right into it. I mean my bag, open it up man

BRZEZINSKI: No, I wouldn’t want them scanning bags.

SCARBOROUGH: Bunch of chewing gum and baseball cards.

BRZEZINSKI: I want TSA agents scanning bags! They’re trained for that job.

SCARBOROUGH: Alright meanwhile here in New York – 

BRZEZINSKI: ICE agents are trained for nothing!

(…)

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Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma went outside the world of politics to fill the Senate seat of newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.On Tuesday morning, Stitt tapped energy executive Alan Armstrong following Mullin’s Senate confirmation Monday night. Mullin is now set to be sworn in Tuesday afternoon to replace current DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who leaves the department on March 31. ‘He’s a strong business leader.’Stitt first praised President Donald Trump in a press conference Tuesday morning, applauding him for selecting Mullin to head the DHS. He also congratulated Mullin before naming Armstrong as his temporary replacement. “I’m incredibly proud now to announce that my pick as the next U.S. senator of the state of Oklahoma is Mr. Alan Armstrong,” Stitt said at the press conference. RELATED: Trump’s new DHS pick sails through Senate confirmation despite lone GOP defection Stitt referred to Armstrong’s extensive career in the energy industry, serving as CEO and president of Williams Companies, a Tulsa-based energy firm. He later stepped down to serve as executive chairman of the board of directors at Williams Companies last year and previously chaired the Department of Energy’s National Petroleum Council. “He’s a strong business leader who understands the power of free markets and limited government,” Stitt said. “He’s spent his career fighting for Oklahoma’s energy industry and providing affordable, reliable energy to all of America.” RELATED: Trump adds new condition to ICE airport plan in DHS shutdown fight F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesArmstrong will serve the short remainder of Mullin’s term, which ends in January 2027. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

China Condemns US Starting ‘Vicious Cycle’ Of ‘Chaos’ In Attacking Iran

Chinese Special Envoy to the Middle East Zhai Jun has said at a briefing after his ​shuttle-diplomacy trip that included recent stops in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait that the US-Israeli operation against Iran must immediately cease or else a “vicious cycle” toward destabilizing the region and disrupt global trade would persist.

“Should hostilities continue to escalate and the situation deteriorate further, the entire region will be plunged into chaos. The use of force will only lead to a vicious cycle… the war should not have begun in the first place,” Zhai declared.
via AFP

Washington’s latest war of choice in the Middle East has been focus of growing condemnation from Beijing, with Zhai having added: “The one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it.” Or this is another way of saying whatever the US broke it must quickly fix.

Separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated at the start of this week that continued military action risks deepening instability, and reminded Washington that its past wars in the same region “are not far behind us.”

It was only days ago that President Trump called on China and Japan to assist in getting the Hormuz Strait back open, but something which especially China has little incentive to do, as its instead content to watch the US get bogged down in a quagmire amid Tehran’s unexpected resilience under the bombs.

Iran has meanwhile held a phone call with China’s foreign minister, per Bloomberg: “Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday called on all parties in the Iran war to seize every opportunity and window for peace and start peace talks as soon as possible, Xinhua reports. Wang made the appeal in a phone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.”

China has long been a powerful ally of Tehran providing with diplomatic cover, institutional support, military cooperation and an economic lifeline – especially as its major oil buyer; however, China is not expected to go further with any kind of direct military support.

There are claims that it could be, alongside Russia, providing some intelligence support though. If this is the case, there is not much Washington can do about it – also as the White House response to widespread reports of Russian intelligence-sharing has been met with some pretty mild and meager statements out of the White House.

Tyler Durden
Tue, 03/24/2026 – 11:35