Media Aghast at Not Controlling White House Press Coverage, AG Todd Blanche -VS- ABC Martha Raddatz

September 27, 2026 | Sundance |

For the past week the collective lamestream media have been going through fits of apoplexy following President Trump denying White House access to three propaganda outfits, CNN, MSNow and Politico. Whenever Washington DC media are criticized or dismissed, they react in outrage due to their delusions of grandeur, a genuine belief in their own importance.

Martha Raddatz from ABC takes aim at Attorney General Todd Blanche over the issue, then pivots to the second most important issue of the day for the stenographers – the AI doom narrative. Video and Transcript Below:

‘The president hasn't denied access’: AG Blanche on Trump press ban

Quote from transcript:

[Transcipt] – MARTHA RADDATZ – Good morning, and thank you so much for joining us this morning. Let’s get right to this. There was no TV pool coverage of the president’s trip to Tennessee this weekend. It was supposed to be CNN. They said they were banned from Air Force One.

What is the justification for denying access?

TODD BLANCHE, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL:Well, the president hasn’t denied access. That’s not the right way to describe it. This is — what the president has said is that he is sick and tired of certain media outlets just refusing to report accurate news, and so — look, it is a — it is a privilege — it is a privilege to be in the White House for anybody.

And that — and the president — the president knows that it’s the people’s house, and what you saw play out over the past week was really not "just not" — even after the judge — even after the White House let the reporters back in, they still refuse to use pool coverage. They still refuse to, on their own, make a decision to start covering the president again with the video.

But a lot of people saw the president. The president was not hidden from the American people at the — at the football game in Tennessee yesterday. And really, the unfortunate and sad thing here is that after years and years and years of one-sided media coverage of the president from certain outlets, the president finally said it’s not fair to the American people that this is happening and did something about it.

There’s still obviously litigation going on, but theimportant thing, Martha, is to know that that being in the White House is a privilege. It’s not a — it’s not a right.

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Foreign investment in Iran hits zero after war

Sep 13, 2026, 20:55 GMT+1 Dalga Khatinoglu

Foreign investment in Iran has effectively come to a halt following the war with Israel and the United States, with no new foreign investment recorded so far this Iranian year, a senior industry ministry figure said.

No foreign investment has been made so far in the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, Tahmoures Lahouti, Deputy Industry Minister and head of Iran’s Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization, told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA).

“Given the sanctions and restrictions in place, foreign investment is not taking place,” Lahouti said. Domestic investment in industrial development has also declined compared with last year, with exchange-rate volatility, inflation and weakening household purchasing power

weighing on businesses, Lahouti added.

The Iranian year began about three weeks after Israel and the United States launched military operations against the Islamic Republic on February 28.

Lahouti did not provide figures for the decline in domestic investment or specify whether his assessment of foreign investment covered all sectors of the Iranian economy.

The rial has lost roughly 60% of its value against the US dollar since the beginning of the Iranian year, increasing the cost of imported equipment and other inputs for businesses. High inflation and uncertainty over future prices have further complicated long-term investment decisions.

Industrial employment declines

The deterioration in investment has coincided with significant job losses in industry. About 630,000 industrial jobs were lost in the first quarter of the current Iranian year compared with the same period a year earlier, according to figures from Iran’s Statistical Center.

Separate labor-market data have also shown a sharp decline in the number of workers making social-security contributions. The contraction adds to longer-running problems facing Iranian manufacturers, including sanctions, restrictions on international banking, inflation, currency depreciation and recurring energy shortages.

Foreign investment falls as capital outflows surge

Data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)shows thatIran was already struggling to attract foreign direct investment well before the war.

In 2016 and 2017, following the implementation of the nuclear deal and the temporary easing of international restrictions, Iran attracted an average of about $4.2 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) annually.After the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions in 2018, the trend reversed, with annual FDI subsequently falling to around $1.5 billion.

At the same time, Central Bank data point to a sharp increase in capital outflows. Iran’s capital-account deficit widened from $6.77 billion in 2017 to $19.62 billion in 2025, nearly tripling over the period. Overall, Iran attracted about $12.7 billion in foreign direct investment between 2018 and the end of 2025, while cumulative capital-account deficits approached $120 billion over the same period.

The gap illustrates that Iran’s problem extends beyond its difficulty attracting foreign capital. The country is also recording substantial capital outflows.

Iran falls further behind regional rivals

UNCTAD data for 2025 show the scale of the investment gap between Iran and some of its regional competitors.

Saudi Arabia attracted $32.6 billion in foreign direct investment last year, while the United Arab Emirates received about $48.2 billion.

The figures underscore Iran’s difficulty competing for foreign capital after years of sanctions and restrictions on international banking and trade.

Lahouti’s comments show that those constraints have now choked off an already limited flow of foreign investment. At the same time, depreciation of the rial, inflation, economic uncertainty and persistent capital outflows have made it more difficult for domestic investors to fill the gap.

Foreign investment falling to zero this year is therefore part of a longer trend. Iran was struggling to attract foreign capital well before the latest war, while substantial capital outflows added to the pressure on investment at home.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609132554

Eight women face execution in Iran, rights group warns

(Iran is still killing their people for disagreeing with the government.)

Sep 13, 2026, 18:18 GMT+1

(L-R) Pakhshan Azizi, Arghavan Fallahi, Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, Taraneh Rahimi, Leila Abolhasani, and Zahra Shahbaz Tabari.

At least eight women are facing death sentences in prisons across Iran, including four in cases linked to the nationwide January protests, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) rights group reported on Sunday.

HRANA said the women had been sentenced in separate political, security and protest-related cases on chargesincluding “armed rebellion,” “enmity against God” and “corruption on earth,” offenses that can carry the death penalty under Iran’s Islamic penal code.

The cases were heard by branches of the Revolutionary Courts in Tehran, Isfahan, Rasht and Bandar Abbas, the group said.

The death sentences of Pakhshan Azizi and Arghavan Fallahi have been upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court, according to HRANA.

Azizi, who is being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison, was arrested in August 2023 and sentenced to death the following year on a charge of “armed rebellionthrough membership in groups opposed to the country,” HRANA said. Her requests for a retrial have since been rejected.

Fallahi, also held in Evin, was arrested in Tehran in February 2025 and later sentenced to death on a charge of “armed rebellionthrough membership in groups opposed to the government and armed action.” Her sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in August, HRANA said.

A third woman,68-year-oldZahra Shahbaz Tabari, was sentenced to death for a second time after the Supreme Court overturned an earlier death sentence and ordered a retrial. She wasconvicted of “armed rebellion through membership and activity in an opposition group” and is being held in Lakan Prison in the northern city of Rasht, according to HRANA.

Four other women — Maryam Hadavand, Mahnaz Chardouli, Leila Abolhasani and Taraneh Rahimi — were sentenced to death in cases connected to the nationwide protests that erupted in January, the rights group said.

Hadavand, 45 and a mother of two, was arrested in connection with events in Pakdasht, southeast of Tehran, on Jan. 8 and sentenced to deathon charges including allegedly participating in the killing of two Basij members, deliberately setting fire to a religious site, damaging public property and assembly and collusion against national security, according to HRANA.

Chardouli, held in Qarchak Prison, was tried on charges including“attacking a mosque with a Molotov cocktail,” “participating in gatherings” and “assembly and collusion,” HRANA said.

A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced Abolhasani, a mother of two teenage daughters,to death on a charge of “enmity against God”== after her arrest during protests in Shahin Shahr on Jan. 8. HRANA said a source close to her family had previously said the case stemmed from her presence at and filming of a fire at a shop, while judicial authorities accused her of involvement in the blaze.

Taraneh Rahimi was among 10 defendants sentenced to death and 11 years in prison in a case involving 16 people arrested over the January protests in Isfahan, known as the “Isfahan Shohada Square” case. The defendants were each sentenced to death and 11 years in prison on charges including “enmity against God through carrying a bladed weapon,” destruction of public property and assembly and collusion, the group said.

The eighth woman, 32-year-old Sevda, also known as Marzieh Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, was sentenced to death in Bandar Abbas on acharge of “corruption on earth”in a case HRANA said was linked to security developments during the war.

She also faced accusations including insulting Iran’s Supreme Leader,conducting media activity deemed contrary to national security, carrying out intelligence activity for hostile governments and photographing a military site and sending images to Persian-language media abroad.

HRANA said five of the eight cases were still at the initial trial or appeal stages.

The group also highlighted the case of Bita Hemmati, who had been sentenced todeath in connection with the January protestsbefore the Supreme Court overturned the sentence in June and ordered a retrial. HRANA said the outcome of the new proceedings remained unclear.

Separately, Varisheh Moradi, who had beensentenced to death on a charge of “baghi,” or armed rebellion, over alleged membership in an opposition group, had her sentence overturned by the Supreme Court in December 2025 and was granted a retrial. Her case remains unresolved.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609132554

Trump says Iran strikes ‘possible’ as Tehran says no talks planned

Summary

• Four Iranian experts specializing in operating and launching drones and missiles were killed in Yemen’s Taiz province during operations against Houthi forces, a spokesperson for Yemen’s armed forces said on Sunday.

• US President Donald Trump told Axios he expects further talks with Iran this week, despite rejecting Tehran’s proposal to end the war. Regional sources said another round of indirect negotiations could take place as early as Monday, with Qatar continuing mediation.

• Iran’s delegation in New York has no plans for new US talks and is awaiting Washington’s response to proposals conveyed through Qatar, state-run IRNA reported Sunday, citing a source close to the delegation.

• Iran is being investigated for a possible link to a suspected plot targeting RAF Fairford, a US-used airbase involved in operations against Iran, Sky News reported. British police arrested five men Sunday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act and explosives offences.

• US President Donald Trump said oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz had increased, adding that oil prices would plunge once Iran “surrenders” and the war ends, which he said would happen “soon.”

• Iran’s armed forces targeted a total of 19 vessels described as “violators” as they passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and Saturday, the IRGC-linked Fars news agency reported.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609135404

3 hours ago

Araghchi says Iran prepared for ‘doomsday war’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran was “fully prepared” for war with the United States to resume and would stand firm even if it led to a “doomsday war,” adding that Tehran remained open to diplomacy.

“We are fully prepared for the war to be resumed,” Araghchi told NBC’s Meet the Press. “We stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war.”

“At the same time, we stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose,”he added.

Araghchi said Iran was still awaiting an official US response through mediators to the proposal despite Trump saying he had rejected it. Under the plan, he said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen on the sixth day after agreed US steps, followed by talks on a final agreement on the seventh day.

Araghchi added that Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% could be considered in future negotiations if Washington demonstrated “goodwill” and a “real determination for a peace.”

Asked why Iran needed uranium enriched to 60%, Araghchi said it was for “peaceful purposes” and argued that the enrichment was within Iran’s commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

“We have not violated NPT,” he said. “We answered that question in the past during the negotiations, and we can do it again.”

On why Iran’s supreme leader had not released a video, Araghchi cited “security reasons” and said there were indications that he was under threat from the United States. He said the supreme leader remained “in full control” and that officials continued to receive his comments, orders and opinions.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609135404

(perfect picture of Kristine, scared or horrified)

Netanyahu’s narrative of ignorance on October 7 is rapidly unraveling

New reports detailing warnings conveyed by Egypt and the UAE before the massacre shatter PM’s claim the security establishment kept him in the dark; if anything, it was the other way around

By AMIR BAR SHALOM27 September 2026, 2:31 pm1/2

An investigation into the Egyptian warning conveyed to Israel days before the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, published over the weekend in The Atlantic, has added another crucial piece to the puzzle.

The article, published Friday night, confirmed previous reporting that the Egyptian warning was conveyed to Israel by Abbas Kamel, the then-head of the country’s intelligence and at the time one of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s closest associates.

According to The Atlantic, a chartered Cessna jet linked to Egypt’s intelligence service landed at Ben Gurion Airport on September 26, 2023, and took off again 67 minutes later.Kamel had flown in on “a most sensitive mission.” An Israeli source quoted by The Atlantic said Kamel’s blunt message was: “Gaza is going to blow up in your faces,” without specifying an exact date.

The first journalist to report the Egyptian warning, just two days after the October 7 massacre, was Smadar Perry of Yedioth Ahronoth.

Perry’s revelation was met with a barrage of absolute denials, including from the Prime Minister’s Office. But she stood by her reporting, and after Netanyahu’s office denied it on October 9, 2023, she added details indicating that Kamel had been the messenger and cited senior Egyptian officials confirming the report.

It is now becoming clear just how accurate Perry’s reporting was, and how frustrated the Egyptians were by Israel’s indifference to the clear warning they had conveyed.

The Atlantic report was joined on Saturday by a New York Times report corroborating Shlomi Eldar and Ruti Yuval’s revelation, published two weeks ago in Haaretz, about another warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received at around the same time, from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed.

The Times report was based on conversations with two separate sources who confirmed that the two leaders spoke and that, during the conversation,an unequivocal warning was conveyed that Hamas was planning a significant offensive move, although no date was specified.

It appears that the source of both warnings was former Palestinian Authority minister Sufian Abu Zaida. A member of the secular Fatah party that controls the PA in the West Bank and serves as a bitter, often violent rival to Hamas, Abu Zaida is considered very close to another senior Palestinian figure, Mohammed Dahlan.

Dahlan is the former powerful Fatah security chief in Gaza who was ousted by Hamas in a bloody 2007 coup. He later became a fierce rival of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and was forced into exile in Abu Dhabi, where he now lives under bin Zayed’s protection.

Last Thursday, Abu Zaida acknowledged in a televised interview in Egypt that he had conveyed warning messages directly from Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar — the mastermind of the October 7 massacre — who dictated them to him word for word. The sheer irony that Sinwar used a loyalist of his ousted Fatah rival to send a message to Israel highlights the highly unusual nature of this backchannel.

The backdrop to the secret communications channel was growing frustration within Hamas over the actions of Israel’s hard-right government. Pressure on Palestinian security prisoners was mounting as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir deliberately worsened their prison conditions. Hamas was also seething over the erosion of the status quo on the Temple Mount, whose security also falls directly under Ben Gvir’s responsibility.

In addition, the quiet negotiations brokered by then-US president Joe Biden’s administration between Saudi Arabia and Israel were beginning to gain momentum, something that greatly worried Sinwar, heading a terrorist government dedicated to Israel’s destruction, and wary of any regional normalization process that would help cement Israel’s status.

The Hamas leader feared that Saudi Arabia, the central power in the moderate Sunni world, would not condition a historic normalization deal with Israel on resolving the Palestinian issue, and would settle instead for only a general statement about a “future solution.” From Sinwar’s perspective, in such a scenario it would become very difficult to return to serious, practical discussions about Palestinian statehood.

Through the channel opened with Abu Zaida’s mediation, Sinwar, via his envoy Ghazi Hamad,conveyed a demand for the release of several dozen Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for calm.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-narrative-of-ignorance-on-october-7-is-rapidly-unraveling/?

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At the time, Hamas was holding two Israeli civilians — Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed — along with the bodies of two IDF soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, killed in the 2014 Gaza war.

According to the Palestinians,Israel let the demand fade away without providing a clear answer. Then, about a month before October 7, Sinwar conveyed a warning to Israel about a coming “zilzal” – the Arabic word for “earthquake.”

The description of the Egyptian warning published in The Atlantic, together with its confirmation by the Israeli source, is consistent with this account.

The Prime Minister’s Office responded on Saturday night to the weekend reports with yet another sweeping denial. But as time passes,more concrete evidenceis accumulating to indicate that Netanyahu, and/or someone very close to him, received warnings about Hamas’s intentions and actively chose not to update the IDF and the Shin Bet.

The New York Times said it has the minutes of a security discussion held on October 1, 2023 — after both warnings had been received — during which neither warning was brought up. According to the minutes, Netanyahu opposed a proposal to eliminate senior Hamas figures and asked to preserve calm in the Gaza Strip in order to advance the Saudi diplomatic track.

In other words, if this matter is eventually investigated by a state commission of inquiry with access to the minutes and the people involved, a picturemay emerge that is opposite to the prime minister’s persistent “they didn’t wake me up” narrative.

In that picture, by failing to pass the warnings on to the heads of the security establishment, it was Netanyahu who failed to grab them by the lapels — not the other way around.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-narrative-of-ignorance-on-october-7-is-rapidly-unraveling/?

(picture of some of the young men that were kidnapped, who died or lived attached)

What Netanyahu didn’t say at the UN was as telling as what he did

PM didn’t present promised new Iran intel or issue additional threats against the regime, or talk about Saudi peace, or even lavish praise on Trump.Here’s how to understand those omissions

By Lazar Berman 25 September 2026, 9:24 pm1/2

NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 15th address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday was in some ways a classic Bibi presentation.

He railed against antisemitism, blasted what he characterized as the moral fecklessness of European leaders, and came equipped with not one, but two props for his performance — a beeper to taunt Hezbollah for the stunning September 2024 exploding pagers and walkie-talkies operation, and a Starlink internet terminal to needle and shame the Iranian regime over its silencing of its own people.

At the same time,there were surprising omissions from the address, omissionsthat reinforce the sense that Israel does not have a clear and viable plan right now for countering the central threat to its national security: Iran’s nuclear weapons program, its ballistic missiles, and its rapacious, tenacious regime.

Prior to the speech, senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that the “surprises” Netanyahu had promised would come in the form of new intelligence on malign Iranian activities.

He has made such revelations in past speeches at the forum. In 2018, for instance, he exposed what he said was a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran and revealed details of Hezbollah missile factories in Beirut.

But this time, he revealed nothing new about Iran and its military machine.

He reiterated Israel’s justification for embarking on the war with the US against the Islamic Republic at the end of February — in a joint bid to definitively prevent Iran’s push to the bomb, destroy its ballistic missile capabilities and trigger the collapse of the regime. None of those goals, declared by both Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, were achieved.

All Netanyahu had left was the empty claim, at the start of his speech, that he had “exactly” fulfilled his vow “to prevent Iran’s murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs,” and the prediction, near his conclusion, that “one day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free… This evil regime will fall.”

Curiously, he didn’t mention the Abraham Accords or the dream of normalized relations with Saudi Arabia.

And perhaps most surprisingly, he referred to Trump only once in the 40-minute speech, after lauding the US president five times in last year’s address.

Stepping carefully on Iran, to avoid irritating Trump

These omissions and marginalizations suggest a lack of operative pathways ahead.

On Iran, whatever steps Netanyahu might want to take to achieve those original war aims — presumably centered on a return to the intensive use of military force — he cannot publicly demand them.

Doing so would be seen as not only a blatant critique of Trump’s current policy — a mixture of repeated threats and ineffectual attempts at negotiations, an economic blockade that is causing Iran serious pain, pledges to ensure Iran does not attain the bomb, and reiterated demands for full and free passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

At least until the November midterms in the US, Israel has no choice but to sit on the sidelines and quietly prepare for likely conflict a little further down the road.

After November, Trump won’t have any more major election hurdles to worry about in office, and while he will not want to weaken a Republican successor’s chances, he could see logic in returning to major military operations.

The president has also been musing about a deal with Iran after the midterms, but hasn’t explained why a settlement then would be any easier to reach: Iran’s defiant position isn’t about to change based on US election results.

The regime has said repeatedly that the only deal it will accept is one that formally recognizes Iranian control over Hormuz, and that it isn’t even willing to discuss its nuclear program. If that remains the case, the only path to a deal is Trump utterly caving, or renewed military action potent enough to persuade the regime that a deal along Trump’s demands is its only path to survival.

Hence the absence of meat in Netanyahu’s passages on Iran, and the omission of the anticipated intel revelations. What the prime minister is doing now is watching and hoping — from out of the loop — that Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner don’t jump into another Middle East deal that gives Tehran room to wiggle out of core commitments.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-netanyahu-didnt-say-at-the-un-was-as-telling-as-what-he-did/?utm_campaign=most_popular&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=8

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Covert, not overt, Saudi interaction

Closer to Israel’s borders, Saudi Arabia isn’t about to normalize ties anytime soon.

Peace with Riyadh has been a core goal for Netanyahu. At the UN podium in September 2023, barely two weeks before the Hamas invasion, he predicted imminent “historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” with the potential for “a new Middle East,” and held up the maps to showcase it. But he knows that the Saudis today have innumerable reasons to avoid any such agreement.

Israel’s brand is toxic in the Arab world after three years’ worth of footage of death and suffering in Gaza, and his government is defined in the region by far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir and persistent settler violence.

Iran’s attacks on the Saudis and other Arab countries underscore how firmly Riyadh and Jerusalem sit in the same Middle East camp, and strikes on the kingdom by the Houthis in Yemen and Shiite militias in Iraq are becoming a crisis for the Saudis. But they want any assistance from Israel to be covert, and continue to believe that engaging with Iran — rather than running toward Israel — is the best way to stave off future attacks.

Muted praise for the president

Given that Netanyahu faces a difficult election next month, his address was designed first and foremost to convince voters to back him. Though Trump is well-liked in Israel and is seen as one of the most pro-Israel US presidents in history, the way he pulled the rug out from under this year’s US-Israeli campaign against Iran still stings.

It’s also a vulnerability for Netanyahu. He has been attacked by domestic critics as being too pusillanimous (showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.) in the face of Trump, letting a famously inconsistent president make decisions that went to the core of Israel’s national security.

If Netanyahu had again lavishly praised Trump from the podium while the president maintains his incoherent approach toward defeating the Islamic Republic, it would only have cemented the image in the minds of Israeli voters of an untenably subservient prime minister.

Moreover, Trump has thus far refrained from endorsing him, and was unable to find time to meet with him when Netanyahu was in town for the UN.

Should the Israeli public decide on October 27 that they want him to remain in office, Netanyahu might be able to use the next UN General Assembly to present new intelligence and talk tough on Iran, or assert fresh possibilities of regional normalization. But it is far from certain that he’ll be the Israeli prime minister making the speech next September.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-netanyahu-didnt-say-at-the-un-was-as-telling-as-what-he-did/?utm_campaign=most_popular&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=8

NEW: Noah’s Ark Scans Founder’s Apartment Burglarized in Attempt to Destroy Research as Team on the Verge of Proving the Existience of Noah’s Ark in Turkey

by Jordan Conradson Sep. 27, 2026 2:00 pm

The home of Andrew Jones, the founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, was ransacked on Saturday as research on the boat-shaped Durupınar formation near Mount Ararat in Turkey continues.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Noah’s Ark Scans, the group leading an expedition into the origins of the Durupınar formation, believed to house Noah’s Ark of the Bible, has received permits from the government of Turkey to explore the site and conduct a deep-core drilling survey.

Jones recently announced a major discovery in the expedition when the team “struck a layer so hard that the drill bit broke,” challenging the long-standing belief held by geologists that the formation was caused by a natural landslide or limestone block.Third-party lab testing for mineralized or petrified wood, which could indicate that a wooden ark has been buried for thousands of years.

“I believe this is Noah’s Ark, that’s why I’m putting the Durupinar site through the most rigorous testing possible,” Jones said.

Now, Jones is facing threats on his life and apparent attempts to destroy his research on the biblical site.

Lauren Witzke, the President of Noah's Ark Scans, announced on Saturday that Jones's apartment was "ransacked and burglarized" after he fled his apartment from individuals repeatedly threatening to kill him in the middle of the night.

"We’ve already said this expedition has come under attacks that are borderline demonic. But we still didn’t think they’d go this far," Witzke wrote on X. "They stole his laptops, his computers, his memory cards , basically anything they thought he might have stored the Noah’s Ark evidence on," she said, noting that it was a targeted robbery and "they specifically knew what they were there for."

Witzke noted, however, that copies of everything were made and stored on memory cards, and "none of the data was lost." She added, "Andrew is safe, the research is safe, we are not backing down and we won’t be scared into quitting the most important scientific study in world history."

Full statement below:

Noah’s Ark Scans founder’s apartment ransacked and burglarized!!

We’ve already said this expedition has come under attacks that are borderline demonic. But we still didn’t think they’d go this far.

After the permitted study was announced, Andrew started getting woken up between 1 and 3 a.m. People banging on his door. Yelling profanities. Trying to get in. Threatening to kill him. More than once.

We all told him to get out and stay with a friend until the 2026 Noah’s Ark study was over and thank God he listened.

While he was gone, they broke in and they turned the place upside down. They stole his laptops, his computers, his memory cards , basically anything they thought he might have stored the Noah’s Ark evidence on.

They didn’t take anything else of value. As you can see they left the mic, printer, etc they JUST stole what they through would be the research. They specifically knew what they were there for.

When the police asked for security footage, they were told the apartment complex cameras were down during the robbery.

This doesn’t look like a local job. The villagers around the site have been good to us. They benefit from the tourism Noah’s Ark brings and the man screaming threats through the door was speaking English.

Of course, Andrew had already had made and taken copies with him of everything on memory cards so none of the data was lost.

Andrew is safe, the research is safe, we are not backing down and we won’t be scared into quitting the most important scientific study in world history.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/new-noahs-ark-scans-founders-apartment-ransacked-as/

Saudi Arabia ‘has not ruled out’ developing nuclear weapons – WaPo

A classified US intelligence assessment has fueled concerns over President Donald Trump’s civilian nuclear deal with Riyadh

Published 26 Sep, 2026 01:03 |

Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, according to a classified US intelligence assessment that has fueled concerns in Congress over President Donald Trump’s nuclear cooperation agreement with Riyadh, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

The assessment was included in classified documents provided to lawmakers as they review the landmark agreement, US officials told the newspaper.The State Department reportedly provided a separate assessment that was more confident in Saudi assurances and the safeguards built into the deal.

Signed in July, the Section 123 agreement lays the legal groundwork for American companies to take part in tens of billions of dollars’ worth of civilian nuclear projects in Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration has argued that the arrangement will strengthen nonproliferation standards while preventing Riyadh from turning to Russia or China for nuclear cooperation.

However, the agreement creates a potential pathway for Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium domestically. Enrichment would initially be capped below 5%, but could later rise to as much as 20% following additional studies and written approval by Washington and Riyadh. Uranium enriched to that level remains below weapons grade, but substantially reduces the additional work required to reach weapons-grade concentrations.

The pact also does not require Saudi Arabia to adopt the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol, which provides inspectors with broader access and additional tools for detecting undeclared nuclear activity. Instead, Washington and Riyadh have negotiated a separate bilateral safeguards arrangement.

A group of Democratic senators led by Ed Markey and Jeff Merkleywarned Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday that the deal could ultimately give Riyadh “the means to enrich uranium and possibly develop nuclear weapons.” Merkley told the Washington Post that Saudi Arabia’s insistence on retaining the option of domestic enrichment raises questions over whether its ambitions are entirely civilian.

The State Department rejected suggestions that the administration is facilitating a military program, telling the newspaper thatthe US “does not and will not support a Saudi nuclear weapon program.” Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman has insisted that Riyadh’s program will be “peaceful” and developed with “the highest levels of responsibility and transparency.”

The intelligence assessment has added to longstanding concerns over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 2018 statement that Riyadh will seek a nuclear weapon if Iran acquires one.

“Without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would follow suit as soon as possible,”he said at the time.

Lawmakers have also contrasted the Saudi agreement with the much stricter 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which capped Tehran’s uranium enrichment at 3.67% for 15 years. Trump withdrew the US from the deal during his first term, claiming it was not strict enough.

The Saudi agreement was formally submitted to Congress on August 24 and is undergoing a 90-day review. Lawmakers can seek to block it, although overriding a presidential veto would require a two-thirds majority in both chambers.

https://www.rt.com/news/646262-saudi-arabia-nuclear-weapons/