US Special Forces train militants near Aleppo, Syria, in June 2018.
Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter May 26, 2026
RT.com is reporting that Western intel agencies led by the United States are planning to use Syrian jihadists affiliated with ISIS as a proxy force against Iran. The report cites Russian Federal Security Service chief Aleksandr Bortnikov as its source for the story.
This is a story you won’t see reported in the West, where corporate media outlets are tightly controlled by the military-industrial-intelligence complex.
According to the RT report, the jihadists, who fought for the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and other terrorist groups, are being moved from prisons in Syria to special camps in Iraq, Bortnikov said Tuesday during a meeting of the security chiefs from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Russia’s Irkutsk Region.
“The history of Islamic State began with similar Iraqi prison complexes under the protection of Western coalition intelligence agencies,” he stated.
The actions of Western spy agencies also pose a danger to Russia and its affiliated nations such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as the released terrorists, “include individuals from CIS countries who fought in the Islamic State and other terrorist groups and later ended up in Syrian prisons,” Bortnikov warned. They can be used not only across the Middle East, but also in their home countries, he said.
“Undoubtedly, the escalation of the Iranian conflict and the involvement of an increasing number of parties in it is threatening to destabilize the entire Islamic world,” the Russian security chief stressed.
This is a huge story because President Trump has long alleged, as far back as 2016 and with some merit, that former president Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were responsible for creating the Islamic terror force that ultimately morphed into ISIS. Obama and Clinton, with help from the late Senatory John McCain, wanted to arm and train a Sunni Muslim fighting force and use them to overthrow Syrian President Bashur Assad in Syria’s civil war (you can read about Trump’s 2016 allegations here.)
Now, according to the RT report, Trump’s own administration may be reviving the old Obama plan of using a Sunni Islamic terror organization against a Shia regime it considers to be a threat to Israel. The only difference is that ISIS is now being turned against Iran instead of Syria.
Trump last week admitted in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he launched the war against Iran mostly on behalf of Israel and U.S.-allied Gulf states.
President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan in April failed to reach a peace deal.
Trump later announced the open-ended extension of the ceasefire and the continuation of a U.S. blockade until negotiations are concluded “one way or the other.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader speaks
A statement posted to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s official X account and read out on Iranian state television on Tuesday said the countries of the Middle East “will no longer serve as shields for American bases” as a result of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
”The hand of time does not turn back,” the statement attributed to Khamenei said. “America will no longer have a safe haven for mischief and the establishment of military bases in the region.”
On Tuesday, the U.S. launched what it called “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran in response to escalating tensions and threats. Trump also appears to have widened the scope of any potential Iran war peace deal, saying Tuesday that Iran and its Arab neighbors — including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and others — must join the Abraham Accords and make peace with Israel.
Meanwhile, Tehran continues to prevent the ships of Washington’s allies from sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for some 25% of the global crude oil trade, while the US maintains its own blockade of Iranian ports. And average nationwide gas prices have surged to near $5 a gallon in the U.S., which does not bode well for Republicans heading into the November midterm elections.
On Monday, Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reportedly arrived in Doha for talks with Qatar’s prime minister on a potential peace deal with the U.S.
But both sides downplayed hopes of any immediate breakthrough, as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was willing to give diplomacy a chance before deciding whether to deal with Iran in “another way.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday the fact that the sides were able to reach common ground on some issue “does not mean that the signing of an agreement is imminent.”
BOTTOM LINE: I still say, all the talk about a peace deal amounts to smoke and mirrors. The U.S. and Israel are still burning for a regime change in Tehran and will not rest until they get it. The peace talks are merely a stalling tactic for the U.S. and Israel to rearm and regroup for another full-scale attack.
With almost all military advisers warning that a ground invasion of Iran would result in a bloodbath for U.S. troops, it now appears that Trump is reverting to the old Obama strategy of using Sunni Muslim terrorists to attack a nation whose leadership refuses to bend to the will of the U.S. empire.
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So the plot is: You arrested them and put them in jails. And you’re now letting them out to attack your enemies. I can’t see how that would work can you?
Isn’t it far more likely that either (a) this russian guy is making it up or (b) these cia/mossad/isis were never in jail to begin with?
And dump isn’t doing anything. None of what happens in the middle east has anything to do with him. The US army is run from jewland, just as the british army is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfH1j0Y-qWA
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says Gulf powers will no longer ”be a shield” for American military bases and the US will no longer have “a safe haven” in the region.
Khamenei made the comments on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. The statement comes as Tehran and Washington discuss a framework to end their three-month-old war.
Iran’s supreme leader took over in March after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in US-Israel air strikes. Mojtaba Khamenei has so far not appeared in public.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar has more from the Iranian capital Tehran.
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“A statement posted to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s official X account and read out on Iranian state television on Tuesday said the countries of the Middle East “will no longer serve as shields for American bases” as a result of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.”
”The hand of time does not turn back,” the statement attributed to Khamenei said. “America will no longer have a safe haven for mischief and the establishment of military bases in the region.”
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Iran Supreme Leader also said the Zionist Occupation State will face its own problems remaining in East Asia. I heard BBC World Service read the comment (I presume Telegram comment) in full last night.
Powerful stuff, Iran wants the U.S. and Israel to disappear from East Asia. Iran is in the business of turning global public opinion against the two oppressors and trespassers
LOL…
ISIS..
I wonder if mossad/SAS/NSA /place regime acronymn here, in turbans, will launch their attack in a fleet of CiA toyota pickups, like they did in Syria..some of them still had signage artfully painted on them for yankee plumbers and landscape gardeners and yankee DOD ordnance bolted on by yankee grunts in Iraq.. jeesh what a hoot… bathhouse barry sent the pallets of cash to fund it..
and admitted so..naughty naught, barry..
one thing in the mullahs favour though, at the next outbreak of ‘hostilities’, at least they wont have these fucking Russians stabbing them in the back like Arsehad…had…who apparently has disappeared in Moscow along with his drug dealing operation and stepford wife who was probably a brit-ish asset..which incidentally sounds like her moniker..dear dear..and who did a mighty fine job of stabbing himself in the back too.. after he stabbed everyone in the country in the back first.. in fact it was a fucking mexican wave of back stabbin’..
what would you expect..
of course.. you would..me too..
lolo..
One small problem here, Leo, … RTcom is phony, it’s made up by the same people from your military-intell-industrial group (Mii) that also created Isis. They also include as members the komene guy. How come all these guys have X accounts? This Leo article doesnt jive with his other stories.
Yes of course. Since the Syrian campaign was such a success for them, they intend to use the same tactics of paid ISIS mercs and other insurrection groups to terrorize the people while they keep pouring in all of the bribe money. A completely unmatched nation has stood up to them and they cannot allow such people to stand in the way of their rapacious plans. As more and more people around the world have come to realize that the people in nations such as the US and Israel are unable to control their own governments and the ownership class, it would be better for the entire world for those nations not to exist at all. Hence, the globalist nation-deconstructing campaign no doubt will intensify – and all because those powerful nations cannot control their lusts.
Simple :
Trumpstein and his Israeli programming-berg are beyond obvious-ov.
His stoopid “Iran can’tt have Nukes ” propoganda and “TACO” stand is clearly transparent deceit to re -arm and to bide time to prepare yet another attack on Iran, this time in a different form using what amounts to be guerrilla warfare.
He will then use this new ” force” as a variable to add to the “Yo- Yo” Up and Down factor of Pump nad Dump the stock markets for him and his insiders.
Iran?
…are no Troglodytes..they have likely War Gamed all these scenarios, and I envision their next defensive move ( ie Enough is Enough..its Rock and Roll ) time will be epic and historic.
If USA blows this one ?… its “Game On” by Iran… but then again this may be the (((USA))) goal . at this crucial juncture.
Tick Tock Tick Tock – stein….
“On Tuesday, the U.S. launched what it called “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran” .. you can’t make that shit up….”se;f defense strikes”…during a so-called truce….
Then there was Zion Don the Con “saying Tuesday that Iran and its Arab neighbors — including must join the Abraham Accords and make peace with Israel.” Fuuuuuuuuck YOU, asshole. There is no such thing as peace with Mordor or the jew, for their law commands the jew to degrade and destroy, period, and they have been literally hell-bent on doing it. Only the severely mentally retarded would ever trust a jew to “make peace” and stick to it. Hell, Mordor and the jew doesn’t bat an eye to attack their “allies” and mass murder them, see 9/11 and countless other examples….
A woman was very distraught at the fact that she had not had a date or any sex in quite some time.
She was afraid she might have something wrong with her, so she decided to seek the medical expertise of a sex therapist. Her doctor recommended that she see the well known Chinese sex therapist Dr. Chang.
Upon entering the examination room Dr. Chang said ‘OK take off all your crose.
The woman did as she was told.
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Again the woman did as she was instructed.
Dr. Chang then said ‘OK, now craw reery, reery fass back to me.’
So she did.
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Worried the woman asked anxiously ‘Oh my God Dr.Chang! What is Tony Brair Disease?’
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Tony Blair demands welfare cuts and end of old age pensions
Too many in the country now for claims
Story by David Maddox
Tony Blair has warned that Labour must slash the UK’s ballooning welfare bill and end the guarantee for pensions to get the sluggish UK economy growing again.
The former prime minister said the rising number of people on disability benefits was unsustainable and must be cut as a priority.
This vile mass murderer never once suggested sending the migrants home
what an evil twisted bastard
the wahabi terrorists with their black beards
will be less loved as they were in afganistan .