Global SITREP A4-26: OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER

OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER

13 May 2026: The name of the renewed war against the Twelver regime in Iran speaks volumes as to what can be expected in the coming 60 days.

Global SITREP A3-26: Operation Epic Fury Endgame PART III

April 22, 2026: We now know that President Trump's unilateral extension of the ceasefire with the Iranian Twelver regime is due to the fact that the regime is in a fractured and highly unstable political state. The IRGC appears to be acting since yesterday as the de facto power of the government in ordering attacks by IRCG fast attack craft on M/Vs in the Strait of Hormuz and east of it from the Iranian Port of Chabahar into the Gulf of Oman. The lack of a U.S. response thus far to the serious attacks gives weight to what Pentagon sources say will come next.

Multiple sources are reporting that officials in the Pentagon are strongly indicating that a resumption of the war is imminent. However, the resumption of combat operations will far surpass the power and violence rained down upon Iran since the initiation of hostilities on February 28. Three U.S. Navy supercarrier CSGs are now in the CENTCOM AOR (Lincoln, Ford and G.H.W. Bush) plus several thousand U.S. Marines, Airborne and Special Operations forces plus the inherent and significant increase of combat airpower. Israeli forces are also primed to resume their Operation Roaring Lion combat operations

The meaning here is that Trump's indefinite ceasefire probably does not indicate a long-term cessation but a finite extension of potentially very short duration in order to give the Twelver political echelon a chance to impose control over the IRGC.

24 April 2026: The U.S.-Iranian Twelver "negotiations" in Pakistan have taken a big hit because hardliners in the Ayatollah's inner circle and the IRGC have forced (former) lead negotiator Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf to resign. Ghalibaf was also severely reprimanded by the inner circle over inclusion of the nuclear issue in negotiations with the US. His participation is likely the reason any progress was made in previous rounds. Regime hardliners and the Ayatollah's inner circle have clearly won the internal power struggle.

With Twelver hardliners in control there's no chance for a successful outcome, which explains why Vice President Vance has cancelled his plans to travel. President Trump now has his response from Tehran. 

25 April 2026: Iranian Twelver envoy Araghchi met with his Islamic brothers in Pakistan and delivered Tehran's "comprehensive response" to Trump's demands. He has since departed for chats in Muscat and Moscow. Meanwhile, Trump's envoys Witkoff and Kushner are still hours away from landing in Islamabad. Once arrived they'll receive the Twelver response - which is, essentially, there can be no further negotiations with the U.S., there is no nuclear issue, the SoH will remain closed and the U.S. and Israel owe the Twelver regime billions in war reparations. To say at this point that Trump has not been played like a fiddle by the Twelver regime would be a massive understatement. Trump's reaction is sure to be epic.

1 May 2026: It appears to be crunch time for the current phase of Operation Epic Fury as the 60-day threshold of war powers act has arrived. 

The Trump Administration has a couple options to employ. One is to ignore the 60-day mark as previous presidencies have done. Another option is to seek a congressional declaration of war against the Twelver regime. The decision has either already been made or will be made in a matter of a few more hours. 

I believe the decision has been made as the U.S. Army made a request to deploy its Dark Eagle (Long Range Hypersonic Weapon or LRHW) system to the CENTCOM AOR.

7 May 2026: Today Iranian forces launched attacks on three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting eastbound (outbound) from the gulf. USCENTCOM released the following AAR:

“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No US assets were struck."

FINAL UPDATE 13 May 2026: Eschatology Today closes out this SITREP in noting that both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have conducted retaliatory airstrikes on specific targets inside Iran. This news has been accompanied by reports of Israel's Mossad director making covert visits to the UAE in March and April. These visits signal the close strategic and intelligence cooperation between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi.

There is also a newly revealed international military coalition of more than forty nations, led by the United Kingdon, who will defend maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks and operate to restore freedom of navigation in the Gulf. The Royal Navy air defense destroyer HMS Dragon looks to be this force's flagship.

Within the next day or so the previously noted return to far more destructive attacks on Iran by the US and Israel appears very likely. Operation Sledgehammer will be the subject of SITREP A4-26.

 Maranatha!

Eschatology Today - Operation Epic Fury Endgame Part II

Kharg Island

30 March 2026: Notice the position of Kharg Island relative to southern Elam.

Dozens of A-10C Warthogs are inbound!

31 March 2026: An IRGC weapons depot in Esfahan (Isfahan) was utterly destroyed by several American 2,000lb bunker buster bombs recently. This is not the nuclear-related bunker struck previously at Esfahan.

The bunker that was struck this time, to great effect I might add, was imaged by satellite just prior to June 13, 2025. Subsequent analysis of the imagery revealed a large tractor-trailer hauling numerous secure blue-colored barrels since assessed to have contained over 1,000 lbs of 60% enriched HEU. Radiation leakage has not been detected and that may be due to the depth of the now collapsed bunker.

2 April 2026: As noted in my 10AM comment yesterday, the rump Twelver regime, which is now essentially the highest ranking surviving members of the IRGC, has zero intention of surrendering to the US and Israel. Instead they have doubled down and will continue the war by any and all means available to them for the forseeable future. They insist on the surrender of the US and Israel and billions in cash reparations to end the war. Like that's gonna happen!

That means calling on their allies in Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon and IRGC-QF sleeper cells around the world to attack as terrorists will attack any and all targets of opportunity. Hence my interpretation that Jeremiah 49:34-39 will persist in a process of fulfillment until the LORD God ends it on the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 38-39). 

This isn't a "forever war" as some like to opine, but it is a war of significant duration (47 years and counting) yet which may well be brought to closure for the Bride of Christ by the trumpet-like voice of an archangel announcing the advent of our Harpazo.

FINAL UPDATE 20 April 2026: Eschatology Today assesses that the war against Iran and Hezbollah, representing radical Shi'a Islam, will continue imminently. The primary reason for this assessment is that nothing has been achieved in the stated objectives. 

In Lebanon, which is 100% a war between Israel and Hezbollah, the same interim result as in previous and limited IDF incursions into southern Lebanon is the current status quo. The above map reflects this. Since the U.S. is not at war with Hezbollah the declaration by President Trump that the war is over is not only grossly premature, but also patently absurd. It's not Trump's war to declare an end to nor dictate to the government of the State of Israel how it is conducted. In this situation one could rightly conclude that Trump believes Israel is a vassal state to the United States and its foreign policy is subject to his dictates.

In Iran the war has morphed into a virtually unrecognizable morass. As noted here previously it is war war nominally led by the American SECWAR and his commander in the field but conducted by unqualified businessmen and personal envoys of President Trump. It is being waged unlike any previous war that America has fought; it defies the conduct of an UNDECLARED war as a tool of the foreign policy oof the United States of America. It is also war being waged on the American president's social media platform, vice official White House communications channels. 

Also, whatever happened to the American and Israeli promise to the Iranian people that they'd soon have freedom, liberty and justice from the tyranny from the Shi'a Twelver regime, truly the Nazi's of the 21st century? Gone like yesterday's wind.

Prophetically speaking, the Iran war will conclude as the prophet Jeremiah has foretold or become the age-ending conflagration which sees the rise the of Antichrist as foretold in Daniel 11 by the angel Gabriel - at the appointed time. 

Marana'tha!

He Is Risen!!!

18 April 2025: He is Risen and is VERY SOON to Come Again!!!

"And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn."  - Zechariah 12:10

 

Eschatology Today - Operation Epic Fury Endgame

 

16 March 2026: The same image that this series began with will now return for what appears to be the endgame for Operation Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. 

According to multiple sources major hostilities could conclude sometime in April, but that also depends on a set of expected decisive actions at the Strait of Hormuz and Kharg Island. FWIW, Kharg Island lies geographically south of ancient Elam.

Khuzestan Province (ancient Elam) in Iran

Jeremiah 49:38

"I will set My throne in Elam,
And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the Lord."

USS Tripoli (LHA-7)

18 March 2026: The 31st MEU is reported to be in the vicinity of Singapore and that indicates an arrival in the CENTCOM AOR in late March. Media speculation, like the Israeli media OpEd on their destination being Khuzestan, is also rife with speculation that these amphibious Marines mission will be to secure the Strait of Hormuz shoreline in Iran. The fact is, both Israeli and American media reports may or may not hold water. Khuzestan is assessed likely because it's part of Jeremiah's prophecy. In any case the 31st MEU, America's (911 first responders) are enroute.

20 March 2026: The war against the Twelver regime until now has primarily been an air war. Airstrikes by US and Israeli aircraft, missile strikes by Tomahawks and other long-range, standoff GPS-guided precision munitions. These strikes have, in military parlance, "set the conditions" for the battle which must now follow - seizing the Strait of Hormuz from Twelver control.

IRGC Navy fast mine layer

Venerable A-10 'Warthog'

Most media report that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to martitime traffic. This is only partially correct. The Strait is divided with Iranian territorial water on the northern side, and Emerati and Omani waters on the southern side. VLCC tankers carrying millions of barrels of crude have had routine passage outbound to China and the East from Day One of this war. That would indicate there are no sea mines on the outbound passage of the Gulf. If there's Twelver mining in the Strait its likely on the southern side. 

However, IRGC fast mining craft like above are being hunted by the A-10s like dragon flies hunting surface skimming prey. They're highly skilled and effective hunters. 

There's strong I&W now that the inbound (due in mere days) 31st MEU will have as its core mission the high priority of taking control of the northern shore of the Strait. The 31st has all of the 'tools' necessary for such a mission set, from Boots to Choppers to F-35B strike aircraft.

Winning this battle will, conceivably, enable the eventual capture of important islands and other strategic targets further north along the Gulf coastline and the Endgame.

21 March 2026: The UK and Saudi Arabia have given the US permission to use their airbases for attacks on Iran, Fairford AB in the UK and King Fahd AB in Saudi. 

Shortly after the UK announcement the Twelvers launched two long-range missiles at Diego Garcia, a/k/a Bomber Island. One missile broke apart in mid-flight, the second was shotdown by an American SM-3 interceptor.

There are more rumors of war circulating that not only are two USMC MEU's heading towards Iran, but also elements of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division (18th Airborne Corps) are being prepped for deployment. The Pentagon is doing its job in preparing multiple options and contingencies for the President to consider.

Gulf states say they are prepared for nine months of war. Israel says the objective of the war is not regime change, but rather regime collapse. Only with regime collapse can the Iranian people become the "boots on the ground" necessary to throw the Twelver regime into the dustbin of history.

The IRGC has demonstratively and conclusively proven that the US, Israel and virtually all Western intelligence estitmates of its missiles and their capabilities are dangerously in error. Iran in the past 24 hours has proven that it possesses intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The time to take off the "kid gloves" has long since passed.

22 March 2026: A graphic from ISW/Critical Threats effectively illustrates the demonstrated range that Twelver IRGC ballistic missiles are capable of. This intelligence failure may have finally awakened the West to the threat presented in full color on 21 March 2026. The two ballistic missiles which were targeted at Diego Garcia immediately elicted a response from the UK in announcing the presence of their nuclear, tomahawk-armed submarine in the Arabian Sea.

Notice that the vast majority of Europe is well within range of these Twelver missiles.

30 March 2026: Trump threatens to seize Iran's oil wells. Check the below map.

See all that green indicating the bulk of Iran's oil fields. Look familiar? Yes, it's ancient Elam. You don't seize these oil fields without a massive ground invasion.

Eschatology Today - OPERATION EPIC FURY

 

Operation Epic Fury

28 February 2026: The usual first casualty in warfare is accurate information. This is due to the rush to report news. Eschatology Today will do its best to assure accuracy going forward. 

At the outset it does appear the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah 49:34-39 may have begun. IRGC missile bases have gotten a few of their "arrows" in the air, but they are under a massive air assault by the United State and Israel armed forces at this time. Twelver regime leadership and military bases are getting significant attention. On the cyber front messaging to the Iranian people has begun with "Help has arrived." Instructions given on the role they are to play in the war, i.e. "take control of Iranian governance."

The IRGC has not been able to launch massive barrages of missiles, as is their preference; they're having launcher problems. The IRGC did manage to launch one missile each at Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. 

Operation Epic Fury is a comprehensive retaliation for ALL of the Twelver regime's attacks against the United States over the past 47 years. President Trump itemized these attacks in his televised comments at 02:45 AM this morning.

Thus far only the shortest range missiles in the IRGC inventory were able to be launched. They barely covered the width of the Gulf waters. The longer range missiles are now on the receiving end of incessant US and Israeli strikes.

Not one to rain upon the parades of freedom loving Iranians, but the death of the Ayatollah and his inner clique, and that which is yet to occur in Iran, it is necessary to turn to Ezekiel 38:5 to see clearly what the near future holds. Ezekiel 38/39, and the other ancient prophets of Israel, do not prophecy about peace. Trust the Word of the LORD.

2 March 2026: In response to many indescriminate missile attacks by the Iranian Twelver regime into all of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries they will now coordinate their counter-strikes into Iran with U.S. CENTCOM HQ. 

After a little more than a day of Israeli and US airstrikes the Command and Control (C2) Tehran can exercise over its forces is non-existent. All local IRGC, Basij, Artesh and what is left of their naval formations must conduct their operations independent of any higher headquarters tasking. The bulk of they navy has been sunk.

What did Eschatology Today say in the very first sentence above? Have readers taken that warning seriously? Not so much. False print information is flooding the internet in an overwhelming manner, and AI-generated video is not far behind. No one sitting in front of their computer screen can tell the difference between a genuine video and an AI-enhanced video or still image. Enjoy the show but know that most of it is NOT REAL.

Finally!!! SECWAR Hegseth just told the world what we've said here for years about the Iranian Twelvers and their theology. The key phrase in SECWAR Hegseth's statement was "prophetic islamic delusions." 

5 March 2026: While the US/Israel airborne assault on the Twelver regime has devastated their missile capabilities, that is, new production, existent stocks and the ability to launch, the obvious next phase now reveals itself which is the method to be used in neutralizing IRGC ground forces. 

The IRGC are fanatics that will need to be thoroughly decimated. The Basij, without fanatical leadership and the knowledge that the al-mahdi was nothing more than a Shi's Twelver delusion, will fold up like a cheap camera. The ground forces needed for this mission are the Persian peoples themselves, be they ethnic Azeri, Baloch, Kurd, Bakhtyar, Lur, Arab, Turk and Persian. 

The regime forces are known to be hiding in schools, sports facilities and the like where US or Israeli strikes are highly unlikely. It will take the well-armed and coherent formations of the peoples of Iran to root them out. We're talking here about an anti-Twelver civil war. They are certain to have US and Israeli air dominance on their side, yet such a campaign will take time.

6 March 2026: Trump says only "unconditional surrender" will save the Islamic Republic of Iran from total destruction. Such a thing is unheard of in the present age, and it's likely the term itself is completely alien to any faction of islam. However, this is Trump at his most unbounded imperial. This represents a major departure from the narrative found in the Scriptures.

12 March 2026: Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? GBU who?

Image via Vantor

Confirming satellite imagery and analysis also  collected by Maxar and Planet Labs. According to the IAEA the purpose of Taleghan-2 within the Parchin military complex was to develop the high explosive initiator in creating critical mass and nuclear detonation.

So, most likely it wasn't some massive GBU MOPs but rather the IDF's SPICE 2000s that made those three impact craters at Taleghan-2.

13 March 2026: Ever since Hezbollah entered the war on the Twelvers behalf the IDF been fighting two wars simultaneously, one by air over Iran and the other by air, land and sea against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The government of Lebanon has no love for Hezbollah, not any more. They'd rather sacrifice the terrorists to save the country.

The IDF is moving northward into Lebanon and engaging Hezbollah terrorists along the way. It seems the IDF would like to trap Hezbollah's forces south of the Litani River by making it a terrorist kill box. The main Hezbollah route over the Litani, the A-Zararia bridge on the Litani River, was destroyed yesterday. Before the bridge strike somewhere around 500,000 Lebanese civilians evacuated to the northern parts of Lebanon. 

There's talk in Israel to eliminate Hezbollah completely in this war as the geographic paradigm has changed. Syria is now Hezbollah's enemy, so they can't flee to the east or north and are trapped in Lebanon that lies north of the Litani River. Joshua 13 looms as a potential outcome.

Speaking of signs, don't forget about our sun. Here's what NASA's SDO saw today- a massive coronal hole and equally massive CME.

Eschatology Today - Signs

 

24 February 2026: This inaugurates a new phase in the ongoing postings to Eschatology Today, from the longstanding Global SITREP series to a dated chronology simply termed Signs.

The establishment of the State of Israel is at the top of the list as a Sign of the end of this age. Make no mistake, the re-establishment of Israel in the Covenant Land is an ongoing process, witness the struggle over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

Within the past day something occured here that has not happened since Jesus walked on this land, and the Hasmonean's ruled until the Roman conquest. The national banner of Israel was raised atop Mount Sartaba which fronts on the Jordan Valley. 

On Mount Sartaba

In Israel's ancient history and during the Second Temple period this mount held, and still does have deep religious and national importance. A Signal fire would light up on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, and then a Signal fire would lit on Mount Sartaba. Jews in Babylon understood this Sign. Now in this era the same signalling is taking effect echoing ancient times. On Rosh Chodesh Nisan a signal fire will be lit as a signal [via TV] to the Jewish diaspora all over the world that "Israel Lives." 

26 February 2026: "War and rumors of war" are a sign. The current rumor of war between the US/Israel and Iran is like an epic storm rumbling towards us over plains and mountains, or a tsunami rushing a relatively calm shoreline. Its sudden arrival will alter most things in ways that are currently only supposition or conjecture in the secular world. 

Bible prophecy is more direct in the effects that will take place. Iran under the Twelver regime will go from a major threat and number one terror sponsoring state in the world to a second or third-rate has-been power, such as the war-torn rump of Sudan and Libya. So says the ancient Spirit-inspired prophet Ezekiel. It is the nearness of Ezekiel's prophetic military action which is the clearest indication of when the Bride of Christ will be instantaneously taken up to be with the LORD. Ezekiel 39:29 for your Berean point of reference.

27 February 2026:  As noted previously, the presence of Persia in the disastrous Magog confederation assault on Israel per Ezekiel 38/39, indicates a US/Israel attack in the near future will likely not achieve a regime change in the ruling theocracy. An attack or a "palace coup d'etat" could change the top tier Twelver leadership. Should this occur the most likely candidate for leadership and continuation of hatred for Israel might be Ali Larijani, a very close associate of Ayatollah Khamenei and the one he has personally tasked to ensure the survival of the Islamic Republic, even though Larijani is not a Twelver.

28 February 2026: Just when the visits to Eschatology Today tanked to rock bottom in the last 48 hours, the order was given and the U.S. Department of War began the execution of OPERATION EPIC FURY against the Islamic Republic of Iran at 0'Dark Thirty this morning. 

The State of Israel is also striking the Islamic Republic in concert with the US Armed Forces, making this a truly joint operation. Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been hit hard this morning by the IAF. At least one Israeli Naval Service (INS) submarine armed with Israel's second strike nuclear deterent put to sea this morning. It was last seen departing Haifa at high speed.

The Houthi's in Yemen have declared the Bab al-Mandab strait closed to all shipping. They claim to attack all US and Israeli ships they can reach.

In the Gulf the first strikes of Op Epic Fury hit several IRGC naval bases from which an attempt to deny transit access to the Strait of Hormuz would originate.

Twelver retalitation targeted the US Naval Support Activity in Manama, Bahrain. A video appears to show a direct hit on the US 5th Fleet HQ. There are also videos of Iranian missiles being shot down over the UAE.

The primary objective of Op Epic Fury appears to be neutralizing the Twelver regime (Tehran has been hit several times so far), its IRGC bases, infrastructure and nuclear sites. Given the intensity of action a new post will begin this morning.

Marana'tha!