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Neither the US nor Israel will ‘succeed in replacing the Iranian regime,’ retired US general says
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A retired U.S. general predicted that «neither Israel nor the U.S. will fully succeed in replacing the Iranian regime.»
Former Lt. Gen. Mark Schwartz was quoted by the Israel Hayom newspaper as making the remark. The joint U.S. and Israeli missions against Iran, named Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion, are in their 20th day Thursday.
«In my professional assessment, neither Israel nor the U.S. will fully succeed in replacing the Iranian regime. The main reason is that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of Iranian religious leaders who can replace the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah, if he is eliminated,» Schwartz told Israel Hayom.
«No matter how many successors you kill one after another, there will always be another one in line. Iran’s intelligence and security apparatus, the Revolutionary Guards, and the Iranian military also have depth. They are capable of replacing the top of the organization if it is destroyed,» he reportedly added.
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Schwartz, left, and Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, right. (U.S. State Department; Rouhollah Vahdati/ISNA/WANA via Reuters)
Schwartz is a career Green Beret who served in the U.S. Army for 33 years, according to The National Special Forces Green Beret Memorial, where he is the chairman of the advisory board.
The organization said, «During his career, Mark served throughout the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa,» and, «He has had the opportunity to lead strategic planning and operations working with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States Agency for International Development.»
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Recent footage shared by U.S. Central Command showed strikes against airplanes during the Iran war. (U.S. Central Command on X)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had warned Wednesday that if the Iranian regime survives Operation Epic Fury, «it will likely seek to begin a yearslong effort to rebuild its military, missiles and UAV forces.»
Gabbard also said the intelligence community «assesses that Operation Epic Fury is advancing fundamental change in the region that began with Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, and continued with the 12-day war last year, resulting in weakening Iran and its proxies.»
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, 2026. ( Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran via Getty Images)
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The campaign so far has resulted in the killing of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been replaced by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.
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A miner in Mexico was saved in an «astonishing rescue» after spending nearly two weeks trapped underground, officials said.
A dam breach caused by a structural failure flooded the El Rosario mine in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa on March 25, trapping Francisco Zapata Nájera and three co-workers. Zapata Nájera was located on Tuesday by divers, but the rescue teams were unable to reach him through heavily flooded areas until 21 hours later.
«The exceptional members of the Mexican Army’s Emergency Response Battalion, along with the faith and resilience of a miner, made this astonishing rescue possible after 13 days,» Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X. «I’m certain that all Mexicans, every one of us, hold you in our hearts.»
Of the 25 miners present during the accident, 21 escaped immediately. Five days later, rescuers pulled one survivor from a depth of 985 feet.
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Rescue teams transport miner Francisco Zapata Najera after rescuing him during a search for four miners following a collapse at a mine in El Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, on April 8, 2026. (Stringer/Reuters)
Sheinbaum confirmed that another miner has been found dead and one more is still missing.
In a video released Wednesday, clapping could be heard from a crowd that gathered as Zapata Nájera was removed from the mine, seeing daylight for the first time this month.
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Rescue teams transport miner Francisco Zapata Najera on a stretcher following his rescue on April 8, 2026. (Stringer/Reuters)
His condition was stabilized and he was sent in a Mexican Air Force helicopter to a hospital in Mazatlán, where he will be treated by specialists, officials said.
Mexico’s deadliest mining accident took place in February 2006 at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila, where an explosion killed 65 workers.
Rescue teams are seen leaving the El Rosario mine on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (Stringer/Reuters)
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In August 2022, 10 miners died when the El Pinabete coal mine in Coahuila flooded.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful embraces Hasan Piker despite controversial remarks
Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed campaigns with left-wing influencer Hasan Piker despite his history of offensive comments on 9/11 and antisemitism. Piker, known for calling America deserving of 9/11 and showing no patriotism, has a significant online following. Some Democrats fear this controversial alliance could jeopardize their chances in the crucial Michigan Senate race during the midterms, alienating swing voters.
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A House Democrat running for re-election in a battleground district previously said his home state was «stolen land» and claimed racism was «embedded» into nearly everything, according to a resurfaced video reviewed by Fox News Digital.
«We are on stolen land,» Rep. Gabe Vasquez, N.M., said in 2020 before entering Congress during an interview with a New Mexico-based outlet. He added the land used to be Mexican territory and before that was inhabited by Native Americans.
«Just about every part of life that we experience has some racism embedded into it,» Vasquez continued. «I have become less optimistic about where this country stands in terms of being able to eradicate racism, because it is intergenerational. It is passed on. It is embedded into our system.»
Vasquez, who is seeking a third term in November, made the remarks while serving as a city councilmember of Las Cruces — the largest city in his southwestern New Mexico district. He entered Congress in January 2023 after defeating a Republican incumbent while positioning himself as a moderate.
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Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., conducts a news conference with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), during the House Democrats 2025 Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Chair Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., left, Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Darren Soto, D-Fla., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Vasquez also suggested that he was open to replacing some of the city’s police officers with licensed psychologists and clinicians to respond to certain events during the interview.
«Those are the types of things that I’m committed to supporting, where if we do have to take budget away from a specific department, whether you know, it be police or otherwise,» Vasquez said, adding that he believed it was unnecessary with the current budget.
«If we don’t need those positions anymore, if we don’t need those budget line items anymore, then we need to get rid of them,» he continued. «And that’s a decision I’m happy to try to champion at the city council.»
Vasquez in 2020 appeared to justify rioting following the death of George Floyd, CNN’s KFile first reported. He also voiced support for the defund the police movement while using a pseudonym during an interview with a local outlet at a Black Lives Matter protest that year.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said Vasquez has been an unequivocal supporter of law enforcement during his House tenure in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Rep. Vasquez has supported increased funding for law enforcement for his entire political career, including over $4 billion for state and local police as Congressman just this year,» DCCC spokesperson Anna Elsasser said.
The New Mexico Democrat has joined the majority of House Democrats in refusing to fund federal immigration enforcement absent reforms, including the tightening of warrant requirements and prohibiting officers from wearing masks.
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The Republican National Committee sharply criticized Vasquez’s prior comments in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Gabe Vasquez is a truly sick individual who may have a terminal case of the woke mind virus,» RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said in a statement. «He should get the help he needs to realize how insane it is to call every single American racist, and he should be nowhere near Congress.»
Vasquez is a top target of national Republicans, who are mounting a second attempt to unseat him after he improved his performance in 2024 despite Trump carrying the district.
Representative Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat from New Mexico, during a tour of CN Wire Corporation in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Vasquez, a Democrat currently serving New Mexico’s second Congressional district, is running for re-election against former Republican Representative Yvette Herrell, who served the district from 2021 to 2023. (Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted the race from «toss-up» to «lean Democrat» in January, citing President Donald Trump’s declining job approval and Democrats’ strong electoral performance in 2025.
Fox News Digital reached out to Vasquez’s campaign for comment.
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