Remember when Top Gun: Maverick came out a few years ago? I do. Honestly, it was an awesome movie.  Tom Cruise nailed it.  And hearing that iconic music fill the theater again gave me chills!  I bet you can hear it in your head right now, can’t you? Ok, ok, I’ll play it: EPIC!!! Thirty years later and it still hits just as hard. But I want to talk about the plot….because when that movie came out, I distinctly remember everyone talking about how the enemy was almost certainly Iran, although never named. And now, the exact plot of the movie, including the nearly-impossible end-run bombing flight with two strikes necessary seems to be playing out almost verbatim on the world stage. How is this even possible? I’m far from the only person noticing this: OK, is it just me, or does the planned bombing of the Iran nuclear sight seem very similar to the plot of top gun 2. Needs two direct hits. pic.twitter.com/Cz8HpPyCkt — Paulie B. (@Sall_Goodman) June 18, 2025 Taking out Iran’s Fordow nuk site is literally the plot line of Top Gun 2. pic.twitter.com/QUv4mOstOo — Dan Collins (@DanCollins2011) June 20, 2025 Hollywood’s War Propaganda: How They Sell Illegal Wars as “Entertainment” Top Gun 2 isn’t just a movie—it’s soft power conditioning the masses. Cheer for US fighter jets bombing the “villain” Iran Normalize illegal wars as heroic blockbusters Train the public to applaud empire They’re not selling a movie. They are selling public consent for the empire’s next illegal criminal war. Hollywood’s War Propaganda: How They Sell Illegal Wars as “Entertainment” Top Gun 2 isn’t just a movie—it’s soft power conditioning the masses. Cheer for US fighter jets bombing the “villain” Iran Normalize illegal wars as heroic blockbusters Train the public to applaud… pic.twitter.com/6fI4Nxqt1z — Mark (@Mark4XX) June 18, 2025 Credit to everyone who called it three years ago when the movie came out… I very much remember people at the time saying this was a propaganda movie and would eventually play out in real life. They were right. I said when it came out, Top Gun 2 was my favorite war propaganda movie. Now, we’re living it. They’ve been prepping the American public for years for a war in Iran. Thanks @CIA! #NoWarWithIran #IsraelIranConflict #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/KuAMWXMSvI — Emily Mangione (@EmilyMangione) June 18, 2025 But it’s not just “crazy Internet theories”….here is Fox News breaking it all down: NOW – U.S. bombing Iran will be like a “Top Gun movie” — Foxpic.twitter.com/pCthyIHGzf — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 21, 2025 I turned to ChatGPT to ask what it thinks, and it confirmed as well….the resemblance is uncanny to say the least: Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the sequel to the 1986 original Top Gun, features an unnamed adversary as the target of a dangerous aerial mission. The enemy is never explicitly identified, but many viewers and analysts have speculated that Iran is the implied nation for several key reasons: Summary Focused on Enemy Identity Speculation: The mission in the film involves destroying an illegal underground uranium enrichment facility before it becomes operational — a plot element that mirrors real-world concerns about Iran’s nuclear program. The facility is located in a rugged, mountainous region with snow, similar to parts of Iran’s geography, particularly the Alborz or Zagros mountain ranges. The enemy uses fifth-generation fighter jets (likely Su-57s), and surface-to-air missiles, which aligns with Iran’s military procurement from Russia. The enemy flies F-14 Tomcats, which the U.S. retired in 2006. Iran is the only country besides the U.S. that still operates F-14s — a very specific clue pointing in Iran’s direction. The filmmakers go to lengths not to name the enemy, likely to avoid geopolitical controversy or jeopardize global box office revenue (a common practice in modern Hollywood blockbusters). Public and Critical Interpretation: Numerous commentators, military analysts, and fans — particularly online — have concluded the enemy is almost certainly Iran, even if the film never confirms it. However, some viewers have proposed alternative interpretations (e.g., North Korea or a fictional rogue state), though these are considered less plausible due to the F-14 clue. The decision to keep the enemy unnamed was seen by many as a strategic choice to maintain international marketability while still crafting a narrative clearly inspired by real-world tensions with Iran. Conclusion: While Top Gun: Maverick never directly names Iran, the combination of the mission objectives, aircraft types, terrain, and nuclear context has led many viewers and analysts to reasonably infer that Iran was the thinly veiled antagonist in the story.

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This week, Israel finally unleashed its firepower against Iran’s nuclear program in a devastating feat of intelligence work, technological competence and war planning. The Israelis not only caught the Iranian regime flatfooted, but they devastated Iran’s war-making capacity, degrading Iran’s missile launchers by half, its nuclear program by up to 90% and its top military layer almost entirely. All of this was the result of years of meticulous planning. For decades, Iran built up a bevy of terror proxies spanning from Iraq through Syria and Lebanon, into the Gaza Strip and so-called West Bank, and down to Yemen; and it radically increased its ballistic missile capacity. Iran’s proxies killed hundreds of Americans across the region, attempted to destabilize regimes ranging from Saudi Arabia to Jordan, and provided the muscle for Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. And, of course, Iran threatened Israel’s destruction daily, and cursed America—all while building nuclear weapons. Just last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran was in breach of its non-proliferation obligations. According to Israeli intelligence, the Iranians were on the verge of achieving a nuclear break-out that would outpace Israel’s ability to hamper the program—and with Iran’s air defenses gone after battling Israel last year, the window for action was closing. And so, Israel acted. Having spent nearly two years decapitating Iran’s proxies one by one, Israel quickly established an air corridor from Israel to Tehran, using both Mossad agents on the ground and Israeli Air Force assets from the air to thoroughly wreck the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear capacity. All of which is an unfettered good for the West. A nuclear Iran, as President Donald Trump has said for decades, is a threat not just to Israel but to the West. A nuclear-armed Iran could easily take control of vital waterways ranging from the Red Sea to the Strait of Hormuz; it could threaten American allies ranging from Israel to the United Arab Emirates to Jordan to Saudi Arabia while pursuing destabilizing terror uprisings; it could even use a nuclear umbrella, with improved intercontinental ballistic missiles, to threaten Europe or the United States directly if it sought to do so. And the first rule of a rational foreign policy is to take seriously geopolitical enemies when they threaten your destruction openly, every single day. Israel took that threat seriously and acted. And the world is better off. Yet some on the American political right seem disturbed by Israel’s success. Some worry, inaccurately but understandably, that America might be drawn into a broader nation-building operation in Iran — something that Trump certainly will not do and that Israel has not requested. Even if Trump were to authorize a series of strikes on the Iranian underground nuclear facility at Fordow, that would not amount to an Iraq-like nation-building operation; it would far more clearly resemble Trump’s heroic vaporization of Iranian terror-master Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Others bizarrely seem to see Israel as the fountainhead of evil in the world—a perverse moral perspective that turns reality on its head in favor of conspiratorial fantasy. Some of these people hide behind a pseudo-realism that pretends to see an Iranian nuclear capacity as less of a regional threat than strikes on the Iranian nuclear capacity, warning of a World War III, a nuclear holocaust that will somehow emerge from Israel preventing a nuclear Iran. Whatever the purported justification for inaction, Israel—and Trump’s open support for Israel’s operation—has proved such doubters wrong. It turns out that the best way to end the threat of a nuclear Iran is to end the threat of a nuclear Iran. It turns out that peace through strength requires actual strength to achieve peace, and that peace through isolationist weakness ends not in peace but in regional conflagration ongoing for decades. With the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program, two lies die: the lie that only negotiations can end the threat of a rogue state seeking nuclear weapons, and the lie that every conflict must necessarily become Iraq. Both of those lies deserved to die grim deaths. And, like the Iranian nuclear program, both have been obliterated in this show of Western muscle against the radical Iranian regime. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Israel’s Stunning Victory Over Iran—And 2 Big Lies Debunked appeared first on The Daily Signal.