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		<title>War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was thinking</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY: Pacific Media Watch A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set the whole room on fire. Politely. In a suit. Claude Malhuret didn&#8217;t yell nor wave his arms. He just listed things&#8230; calmly, methodically, like a doctor reading a very long and very depressing diagnosis. And by the ]]></description>
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<p>A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mencius.koay/posts/pfbid02rfB32URepxa63E4nUdRWkjALHTokRJm4G7XdPGMwiWunFgeL5UqfkXZ5LBaSYidLl">the whole room on fire</a>. Politely. In a suit.</p>
<p>Claude Malhuret didn&#8217;t yell nor wave his arms. He just listed things&#8230; calmly, methodically, like a doctor reading a very long and very depressing diagnosis.</p>
<p>And by the time he was done, the entire Trump administration had been reduced to a punchline that wasn&#8217;t even trying to be funny.</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXPD6bjrlXg"><strong>READ MORE:</strong> Senator Claude Malhuret&#8217;s &#8216;speech on the situation in the Near and Middle East&#8217;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/29/iran-war-live-houthis-attack-israel-anti-war-protesters-rally-in-tel-aviv">Iran warns of retaliatory attacks on US, Israeli universities</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/29/iran-war-live-houthis-attack-israel-anti-war-protesters-rally-in-tel-aviv">Israeli police break up antiwar protesters in Tel Aviv</a></li>
<li><a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/?s=Iran+War+%2B+Palestine+genocide">Other US-Israel war on Iran and Palestine genocide reports</a></li>
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<p>He started with an apology. Why? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WrH3io7j3Q">Because a year ago, he said</a>, he had compared Trump&#8217;s presidency to Nero&#8217;s Court. He was wrong.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the miracle court,&#8221; he corrected himself on Friday.</p>
<p>And then he started naming names.</p>
<p>A former heroin addict running the Ministry of Health. A climate skeptic in charge of the economy. A TV host with a drinking problem commanding the armed forces. A lobbyist who used to work for Qatar now sitting as Attorney General. A woman who openly admires Putin in charge of national intelligence.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Clown in a palace&#8217;</strong><br />
Malhuret quoted a Turkish proverb for the occasion&#8230; <em>&#8220;When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king &#8212; it is the palace that becomes a circus.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Nobody needed to ask who or what he meant. They just smiled.</p>
<p>And you know what? He wasn&#8217;t even being cruel. He was just being truthful and very accurate. Which, somehow, made it worse.</p>
<p>Then came the part that made people&#8217;s jaws drop a little.</p>
<p>Every time the Epstein files resurface, he said, bombs go off somewhere in the world. A new military strike. A fresh crisis.</p>
<p>Convenient timing. Every single time.</p>
<p>Malhuret didn&#8217;t call it a conspiracy. He just pointed at the pattern and let everyone draw their own conclusions.</p>
<p><strong>Gulf investments</strong><br />
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-KhiUdxn44">US$400 million Boeing jet</a> from Qatar got a mention. The Gulf investments. The stock market moves that only a small circle of insiders seemed to profit from.</p>
<p>Any one of these, Malhuret said, would have triggered impeachment proceedings in France.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we are not here,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We are in MAGA&#8217;s America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what makes this 5 minute speech different from the usual political noise. Malhuret didn&#8217;t just wave his hands and say &#8220;America bad.&#8221; He went person by person, scandal by scandal, conflict by conflict &#8212; and built a picture so complete that by the end of it, you couldn&#8217;t really argue with any individual piece without defending the whole rotten structure.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the kind of speech American senators could give. If they wanted to. If they weren&#8217;t so busy trying not to offend anyone.</p>
<p>The world is watching. While Americans debate whether the speech was fair or too harsh or whatever, the rest of the planet has already formed its opinion.</p>
<p>One man. One very powerful seat. And a world that keeps catching fire while everyone argues about the Epstein files &#8212; which, funny enough, never quite get released fully, do they?</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn&#8217;t become King. It&#8217;s the Palace that becomes a circus&#8221;</p>
<p>French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won&#8217;t hear a better… <a href="https://t.co/q2mpL7XFtK">pic.twitter.com/q2mpL7XFtK</a></p>
<p>— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexTaylorNews/status/2037436560707088614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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