Akerman: Why it’s been a good news week for all but ayatollahs and Australian anti-Trumpists

After the bunker-busters hit Iran, it has been a good news week for all but the nut-job ayatollahs and the anti-Trumpists in the Australian government, writes Piers Akerman.

Defying the woke world’s hopes of failure, Donald Trump smashed Iran into a truce with Israel after a near 40-year conflict.

To the dismay of sourpuss Lefties at the ABC and their fellow travellers in the US media, the US President’s strong alliance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought about the near-destruction of the rogue Islamist nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Initial claims of a lack of success, based on a leaked early assessment seized on by the ABC and anti-Trump broadcasters in the US in an attempt to undermine his credibility as he set out for the NATO conference in The Hague, have been disproved.

The leak followed Trump raging on live TV: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f--k they’re doing. Do you understand that?”

Iran had launched a missile attack on Israeli civilians and Israeli bombers were en route to Iran when Trump exploded. The Israeli aircraft were recalled before they reached their targets.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Air Force General Dan Caine, gives an update after three Iranian nuclear facilities were struck by the US military last weekend. Picture: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP

While the ABC was still trying to confect outrage at the use of a swear word, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei told Al Jazeera the nation’s nuclear installations were indeed “badly damaged” during Sunday’s raids using bunker-buster bombs.

“Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure,” Baghaei said, undercutting the wistful narrative of the anti-Trump clique.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte makes a quip and US President Donald Trump likes the thought he could be the Big Daddy. Picture: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump told the NATO summit: “They’re not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich.”

He later posted on his Truth Social site: “Both Israel and Iran wanted to stop the war, equally! It was my great honour to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR.”

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte quipped “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language” dealing with squabbling children, the look-at-me media went bananas but Trump liked the thought that he could be the Big Daddy to over-excited kids and put out a Daddy Comes Home video when he returned to the White House.

Cue more hysterics from the Trump haters. All the NATO nations, except socialist basket case Spain, have agreed to increase their defence spending.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marlesat the NATO summit with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Defence John Healey – but he was snubbed by the United States. Picture: Department of Defence/X

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ducked the meeting. He didn’t have the guts to be on the same continent as the leader of our greatest security ally and instead sent second-rater Defence Minister and deputy PM Richard Marles.

Albanese says his defence budget is capable of meeting possible threats.

Who does he think he is kidding? Not a single defence or security body agrees with him. We are essentially defenceless.

On Thursday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public address since Trump’s ceasefire deal to claim victory over Israel and announce Iranian missile strikes had caused Israel to almost collapse and “dealt a severe slap to the face of America”.

During the 2003 invasion of Baghdad, Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf announced Iraq was winning, even as US tanks rumbled into the city. Denying the presence of US troops, he claimed victories in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Since Trump’s ceasefire edict came into effect, the ayatollahs have been turning their hatred toward their own people, blaming the success of Israel’s attacks on collaborators within the country.

Sixty years ago, British band Hedgehoppers Anonymous released It’s Good News Week. It began “It’s good news week, Someone’s dropped a bomb somewhere, contaminating atmosphere, And blackening the sky”.

Well, we do know who dropped the bunker busters. The atmosphere wasn’t contaminated nor the sky blackened. Yes, it has been a good news week for all but the nut-job ayatollahs and the anti-Trumpists in the Australian government.