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Darrell Castle talks about the September 29, 2026 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake.

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THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE SPEAKS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 2^nd day of October in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat once again is war, more or less because I will be talking about a 26-page letter written to the American people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and delivered on September 29. The title of this Castle Report comes from the neocon description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the head of the snake.

People have wondered during this entire war if the US is fighting the Mullahs or the Iranian military and those who command it and this letter seems to answer that question. It also is an effort to take the Iranian case to the American people in order to influence the upcoming Mid-Terms. To me this letter is a sign of perceived weakness, division, and disorder. It appeals to logic in an effort to influence an already divided and anti-Israel mood in the American public.

I took the time to read the entire 26 pages which is no small task because in reading it one gets the feeling that it is much longer than 26 pages. I don’t mean to imply that the letter is silly or not well written because it certainly is well written and it contains much truth. In an effort to indicate that we are all just people who should be getting along it starts by

“Saluting the noble souls of God’s greatest prophets—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may His peace and blessings be upon them all.”

The real point of the letter could be summed up in one sentence; “Americans can live peacefully with Iran if they separate themselves from the Israeli regime.” When I say the letter appeals to logic and fairness I am thinking as well of the recent Iranian address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. His remarks were given to the Assembly and the world with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu sitting there as well.

He talked about the American demand that Iran surrender all its nuclear material and give up its desire to be a nuclear armed country and to permit international inspections to ensure compliance. He pointed out that Israel has nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, he called them, and everyone knows that. There are no international discussions of Israel’s nuclear program and no demands that they surrender their nuclear material. International inspections of Israel would never be allowed or even discussed.

That statement is so obviously true that I don’t see how anyone can argue with it. Whether you think Iran contains a far more dangerous people than Israelis is another matter. He just presented it as a logical argument of a double standard. Well, let’s take a look at what the letter actually said about what is happening and what is possible.

The IRGC in this letter directly addresses American citizens, students, academics and journalists, giving its view of the war, decades of US-Iran hostility and what it advises Americans to do next. In other words, the writer is addressing the people in America he believes to be most likely moved to his view by his words of persuasion.

The IRGC claims victory in the war and argues that the U.S. and Israel failed to achieve their objectives despite vastly greater military spending. It directs the reader to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, continued weapons production, national unity and damage inflicted on U.S. bases in the region. It’s hard to argue that the statement is anything other than true.

Once again, as in Vietnam, the U.S. military finds itself in a war essentially against China and Russia. Those countries supplied virtually all the anti-air missiles and weapons to the Vietnamese and North Korean armies; therefore, we Americans are fighting them and the Iranians supply the cannon fodder for the proxy battle. Same song, second verse or when will we ever learn. That’s unless it’s all part of some diabolical plan of course.

I agree with the writer that the Strait of Hormuz is the determining factor in who wins this war. Could this be the Suez moment for the American empire referencing back to 1956 when President Eisenhower ordered the British out of the Sinai and Suez and told them if they did not comply he would destroy their financial system. That was the end of the British Empire and the establishment of America as the dominant force in the world. Then, in 1971 President Nixon cut the dollar loose from any restraint and started a long descent into debt penury.

If Iran emerges from this war with the ability to decide who passes through the Gulf, under what conditions, and at what cost, it will be difficult to overstate the long term, worldwide implications of that. One thing that occurs to me is that the U.S., the one country that policed the oceans with its navy since world war ll can no longer guarantee passage through the most important energy chokehold in the world. U.S. military power would obviously be diminished and American credibility would be in doubt.

The only way to confidently keep the Strait open against Iranian resistance it seems to me would be a ground invasion or a nuclear attack both catastrophic. Such attacks would be counterproductive in that so much of Iran’s oil production and shipping would be destroyed that it would be pointless. Iran supplies energy to Russia and China and it is not in the interest of those countries to have a pro American regime in power in Iran. I wonder if any of this which seems so obvious now was considered before the attack was launched.

Why do the Iranians fight so hard. The writer says that its strength comes not from missiles or drones, but from Quranic principles, national unity and religious leadership. Much of the letter is devoted to the Islamic principle of resisting oppression regardless of the cost. If we look at each of those statements we can see problems. Missiles and drones, especially the technology come primarily from China. National unity really didn’t exist until the attacks came and as for religious leadership, the people seemed primed for revolution until American and Israeli bombs united them. Resistance to oppression is a noble trait that people fighting America from World War ll on have often overlooked. To bear any burden to overcome your oppressors is just about the highest calling of a people.

What is meant by the chants of Death to America that we hear all the time and see from the crowds in the streets of Tehran. The slogan targets American political establishment, not ordinary Americans. The writer argues that Iranians and Americans are both victims of the same political elite. I agree that we are both victims of the same ruling elite. The globalist oppressors who seek the destruction of our culture, heritage, way of life, and ultimately our lives. At the same time, I would not welcome the destruction of the American political system as it was designed and was intended to be, not the corrupt thing it is now.

Considering Quranic principles, the writer doesn’t address the directive for continual war until the Mahdi comes to make the world as it is promised. What about the principle of Jihad or kill those who refuse to submit. Perhaps, as I have read, only 10% of the world of Islam is truly in the Jihadi way of thinking. The world contains about 1 billion Muslims so that would be 100 million. America should no longer be committed to eternal war than the Jihadis but it has to be on guard. If we kept our distance, perhaps violence would settle down.

The letter gives us the history lesson that I have repeated so many times in this Castle Report. 73 years of hostility going back to 1953 when a coup installed the Shah. Sanctions placed on Iran during the Iran-Iraq war which took ten years and at least a million lives. The downing of flight 655, an Iranian airliner apparently shot down by mistake with a missile from a US. guided missile cruiser. The assassination of Qasem Soleimani, general of Iranian armed forces and a national hero. The 2025 war, the unrest in the country for which the writer blames America and finally the current war. All these things are set out in the letter as wounds that simply cannot be healed through negotiation.

The writer alleges that the charges that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon is one of Washington’s biggest lies. U.S. officials have for many years claimed that Iran was only weeks or months away from a nuclear weapon yet there is still no nuclear weapon. That one seems pretty accurate to me and even Tulsi Gabbard the Director of National Intelligence at the time, supported it.

The letter argues that U.S. support for Israel has damaged America’s interests, reputation and finances, while American taxpayers continue funding Israeli military action. Of all the points made by the letter that one seems the hardest to argue with and its truth is obvious at least to me.

China, according to the writer, continues to advance while Washington spends its enormous resources fighting wars abroad. I will add my own commentary by saying that the wars abroad are almost always, pointless, without any U.S. interests, stupid, bloody, costly misadventures except they further the ultimate plan of reducing the world into a globalized farm for the all wise techno elite who seem to run things now. We are advised by the writer to close the 800 foreign bases and come home. End aid to Israel and redirect that money toward science, advanced manufacturing, and domestic prosperity. I’ll let you folks decide whether that sounds like pretty good advice or not.

In conclusion folks, the letter makes its real point by advising Americans to use their votes to remove politicians it describes as corrupt and dishonest. It mocks politicians, i.e. President Trump, who think they can buy American votes with $5000 checks. The only thing I can add to that statement is that removing the corrupt and dishonest would leave virtually no one in Washington.

Finally, folks, I certainly do not support the enemies of my own country but I hope and pray that we can somehow find common ground.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

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Darrell Castle talks about the President’s speech, last Tuesday, to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. He also discusses the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS TO THE UN

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat today is not war although there is some war in it. I will be talking about the President’s speech last Tuesday to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City. In addition, I will say a few words about the administration’s decision to sell advanced F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia and the Israeli reaction to that decision.

His speech was more of a campaign speech than a statesmanlike address to the world’s diplomats. He listed many of the things he claims to have accomplished during his term and if they we were all true I would be a reasonably happy man at least foreign policy wise. He said that when he left office the first time the country was a peaceful and prosperous place but when he returned he found it to be a mess he had to fix.

I’m just giving my own take on what he said but to me he seemed to be pleading his case to them that if they and the other decision makers of the world would just listen to him and do what he demands we would all be happy, peaceful, and prosperous. For example, he spent quite a bit of time explaining to the members that before he was President his company tried to get the contract to remodel the UN building in which he was speaking.

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Darrell Castle gives his thoughts on the Iran War and asks the question what has 200 days of war accomplished for the United States. He reminds us that yesterday, September 17th, was the 239th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.

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TWO HUNDRED DAYS OF WAR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 18^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is war once again as the United States of America passes two milestones this week. Yesterday the 17^th was Constitution Day and this week the US passed 200 days in its war against Iran. So, our subject is what has been accomplished in those 200 days.

Yes, we are 200 days into the war against Iran and just on a brief inventory I will list a few of the things it has accomplished. It seems to me that war has torn the U.S. and much of the world apart in the last few days. Here’s an excellent quote from the London Times via Bill Bonner.

“The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost more than 7000 American lives, hundreds of thousands of civilian ones and trillions of dollars, turning that surplus into a debt of more than $40 trillion. Seeing the world’s sole superpower flounder for a decade against roadside bombs and soviet-era rifles wrecked American self-esteem and drained Washington’s international authority. But the deeper damage was to Americans’ faith in their government and in themselves.”

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Darrell Castle shares his thoughts about murder and mayhem as he looks back at the anniversary of 9-11 and the 1st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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9-11 PLUS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11^th day of September in the year of our Lord 2026. My beat is murder and mayhem today as we look back at the anniversary of what the media tells us is the worst terrorist attack in American history. Along with the 25^th anniversary of 9-11 we look at the 1^st anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Yes, folks I am sorry to have to report to you that in the last 25 years things have gotten worse in America as murder has gone mainstream and more sympathy is often generated for the murderers than for their victims. For example, just look at the trial of Lindsay Clancy, also this month, a trial in which a jury could not convict a woman who admitted to strangling her 3 children. Her daughter was 5 years old and there were two sons aged 3 and two. She strangled them one at a time with her bare hands but she generated a lot more sympathy, especially from mothers than her children were able to generate.

I’m afraid that as a society we are sinking further and further into the abyss as cold-blooded murder goes mainstream and simple respect for human life as something created by God in his image disappears. I knew something was desperately wrong and that this nation and its people had changed radically when in December of 2024 a man named Luigi Mangione on a street in Washington D.C. shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He shot Mr. Thompson in the back and the murder was videotaped by security cameras.

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Darrell Castle talks about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership.

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THE SCIENCE AND THE CIA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 4^th of September in the year of our Lord 2026 and I will be talking about the newly revealed evidence linking the science, i.e. Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CIA and their formal institutional partnership that apparently provided cover for the CIA’s biological threat research.

Before the partnership between NIH and the CIA congress moved to ban federal funding for gain-of-function research. The new policy requires enhanced review and reporting requirements for life sciences research including independent, top-down assessments for projects that may increase the harmful consequences of biological agents. So, a reasonable question might be why do you want to make any biological agent more harmful to the human race.

The answer to that question is obviously to make the virus more lethal so it can be used to kill more humans. The new safeguards also prevent funding research projects in countries without adequate oversight. So, I guess that means no more NIA funding of bat virus in China. Congress is trying, it seems to me; to indicate its collective shock and to foster the belief that it had no idea the science was using taxpayer money to fund Chinese research into making virus pathogens more deadly to humans, then unleashing them on humanity.

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Darrell Castle talks about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has descibed as a war.

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OH CANADA CAN’T WE WORK THIS OUT?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 28^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the trade problems between the U.S. and Canada which Prime Minister Mark Carney has described as a war. My argument is that he is right because it is war but not the one he wants you to concentrate on.

This war is one between the very elite group of globalists who are also the enemies of humanity as they attempt to control all humanity through their control of money, credit, interest, and banking in general. Before he became Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney was head of the London Central Bank and I have no doubt that he was installed in Canada to be sure globalist control continues.

Now the bankers appear to be very nervous with the U.S. mid-terms coming up so if only Trump could be damaged by this “trade war.” The tactic or strategy is what Carney and his operatives in the American Democrat Party call the doughnut strategy. They call it that because they want to go around the American President through Democrat leadership directly to the American people. Convince them that trump is at economic war with nice, friendly Canada and maybe the usual group of globalist bankers can take back control in November.

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Darrell Castle endeavors to explain why he thinks debt is the worst, most unsolvable problem we face as everything we call a standard of living hangs in the balance.

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DEBT—WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Last week I mentioned that debt is the worst problem we face as a nation and I got some comments so this week I will endeavor to explain why I think debt is the worst, most unsolvable problem that we face and why I think that because of debt everything we have and everything we call a standard of living hangs in the balance.

Sometimes we forget that in the 1990’s the federal government had a balanced budget, When Bill Clinton was president the federal government lived within its means but today it is $40 trillion in debt. So, what, many people say, because it doesn’t seem to affect them and after all they live in a nice home for which they have a 30-year mortgage. In the Clinton years the average age of first-time home buyers was in the 20’s but now it’s about 40.

George w. Bush came along and decided we would be required to fight some of Israel’s enemies for then and so the debt started its out of control climb to the $40 trillion that it is today. Three fourths of the increase has been added since Obama took office and about $11 trillion or 28% since Trump took office.. In other words, it is accelerating because the U.S. has no way to fund it without borrowing more, a practice known as monetizing the debt or using more debt to pay debt otherwise known as a debt spiral.

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Darrell Castle talks about what he believes to be the worst, most difficult problem facing America.

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THE WORST PROBLEM WE FACE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 14^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about what I believe to be the worst, most difficult to solve problem facing the nation.

What do you think the most difficult or dangerous problem facing the nation is. Perhaps you would say it’s the Iran war. Maybe you think it is the growing menace we call AI and the fear that AI will take all the jobs from Americans leaving nothing but subsidies for them. Well, those are indeed difficult problems and I will talk a little about each of them.

I read quite often from commentators coming from both the left and the right that the President is stuck in Iran and there is simply no way out, but I beg to differ. The two sides in the conflict constantly throw insults at each other and make demands. The latest demand from Iran includes a demand for compensation for the damage you Americans have done to Iran.

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Once again, Darrell Castle discusses war but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes.

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THE HUMILIATION FACTOR

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 7^th day of August in the year of our Lord 2026. I’m afraid my beat is war once again but with a little diplomacy and an historical reminder that technology constantly changes but human nature never changes.

For the history lesson I have to go back to December 7^th, 1941, and perhaps even a few days before that. This story is important because of the title to this report but also because yesterday, August 6 was the 81^st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The United States was engaged in diplomacy with Japan regarding Japan’s invasion of China and Roosevelt’s refusal to sell them more oil until they left China. The Japanese had to import virtually all their raw materials and they got oil primarily from the U.S.

The Japanese had behaved so horribly in China that Roosevelt tried to persuade the Europeans to join him in a conditional boycott but they refused so he decided to do it himself. If you want to know more about how the Japanese behaved in China I recommend Iris Chang’s book “The Rape of Nanchang, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War ll.

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Darrell Castle talks about the testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci before the Senate Committee headed by Senator Rand Paul.

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THE SCIENCE TAKES THE 5TH

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 31^st day of July in the year of our Lord 2026. I will be talking about the testimony or better said, the refusal to give testimony, of Doctor Anthony Fauci who was the Director of the National Institute of Health Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease for about 30 years especially during the COVID years. He finished his medical residency in the 1960’s and has been a government bureaucrat since then.

Yes, Dr. Fauci who famously remarked when told that we should follow or stick to the science said, “I am the science.” For years it seems Senator Rand Paul had been trying to get Dr. Fauci to testify before his Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs but the science steadfastly refused. Finally, Senator Paul was able to persuade the members to issue a subpoena and that compelled the science to show up at the hearing with his team of lawyers. Senator Paul had to have his lead attorney escorted out of the hearing by security because he was disruptive and acting like his narcissistic client.

President Biden issued or rather his autopen issued a pardon to Fauci for any crimes he may have committed during the last 10 years. In other words, a preemptive pardon in case some charging agency decided to indict him for oh say mass murder. The committee obviously knows he can’t be charged for the crimes he may have committed so what was the purpose of the subpoena.