According to 52% of Americans, Donald Trump attacked Tehran to divert media attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal . The Telegraph reports this, citing data from a recent poll commissioned by Zeteo—a progressive website—and other media outlets. Suspicion is therefore growing in the US that the war against Iran is a distraction from the case of the pedophile financier.

Posters have even appeared in Washington calling the offensive against Iran "Operation Epstein Fury" instead of "Epic Fury." The idea , dismissed by the White House as "ridiculous," is actually circulating among politicians of both parties, commentators, and opinion makers. " Public notice: Bombing a country on the other side of the world won't make the Epstein files disappear , any more than the Dow Jones breaking 50,000 will," wrote Republican Thomas Massie , who has repeatedly clashed with Trump over the release of the documents . Graham Platner , a Democrat from Maine, feels very similarly: "This war is also being fomented because the president is listed in the Epstein files , as are other people in the White House, and they are terrified that we've found out what they're up to."

In June 2025, Joe Rogan—the American podcaster with 11 million monthly listeners—expressed similar thoughts following Trump's attacks on Iranian nuclear sites: " Just bomb Iran and everyone forgets. Everyone forgets about it ."

(Unioneonline)