In perhaps the most dominant, decisive show of military force this century, the IDF managed to gain air superiority in the first three days of strikes and has been able to loiter over Tehran without consequence, while not losing a single plane in the operation. To say Iran was a paper tiger would be an insult to paper tigers.
At least 14 Iranian generals have been reported killed in Israeli strikes targeting Iran.These strikes, which began on Friday, June 13, 2025, have targeted both military and nuclear infrastructure. Among the casualties are high-ranking officials such as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen. Hossein Salami, and the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri.
Red State With that said, we are learning some stunning details about how things got to this point. In the early hours of the war, it was reported that dozens of top Iranian military leaders were taken out in a single strike, and how that strike came to be is just as incredible as the result. According to a new report, the subterfuge used to get all those IRGC generals into a single bunker is like something right out of a spy novel
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, infiltrated Iranian backchannels and then placed 20 different fake phone calls to IRGC leaders. Those calls instructed them to all meet a reinforced bunker in Tehran, an order none of them questioned. It’s safe to speculate that Mossad agents were on the ground to confirm their arrival, and shortly after, the entire place was blown sky-high.
It was a boon for Israel because Iran’s command and control structure was cripled. It took almost a day for the Mullahs to finally muster a military response, and by then, the IDF had severely hampered their ballistic missile capabilities. While initial barrages did cause damage, including tragically killing several civilians due to Iran’s indiscriminate salvos, in context, they were very ineffective counterstrikes, accomplishing nothing of military value for Iran.
Still, as impressive as the nuts and bolts of the plot were, it’s how thought-out this all was that’s truly incredible. It’s one thing to place fake calls through Iranian back channels. It’s another to have every general who answered the phone fall for the ruse.
How did that happen? The answer lies in how antiquated and authoritarian Iran’s military structure was and remains. When you serve at the behest of an Islamic dictator who tortures and kills people who step out of line, you aren’t exactly in a position to question an order. When the calls came in to head to the bunker, wondering if things seemed a little suspicious wasn’t an option. So all the generals blindly listened.
Unlike the U.S. military structure, where junior officers are trained and placed in a defined, highly redundant chain of command, Iran’s top brass were insular loyalists. With them out of the way, chaos ensued.
Every part of Israel’s strike was considered down to the most granular detail. They knew how to trick the generals, but they also knew what the effects would be with enough confidence to risk a full-scale air war with Iran, and all of this occurred on an incredibly tight, fluid timeline. If someone had written a spy novel with these same details, the publisher would have probably said it was too unrealistic.
"I'm sure after everything, Egypt will try to restore relations," she said. "But Israel is not the same Israel, Israel is now much stronger, a key player in the region."
Dalia Ziada
“Egypt has a history of standing against Iran,” Dalia Ziada, a senior fellow in Middle Eastern geopolitics at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told The Jerusalem Post.
This is why it’s all the more ironic that the nation is now standing with its previous adversary, she added.
Ziada spoke to the Post from her home in Washington, where she now lives after being forced to flee her native Egypt due to her post-October 7 condemnation of Hamas. She is unable to return to her home country, as individuals have attempted to kill her, and the Egyptian government is seeking to imprison her.
She told the Post that she can “easily claim, after having researched it, that Egypt’s whitewashing of the Iranian regime is due to Qatari influence.”
“Qatar has been kind of bribing Egypt for a while,” she continued. “You can see the influences of Qatar on Egyptian policymaking. It started building gradually in 2022, but after October 7, they became closer, especially given the economic crisis in Egypt."
“Qatar gave money to keep Egypt afloat. They call them direct investments in the Egyptian economy, but I call them bribes,” Ziada said.
This Qatari economic investment in Egypt has manifested in animosity toward Israel, as well as support for Hamas and, now, Iran, Ziada continued.
She added that Qatar is currently being careful not to play its normal game of narrative twisting via media such as Al Jazeera to avoid provoking Israel. Instead, it is assigning Egypt its dirty work and has given it the task of whitewashing the Iranian regime and spreading this to Arab and Muslim communities.
Ziada explained that Egypt does this via social media, national media, and institutions such as Al-Azhar University – one of the world’s most prestigious Islamic scholarly institutions – based in Cairo.
The university’s imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, has given speeches over the last few days saying, “We stand with our Shia brothers,” despite his own institution being strongly Sunni.
“Egypt is going to pay a very heavy price for standing with Iran,” she continued, explaining that anti-Iran Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will not be happy with Cairo’s stance.
Egypt's support for the Palestinian cause without helping Gazans
THE POST asked Ziada why Egypt has stood so strongly with the Palestinian cause while simultaneously not implementing actual strategies to help the people of Gaza, and whether this is about Jew- and Israel-hatred or if it stems from a fear of standing against another Arab group.
“Jew-hatred is [popular] throughout the statements of the general public, and the governments play on this to achieve their goals,” she answered.
“Egypt’s goal is to keep its relationship with Hamas because Egypt benefits from the relationship with Hamas.”
She pointed out that while Egypt has designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, it has never done so for Hamas despite the Gazan group being a subset of the Brotherhood. Why? Because Hamas doesn’t represent a direct threat to Egypt, Ziada explained.
“Fueling hatred for Israel helps Egypt distract from its domestic issues and keeps Egypt attractive to regional and international parties as the only one that has direct contact with Hamas.”
“In 2022, Egypt was the only one able to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas because it’s the only country in the world that has that kind of leverage over Hamas and also an okay relationship with Israel.”
Ziada refers to this as “political schizophrenia”: “Egyptian TV will be singing its love for the Palestinians, the Egyptian president makes conferences with the Palestinian flag behind him and says long live Palestinians, but when it comes to really providing help to the people of Gaza, they do nothing.
“When the war started, Egypt could have saved millions of lives by opening the Rafah corridor, but instead of opening that door, Egypt doubled up the wall so Gazans didn’t come out.”
She added that Egyptian intelligence was also involved in supporting tribes in the Sinai that would ask Gazans who wanted to come out to pay huge amounts of money.
“Hamas was such cowards that it hid in the tunnels, left people above the ground naked to the war, so as many people as possible would die, and Hamas used this to give it legitimacy for why it needs to keep killing Israelis,” said Ziada.And even worse, “The Western communities and Arab communities fell victim to this big lie.”
She compared the situation to Turkey, where she said Erdogan has to put on this show of support for the Palestinians because he presents himself as a leader of Muslims and the Islamic caliphate, so he has to perform this way. “But he doesn’t actually care,” she said.
“Egypt really doesn’t care about the Palestinians or what happens to them,” she continued. “But it uses this story of the war in Gaza to serve its regime.”
Why Egypt is so unwilling to let Palestinians in
WHEN ASKED why Egypt is so unwilling to let Palestinians in, she explained that the official position is fear for its citizens’ safety, as Cairo says it cannot afford to look after this number of refugees.
However, Ziada disputed this, saying Egypt currently houses about 9 million migrants and refugees. With a population of around 115 million, absorbing 1.5 million Gazans would be a “drop in the ocean.”
Additionally, she said Egypt has the power to “select who comes into its territory; it can select only women or only children.”
So what’s the real reason?
“It all has to do with the history of this so-called Palestinian cause,” Ziada said. “Their identity is all based on violent resistance, and this makes them troublemakers wherever they go, even in Western countries, not only in the region itself.
“It’s not about statehood or anything. The Palestinian cause is not about building a Palestinian state; it’s about destroying an Israeli one.”
“If they come to Egypt, they will be troublemakers in Egypt,” she added.
A moment of divergence from this historical norm was seen in the recent protests against Hamas from inside the enclave.
“This was the first time we have seen Gazans doing something non-violent,” she said. “Perhaps the first time in history. Perhaps, if this movement receives enough support, it could be successful not only in breaking down Hamas but in transitioning Palestinians from violence to non-violence.”
Why many Muslims see themselves as enemies to Jews
The Post asked Ziada why many Muslims see themselves as enemies of the Jews.
“It has to do with the process of indoctrination, radical Islamist groups, and propaganda machines, such as Qatar, that have convinced Muslims over the years that their mission in life is to annihilate the Jewish people and to commit jihad against Israel,” she replied.
“It started in the 1970s with the rise of Islamist movements around the region. The fall of the Shah inspired Islamist movements around the region – the Salafists in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt – to play a political role, using their Islamic rhetoric to mobilize people. They started to play a political role bigger than their communities; prior to that, they were only focused on their communities.”
This sparked the creation of what Ziada calls pan-Islamist movements, also known as pan-Arabist movements, with figures like Gamal Abdel Nasser seeking to export their ideology following the overthrowing of preceding rulers.
THIS HISTORICAL backdrop set the stage for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Ziada defines in three layers.The first layer was purely a territorial conflict between Jewish people and Arab people who existed in this specific area.
This struggle in the 1920s and 1940s did not extend to any other Arab countries; it was limited to this piece of land.
However, in the 1950s, a political change happened in Egypt, as, following a military coup, it was for the first time ruled by an Egyptian (military) leader. This started to affect other Arab countries. Nasser had the egoistic dream of spreading his pan-Arabist movement to other countries.
“Arabs are not all the same, so to unify all Arabs under this common Pan-Arabism, he had to find the easiest common enemy, which was the newborn Israeli state.
“Nasser started to call all Jewish people enemies and discriminate against them to the point that they had to leave the country and never come back (see the mass expulsion of Mizrahi Jews from Arab countries.) This turned the territorial conflict into a regional conflict into a nationalistic one,” she explained. This was the second layer.
“It is at this time that Arabs began calling Israel a Western imperialistic country. Nasser began stigmatizing Israel as a slave of Western imperialism.”
Nasser wanted his movement not just to be pan-Arabist but pan-Islamist to include countries like Iran and Pakistan, which are not Arab. So came the third layer.
“These countries changed the narrative, so it was no longer let’s fight Israel just because it is Western imperialist, but because it is taking over Muslim holy sites.”
“By claiming that Israel is hurting or harming Muslim holy sites, such as al-Aqsa, pan-Islamists wanted to create an Islamic mission, uniting Muslims under a common front.” We see this in the name of the October 7 massacre in Arabic: Operation al-Aqsa Flood.
“This is why Muslims today consider themselves at war with all Jews,” she added.
Then, in the 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood created a plan to sabotage America and Western civilization from within (their exact words).
“In the 1960s and 1970s, these Arabs came to Western societies and started to build a plan to destroy these Western societies and replace them with an Islamic caliphate so they can achieve what they feel is their mission. This plan is called the 100-year plan. They said they will not challenge the Western societies we are in; we will work within the system and then destroy it later on.”
“We see this in Congress and in parliaments,” Ziada added.
“The other strategy is convergence with groups that adopt similar views to them, and this happened to be the radical Left allies – the Marxists – in what is now known as the red-green alliance.”
“The real face of the radical Left is similarly working against imperialism and seeking to destroy it,” she continued, referring to this as the “sinful marriage between radical Left and radical Islamists in Western countries.”
While over the past years, this alliance has grown, it didn’t truly find a common cause until October 7 and the Israel-Hamas War, she said.
So why, then, despite some common ground with Islamists in terms of anti-Western rhetoric, do leftist progressives ally themselves with the Islamic regime, which stands against everything they supposedly represent?
“The Iranian regime kills LGBTQ people, women who are not wearing a hijab – they were literally executing gay people by hanging them in front of people like it was a party. So why is this radical leftist movement that calls itself a progressive movement now supporting this horrible Iranian regime that killed its own people?” questioned Ziada, noting that women and LGBTQ individuals are coincidentally key people within leftist movements.
It’s because Arabists and Marxists view themselves as the oppressed underdogs, whereas Israel doesn’t call itself a victim even when it is suffering.
To illustrate her point, Ziada spoke of the recent murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington by a radical Marxist. Ziada had lunch with Lischinsky that very day.
“If you see the videos, the killer stayed at the scene afterward, acting as if he was a victim taking revenge, screaming ‘Free Palestine’ as if he was acting for justice.”
“Free Palestine has become synonymous with practicing violence in this realm of victimhood.”
Israel-Iran conflict
LOOKING toward the outcome of the conflict, Ziada opined, “Weakening Iran will eventually weaken Qatar, just as the weakening of Iran weakened Syria.
“It will eventually make Qatar more disoriented and scared, and this will have a ripple effect on Islamists, no question.“The whole world owes Israel a huge debt: Look how they are ridding us of this radicalism that has become a plague.”
Secretly, she said, Arabs are rejoicing over what’s happening, the fact that Israel is attacking Iran, because since the regime’s first day in power, it positioned itself as an enemy to the Sunni Muslim axis in the region led by Saudi Arabia.
“The Iranian regime has a long history of animosity with Egypt; it even named one of its main streets after the assassin of president Anwar al-Sadat, who signed the peace treaty with Israel. Iran has threatened Saudi Arabia. It has harassed Bahrain and the Emirates, and it has harassed the entire region via the Houthis.
“Iran has always been seen as an adversary of Arabs, either for ideological or geopolitical reasons,” she added.
Ziada explained that, unlike Iran, Israel has been a good neighbor to regional nations. It has not weakened them to infiltrate their territories or threaten their security. Israel has been a very good partner even before the Abraham Accords.”
“Yes, they hate Israel, but they don’t see it as a threat. The threat has always been Iran.”
For Egypt, Ziada imagines it will have difficulty navigating its relations with Israel after all it has done to support Hamas and Iran.
“The Israel-Egypt relationship is at its worst; the bond as neighbors is broken and will have to be rebuilt, but it’s been broken because of Egypt, because of all Egypt’s policies since October 7.
“I’m sure that after everything, Egypt will try to restore relations,” she said. “But Israel is not the same Israel; it is now much stronger, a key player in the region.”
“The new Israel is different from the old Israel, and Egypt can’t use its old manipulation tactics anymore,” she said.“Israel is no longer a small country defending itself; it’s now an agenda setter.”
The growing friction between Jerusalem and Paris was further underscored by Macron’s recent comments warning against a military campaign to topple the Iranian regime.
France's President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he attends a meeting during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis, in Alberta, Canada, June 17, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/Amber Bracken)
Onboard Air Force One following the G7 summit, the US president lashed out at his French counterpart. Meanwhile, Paris is facing backlash for concealing Israeli defense booths at a major arms expo, reigniting historical tensions tied to France’s role in Iran.
On June 17, 2025, at 8:06 AM CET aboard Air Force One departing Calgary–Kananaskis at the conclusion of the G7 summit, US President Donald Trump publicly rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron, calling him “publicity-seeking” and claiming that “whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong.” The comments came in response to Macron’s suggestion that Trump had left the summit early in order to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Trump rejected this version, writing on Truth Social that he departed for reasons “much bigger” and urged followers to “Stay Tuned!”
France and Israeli relations
Simultaneously, a separate diplomatic storm was brewing in Paris. On the night of June 16, during final setup for the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, black partition walls were erected around the booths of four major Israeli defense companies—Elbit Systems, Rafael, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Uvision. The move, carried out by show organizers following orders from a French security authority and endorsed by the government, was justified on the grounds that the Israeli companies refused to remove exhibits classified in France as “offensive weapons.”
Israel’s Defense Ministry issued a sharp condemnation, labeling the action “absolutely, bluntly antisemitic” and announcing legal proceedings against the organizers. Boaz Levy, CEO of IAI, criticized the act as reminiscent of “the dark days of when Jews were segmented from European society.” Industry representatives added that the decision was not only politically charged but also economically motivated. “If you cannot beat them technologically, just hide them,” said Elbit executive Meshar Sasson.
French President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a family photo session during the G7 Summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/SUZANNE PLUNKETT)
French officials defended the decision, insisting that ethical display guidelines had been communicated well in advance to all participating companies. A spokesperson for Prime Minister François Bayrou said the move reflected France’s humanitarian position on the crisis in Gaza and was not directed at any specific country.
The growing friction between Jerusalem and Paris was further underscored by Macron’s recent comments warning against a military campaign to topple the Iranian regime. The French president argued that regime change could lead to chaos similar to what followed in Iraq and Libya. His statements reignited a longstanding debate over France’s historical involvement in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. At the center of that history is the period in the 1970s when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lived in exile near Paris in Neauphle-le-Château. It was from there that he broadcast messages that catalyzed the fall of the Shah’s monarchy. In 1979, Khomeini returned from France to lead the establishment of the Islamic Republic—an event whose consequences still shape Israeli strategic concerns to this day.
Trump lashes out at 'publicity seeking' Macron after leaving G7 early
Brit traveller, 36, gunned down in 'murder capital' of Mexico
A British traveller who was shot dead alongside two friends in Mexico's 'murder capital' was unlawfully killed, a coroner concluded today. Colima, ranked as "the world's most dangerous city" has an annual homicide rate of 140 per 100,000. Seven of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the world are in Mexico.
Ben Corser, 36, was sitting in the back of a car outside a supermarket in Colima, western Mexico, in May 2022 when he was fatally shot alongside two others in the vehicle, a court heard.
The software engineer's father told a coroner the trio were 'tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time'.
Emma Hillson, assistant coroner for Cornwall, said the 36-year-old Briton had been travelling around Mexico since January 2022.
She added: 'He had been very happy and enjoying a sociable time.
'He had lived in different parts of Mexico, becoming part of the community.
'He was living with an American-Mexican family, with two other young men, Claudio and Alfredo, in Colima.
'They were skateboarders and Ben joined them in skateboarding.
Mr Corser was taken to hospital unconscious but pronounced dead on arrival there
Ben Corser, 36 (left and right), was sitting in the back of a car outside a supermarket when he was shot dead alongside two others
Mr Corser was one of the three men killed in their car on Camino Real Boulevard (pictured)
On the evening of the incident Ben, from St Just, Cornwall, and Claudio had returned from a trip to Guadalajara and Alfredo picked them up in his car before the trio stopped off at a supermarket.
The coroner told the hearing in Truro: 'While the three were in the car, outside the supermarket, all three of them, including Ben who was sat in the back seat, were shot dead.'
Mrs Hillson said police reports included one witness statement, from a woman who described hearing gunshots and dropped down to the floor before seeing a van with the driver's door open.
Police obtained evidence from video cameras around the scene which showed a grey vehicle with no identifying features.
The coroner added: 'Three years have now passed since this death.
'I am satisfied it is unlikely that further information will be forthcoming.'
Cornwall Coroner's Court heard Mr Corser was taken to hospital unconscious but pronounced dead on arrival there.
A post-mortem examination found he had received a fatal shot wound to his chest.
In a tribute following his death, Mr Corser's family described the software engineer, who had first class degrees in both fine art and mathematics as having a 'breadth that is rare today'
The keen skateboarder was living with a Mexican-American family near Colima when he was killed
According to local media reports at the time of Mr Corser's death, there has been a surge in violence in the region after the Colima drug cartel switched allegiance to the Sinaloan cartel, the country's dominant trafficking syndicate.
Mr Corser's father, Andrew, told the coroner the family had received 'no explanation or reason given' for the shooting, and there was 'no suggestion of robbery, kidnapping or anything else.'
'Police have not passed to us any information apart from the cause of death', the former primary school head teacher said.
'Apparently there has been a dramatic upsurge of violence in Colima.
'It is most likely this was a question of Ben, Claudio and Alfredo being tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time.'
Mr Corser asked for information from the Mexican police on their investigation and what lines of inquiry they were pursuing in relation to the case.
Mr Corser pictured as a child in a photograph released by his family following today's hearing
A local woman reported seeing a grey van with the driver's door open in the vicinity of the supermarket (above) as gunshots rang out, but did not see the killer
A police report read to the inquest said a homicide investigation had been launched following the deaths, with evidence gathered at the scene.
It referred to the witness statement of a local woman who heard gunshots and threw herself to the ground before seeing a van with the driver's door open but could not give any details on those responsible.
Video surveillance from the area showed a grey vehicle with no make or licence plate visible, Mrs Hillson said.
'Investigations are continuing to be carried out,' she read.
During the post-mortem examination, a projectile was recovered from Mr Corser's body and stored as evidence, the court heard.
Concluding the hearing, Mrs Hillson thanked Mr Corser's family - father Andrew Corser, mother Lorraine Downes and brother Tom Corser - and friends for their attendance and for bringing a picture of him to court.
Earlier this month, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provided a statement to the coroner's court that 'it was unlikely further information would be forthcoming due to the time passed since the death'.
In 2024, Colima in Mexico ranked as the world's most dangerous city with a homicide rate of 140 per 100,000 inhabitants. Seven of the 10 cities with the highest murder rates worldwide are found in Mexico.
FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the state of Colima, except the city of Manzanillo accessed by sea or air via the Manzanillo-Costalegre International Airport.
In a tribute issued after Mr Corser's death, his family described him as having a 'breadth that is rare today'.
They said: 'He held first class degrees in both fine art and mathematics, he was an artist, a poet, a computer user, maker, coder and programmer, a skateboarder, a sea swimmer, wild camper, a festival goer, an actor, a yoga lover, a photographer, a music maker, a dancer.'
Activists in the state of Colima, western Mexico , unearthed charred bone fragments on a ranch described as a 'death camp'
One car at the death camp was seen in an entirely burnt out state
Several chunks of bone were seen scattered across the site
Several dirty torn pieces of clothing were found across the farm
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the 'Los Chapitos' faction of the Sinaloa Cartel have put aside their differences and joined forces
One official said that many of the victims had their remains sown 'in the soil'
At least two burnt out cars were found on the farm
Just three of the 42 people's remains found there have so far been identified
Federal authorities have known about the ranch since at least 2018
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) pose for a photo in Michoacan state, Mexico
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) pose for a photo in Michoacan state, Mexico
Authorities who visited the site found corpses still burning on the 40-hectare farm
Activists helped uncover the remains at the site
Danger across the border: In 2022 Nine Mexican cities placed among the 10 deadliest cities in the world
Nine Mexican municipalities were ranked in the 10 most dangerous cities in the world in 2022
Colima, the second largest city in the Pacific state of Colima, was the murder capital of the world in with 181.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants
Mexican troops were dispatched to Tijuana International Airport following a weekend of violent incidents that left 24 burned vehicles across the state of Baja California, including 15 in Tijuana, a border city across from San Diego. Tijuana ranked fifth with 105.1 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022
Police in Acapulco stand near the body of one of the five men who were shot and killed at Santana's Sports and Snacks Bar. Once a top destination for the Hollywood elite, the beach resort town has been engulfed with crime and registered 65.6 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022
Forensic personnel work at the crime scene where unknown assailants left the bodies of three dismembered people in a vacant lot in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, which sits on the northern Mexico border across from El Paso, Texas, ranked ninth in 2022 with 67.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants
A forensic technician walks at a crime scene where unknown assailants left the bodies of men wrapped in blankets in Zacatecas, Mexico
Cruise ships urged to avoid 'dangerous' ports in Mexico amid spike in violent crime
1. Manzanilla, Colima
Cruise lines across the US are canceling stops on certain Mexican ports as crime continues to run rampant
The State Department has asked citizens to refrain from visiting the port of Manzanillo in Colima as the result of widespread violent crime and gang activity
Royal Caribbean has stopped sailing to Manzanillo as a result
Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of the southwestern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, was killed and decapitated
2. Chilpancingo, Guerrero
Investigators and forensic personnel work at the crime scene where remains of Chilpancingo Mayor Alejandro Arcos were found in a vehicle
3. Michoacán
The agency further specified that federal employees should only travel on Federal Highway 15D to transit the state between Mexico City and Guadalajara.
US born Rafael Cardona was shot as he was driving near his home in the western Mexican town of Angamacurito and was rushed to a local hospital and died. His wife, Gloria Cardona, was also shot and died at the scene. Rafael was the brother-in-law of Angamacurito Mayor Humberto Pacheco
A spokesperson for the Michoacán State Attorney General's Office told DailyMail.com that American couple, Rafael Cardona, 53, and his wife Gloria Cardona, 50, were traveling in a pickup truck when they came under fire in the municipality of Angamacurito. Gloria died at the scene and Cardona was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died
4. Sinaloa
The State Department has also warned Government employees to travel to Mazatlan, Los Mochis and Topolobampo by air or sea only.
Mexican YouTuber Miguel Vivanco was found dead on a dirt road after being tortured by drug gang 'Los Chapitos'
Members of the National Guard and personnel from the prosecutor's office arrive at the scene, carried out investigations and ordered the removal of the body
5. Tamaulipas
Members of the National Guard in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico
6. Zacatecas
Nine bodies were found dumped on a street in Morelos, a municipality in the central Mexico state of Zacatecas that has been plagued by a turf war between the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Mexican cops guard the scene were five bodies were left wrapped in blankets and covered with duct tape in Fresnillo. An additional four bodies were also dumped on another avenue in the city. Five of the nine victims were identified, according to the Zacatecas State Attorney General's Office
