Iran Conflict

Trump’s trap: Solving Hormuz crisis saves Iranian regime, and threats don't work - analysis

Trump's credibility will come back by showing that the US will not exchange long-term strategic leverage for temporary calm and cheaper gasoline.

US President Donald Trump reacts as he addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 22, 2026.
People walk past a banner with a picture of the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohammad Pakpour, in Tehran Bazaar, Iran, April 21, 2026

Poverty, child labor, and child marriage partially behind Iran’s unfilled classrooms

 Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Staunton-based 116th Mobile Brigade Combat Team conduct force-on-force and live-fire operations June 15, 2026, during a training rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

US deploys National Guard drone, electronic warfare brigade to the Middle East

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on as he testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on US President Donald Trump's supplemental funding request for the Department of Defense, in Washington.

Hegseth, Pentagon pressured F-15 crew to appear in '60 Minutes' Iran rescue story, CNN reports


Macron briefs Netanyahu, Arab leaders on Lebanese crisis

Hariri’s resignation, which still is not formalized, threw Lebanon into political crisis and put it center-stage in the Middle East's overarching rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister while on a visit to Saudi Arabia, react on the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 18, 2017.

Will Iran's Israel doomsday clock join history's list of failed predictions?

While we shake in our boots for the next 25 years, let's take a look some of at history's past failures.

Iran unveils a clock to countdown to the destruction of Israel

Iranian official: Severing ties with Qatar not a solution to crisis

Iranian authorities have criticized a rising alliance between Washington and Riyadh against Tehran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivering a speech at Azadi Square in the capital of Iran ,  Tehran ,  during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Is the Iranian regime facing a Kurdish uprising?

Kurds are divided among the states of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. East Kurdistan, or Rojhelat as Kurds call it, is the Kurdish area in Iran.

A KURDISH peshmerga soldier stands at a lookout near Bashiqa in northern Iraq

The Persian Gambit

Tough measures are needed toward the Islamic Republic.

THE ISLAMIC Republic must stay at the top of the US State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Trump and Netanyahu discuss Iranian threat over the phone

The call reportedly came while Netanyahu was, for the fourth time, being questioned by police regarding two cases under investigation.

Thousand of Basij soldiers stage mock seige of Temple Mount in Iran

Who decides when Iran has gone nuclear enough to attack?

Would it be the Mossad or IDF Intelligence? Trying to find the answer through conversations with former top-ranking officials on one of the most sensitive topics (that is still) on the table.

A SATELLITE view of Iran's Fordow nuclear plant.

Iran president says it wants good ties with Gulf states ahead of regional trip

Relations between predominantly Shi'ite Iran and the mainly Sunni Arab countries of the Gulf remain strained over their support for opposing sides in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivering a speech at Azadi Square in the capital of Iran ,  Tehran ,  during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Khamenei to Trump: No enemy can paralyze Iran

Khamenei's comments follow days of heated exchanges between US and Iranian officials.

Trump and Khamenei

‘US finally getting it right on Iran’

"This government is not afraid Iran will walk away from the deal, so it has more freedom... this advantage allows it to put pressure on Iran” and to respond to Iranian provocations.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT Hassan Rouhani speaks in Tehran.