the quick regime-change conflict in Iran has spread regionally and is choking US allies like Saudi Arabia, which is now facing a collapsing business model and losses on multiple fronts. China previously brokered a peace…
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 | URGENT: The U.S. Central Command says its forces have rerouted 100 commercial vessels in the last 60 days as part of their blockade of Iranian ports.
U.S. Central Command Iranian port blockade
Lucas analyzes the strategic logic of using famine as a weapon, noting that Smotrich proposes cutting off Iran's electricity, fuel, and food supplies to force regime collapse through starvation. This escalates an earlier…
Smotrich Iran regime collapse plan
For the first time in 20 years, Iran has been accused by the UN of not disclosing their stockpile of nuclear material. #Iran
Why is the modern Democrat Party turning a blind eye to Islamism? That's the question I keep coming back to SecWar Pete Hegseth says America is laying waste to Iran, which he calls the greatest sponsor of Islamic…
Pete Hegseth on Iran and Islamism
Harry Sisson says Trump pushed a war on Iran in his 9/11 speech.
Anthropic is reporting that Iran turned to Claude AI in an effort to target US Navy warships.
400 people are out of work after a chemical plant in Saxony-Anhalt shut its doors, and the timing is brutal: the AfD had just won in that same region. Back earlier this year, the state put up roughly €80 million to keep…
German chemical plant closes in Saxony-Anhalt
Western governments treat Pickaxe Mountain as a potential hardened location for nuclear activities following the 2025 U.S., Israeli strikes, yet the IAEA observes movement there without being able to identify its nature.…
The perceived shortage of U.S. interceptors was meant to limit escalation, yet Trita Parsi warns Washington hawks might see it differently. If the U.S. cannot reliably stop incoming missiles, some could argue the only…
Trita Parsi on U.S. interceptor strategy
The off-ramp keeps getting shorter. Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute EVP, posting as tritaparsi, makes the case that every round of this conflict strips away limits that held the round before, and the next round inherits a…
Trita Parsi on Iran escalation after midterms
A private heads up reportedly went to Trump from his senior advisers: the Iran conflict might not wrap before his term does, and it could stretch all the way into January 2029. Not exactly a timeline anyone wants handed…
Tehran has put a pause on the 10% freight fee it was charging foreign vessels that move oil, gas and liquid petroleum products into or out of the country. The point is to bring costs down for the foreign fleets still…
The Dive-LD that Iran ended up with was never meant to come home. Palmer Luckey of Anduril put it plainly: the thing was built to be lost. "This particular vehicle has been swimming in CENTCOM for months, successfully…
