The US intelligence community believes that Iran is reconstructing its military facilities at a surprising pace. CNN reported on Thursday, speaking with four US officials familiar with intelligence that indicates that Iran has rebuilt its military production...
President Donald Trump said he was giving Iran one more opportunity to submit a workable proposal to end the war. “We’d have to open the [Strait of Hormuz]. That would open immediately,” the President told reporters on Wednesday. “So...
US forces boarded an Iranian tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of attempting to run the blockade. Earlier today in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded M/T Celestial Sea, an Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker...
A new report from Axios says that President Donald Trump held a difficult call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about ending the war against Iran. Barak Revid wrote on Wednesday that he spoke with multiple officials who said Trump informed Netanyahu that he...
President Donald Trump said that he was an hour away from giving the military the order to restart the war before he was convinced to call off the attack. “We were all set to go … It would have been happening right now,” Trump told reporters at the White...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the International Criminal Court has declared war on Israel by issuing arrest warrants for top officials. On Tuesday, the Israeli minister said, “Last night I was informed that a request for a secret international arrest...
A president calling reporters “treasonous” isn’t just a hot take, it’s a warning sign. Harrison Berger joins me to break down how that rhetoric is being used to police debate around the Iran war, and why it echoes years of reckless “traitor” accusations aimed at...
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Middle East Eye reported speaking with officials on Monday who confirmed that the office of the prosecutor at the ICC is seeking a warrant...
A senior US official said that the latest offer received from Iran was unacceptable, and President Donald Trump was considering breaking the ceasefire with Iran. According to a senior official and a second source speaking with Axios, the White House views the...
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had planned to restart the war against Iran on Tuesday, but called off the strikes after requests from Washington’s Gulf Arab allies. “I have been asked by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Crown...
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both...
Trump heads to China with a lineup of high-profile U.S. business leaders, but we can’t treat it like a normal trade trip. We dig into the uncomfortable reality underneath the photo ops: America’s dependence on rare earth minerals and specialized refining, including...
