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DECODING: Trump threatens to decimate Iran over an assassination plot
On July 10, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that "1,000 missiles are locked and loaded, pointed at the Islamic Republic of Iran,…
DECODING: the anatomy of a 140-target strike against Iran
On the night of July 11 to 12, 2026, American forces struck roughly 140 military targets inside Iran, the third wave of strikes within…
FACT-CHECK: Pickaxe Mountain, the underground site worrying the whole West
There are facts that no diplomacy can erase, and the satellite imagery released on July 11, 2026, is one of them. According to images…
DECODING: How the US Navy Plans to Force the Strait of Hormuz Back Open
The United States Navy has launched an operation explicitly designed to break Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, publicly designated Operation Project Freedom,…
ANALYSIS: The UN Calls for Restraint as the Iran Ceasefire Falls Apart
The United Nations Security Council found itself, once again in early July 2026, in the uncomfortable position of publicly calling for "maximum restraint" between…
ANALYSIS: Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait Come Under Iranian Missile Fire
The US-Iran conflict crossed, on July 9 and 10, 2026, a new geographic frontier. It is no longer only Iranian territory or the Strait…
DECODING: Oil's War Risk Premium Explodes After Hormuz Shuts Down
It took only one night of American strikes on nearly 140 targets belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to send the global oil…
FACT-CHECK: Did the IRGC really target three commercial ships in the Gulf
Since the attacks that occurred on July 6 and 7, 2026 against commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the versions circulating on social…
FACT-CHECK: Mojtaba Khamenei, what we actually know about Tehran's heir
Since his appointment in early March 2026, Mojtaba Khamenei has become the subject of an avalanche of speculation, some grounded, some wildly exaggerated, circulating…