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REPORT: Washington Strikes Iran in Retaliation After Attack on Three Ships
On the night of July 7 to 8, 2026, American forces struck Iran for the second time in two days, in direct retaliation for…
PROFILE: The Iran That Refuses to Bend Despite Trump's Fury on Hormuz
On July 8, 2026, as Donald Trump piled on public insults from a NATO summit in Ankara, calling Iranian officials "sick" and "scum," Iran…
REPORT: Trump Threatens to "Decimate" Iran Over Any Attempt on His Life
On July 11, 2026, American President Donald Trump crossed a new rhetorical threshold in the conflict that has torn through the Gulf since February.
DECODING: Trump Demands Hormuz Declared Open, Iran Refuses to Bend
On July 11, 2026, the White House made a request that sounds almost disarmingly simple: that Iran publicly declare the Strait of Hormuz open…
Trump says Iran's denuclearization is "moving along well," the law says no
On July 2, 2026, Donald Trump told reporters in Washington that Iran's denuclearization was "moving along well." That same day, in Tehran,
On the Iran-Pakistan border, a regime flexing its muscle
I can't claim to have walked along the Iran-Pakistan border, nor to have seen with my own eyes the troop movements described
Tehran says it negotiated in Doha, but without Americans at the table
On July 1, 2026, two contradictory accounts circulated about what actually happened in Doha between Iran and the United States. On one
Putin casts himself as mediator on Iran during the July 4 call
On July 4, 2026, the day marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a phone call
Iran wants its frozen billions back, Washington keeps the key
Behind the images of delegations crossing paths in Doha, there is a far more prosaic, almost accounting-level battle that could nonetheless determine