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The Pentagon is reeling, after Iran destroyed a crucial $270 Million E-3 Sentry spy plane—of which, the U.S. Air Force has just 16 left—in an attack on an air base in Saudi Arabia, that also took out multiple refueling tankers. Not only are the E-3’s not in production anymore, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the closest replacement, a Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, would cost $700 Million to...

Reports say the Pentagon is planning to send another 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East, as President Trump again extends his own deadline for Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz—this time, until April 6. This, as reports are starting to admit that the damage Iran has inflicted is severe, and includes making 13 U.S. Military bases in the region “uninhabitable.” International Relations and...

The Axis of Resistance is not defeated... instead, we are watching as not only is Iran landing successful missile attacks in Israel and causing significant damage, but so is Hezbollah. In fact, Hezbollah carried out a record 85 operations against Israel in a single day, on Wednesday, with a combination of drone, rocket, artillery, missile and guided anti-tank missile attacks. Veteran Journalist Dr...

The Pentagon has ordered around 2,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to begin moving to the Middle East, as an estimated 4,500 Marines are already en route, amid soaring tensions surrounding a potential U.S. attempt at a ground invasion of Iran. Laith Marouf, a journalist and executive director of Free Palestine TV, noted that a ground invasion would be a “suicide mission” fo...

The global economy is starting to panic, as the war in Iran is not only a military war, but an economic war... and everything from Iran's restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz, to the various attacks on energy infrastructure across West Asia, as the U.S. and Israel have continued to escalate the conflict, has put the world's supply of oil, gas, fertilizer, etc. in a dire position. Prof. R...

Who better to tell the story of Palestine than a Palestinian? In his new book "Before the Flood: a Gaza Family Memoir," Dr. Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle, tells the story of the survival of three generations of the al-Badrasawi family as they are removed from their home in Beit Daras during the Nakba, forced into a refugee camp in Gaza. Baroud noted that it was importan...

Reports say the Pentagon is preparing to deploy a brigade combat team of around 3,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East “to support operations against Iran.” This, as thousands of U.S. Marines are already en route, and set to arrive at Central Command on Friday, which just happens to be Trump’s latest deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran is...

Iran’s foreign minister says “there’s no dialogue between Tehran and Washington,” after President Trump declared that he was postponing his own deadline for U.S. Military strikes on Iranian power plants, claiming the two countries were engaged in “productive” talks. However, Trump’s statement notably comes on a Monday morning, as he is desperately trying to lower oil prices, keep the stock market...

Reports from Iran are warning that “the entire region will go dark,” if President Trump follows through on his threat to target Iranian power plants, if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully opened by Monday. Dr. Foad Izadi, an author and associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Tehran, noted that after decades of restraint, Iran is now pursuing a policy of “an ey...

Reports say President Trump is considering deploying thousands of U.S. Troops to the Middle East, with air and naval forces to target the Strait of Hormuz, and ground forces to attempt to seize Iran's Kharg Island. This, as the Trump Admin requests $200 BILLION in funding for the war they just launched. Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst and Host of The New Atlas, noted that the war in Ir...

Iran has retaliated with a series of strikes on Israel's largest oil refinery in Haifa, and on energy infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, after Israel attacked the South Pars Gas Field. Independent Journalist Robert Inlakesh noted that the Israeli escalation is a reminder that one of the Zionists' goals in this war is to cause massive damage to infrastructure in the Gulf st...

Israel just sent both tensions and energy prices soaring, with attacks on South Pars, the world’s largest natural gas field, which is operated by Iran and Qatar. Tehran has announced it will retaliate against Gulf and Israeli oil infrastructure, and it has issued warnings to residents near gas fields and refineries in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Zolfaghari, spokesp...

The U.S. is moving military assets out of China’s backyard and lifting oil sanctions imposed against Russia, as the Trump Admin feverishly tries to reinforce its war against Iran and concentrates its resources on the front that seemed like an after-thought in Trump’s ‘National Security Strategy’ late last year. Dr. John Mearsheimer, an author, international relations expert and professor at the Un...

We are on Day 18 of the illegal war of aggression waged against Iran by the U.S. and Israel, and Iran continues to fight back. With nearly 60 waves of retaliatory attacks, Iran has caused massive damage to U.S. Military sites, radar systems, refueling tankers and beyond… and President Trump is learning the hard way that there is no easy off-ramp in this war he chose to wage. Col. Larry Wilkerson,...

The U.S. Director of the National Counterterrorism Center has become the first official within Trump Administration to step down in protest of the war in Iran. Joe Kent announced his resignation, with a statement on X, in which he said: “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure...

Reports say President Trump is considering sending U.S. troops to attempt to seize Kharg Island, Iran's oil export hub, as Tehran's shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz start to impact the global economy. This, even as Iran's foreign minister has said his country is ready and waiting for U.S. troops to fall into the trap of a ground invasion. Stanislav Krapivnik, a former U.S. Army offi...

President Trump is now claiming that any evidence the U.S. has not completely destroyed the Iranian military, or that the Iranian people are taking to the streets in support of their government is… “AI-generated.” Yes, really. This, after the IRGC reported an attack on the USS Abraham Lincoln, that it says rendered the aircraft carrier “inoperable,” and reports now say that open-source satellite i...

Reports say Israel is running low on interceptor missiles, as Iran continues to launch new waves of its retaliatory attacks, employing new weapons as it targets sites across the Zionist colony. It's getting so bad that even Trump's AI Czar, David Sacks, warned that Israel is "getting hit harder than they've ever been hit before in their history," and said there are concern...

While President Trump claims that the U.S. has "destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability," the IRGC just launched their 54th wave of retaliatory attacks on Sunday, which included the use of Sejjil ballistic missiles for the first time. This, as reports say Israel is running low on interceptor missiles, and as Trump learns the hard way that there is nothing he can do to force Iran to...

Iran's new leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, just delivered his first address to the nation, and he declared that: "The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed," and that Iran will continue its retaliation, saying: "We will not give up on avenging the blood of martyrs." Ret. U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor noted that the Trump Admin has put the U.S. Military and all of its...

While President Trump continues to throw a temper tantrum on social media over Iran enforcing a shut down of the Strait of Hormuz, dozens of countries are agreeing to release their strategic reserves of oil to try to keep prices from soaring as supply from the Middle East comes to a halt. Meanwhile, Iran is continuing to send oil to China, with reports saying nearly 12 million barrels of Iranian c...

President Trump is throwing yet another temper tantrum on social media—this time, over Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the chaos that has ensued for both states in the Persian Gulf that rely heavily on oil exports and for the regions of the world (from India to Europe) who get a significant portion of their oil from the Middle East. In fact, reports are saying that the Trump Admin is e...

While President Trump can't seem to make up his mind over whether the war in Iran is nearly complete, or just getting started... Iran is NOT backing down. Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran's National Security Council, responded to Trump's latest threat of "death, fire and fury," by declaring that the Iranian people: "do not fear your hollow threats; for those greater th...

President Trump’s rhetoric on the war in Iran continues to be all over the place, as he claimed on Monday that it was “very complete,” but then said it was both complete and “just the beginning,” when questioned by reporters. He also continued to throw a temper tantrum over Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, while claiming the U.S. has “wiped every single force in Iran out” (except the ones g...

We are just over one week into the latest phase of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, and Tehran is following through on its promise to make the global economy feel the pain of this war. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, around 20% of global oil traffic has come to a screeching halt and states in the Persian Gulf are being forced to cut production as they run out of storage. Sharmine N...