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The Iranian regime is demanding compensation from Ukraine for a strike against an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea in July

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday suspended all trade with Iran, after suffering the latest wanton missile attack from Iranian forces.

The government of Syria, under former wanted al-Qaeda jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, granted the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to a formerly secret nuclear site in the country on Tuesday, vowing to cooperate with the United Nations agency.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that President Donald Trump will have to make good on his threat to bomb a bridge or power plant every time Iran fires on a ship in the

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey said that “the U.S. military can defeat any threat at the time and place of our choosing.” But also responded

Iranian officials fired back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling him “delusional” and declaring a “post-American order” in the Persian Gulf after the president posted a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz “New U.S. Territory” and insisted the strategic waterway is “open and operating.”

Chinese state-run shipping companies COSCO and CMES hare reportedly stopped trying to send their oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trade industry sources said on Tuesday that Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, has resumed loading tankers with product at its Juaymah and Ras Tanura oil terminals, which lie within the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz.

On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) claimed that “Iran wasn’t working toward getting a nuclear weapon before this war started.” And said that they continue to launch their ballistic missiles throughout the Middle

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that the United States will not get a deal as good as the JCPOA, “But that’s tough” and “the focus should be to lower gas prices for Americans,

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said that United States also has to figure out a way to “support the Iranian people inside, because the Iranian people want the IRGC to be gone as well,

President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, asserting that Washington has “total control” of the strategic waterway as Tehran threatened a military attack to break the U.S. naval blockade and declared a shift toward a more offensive posture.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed “fabricated” reports in American media of secret “backchannel” negotiations between the U.S. government and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian citizens are telling foreign media outlets that survival is growing difficult as the price of food and other basic commodities soars by 400% under pressure from the U.S. blockade, even as the regime in Tehran insists the food situation is under control.

President Donald Trump reportedly told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Monday that he was prepared to order airstrikes against Oman if it interferes with resolution of the Iran conflict.

Iran’s army chief announced a $30,000 bounty Sunday for anyone who kills or captures an American service member, as Tehran’s armed forces escalated threats against U.S. personnel and separately vowed to continue confronting the United States until its enemies are “completely” defeated and forced to “surrender.”

A top Iranian lawmaker appeared to warn President Donald Trump about his personal safety Saturday, telling the president to “worry about his own security” as tensions escalate over control of the Strait of Hormuz.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) stated that it is unlikely that there will be any “meaningful negotiations” with Iran until there is a change in its leadership in some manner

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States will declare the Strait of Hormuz “U.S. territory” after it finishes defeating Iran, escalating his assertion of American control over the strategic waterway as Tehran vowed that the strait “has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian.”

Iranian officials and state media mocked President Donald Trump this week for switching planes during his trip to Turkey last month because the Secret Service was concerned about an assassination threat from Iran.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States can maintain its blockade of Iran “indefinitely,” while economists said the Iranian economy is rapidly approaching the point of “severe collapse” under the pressure.

President Donald Trump is preparing to dramatically escalate his “Economic Fury” campaign against Iran, with new measures coming next week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Thursday.

Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “The Will Cain Show,” Vice President J.D. Vance was asked how the conflict with Iran would end and what it could look like once it is over.

Six years after President Donald Trump launched the Abraham Accords, Jared Kushner marked the anniversary declaring the Middle East is once again at an “inflection point” and arguing that the region has an opportunity to build on the historic agreements and “do it again.”

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence claimed on Wednesday that its operatives prevented “mercenaries for the American-Zionist enemy” from invading the southern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, thwarting a plot to “destabilize the province and strike at economic infrastructure in the south.”

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on Monday announced a collaboration with Iran on the “exploration and processing of rare earth elements,” presented as a series of workshops that will be mostly funded by China.

A massive international salvage operation is underway to contain the oil spill from a tanker that ran aground off Oman.

The Turkish Defense Ministry revealed new details on Thursday of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a pact Ankara signed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that now requires each country to treat an attack against one as an attack against all.

The Iranian Islamist regime sent its top agriculture official, Agriculture Minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, to the capital of Afghanistan on Wednesday to discuss expanding economic ties with the ruling Taliban regime there.

A top adviser to the commander of Iran’s IRGC said Tehran could deliberately prolong its war with the United States in an effort to outlast President Donald Trump, as Washington doubles down on a “WALL OF STEEL” naval blockade that U.S. and Israeli officials say is steadily worsening the Islamic Republic’s economic crisis.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed responsibility for a murderous “double tap” strike on a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, using three ballistic missiles to set the ship on fire — and then launching another missile in a deliberate attack on rescue teams, killing at least six people.

President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday the United States has a military and economic stranglehold on Iran and declared, “Praise be to Allah!”

Venezuela’s socialist regime restored consular ties with the State of Israel, ending a 17-year-old rupture ordered by Hugo Chávez.