President Donald Trump warned Friday that the United States may strike Iran’s heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site “very soon,” declaring that Washington is closely tracking activity at the underground complex and will prevent Tehran from using it to rebuild its nuclear program.
Vice President JD Vance declared Thursday that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz is “effectively gone” and the strategic waterway is becoming a “diminishing asset,” pointing to surging oil flows as U.S. forces keep shipping lanes open and repeatedly destroy capabilities Tehran attempts to rebuild around them.
Global News reported on Wednesday that the Canadian government awarded over $2 million in contracts, including law enforcement and defense contracts, to Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, an Iranian immigrant linked to the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He is also the son of former Iranian vice president Hassan Ghafouri Fard.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran’s regime is “getting weaker and weaker by the day” and suggested Tehran may be nearing the limits of what it can withstand under mounting U.S. pressure, one day after calling on Iranians to “rise up and fight.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed U.S. pilots were killed in counterattacks against the U.S. targeting neighboring Arab states on Tuesday.
The U.S. military struck two Iranian government tankers Tuesday under a new “tanker for tanker” policy approved by President Donald Trump to retaliate for Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he “couldn’t care less” whether Iran signs what he called a “worthless” agreement with the United States, declaring that Washington is better positioned with “almost total control” of the Strait of Hormuz as he called on the Iranian people to “rise up and fight.”
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could be “totally wiped out as a country” if it continued its attacks on U.S. forces, as Tehran launched a new ballistic missile barrage targeting American military facilities in Jordan following a wave of U.S. strikes on Iran.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States is carrying out “large and powerful” strikes against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, warning Tehran that any retaliation would trigger a far heavier response while revealing an even larger attack is “waiting in the wings” that would leave “very little” of the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Central Command confirmed that U.S. forces launched strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran, adding that the strikes came after “attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”
President Donald Trump signaled Monday that renewed U.S. military action against Iran would remain limited but warned Washington could still “smack” the Islamic Republic again, as he weighs a plan for additional strikes around the Strait of Hormuz following Tehran’s attack on American forces in Jordan.
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.
President Donald Trump declared Iran to be a “Failed Nation” and continued to criticize Iranian leadership for being “in total disarray” and being “incapable” of representing Iranian citizens.
Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. forces in Jordan late Sunday, hours after the U.S. struck Iranian forces preparing to deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, reigniting direct fighting between Washington and Tehran after a monthlong lull.
U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers Sunday after the military observed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, prompting Tehran to vow retaliation in the first known American strike inside Iran since late July.
Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called on Gulf states to unite against the United States and Israel as their “real enemy” in a written message Sunday, an overture to neighbors Tehran has spent months attacking and threatening as the Islamic Republic faces mounting military and economic pressure.
A sign of growing stress within the Iranian regime appeared this week, as hardline parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf feuded with Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper, a regime media organ close to the theocratic wing of the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Central Command confirmed Thursday that American forces have cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz’s internationally recognized shipping lanes, opening the critical waterway to growing commercial traffic while a U.S. naval blockade has stopped Iranian oil exports entirely since mid-July — a dramatic shift President Donald Trump says has left Tehran “begging to make a deal.”
Massive lines at gas stations across Iran were spotted on Tuesday after the United States announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” an escalated campaign of economic sanctions and physical isolation against the regime in Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that Iran attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, publicly disclosing an alleged plot that had reportedly been known to Israel’s security establishment and barred from publication for months.
Iran threatened neighboring countries Saturday against joining President Donald Trump’s escalating “economic war” against the Islamic Republic, warning those cooperating with Washington will be considered “enemies.” The totalitarian regime further cautioned any U.S. supporters will have their interests targeted while threatening “earthquake-like” retaliation as the United States prepares to unleash what it has billed as the toughest sanctions campaign in history.
Iran vowed a “devastating” military response Friday as the United States enters a new phase of economic warfare against Tehran, with the Trump administration preparing the “toughest sanctions in history” as part of an escalating campaign Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says will “collapse” the Iranian regime.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen on Thursday claimed they “successfully carried out two military operations using drones,” including attacks on the airport and an oil facility in the Saudi Arabian city of Najran.
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.”
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).
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday the United States has a military and economic stranglehold on Iran and declared, “Praise be to Allah!”
President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his assertion that the United States has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, warning Iran could either continue buckling under mounting economic pressure or risk getting “blown away” if it challenges American forces.
Iran’s elusive Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed six new military commanders on Monday, most notably replacing Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary Mohammad Baqer Zolqard with Mohsen Rezaei, a veteran commander of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday there will be no further talks on reopening the Strait of Hormuz until the United States meets a long list of demands, including payment of war reparations and ending all sanctions against Iran.
President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s sweeping demands for fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and said the U.S. is “now demanding compensation” from Iran in all future negotiations.
President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States is “low keying” its approach to Iran, signaling he is prepared for now to let mounting economic pressure squeeze Tehran rather than launch another major military offensive.
Iran’s top national security official warned Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States “corrects its behavior,” issuing a sweeping list of demands as Vice President JD Vance said Washington remains in the “middle of the game” and is continuing to apply diplomatic, economic, and military pressure on Tehran.
Senior Iranian officials are reportedly growing increasingly concerned about the health of the country’s unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, with one source close to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government saying officials “would not be surprised” to soon hear news of his death.
