On Monday, Iranian state-aligned media said that Iran was suspending negotiations with the U.S. Iranian officials decried the U.S.’s blockade of Iranian ports, as well as the deepening Israeli invasion of Lebanon, declaring that both are in violation of the ceasefire. “The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon…
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On Monday and Tuesday, Israel expanded its strikes and ground operations in Lebanon as the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran came to a standstill. Overnight on Monday, Israel bombed areas in Southern Lebanon and in Bekaa Valley in Eastern Lebanon, and expanded its ground operation outside of the so-called “yellow line,” an Israeli-drawn line separating Israel’s current occupation of areas of the…
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Tehran’s sky was still half-lit around 5:00 am on March 23 and the Iranian capital’s characteristic traffic jam hadn’t formed yet. Hamidreza Afarideh hadn’t left for work, but he heard blaring alarms from a remote anti-theft system on his phone that suggested something ominous may have happened at his workplace. As the musician steered toward the often-crowded Pirouzi district in eastern…
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The U.S. is using more of its resources to defend Israel than Israel is itself, according to U.S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post on Thursday. The officials disclosed that the U.S. military has depleted much of its missile-defense inventory after using far more of the weaponry to defend Israel throughout the war on Iran than Israel has used itself. The U.S.
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Less than a week before Memorial Day weekend — a federal holiday that aims to recognize members of the U.S. military who have died in combat zones — President Donald Trump sought to downplay the U.S. casualties of his ill-defined and unauthorized war on Iran. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, Trump was asked about servicemembers’ deaths. “We lost 13 people.
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy exhausted, but with airstrikes. Among the first confirmed casualties were more than a hundred schoolchildren killed in a strike on their elementary school in southern Iran. Within a month, 850 U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Iran. President Donald Trump has delivered on his promise to bomb Iran…
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