by David Rohde | Nov 8, 2026 | Iran, News, White House, World
A legal group accused the Trump administration on Sunday of planning to violate a judge’s order that bars the deportation of Iranian nationals back to their home country without sufficient notification to a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
In court filings, the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund said it had been told that 11 Iranian nationals — 10 men and one woman — were scheduled to be flown by Immigration Customs and Enforcement from Mesa, Arizona, to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday. From there, Iranian officials would take them back to Iran, where they could face persecution from Iranian officials as well as dangers posed by potential U.S. airstrikes.
“We have received credible information from multiple independent sources indicating that the U.S. government is proceeding with plans to deport Iranian nationals, including asylum seekers, to Iran, via Pakistan, despite a federal court order requiring five business days’ advance notice,” Yasmine Chubin, the group’s executive director, told MS NOW.
The administration previously deported Iranians in the months leading up to the war President Donald Trump launched jointly with Israel against Iran. Some of the 11 people expected to be on the planned Sunday flight had been held in detention for months, according to lawyers and a relative of the detainees.
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Beyond the sheer recklessness of forcibly returning people to a country with which the United States is at war and against which it is actively conducting military strikes, the government appears poised to disregard a federal court order designed to ensure basic oversight and accountability,” Chubin added. ”These are
by David Rohde | Nov 7, 2026 | Iran, News, White House
The historic Republican losses in the midterm elections have left President Donald Trump with even fewer options for ending the war with Iran quickly, experts say.
Trump has said he would consider resuming strikes against Iran after the midterms. But U.S. airstrikes are unlikely to make the Iranian regime capitulate, and the country’s leaders are likely to stand by expansive demands they have made in negotiations.
“Iran has been very unwilling to have any reasonable discussions about peace,” said Leslie Shedd, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former senior aide to Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
Trump could launch U.S. airstrikes against Iran but the government there has already absorbed thousands of such strikes.
In the unlikely scenario that Trump takes the extraordinary step of dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on a nuclear storage site beneath Pickaxe Mountain, it would not eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, which is deeply buried and also spans the country, experts said. The first attack since Nagasaki with a nuclear weapon of any size would create long-lasting radioactive fallout and threaten to destabilize existing weapons agreements among nuclear powers.
With Democrats winning more seats in Congress and Republicans showing increasing skepticism in the Iran war, lawmakers returning to Washington next week could insist on a war powers resolution or cut funding.
Other options for Trump — a U.S. bombing campaign, a reduction in U.S. forces in the region and a unilateral declaration of victory — will not change the strategic reality.
Iran has shown that the U.S. cannot stop it from intermittently shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and driving up global energy prices.
“Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said
by Sharon Zhang | Nov 6, 2026 | 2026 Elections, Chris Van Hollen, Iran, News, Ro Khanna, Vietnam War, War Powers
Progressive lawmakers are mounting a campaign to end the Trump administration’s war on Iran by cutting off funding for the effort and potentially forcing a government shutdown, after Democrats won a historic majority running against the unpopular conflict. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) are two figures leading the effort, which is akin to Congress’s…
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by Sharon Zhang | Nov 5, 2026 | 2026 election, 2026 Elections, Democrats, Donald Trump, Forever War, Iran, Israel, News Analysis, Palestine
Voters across the U.S. overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration’s war on Iran on Tuesday, putting their faith in Democrats who now wield enormous power to end the war — and to prevent future wars from being started unilaterally by a figure like Donald Trump ever again. The historically unpopular war and its economic consequences were among the top reasons for Republicans’ collapse.
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by Jake Johnson | Nov 5, 2026 | Donald Trump, gas prices, Iran, iran war, Israel, midterms, News, Pentagon, US Military, US Military Bases, War
US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters on Tuesday that his illegal war of choice in Iran will end “whenever I want it to” as the conflict’s official price tag reportedly jumped to $47 billion — a figure that independent analysts believe to be a dramatic underestimate. “It can be over whenever I want it to be over,” Trump said of the historically unpopular war during a rally…
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by Sharon Zhang | Nov 4, 2026 | Chris Murphy, International Law, Iran, Israel, News, Pete Hegseth, War Crimes
A senator who was briefed on President Donald Trump’s plans to launch intense strikes on Iran after the midterm elections has warned that the attacks are slated to be so horrific that they will lead to the “destruction” of the U.S.’s “commitment to the rule of law.” At an event hosted by the Middle East Institute on Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Foreign…
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