by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 8, 2026 | Detention, Detention Centers, Immigrant Detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Iran, iran war, News
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested hundreds of Iranian nationals during the U.S.’s June 2025 war on Iran, according to government data released to the National Iranian American Council under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) filed a FOIA request in October 2025 after reports revealed the U.S. had deported dozens of…
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by Sharon Zhang | May 7, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, News, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, War
Iranian forces have damaged or destroyed hundreds of targets in U.S. bases amid the war, causing far more extensive damage than previously reported by the U.S. government, new reporting based on satellite images reveals. Analysis of the imagery by The Washington Post finds that at least 228 assets have been struck by Iran since the start of the war, including “hangars, barracks, fuel depots…
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by Sharon Zhang | May 6, 2026 | Iran, Israel, Joaquin Castro, Marco Rubio, News, Nuclear Weapons
A group of Democrats in the House is demanding that the Trump administration provide critical information about the scope and size of Israel’s nuclear weapons capability in the midst of a war over nuclear weapons in which only Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been under scrutiny. The lawmakers, led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), say that the U.S. should hold Israel to the “same standard…
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by Stephen Zunes | May 6, 2026 | Cold War, Donald Trump, Europe, Iran, Iran nuclear agreement, Iran Nuclear Deal, Iran nuclear program, iran war, Iraq War, Jared Kushner, JCPOA, negotiations, Op-Ed, Sanctions, Steve Witkoff, Strait of Hormuz, Trump Administration, uranium enrichment, Vietnam War, War, war in Iran
U.S. efforts to force an end to the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz by attempting to escort a few U.S.-flagged ships through the Iranian closure will not only fail to relieve the worsening global fuel crisis and disruption of supply chains, it risks a resumption of full-scale war. The Trump administration has rejected Iran’s suggestion for negotiating an end to the blockade followed by a…
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