Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war are at an impasse as the conflict enters its third month. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday that Trump has told aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iranian ports to ramp up the pressure on Tehran. Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was grilled about his pledge for the military to commit war crimes by showing “no quarter” to the U.S.’s enemies in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts) brought up a statement Hegseth made in a press conference on March 13, just two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. “You said, ‘We will give them no…
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As a crucial legal deadline for the U.S.’s unauthorized war in Iran approaches later this week, President Donald Trump may opt to ignore it altogether — and Republican leaders in Congress may allow him to. Trump launched the joint U.S.-Israel war in Iran almost two months ago. According to the War Powers Resolution of 1973, any military action taken by a president without congressional…
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Testimony in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial was abruptly cancelled on Monday, lengthening a two-month delay in proceedings for the Iran war in the long-running trial that could result in prison time for the far right leader. Netanyahu’s defense team cited “security” concerns for the cancellation of his testimony, Israeli media reported, without further details.
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The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OPEC, and OPEC+, in a major blow to the cartel amid an energy crisis caused by the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran. The country’s departure will take effect on May 1, it announced in a statement issued through its state news media. It will allow the country to…
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In their initial retaliatory strikes of the war, Iranian forces caused far more extensive damage to U.S. military assets than Trump administration officials have admitted to in public and private, new reporting finds as Germany’s chancellor says the U.S. is being “humiliated” by Iran. In these strikes, Iran hit over 100 targets across 11 U.S. bases in the Middle East, striking “warehouses…
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