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Senior Iranian Official Involved In Reaching Out To Vance Severely Wounded In Airstrike A top Iranian official who was involved in diplomatic outreach and indirect talks or messaging with the United States and Pakistani mediators was reportedly critically wounded in a US-Israeli strike. Kamal Kharazi, an 81-year-old senior adviser to Tehran and former foreign minister, lost his wife in the Wednesday strike on his home, state media has said. Kharazi chairs Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and has been viewed as a potential backchannel negotiator involving Islamabad, but now he's...

First Of Many? UAE Exits OPEC As Iran Chaos Triggers Nationalistic Realignment Among Producers OPEC member and major Gulf producer, the UAE, has decided to exit the oil cartel, an unexpected development that crossed Bloomberg headlines on Tuesday morning around 0822 ET. OPEC finished https://t.co/RtxJdZQeQh — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 28, 2026 WAM said the decision reflects the "evolution of sector policies to enhance flexibility in responding to market dynamics, while continuing to contribute to market stability in a thoughtful and responsible manner." OPEC was founded in Baghdad in September 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,...

John Fetterman Reveals Who's Really The Leader Of His Party Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sat down for an interview on the "All-In Podcast" this week and made a telling admission about the Democratic Party. When co-host David Friedberg asked Fetterman point-blank, "Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?" the Pennsylvania senator didn't flinch. "Oh, we don't have one," he said. "I think the TDS, that's the leader right now. You know, right now our party is governed by the TDS.” Fetterman then described what that governance actually looks like in...