US Forces Board Iranian Tanker

Iran Announces First Hormuz Toll Fees Successfully Transferred To Central Bank President Trump has repeatedly said that Iran "better not" collect tolls from ships seeking to traverse the Hormuz Strait waterway, as both warring sides have initiated their own rival blockades of different sectors of the strait. Just last week, Trump had flatly rejected the possibility of Tehran imposing fees - reportedly $2 million or perhaps even more - when a reporter asked about the prospect of restrictions or tolls managed by Iran for strait passage. "Nope. No way. No. Nope," Trump...

Hamas on Wednesday confirmed that an Israeli strike in Gaza City the night before killed the head of its military wing, the al-Qassams Brigades, as the IDF continues daily attacks in violation of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Hamas said Mohammed Odeh was killed alongside his wife and two sons by an Israeli airstrike on a […]

The Samson Option, Israel’s doctrine of last-resort nuclear retaliation, is no longer a theoretical contingency. At the end of seven weeks of war in the Persian Gulf, the conditions that might trigger it are not emerging; they may already be present. What began as a joint US/Israeli campaign for regime change and decapitation of Iran’s […]