Iran Calls MoU Deal A 'US Defeat' As Trump Touts Tehran Forced Into 'Very Big Concessions'

US Central Command said on Wednesday that its forces attacked and disabled an Iranian-flagged oil tanker, the M/T Hasna, in the Gulf of Oman, which it claimed was attempting to bypass the US blockade of Iranian ports. CENTCOM said that after issuing warnings to the ship, a US Navy F/A-18 fighter jet launched from the aircraft carrier […]

Interceptor-Drone Arms-Race Emerges The next type of aerial system likely to be stockpiled at scale by militaries worldwide is the interceptor drone. We've already seen early evidence of this across Eurasia, with Ukraine selling its interceptor drones to the highest bidder. The Russia-Ukraine war accelerated the development of cheap one-way attack drones. Early in the war, missile interceptors used by Ukraine were too costly and drained the stockpiles of Western militaries at dangerous rates. The proliferation of cheap interceptor drones levels the playing field and provides a low-cost solution against Russian-produced Geran...

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 […]