Iran’s Foreign Ministry Says US Strikes on Railway Bridges are a ‘Blatant War Crime’

Guns Fall Silent As Qatar Races To Revive US-Iran Talks The guns have actually been silent in the Middle East overnight, after two days of deadly strikes between the United States and Iran, amid a general return to premarket open headlines of 'peace imminent again' as mediators desperately work to get diplomacy back on track. For example, The New York Times writes early Thursday that "Qatar, which helped broker the U.S.-Iran truce last month, has been in talks with Washington and Tehran to de-escalate the crisis, according to two officials with...

The US military is conducting stealth operations to help commercial ships transit the Strait of Hormuz.  Two US officials speaking with Axios said that over the past several weeks, the military has helped 15 to 20 vessels per day enter or exit the Persian Gulf by transiting the Strait of Hormuz near the Omani coast. […]

The arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the U.S. that it had filed criminal charges against SBF...