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Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei. What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so...

Trump Renews Threat Of Legal Action To New York Times Over Iran Coverage Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat of legal action against The New York Times on June 21, accusing the newspaper of publishing "treasonous" coverage that downplayed the impact of the nearly four-month war with Iran. The New York Times Building in New York City on Feb. 5, 2024.Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times "I will be adding all of their false and ridiculous reporting to my multi Billion Dollar lawsuit against them. They...

Anthropic "Paces The Frontier" By Unleashing Its Most Powerful Opus Yet, And Slashing Prices Up To 60% Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Opus 5.5, just 10 days after CEO Dario Amodei called for "pacing the frontier" of AI development. The pitch: Fable-class brains at a steep discount. Anthropic says the new model "performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks" and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, which launched all of 60 days ago. List-price cuts run from 20% on input and output tokens to 60%...