‘There was blood everywhere’: Survivors recount US strike on wedding in Iran

September 4, 2026

Witnesses describe chaos and devastation as a family celebration instantly turned into a night of mourning

A medic runs an ultrasound on an injured child following an overnight strike in Kuhestak, southern Iran, on 2 September 2026 (Morteza Akhondi/Tasnim News/AFP)

The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure

September 3, 2026
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s illegal, unauthorized, unnecessary war is the worst strategic defeat in U.S. history.

 

The actual image Donald Trump and Natalie Harp published on Truth Social.

US Treasury chief claims Hormuz will become ‘worthless’ in two years

September 2, 2026

Bessent says overland pipelines will carry the region's oil within two years, even as the existing routes have room for at most a quarter of what the strait moves

آقای مهندس

 دو سه سال قبل از انقلاب بود. تازه ازدواج کرده بودم و با کمک مالی پدرم یک خانهٔ دو طبقه حوالی شمیرانات خریده بودم. بعد از فارق‌التحصیلی از دانشکده طب، مستقیما در بیمارستانی استخدام شده بودم و می‌دانستم که با حقوق مناسبی که داشتم می‌توانستم بدهی پدرم را در عرض یکی‌ دو سال پرداخت کنم، البته اگر اجارهٔ طبقه بالا را در نظر می‌گرفتم. بنابراین با معاملات ملکی‌ سر کوچه برای یافتن مستاجر مناسبی قرار گذاشتم.ا

One US dollar now costs 2 million rials in Iran, and here’s what it can buy

September 1, 2026
Alia Chughtai, Fatemah Karimkhan and Maziar Motamedi

Sanctions and the US-Israel war on Iran have left the country’s people unable to keep pace with rising prices as the rial hits a new all-time low.

The US military just got handed an odd job: Denying an 'attack' on Iran that its own president had just posted online

September 1, 2026
Jack Buckby

 
Airstrikes have resumed in the Middle East after the US fired on Iranian launchers accused of trying to lay more mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Anadolu via Getty Images

‘The President of the United States Is Mentally Unwell’: Deranged Trump Posts AI Slop of Iran Bombing

August 31, 2026
Jake Johnson
The chief executive of Iran’s government-run oil company dismissed the US president’s social media posts “laughable.” 

US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting American forces attacking Kharg Island on August 30, 2026. (Photo: Donald Trump/Screengrab via Truth Social)

Iran Retaliates against UAE

August 31, 2026

Iran Downs US MQ-9 as Hormuz Ship Traffic Falls to Five Vessels a Day

Palestinian Christians are disappearing. Warnings are not enough.

August 30, 2026
Sami Mshasha 
Church leaders, activists, and Palestinian media keep sounding the alarm: Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land. But what is needed now is an institutional and economic strategy that makes staying a viable choice, not just a moral one.

 

Orthodox Christians take part in the Easter "Holy Fire" celebrations on the eve of Easter Sunday on April 23, 2011, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the sites where Christians believe Christ was crucified and buried. (Photo: Sliman Khader/APA Images)

After giving up on military force, Trump’s new plan to defeat Iran is…more economic sanctions?

August 29, 2026
Mitchell Plitnick 
Trump's "Operation Economic Outcast" to impose secondary sanctions on countries trading with Iran is a tacit admission of U.S. military defeat. But sanctions haven't worked for 47 years, and Iran won't let the U.S. decide when the shooting war ends.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the press before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Friday, August 21, 2026. (Photo: White House/Flickr, by Molly Riley)

US War on Iran: What Accountability for War Crimes?

August 29, 2026
Melanie O’Brien
The Trump administration has consistently viewed itself as being above international law. Not only does it claim international law doesn’t apply to the United States, it has imposed sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Bombing Iran Is Not a Strategy

August 28, 2026
Sarah Neumann

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile during operations in support of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Navy Photo)

The US Seeing Itself & Others as They Are

August 27, 2026
Patrick Lawrence
Imagine the consequences for the empire’s managers were Americans to understand others and have some grasp of how they look upon the world.

 
The arrival in the Tehran cemetery Behesht-e Zahra on March 15, 2026, of the bodies from the U.S. sinking of the Iranian ship the Dena in the Indian Ocean. (Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0)

US Not Planning New Strikes on Iran, Will Focus on Economic War

August 26, 2026
Kyle Anzalone

Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed allies that the new strategy is “for the time being”

دیکتاتوری

تصویر بالا که از فیسبوک کُپی شده است، جدولی‌ از یک سنجش آماری از پاره‌ای از مشخصات زنان ایران در مقایسه با زنان آمریکا می‌باشد. عنوان این جدول نقل قولی‌ از ترامپ است که می‌گوید: "رژیم حاکم بر ایران از پیشرفت زنان جلوگیری به عمل می‌آورد." در اینکه رژیم حاکم بر ایران یک رژیم ارتجاعی و دیکتاتوری است و اسلام مانند سایر ادیان، یک دین مردانه است، شکّی نیست. همچنین، در اینکه رژیم اسلامی از آغاز زنها را به زیر چادر و روسری بُرد نیز شبهه‌ای نمی‌توان داشت. مهم این است که زنان شجاع ایران با دادن خون خود حقوق حقهٔ خود را تا حدودی دریافت کردند، و هنوز هم در حال مبارزه‌ا‌ند. بنابراین، به دولت ایران در این مورد نمی‌توان اعتبار داد، بلکه زنان ایران برای احراز حقوقشان جنگیدند، و بدین دلیل آنچه که آنها دارند در مقایسه با زنان آمریکا ارجح است. ترجمهٔ مطالب این تصویر در جدول زیر می‌آید:ا

U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners

August 25, 2026
The Trump administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical” and “psychological warfare” of the announcement. For Iran, says Mulder, the announcement was not “really materially all that meaningful. And to the extent that they are, they hurt ordinary Iranians and not the government.” The impact on the U.S. relationship with China, however, could be much greater. If the U.S. does place secondary sanctions on Iran’s trading partners, the “U.S.-China trade truce might be unraveling,” warns Mulder. “The space for maneuver that the U.S. has in using these tools of very coercive economic statecraft has narrowed.”

 

Sanctions didn't break Iran. They hardened it

August24, 2026
Mahyar Ramezankhani

Tehran was denied a decade of growth, and given in exchange a tolerance for punishment that few open economies possess

A woman walks past an anti-US billboard in Tehran on August 24, 2026.

Iran vows ‘not a single drop’ of oil will leave Gulf if region complies with US plan

August 23, 2026

Tehran has warned neighboring states it will close the Strait of Hormuz if they take part in Washington’s economic pressure campaign

Oil importer China won’t aid Trump economic warfare against Iran

August 22, 2026
Stephen Prager

Factor in the US midterms when calculaitng Trump’s willingness to retaliate via economic war with the third-largest US trading partner

 

Hengli Petrochemical Co operates a 20-million-tons-per-year refining and petrochemical complex on Dalian’s Changxing Island. On Friday, the US Treasury Department added the refinery to its sanctions list. This marks Washington’s most significant action yet against China’s refining industry and highlights its determination to increase pressure on Iran, even just weeks ahead of a much-anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a Bloomberg report. But how much farther will he be willing to go in view of upcoming US midterm elections? Photo: Baidu.com, Hengli Group

Iran breaks ground on ‘world's largest’ solar plant to tackle energy deficit

August 21, 2026

The 6,000-hectare complex is expected to supply close to a tenth of the electricity Iran consumes each month