Pezeshkian urges BRICS to form 'permanent secretariat,' independent payment mechanisms

September 12, 2026

The Iranian president urged the bloc to trade in national currencies and build payment channels that no single country can shut off

Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home

September 11, 2026
We look at how post-9/11 policies and the so-called war on terror reshaped the country and the world with two Columbia faculty members who convened a two-day symposium on “The Forever War and the First Amendment.” The symposium brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers and activists to explore the legacy of the “war on terror,” specifically focused on the impact on democratic rights, including the freedoms of speech and the press.

Real History: After 9/11, the “War on Terror” Was a War of Terror

September 10, 2026
Norman Solomon
Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind a pulpit at the Washington National Cathedral and spoke to a nation in shock. “Our responsibility to history is already clear,” he proclaimed, “to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.” The vow was, of course, preposterous. Yet the “war on terror” that followed was scarcely more realistic.

 

Asia’s Strait of Hormuz oil cushion is running out

September 9, 2026
William Pesek

No one needs a more destabilizing oil surge as Trump’s war, tariffs and efforts to control Fed policy erode trust in the dollar and US government debt

Somali piracy was under control, then Came Iran war

September 8, 2026
Khaled Mahmoud
Bandits off the Horn of Africa have taken advantage of the deteriorating security situation, attacking at least 15 ships this year.

ایران و انقلاب

دربارهٔ انقلاب ایران در بهمن ماه سال هزار و سیصد و پنجاه و هفت که نزدیک به نیم قرن از آن می‌گذرد، بسیار گفته و نوشته شده است. جمهوری اسلامی به رهبری آیت‌الله خمینی از دل این انقلاب بیرون آمد و تا به امروز رژیم اسلامی بر همهٔ نهادهای کشور حکومت، و آنها را مدیریت کرده است. مردم ایران که اکثریت آنها به جمهوری اسلامی رأی دادند، اکنون چنان از این رژیم به ستوه آمده‌اند که هر ثانیه آرزوی نابودی آن را دارند، اما هیچ نیروی دیگری برای جایگزینی این رژیم ننگین وجود ندارد.ا

Why America Can’t Strangle Iran

September 8, 2026
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

The Sources of Tehran’s Economic Resilience

 

At a local market in Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 2026 Majid Asgaripour / Reuters

Iran to declare new ‘restricted zone’ outside Strait of Hormuz – official

September 7, 2026

Tehran will slap sanctions on any vessel entering the area, the National Security Council secretary has said

On Labor Day, Mamdani Announces First-of-Its Kind ‘Office of Worker Power’ in NYC

September 7, 2026
Jake Johnson

“We’re setting it up to help workers organize in an economy where more and more is stacked against them.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signs an executive order establishing the Office of Worker Power on September 7, 2026. (Photo: New York City Mayor’s Office)

In War Crime, Trump sinks Civilian Iranian Tanker, disables 2 Others

September 6, 2026
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration continues to fire on civilian Iranian targets in a campaign that has intensified in the first week of September, after a relatively quiet August, returning the two countries to an dangerous active war footing. On Saturday, the U.S. Navy sank one Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The sailors were warned beforehand to abandon ship. US strikes badly damaged two other tankers by firing at the stern, one near Kharg Island and another near the port of Jask.

Evidence points to direct US hit on Iran wedding – Reuters

September 3, 2026

Vice President J.D. Vance says Washington is investigating the strike, which killed five people

FILE PHOTO. Iranians gather at a cemetery to commemorate victims, most of them children, killed in a US Israeli attack on a primary school in Minab, Iran on March 20, 2026. © Getty Images / Hassan Ghaedi/Anadolu

Explosions near Kharg Island amid Reports US Struck Iranian Oil Tanker

September 5, 2026

Explosions were heard near Iran’s strategic Kharg Island Saturday amid Iranian media reports that US forces struck an oil tanker nearby.

‘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