LIVE BLOG: Iran Signals Ceasefire End over Hormuz Rights as Lebanon Toll Rises – Day 46

April 14, 2026
Iran warns ceasefire may collapse without recognition of Hormuz control, as Israeli strikes intensify across southern Lebanon front.

 

PFP Gubernatorial Candidate Ramsey Robinson is Fighting for the People of California, not the Billionaires

April 13, 2026
“Billionaires have their two parties. Working people need our own. That’s why I’m thrilled to be part of the Peace and Freedom Party’s long history of anti-war candidates. I’m fighting for a socialist California where healthcare, housing and good jobs are human rights, not luxuries.”

Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf

April 13, 2026
Ship traffic has been halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to begin a naval blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas starting Monday at 10 a.m. ET. Iran denounced Trump’s move as an illegal act amounting to “piracy” and has threatened to strike Gulf ports in retaliation. Trump ordered the blockade after the U.S. and Iran failed to reach a deal to end the war following 21 hours of talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. Global oil prices jumped after Trump announced the blockade.

DAYS 41-44: Trump Declares Blockade As Talks Collapse

April 12, 2026
Joe Lauria

Donald Trump has announced plans for a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after the collapse of U.S.-Iran peace talks following 21 hours in an Islamabad hotel, writes Joe Lauria.

Trump’s Truth Social post on the blockade.

US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Universities Signal Higher Ed No Longer Off-Limits

April 11, 2026
Kourosh Ziabari

Even if the ceasefire holds and the war comes to an end, Iran’s academia will bear great costs and long-term impacts.

The Shahid Beheshti University seen destroyed after a missile strike the previous day, on April 4, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

US ceasefire with Iran: What’s next? A former diplomat explains 3 possible scenarios

April 10, 2026
Donald Heflin
President Donald Trump on April 7, 2026, announced a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, after more than a month of war marked by U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iranian military leadership, Iranian retaliation against regional oil infrastructure and a global energy crisis.

A vessel passes through the Strait of Hormuz following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Shady Alassar/Anadolu via Getty Images

What Israelis can learn from the nightmares of an Iranian hangman

April 9, 2026
Orly Noy

As Israel embraces the death penalty, government ministers can look to what they call the ‘Iranian terror regime’ for inspiration — and caution.

A public execution in Fayyam Square, Shiraz, November 21, 2018. (Students' News Agency)

US-Iran talks in Pakistan: Who’s attending, what’s on the agenda?

April 9, 2026

Abid Hussain

Islamabad hosts negotiations as US and Iran seek an off-ramp. But deep mistrust and regional tensions threaten talks.

Middle East ceasefire may have made Iran stronger

April 8, 2026
Bamo Nouri and Inderjeet Parmar

Sustained bombing of its infrastructure may have left Iran with new financial mechanisms to rebuild and even expand its regional influence

آتش‌بس با شرایط ایران، اشتباه استراتژیک جنگ را برجسته می‌کند

نوشتهٔ تریتا پارسی‌

استفاده ناموفق ترامپ از زور، اعتبار تهدیدهای نظامی آمریکا را از بین برده و پویایی کاملاً جدیدی را در مسیر دیپلماتیک ایجاد کرده است

Iranian Synagogue ‘Completely Destroyed,’ Reportedly By US-Israeli Airstrike

April 7, 2026
Stephen Prager

The representative for Iran’s Jewish community in Parliament said Israel “showed no mercy... during the Jewish holidays and attacked one of our ancient and holy synagogues.”

A person holds the damaged fragments of a text in Hebrew after a US-Israeli strike on a residential building destroyed the adjacent Rafi-Nia Synagogue on April 7, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iran war live: Israel strikes second petrochemical plant after hitting South Pars

April 6, 2026

Iran reviews Pakistan's ceasefire deal but rejects any immediate move to reopen Hormuz

How the oil crisis and the so-called apocalypse are man-made

April 6, 2026
Sonja van den Ende

The so-called fuel crisis is being executed exactly on time, after the Epstein cult was exposed, which of course was not in the script.

Iran claims retaliatory strikes on key Gulf energy sites, warns US of ‘more destructive phase’

April 5, 2026

US-Israeli strikes have been targeting major infrastructure across Iran, including bridges, medical facilities and energy and petrochemical sites

A View from Tehran: War caused a new Kind of Stability

April 4, 2026
Peiman Salehi

Tehran (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In Tehran, the expected signs of wartime breakdown are largely absent.

Trump has no good options to resolve the disaster he created in Iran

April 3, 2026
Mitchell Plitnick

Trump faces a disaster of his own making in Iran. He had no plan to address Iran's predictable retaliation, including closing the Strait of Hormuz, but even if he did, he faces another problem: Israel, his disastrous choice for a partner in crime.

Rescue operation underway after Iran downs two US fighter jets (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

April 3, 2026

According to American media, two of the three pilots have been located and brought to safety

No Exit in Iran

April 1, 2026
Mel Gurtov

جنگ برای کیست؟

 حمله به ایران توسط نیروهای آمریکائی و اسرائیلی در روز نهم ماه اسفند سال پیش، مصادف با بیست و هشت فوریهٔ این سال مسیحی‌ آغاز شد. با توجه به اینکه حملهٔ پیشین آنها زمانی‌ صورت گرفت که نمایندگان ایران در حین مذاکرات اتمی‌ بودند، دولت ایران آمادگی چنین حملهٔ غافل‌گیرانه‌ای توسط این دو نیروی متخاصم را داشت، و به سرعت پاسخ داد. البته در این شکّی نیست که نیروی نظامی ایران قدرت مقابله با نیروهای نظامی آمریکا و اسرائیل را ندارد، و بنابراین تلفات ایرانیان بسیار بیشتر از تلفات دو نیروی دیگر می‌باشد، بخصوص که ارتش ایران در مقام دفاع، و نه حمله است.ا

Report: Iranian Oil Profits Doubled Since Start of War

March 30, 2026
Kyle Anzalone

Since the US and Israeli surprise attack on Iran, Tehran has continued to export oil that is selling at significantly higher prices.

‘Go to the Strait, and Just TAKE IT’ – Trump Blasts Allies – Iran War News in Brief

March 31, 2026

Trump rebukes allies, US escalates strikes, Hormuz crisis deepens, Tehran rejects claims, and regional tensions continue expanding rapidly.

Trump lashes out at the UK: “Go get your own oil!” as he tells allies the US “won’t be there to help you anymore.” (Image illustration: PC)

“The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War

March 30, 2026
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s comments come as 3,500 U.S. troops began arriving in the region on Friday, with The Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of potential ground combat in Iran. According to a consortium of human rights groups in Iran, nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians, including at least 217 children, have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. Iranian scholar Ali Kadivar says the increased targeting of residential areas, schools and hospitals in recent days shows that regime change is no longer the main goal, if it ever was. “These recent attacks on civilian infrastructure makes the war look more like a war on Iran as a nation-state,” says Kadivar, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and an associate professor at Boston College.

Iran war live: Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Saudi seek to de-escalate

March 29, 2026
Christine Maguire and Urooba Jamal

• Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States is plotting a ground attack despite publicly engaging in diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war.
• Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia meet in Islamabad looking to de-escalate the US-Israel war on Iran.
• Iran threatens retaliatory attacks on Israeli and US universities in the Middle East as powerful explosions hit Tehran and deaths are reported in Shaft and Bandar Khamir.
• Yemen’s Houthis launch a second missile-and-drone assault on Israel saying they’ll continue until Israel “ceases its attacks and aggression”.
• Protesters rally against the war on Iran in Tel Aviv and cities across the US as people in Lebanon take to the streets of Beirut over Israel’s killing of three journalists in a targeted strike.
• Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.

The Increasingly Dire Costs of the War on Iran

March 28, 2026
Pat Hynes with Anna Gyorgy
Economist Jeffrey Sachs calls the Israeli and American war on Iran the beginning of World War III, driven by a “madman” and know-nothing president unrestrained by “hollowed out” politicians and surrounded by “sycophants.” Some of the most cogent early coverage of the war thus frames this conflict for what it is:  a lawless, soulless, brainless killing or wounding of thousands upon thousands of Iranian children and adults and displacing millions.  An enduring menace to the global economy, this unnecessary and illegal war also pushes the world toward long-term environmental disaster.  You will not read or hear this brutally honest coverage in any weak-kneed mainstream media or discourse, but Informed Comment will always be honest with you.

‘Beyond despicable,’ says Democrat after White House official says Trump ‘bored’ with Iran war

March 27, 2026
Brad Reed

“Real people have paid the price of this war,” said Rep. Don Beyer. “Civilians have been killed throughout the Middle East, including the US missile strike that killed more than 150 schoolchildren.”

Iran war restores King Dollar’s crown, for now

March 27, 2026
William Pesek

From Thailand to Philippines to South Korea, Asia is getting crushed between surging oil and a surprisingly resurgent US dollar

Investors have fled to dollar safety during the Iran war. Image: AI Generated

Repression in the Classroom

March 27, 2026
Paul Buhle

Jane S. Smith, A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2025), 224 pages, $26.95, hardcover.

Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan, Operation Mind: A Brief Documentary Account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And Why It Matters Now (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Disobedience Press/University of Michigan Press, 2025), 118 pages, $15, paperback.

The US-Israeli War on Iran Is Incentivizing Nuclear Proliferation

March 26, 2026
Jon Letman
As nuclear-armed countries violate international law, others may turn to proliferation as a form of deterrence.

Plumes of smoke rise over the oil depot tanks hit by joint Israel-U.S. strikes over night in a station north west of the capital on March 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

Accountability and Jail, Not Hope and Change

March 26, 2026
Conor Lynch

Almost 20 years after Obama gave high-level criminality a pass, Democrats must be ready to put powerful people behind bars.

The next wave of Democrats must be willing to prosecute the "Epstein class" for their crimes. (Graphic by Truthdig; images via AP Photo, Adobe Stock)

Craig Murray: The London Ambulance Attack

March 25, 2026
Craig Murray

Iran has a zero record of attacking healthcare facilities, even in Israel. And there are multiple red flags about linking the recently-emerged terrorist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, to Iran.

ارزش زندگی‌

نخست باید دریافت که چگونه زندگی‌ آغاز می‌شود و پایان می‌گیرد. شکسپیر در داستان هملت جملهٔ مشهوری دارد که می‌گوید پرسش در بودن یا نبودن است. بودن به معنی زندگی‌ کردن، و نبودن پایان این زندگی‌ است. از آنجائی که ما از نبودِ خود آگاه نخواهیم بود، و زمانی‌ که هستیم فقط عدم هستی‌ دیگران را مشاهده می‌کنیم، بنابراین نبودن، و یا مرگ، برای شخص ما مفهومی‌ ندارد، و همواره باید به بودن بی‌اندیشیم. نوآوری‌های پزشکی‌، تکنولوژیکی، و سایر نوآوری‌ها به منظور افزایش زمان و یا دورانِ این بودن، و در آسایش زیستن است. گرچه ما همواره کوشش می‌کنیم که این بودن را کش دهیم و در عین حال از این بودن خشنود باشیم، ولی‌ از طرف دیگر، ما به تسلیهاتی روی می‌آوریم که هدف آنها نابودی دیگران است.ا

‘War has costs’: Iran begins charging select vessels up to $2m for Hormuz transit

March 24, 2026

Several countries are coordinating directly with Tehran for safe passage as the US-Israeli war drags on for a fourth week

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

March 23, 2026
Meg Hansen

However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China

A web of sensors: How the US spots missiles and drones from Iran

March 21, 2026
Aaron Brynildson
The global price of oil continues to skyrocket as Iran’s missiles and drones hit vital infrastructure in Arab Gulf states. Billion-dollar American radar systems have also been targeted and destroyed across the Middle East by Iran, seemingly degrading U.S. defenses.

Ecuador’s Netanyahu and Trump supporters target Ecuadorian–Iranian Cultural Center

March 21, 2026
Written (Español) by Xime Yauca
Translated (English) by Laura

People who witnessed the violent attack experienced physical and psychological impairments

How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

March 16, 2026
Chris Hedges

Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged.

Iran war live: US-Israeli strikes killed over 200 children, says foreign minister

March 16, 2026

Meanwhile, European allies refuse US request to help open Strait of Hormuz

Trump Says He May Bomb Iran’s Kharg Island Again ‘For Fun’

March 15, 2026

Dave DeCamp

The US president has been asking other countries for help in opening the Strait of Hormuz

‘The View From Tehran’

March 15, 2026

Guest: Sayed Mohammad Marandi. Interviewer: Joe Lauria

For two weeks, Iran has been under relentless bombardment from the U.S. and Israel in a barbaric war of aggression rooted in a profound ignorance of the country they seek to conquer. Iran was no threat to the U.S. It was in negotiations with the U.S. for a nuclear deal when Tel Aviv and Washington attacked.

Trump threatens new attacks on Kharg Island as Iran warns it will 'set fire' to US oil interests

March 14, 2026

Iranian officials warned that any attacks on its oil hub will result in regional oil and gas infrastructure tied to the US and its allies being 'set on fire and destroyed'

Trump's war is a gift to Iran’s hardliners

March 13, 2026 
Emad Khatami

Conflict risks strengthening the country's most confrontational actors while narrowing the space for reformists

Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a US company, a first since the war started

March 12, 2026
Kevin Collier
An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack of a medical tech company, in what appears to be the first significant instance of Iran hacking an American company since the start of war between the countries.

Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on Saturday. (Sasan / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s lies reveal the real story about the Iran war

March 11, 2026
Martin Jay

Join up the dots and you come to the same conclusion. America and Israel are the biggest losers in the Iran war. But not Trump.

Streets on fire, acid rain: Israeli strikes on fuel sites near Tehran compared to chemical warfare

March 10, 2026

The attempt to topple the Iranian government is pushing the Middle East into an increasingly deadly spiral of destruction

Thinking About the Unthinkable: Iran’s Grand Plan to End U.S. Presence in the Middle East

March 9, 2026
Michael Hudson
Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that “There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender,” and announced that he must have a voice in naming or at least approving Iran’s new leader, as he has just done in Venezuela. “If the U.S. military must utterly defeat it and bring about a regime change, or else you go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who’s no better.” It will take at least that long for America to replace the weaponry that has been depleted, rebuild its radar and related installations and mount a new war.

Khamenei’s son 'to be new supreme leader'

March 8, 2026
Akhtar Makoii
Iran has chosen the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, a member of the council responsible for the decision said.

LIVE BLOG: Iran Vows to Defend ‘Every Inch as Missiles and Regional Strikes Escalate – Day 9

March 8, 2026

The Israeli-American war on Iran enters its ninth day amid missile exchanges, regional tensions, and Tehran warning it will defend its territory.

‘This Is Madness’: More Talk of Boots on the Ground as Trump Says ‘Today Iran Will Be Hit Very Hard’

March 7, 2026
Jon Queally

“The American people do not want more war in the Middle East. No boots on the ground. No more war.”

Iran war live: Trump wants ‘unconditional surrender’ as attacks continue

March 6, 2026

• US President Donald Trump wants “unconditional surrender” from Iran, warning there will not be a deal without that.
• Massive explosions hit several locations across Iran today as the war enters its seventh day.
• Israeli jets have bombed southern and eastern Lebanese towns as well as targeting the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.
• At least 1,332 people have been killed in US and Israeli attacks on Iran since Saturday, and the semi-official Fars News Agency reports that two schools were hit by missiles in the town of Parand, southwest of the capital Tehran.
• Iran continued to target Gulf countries from the UAE to Qatar and Bahrain, while Israel’s Tel Aviv came under combined drone and missile attacks late on Thursday night.
• Visit our live tracker for the latest on casualty figures from across the region.

 

“Why Are We Going to War?”: Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has “No Clear Plan” on Iran

March 5, 2026
As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran and the conflict spreads throughout the region, we speak with two former U.S. government officials with experience in Middle East policy. Hala Rharrit is a career diplomat who resigned from the State Department in 2024 to protest the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, and Jasmine El-Gamal served as a Middle East adviser at the Pentagon during the Obama administration.