Iran war live: Tehran calls for diplomacy but is ‘fully prepared’ to defend itself

October 21, 2026

• Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says “while ‌‌Iran is firmly committed to seeking a dignified peaceful resolution to the conflict, we ⁠⁠are also fully ⁠⁠prepared to defend ourselves”.
  
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the US cannot expect dialogue with Iran while blockading and threatening it.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells US media that reaching a peace deal with Iran is extremely difficult and economic pressure will continue until Tehran stops targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
• Rockets target Al Rayyan Airport in the city of Mukalla and Aden international airport, as the Houthis say they fired a ballistic missile at the Badr camp in the southern Yemeni city.

 

El Niño is threatening California’s fragile coast again – the 1982‑83 El Niño opened eyes to the serious erosion risks

October 21, 2026
Fritz Holznagel
California’s coastal bluffs and beaches look rugged, but they can be surprisingly fragile in the face of a powerful El Niño.

Pacific Ocean waves generated by Hurricane Marie crash over a seawall protecting homes in Long Beach, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2026. El Nino’s warm water was already fueling powerful storms in the Pacific. Mario Tama/Getty Images

سیاست

تعریف سیاست چیست؟ در ویکی‌پدیا سیاست بدین طریق تعریف شده است: "سیاست فعالیتی است که به سامان‌دهی و حل‌وفصل امور در یک جامعه سازمان‌یافته می‌پردازد. سیاست معمولاً با حل مسائل و اختلافات درون جامعه از طریق حکومت سروکار دارد. افرادی که به فعالیت‌های سیاسی اشتغال دارند، سیاستمدار نامیده می‌شوند. شاخه‌ای از علوم اجتماعی که به مطالعه سیاست و حکومت می‌پردازد، علوم سیاسی نام دارد."ا

Minab Girls’ School Massacre: Hegseth’s “Maximum Lethality” Doctrine makes us all Unsafe

October 20, 2026
Alex Poppe
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Back when I was an actor, I used to wait tables at the Divine Bar in Manhattan. We had a location right near the World Trade Center. One day after September 11, 2001, we had to evacuate the restaurant during lunch service. A human ear had been found on the building’s scaffolding.

Israel prepared to attack Iran without US – Netanyahu

October 19, 2026
The Israeli prime minister has pledged to overthrow Tehran’s government and made striking first a central principle of his security doctrine

Portents of Yet Another U.S. Debacle in Iran?

October 19, 2026
Eve Ottenberg
Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump has said he is waiting till after the midterms to attack Iran again. This assault, he vows, will be the biggest blitz of the Iran War (though more recently he downplays the whole putative project), and he even rumbles that U.S. forces may invade (Ho! Ho!) But if it is the biggest, so will be Tehran’s response: so Israel would get barbecued, the remaining U.S. bases in the region would be obliterated, zero, zilch, nada, zip oil would leave the region and maybe an American aircraft carrier or two would be sunk. For all these reasons, Trump’s threatened blitzkrieg would be lunacy, and is very unlikely ever to happen. It’s such obvious lunacy, especially given that Tehran has defeated Washington pretty consistently so far, that one must wonder if this appearance of insanity isn’t the point, namely Richard Nixon’s “madman” approach to foreign policy.

Araghchi Says Iran’s Proposal To Open Strait of Hormuz Within Seven Days Is Still on the Table

October 18, 2026
Dave DeCamp

The Iranian diplomat also responded to Trump saying that he wanted to 'finish the job' against Iran

Exclusive: The Iran war is going to go ballistic after midterms

October 18, 2026
Francis Kapper
U.S. military strikes on Iran could rapidly intensify soon, a senior military official exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Exclusive: Iran, a coiled cobra ready to strike

October 17, 2026
Pepe Escobar
Iran and Pakistan are deep into building a post-American financial order in the intersection between West Asia and South Asia.

 

Iran will respond ‘immediately’ to any US threats to its energy facilities

October 16, 2026
Ali Mustafa and Mahmoud Sayed

• Acting Oil Minister Hamid Bovard says Iran “will take precise, appropriate retaliatory measures at the right time to counter enemy threats” to its energy facilities.
• The ⁠Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen says it intercepted a ballistic missile launched towards the Saudi city ⁠of Yanbu, two cruise ⁠missiles over the Red ⁠Sea, and ⁠three ⁠drones in the southern and Riyadh regions.
  
• Iran’s navy says a “violating tanker” has “caught fire” after it “turned off its tracking systems and attempted to cross the prohibited area in the Sea of Oman”.
• Washington Post calls for investigation after its photojournalist was among several people injured during a pogrom by settlers amid multiple attacks on olive pickers in villages in the occupied West Bank.

 

Iranian Negotiator Insists US Keep the Deal

October 15, 2026
Dave DeCamp
The Iranian Parliament speaker essentially asked the U.S. to fulfill its obligations under the agreement the two nations signed back in June, Dave DeCamp reports.

Trump’s war on Iran is poised to sink his party in the midterms

October 14, 2026
Michael Arria 

Trump's war on Iran is broadly unpopular among Americans, and it's poised to sink the GOP in the upcoming midterms

Social Security benefits will rise 3.6% in 2027, but that may not be enough to offset healthcare costs

October 14, 2026
Pankaj Agrrawal

Monthly checks for the nearly 76 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits will rise by 3.6% in 2027. The increase, announced on Oct. 14, 2026, is the largest since the one that took effect in 2023.

West’s death cult in a theater near you

October 14, 2026

Capitalism, fascism, wars, the Epstein class, endemic poverty and suffering – it’s a death cult in a theater near you.

 

پیشرفت تکنولوژی

یکی‌ از فوائد عصر کامپیوتر دسترسی به اطلاعات و اخبار است که گاهی‌ بطور رایگان توسط شرکت‌های غیر انتفاعی مانند ویکیپدیا در دسترس کسانی‌ که به آن اطلاعات علاقه دارند قرار می‌گیرد. بسیاری از آگاهی‌های تاریخی، همچون زیست‌نامه یا بیوگرافی‌، را می‌توان از این شبکه دریافت کرد. یکی‌ دیگر از شبکه‌های اینترنتی که کاربرد آن همواره رو به افزایش است، گوگل می‌باشد. با نوشتن یک واژه یا جمله در گوگل می‌توان اطلاعات وسیعی در مورد آن واژه یا جمله کسب کرد. گرچه گوگل یک شرکت انتفاعی است و درآمد آن از تبلیغات است، ولی‌ فردِ استفاده کننده از این تسهیلات به ندرت متوجهٔ آن تبلیغ می‌شود. هر دوی این شبکه‌ها را می‌توان قرن بیست و یکمی نامید، چرا که گوگل دو سال پیش از پایان قرن بیستم، و ویکیپدیا از نخستین سال این قرن با ما بوده‌ا‌ند. افرادی‌ که مطالب این دو شبکه را می‌نویسند متنوع و آگاه می‌باشند، بخصوص که مطالب هر دو این سازمان‌ها را می‌توان به چالش کشید. جالب اینجاست که بسیاری از شبکه‌های اینترنتی را می‌توان به چندین زبان که در دنیا مُحاوره می‌شوند، از جمله زبان فارسی، جستجو کرد.ا

Tehran condemns London's 'baseless' claim of 'Iranian involvement' in RAF Fairford incident

October 13, 2026

Tehran said it holds the UK fully responsible for all consequences of its ‘fabrications’ against Tehran

The Geopolitical Earthquake of the Iran War

October 12, 2026
John Feffer
The Iran War has claimed thousands of lives, most of them in Iran itself. The war has cost Iran as much as $300 billion in economic damage. For its part, the Pentagon spent nearly $44 billion through mid-September to wreak that amount of havoc. For advocates of the war—but no one else—that’s a good return on investment.

Trump’s Destruction of the National Security Process

October 12, 2026
Melvin Goodman
In 1947, the U.S. Congress passed the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency.  These institutions were often misused during the worst days of the Cold War and, more recently, in the Global War on Terror.  Nevertheless, there are historical records on the decision making that took place, and there were successes in such fields as arms control and disarmament as well as the building of national security alliances in Europe and Asia.

Hormuz attacks intensify as efforts to end war on Iran stall

October 11, 2026

IRGC warns against ignoring the ‘security and rules’ of the strategic waterway as US CENTCOM says it disabled vessel trying to run naval blockade.

Iran Retains Missile Production Capacity despite US-Israeli Strikes – Bloomberg

October 10, 2026

Western officials say Iran retains significant missile production capabilities despite months of US-Israeli attacks, contradicting Trump’s claims of military destruction.

Iran’s Theory of Victory

October 9, 2026
Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr

Tehran’s Fight for Great-Power Status in the Post-American Middle East

Is Iran poised to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty?

October 8, 2026
Wendy Ramadan-Alban

Opposition to the agreement now goes beyond the country’s most hardline element

Report: Trump Might Bomb Iran Before Midterms

October 7, 2026

According to The Atlantic, the White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up strike plans that could be carried out before the elections

Jewish, 94, and arrested for supporting Palestine Action: Margaret Owen on Ed Miliband and the right to protest

October 7, 2026
Katherine Hearst

Owen OBE, a friend of Miliband's late mother, was arrested at a vigil calling on Burnham's government to lift the ban on Palestine Action outside the party conference

دین و مذهب

 اکثر مردم دنیا باورهای دینی دارند، که البته این اعتقادات کلی‌ است و می‌تواند به شاخه‌های مختلف مذهبی‌ تقسیم شود.ا

‘Deranged and Dangerous’ Trump Decried for Inviting Iran to ‘Take Out’ California Cities

October 6, 2026
Julia Conley
“The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives,” said the mayor of Los Angeles.

US President Donald Trump gestures as he walks onstage to speak during a campaign rally at Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in GrandIsland, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/AFP via GettyImages)

US warships have ‘fled’ Strait of Hormuz – IRGC

October 5, 2026

A senior IRGC commander says US forces have retreated more than 1,000 km from Iranian waters, as the two countries remain locked in conflict

Iran will not reopen Strait of Hormuz until its conditions from June are met, Ghalibaf says

October 4, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until Iran meets seven conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.

FILE PHOTO: Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam Thursday, 10th September 2026, 09:00

Iraq secures US waiver restoring Iranian flights to Najaf

October 3, 2026

US sanctions on Iranian aviation closed a route used by about 40 Iranian flights daily before the ban

“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids

October 2, 2026
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents and witnesses in one of the most in-depth reports on the massacre to date. The bombing killed at least 156 people — 120 of the victims were children, 26 were teachers, and the rest were parents. A United Nations fact-finding mission recently concluded that the U.S. strike was a war crime, but the Trump administration has not yet even acknowledged U.S. responsibility.

Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost You Thousands

October 2, 2026
Amy Hanauer
Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else.

 

Marxian Ecology and the Critique of AI Capital

      October 1, 2026
In addressing Marxian ecology and the critique of the fetishism of so-called artificial intelligence or AI, it is important to place this in the context of the present age of accumulation under monopoly-finance capital. The rise of AI capital does not represent, as contemporary ideology would have us believe, a new, technologically determined, rationally organized capitalist system, to which it is useless to offer resistance.1 Rather, today’s alienated AI capital constitutes an irrational shift from order to disorder in human ecological and social relations on the local, global, and planetary levels. Not only does computational capitalism promise to disrupt the entire work environment, pointing to growing joblessness and increased exploitation, exacerbating class and imperial polarization on a global basis, but we are seeing, even more ominously, a further rupture in the human relation to the earth of which humanity is itself an emergent part.

 

Biospheric Boundaries wiith safe operating space - 2025. Illustration showing the crossing of seven of the nine planetary boundaries that constitute the safe operating space for humanity. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Boris Sakschewski and Levke Caesar et al., Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet, stockholmreslience.org.

Leaving Iraq while bombing Iran

October 1, 2026
Leon Hadar

America’s military withdrawal from Iraq is real; its disengagement from the Middle East is not

 
US troops are leaving Iraq, again. Image: X Screengrab