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Real-time updates on the US-Iran conflict

Monday, March 23, 2026
12:17ANALYSIS

Trump blinks on Iran power plant bluff — claims 'productive conversations' after his own deadline expires unanswered

Hours after his 48-hour ultimatum to 'obliterate' Iran's power plants expired with no action, Trump claimed the two nations were having 'very good and productive conversations' — a familiar pattern from a president who has declared victory at least four times while the Strait of Hormuz remains firmly under Iranian control.

Al Jazeera, CNBC, Bloomberg, Quinnipiac University Poll, NPR, CNN Fact Check, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNBC, S&P Global

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12:00BREAKING

Iran issues five-pronged counter-threat to Trump's Hormuz ultimatum — from strait closure to mining the entire Persian Gulf

Iran's military command, parliament, and state-linked media have issued a coordinated wave of counter-threats spanning complete Hormuz closure, regional infrastructure destruction, a published target list naming the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant, financial warfare against US Treasury bond holders, and mining all Persian Gulf access routes.

CBS News, Al Jazeera, PBS, AP, CNBC, Washington Post

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Sunday, March 22, 2026
12:00ANALYSIS

America's allies are burning — and Washington lit the match

An analysis of how the US war on Iran has turned Washington's own Gulf allies into collateral damage — with AWS data centers struck, Qatar's LNG capacity crippled for five years, Kuwait and Saudi refineries ablaze, and Israel's Dimona exposed. The cost of US unreliability is measured in decades.

Al Jazeera, CNBC, Fortune, Al Jazeera, PBS News, Rest of World, The Conversation, NPR

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12:00REPORT

The war that keeps winding down — Week Three of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran

Three weeks in, the US has spent upward of $31 billion, lost 13 service members, killed more than 3,100 Iranians, struck a nuclear facility, threatened to obliterate power plants, and deployed 2,500 more Marines. Trump says he is considering winding things down.

HRANA — Human Rights Activists News Agency, Al Jazeera, NPR, CNN, The Washington Post, Amnesty International, Military.com, IAEA via Washington Examiner, Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO), Bloomberg, CBS News

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06:00ANALYSIS

Shield cracked, truth censored — Israel's air defenses and information controls face reckoning as Iran's missiles reach Dimona

Twenty-three days into the US-Israel war on Iran, Israeli air defenses have failed to stop missiles from striking towns around the country's nuclear facility, killing civilians in Beit Shemesh and wounding hundreds — while a sophisticated censorship apparatus works to control what the world learns about these failures.

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, Semafor, The Intercept, CNN, Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Defence Security Asia, The Conversation, CBS News, Times of Israel, Reuters Institute, France 24, Eurasian Times

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Saturday, March 21, 2026
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
23:59ANALYSIS

Week Two of Epic Furry — From Succession to Kharg Island: Seven Days That Widened the War

The second week of Operation Epic Fury saw Iran appoint a new supreme leader under fire, US-Israeli strikes devastate UNESCO heritage sites in Isfahan, a KC-135 crash kill six American airmen, and the Kharg Island raid escalate a conflict that has now cost US taxpayers $16.5 billion — all without a single congressional vote.

NPR, Al Jazeera, The Art Newspaper, Al Jazeera, CBS News, Air & Space Forces Magazine, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, CNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera

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Saturday, March 7, 2026
12:00ANALYSIS

Week One of Operation Epic Fury -- the balance sheet nobody asked for

Seven days, $11.3 billion, at least 1,200 dead, a girls' school flattened, the Strait of Hormuz shut, and oil past $100 a barrel. A full accounting of what the first week of America's unauthorized war bought -- and what it cost.

CSIS, Al Jazeera, Amnesty International, CNN, NPR, Military.com, Human Rights Watch, Middle East Monitor, WarCosts, USNI News

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Saturday, February 28, 2026
04:00BREAKING

US and Israel launch 900 strikes on Iran in 12 hours — 175 girls dead at Minab school, one day after peace deal

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury — nearly 900 strikes across Iran in 12 hours, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and over 175 schoolgirls in Minab. The day before, Oman's foreign minister said a nuclear deal was "within reach." Congress never voted.

Pentagon — Operation Epic Fury Fact Sheet, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, CBS News — Oman FM Interview, Human Rights Watch, Al Jazeera — World Reacts, Amnesty International, PBS NewsHour — UN Chief Condemns

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