Real-time updates on the US-Iran conflict
A cold-eyed strategic assessment of the April 8 ceasefire reveals the US and Israel achieved devastating tactical strikes but failed every pre-war political objective, while Iran — battered, bleeding, and burying thousands — forced the world's most powerful military to the negotiating table by weaponizing the global economy.
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Days 31–37 of Operation Epstein Fury: Iran shoots down an F-15E over its territory, an A-10 and Chinook follow, two MC-130Js destroyed during a 36-hour rescue, and Trump calls the six-airframe loss a victory. Six US aircraft gone in three days — the worst week for US aviation losses of the war.
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Three competing Iran protests in one city on one day. The anti-war rally drew 1,200. The groups Western media actually platforms drew fractions of that. An independent report from the ground.
Read fullTrump's demand for Iran's "unconditional surrender" reveals a dangerous ignorance of a 3,000-year-old civilization whose literature, religion, and history make capitulation not just unlikely — but unthinkable.
Read fullAs Israel bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities and Trump threatens to destroy the power grid by April 6, Congress fails for the third time to assert war powers — while millions take to the streets demanding an end to the war nobody voted for.
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Unknown traders placed $580 million in oil bets and $1.5 billion in stock futures minutes before Trump announced a delay on Iran strikes. Bipartisan calls for investigation mount as enforcement agencies sit gutted.
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Under UN Resolution 3314, states that allow their territory to be used for attacks on another country are themselves aggressors. The Gulf states hosting U.S. bases used to bomb Iran meet that definition — making Iran's retaliatory strikes lawful self-defense.
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Twenty-four days into a war no one in Congress voted for, defense stocks have surged by tens of billions of dollars. RTX, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman shareholders gained up to $30 billion in a single trading day — while 1,500 Iranian civilians and 13 American service members are dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum on Truth Social demanding Iran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants. Iran responded by threatening to destroy all US and allied energy infrastructure across the region.
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Iran's IRGC says its air defense systems hit and "seriously damaged" a US F-35 fighter jet over central Iran. The fate of the aircraft remains unknown.
Read fullThe 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.
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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.
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A US Navy Tomahawk cruise missile destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, Iran on February 28, killing at least 168 people — mostly children aged 7 to 12. The Pentagon's own investigation confirmed responsibility, blaming 'outdated intelligence.' The school had been a civilian institution for over a decade.
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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.
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