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US forces struck Qeshm on November 2, unannounced, on the eve of the vote, and again on November 6. The White House says the ceasefire holds. The war voters punished was the loud one. The quiet one goes on...
Online speculation counts down to war on Iran. It is wrong on carriers, oil, Israel, uranium and Congress, and every error points toward war. Fikr Institute checks each claim and sets out the real decision points...
The vote produced two calendars: sixty days with a lame duck Congress and a president free of the ballot, then two years of divided government and the veto. The danger for Iran, the Gulf and Pakistan lies in the first...
Would a nuclear strike on Iran stay in Iran? US government scientists say an earth penetrator cannot contain the fallout, the only published model sends it into Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and winter winds over Iran blow eas…
AP found Iranian strikes damaged 26 sites holding US equipment across seven Arab states. Now Washington moves assets out of the Gulf, sends new air defence to Israel and tells its hosts to brace. The bases are American. The groun…
A tanker was hit with limpet mines in Hormuz two months after Washington declared the lanes clear. Washington, Tehran and an unconfirmed Iran and Oman deal now draw three maps of one strait. In the Black Sea, Türkiye kept outside…
Twice in this war, talks were set for the days the bombs fell: June 2025 and February 2026. Now Vance proposes talks for the week the Gulf has been told to brace. And the same Iranian official got the letter one day before the Sa…
Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish security chiefs met Iran in Tehran as Houthi missiles still fall on Riyadh. Netanyahu names a Shia axis and a Sunni axis as enemies. Both sat at one table, a day before Israel votes. Who loses if they…
