On March 11th, twelve days after the first American missiles hit Iran, Trump was asked in the Oval Office to explain why he had launched the largest US military operation since Iraq. He responded: "The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return... based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco is so involved, I thought they were going to attack us." He was referring to Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner had already rebutted the…
Abolfazl Dahanavi started volunteering with the Iranian Red Crescent when he was 16 years old. On April 4th, 2026, at age 20, he was killed by a US-Israeli airstrike in Mobarakeh County, Isfahan Province, while delivering humanitarian supplies to displaced families. He was the fourth Red Crescent volunteer killed in five weeks of war. Dr. Somayeh…
On April 3rd, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, call sign Dude 44, was shot down over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwest Iran by a shoulder-fired missile, less than 24 hours after CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper had told reporters that Iranian air defenses "had largely been…
On April 7th, 2026, Donald Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran brokered by Pakistan. He called Iran's 10-point proposal "a workable basis on which to negotiate" and wrote on "Truth" Social that "almost all of the various points of past…
At 8:06 AM Eastern time on April 7th, 2026, the President of the United States posted this to "Truth" Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and…
On Sunday, March 30th, 2026, the Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 48 to make death by hanging the mandatory default sentence for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who are convicted of killings classified as terrorism, a law championed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir that applies exclusively through military tribunals where the conviction rate is 99.74 percent and where confessions…
On March 11th, twelve days after the first American missiles hit Iran, Trump was asked in the Oval Office to explain why he had launched the largest US military operation since Iraq. He responded: "The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return... based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco is so involved, I thought they were going to attack us." He…
The S&P 500 closed out its fifth consecutive losing week on Friday, down 1.7% to 6,368.85, marking the worst weekly performance since the Iran war began on February 27th and the longest losing streak…
On the night of March 7th, 2026, Israeli warplanes struck four oil storage facilities ringing Tehran, a city of ten million people, igniting the Shahran oil depot in the northwest, the Aghdasieh oil…
The World Health Organization has independently verified 18 separate attacks on healthcare facilities in Iran since February 28th. The Iranian Red Crescent Society has documented damage to 77…
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation received over 200 complaints from service members at more than 50 military installations across every branch of the US armed forces in the first week of the…
On February 27th, 2026, one day after the third and final round of indirect nuclear talks between the United States and Iran concluded in Geneva, Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al-Busaidi…
On March 5th, 2026, one week into the war that President Trump launched against Iran without congressional authorization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the Strait of Hormuz…
On the morning of February 28th, 2026, roughly ten hours after President Trump authorized Operation Epic Fury and the United States began its bombing campaign against Iran, a Tomahawk cruise missile…
On the evening of March 13th, President Trump posted on his social media platform "Truth" Social that he had directed US Central Command to execute what he called "one of the most powerful bombing…