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On Monday, Reuters reported that US intelligence estimates that Iran was one year away from a nuclear weapon have not changed much since after the June 2025 Iran war, despite the recent 2026 Iran war.
Latest proposal, derided by Tehran as a ‘wishlist’, could yet be a way out – but with 5,000 dead, it comes at an awful price
President Sheikh Mohamed met Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on the sidelines of the Make it in the Emirates summit in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
En la imagen, proporcionada por la Fundación Narges Mohammadi, aparece Narges Mohammadi posando para un retrato en Teherán, Irán, el 9 de febrero de 2025. (Nooshin Jafari/Fundación Narges Mohammadi vía AP)
With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – …
With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – …
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is currently in Beijing meeting with his Chinese counterpart, FM Wang Yi, and the timing of the visit sends a resounding message to Washington and the West. The highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting is still scheduled for next week, expected for May 14-15, though there has been …
France on Wednesday moved its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea in a bid to show the US and Iran it was willing to help solve the Hormuz crisis.
Late night hosts focused on Trump’s Iran war, the latest Maga AI meme and Cinco de Mayo celebrations
The global aviation shock triggered by the US-Israeli attack on Iran and resulting fuel shortages is a harbinger of even “more severe shocks” that will rock other sectors of the global economy, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has warned.
This photo provided by the Narges Mohammadi Foundation shows Narges Mohammadi posing for a portrait in Tehran, Iran on Feb. 9, 2025. (Nooshin Jafari/Narges Mohammadi Foundation via AP)
Oil prices are lower overnight (but dramatically off their lows) amid on-again, off-again optimism of an imminent US-Iran peace deal.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday called on the European Commission to activate the EU's Blocking Statute to shield the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations from US sanctions.
Wednesday saw yet another early morning Axios 'scoop' that within hours of being issued proved premature and too out front, given talk of Iran and the US being 'close' to a deal was quickly denied by Tehran and even President Trump quickly acknowledged it's "too soon" to plan peace talks with Iran.
Satellite imagery appears to show that the damage inflicted by Iran on US assets in the Middle East has been severely downplayed in previous reporting.
The deranged White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, may have been triggered by the Iran war when he stormed the event and allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump and other top administration officials, according to a new Department of Homeland Security intelligence report.
The Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 30, 2026, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced sharp partisan attacks from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other Democrats, underscored a troubling reality: the politicization of national security.
Iran has continued its attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, despite a recent visit by Iraq’s new prime minister to the capital of the Kurdistan Region. Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi held meetings with the Kurdistan Region’s officials on May 2.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, as efforts to broker a peace deal between Tehran and Washington pick up pace amid the United States president’s announcement of a pause on attempts to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz.
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to reach a peace agreement with the United States, warning of bombing at a "much higher level and intensity" if Tehran refuses to strike a deal.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face renewed, more intense US bombing, in the latest of a series of abrupt policy shifts.
WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormu…
Islamabad/Washington/Tel Aviv: The United States and Iran are closing in on an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the war in the Gulf, a source from mediator Pakistan and another source briefed on the mediation said.
Hadley Kerr, left, and Morgan Anthony hold pieces of tank-grown kelp Friday, March 13, 2026, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass. (Ana Georgescu/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)
The leader of a pro-Iran militia in Iraq has rejected American demands to disband, a day after the US placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
Pontiff responds after US president accuses him of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with stance on Iran war
Safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz will be ensured as the United States threats end and with new procedures in place, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, after the US said it was pausing operations to help stranded ships pass through the waterway.
Last week, the White House’s official rapid response account on X posted a graphic from a pro-Israel think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), alongside text falsely claiming that Tehran’s uranium enrichment accelerated due to the loosening of sanctions under former United States President Joe Biden.
A fire broke out on Tuesday in a multi-storey commercial building in Andisheh, located in Iran’s Tehran province, killing at least eight people and injuring 41 others.
Oil prices slumped more than 10 per cent on Wednesday after reports that the US and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war that has strangled a fifth of global oil and gas supplies.
US equity futures are up big this morning and making fresh all time highs, led by tech companies, while oil prices and bond yields fell sharply on optimism that the US and Iran are nearing a peace deal. As of 8:00am Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 1.7% while those for the S&P 500 gained 1%, with both gauges set to build o…
WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post Wednesday morning it is “too soon” to start thinking about face-to-face peace talks between the US and Iran, despite optimistic reports the two nations were closing in on a potential framework to end their 67-day war.
Islamabad, Pakistan – On Monday morning, the United States Navy began escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. By Tuesday afternoon, the operation had been paused.
Mehdi Taj, who turned back from Canadian border over ‘disrespectful treatment’, says the assurance is needed for the team to take part
Mehdi Taj, who turned back from Canadian border over ‘disrespectful treatment’, says the assurance is needed for the team to take part
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Iran will be bombed "at a much higher level" if they don't agree to a peace deal.
A majority of Jewish Israelis think ending the war with Iran under current conditions is against their country’s interests, widening a rift with an international community favouring a permanent ceasefire.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC) said on Wednesday that with US threats coming to an end, "safe and stable" transit through the Strait of Hormuz will be ensured.
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Iranian air strikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 US structures or equipments across the region since the start of the war in late February, the Washington Post reported.
Hormuz 'bottleneck' puts uneven pressure on Gulf economies and global oil
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s diplomatic role in the Iran war has come into sharper focus following talks between Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
The US Department of Homeland Security identified the US-Israeli war with Iran as a potential motive for the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration at a White House reporters' gala last month, according to an intelligence report sent to state and loca…
US President Donald Trump has said Washington will temporarily halt a military operation aimed at guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing a potential breakthrough in a deal with Iran.
Lutnick has acknowledged he visited Epstein’s island with his family in 2012 after earlier claiming he severed ties in 2005
By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai Club
By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai Club
Iran has officially launched a new mechanism to oversee maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz amid a lingering standoff with the US over the strategic waterway, state outlet Press TV reported on Tuesday.
Iran has officially launched a new mechanism to oversee maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz amid a lingering standoff with the US over the strategic waterway, state outlet Press TV reported on Tuesday.
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