Category: Iran
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American strikes have killed five members of the IRGC Aerospace Force in Kermanshah — a city about a thousand kilometres from the Strait of Hormuz. The target set is widening from the units at the strait to the organisation behind them.
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US Central Command says it struck three Iranian oil tankers on Friday after the Revolutionary Guard fired at two American navy vessels. Tankers are not bases: they carry civilian crews from countries with no part in this.
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Blasts were heard near Kharg Island this morning. One Iranian agency says the origin is unknown and no smoke was visible; another says the US hit a tanker. Nobody has confirmed anything — which is the story worth understanding.
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Washington says talks require Iran to stop attacking ships. Tehran says it will stop when the strikes stop. Each is asking the other to surrender its only leverage first, and calling that a precondition.
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Iran says it struck US bases in Kuwait and the UAE overnight; Jordan says it intercepted ten of thirteen missiles. Nobody was killed. The exchanges have settled into a pattern that depends on interceptors working every time.
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Iran says it struck US bases in Kuwait and the UAE, and puts the civilian toll from Tuesday’s American strikes at 18 dead. The Iranian Red Crescent has asked the ICC to act over a strike on a wedding in Sirik. Here is what the court can actually do.
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CENTCOM struck IRGC air defence, radar, communications and mine-laying targets in southern Iran on Tuesday. The target list suggests something other than a one-off retaliation — and reporting beforehand described a plan for periodic strikes.
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Vegetable oil in Iran costs 383 per cent more than a year ago and the currency is collapsing. Why an imported staple is the fastest read on a currency crisis, and the long argument about who economic pressure actually reaches.
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US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island after spotting preparations to fire sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Iran answered with ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan.
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Iran’s foreign minister says US officials are gaming energy markets for personal gain and keeping the president in a losing war. No evidence was published, no names given. Why the claim is worth reporting anyway — and how to read it.