The USS Spruance fired. The Marines boarded. The Touska went quiet in the Gulf of Oman. And now, a nearly 900-foot Iranian cargo ship sits in U.S. military custody raising a legal question that American courts have not been asked to answer since the Civil War: can the United States keep it? The answer, legal…
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ISLAMABAD / TEHRAN / WASHINGTON – Eleven days ago, Iran’s 10-point peace framework was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough. Today it is being tested by threats and tensions its architects never fully neutralized and the gap between what the April 7 ceasefire announced and what it actually resolved is widening by the hour. The ceasefire…
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The six-hour standoff ended the same way Trump had promised it would. The USS Spruance fired several rounds from its 5-inch MK 45 naval gun directly into the engine room of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday disabling the vessel, stranding its crew, and triggering the most volatile single…
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TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON – The ceasefire was always one incident away from collapse. That incident has now happened. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval forces seized a commercial vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, claiming it was operating in violation of the $2 million per-tanker transit coordination protocol Iran’s parliament approved in March…
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KYIV / TEHRAN / WASHINGTON – Two wars. Two theaters. One revolution. The conflict in Ukraine and the US-Iran war of 2026 share no formal connection, no joint command structure, and no diplomatic coordination. But they share something more consequential: they are the two most drone-intensive military conflicts in recorded history, and the strategic lessons…
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The man Donald Trump appointed to oversee America’s fastest-growing financial frontier stood before Congress on Thursday and issued his starkest warning yet but critic Trump’s Predictions say the agency he leads may have a credibility problem it cannot regulate away. Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Trump administration’s point…
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It began with 900 strikes before breakfast. It ended with a phone call from Islamabad and 126 words on Truth Social. Between those two moments: 38 days, 1,497 deaths, $144 oil, a closed strait, and the most consequential geopolitical crisis of the 21st century. Here is the complete story. WASHINGTON / TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD Start…
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For 47 years, the United States dictated the terms to Iran. On April 7, 2026, Iran submitted a 10-point peace plan and the President of the United States said it was a reasonable starting point. Read that again slowly. ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON – Something historically extraordinary happened inside the April 7 ceasefire announcement and it…
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On the morning of April 5, 2026, Donald Trump posted a characteristically blunt warning on Truth Social: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.” Forty-eight hours later, the war paused. A…
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It has happened with China. With North Korea. With the Taliban. With Canada and Mexico. With tariffs. Now with Iran. Donald Trump runs the same four-step playbook every time and every time, the world acts surprised when it works. WASHINGTON:- Watch it long enough and the pattern becomes impossible to miss. Step one: set a…