Pressure over the Strait of Hormuz is real – but letting Tehran dictate the agenda would be a strategic mistake.

After repeatedly condemning the US-Israeli war against Iran, propaganda outlets in Tehran have issued a public thank you to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. After calling the war in Gaza a “genocide,” Sánchez is stepping up his solidarity with the axis of evil.

American isolationists and Europe’s appeasers, as if they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, have turned the term “regime change” into a slur. In its place, the simpler and more accurate term should be used: “liberation.”

Rights groups warn over 100 protest detainees face death sentences as Tehran presses ahead with crackdown despite Israel-US war.

With less than a day left on Trump's 48-hour deadline, the Revolutionary Guards threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz completely and bomb energy facilities across the region – as Reza Pahlavi urged strikes on the regime's repression apparatus, not civilian infrastructure.