Trump Claimed To Destroy Iran’s Largest Bridge. What’s Next?
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Trump claimed responsibility for destroying Iran’s largest bridge, a day after he threatened to bomb the country “back to the stone ages” if a deal to end the five-week-long war he started was not reached.
The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke.
Eight people were killed and 95 wounded, according to Karaj, Iran’s state media. The middle of the bridge was struck twice. Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects.
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again,” the US president posted on the Truth Social website, and he warned there would be “much more to follow” if a settlement was not reached.
It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage.
A day earlier, in a primetime speech Trump had declared the war the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28 February was a success “nearing completion”, and that the US would “very shortly” achieve nearly all its strategic objectives.
But in his White House address, the president also repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, potentially cutting off electricity to millions of people.
“We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said. He doubled down on that threat in a social media post after the bridge strike.
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Trump claimed responsibility for destroying Iran’s largest bridge, a day after he threatened to bomb the country “back to the stone ages” if a deal to end the five-week-long war he started was not reached.
The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke.
Eight people were killed and 95 wounded, according to Karaj, Iran’s state media. The middle of the bridge was struck twice. Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects.
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again,” the US president posted on the Truth Social website, and he warned there would be “much more to follow” if a settlement was not reached.
It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage.
A day earlier, in a primetime speech Trump had declared the war the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28 February was a success “nearing completion”, and that the US would “very shortly” achieve nearly all its strategic objectives.
But in his White House address, the president also repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, potentially cutting off electricity to millions of people.
“We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said. He doubled down on that threat in a social media post after the bridge strike.
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The attack on the bridge was one of several confirmed attacks in Iran this week, despite the difficulty of getting unsanctioned information out of the country, where the internet has been shut down by the authorities.
Footage of a major strike earlier this week on a missile base in the city of Isfahan was confirmed on Thursday as genuine, with fiery plumes and secondary explosions filmed from a nearby car, whose driver expresses surprise at the scale of the attack.
Isfahan is also where Iran is thought to have moved some or all of its 440kg stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, which in theory could be used to make 10 nuclear bombs if it could be enriched to 90% if Tehran still had the technology available.
There has been speculation in the US that Trump has considered a high-risk airborne raid to seize the radioactive material from its underground storage – though the president said late on Wednesday that it was buried so deeply that “I don’t care”.
Though most observers took Trump at his word, the US president has in the past engaged in misdirection. On 28 February, the US and Israel attacked and killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several associates at a point when negotiations over a new nuclear deal were thought to bear fruit.
Iran also said the Pasteur medical institute in Tehran was hit on Thursday. Israel said it had struck a headquarters used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to finance armed proxies across the Middle East the day before.
Iran said it would conduct “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks in the future. The war would continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters.
Iran, however, has suffered far more than the US and Israel, in more than 15,000 bombing raids since the start of the war.
At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of the war, according to a rough estimate by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Oil prices jumped by 7% a barrel to $108 as there appeared to be no immediate sign of the conflict ending.
Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications as he called for an end to the fighting.
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Trump Took Umbrage With Tehran: Who Will Hang Tough?
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With its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz now in place, Washington faces the twin challenge of maintaining it in the face of domestic and global pressures, and of convincing Tehran that—despite the stop-and-go nature of US action so far in the war—it has the intestinal fortitude to do so.
To be sure, the United States has the military resources to impose devastating costs on Iran’s economy, which was already teetering before the war began in late February and which continues to decline.
The question is whether Washington can withstand the blowback at home and abroad.
At home, Americans have increasingly soured on the economy, the war with Iran is ever-more unpopular, Trump’s poll numbers are sinking, and the upcoming midterm elections could well cost Republicans their congressional majority.
A continuing blockade and the higher gas prices it could bring would likely increase political pressure on Trump to end the conflict before Washington has achieved its goals.
Abroad, no Western ally has yet answered the president’s request to help with the blockade, regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia is urging him to reverse course to reduce the risk that Iran will “disrupt other important shipping routes” through which Riyadh exports oil, and he’s feuding over the war not only with allies but also with such influential figures as Pope Leo XIV, thereby risking support from “crucial Catholic swing voters.”
The Islamic Republic is clearly vulnerable. Before the war, as a result of decades of economic mismanagement and global sanctions, inflation in the Islamic Republic was approaching 70 % while the rial had lost 80 % of its value over the last decade.
Now, by preventing all ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports, the US blockade can prohibit Iran’s regime from exporting oil or importing gasoline, deny it the funds to finance its terrorist proxies, and prevent China and Russia from supplying it with missiles.
With more than 90 % of its trade passing through the Persian Gulf, the stranglehold on exports and imports could cost Tehran an estimated $435 million per day, or $13 billion per month, in “economic damage.”
But will Washington hang tough? Tehran may be skeptical, given a half-century of US-Iranian relations, shifting American goals during the war, and early signals from the White House about the nature of the blockade.
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With its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz now in place, Washington faces the twin challenge of maintaining it in the face of domestic and global pressures, and of convincing Tehran that—despite the stop-and-go nature of US action so far in the war—it has the intestinal fortitude to do so.
To be sure, the United States has the military resources to impose devastating costs on Iran’s economy, which was already teetering before the war began in late February and which continues to decline.
The question is whether Washington can withstand the blowback at home and abroad.
At home, Americans have increasingly soured on the economy, the war with Iran is ever-more unpopular, Trump’s poll numbers are sinking, and the upcoming midterm elections could well cost Republicans their congressional majority.
A continuing blockade and the higher gas prices it could bring would likely increase political pressure on Trump to end the conflict before Washington has achieved its goals.
Abroad, no Western ally has yet answered the president’s request to help with the blockade, regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia is urging him to reverse course to reduce the risk that Iran will “disrupt other important shipping routes” through which Riyadh exports oil, and he’s feuding over the war not only with allies but also with such influential figures as Pope Leo XIV, thereby risking support from “crucial Catholic swing voters.”
The Islamic Republic is clearly vulnerable. Before the war, as a result of decades of economic mismanagement and global sanctions, inflation in the Islamic Republic was approaching 70 % while the rial had lost 80 % of its value over the last decade.
Now, by preventing all ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports, the US blockade can prohibit Iran’s regime from exporting oil or importing gasoline, deny it the funds to finance its terrorist proxies, and prevent China and Russia from supplying it with missiles.
With more than 90 % of its trade passing through the Persian Gulf, the stranglehold on exports and imports could cost Tehran an estimated $435 million per day, or $13 billion per month, in “economic damage.”
But will Washington hang tough? Tehran may be skeptical, given a half-century of US-Iranian relations, shifting American goals during the war, and early signals from the White House about the nature of the blockade.
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Once again, Washington and Tehran are at the negotiating table over the latter’s nuclear pursuits, just as they were under Presidents George Bush, Obama, and Biden.
That could bolster Iranian hopes that, once again, they will be able to drag out talks, outsmart US negotiators, and cut a deal that keeps their nuclear infrastructure in place—especially with Trump facing all the domestic and international pressures mentioned above.
While Iranian intransigence at the recent talks in Islamabad convinced Washington to impose the blockade, Trump said talks will likely resume in the coming days, and both sides are preparing for a second round.
Tehran clearly knows what it wants—to maintain its nuclear program one way or the other—but the same may not be true about Washington.
The president previously demanded that Iran scrap its nuclear program altogether and “commit never to pursue nuclear weapons.” But, in Islamabad, the two sides were haggling over the length of a time-limited “suspension” of nuclear activity.
Now, the president has disavowed the US offer and reiterated his maximalist demand. This sort of fluctuation could further buoy Iranian confidence.
As for the blockade, Tehran may have reason to wonder about America’s staying power and the practical difficulties of patrolling the seas. US Naval forces are reportedly enforcing the blockade not in the Strait but in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, which “reduces the risk of Iranian attacks against the US Navy” but leaves “all the energy infrastructure in the Gulf…vulnerable.”
US military officials say no ships from Iranian ports moved through the blockade in the first 24 hours, but reports suggest that some Iran-linked ships, including a US-sanctioned Chinese tanker, passed through the Strait despite the blockade.
Whether Washington will risk a military confrontation with Beijing, especially as Trump prepares to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, is an open question.
Moreover, maintaining the blockade may prove challenging even without the risk of such a confrontation. To avoid detection, ships are starting to go dark or falsify their origin or destination—as Russia has done to great effect with its “shadow fleet” following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions.
To be clear, an effective US blockade over time would severely cripple, if not destroy, Iran’s increasingly troubled economy. But the blockade will impose some costs on the United States as well.
So, who will hang tough, Washington or Tehran?
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🚢Hormuz Never Fully Closed. It Was Filtered.
From April 13 to April 21, about 10.7 million barrels of Iranian crude still moved through the strait, according to Vortexa. The flow included 35 transits involving Iranian or sanctioned-linked vessels, with 19 tankers leaving the Gulf, 15 entering toward Iran, and exported cargo worth roughly $910 million.
That matters because the corridor was not shut. It was narrowed, priced, and selectively managed.
The U.S. was not sealing Hormuz itself. It was operating across a wider maritime belt stretching up to 300 miles between the Iran-Pakistan border and Oman’s western boundary.
Iran’s tanker network adapted by using disabled transponders and shadow-fleet methods to keep part of the oil stream alive.
This is what modern blockade looks like. Not total stoppage. Controlled friction.
Enough pressure to raise the cost, not enough control to stop every barrel. Iran did not preserve normal trade. It preserved sanctioned trade under concealment.
The result is simple: Washington can choke throughput. Tehran can still monetize opacity.
The strait stays open on paper and contested in practice.
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From April 13 to April 21, about 10.7 million barrels of Iranian crude still moved through the strait, according to Vortexa. The flow included 35 transits involving Iranian or sanctioned-linked vessels, with 19 tankers leaving the Gulf, 15 entering toward Iran, and exported cargo worth roughly $910 million.
That matters because the corridor was not shut. It was narrowed, priced, and selectively managed.
The U.S. was not sealing Hormuz itself. It was operating across a wider maritime belt stretching up to 300 miles between the Iran-Pakistan border and Oman’s western boundary.
Iran’s tanker network adapted by using disabled transponders and shadow-fleet methods to keep part of the oil stream alive.
This is what modern blockade looks like. Not total stoppage. Controlled friction.
Enough pressure to raise the cost, not enough control to stop every barrel. Iran did not preserve normal trade. It preserved sanctioned trade under concealment.
The result is simple: Washington can choke throughput. Tehran can still monetize opacity.
The strait stays open on paper and contested in practice.
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Israel Shelled Military Bases In the South of Lebanon, Army Trundled Forward
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Netanyahu has instructed the Israeli military to bomb the southern suburbs of Beirut, the most serious escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon since a supposed ceasefire was announced on 17 April.
The Israeli prime minister and his defence minister, Katz, said on Monday they had given instructions to strike “terrorist targets” in the southern suburbs for what they called “repeated and ongoing violations of the ceasefire by Hezbollah”.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has not stopped despite the 17 April ceasefire, and Israeli strikes have killed more than 800 people in Lebanon since its announcement.
Hezbollah has targeted Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, and in recent days, launched rockets towards northern Israel.
The ceasefire was previously understood to exempt Beirut from Israeli strikes, though Israel has struck the southern suburbs twice in what is still a reduction from the daily bombing of the capital before 17 April.
People began to leave the southern suburbs minutes after Netanyahu’s statement, with roads leading out of the area choked with cars.
The displacement was a familiar one; residents there have been forced out of their homes several times over the last three months.
because of Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, as well as the dozens of forced evacuation orders the Israeli military has placed on towns and villages across Lebanon.
On Sunday, the Israeli military captured the medieval Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, the deepest it has reached since its 18-year occupation of the region ended in 2000. It also bombarded Tyre, levelling entire buildings in some of the most violent airstrikes yet on the southern city.
“Now my directive is to deepen and expand our hold in places that were under Hezbollah’s control,” Netanyahu said in a statement released after the capture of the castle. “We have returned united, determined and stronger than ever.”
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Netanyahu has instructed the Israeli military to bomb the southern suburbs of Beirut, the most serious escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon since a supposed ceasefire was announced on 17 April.
The Israeli prime minister and his defence minister, Katz, said on Monday they had given instructions to strike “terrorist targets” in the southern suburbs for what they called “repeated and ongoing violations of the ceasefire by Hezbollah”.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has not stopped despite the 17 April ceasefire, and Israeli strikes have killed more than 800 people in Lebanon since its announcement.
Hezbollah has targeted Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, and in recent days, launched rockets towards northern Israel.
The ceasefire was previously understood to exempt Beirut from Israeli strikes, though Israel has struck the southern suburbs twice in what is still a reduction from the daily bombing of the capital before 17 April.
People began to leave the southern suburbs minutes after Netanyahu’s statement, with roads leading out of the area choked with cars.
The displacement was a familiar one; residents there have been forced out of their homes several times over the last three months.
because of Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, as well as the dozens of forced evacuation orders the Israeli military has placed on towns and villages across Lebanon.
On Sunday, the Israeli military captured the medieval Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, the deepest it has reached since its 18-year occupation of the region ended in 2000. It also bombarded Tyre, levelling entire buildings in some of the most violent airstrikes yet on the southern city.
“Now my directive is to deepen and expand our hold in places that were under Hezbollah’s control,” Netanyahu said in a statement released after the capture of the castle. “We have returned united, determined and stronger than ever.”
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Hezbollah remained defiant, announcing operations on Sunday against what it said were Israeli soldiers stationed outside Beaufort castle.
The Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah blamed the Lebanese government for the escalation on Sunday, saying it “has proven the failure of the direct negotiation option”.
The current conflict began in March, after Hezbollah fired rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s supreme leader. Since then, more than 3,300 people, including children and first responders, have been killed in Lebanon.
Hezbollah strikes since 2 March have killed two people in Israel and more than 20 soldiers and one contractor in southern Lebanon.
The prime minister, Nawaf Salam, on Saturday accused Israel of “implementing a policy of total destruction of cities and towns”.
Netanyahu has called the capture of Beaufort castle a “dramatic shift” in the campaign against Hezbollah. Israeli forces used the castle, also known as Qalaat al-Shaqif, as a base during their occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000.
The castle offers views across Lebanon and into northern Israel. It was built as a crusader castle around the 12th century and later occupied by Saladin’s Jerusalem army, the Ottomans, the French and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Some experts have questioned the strategic significance of the capture, and said it amounted to little more than a public relations coup.
The military’s presence there would not solve the issue with Hezbollah, Orna Mizrahi, a former deputy director in Israel’s national security council, told the Associated Press.
“We are damaging them in the operations, but in parallel we need to pursue a political and diplomatic solution,” Mizrahi said.
Talks between senior officials from Israel and Lebanon began in April in Washington, the first in more than three decades between the countries, which have no formal diplomatic relations. Those discussions were scheduled to continue this week. Hezbollah is not taking part and has said it will not accept any results.
Israel’s latest advance and the continuing violence in Lebanon present a challenge in efforts to secure a lasting peace agreement between the US and Iran. Tehran has continued to insist that any agreement to extend the current ceasefire with Washington and return shipping to the strait of Hormuz must include an end to fighting in Lebanon.
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Iran or Trump: Who Did Scuttle a Peace Deal?
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Iran has indicated it will suspend peace talks with the US in protest against Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, threatening the collapse of negotiations with Washington as the two sides skirmished amid a faltering ceasefire.
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said “unequivocal violation of the ceasefire on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts” and the US and Israel would be held responsible.
A news agency aligned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Tehran was suspending its participation in talks designed to end the blockade of the strait of Hormuz.
Trump has said the US was not yet informed of Iran suspending talks but suggested he was not opposed to a halt in negotiations.
“I think we’ve been talking too much, if you want to know the truth,” the US president told NBC News. “I think going silent would be very good, and that could be for a long time.”
The US would not begin another military escalation immediately if negotiations fell through, Trump added, but would maintain its blockade on Iranian ports. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to go and start dropping bombs all over there,” he said. “We’ll just go silent. We’ll keep the blockade. [The] blockade is a piece of steel.”
The apparent collapse of talks followed the US hitting Iranian radar and drone sites at the weekend and Tehran on Monday saying it had countered by targeting a military base in Kuwait that it claimed was involved in the US operation.
Trump last week said the US was ready to lift its blockade on Iranian ports as part of a peace deal with Iran that never materialised.
Iran’s suspension of talks indicates the anger in Tehran over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, which threatened to intensify on Monday as Israel issued evacuation orders for residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iran’s military central command warned residents of northern Israel to leave in the event that Israel carried out attacks on Beirut or its southern suburbs. Kuwait has advised all citizens to stay indoors due to an imminent likely attack.
The Iranian army warned that if Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with the bombing of Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut, or the city, then residents of northern Israel and military targets elsewhere inside Israel would be attacked.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said Tehran would ask the Houthis in northern Yemen to mount a second shipping blockade in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The tension has led to the oil price to rise once again reaching close to $100 a barrel.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator and speaker of parliament, said the US blockade of Iranian ports and Israeli actions in Lebanon were “clear evidence of US non-compliance” with the ceasefire. “Every choice has a price, and the bill comes due. It will all fall into place,” he added.
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Iran has indicated it will suspend peace talks with the US in protest against Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, threatening the collapse of negotiations with Washington as the two sides skirmished amid a faltering ceasefire.
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said “unequivocal violation of the ceasefire on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts” and the US and Israel would be held responsible.
A news agency aligned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Tehran was suspending its participation in talks designed to end the blockade of the strait of Hormuz.
Trump has said the US was not yet informed of Iran suspending talks but suggested he was not opposed to a halt in negotiations.
“I think we’ve been talking too much, if you want to know the truth,” the US president told NBC News. “I think going silent would be very good, and that could be for a long time.”
The US would not begin another military escalation immediately if negotiations fell through, Trump added, but would maintain its blockade on Iranian ports. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to go and start dropping bombs all over there,” he said. “We’ll just go silent. We’ll keep the blockade. [The] blockade is a piece of steel.”
The apparent collapse of talks followed the US hitting Iranian radar and drone sites at the weekend and Tehran on Monday saying it had countered by targeting a military base in Kuwait that it claimed was involved in the US operation.
Trump last week said the US was ready to lift its blockade on Iranian ports as part of a peace deal with Iran that never materialised.
Iran’s suspension of talks indicates the anger in Tehran over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, which threatened to intensify on Monday as Israel issued evacuation orders for residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iran’s military central command warned residents of northern Israel to leave in the event that Israel carried out attacks on Beirut or its southern suburbs. Kuwait has advised all citizens to stay indoors due to an imminent likely attack.
The Iranian army warned that if Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with the bombing of Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut, or the city, then residents of northern Israel and military targets elsewhere inside Israel would be attacked.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said Tehran would ask the Houthis in northern Yemen to mount a second shipping blockade in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The tension has led to the oil price to rise once again reaching close to $100 a barrel.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator and speaker of parliament, said the US blockade of Iranian ports and Israeli actions in Lebanon were “clear evidence of US non-compliance” with the ceasefire. “Every choice has a price, and the bill comes due. It will all fall into place,” he added.
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The US and Iran have exchanged strikes since their planned ceasefire took effect in early April. The on-off diplomacy appeared to have reached the point of a deal on Friday only for Trump to pull back, demanding revisions to the outline agreement.
In a sign of European concern that the ceasefire may be on the verge of the collapse, Macron, spoke on Sunday to Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as to Trump and almost every major Arab leader. He urged them to recognise the necessity of a ceasefire in Lebanon and for the strait of Hormuz to be reopened to resume the transit of oil.
Macron suggested Europe could help provide expertise for the talks on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme.
In remarks that will infuriate those that believe an agreement on the strait is urgent for the world economy, Trump in a social media post told Americans: “Just sit back and relax. It will work out in the end. It always does.”
The president is under pressure from his own side to show the war has ended Iran’s nuclear programme, even if it did not end the country’s regime. He has come close to admitting the attack on Iran was a mistake.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, defended its strikes on US-linked military facilities, arguing that countries hosting bases used in attacks against Iran could not evade responsibility.
He said chaos in Washington was producing contradictory negotiating positions and insisted Iran would defer any discussions on its nuclear programme until after the strait had been opened.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, urged Oman not to give into US threats, adding “it is in the country’s interests to cooperate with the systems considered by Iran because the cost of providing maritime services is much less than the cost of wartime insurance and there is no plan for stoppages, inspection or seizure”.
A 14-point memorandum of understanding struck by negotiators proposes a ceasefire for 60 days while talks continue over Iran’s nuclear programme.
Pezeshkian has been sending out repeated messages that Iran needs to be prepared for difficult economic times, with inflation at 53.9% on an annualised basis.
Trump has said a key aim in the war was to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon with its highly enriched uranium. Tehran has consistently denied it had plans to do that.
The president appears increasingly isolated as his military venture edges toward an outcome that many analysts view as a strategic setback.
He is under pressure to reopen the strait of Hormuz and get US fuel costs down before the November congressional elections, as voters show increasing frustration over rising prices. At the same time, he faces a potential backlash from Iran hawks in his own party over concessions to Tehran.
The two sides remain at odds on several other issues, such as Tehran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions and the release of tens of billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenues frozen in foreign banks.
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Israel and Iran: the War Is Put On Hold
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Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday as Israel and Iran said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.
Netanyahu acknowledged the halt in fighting with Iran in a televised speech, but vowed to respond “with force” to future attacks.
“At present, the fire on this front has been halted, because after the terrorist regime in Tehran was struck, it stopped attacking us,” Netanyahu said. “If that terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.”
The recent wave of Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel and retaliatory strikes by Israeli warplanes on Iran marked the most direct confrontation since an April ceasefire.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
Any new “ceasefire within the ceasefire” is very fragile, analysts say, with multiple flashpoints that could lead to fresh exchanges of strikes and missile barrages at any moment.
Israeli officials have rejected repeated Iranian efforts to link any definitive ceasefire to Israel stopping its offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has close ties with Tehran.
On Monday, Israel’s defence minister said Israel would continue to operate against Hezbollah in Lebanon and strike Beirut if the militant Islamist movement attacked Israel.
“Any Iranian attempt to link Lebanon and Iran and attack Israel will be met with great force, as happened yesterday,” Israel Katz said.
Iran also remained defiant. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and most senior negotiator, said on Monday that Tehran would not tolerate what it called “repeated violation”.
“So long as you lack a genuine willingness to build trust, Iran’s response will remain the same,” he posted on X.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenity-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call last week.
The US website reported on Monday Trump’s claims that he had again scolded Netanyahu.
“I said: ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,’” he was quoted as saying.
However, the Israeli prime minister faces an election later this year and is under domestic pressure to continue efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to attack Israel.
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Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday as Israel and Iran said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.
Netanyahu acknowledged the halt in fighting with Iran in a televised speech, but vowed to respond “with force” to future attacks.
“At present, the fire on this front has been halted, because after the terrorist regime in Tehran was struck, it stopped attacking us,” Netanyahu said. “If that terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.”
The recent wave of Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel and retaliatory strikes by Israeli warplanes on Iran marked the most direct confrontation since an April ceasefire.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
Any new “ceasefire within the ceasefire” is very fragile, analysts say, with multiple flashpoints that could lead to fresh exchanges of strikes and missile barrages at any moment.
Israeli officials have rejected repeated Iranian efforts to link any definitive ceasefire to Israel stopping its offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has close ties with Tehran.
On Monday, Israel’s defence minister said Israel would continue to operate against Hezbollah in Lebanon and strike Beirut if the militant Islamist movement attacked Israel.
“Any Iranian attempt to link Lebanon and Iran and attack Israel will be met with great force, as happened yesterday,” Israel Katz said.
Iran also remained defiant. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and most senior negotiator, said on Monday that Tehran would not tolerate what it called “repeated violation”.
“So long as you lack a genuine willingness to build trust, Iran’s response will remain the same,” he posted on X.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenity-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call last week.
The US website reported on Monday Trump’s claims that he had again scolded Netanyahu.
“I said: ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,’” he was quoted as saying.
However, the Israeli prime minister faces an election later this year and is under domestic pressure to continue efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to attack Israel.
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Israel’s recent attacks on Iran included a strike on an Iranian petrochemical complex. The Israeli military said it had also struck and dismantled Iran’s defence systems deployed across several areas in the country. Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran.
Iran’s military headquarters said it had “delivered a painful response” to Israel for its attacks on Lebanon, including Sunday’s strikes on the outskirts of Beirut.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted two military bases in Israel. An Iranian missile fragment caused damage to several homes in a West Bank settlement, but no injuries were reported.
The new violence has also complicated Trump’s push to end the war, launched by the US and Israel on 28 February with strikes that killed the then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A ceasefire announced two months ago paused all-out warfare though sporadic clashes in the Gulf have continued.
In one of a flurry of social media posts, Trump on Monday said Israel and Iran both wanted “an immediate CEASEFIRE! Final negotiations on ‘Peace’ are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.”
He added that a US blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place until a final deal was reached.
Iran also threatened to expand the conflict further, with potentially disastrous consequences for the world economy.
The Houthis, the Yemen-based militia movement with close ties to Tehran, pledged in a statement to stop Israel’s maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and said they had also fired missiles at Israel in recent days.
Israel invaded Lebanon in March after Hezbollah fired across the border in solidarity with Tehran at the beginning of the current war. More than 3,500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, while Hezbollah has killed at least 29 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and three Israeli civilians.
On Monday night, Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on the southern city of Tyre had killed five people and injured eight, four of whom were Red Cross paramedics.
Tehran also wants to postpone any detailed discussions about how Iran might assure the US it is not seeking a nuclear weapon, such as by down-blending its highly enriched uranium stockpile.
Iranian negotiators have been under internal pressure from a small but vocal group of hardliners in the parliament to abandon the talks altogether.
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Trump Has Taken a Tumble In a Tug of War With Iran
U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.
Trump posted that the deal with Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week.
But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in the coming days."
Iran's Fars news agency citing an informed source said on Sunday that Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of its political, legal and technical aspects still ongoing at expert and decision-making levels.
Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has blocked, would immediately be "open to all."
Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a key rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards.
While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has only entrenched the dominance of the hardline Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state institutions.
Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war.
Israel, which says it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Saturday that it had struck more than 70 sites over a 24-hour period in Lebanon against Iranian ally Hezbollah.
Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi said on Friday that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict.
Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the release of the frozen assets was an integral part of the agreement and that Tehran would have to charge for services in the strait, Fars news agency reported.
But a U.S. official said, "Iran is going to open up the Strait of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade."
Iran's nuclear program would be addressed during a 60-day period of talks. A U.S. official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed.
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U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.
Trump posted that the deal with Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week.
But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in the coming days."
Iran's Fars news agency citing an informed source said on Sunday that Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of its political, legal and technical aspects still ongoing at expert and decision-making levels.
Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has blocked, would immediately be "open to all."
Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a key rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards.
While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has only entrenched the dominance of the hardline Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state institutions.
Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war.
Israel, which says it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Saturday that it had struck more than 70 sites over a 24-hour period in Lebanon against Iranian ally Hezbollah.
Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi said on Friday that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict.
Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the release of the frozen assets was an integral part of the agreement and that Tehran would have to charge for services in the strait, Fars news agency reported.
But a U.S. official said, "Iran is going to open up the Strait of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade."
Iran's nuclear program would be addressed during a 60-day period of talks. A U.S. official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed.
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📰 Hormuz, Inc.: Trump’s 60-Day Peace Sale
Trump didn’t end the Iran war, he moved it to the small print and called it Versailles.
On live TV, flanked by Emmanuel Macron and Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, he signs an “interim peace deal” and blurts out his real doctrine in two words: “Oil down.” This isn’t about nukes, law or security. It’s about getting Brent off the front page before the midterms and pretending that’s grand strategy.
The memorandum turns the Strait of Hormuz into a 60-day promotional offer. Iran reopens the chokepoint, promises “no charge for 60 days only,” clears mines on its own timeline, and instantly gets to restart oil exports under fresh US sanctions waivers.
In return, Washington gets a fragile ceasefire and a “complex” 60‑day negotiation window over the nuclear program that everyone knows is technically impossible to solve in two months and conveniently extendable if the politics demand it.
On paper, it’s about “international law” and “sovereign rights of coastal states.” In reality, it’s Tehran proving it can close and reopen the world’s most important energy artery at will — while the same White House that once swore to crush the regime now scrambles to get Saudi supertankers through the gate.
Six million barrels finally slip past Hormuz and the West calls it peace, instead of admitting it just paid ransom in slow motion.
Trump sells the deal as the move that saved the world from “international depression.” His critics on the right say he handed billions in leverage to “theocratic lunatics” he spent years promising to bankrupt.
His business backers clap in Versailles as if this is a ribbon-cutting for a new asset class, not the formal acknowledgment that Iran just upgraded from regional nuisance to co‑manager of global energy flow.
After months of war, higher prices, drone strikes and dead civilians, the big achievement is a 60-day trial period, a maybe‑extendable chat about centrifuges, and a green light for Iran to pump more crude. If this is what “maximum pressure” looks like, imagine what minimum effort will be.
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Trump didn’t end the Iran war, he moved it to the small print and called it Versailles.
On live TV, flanked by Emmanuel Macron and Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, he signs an “interim peace deal” and blurts out his real doctrine in two words: “Oil down.” This isn’t about nukes, law or security. It’s about getting Brent off the front page before the midterms and pretending that’s grand strategy.
The memorandum turns the Strait of Hormuz into a 60-day promotional offer. Iran reopens the chokepoint, promises “no charge for 60 days only,” clears mines on its own timeline, and instantly gets to restart oil exports under fresh US sanctions waivers.
In return, Washington gets a fragile ceasefire and a “complex” 60‑day negotiation window over the nuclear program that everyone knows is technically impossible to solve in two months and conveniently extendable if the politics demand it.
On paper, it’s about “international law” and “sovereign rights of coastal states.” In reality, it’s Tehran proving it can close and reopen the world’s most important energy artery at will — while the same White House that once swore to crush the regime now scrambles to get Saudi supertankers through the gate.
Six million barrels finally slip past Hormuz and the West calls it peace, instead of admitting it just paid ransom in slow motion.
Trump sells the deal as the move that saved the world from “international depression.” His critics on the right say he handed billions in leverage to “theocratic lunatics” he spent years promising to bankrupt.
His business backers clap in Versailles as if this is a ribbon-cutting for a new asset class, not the formal acknowledgment that Iran just upgraded from regional nuisance to co‑manager of global energy flow.
After months of war, higher prices, drone strikes and dead civilians, the big achievement is a 60-day trial period, a maybe‑extendable chat about centrifuges, and a green light for Iran to pump more crude. If this is what “maximum pressure” looks like, imagine what minimum effort will be.
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Fatwas, Frontlines and the General Staff
Tehran’s clerics just issued a religious death sentence on Trump and Netanyahu; in Bnei Brak, a rabbi calls down a curse on Israel’s own chief of staff. Different languages, same addiction: turning politics into holy war and generals into demons.
While Iran’s Assembly of Experts brands foreign leaders “whose blood may be shed” in the name of God, Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi reportedly stands at an anti‑draft rally and declares “may his name and memory be erased” about IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, accusing “the entire army” of wanting to uproot faith, Torah and the Messiah.
At the same event, former chief Sephardi rabbi Yitzhak Yosef tells the crowd that wars are won not by Iron Dome, but by Torah students in the yeshivot. In Tehran, clerics sanctify violence against enemies abroad. In Bnei Brak, rabbis delegitimize the officers keeping those missiles from landing.
The meta‑joke writes itself. Iran’s regime uses fatwa language to cover for military weakness and political crisis; it talks big about assassinating Trump while scrambling to keep radar and command posts from getting blown up.
Haredi leaders denounce the army that’s already carrying their security burden, portraying a draft enforcement campaign as an existential war on religion, then insist that the real front line is in the study hall. Both are selling a theology where blood and risk belong to someone else.
Meanwhile, Israel’s own leadership plays both sides. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s successor, Defense Minister Kac, condemns the rabbinic incitement and insists you can’t cross red lines against the people responsible for national security — days after calling to stop arrests of yeshiva draft dodgers.
The coalition passes a Basic Law elevating Torah study to “supreme value,” protects mass exemptions, then expresses shock when rabbis talk about the IDF as a threat to faith and curse its commanders from a stage.
Put Tehran and Bnei Brak side by side and you get parallel processes, not opposites. In Iran, clerical power uses religion to criminalize compromise and keep a collapsing regime afloat. In Israel, coalition politics uses religion to outsource risk to soldiers while building a protected class that can curse those same soldiers with impunity.
In both cases, the uniform is expected to absorb the fire, the robe to claim the victory, and any challenge to that hierarchy to be labeled heresy.
So when Iran’s Assembly of Experts declares Trump and Netanyahu fair game, and an Israeli rabbi declares the chief of staff erasable, the question isn’t who’s more extreme.
It’s how long both systems can keep asking the same people to fight and die while their leaders, clerical and political, compete over who gets to issue the next curse in God’s name.
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Tehran’s clerics just issued a religious death sentence on Trump and Netanyahu; in Bnei Brak, a rabbi calls down a curse on Israel’s own chief of staff. Different languages, same addiction: turning politics into holy war and generals into demons.
While Iran’s Assembly of Experts brands foreign leaders “whose blood may be shed” in the name of God, Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi reportedly stands at an anti‑draft rally and declares “may his name and memory be erased” about IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, accusing “the entire army” of wanting to uproot faith, Torah and the Messiah.
At the same event, former chief Sephardi rabbi Yitzhak Yosef tells the crowd that wars are won not by Iron Dome, but by Torah students in the yeshivot. In Tehran, clerics sanctify violence against enemies abroad. In Bnei Brak, rabbis delegitimize the officers keeping those missiles from landing.
The meta‑joke writes itself. Iran’s regime uses fatwa language to cover for military weakness and political crisis; it talks big about assassinating Trump while scrambling to keep radar and command posts from getting blown up.
Haredi leaders denounce the army that’s already carrying their security burden, portraying a draft enforcement campaign as an existential war on religion, then insist that the real front line is in the study hall. Both are selling a theology where blood and risk belong to someone else.
Meanwhile, Israel’s own leadership plays both sides. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s successor, Defense Minister Kac, condemns the rabbinic incitement and insists you can’t cross red lines against the people responsible for national security — days after calling to stop arrests of yeshiva draft dodgers.
The coalition passes a Basic Law elevating Torah study to “supreme value,” protects mass exemptions, then expresses shock when rabbis talk about the IDF as a threat to faith and curse its commanders from a stage.
Put Tehran and Bnei Brak side by side and you get parallel processes, not opposites. In Iran, clerical power uses religion to criminalize compromise and keep a collapsing regime afloat. In Israel, coalition politics uses religion to outsource risk to soldiers while building a protected class that can curse those same soldiers with impunity.
In both cases, the uniform is expected to absorb the fire, the robe to claim the victory, and any challenge to that hierarchy to be labeled heresy.
So when Iran’s Assembly of Experts declares Trump and Netanyahu fair game, and an Israeli rabbi declares the chief of staff erasable, the question isn’t who’s more extreme.
It’s how long both systems can keep asking the same people to fight and die while their leaders, clerical and political, compete over who gets to issue the next curse in God’s name.
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Iran’s Funeral Diplomacy: Martyrdom, Threats and Leverage
Iran is about to bury Ali Khamenei and turn his grave into a stage for nuclear bargaining and regional intimidation.
Next week’s funeral in Mashhad is being packaged as a regime stress test and a loyalty referendum in one.
Officials promise “tens of millions” in the streets, the largest event Tehran has ever seen. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf — now also wearing the hat of “head of the revenge and funeral delegation” — is calling on Iranians to “write a glorious new page” and to shout for “blood vengeance” for their late leader.
The grief isn’t private, it’s a mobilization order.
Even the family tragedy is being fed into the script. The regime choreographed a farewell ceremony for Khamenei’s daughter‑in‑law and his wife, both mortally wounded in the strike that opened Operation “Lion’s Roar,” the attack that killed the supreme leader. Their funerals will be folded into Khamenei’s own.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son and designated successor, pointedly skipped the goodbye — a sign of how carefully he’s curating his image as leader, not mourner, before the official oath.
Foreign guests will be carefully chosen: Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior figure from China’s standing committee are expected to attend, signaling who Tehran still counts as partners.
Around the ceremony, the security machine is turning mourning into a threat display. The “Khatam al‑Anbiya” emergency command has publicly warned Israel and the United States against “any miscalculation” during the funeral week, promising “severe and painful responses.”
Its commander, General Ali Abdollahi, urged “the enemies” to think very carefully — language that’s less about actual battlefield red lines and more about giving the regime an excuse to escalate if anything goes wrong.
In the same breath, the armed forces renewed their loyalty oath to the new leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, and doubled down on two pressure points: the nuclear file and the Strait of Hormuz.
They’re demanding the nuclear issue be pulled out of negotiations and insisting that the Hormuz shipping lane they’ve drawn is under Iran’s “exclusive sovereignty.” Any ship that strays from that track, they warn, will be treated as a target.
So you get four layers at once: a mass funeral designed to project legitimacy at home, open threats to Israel and the U.S. to deter any strike in a moment of vulnerability, a nuclear posture that demands de‑linking the program from talks, and a maritime doctrine that treats one of the world’s key chokepoints as domestic waters.
The regime is trying to turn Khamenei’s burial into a binding contract: loyalty inside Iran, deference in the Gulf, and respect for its nuclear red lines — or else.
For everyone watching from the outside, the translation is simple. Iran is not using the transition to soften its stance. It’s doubling down, wrapping missiles, centrifuges and shipping lanes in black banners and religious slogans. The funeral is not just an end — it’s the launch event for Mojtaba Khamenei’s version of the same project.
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Iran is about to bury Ali Khamenei and turn his grave into a stage for nuclear bargaining and regional intimidation.
Next week’s funeral in Mashhad is being packaged as a regime stress test and a loyalty referendum in one.
Officials promise “tens of millions” in the streets, the largest event Tehran has ever seen. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf — now also wearing the hat of “head of the revenge and funeral delegation” — is calling on Iranians to “write a glorious new page” and to shout for “blood vengeance” for their late leader.
The grief isn’t private, it’s a mobilization order.
Even the family tragedy is being fed into the script. The regime choreographed a farewell ceremony for Khamenei’s daughter‑in‑law and his wife, both mortally wounded in the strike that opened Operation “Lion’s Roar,” the attack that killed the supreme leader. Their funerals will be folded into Khamenei’s own.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son and designated successor, pointedly skipped the goodbye — a sign of how carefully he’s curating his image as leader, not mourner, before the official oath.
Foreign guests will be carefully chosen: Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior figure from China’s standing committee are expected to attend, signaling who Tehran still counts as partners.
Around the ceremony, the security machine is turning mourning into a threat display. The “Khatam al‑Anbiya” emergency command has publicly warned Israel and the United States against “any miscalculation” during the funeral week, promising “severe and painful responses.”
Its commander, General Ali Abdollahi, urged “the enemies” to think very carefully — language that’s less about actual battlefield red lines and more about giving the regime an excuse to escalate if anything goes wrong.
In the same breath, the armed forces renewed their loyalty oath to the new leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, and doubled down on two pressure points: the nuclear file and the Strait of Hormuz.
They’re demanding the nuclear issue be pulled out of negotiations and insisting that the Hormuz shipping lane they’ve drawn is under Iran’s “exclusive sovereignty.” Any ship that strays from that track, they warn, will be treated as a target.
So you get four layers at once: a mass funeral designed to project legitimacy at home, open threats to Israel and the U.S. to deter any strike in a moment of vulnerability, a nuclear posture that demands de‑linking the program from talks, and a maritime doctrine that treats one of the world’s key chokepoints as domestic waters.
The regime is trying to turn Khamenei’s burial into a binding contract: loyalty inside Iran, deference in the Gulf, and respect for its nuclear red lines — or else.
For everyone watching from the outside, the translation is simple. Iran is not using the transition to soften its stance. It’s doubling down, wrapping missiles, centrifuges and shipping lanes in black banners and religious slogans. The funeral is not just an end — it’s the launch event for Mojtaba Khamenei’s version of the same project.
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Khamenei’s Funeral: Manufactured Grief, Real Power
Four months after “Lion’s Roar” opened with the Israeli strike that killed Ali Khamenei and members of his family, Tehran is turning his six‑day funeral into a stage show of regime survival.
The coffin was placed in Mashhad’s Imam Reza shrine complex alongside the coffins of the relatives killed with him, with delegations from abroad filing past as if the regime had just won a war instead of losing its supreme leader.
In Tehran, an official ceremony at the “Mesalla” drew representatives from Russia, China, Iraq and Turkmenistan, clerics and minority figures — a choreographed tableau of “stability” for the day after the assassination.
Symbolism is everywhere and none of it subtle. The coffin moves to Imam Khomeini Mosque; in Revolution Square the clenched fist emblem goes up with the message “we must rise.”
Among those touching the casket is IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi, resurfacing in public for the first time after months underground, a visual guarantee that the enforcement core is still intact.
Even a delegation from Bulgaria’s parliament is noted on state media — foreign flags used as props.
The human ocean, meanwhile, is anything but spontaneous. Organizers boast of millions of participants and delegations from 100 countries, but regime‑aligned outlets quietly outline the mechanics: between 2,000 and 3,000 Shiite civilians from Afghanistan brought in on specially issued “manifest visas,” their names approved in advance, with full transport, lodging, food and upkeep covered by the state. It’s not grassroots mourning; it’s a logistical operation.
On the sidelines, the regional “family” is brought in to cry on cue. The Iraqi parliament speaker Halbousi arrives to meet Iranian speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Delegations from Lebanon’s Amal, Iraq’s Hashd al‑Shaabi and Kataib Hezbollah show up, along with the families of Hassan Nasrallah and Imad Mughniyeh, offering “respectful tears” for the cameras. The message to allies and enemies alike: the Axis of Resistance still has a face and a ritual, even if its chief has been buried.
Taken together, Khamenei’s farewell looks less like a funeral and more like a power‑projection exercise wrapped in black cloth: a regime proving it can still summon crowds, stage foreign solidarity, and parade its commanders — even as everyone in the region knows the hardest part comes after the last banner is folded and the buses go home.
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Four months after “Lion’s Roar” opened with the Israeli strike that killed Ali Khamenei and members of his family, Tehran is turning his six‑day funeral into a stage show of regime survival.
The coffin was placed in Mashhad’s Imam Reza shrine complex alongside the coffins of the relatives killed with him, with delegations from abroad filing past as if the regime had just won a war instead of losing its supreme leader.
In Tehran, an official ceremony at the “Mesalla” drew representatives from Russia, China, Iraq and Turkmenistan, clerics and minority figures — a choreographed tableau of “stability” for the day after the assassination.
Symbolism is everywhere and none of it subtle. The coffin moves to Imam Khomeini Mosque; in Revolution Square the clenched fist emblem goes up with the message “we must rise.”
Among those touching the casket is IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi, resurfacing in public for the first time after months underground, a visual guarantee that the enforcement core is still intact.
Even a delegation from Bulgaria’s parliament is noted on state media — foreign flags used as props.
The human ocean, meanwhile, is anything but spontaneous. Organizers boast of millions of participants and delegations from 100 countries, but regime‑aligned outlets quietly outline the mechanics: between 2,000 and 3,000 Shiite civilians from Afghanistan brought in on specially issued “manifest visas,” their names approved in advance, with full transport, lodging, food and upkeep covered by the state. It’s not grassroots mourning; it’s a logistical operation.
On the sidelines, the regional “family” is brought in to cry on cue. The Iraqi parliament speaker Halbousi arrives to meet Iranian speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Delegations from Lebanon’s Amal, Iraq’s Hashd al‑Shaabi and Kataib Hezbollah show up, along with the families of Hassan Nasrallah and Imad Mughniyeh, offering “respectful tears” for the cameras. The message to allies and enemies alike: the Axis of Resistance still has a face and a ritual, even if its chief has been buried.
Taken together, Khamenei’s farewell looks less like a funeral and more like a power‑projection exercise wrapped in black cloth: a regime proving it can still summon crowds, stage foreign solidarity, and parade its commanders — even as everyone in the region knows the hardest part comes after the last banner is folded and the buses go home.
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US Hits Civilian Infrastructure in Iran, Causalities Grow
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The US hit bridges, energy facilities and a key Iranian port on Friday, expanding its aerial campaign against Iran, and prompting swift Iranian strikes against US allies in the Middle East.
US airstrikes hit bridges in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, killing at least seventy people, Iranian state TV reported. The bridges were a key transit point for Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port.
Further US airstrikes brought down a tower in Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman that the US military claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used to facilitate attacks on vessels in the strait of Hormuz. The US also targeted key electrical infrastructure and Iranshahr airport.
Iran’s energy ministry told citizens to reduce their use of electricity and air conditioning after the power grid came under strain due to US strikes on energy facilities. The ministry said areas in the south were experiencing “extreme heat and attacks on power infrastructure” as temperatures in Iran soared.
Strikes on civilian infrastructure not being used for military purposes could constitute a war crime, human rights experts have said.
Renewed US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran by Friday morning, said a spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, Hossein Kermanpour.
The attacks appeared to be the follow-through of Trump’s promise to expand strikes against Iran, including the targeting of infrastructure and power plants.
Trump reportedly met senior department heads this week to discuss an expanded aerial campaign to force Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
The current round of fighting has entered its seventh day and further undermined the interim deal between Iran and the US, which was meant to keep the strait open and give room for negotiations to lead to a permanent truce. Iran has shut the strait and the US reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports and ships on Wednesday.
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The US hit bridges, energy facilities and a key Iranian port on Friday, expanding its aerial campaign against Iran, and prompting swift Iranian strikes against US allies in the Middle East.
US airstrikes hit bridges in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, killing at least seventy people, Iranian state TV reported. The bridges were a key transit point for Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port.
Further US airstrikes brought down a tower in Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman that the US military claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used to facilitate attacks on vessels in the strait of Hormuz. The US also targeted key electrical infrastructure and Iranshahr airport.
Iran’s energy ministry told citizens to reduce their use of electricity and air conditioning after the power grid came under strain due to US strikes on energy facilities. The ministry said areas in the south were experiencing “extreme heat and attacks on power infrastructure” as temperatures in Iran soared.
Strikes on civilian infrastructure not being used for military purposes could constitute a war crime, human rights experts have said.
Renewed US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran by Friday morning, said a spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, Hossein Kermanpour.
The attacks appeared to be the follow-through of Trump’s promise to expand strikes against Iran, including the targeting of infrastructure and power plants.
Trump reportedly met senior department heads this week to discuss an expanded aerial campaign to force Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
The current round of fighting has entered its seventh day and further undermined the interim deal between Iran and the US, which was meant to keep the strait open and give room for negotiations to lead to a permanent truce. Iran has shut the strait and the US reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports and ships on Wednesday.
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After the US strikes on Friday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened a “devastating price” for countries hosting US bases if American attacks against infrastructure continued.
“The American enemy and the hosts of its bases in the region should know that crossing red lines and attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure will have a very severe and devastating price to pay,” the IRGC said in a statement.
The Iranian military responded to US strikes by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Qatar, one of the mediators between the US and Iran, had been mostly spared from Iranian retaliation in the recent rounds of violence. Qatari authorities said falling debris wounded a child as air defences intercepted missiles.
In Kuwait, authorities said Iranian strikes hit a power and desalination plant, damaging the water facility. The country relies on desalinated water for about 90% of its drinking water. Officials said they were working to assess the damage and get the plant running again.
Strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan killed eight members of armed Kurdish opposition groups, which blamed Iran for the strikes. Tehran also claimed to have struck the al-Tanf military base in Syria, although Syrian authorities denied this.
Washington and Tehran advanced competing plans for ships to transit the strait, with Iran attacking some ships that took the US route. Shipping in the waterway has been drastically reduced over the last few days as violence escalated, though most ships that continued to transit used the Iranian route.
A tanker travelling through the strait, on the route closest to Oman, came under attack on Friday, according to the British military. The tanker sustained minor damage but none of its crew were hurt. Iran did not claim responsibility for the attack.
Iranian state media also said the US struck an oil tanker which was empty and docked at Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal on the strait.
Centcom also said it had “redirected” three commercial vessels “trying to run the blockade” since it took effect at 8pm GMT on Tuesday. The previous day, a US aircraft fired on and disabled an unladen oil tanker that tried to break the blockade.
Iran has asked its allies in Yemen, the Houthis, to be prepared to close the oil route through the Red Sea if the US targets Iranian energy infrastructure.
The Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, also threatened that all Saudi oil and other critical facilities could be targeted by the group if Riyadh intervened in Yemen. The threat came after Saudi Arabia struck Sana’a airport, leading to retaliatory missile strikes from the Houthis on Saudi Arabia.
Given the risks, some oil shippers are transiting the strait with their location devices turned off, but many are just staying put, Lloyd’s said on Thursday. A growing amount of the region’s energy is being shipped through pipelines, but not nearly enough to offset the decline in shipping through the strait.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Thursday said efforts were still under way to bring the US and Tehran to the negotiating table but acknowledged that was becoming increasingly difficult.
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Kagan: Iran Is a Most Serious Danger
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A prominent US neoconservative strategist has argued that the US-Israeli war on Iran has backfired, failing to force Tehran into submission, while instead strengthening its regional position, exposing limits on US military power and turning the Strait of Hormuz into a major source of Iranian leverage, Al Mayadeen reported.
Writing in The Atlantic under the title Iran Unleashed, Robert Kagan contends that the balance of power across West Asia has shifted decisively after Iran withstood repeated US and Israeli attacks without accepting Washington's demands.
Given his political background, the assessment amounts to a striking acknowledgment of Washington's failed war strategy against Iran. It also effectively concedes an Iranian strategic victory:
Tehran survived the campaign without yielding and, in Kagan's assessment, emerged with greater deterrence, influence and leverage than before the war.
“The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the US or Israel”, Kagan writes, arguing that neighboring states are already adapting to a fundamentally altered regional environment.
Central to Kagan's argument is the failure of military pressure to compel Tehran to retreat.
Kagan identifies a major turning point in March, when “Israel” attacked Iran's South Pars gas field and Tehran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas complex.
The importance of that response, he argues, was not that Iran could defeat the United States in a conventional air war, but that it demonstrated the ability to inflict enough damage on Gulf energy infrastructure to threaten a global economic crisis.
Washington subsequently stopped attacking Iranian energy targets and pressured "Israel" to do the same. Kagan argues that later US threats of renewed strikes repeatedly encountered the same problem.
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A prominent US neoconservative strategist has argued that the US-Israeli war on Iran has backfired, failing to force Tehran into submission, while instead strengthening its regional position, exposing limits on US military power and turning the Strait of Hormuz into a major source of Iranian leverage, Al Mayadeen reported.
Writing in The Atlantic under the title Iran Unleashed, Robert Kagan contends that the balance of power across West Asia has shifted decisively after Iran withstood repeated US and Israeli attacks without accepting Washington's demands.
Given his political background, the assessment amounts to a striking acknowledgment of Washington's failed war strategy against Iran. It also effectively concedes an Iranian strategic victory:
Tehran survived the campaign without yielding and, in Kagan's assessment, emerged with greater deterrence, influence and leverage than before the war.
“The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the US or Israel”, Kagan writes, arguing that neighboring states are already adapting to a fundamentally altered regional environment.
Central to Kagan's argument is the failure of military pressure to compel Tehran to retreat.
Kagan identifies a major turning point in March, when “Israel” attacked Iran's South Pars gas field and Tehran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas complex.
The importance of that response, he argues, was not that Iran could defeat the United States in a conventional air war, but that it demonstrated the ability to inflict enough damage on Gulf energy infrastructure to threaten a global economic crisis.
Washington subsequently stopped attacking Iranian energy targets and pressured "Israel" to do the same. Kagan argues that later US threats of renewed strikes repeatedly encountered the same problem.
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Iran threatened retaliation, Gulf governments warned about the consequences, and Washington declined to escalate.
“American actions have made plain that Washington fears escalation more than Iran does—not just for now, but for the future”, he writes.
The Strait of Hormuz sits at the center of Kagan's assessment of Iran's strengthened position.
Rather than treating control over the waterway as a temporary bargaining tactic, he argues that Tehran increasingly views it as a permanent component of its geopolitical power and its strongest deterrent against another US or Israeli attack.
He describes the June memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States as reflecting that altered balance.
Under the agreement, Iran would "make arrangements" for the “safe passage of commercial vessels”, while Tehran and Oman would discuss administration of the Strait “in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states.”
Kagan goes further, arguing that control over Hormuz could offer Iran more practical leverage than possession of a nuclear weapon.
Whereas nuclear arms would primarily deter attack, influence over the energy chokepoint gives Tehran continuing leverage over states dependent on Gulf energy and could help it pressure adversaries and weaken US sanctions.
Kagan also points to shortages of key US missiles and interceptors, arguing that another prolonged campaign against Iran could undermine US readiness elsewhere, including in possible confrontations involving China or Russia.
A renewed assault could require greater reliance on manned aircraft while leaving fewer interceptors available to protect US bases and Gulf allies from Iranian retaliation.
Iranian officials have instead raised demands including the withdrawal of US forces, an end to the naval blockade, the lifting of sanctions, the release of frozen assets and compensation for wartime damage.
Kagan argues that Gulf governments that once relied on the United States as their primary security guarantor are increasingly being forced to reconsider whether Washington can protect them from the consequences of confrontation with Tehran.
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