Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again

Jasmin Lilian Diab The Conversation  /  April 5, 2026 Two days after the U.S. and Israel launched their military operation in Iran on Feb. 28, Hezbollah...

US war machine is built on decades of lies – the assault on Iran...

Scott Kurashige Truthout  /  April 5, 2026 Trump’s endless falsehoods about the Iran war build on a long history of US military mythmaking. The first casualty of...

[Trump-Iran] The leadership team from hell on a hell of a planet

Michael T. Klare TomDispatch  /  April 5, 2026 How Trump’s incompetence and looming global catastrophes may intersect. On March 13, buried in The New York Times’ coverage...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard would fiercely resist a US ground invasion – history proves it

Ibrahim al-Marashi The Conversation  /  April 4, 2026 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East....

Strait of Hormuz is not a tool to end the war but how Iran...

Mohammad Eslami & Zeynab Malakouti Responsible Statecraft  /  April 4, 2026 Trump miscalculates again if he thinks Tehran is using the strait as a bargaining chip...

Summarising the Israeli government’s position on Iran

‘If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care...

Iran condemns US-Israeli ‘moral collapse’ after attacks on civilian sites [a war crime]

AJ Staff Al-Jazeera (with Reuters)  /  April 3, 2026 Strikes damage or destroy one of Iran’s tallest bridges and a century-old medical research centre fighting diseases...

How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines

Sarah Shamim Al-Jazeera  /  April 3, 2026 The Pasteur Institute of Iran is one of several healthcare facilities in the country to be targeted. The United States...

[VIDEO] Footage shows Iranian bridge destroyed by strikes

AP  /  April 3, 2026 An Iranian bridge has been split in two after airstrikes that Donald Trump has claimed were carried out by the...

One of two US crew members rescued after F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Dan Sabbagh, Hugo Lowell & Lauren Gambino The Guardian  /  April 3, 2026 Officials say other remains missing in first downing of US fighter plane since...