
The Iran Campaign Is Expanding Because Half-Measures Don't Work
The U.S.-Israeli pressure campaign against Iran is drawing in regional actors and alarming foreign policy moderates. The moderates are wrong about why.
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The U.S.-Israeli pressure campaign against Iran is drawing in regional actors and alarming foreign policy moderates. The moderates are wrong about why.
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The same party that cheered Obama's unauthorized Libya intervention is suddenly discovering the Constitution when Trump acts decisively against Iran.
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Three American F-16s destroyed by a supposed ally. All crews ejected safely — this time. Calling it a mistake isn't good enough.
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When lawmakers threaten airport chaos to win a budget fight, the message is clear: your inconvenience is their leverage.
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Iran took American hostages in 1979 and hasn't stopped attacking us since. We've responded with diplomatic notes and strongly-worded statements. That ends now — or the attacks won't.
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The man who spent two decades demanding regime change in Iran is now nitpicking the execution. That tells you everything about the gap between Washington's talkers and its doers.
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A sustained conflict with Iran would stress America's precision munitions inventory in ways that haven't been publicly acknowledged. The strategic gap between our ambitions and our stockpiles is real.
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Striking Iran isn't the question anymore. The question is whether Washington has thought through what happens the morning after the bombs drop.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard launches 137 missiles and 209 drones at UAE alone, striking Dubai landmarks and military installations across six Gulf nations in retaliation for Operation Epic Fury.
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Eight months after Operation Rising Lion set back Iran's nuclear weapons program by two years, the Pentagon determined Tehran was reconstituting faster than expected. The second strike was inevitable.
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The most devastating leadership strike since the killing of Qasem Soleimani eliminates Iran's Supreme Leader, defense minister, IRGC commander, and the entire senior military command in a single night.
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Fires near Palm Jumeirah, airports struck in Kuwait, air raid sirens in Bahrain: Iran's retaliatory strikes transform the world's most prosperous cities into targets overnight.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps unleashes an unprecedented wave of missile strikes targeting American military installations in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE — the first time Tehran has simultaneously attacked all US positions in the region.
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With IRGC missiles raining on US bases across four countries, tens of thousands of American servicemembers and their families face the reality that the Gulf's 'safe haven' status just evaporated overnight.
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President Trump confirms 'major combat operations' against Iran in joint US-Israeli offensive targeting nuclear sites, military installations, and regime leadership compounds across Tehran, Isfahan, and multiple Iranian cities.
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Pete Hegseth ended the Pentagon's practice of sending troops to Harvard and Yale. The brass is furious. Anyone who's worn a uniform knows exactly why this is the right call.
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The Democratic Party's paralysis on Iran isn't a tactical disagreement. It's a theological one — they no longer know whether America is worth defending.
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The death of CJNG's founder won't end Mexico's drug war — history says it'll accelerate the violence. The border still isn't secure.
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