The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announced – brokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7 – Iran declared that Lebanon was included in the arrangement. It was a clear message: the war could not be compartmentalized, and the fronts were...
After accusations of cowardly delays, Democratic leaders in the US Congress moved Wednesday toward a vote on yet another war powers resolution aimed at stopping President Donald Trump from waging more unauthorized war on Iran as the tenuous day-old Mideast ceasefire...
Renowned geostrategist John Mearsheimer argues that there are no clear signs of a quick end to the US-Iran conflict and that the recent two-week ceasefire may be fragile at best. He highlights deep strategic disagreements, asymmetric advantages, and structural...
Iran isn’t just trading blows with the US and Israel. According to our guest, the fight is turning fixed American advantages like bases, radars, and regional headquarters into fragile targets, forcing withdrawals and relocations across the Middle East. We walk through...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just hours after a "shock" last minute reprieve from President Trump in the form of a two-week pause in the US/Iran/Israel war, Israel hit Lebanon with 100 bombs in 10 minutes, killing scores of civilians. According to the original...
In late March, President Trump threatened to “obliterate Iran’s energy grid,” if a ceasefire was not reached. In his public post, Truth Social, he listed explicit targets, such as power plants, oil facilities and desalination (water) infrastructure. This in addition...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine “blessing” the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization. Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, “Fury,” which does a decent job of showing...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In perhaps his most unhinged social media post yet, President Trump threatened tIran hat a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Speculation is rising that he is considering using a nuclear weapon...
The president marked Easter with more deranged threats against the country and people of Iran: The US president gave Iran until 8pm eastern time on Tuesday to reopen the crucial shipping lane after earlier threatening to unleash “hell” in an expletive-laden social...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 3 April 2026, I was on “The Bottom Line,” Al Jazeera’s popular show hosted by Steve Clemons. We talked about the Iran war and how it relates to international politics broadly defined. Steve was especially interested in how I thought...
