Iran’s Parliament Has No Constitutional Framework for This Situation
Iran's parliament, known as the Majlis, operates under the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic, a document that was designed to consolidate...
Steve Levine
The IRGC Is Still Functioning but Operating Without Central Command Authority
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is still functioning as a military force, but it is now operating without centralized command authority following...
Without Khamenei There Is No Clear Successor — Iran’s Political System Is in Crisis
The assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, 2026, in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran exposed a fundamental...
The Decapitation Strike Changed Everything About the War’s Direction
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, a joint airstrike campaign that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali...
Nobody Predicted Khamenei Would Be Killed in the First Hours of the Campaign
On February 28, 2026, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran for over three decades, was killed in the opening wave of joint U.S.
Iran’s Government May Have Collapsed Faster Than Anyone in Washington Expected
No, Iran's government has not collapsed — at least not yet. Despite coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on...
Trump Used TruthSocial as a War Communication Platform at 2 AM on February 28
In the early morning hours of February 28, 2025, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to post a series of messages related to ongoing...
This Is the First Major U.S. War Announced on Social Media Instead of From the Oval Office
On March 1, 2026, at approximately 2:30 AM Eastern Time, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had begun "major combat operations in...
The Iran War Started on a Saturday Morning — Most Americans Found Out on Their Phones
On Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military assault on Iran — and the commander-in-chief...
No Major Poll Showed Majority Support for Military Action Against Iran Before the Strikes
No major poll conducted before the February 28, 2026 military strikes against Iran showed majority support for the action. Not one.