The Iran War Changed the Middle East Forever — The Only Question Is How
The Iran war has already changed the Middle East forever. Three days into the US-Israeli joint strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Category Diplomacy
The Iran War Will Cost American Lives, Trillions of Dollars, and Decades of Attention
Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli joint military strike on Iran launched on February 28, 2026, has already cost three American service members their...
The Think Tanks That Advocated for Iran Regime Change for Decades Got Their Wish
For decades, a handful of Washington think tanks spent millions of dollars and countless hours pushing for one outcome in the Middle East: the fall of the...
Neoconservatives Celebrate the Iran Strikes — Progressives and Libertarians Are United in Opposition
The U.S. and Israeli joint strikes on Iran, launched on February 28, 2026, have produced one of the strangest political realignments in recent memory.
The Iran Hawks Have Wanted This War for Over 20 Years — They Finally Got It
The network of neoconservative policy architects, military contractors, and ideologically driven officials who have pushed for regime change in Iran since...
Every President Since Carter Has Dealt With Iran — Trump Is the First to Launch a Full Campaign
Every president since Jimmy Carter has confronted Iran through some combination of sanctions, diplomacy, covert operations, or limited military action.
The $100 Billion That Flowed to Iran Under the JCPOA Funded the Weapons America Is Now Destroying
The claim that $100 billion flowed to Iran under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and funded the weapons America is now destroying contains a kernel...
Trump Pulled Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018 — 8 Years Later He’s Bombing Tehran
In May 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, dismissing it as "defective at its core" and promising that his...
Reagan Almost Struck Iran — Trump Actually Did It
The title says it plainly: Ronald Reagan came close to a full-scale military confrontation with Iran in 1988 but deliberately pulled back from the brink.
From Carter to Trump: 47 Years of U.S.-Iran Conflict Reaches Its Climax
After 47 years of escalating hostility between Washington and Tehran, the U.S.-Iran conflict has reached its most dangerous inflection point with...