The Iran War Isn’t Just About Nuclear Weapons — It’s About Who Controls Middle East Energy

The US-Israel war on Iran, now in its third week, is being sold to the American public primarily as a nuclear nonproliferation campaign.

The US-Israel war on Iran, now in its third week, is being sold to the American public primarily as a nuclear nonproliferation campaign.

Iran has spent decades building itself into one of the most effective weapons and fighter conduits in the modern Middle East, and the consequences of that...

The short answer is that the United States does not have enough ground forces to secure Iran's weapons depots — not even close.

The psychological toll on Israeli civilians subjected to repeated missile attacks is staggering, with studies showing that up to 75 percent of residents...

Israel shut down schools across the entire country in March 2025 after a sustained barrage of missile and rocket attacks overwhelmed civil defense systems...

The deadliest single Iranian missile attacks on Israeli civilians each killed nine people, a grim milestone reached twice in less than a year.

Iran's October 1, 2024 missile barrage against Israel was, by every measurable standard, the largest direct attack on Israeli soil in the nation's history.

On March 1, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile scored a direct hit on a residential area in Beit Shemesh, a city near Jerusalem, destroying a synagogue...

During Iran's major missile and drone attacks on Israel in 2024, some Iranian ballistic missiles did penetrate Israel's vaunted multi-layer defense system...

In a historic activation of Israel's multi-layered missile defense architecture, all three major systems — Iron Dome, Arrow, and David's Sling — were...