Tuesday, April 21, 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Trump Defends Iran War in Series of Posts on Truth Social

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Monday issued a series of posts on his Truth Social account defending his war with Iran and a potential diplomatic deal that he may reach with Tehran, though the state of the negotiations remains unclear. The president started with a post where he...

US Estimates Iran Has 70% of Pre-War Missile Stockpile, 60% of Launchers

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Despite claims that the US has significantly degraded Iran’s ballistic missile program, US intelligence estimates that Iran has access to the vast majority of its missiles and launchers. Multiple US officials, citing intelligence and military estimates, told The New York Times that Iran has used the ceasefire...

Did Cruise Ships Just Sail through Strait of Hormuz?

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The Strait of Hormuz is best known as a key chokepoint for the global oil supply coming from the Persian Gulf, but it may also be a tourism hub in the making. During Iran’s short-lived agreement to allow ships to pass through the dangerous waterway, reports...

Pentagon Has Approached US Automakers About Helping Manufacture Weapons

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two major US car makers have been approached by the Pentagon about the possibility of helping the US government manufacture military equipment, as the Trump administration seeks a significant boost in arms production. The discussions were first reported by The Wall Street Journal last week, which said...

US Seizes Iranian Ship after Navy Destroyer ‘Blew a Hole’ in Its Engine Room

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that a US warship “blew a hole” in the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship that attempted to get past the US naval blockade of Iranian ports and claimed that US Marines now “have custody” of the vessel. “Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo...

FBI Arrests Iranian National for Arms Trafficking

(Headline USA) A 44-year-old Los Angeles woman from Iran was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan, which is in its fourth year of a bloody civil war. Shamim Mafi will face charges that she brokered the sale of “drones, bombs,...

Final Offer: Trump Threatens Massive Bombing Campaign if Iran Doesn’t Take Deal

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said that U.S. negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. The prospect of talks on the...

Iran Fires on Ship Passing Through Straight of Hormuz

(Headline USA) The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports. The strait is closed until the U.S. blockade...

Drone Kills Lebanon Man Minutes After Trump Said Israel Prohibited From Striking

(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) President Trump declared on Friday, shortly after the start of the Israel-Lebanon 10-day ceasefire, that Israel was absolutely “PROHIBITED” by the United States from carrying out any strikes on Lebanon because “Enough is enough!!!” Mere minutes after that declaration was posted on social media, the first strike...

Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Again in Response to US Blockade

(Headline USA) The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz quickly escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade choking off Iranian ports. Confusion over the strait, through which roughly...

Trump Says Iran Agrees to Turn Over ‘Nuclear Dust’

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The United States will receive Iran’s “nuclear dust,” President Donald Trump said Friday. “The U.S.A. will get all the nuclear ‘dust,’ created by our great B2 bombers – no money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form,” Trump posted on Truth Social. It is...
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