Friday, June 12, 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Report: Iran’s New Supreme Leader is Already Wounded

(Headline USA) Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran. However,...

Oil Blasts Through $100 as Iran War Escalates

(Headline USA) Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and shipping in the Middle East. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, was at $101.19 shortly after trading resumed...

Report: Trump Has ‘Serious Interest’ in Sending Troops Into Iran

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has expressed “serious interest” in the idea of sending US troops into Iran, NBC Newsreported on Saturday, citing US officials. The officials said that Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops with aides and senior Republicans in Congress. Publicly, the president has refused to...

US Military Confirms Death of 7th American Soldier in Iran War

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command on Sunday confirmed the death of a seventh US soldier in President Trump’s war with Iran, as Iranian missiles and drones have successfully struck US bases in the region. CENTCOM said the soldier had died of wounds sustained by an earlier Iranian attack on US...

US Intelligence Report: War Unlikely To Achieve Regime Change in Iran

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A classified report from the US’s National Intelligence Council has found that even a large-scale US assault on Iran is unlikely to oust the Islamic government and military establishment, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. The intelligence report was completed about one week before the US and Israel...

Veteran Suicide Rate Remains High Despite Spending Millions

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Veterans die by suicide at roughly twice the civilian rate, despite the Department of Veterans Affairs spending more than $500 million a year to address the problem. In 2023, the rate of suicide for veterans was 35.2 per 100,000, up from 34.7 per 100,000 in...

War in Iran Shocks Markets, Costs U.S. Taxpayers $1 Billion a Day

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The escalating war in Iran has already rattled global markets and driven oil prices to their highest levels since April 2024. If the conflict persists, the strain on the global economy deepens and the burden on U.S. taxpayers grows. With U.S. military operations costing more...

Biden State Dept. Gave Tax Dollars to Research Gay, European Hookup Spots

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A recent hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee brought renewed attention to a taxpayer-funded initiative to make maps “more gay” by allowing visitors to pin LGPT hookup spots in central Europe and elsewhere. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., pressed Sarah B. Rogers, undersecretary of State for...

Police Investigating Explosion Outside the US Embassy in Oslo

(Headline USA) Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo early Sunday, officials said. No injuries were reported. Police received reports of a “loud bang” or explosion around 1 a.m., Oslo police said in a news release. The explosion was caused by some sort of incendiary device, Oslo...

How Corporate Media Manufactures Consent for Israeli War Crimes

(José Niño, Headline USA) Journalist Alan MacLeod argued that a Channel 4 headline reporting on Israel's latest invasion of Lebanon used "carefully constructed language aimed at manufacturing consent for Israeli atrocities," according to his post on X. Israel has ramped up operations against Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, in...

Trump Demands Unconditional Surrender from Iran, Mentions Regime Change

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) President Donald Trump has said he will accept nothing less from Iran than unconditional surrender, according to a social media post on Friday morning. “There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender!” the president wrote on Truth Social. He also wrote about the selection...

Hegseth and Rubio Feuding Over Whether to Deploy Troops to Iran

(José Niño, Headline USA) Tensions are rising between U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio over whether the United States should deploy troops to Iran at Israel's request, three former U.S. officials and a senior regional official told Middle East Eye. Rubio and Hegseth were...
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