A Potent Threat in Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s “Mosquito Fleet”
Separate from the regular Iranian Navy, with boats that often go more than 115 miles per hour, it’s what a retired U. S. official calls a “disruptive force.
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Trump Frames Iran War as All but Over in Optimistic Social Media Flurry
Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.
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Trump Frames Iran War as All But Over in Optimistic Social Media Flurry
Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.
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Europe Wants to Help Restore Shipping in the Strait. It Just Isn’t Sure How.
Amid conflicting reports about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, European leaders gathered on Friday to coordinate a plan to guard it.
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Trump Is Urged to Act on Iranian Site Feared Impervious to Airstrikes
Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.
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Trump Promotes ‘No Tax on Tips’ in Las Vegas and Brushes Off Iran War Inflation Concerns
At an economic event, the president sought to downplay the financial hardship that has followed his war with Iran, saying that “we’re having some fake inflation because of the fuel, the energy prices.
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10-Day Cease-Fire Between Israel and Lebanon Goes Into Effect
The pause in the fighting between Israeli forces and Iranian-allied Hezbollah militants may help smooth the way to a peace deal between the U. S. and Iran.
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Despite Cease-Fire, Iran’s Hackers Haven’t Logged Off
Tehran’s digital warriors have continued to seek ways to gain an advantage in the conflict in a new phase of cyberspace operations.
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Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M.
Concerned about the slow pace and high cost of weapons production, Pentagon officials have begun talks with General Motors and Ford Motor about producing certain parts.
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Sri Lanka Uses U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire to Repatriate Iranian Sailors
Sri Lanka had been refusing to send back the Iranian Navy personnel, including survivors from a warship that the United States torpedoed, during active hostilities.
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How the Iran War, Then the U.S. Blockade, Has Changed the Strait of Hormuz: Maps
Iran’s stranglehold over the waterway completely reshaped shipping during the war. The U. S.
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Senate Blocks Bid to Cancel Arms Sales to Israel as Iran War Deepens Democratic Divide
Concerns over the Iran war led several Democratic senators who had rejected past bids to curb weapons transfers to Israel to vote to block the sale of bulldozers and bombs.
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Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality
President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.
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Senate Republicans Again Block Bid to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers
For the fourth time since the war began, G. O. P.
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Iran Demonstrates the Power of Drones and Cheap Weaponry
The future of war belongs to “flying lawn mowers”
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‘We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine.’ Europeans Promise More Aid to Kyiv.
The focus in recent weeks has been on the conflict in Iran, but European leaders said it was crucial to keep aid flowing to Ukraine.
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War Exposes Gaps in India’s Clean Energy Push
The country’s creaking electricity grid is lagging behind its push for renewable sources — just as its growing economy hungers for oil stranded by war.
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Trump’s Risky Strategy to Blockade Iran’s Blockade
The United States has enforced a naval blockade of Iran that is intended to end the war on American terms.
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How China’s Weapons Transfers to Iran Have Evolved Over Decades
China has denied claims this month by U. S. intelligence that it might have shipped arms to Iran.
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Rubio Hosts Israel and Lebanon for Rare Meeting Shadowed by U.S.-Iran War
The gathering ended with encouraging words, even as Israel continued to refuse to halt its military campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.