Tag: Iran

Three boys play in the shallow waters of the Strait of Hormuz.

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s brinkmanship is costing it influence and options

Tom Rogan · July 16, 2026 1:29 pm

Houthi supporters shout slogans as they demonstrate against airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis encouraged to shut down Red Sea shipping if US escalates Iran war

Mike Brest · July 16, 2026 12:27 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WATCH LIVE: Karoline Leavitt holds press briefing after maternity leave

David Zimmermann · July 16, 2026 12:00 pm

President Donald Trump stands after speaking at the United States Army War College.

Trump open to wiping out Iran’s Revolutionary Guard like ISIS

Mike Brest · July 16, 2026 11:13 am

An army cadet walks past a billboard bearing anti-Trump messages, including the phrase "We Kill Trump," at Islamic Revolution Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

Tehran billboard shows a dead Trump and references to destroyed Minab elementary school

Brady Knox · July 16, 2026 9:13 am

Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham, politician and Churchillian

Michael Barone · July 16, 2026 8:58 am

Daily on Defense

Daily on Defense

US is bombing Iran at the heaviest rate since start of the war and leaning toward expanding operations further

Jamie McIntyre · July 16, 2026 7:22 am

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks during a presser following his meeting with Grand Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the head of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, not pictured, at Al Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Egypt's most prominent Muslim cleric, the sheik of Al-Azhar, has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against interfering in Arab Gulf countries or trying to spread Shiite influence. Ahmadinejad, on a landmark visit to Egypt on Tuesday, received an uneasy reception from Ahmed el-Tayeb at Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's foremost Islamic institution.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

How one leak is tearing Iran apart from the inside

Emzari Gelashvili · July 16, 2026 7:00 am

JD Vance

JD Vance and the Rogan Democrats

W. James Antle III · July 16, 2026 7:00 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives at a campaign event on, Aug. 19, 2025, at Holt Bros. BBQ in Florence, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Lindsey Graham is gone. His Middle East plan doesn’t have to die with him

Jose Lev Alvarez · July 16, 2026 6:00 am

The Strait of Hormuz.

US disables oil tanker sailing to Kharg Island in first since blockade renewed

Emily Hallas · July 15, 2026 9:57 pm

President Donald Trump departs on Marine One after speaking at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.

Trump says Iran allowed ‘wrongfully detained’ American to leave country

Emily Hallas · July 15, 2026 8:36 pm