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Two U.S. strikes hit Iran in 36 hours; Tehran retaliated against Kuwait and Bahrain, framed Hormuz as untouchable leverage, and used Lebanon's Israel deal as unifying outrage.
Today's papers tell two stories at once: a confident, almost celebratory one about Iran having permanently rewritten the rules in the Strait of Hormuz, and a quieter, more anxious one about insults flying at the president, a war bill nobody quite knows how to pay, and a Gulf-Arab
Our Bahraini compatriots are awaiting the first step," Kayhan's editor declared this week, and after a war Iran already fought on Bahraini soil, that's not a threat to dismiss
Iran has made explicit, in both rhetoric and now in formal military order: Hezbollah's survival in Lebanon is not a side issue to the Islamabad MoU - it is the trigger mechanism built into its core, and the Strait of Hormuz is the lever Tehran has chosen to enforce it.
A senior Lebanese Shia cleric has told his own community what Hezbollah has spent forty years trying to prevent them from hearing: that the men who sent their sons to die and their families into exile owe them an answer. Sheikh Ali al-Amin is not asking permission.
Khomeini's doctrine demanded the most learned jurist. His successors gave Iran a man with no published jurisprudence, no emulants, and an army behind him. This is not Wilayat al-Faqih. This is Wilayat al-Haras al-Thawri.
from the rule of the jurisprudent (Velayat-e Faqih) to the rule — in-practice of the guardsman.
Covers Operation True Promise IV (Feb 28 – March 5, 2026). All Iranian missile and drone strikes, proxy attacks, and Hezbollah operations. Includes confirmed and credibly reported events. Country headings in shaded rows. Updated as of 0600 UTC March 5, 2026. Country / Theater Tar
Tehran's most dangerous weapon is not a missile - it is a message, and it is aimed directly at Trump's base.
As Tehran strikes U.S. and Israeli strategic sites, the regime faces deepening regional isolation and a critical dependence on China and Russia to survive its most profound internal and external challenge
Tehran executes a high-stakes "Chicken Maneuver," betting that aggressive maritime threats and strategic resolve will force Washington into a favorable, "deal-oriented" retreat. Despite claims of victory over January’s "fitna," renewed university protests and President Trump’s li
Circulating claim of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issuing or threatening a jihad fatwa in defense of Khamene- unsubstantiated