Explainers
Putin Backs Iran at St. Petersburg Meeting — Araghchi Says “US Has Achieved None of Its War Goals”
The most important diplomatic meeting of Monday produced Russia's most explicit pro-Iran statement of the entire 58-day war — and a declaration from Araghchi...
Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Trump Rushed Out, Suspect Cole Allen Charged
The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner — the event that brings together the president, the press, and Washington's political class in one room —...
Iran Resumes Flights After 50 Days — What Ordinary Iranians Are Living Through Right Now
While the US and Iran trade escalatory naval orders and mine-laying operations in the Strait of Hormuz, something quieter...
USS George H.W. Bush Arrives — Three US Aircraft Carriers Are Now in the Middle East
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush completed one of the longest carrier deployments in recent US Navy history...
Pentagon Tells Congress: Clearing Hormuz Mines Will Take Six Months — After Any Deal
The economic damage of the Iran war will not end when the diplomacy does. The Pentagon delivered a classified...
The “Indefinite” Ceasefire Has a Hidden Deadline — Iran Has 3 to 5 Days to Engage
The headline said "indefinite." The Truth Social post said "until such time as their proposal is submitted." But inside...
White House: Iran seizing non-US ships is “not a ceasefire violation” — the logic explained
Iran fired on three commercial ships and seized two of them in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday morning....
Why Trump Said “No Extension” and Then Extended It — The Logic Behind the Reversal
The most predictable unpredictable development of the Iran war has happened again. Trump set a hard deadline. He threatened...