By staff writer

He keeps saying 'obliterated.' The missiles keep flying.

Iran’s sustained barrages expose the impossibility of the Pentagon’s claims

TEHRAN — U.S. President Donald Trump stood before the world to announce the commencement of the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran on February 28, 2026, a campaign he promised would "obliterate" the military infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

By Xavier Villar

Iran and the governance of maritime circulation

MADRID – Four weeks into the U.S and Israeli offensive against Iran, the centre of gravity has shifted from contested airspace to a narrow maritime corridor less than 30 kilometres wide. The Strait of Hormuz, long treated by Western planners as an artery requiring permanent openness, remains physically navigable. It has not been closed. What has changed is the condition under which passage occurs.

U.S. aircraft losses expose vulnerabilities to Iran’s expanding offensive capabilities

TEHRAN – The aviation losses sustained by U.S. forces since February 28 have become one of the clearest indicators of the operational pressures facing American and allied airpower in the Persian Gulf. 

Iran’s offensive reach reflected in U.S. base disruptions and confirmed fatalities

TEHRAN – Since the beginning of the joint U.S.–Israeli aggression on February 28, the regional security environment surrounding Iran has placed sustained pressure on American military installations and personnel across the Persian Gulf.

By Garsha Vazirian

The West’s quiet admission that Iran’s offensive power refuses to vanish

The strategic reckoning Washington never wanted

TEHRAN — In the smoke and sirens of the illegal campaign of agression against Iran that began on February 28, 2026, the confident Western predictions of a swift Iranian military collapse have been replaced by a somber, almost startled admission of Tehran’s endurance.

By Maedeh Zaman Fashami

“Operation Epstein Fury”: How the Public Renamed a War Meant to Distract

“Operation Epstein Fury” is the name that part of the American public has given to the military operation carried out by a U.S.–Israel coalition against Iran. According to some analysts, one of the hidden aims of these attacks may have been to push the controversial Jeffrey Epstein case and Donald Trump’s alleged connections to it, out of the spotlight.

Real target of US-Israel war on Iran: Iranians’ energy resources & future

TEHRAN- For twenty-five days, the people of Iran have endured relentless bombardment. The US-Israel military campaign, launched on February 28, has claimed Iranian lives, targeted the country’s nuclear facilities, and struck civilian infrastructure including schools and markets.

By Afshin Majlesi

Can elimination change the game?

TEHRAN – The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not just the killing of a political leader but part of a broader effort to weaken Iran’s ideological system, disrupt a long-standing revolutionary movement, and remove what many in the West policymaking circles viewed as a central obstacle to influence in West Asia.

By Sheida Sabzehvari

A war of choice, chosen by Israel

TEHRAN - U.S. President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran not in the interest of the United States, but for Israel. That is the view of prominent American figures who have criticized the illegal attacks.

By Garsha Vazirian

Iran is the graveyard of American hegemony

How a war meant to signal dominance instead broadcasts systemic exhaustion to the entire globe

TEHRAN — As the smoke of "Operation Epic Fury" drifts over the ruins of UNESCO sites and the shattered remains of air-defense batteries across the Middle East, a new geopolitical reality is being forged in the heat of the fire.

Forty-seven years unbroken: How Iran outlasted every U.S. attempt to force its surrender

TEHRAN - The latest U.S.–Israel assault on Iran began on February 28. Missiles streaked across the sky, striking command centers, air defense sites, political institutions, and civilian infrastructure — including a school, where nearly 170 people were killed, most of them students.