What the US and Israel saw as a quick campaign, Iran sees as a fight for survival. Costs are rising and the end is nowhere in sight. After one month of war against Iran, one conclusion stands out more clearly than anything declared in all the press briefings: Neither the US nor Israel entered this confrontation with a plan for a long war. The campaign was conceived as a short and brutal episode, a shock operation designed to break Iran’s will, force Tehran back to the table on humiliating terms, or in the most ambitious fantasies circulating around Donald Trump’s political circle, trigger internal collapse and perhaps even regime change. Israel’s aim was somewhat different, though complementary. It wanted to inflict the maximum possible damage on Iran’s military and strategic infrastructure, weaken it for years, and reshape the regional balance through force. Yet in the first month of fighting, the central assumption behind both approaches began to collapse. Instead of folding and ge...
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An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft has been struck during an attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, the IRGC has said A key US Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control aircraft has been “100% destroyed” in an Iranian missile and drone strike on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said. The spy plane was hit along with several other US jets during Friday’s attack on the installation, located some 96 km (60 miles) southeast of Riyadh, the IRGC said in a statement on Sunday. The Saudi base was targeted “in response to hostile actions of the US terrorist army,” it read. Up to six ballistic missiles and 29 UAVs were used, leaving at least 15 US troops wounded, including five in serious condition, according to AP. Air & Space Forces Magazine, a US publication, reported the destruction of an AWACS aircraft at the Prince Sultan Air Base on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. The same day, OSINTdefender...
Demonstrators are rallying against Trump administration policies and the rising cost of living Thousands across the US have joined “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump, blaming him for the flagging economy, rising cost of living and the conflict with Iran. The demonstrations mark the third nationwide round of the “No Kings” movement, which launched nationwide protests in June 2025. The rallies are being held under the slogan “No king, no crown, we will not back down.” On Saturday, crowds gathered across major cities, suburbs, and smaller communities, singing, chanting, and holding placards, with organizers saying at least half of the rallies took place in Republican strongholds. “The rallies are a place for everybody to come and exercise their rights as Americans in a patriotic and safe way,” Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, which started the “No Kings” movement last year, told CNN. 🚨 BIG BREAKING : 🔥HOLY SMOKES: 7 million Americans in the streets TODA...
The US president has said Riyadh has to be nice to America amid the Iran war US President Donald Trump has boasted that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, is “kissing my ass” and must “be nice” to the US. Trump made the remarks on Friday at the Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s annual forum in Miami, amid the US-Israeli war against Iran, which sparked retaliation in which Saudi facilities were targeted. During his address, Trump reminisced about his ties with 90-year-old Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. “I… love the king of Saudi Arabia. What a man he is. When I was there, we bonded,” he said, recalling that the king once grabbed his arm to get up. ”They said that is the only time he has ever grabbed anybody… I said, I think he likes me. And he did like me, and he still likes me, and he is a great man to say hello to. He is a great guy with a great son,” he said. 🤣🇸🇦🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump talking about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin...
Brussels ‘elites’ are displaying an unbroken will to power over what we are allowed to think, say, and vote for About a century ago – between those two World Wars which Europeans have generously given to the history of humanity – there was a joke about Hungary: It was a monarchy without a king and a landlocked country ruled by an admiral . It was funny because it was true. Nowadays, though, we have proudly advanced. Now, we have a whole European Union, with 27 member states and 450 million people, run by an unelected German who really serves the US and has, a bit like Siegfried or Brunhilde, a special “shield” (about which more below) to protect a “democracy” administered and defined by an non-transparent, privileged, and aloof nomenklatura of equally unelected bureaucrats. Contemporary Hungary, meanwhile, is, by the sober standards of reality, by no means a perfect but a perfectly normal country , that is, neither better nor worse than most of the rest. No longer a weird monarchy...
An ongoing inquiry into the attack on a girls’ school in Minab has preliminarily pointed to US responsibility, according to media reports The Iranian National Football Team paid tribute to the victims of a suspected US strike on a girls’ school in the city of Minab during a match in Türkiye. The February 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh school came on the first day of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, killing more than 175 students and staff. Appearing on the field ahead of a match against Nigeria in the Turkish city of Antalya on Friday, the Iranian footballers held small pink and purple school backpacks and wore black armbands. 📹 اقدام زیبای بازیکنان تیم ملی فوتبال ایران حضور با کولهپشتی به یاد کودکان معصوم میناب و خواندن سرود ایران با بازوبند مشکی #WarCriminal pic.twitter.com/1bsJ9WNSct — خبرگزاری تسنیم (@Tasnimnews_Fa) March 27, 2026 Addressing an emergency session of the United Nations Human Rights Council that same day, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi argued th...