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Capital city of Iran
As of the USNI Fleet and Marine Tracker snapshot on Jan. 5, 2026, none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were shown operating inside the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility, ...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Donald J. Trump; the public records and reporting instead show perio...
There is no evidence that Russia has declared war on the United States because of the unfolding crisis in Iran; reporting instead shows Moscow watching Iran closely, deepening tactical ties with Tehra...
Conspiracy claims alleging Israel or its leaders secretly orchestrated high-profile assassinations or covertly control regional militias have circulated widely; recent reporting shows a mix of confirm...
Yes — there have been arrest warrants tied to Donald J. Trump, most notably a local warrant issued after a 2023 Fulton County indictment; international requests and media reports have sometimes sugges...
Reports of deaths in the current Iran protests diverge sharply: independent human-rights groups documenting verifiable deaths put the toll in the dozens, activist-run tallies and some media/doctor acc...
Iranian state media broadcast imagery from the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump alongside Persian text widely translated as “This time, the bullet won’t miss,” an a...
The $1.7 billion cash transfer in January–February 2016 was formally a settlement of a decades‑old Iran‑U.S. claims tribunal case and was timed alongside the release of detained Americans, a linkage t...
The $1.7 billion cash settlement acknowledged by the Obama administration resolved a longstanding arbitration claim and coincided with the release of detained Americans, producing both a short-lived r...
Three recurring explanations appear across the supplied reporting for Donald Trump’s removals of senior military officers: public contradiction of his claims by intelligence (notably the firing of Lt....
The Cradle is an independent, journalist-driven outlet that specialises in West Asian geopolitics and often publishes coverage critical of Israeli policy and Western positions . Publicly available ass...
A rapid, decisive “defeat” of Iran—meaning the immediate toppling of the Islamic Republic or its complete military incapacitation—is not realistically attainable in the near term given the regime’s re...
Operation Midnight Hammer was a coordinated, long-range U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear sites executed primarily by a large air strike package that emphasized stealth, deception, and precision munition...
A growing body of science and reporting identifies hotspots where “Day Zero” — the point when local water demand exceeds supply and taps run perilously low — is already a realistic near-term risk, not...
Reports and commentary show Venezuela is closely aligned with both Cuba and Iran; recent diplomatic and security developments mention Cuba, Iran, Russia, China and Hezbollah as external backers of the...
The Trump administration’s 2018 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal produced immediate and sustained consequences: the United States reimposed sanctions that reshaped global trade with Iran and trig...
Public evidence that has provided intelligence to European countries is a mix of acknowledged document-sharing, investigative media reporting and academic research documenting operational contacts — n...
framed its 2025 role in – exchanges as discreet facilitation and a trusted back‑channel—passing messages, hosting contacts in and deliberately keeping a low public profile—rather than front‑line publi...
The preponderance of public reporting and security assessments identifies Iran as Hamas’s principal state patron, providing sustained financial, military and technical support over decades . At the sa...
There is no evidence in the reporting provided that Denmark exposed the identities of Mossad agents to Iran; contemporary accounts from 2018 say the flow of information went the other way — Israeli in...