We are learning more this Wednesday after President Donald Trump signaled support for the Iranian people to rise up against Tehran’s regime. During an event inside the Oval Office, Trump examined that Iran’s government is growing weaker by the day. “I understand their plight, they're being SHOT!” Trump said, adding that possibly 65,000 protesters have been killed. UCLA political scientist Dr. Benjamin Radd joins LiveNOW’s Alexandra Goldberg to analyze national security concerns as the U.S. launches new attacks on Iranian targets.
Who's leading Iran? President Trump says even Iran may not know the answer, claiming the country's leadership structure has been weakened after years of military setbacks. Libbey Dean reports from the White House.
Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 30, 2026 Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has called on Muslim nations, particularly the Gulf states, to unite against what he described as their “real enemy,” [...]
Iran's Vice President says that he would have stopped nuclear enrichment if he had known former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would have been killed. The Vice President Jafar Ghaempanah made the statement during remarks carried out by state media. This comes as the war between the U.S. and Iran marks 6 months.
As conflicting reports swirl around the fate of Iran’s ayatollah, President Donald Trump’s remarks have intensified speculation about a possible leadership vacuum inside one of America’s most powerful adversaries—and what it could mean for the [...]
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at an event marking 40 days since the burial of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq’s [...]
In mid-May, U.S. negotiators trying to reach a deal with Iran to end the war ran into a problem: They couldn't tell if the people across the table actually spoke for the country's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). - So Trump administration officials did something unconventional — they went around Iran's negotiators and reached out directly to IRGC leadership. The person they tapped for the backchannel was Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, who had something very few others do: the trust of both U.S. and IRGC leaders. Why it matters: The episode, which was detailed by three sources with direct knowledge and has not been previously reported, shows how tricky it's been for the U.S. to…
AI:The Trump administration bypassed traditional Iranian negotiators to establish a secret backchannel directly with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leadership in an effort to resolve ongoing hostilities. Following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and subsequent instability that shifted actual power to the IRGC, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard utilized Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region, as a trusted intermediary due to his personal ties within the Iranian regime. While Barzani successfully facilitated communication with IRGC General Ahmad Vahidi to verify if Tehran's political officials were actually authorized to negotiate, proposed secret meetings in Erbil failed to materialize…Open
Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 4 , 2026 Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has reportedly gone missing following recent military escalations, raising serious uncertainty about his [...]
The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed documents the arrival of the body of Iranian leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei to the Iraqi city of Karbala — the spiritual capital for over 200 million Shias — and explains why so many are drawing parallels between his killing at the hands of Trump and Netanyahu, and the slaying of the foundational figure of Shia Islam, Imam al-Hussein.
