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YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - Saudi Arabia RETALIATES after drone strikes shut down key oil pipeline Wed Sep 16 07:26:25 2026

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FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer analyzes the drone strikes that shut down Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline and the kingdom's retaliatory response on 'The Claman Countdown.' #fox #foxbusiness #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #theclamancountdown #saudiarabia #saudi #dronestrikes #droneattack #oil #oilpipeline #energy #middleeast #retaliation #geopolitics #jonathanschanzer #schanzer #national_security #foreignpolicy #conflict #terrorism #markets

YOUTUBE (LiveNOW from FOX) - Trump threatens "Economic D-Day" against Iran & allies Thu Aug 20 11:15:40 2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to put more economic pressure against Iran and its allies. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote in part, "ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences." LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow is joined by Edmund Fitton-Brown, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, to discuss what this means for the U.S.-Iran war going forward.

YOUTUBE (LiveNOW from FOX) - Trump threatens to bomb Oman over Iran Strait of Hormuz deal Tue Aug 18 11:33:24 2026

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President Trump on Monday warned Oman not to interfere with U.S. negotiations with Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, Trump said, “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s--- out of them. This comes as the U.S. and Iran have yet to come to the table on a deal. Joe Jacks with the FDD weighs in on the conflict.

YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - DEADLINE DAY: Iran DENIES reported backchannel talks with US Tue Aug 18 00:22:11 2026

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Ret. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler and FDD Iran program senior director Behnam Ben Taleblu discuss the Trump administration’s strategy toward Iran as President Donald Trump says the regime wants to make a deal on ‘The Bottom Line.’ #fox #foxbusiness #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #thebottomline #trump #donaldtrump #iran #tehran #nuclear #nucleardeal #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #diplomacy #national security #military #defense #iranregime #behnambentaleblu #bentaleblu #brentsadler #sadler

SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel's hands Wed Aug 12 13:35:51 2026

Ultra-Zionist Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui is the man behind the curtain of Beirut's normalization talks with Israel.

Above: Antoun Sehnaoui with his girlfriend, former US envoy to Lebanon Morgan Ortagus, at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this April As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-”philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives – and a fascist Christian goon squad – in Beirut and Washington dedicated to doing Israel’s dirty work. In late July, Lebanese daily L’Orient Today exposed a wealthy banking heir named Antoun Sehnaoui as a driving force behind recent efforts to push the country to normalize relations with Israel as the apartheid state continues to occupy hundreds of square miles of southern Lebanon. This Substack is…Open

SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Mysterious pay-for-play antisemitism attacks now targeting Canada. Who benefits? Mon Jun 22 23:53:42 2026

Only one nation in the world is milking these attacks for political benefit. It isn't the one being blamed for them.

By Michelle Witte A wave of strange property attacks targeting Jewish sites in Canada is attributed to apolitical youth paid in crypto. The violence follows the same playbook seen in Australia and the UK. While Iran and Palestine solidarity campaigners are blamed, Israel exploits the tension. Canada is the latest in a string of nations to attribute a wave of high-profile but mostly low-consequence attacks to a mysterious online “gun-for-hire” plot. If Canada follows the pattern set in Australia, Europe and the UK, the “foreign entity” its government is already blaming for orchestrating the petty violence will be identified as Iran. According to the Toronto Star , “Police believe that several young people have been hired to carry…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - FDD’s President Has No Idea What To Do About Hormuz Sat May 23 04:07:01 2026

With the government finally pursuing exactly the strategy he prescribed, Clifford May admitted he is stumped about handling its consequences. The post FDD’s President Has No Idea What To Do About Hormuz appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs FDD’s President Has No Idea What To Do About Hormuz With the government finally pursuing exactly the strategy he prescribed, Clifford May admitted he is stumped about handling its consequences. Few think tanks have enjoyed more success with the Trump administration than the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the pro-Israel lobby group founded and led by Clifford May, its president. FDD has aggressively lobbied for sanctions and military action against Iran for years. This week, as the government pursues the very strategy he prescribed, May admitted that he has no idea what to do about its consequences. May was otherwise bullish at the Thursday, May 21 lunch event. When asked what the Trump administration should…Open

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Red lines Trump and Xi promised not to touch | On Balance Full Show Fri May 15 12:17:36 2026

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On this episode of "On Balance": Leland Vittert examines President Trump’s historic trip to China. The Chinese have literally rolled out the red carpet for Trump, but the stakes have never been higher. Ahead of Trump's meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, China has presented its four red lines. Steve Yates, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, retired Gen. Philip Breedlove and Elaine Dezenski, senior director at the FDD Center on Economic and Financial Power, provide insight into what's at stake. Meanwhile, can China solve President Trump's economic woes at home? As the war in Iran rages on, gas prices are soaring and the cost of living is getting more unaffordable. Trump may be hoping a meeting with Xi will fix his problems,…

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Andrew Day) - Israel-Firsters Won’t Let Trump Get an Iran Deal Fri May 8 04:12:26 2026

The president keeps following the men who led him into a quagmire. The post Israel-Firsters Won’t Let Trump Get an Iran Deal appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Israel-Firsters Won’t Let Trump Get an Iran Deal The president keeps following the men who led him into a quagmire. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Here’s a lesson President Donald Trump should have learned a long time ago: Israel and its American lobby cannot be satisfied. No matter how much you give them, they always want more. Right now, they want Trump to restart the war with Iran, Israel’s chief adversary in the Middle East. Will Trump give them what they want? I fear he will. In early February, weeks before Trump launched the war, I argued in The American Conservative that Iran was his “Israeli influence test.” War with Iran would advance Israeli interests, not American ones, so it seemed a good test case…Open

SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Trump's new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist who denounced negotiations with Iran Tue May 5 10:10:38 2026

Tapped as Steve Witkoff's Iran advisor, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with Iran's elected leaders.

By Max Blumenthal The latest addition to the Trump administration’s Iran negotiation team, Nick Stewart, has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Stewart, “it’s important that we disabuse people of that notion” that anyone among Iran’s current leadership could serve as an “honest broker.” Stewart aruged that even the reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian must be treated as an inveterate enemy because he is “a part of the theocratic, tyrannical, authoritarian government of Iran.” He insisted that Pezeshkian “is not a reformer and we shouldn’t buy into that narrative, because what it does is it throws us off our guard.” This Substack is reader-supported. To…Open