AMERICANTHINKER - America’s Iran War Is Now A War On Risk
ChatGPT By Travis Lynch Washington can send warships, fire missiles, and declare victory. But it cannot order insurers, shipowners, and energy markets to believe the Strait of Hormuz is safe.
AXIOS (Rebecca Falconer) - US takes Iran-flagged ship into custody, Trump says
American forces stopped an Iranian -flagged cargo ship "by blowing a hole in the engineroom" after it tried to bypass a U.S. naval blockade in the Gulf of Oman, President Trump said Sunday. The big picture: Trump said Marines took the vessel, named Touska, into custody as U.S. and Iranian officials prepared to hold talks in Pakistan ahead of a looming deadline for the ceasefire ending. What he's saying: Trump posted on Truth Social that the USS Spruance "gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom." - In a separate post earlier Sunday , he threatened that if Iran doesn't accept a deal, "the United States is going to knock out…
AXIOS (Barak Ravid) - U.S. destroys 10 Iranian vessels amid worries of mines in Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military destroyed ten Iranian mine-laying naval vessels on Tuesday amid concerns that Iran is preparing to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz , President Trump said. Why it matters: A senior U.S. official told Axios the strike on the inactive ships was a preemptive measure that was a result of intelligence about Iran's operational plans. - Iran's deployment of mines would create an extreme threat for commercial shipping in the region and prevent any oil from leaving through the Strait. Approximately one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the waterway. What they're saying: Trump threatened Iran in a Truth Social post with "military consequences" at a level "never seen before" if they were to place mines in the Strait. -…
NPR (NPR Staff) - Strikes resume on Iran, U.S. military says Tehran's defenses 'severely degraded'
Israel's military said it had begun a "broad wave of strikes" in Tehran Wednesday morning. U.S. officials touted early gains, while Democrats warned the war could widen.
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Trump claims he 'might have forced' Israel's hand to attack Iran first
The clarification comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly told lawmakers Monday that Israel's plan to strike Iran prompted the United States to take preemptive action to protect troops stationed in the Middle East.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Rubio: Iran was willing to slaughter own people, imagine what they would do to us
Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the threat from Iran being mitigated from the United States.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Trump pushes back on notion that Israel forced US' hand to attack Iran
President Donald Trump pushed back on the idea that Israel forced the Trump administration's hand to attack Iran, telling ABC News that Iran was "going to attack if we didn't do it."
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - TRUMP: 'Evil' Iran was going to attack us if we didn't hit them first
President Donald Trump speaks about attacking Iran preemptively during a news conference with German Chancellor Frederich Merz.
HUFFPOST - U.S. Intel Did Not Suggest A Preemptive Strike From Iran Before U.S.-Israeli Attacks: Reports
Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S.
AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - Rubio's war remarks blow open MAGA's Israel divide
MAGA's ascendant "America First" wing erupted after Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively blamed Israel for drawing the U.S. into war with Iran. Why it matters: Rubio's remarks were the first time a Trump official had so explicitly acknowledged Israel as a driving force behind the war — landing at a moment when Americans' public support for Israel has hit historic lows. "We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action" against Iran, Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday. "We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces" by the Iranian regime. - "And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties ... And then we would…