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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - Iran War Day 133: Future of Interim Peace Deal Uncertain

State of the Union: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz plunged after a series of U.S. strikes on Iran. The post Iran War Day 133: Future of Interim Peace Deal Uncertain appeared first on The American Conservative .

The future of the Iran War remained uncertain on Friday, the war’s 133rd day, near the end of a week in which the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes, the U.S. seemingly withdrew from the memorandum of understanding to end the conflict, a series of unclaimed strikes hit Iran, and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell significantly. The series of unclaimed airstrikes hit Iran Thursday as Tehran prepared to bury its assassinated, former supreme leader and after the U.S. said it had finished its own attacks. The strikes have given rise to speculation about which country is responsible. The secretary for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, said on Friday that “any attack on infrastructure will be…Open

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - Hitting China’s leaders where it hurts

Originally posted by AND Magazine

Washington is taking another crack at the one thing that really scares Xi Jinping. The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is investigating the wealth of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – that’s Xi Jinping, and the other six members of the Politburo Standing Committee, along with the full 25-member Politburo. The FY 2026 Intelligence Authorization Act (Section 513) requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to draft the report – and to look at assets, financial holdings, real estate, and business interests – to include those held outside China. The report will also include the ‘cut outs’ and ‘fronts’ enabling and obscuring Xi and top officials’ ownership. The final report is due out…Open