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The U.S.–Israeli offensive against Iran aims to settle a 24‑year dispute over Tehran’s nuclear effort, yet experts on proliferation caution it could backfire and push the regime toward a covert bomb. Tehran has repeatedly asserted that its nuclear work is peaceful and that it has no

It required months for the false statements of the Bush administration concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to surface, after an invasion, a regime change, a probe, and finally the revelation. By contrast, the Trump administration’s alerts about an imminent Iranian danger emerged within a single afternoon. On

Iran faced a day of unusual military and diplomatic strain on Tuesday as US airstrikes raised the death count in the country beyond 800 and the headquarters of the Assembly of Experts, the group tasked with choosing a successor to the slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, were bombed. It would

Prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Forlì are probing an ambulance driver on suspicion of killing five senior patients. All the questionable deaths occurred while or shortly after the patients were being moved in an ambulance driven by the 27‑year‑old, the victims’ lawyers told CuriosityNews. Sources familiar

Fear, resistance and muted rejoicing blended into daily routines in Tehran, locals reported, as the city continued to endure strikes from U.S. and Israeli forces. Inhabitants noted that many families had relocated to rural areas or were attempting to do so, convinced it offered greater safety from military targets.

Compiling statements from U.S. and Israeli officials about the strike on Iran, the operation seems aimed at delivering the greatest possible blow to the nation’s core power structures—chiefly its nuclear and missile initiatives and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The overarching aim, as repeatedly voiced by