Tag: Irans
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U.S. crude prices fall more than 4% as Israel is not expected to strike Iran’s oil industry
U.S. crude futures fell more than 4% on Tuesday, after Israel reportedly told the U.S. that it is not planning to strike Iran’s oil facilities, relieving fears that a major supply disruption in the Middle East is on the horizon. Israel plans to limit its retaliatory strikes in Iran to military targets and does not…
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How will Israel retaliate against Iran’s missile attack?
Netanyahu has made it clear he wants to change “the balance of power” in the Middle East, as he said last weekend. So far, that has meant assaulting Gaza and weakening Hamas, before obliterating Hezbollah’s command structure, including killing its powerful leader Hassan Nasrallah. Both these fronts have come at a high cost to Palestinian…
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After Iran’s attack on Israel, the Biden White House is desperately trying to avert a wider war in the Mideast
The Biden administration’s monthslong effort to avert a full-blown war between Israel and Iran is now being put to the most difficult test yet after Tehran on Tuesday launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel. The administration has worked around the clock for the past year trying to avoid a direct clash between its…
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Iran’s history of elaborate election interference efforts, before the Trump campaign hack
On Friday, U.S. authorities accused three Iranian men of stealing and leaking files from former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, the largest “hack and leak” election influence operation since Russia’s breach of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Democratic organizations in 2016. Iran’s influence efforts using hacked material from the Trump campaign follow what the United States…
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Is Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ collapsing under Israeli attacks?
Israeli airstrikes that wiped out Hezbollah’s top leadership and left its internal security in tatters are a devastating blow to Iran’s decadeslong project of wielding power in the Middle East through proxies, former U.S. intelligence officials and analysts say. In a matter of weeks, Iran and its most important proxy, Hezbollah, have suffered catastrophic security failures. Israel sabotaged the…
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Ken Klippenstein publishes Iran’s hacked Trump campaign document on Substack
An American journalist who runs an independent newsletter published a document Thursday that appears to have been stolen from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — the first public posting of a file that is believed to be part of a dossier that federal officials say is part of an Iranian effort to manipulate the U.S. election.…