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Apr 03, 2026
Will Iran Be Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Ending the War
US Army chief
ousted mid‑war as Trump ramps up strikes on Iran
Iran latest:
The widening gap
between
rhetoric and reality
The Listening Post
Downed F15

April 04, 2026 - The U.S. military was racing on Saturday to find an American airman who bailed out of a fighter jet that was shot down over Iran, as Israel launched a heavy wave of airstrikes on Tehran, shaking homes and leaving residents desperately seeking shelter.

 

One member of the two-person crew of the U.S. F-15E fighter jet was rescued after it was destroyed, according to U.S. officials. Iranian forces were also pursuing the missing American, Iranian officials said, speaking anonymously to discuss ongoing operations. The status of the airman was unknown as of midday Saturday.

Iran latest:
The widening gap 
between
rhetoric and reality
The Listening Post
Karaj bridge

April 03, 2026 - A day after President Trump threatened to bomb Iran “back into the Stone Ages,” an  airstrike that a U.S. official said was an American attack caused at least a partial collapse of a major highway bridge, killing at least eight people, according to Iranian news outlets. A leading public health institution in Iran was also destroyed though it was unclear who was responsible. Mr. Trump on Thursday celebrated the damage to the bridge, which is on a mountainous stretch of road between Tehran and the nearby city of Karaj. He posted a video of a strike hitting the bridge and warned that more critical infrastructure would be destroyed if Iran did not “make a deal.”

Trump’s “Destroy and Deal” Foreign Policy Doctrine
Amanpour and Company
Trump

April 02, 2026 - Oil prices surged and stock markets sank on Thursday, hours after President Trump declared in a national television address that the U.S. military campaign against Iran would escalate and failed to offer a clear exit strategy, though he insisted the war was an overwhelming success. 

On Wednesday night, in his first prime-time address from the White House since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, Mr. Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” and threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” He repeated his threats to hit Iranian infrastructure, including electrical plants, unless a deal was struck.

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"This War Is Already Lost":
Spencer Ackerman &
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
on Trump's Iran Debacle
Tabriz-Iran

April 01, 2026 - President Trump said that he was considering pulling the United States out of NATO over the war with Iran, as he heaps pressure on allies to manage the fallout of a conflict he signaled he would wind down in two or three weeks.

In an interview with Britain’s Telegraph newspaper published on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he thought that U.S. membership in the military alliance was “beyond reconsideration.”

The president continued to give conflicting signals about the war, writing on Truth Social that he would not consider a cease-fire until the Strait of Hormuz was open, ...

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I Predicted This War in 2024 — Now I'm Predicting How It Ends Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Tehran

Mar 31, 2026 - A Kuwaiti oil tanker erupted in flames near Dubai on Tuesday in what its owner called Iran’s latest attack on energy targets in the Persian Gulf, as soaring gas prices in the United States pointed to the war’s widening economic fallout.

Iran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, normally a conduit for one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies, has sent the price of oil skyrocketing and raised fears about fuel supplies across the world as tankers stay away to avoid attacks.

Gasoline in the United States crossed an average of $4 a gallon on Tuesday, a threshold it hadn’t reached since August 2022.

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Professor Jiang’s
Warning Comes True 
The “Big Event” Begins
as Qatar & Tel Aviv
Are Hit
Tehran

Mar 30, 2026 - President Trump zigzagged from claims of diplomatic progress to renewed threats of destruction on Monday, sending new shocks through oil markets as he sought to pressure Iran to make a deal to end the monthlong war.

Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post that there had been “great progress” in talks with Tehran but warned that if they failed to produce an agreement, he would order the bombardment of Iranian power plants, oil infrastructure and potentially desalination plants.

Petroyuan Rising
Is Iran Triggering the
End of Dollar
Dominance
Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Tehran

Mar 29, 2026 - Israel bombarded Iran with an intense wave of airstrikes on Sunday, and Iran responded by firing ballistic missiles at Israel, even as Middle East diplomats gathered in Pakistan in hopes of finding a way to end the war.

The Trump administration has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the conflict, delivered via Pakistani mediators. Iranian officials publicly rebuffed the offer. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker, accused President Trump on Sunday of engaging in a front of diplomacy while “secretly planning a ground invasion.”

Pakistan talks seek
Iran war off-ramp
amid rising tensions
3 Persian artists

There just aren’t that many Iranian women in the art world,” says Shirin Neshat, the 66-year-old artist whose work in photography and film over the past 30 years has attracted acclaim and controversy in equal measure.

Talking with her friends, art adviser Nazy Nazhand and artist Sheree Hovsepian, she adds: “I think that the connection between the three of us is that we feel kind of rare in this community. We each play a role.”

All three women were born in Iran, but moved to the US in the 1970s and ’80s. In 1979, following the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iran Before the War

The Beauty the World

Didn’t See IRAN

Shirin Neshat film photography artist

Every Iranian woman is a threat,” says Shirin Neshat, “just by being a woman.” The artist is wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Woman, Life, Freedom”
– the slogan of the protest movement that erupted a year ago in Iran, following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who allegedly flouted her country’s strict dress code.

Since 1981, veiling in public has been mandatory for every Iranian female over the age of nine, a law enforced by the “morality” police. Neshat, speaking via Zoom, turns the lens to show me the large, airy warehouse she works in. The artist, now 66, has lived in Brooklyn since the 1990s – longer than she lived in Iran.

“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

Top 26 Iranian Films

Historically, poetry was Iran’s most prominent cultural export. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, however, movies have carried the country’s artistic banner through the threat of censorship and the regime’s crackdown on filmmakers.

 

Iranian movies are unlike anything Hollywood produces: Many break the fourth wall in their attempts to shed light on the injustices of modern Iranian society because, in a country where you can expect to be arrested multiple times during your film’s production, movies are not simply artistic expression but rather an agent in a filmmaker’s life. Yet despite this (or rather because of it), many Iranian movies are difficult to view in the West.

Forough Farokhzad

فروغ فرخزاد به عقیده‌ خیلی‌ها به عنوان زنی تنها در آستانه‌ی فصلی سرد، سال‌ها از زمان خودش جلوتر بود.کسی که ایمان آورده بود به آغاز فصلی سرد ولی باز هم عقیده داشت بالاخره به آفتاب سلامی دوباره خواهیم کرد. فروغ را باید در شعرهایش دید وقتی برای نخستین بار یادمان آورد که “پرواز را به خاطر بسپار، پرنده مردنیست” و چه کسی است که نداند نجات دهنده در گور خفته است؟! فروغ فرخزاد زن‌ترین زن شاعر تمام‌ دوران‌هاست! او همواره به دنبال شکستن تابوها، زیر ذره‌بین انتقاد و قضاوت بی‌رحمانه‌ی مردمان نامهربان روزگار خویش بود. فروغ را بخوانید تا روح زنانه‌ی زندگی را لمس‌ کنید تا بفهمید چه ظلم‌ها که در این منطقه‌ی جغرافیایی بر تن زنانگی نرفته است. فروغ شاید بارزترین نماد انقلاب زنانه‌ای باشد که سال‌هاست در قلب تمام زنان خاورمیانه‌ی غمگین شروع شده است. باشد که این خانه دیگر سیاه نباشد و باشد که آنکس که ما را می‌بوسد دیگر در ذهن خود طناب دار ما را نبافد چرا که گیسوان ما بوی عدالت، آزادی و آزادگی می‌دهند. انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹

انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹

Sanaz Toossi on her Pulitzer

May 9, 2023 - Sanaz Toossi had just cleared security at the San Francisco airport when her cellphone rang at midday Monday. It was her agent, telling the 31-year-old playwright she had won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for “English,” her first produced play.

Toossi, who had written the play as a graduate school thesis project at New York University, was in disbelief. “I asked, ‘Are you sure?’ And when she said, ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘Could you please just double-check?’”

The prize was real, and as Toossi boarded the plane home to Los Angeles, her phone began buzzing with congratulatory messages not only from around the United States, but also from Iran, where her parents were born and where the play is set.

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Golden State Ballet principal dancer Tara Ghassemieh is used to taking command of the stage. From the Sugar Plum Fairy to the Black Swan, she’s tackled her share of lead and featured roles. But recently, she stepped into a new role: pacifist-activist.
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Mahsa Amini Act
Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar visits her homeland every year to mark the day that her parents were murdered in 1998.

She opens her family home in Tehran to dissidents and catches up on the latest developments.

Now back in her studio in Germany, she reveals her latest works and tells RFE/RL how her most recent trip to Iran revealed a society going through profound change that the regime was increasingly unable to control.
emad

April 8, 2023 - It was incredibly risky to film or photograph the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the September death of Mahsa Amini. In the privacy of their homes and studios, however, some Iranian artists began to take inspiration from the scenes on the streets. Their work reflects the hope, turmoil and tragedy of the popular uprising and the violent crackdown that followed.

After months of rising repression, the demonstrations have died down in recent weeks. But the protest movement, and its slogan of “Women, life, freedom,” has changed the country after more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, prompting young Iranians to dream of a different future for their country — and to render it on canvas.

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Mahsa Amini
Mahsa Amini
art adviser Nazy Nazhand

Nazy Nazhand was born in Tehran in the 1980s in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. But she remembers the curfews, alarms, bombs and missiles of the Iran-Iraq war. She remembers feeling skeptical that taking cover in parts of the home she shared with her parents and her siblings would keep her safe. In 1985 her family arrived in Athens as refugees. In 1987 they immigrated to Alexandria, Virginia.

 

“It seems like somebody else’s past, to be honest,” she said, speaking in a Zoom interview from New York City, where she has lived for almost two decades. “But all the trauma comes back.”

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Iran Nation Wide Strikes
Shirin Neshat film photography artist

The exiled Iranian is one of the world's most important artists, whose works also cover women's rights in Iran. She speaks about her new film "Land of Dreams" and the situation in Iran.

Shirin Neshat is an award-winning Iranian visual artist, whose works as a photographer and filmmaker have focused on women, identity, politics and Iran.

She's been living in exile in the United States since 1979. Her latest film, "Land of Dreams," will be released in German theaters on November 3. It is a fictional story about an Iranian woman balancing her Iranian past and the American culture she was raised in.

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"Woman, Life, Freedom"
in Iran – and What It Means for the Rest of the World | Golshifteh Farahani

Firouz Naderi Iranian American scientist at NASA

In May 2023, Dr. Naderi experienced a life-altering event that resulted in paralysis from the neck down. He sustained a fall in conjunction with a cardiac episode. As a consequence, he suffered an extensive neck injury that involved damage to the spinal cord. The ensuing paralysis required surgical intervention, and some level of recovery was anticipated within a four to five month period. However, his twitter and Instagram accounts announced his unfortunate passing due to this incident on June 9, 2023.

WATCH: Women and girls are still protesting in Iran. Here’s why

PBS News

Gravitas Plus: China, Iran & Russia to create a new World Order?  - WION

How a women's-led counter-revolution is reshaping Iran • FRANCE 24 English

گزارشی درباره نایاک؛ صدای ایران یا لابی جمهوری اسلامی در آمریکا؟

،با درود

بدینوسلیه اعلام میکنیم وب سایت ایران تایمز یک رسانۀ اینترنتی مستقل با هدف پخش و بازپخش صدای آزادی خواهانۀ مردم ایران می باشد و به هیچ حزب و سازمان  سیاسی وابسته نمی باشد

،با سپاس

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