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Jul 16, 2026 - The United States and Iran escalated their attacks overnight, even as the two countries signaled that they were open to diplomacy to end a war that has now narrowed its focus to control of the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump welcomed Iran’s decision on Wednesday to release Dena Karari, a dual American-Iranian citizen who had been charged with espionage and held for two years, describing it as a good-will gesture. Separately, in a speech broadcast on Iranian state television on Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the country’s top negotiator, ...
John Mearsheimer: America's Iran War
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Russia's Power
Jul 15, 2026 - The United States and Iran exchanged strikes for a fifth consecutive day on Wednesday, with both sides showing no sign of backing down as they entered a new stage of the war.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said on social media that it launched a new wave of strikes on military targets in Iran. It said it had targeted “coastal defense systems and cruise missile storage and launch sites” on Greater Tunb island in the Strait of Hormuz, as it seeks to degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels in the critical waterway for oil and gas shipping.
US-Iran Tensions: Will Hormuz Blockade Trigger a Global Oil Crisis? Col (R) Macgregor Explains
Jul 14, 2026 - President Trump on Tuesday walked back a plan he had announced a day earlier to charge a fee on each ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz in return for providing security. But as he backtracked on strategy and ordered a new round of attacks on Iran, Mr. Trump’s path out of the monthslong conflict remained unclear.
Tuesday’s strikes signified a return to the kind of intensive bombing campaign that characterized the start of the war more than four months ago, and came as both Washington and Tehran are seeking to assert control over the strait, a crucial transit route for oil and gas shipments.
U.S. CAUGHT IN ‘ESCALATION TRAP’: IRAN NOT DETERRED FROM FIGHTING BACK
Prof. Robert Pape
Jul 13, 2026 - After another night of attacks, the United States and Iran appeared to be reverting to the heightened conflict that existed before their cease-fire, as they exchanged incendiary rhetoric and President Trump said he was reinstating the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Iran, threatening to escalate the confrontation further, vowed revenge for the killing of its supreme leader, and appeared undeterred by nearly a week of U.S. strikes.
Mr. Trump said the United States would take control of the disputed Strait of Hormuz, charging a 20 percent fee on all goods passing through it
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Jul 12, 2026 - Iran fired at U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf on Sunday after the United States conducted its most intense round of strikes against Iran in recent days, with no signs of diplomatic progress to try to salvage a cease-fire that has been steadily unraveling.
U.S. Central Command said that the Iranian navy had attacked a Cypriot-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, and that in response, it had hit about 140 Iranian military targets, the heaviest U.S. bombardment in nearly a week of back-and-forth attacks. Iran confirmed that it had struck what it called a “violating” vessel in the strait, ...
Analysis: US bombs Iranian port cities as IRGC closes
Strait of Hormuz
Jul 11, 2026 - President JD Vance last month said that he didn’t trust the Iranians to hold up their end of the deal. He was heading to Switzerland to try anyway.
The vice president has closely linked himself to the fragile peace talks. The political gamble’s risk came into sharper focus this week as the ceasefire unraveled and the U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran, driving up oil prices and sparking new headaches for Republicans worried about the midterms.
Vance more than any other politician has his fate tied to the Iran war, but aides and allies believe his early skepticism of the conflict ...
John Mearsheimer: “Enormous Damage” of U.S.’s Iran War Loss
Jul 10, 2026 - A series of unclaimed airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks have again raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic.
The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hit areas across southern Iran. The country’s theocracy hasn’t directly blamed anyone for the strikes, though one lawmaker issued a warning to the United Arab Emirates over allegedly providing support to the United States in its campaign against Iran.
Gulf Arab states, which repeatedly have been targeted by Iran since the war began Feb. 28, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday over the strikes.
Prof John Mearsheimer Iran Hardliners
Proven Right
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.
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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.
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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.
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!❤️🕊️🌹
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mahsa Amini
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.”
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.
"Woman, Life, Freedom"
in Iran – and What It Means for the Rest of the World | Golshifteh Farahani
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.
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