Who’s winning this war, anyway? Speaking at the UN on Tuesday, President Donald Trump painted a grim picture of the current state of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military forces: “As a result of Operation Epic Fury,” Trump declared, “all 159 ships of their navy are now lying at the bottom of the sea. Likewise, their air […]
At the UN, Trump Gives Iran’s ‘Vile Regime’ a Stark Choice
New in PJ Media: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly with his characteristic directness and forthrightness, which had a particular impact in that hall of evasion, diversion, obfuscation and lies. He made it abundantly clear that the time for temporizing regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran is over, and he said that both […]
Iranian top dog says Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. fulfills its commitments
Ghalibaf is unlikely to be frightened over Trump’s threats at the UN. It’s the winner who dictates terms to the loser. The Islamic Republic is still in power, and so it considers itself to have won its war with the U.S., and now it is dictating terms. The U.S. is likely to come around, in […]
Iran’s Economy Circles the Drain
More bad news for Iran’s long-suffering people, just when you thought it could not be worse, can be found here: “Tehran ‘ashamed’ as Iranians struggle to make ends meet,” by Behrouz Turani, Iran International, September 18, 2026: Iran’s economic hardship has grown so acute that senior government officials are increasingly acknowledging in public the scale […]
Representative of Iran’s supreme leader says ‘resistance against the enemy is the greatest field of jihad’
Imam al-Zaman is the Twelfth Imam, who is, as Alam al-Huda explains here, in “occultation,” and will supposedly return at a time of great persecution of the Muslims. Note that Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Alam al-Huda, the representative of Iran’s supreme leader in Khorasan Razavi, says all this. The supreme leader himself, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not […]
Iran’s Pezeshkian heads to New York City to address the UN General Assembly
Why is he being allowed into the United States? Why was he issued a visa? Would Hitler have been allowed to address the UN in New York City in the middle of World War II, if the UN had existed at that time? Pezeshkian is certain to present anti-Western, anti-American propaganda that the far-left establishment […]
How Iran’s Young People Survive
The rial continues to sink. In 1979, when Khomeini first came to power, one dollar was worth 70 rials. Now one dollar is worth 2.35 million rials. Fuel prices have just doubled. The official unemployment rate is 9%; the real rate is 33%. The year-on-year inflation rate is 85%. Forty million Iranians — half the […]
The Houthi War With Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Government, and Its Effect on the US-Iran War and Global Oil Prices
The outbreak of war between the Houthis and the Yemen government and Saudi Arabia was expected for years, since the days of Joe Biden. The Houthis were emboldened as they witnessed the woeful failure of Biden’s Red Sea naval coalition efforts, which did little or nothing to stymie the resilient and determined group. Now there […]
Iran’s Al Qaeda Alliance Creeps Out Into the Open
“This isn’t just a regional problem. It has global implications.” Al Qaeda and Iran had a longtime relationship with Hezbollah providing some of the training and 9/11 hijackers passing through Iran. The head of Al Qaeda is living in Iran (and it would have made sense to take him out while we were bombing Iran anyway.) When […]
Canadian government reportedly granted former Iran vice president’s son millions in contracts
The horrifying implications of this news should be shocking to read, but those who have been paying attention to Canada’s relationship with Iran won’t be surprised: Canadian senior security analyst: If Islamic Republic of Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada Canada: Pro-Iran NGO president praises Khamenei, chants ‘death to America’ outside US […]