Iran Escalates Tensions With US, Sending Gunboats To Harass US Tanker and Drone To Confront US Aircraft Carrier

Iran escalated tensions with the United States on Tuesday, harassing a U.S.-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz hours after sending a drone toward a U.S. aircraft carrier—an aggressive move that ended with an American fighter jet shooting the drone down.

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Kicking and Screaming Against America and Israel

In the 1970s, after the Six-Day War had time to sink in, an impressive number of Western academics, journalists, politicians, diplomats, spooks, and especially oil executives gave Israel a centripetal eminence in the Middle East that neither its population, geography, faith, wealth, nor even military accomplishments merited. Thirteen hundred years of Islamic history over 3.8 million square miles started getting boiled down to onerous and acrimonious conversations about the contemporary bloody wrestling matches between Jews and Arabs on less than 11,000 square miles of the eastern Mediterranean littoral. Modern Middle Eastern studies, where certainly the most passionate if not the most accomplished students gravitated, became battlefields where anti-Zionist sentiments usually proved triumphant.

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Harvard Lecturer on 'Women Leaders' To Appear at Al Jazeera Conference With Hamas Chief, Iranian Foreign Minister

A Harvard lecturer who writes a column for Zeteo, the anti-Israel blog of former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, is slated to speak at a conference in Qatar next month with a top Hamas official and Iran’s foreign minister, who has denied the regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

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'The Next Attack Will Be Far Worse': Trump Warns Iranian Regime To Swear Off Nuclear Program for Good or Face US Strike

President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Iran that "the next attack will be far worse" than the June 2025 strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites if the country does not relinquish its nuclear program for good in a new agreement with the United States, prompting a flurry of threats from Tehran.

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Palestinian Authority Promised Terrorists More Than $200 Million in ‘Pay-To-Slay’ Payments After it 'Scrapped' Program, State Department Tells Congress

The State Department formally determined this month that the Palestinian Authority paid more than $200 million to terrorists and their families in 2025, the same year PA president Mahmoud Abbas claimed he ended the "pay-to-slay" program, according to a nonpublic notice provided to Congress and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Iranian Regime Claims It Tested a Long-Range Missile That Can Hit US Eastern Seaboard

Iran claimed this week to have successfully tested its first long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a capability that would enable Tehran to strike the eastern seaboard of the United States, according to regime-controlled outlets.

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IDF Discovers ‘Dozens of Weapons’ in Gaza Compound, Indicating Hamas Has No Plans To Disarm as US Begins Phase Two of Peace Plan

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday discovered a weapons cache in southern Gaza, suggesting Hamas is rearming even as the United States moves toward phase two of President Donald Trump’s peace plan—a plan that requires Hamas disarmament.

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'An Acceptance of Violence Against Civilians': Campus Activists Spread Official Hamas and Hezbollah Propaganda Materials

American anti-Israel campus activists and protest groups have been amplifying propaganda directly from Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations, according to a study from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

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'Moderate' Abigail Spanberger Appoints Two Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason University Board

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) has appointed two Qatari lobbyists to serve on George Mason University’s board of visitors, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.

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Exposing Our Enemies’ Weaknesses—and Our Own

The nationwide protests roiling Iran demonstrate the tremendous courage of the Iranian people, who brave hailstorms of bullets to call for a new and better government. They also reveal how the sweeping changes wrought by the information revolution create grave vulnerabilities for America’s adversaries. But the United States can only take advantage if it stops making its own share of mistakes.

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