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March 27, 2026 Iran Blocks 2 Chinese Vessels From Transiting Strait of Hormuz 2 Chinese-Flagged Vessels Turned Back: Iran blocked two Chinese-flagged container vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on March 27, according to the MarineTraffic tracking... March 27, 2026 As Chinese Robotics Industry Surges, Senate Considers Limited Federal Procurement Ban Androids may dream of electric sheep, but Washington isn’t staying quiet on foreign robots. On March 26, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a bill intended to exclude certain... March 26, 2026 Israel Eliminates Top IRGC Navy Commander Responsible for Closing Strait of Hormuz Navy Commander Killed: Israel said on March 26 that it had eliminated Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, in the port city of Bandar... March 26, 2026 Russia and China are losers in US war on Iran Excerpt The United States and Israel are devastating the parasitic Islamic regime that squandered the wealth of Iran for decades and exported terror across the Middle East. Understanding the biggest... March 26, 2026 Interim Venezuelan president ousts defense chief as Washington makes limited progress in Caracas Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez replaced longtime Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López with General Gustavo Gonzalez López on March 18, followed by implementing a sweeping reshuffle of... March 26, 2026 Why seizing Iran’s Kharg Island could be a trap of America’s own making The battle for the Persian Gulf could be entering a new phase as thousands of US Marines are reportedly due to arrive in the Middle East on Friday, the same day that President Donald Trump’s... March 26, 2026 Trump’s Oil Waiver Gives Iran a Dangerous Financial Lifeline The United States has a long history of trading with its enemies. During World War I, Congress passed the Trading With the Enemy Act to regulate—not prohibit—commercial transactions... March 26, 2026 Iran’s New Security Chief Marches to the Same Tune as His Predecessors Regime officials in Tehran are playing musical chairs with vacant positions. Israel’s elimination of Ali Larijani on March 16 has left Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in the hands of... March 26, 2026 U.S. Redirects Tehran Regime’s Illicit Wealth to Its Victims Tehran is getting evicted. For about three decades, the clerical regime has owned prime real estate in Midtown Manhattan. On March 23, the Southern District of New York announced its entry into a settlement... March 26, 2026 Turkish intelligence chief hosts Hamas leaders in Istanbul Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), hosted senior leaders of Hamas in Istanbul on March 22, underscoring Ankara’s continued engagement with the Islamist... March 26, 2026 Iran Is Using Its Citizens As Human Shields As U.S. and Israeli bombs and missiles seek their targets across Iran, the regime is drafting the population into service as human shields. While the war dismantles the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities,... March 25, 2026 Trump’s 15-point Iran truce plan would let one terrifying threat slide Four weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined assault on Iran’s clerical regime, the war has reached a tipping point. Over the last few days, President Donald Trump has spoken... March 25, 2026 8 Key Regime Figures Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran March 25, 2026 FCC Ban on Foreign-Produced Routers Targets Chinese Firms Tied to Cybersecurity Risks The United States is pushing Chinese-produced routers off the shelf and onto a watchlist. On March 23, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned all foreign-produced routers from entering the... March 25, 2026 Lebanon declares Iranian ambassador-designate ‘persona non grata’ before Iranian missile explodes over Lebanese airspace On March 24, Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi announced that he had instructed his ministry’s secretary-general “to summon the Iranian Charge d’Affaires in Lebanon,”... March 25, 2026 Iraqi Security Institutions: The Latest Victims of Tehran’s Iraqi Proxies The Iraqi government may not care about protecting Americans from Tehran’s militias, but it should certainly care about protecting its own citizens. Amidst bombardments against American assets in... March 25, 2026 Iron Dome Steps up on Ballistic Missiles Sometimes people surprise you. That can also happen with weapons systems. Multiple videos from the past year of conflict in the Middle East appear to show the Israeli Iron Dome air... March 25, 2026 Iran’s Most Powerful Weapon? Keeping the Market Guessing The United States is fighting on two fronts in the war against Iran. One is in the skies. The other is in the market. Washington is winning the first. Tehran knows its best chance lies in... March 25, 2026 Tehran Regime Marks Persian New Year With Public Hangings Iranians’ greatest fear is not the bombs exploding around them, but the hangman’s noose wielded by their own rulers. Not content with the mass slaughter of some 40,000 unarmed Iranians during the... March 25, 2026 The case for wars of choice On the illiberal left and the defeatist right, America’s military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran is being condemned as “a war of choice, not a war of necessity.” I’m... March 24, 2026 Has Iran-backed terrorism reached London? When a synagogue is firebombed or a Jewish school is targeted in Europe, the instinct is to reach for a familiar explanation: the rising tide of anti-Semitism, the radicalized lone wolf, the... March 24, 2026 Russian Abduction of Ukrainian Children is Part of Effort To Erase Ukrainian Identity The “largest child abduction case since World War 2” is set to be discussed by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. The March 25 hearing will focus on the Ukrainian... March 24, 2026 In Major Reversal, Taiwan Seeks To Rewire Its Energy Strategy by Restarting its Nuclear Plants The Taiwanese government is reversing course on permanently closing its nuclear reactors. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has presented a plan to restart two of the island’s shuttered nuclear reactors... March 24, 2026 6 Kurdistan Regional Government soldiers killed in Iranian attack on northern Iraq On March 24, six members of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Peshmerga forces were killed in an attack in northern Iraq. According to the local Rudaw Media Network, they were killed when... March 24, 2026 Lebanon Declares Iranian Ambassador Persona Non Grata Tehran’s Envoy Declared ‘Persona Non Grata’: Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi said on March 24 that he had “instructed today the Secretary-General of the Ministry... March 24, 2026 Iran’s shakedown in the strait Iran is seeking to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz — not by closing it, but by reopening it on its own terms and forcing countries to pay for passage. Multiple reports... March 24, 2026 Lebanon Will Keep Hezbollah’s Arms, Lose its South Lebanon has made its choice. Instead of enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and its own cabinet’s decision to disarm Hezbollah, Beirut will allow the pro-Iran militia to keep its weapons but... March 24, 2026 Iran’s Iraqi Militias Are Coming for US Troops Iraqi militias have bombarded US assets in Iraq for weeks. Flames rose from the embassy compound on March 17 while rockets and drones sought to evade its air defenses. The US military... March 24, 2026 Iran-linked group claims arson attacks in Antwerp and London On March 23, a shadowy Iran-linked organization called Ashab al Yamin claimed responsibility for setting a vehicle ablaze in Antwerp’s Jewish Quarter. The day before, the group said it was behind an... March 24, 2026 The Islamic State’s targeting of a Chinese mine in Congo proves the group is a resilient threat Between March 11 and 12, the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP) attacked and destroyed a Chinese-owned mine in Muchacha in Congo’s Ituri Province, more than 50 kilometers outside of the... March 24, 2026 Trump Must Hold The Line On The Cuba Oil Embargo The communist dictatorship in Cuba has never been closer to collapse. Thankfully, the cadre of leftist American activists and influencers that descended on Havana this week will not be able to save it.... March 24, 2026 Turkey’s Mission to Put an End to the Iran War Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan did not mince words as he toured the Middle East as the war in the region escalated: “It should be especially noted that the primary responsible party... March 23, 2026 Global Impact of Transnational Repression March 23, 2026 Europe’s Iran Moment A Regime at Breaking Point ... March 23, 2026 Trump acted militarily, now the US must prevent Iran’s ayatollahs from rebuilding President Donald Trump made a bold and consequential decision to confront one of the most destabilizing regimes in the world. By joining Israel in striking the Islamic Republic’s military infrastructure,... March 23, 2026 Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM): Why Every Encryption Ecosystem Needs One – and Fast We’ve learned the hard way that knowing what’s in your software supply chain matters. The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) progressed from a niche best practice to government regulation codified... March 23, 2026 Iran and proxies continue attacking regional airports, energy facilities, military bases, and residential areas (March 20-23 updates) Between March 20 and March 23, Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones, missiles, and rockets against Arab countries. The attacks targeted energy infrastructure, airports, military bases,... March 23, 2026 U.S. Intelligence Community Omits Key Russian Threat in Annual Assessment Moscow’s favorite color in the Arctic is gray. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Annual Threat Assessment correctly identifies Russia as the dominant Arctic threat and... March 23, 2026 Why Do We Allow Iran into American Classrooms? Second graders are learning that non-Muslims are “the worst of all creatures” at the Brighter Horizons Academy near Dallas, Texas, according to a recent report by the Middle East Forum. The curriculum... March 22, 2026 The One Ally We Have in Dealing With Hormuz Is A Potent One In your editorial “The Battle for the Strait of Hormuz” (March 17), you warn that Tehran’s tanker blockade is designed to raise the costs of the conflict so President Trump ends military... March 22, 2026 Shabaab celebrates October attack on Mogadishu prison in new video In a new video posted online as a so-called Eid celebration, Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, highlighted and celebrated last year’s assault on the Godka Jilacow prison in Mogadishu, which... March 22, 2026 Israel eliminates 3 Hamas members operating in Lebanon The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on March 22 that it killed Walid Muhammad Dib, a Hamas financial official, in Lebanon. Two other Hamas operatives in Lebanon were killed by the IDF over the past... March 21, 2026 Funding the Enemy: Trump Rolls Back Sanctions on Iran Without Any Guardrails On the evening of March 20, the Trump administration issued Iran General License U (GL U), a one-month authorization for the sale of what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says will be approximately 140... March 20, 2026 This missile just proved itself in Iran. The US needs more, ASAP Pentagon officials report that the ground-launched Precision Strike Missile—PrSM for short—made a successful combat debut in the opening hours of the war on Iran. The new, now-proven ground-launched... March 20, 2026 Defying Trump, Swiping at Israel: Pedro Sanchez’s Brilliant, Empty Foreign Policy Spain formally withdrew its ambassador from Israel on March 11. The announcement, published in the Boletin Oficial del Estado, terminated the appointment of Ana Maria Salomon Perez, downgrading Madrid’s... March 20, 2026 Kuwait and UAE report disrupting domestic Hezbollah cells Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates claimed to have disrupted several terror cells linked to Hezbollah over the past week. Both Persian Gulf countries alleged that their security forces identified networks... March 20, 2026 Exposure of Major Chinese-Linked Chip Smuggling Operations Shows Limits of Industry Self-Policing China is still behind the United States in the AI race, but it is willing to pay a lot to catch up fast. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on March 19 against Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang... March 20, 2026 Strikes continue hitting Iran-backed Iraqi militias, Kataib Hezbollah declares temporary US embassy ceasefire Airstrikes, likely conducted by the United States as part of the US-Israeli operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies, have continued hitting Iran-backed militias in Iraq. Many of... March 20, 2026 South African Government Continues Antagonizing U.S. South Africa is defiant, refusing to distance itself from the Islamic Republic despite U.S. Ambassador Brent Bozell stating that “an association with Iran is an impediment to good relations with the... March 20, 2026 Death of a Holocaust denier Ali Larijani, the 67-year-old former head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, died a terrorist’s death last week. For much of his career, however, he lived as a diplomat, and was feted as...

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