Mojtaba’s appointment “is a final act of resistance by the late Khamenei from his grave,” Ellie Geranmayeh, an Iran expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me. “It also sends a strong message to Trump that his bombings and threats are not delivering the regime change he seemingly wants.” Before the war, in…
President Trump weighed in Monday on the plight of Iran’s national women’s soccer team, who were caught up in the geopolitical ramifications of the U.S.-Israeli war on their home country as they participated in the women’s Asian Cup in Australia, offering them asylum in the U.S. There were calls for Australia to offer the women…
Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named Iran’s new supreme leader over the weekend, shares something in common with President Donald Trump: They have both amassed global real-estate empires. The son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike when the war began, represents the Islamic Republic’s first hereditary succession. The younger Khamenei is close…
TKO Group Holdings Inc. and Polymarket signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13,2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Iran war has raised questions about the red lines prediction markets should enforce, with users having bet hundreds of millions on everything…
Iranian airstrikes on Bahrain wounded more than 30 people on Monday and sparked a fire near a petroleum refinery, according to the Bahraini authorities, prompting Arab countries to condemn the latest wave of Iran’s retaliatory strikes. Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at its neighbors in the Persian Gulf since Israel and the…
A support vessel maneuvers near the crude oil tanker ‘Devon’ as it sails through the Persian Gulf towards Kharq Island oil terminal to transport crude oil to export markets in Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Mar. 23, 2018. Ali Mohammadi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Iran’s Kharg Island, a small but strategically vital strip of land…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Within hours of American munitions striking Iranian soil, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a statement that the Western press largely treated as a diplomatic footnote, but it was a signal that what happens in the skies over Tehran has a direct impact on the ground in Ukraine….
WASHINGTON — The United States plunged further into conflict with Iran on Tuesday as a new round of strikes heightened fears of an expanding war in the Middle East, sending markets reeling and oil prices soaring and drawing urgent calls from European leaders for a plan forward. President Trump acknowledged during an Oval Office appearance that the…
The U.S. war effort against Iran was “accelerating” as American and Israeli forces fought for control of Iranian airspace and pressed farther inland to seek and destroy Iranian missile capabilities, top U.S. officials said Wednesday. “Four days in, we have only just begun to fight,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “The throttle is coming…
Just over a week into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Wall Street has started to price in a prolonged conflict, as hopes for a swift endgame have been crushed. With no signs of de-escalation, both sides are instead upping the ante, expanding targets to critical infrastructure and risking greater retaliation in the process. U.S. oil…