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Khamenei Is Dead. Finish the Regime.

 For forty-seven agonizing years, the ancient and noble land of Iran has lived under the suffocating boot of a brutal theocratic occupation. Today, the supreme architect of that misery, Ali Khamenei, is gone. He is dead, yet the apparatus of terror he left behind – specifically the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the desperate cronies clinging to the fading halls of power – continues to wage a cowardly, bloody war against its own citizens.

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Iran Announces Illegal Strait of Hormuz Closure

Just to be clear, the Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway. It is not under Iran’s jurisdiction. Tehran does not possess the legal authority to unilaterally shut down one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. Any attempt to block or suspend international transit would challenge long-standing principles of freedom of navigation and disrupt global commerce.

The United States and most maritime powers maintain that the right of transit passage reflects customary international law. Despite that legal disagreement, the dominant international view is that Iran cannot lawfully close the Strait to international navigation.

No nation has the right to recognize Iran’s illegal seizure of the Strait.

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Trump Pressures Netanyahu As Iran Demands Hezb’Allah Ceasefire

Trump put the brakes on Israel’s plan to strike Beirut.

Trump, who first announced the agreement, said Hezbollah, through intermediaries, had pledged not to ​attack Israel. No U.S. president has ever spoken with Hezbollah, with or without intermediaries. The group is ⁠designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.

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US Launches Fresh Defensive Strikes Against Iran

Iran reportedly targeted a U.S. base in retaliation. The U.S. military intercepted four Iranian kamikaze drones targeting American and commercial merchant ships overnight and responded by destroying an Iranian ground control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas.

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Iranian Protesters Say They Were Betrayed by Trump

Let there be no mistake: any signature on a document alongside the Islamic Republic of Iran is a lease on life for an IRGC dictatorship. If the United States relaxes sanctions, looks the other way on covert oil sales, and allows the Mullahs back into the international financial system, the regime wins an unearned, monumental victory.