“US Israel Iran War”

After President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement they hoped would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and start winding down the war.

Iran’s hard-line leaders huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according to Iranian and Arab officials. In their view the pact was likely just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the global economy and buy time for a bigger attack down the road. Instead of putting faith in talks, they took the past two months to prepare for a bigger fight.

Donald Trump has again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his effort to end the US-Israel war on Iran.

The US president delivered the threat of Monday as he struggles to draw the conflict to a conclusion, almost six months after it was launched.

While Trump has repeatedly claimed the war would end “soon”, and talked up the prospect of a lasting peace deal in recent months, such a breakthrough has yet to materialize.

BREAKING: Trump to Fox News:

If Oman gets in the way, we will bomb the shit out of them. pic.twitter.com/1UOaTlzbfD

— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 17, 2026

For decades, the Iranian regime has guarded its strategic intentions behind ambiguity, denials and carefully calibrated statements. Its current strategy has now become unusually explicit. Recent comments attributed to Majid Shakeri, an adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, suggest that Tehran believes its path to victory is not necessarily through defeating the United States militarily, but through managing the confrontation until President Donald Trump’s term ends in January 2029. Shakeri described the approach as maintaining a state of neither war nor peace and exercising “strategic patience” and “getting along with him [President Trump] until his term ends.” It is a strategy that Washington and its allies should take seriously.

Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran.

Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and the Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

Iranian media is reporting a top official’s claim that there will in fact be no more pretense at negotiations with President Donald Trump.

What has happened repeatedly over the last few months is that Trump offers the ayatollahs a generous deal, and they almost immediately come out with more extravagant threats against the “Great Satan” America, because terrorists prefer endless jihad for Allah to money. So one hopes that Trump can stop listening to jihad-loving Qatar’s advice and follow through on his original and praiseworthy plan, which was to destroy the Iranian regime entirely. Imagine how it would change the Middle East if Iran’s government were friendly to U.S., as so many of its people are.

Iran is demanding financial compensation for the war before it reopens the Strait of Hormuz, a last-minute concession that dampens hopes of an imminent deal.

Speculation had been building for days that an agreement was emerging that would restore safe passage in the vital sea lane, following direct negotiations between Oman and the Islamic republic.

But Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, said that while a deal was close, reopening the strait would depend on other conditions.

US President Donald J. Trump, in Operation Epic Fury, provided the only — and truly bold — confrontation with the Iranian regime by any American president. No prior leader dared to act with such resolve, or really at all. Many, in fact, actually helped finance Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine is reportedly looking for an “off-ramp” to the Iran War and discussing his concerns about the options available for escalating the conflict in private conversations.

The details come from a CNN report, which also says Caine is not the only Trump administration official to privately be eyeing a way to exit the conflict. The report comes as the U.S. wades into its sixth month at war with Iran, as U.S. and Iranian officials have cycled through on-and-off negotiations for peace after the ceasefire, inked in April, crumbled in early July.

Iran is considering banning US and Israeli ships from sailing through the Strait of Hormuz in a move likely to anger Donald Trump.

Under a draft plan being reviewed by Iran’s parliament, US and Israeli-flagged vessels, or “other hostile states or entities linked to them” would be blocked from the waterway.

The proposal, reported by Iranian state media PressTV, would threaten to derail talks between Iran and Oman to reopen the strait.