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Iran-linked media has published an AI-generated propaganda video depicting the Statue of Liberty being destroyed in a simulated ‘vengeance’ strike against the US.

The 53-second clip, titled ‘One Vengeance for All,’ was released by Iranian news outlet Fars News Agency, which is closely tied to the country’s state broadcasting network.

The video unfolds as a dark montage of historical and modern conflict imagery framed to portray American and Western actions as sources of global suffering.

'ONE VENGEANCE FOR ALL' — Iran 'bombs' the Statue of Liberty WITH THE HEAD OF BAAL pic.twitter.com/6tPH15fqkZ

— RT (@RT_com) March 25, 2026

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a couple thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump weighs a significant escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and declines to rule out putting U.S. troops on Iranian soil.

U.S. officials approved written orders for soldiers from the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and the 82nd’s headquarters at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said two U.S. officials and a third person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Verbal orders previously had been approved, two people said. It is not yet clear whether they will deploy to Iran itself, officials said.

Iran’s combative Parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, is emerging as an unlikely figure in Washington’s search for a deal to halt a widening Middle East war.

Ghalibaf, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air-force commander and Tehran mayor, has denied any talks with the U.S. are under way. He has taunted President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and called the U.S.-Israeli air war with Iran a quagmire. He served in the Revolutionary Guard during Iran’s brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s and is known as a hard-liner’s hard-liner.

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Iran launched a cruise missile attack on a US aircraft carrier despite Donald Trump’s claim that talks to end the conflict had begun.

The Iranian military claimed the strikes had forced the USS Abraham Lincoln to change its position in the Arabian Sea, and warned additional “powerful strikes” would follow once it entered range.

Earlier on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official confirmed that Iran had received a peace plan from the US via Pakistan.

The Trump administration is pushing for talks in Islamabad as early as Thursday, with JD Vance, the vice-president, set to lead negotiations.

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President Trump called off launching a huge bombardment of Iran on Monday. He said he was talking to Iran’s leadership. Meanwhile, Iran’s leadership denies this.

Both statements are true because no one is really sure who is in charge.

Foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan gathered before dawn Thursday in Riyadh for talks aimed at finding a diplomatic off-ramp to the war in Iran.

But there was one big problem, according to Arab officials involved in the discussions: finding a counterpart in Iran to negotiate with. Earlier that week, Israel killed Iran’s national security chief, Ali Larijani, who had been considered a viable partner who could engage with the West.

Egyptian intelligence officials managed to open a channel with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—the paramilitary group that protects the Iranian regime and is the country’s most powerful security and political entity—and put forward a proposal to halt hostilities for five days to build confidence for a cease-fire, some of the officials said.

On 5 March, a post appeared on the X account of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, managed by his staff after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 28 February. The tweet featured a stark piece of propaganda: a gleaming, oversized missile arcing across the sky as a city below is engulfed in flames. The caption read: “Khorramshahr moments are on the horizon.”

The Khorramshahr missile, Iran’s most advanced ballistic missile, is believed to be capable of carrying a cluster warhead dispersing up to 80 submunitions. Since that post, it has come to loom large in Israeli threat assessments, a persistent concern for a country equipped with a multi-layered missile defence system that is widely regarded as the world’s most sophisticated.

The latest attack using cluster munitions occurred on Sunday, when an Iranian ballistic missile struck central Israel, injuring 15 people.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he and the top leader of Iran could control the Strait of Hormuz if a deal to end the war is reached.

Trump told CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins that the strait could be “jointly controlled” by the United States and Iran. “Maybe me? Maybe me. Me and the ayatollah, whoever the ayatollah is,” he said when asked who specifically would be in control of the body of water in this case.

U.S. forces continue to eliminate the Iranian regime’s one-way attack drone capabilities, which they’ve used to indiscriminately target civilians throughout the region. pic.twitter.com/AbdLMmtoei

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 22, 2026

Hmmm

Iran denies direct talks with the U.S. and calls President Trump postponing his deadline a bid to cut energy costs. https://t.co/dFzonlTmFA pic.twitter.com/hW7E0t3pQ2

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 23, 2026

President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran’s power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in “very good and productive talks” over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war.

“I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.