“We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready,” President Donald Trump declared Monday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. The regime in Tehran never learns, and it never stops scheming.
La dernière guerre sans fin menée par les États-Unis continue de ravager le Moyen-Orient. Pour la dixième nuit consécutive, les forces américaines bombardent l’Iran. Selon le New York Times, ces échanges de tirs ont causé un nombre de blessés parmi les troupes américaines bien supérieur à celui reconnu par le Pentagone.
Trump continues plying his neocon ‘forever war’ against Iran, with no plan or end in sight. Now the latest reports indicate his intention to escalate the strikes onto Iranian civil infrastructure like power plants and beyond in the coming weeks.
Permettez-moi de la résumer. Au cours de la guerre de 12 jours en juin 2025, les missiles et drones iraniens ont peiné face à la guerre électronique élaborée menée par Israël et les États-Unis. Le brouillage et la falsification du GPS ont perturbé à plusieurs reprises leurs systèmes de guidage, limitant ainsi leur efficacité pendant cet intense conflit de 12 jours. Au début de l’année 2026, la dynamique du champ de bataille a radicalement changé. Les frappes de précision iraniennes ont commencé à contourner les défenses aériennes avancées, touchant des cibles sensibles à travers le Golfe avec une précision surprenante. Les analystes du renseignement ont mis en avant un facteur clé : l’Iran a abandonné le GPS au profit du système de navigation par satellite chinois Beidou.
First, there was the Technocrat-in-Chief meeting on July 14 with an up-and-coming, newly selected Technocrat Prime Minister from Iraq, Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi. Secondly, the multi-billion-dollar deals flowed like the Euphrates River.
Former senior U.S. defense officials join a Russia expert to discuss how the Iran crisis is shaping Moscow’s military, political, and economic ambitions in the region.
On July 9, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Matthew Tavares, Keith Kellogg, and Anna Borshchevskaya. Tavares is a former Pentagon official with two decades of experience in U.S. national security affairs. Kellogg is a highly decorated U.S. Army officer who has served as special presidential envoy for Ukraine and senior national security advisor to the president, among other posts. Borshchevskaya is the Harold Grinspoon Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, and coauthor (with Tavares) of its 2026 report “After Ukraine: Prospects for a Russian Resurgence in the Middle East.” The event was moderated by veteran journalist and author Christian Caryl. The following is a rapporteurs’ summary of their remarks.
As long as the group’s economic, political, and institutional ecosystem remains intact, officials will need to pair disarmament efforts with a sustained strategy to target financial networks, political influence, and judicial infiltration.
The US’s tactical military successes in the Strait of Hormuz do not solve the strategic problem, as Iran uses asymmetric tactics, turning US military dominance into an endless and costly conflict with no clear political outcome.
There are proven ways to address the widescale abuses enacted by Turkish authorities since a failed coup in July 2016. But all of them require political will and civic energy.
Ten years have passed since the failed coup of July 15, 2016, in Turkey. Authorities blamed an army faction loyal to the so-called Gulen Movement, branded the ‘Fetullahist Terrorist Organization’, FETO, and declared a threat to national security.
La guerre de quarante jours déclenchée le 28 février 2026 a révélé les limites de la supériorité militaire américaine face à l’Iran. Trois mois plus tard, Washington tente une approche plus pragmatique : maintenir Ormuz suffisamment ouvert pour éviter un choc énergétique mondial, affaiblir les relais régionaux de Téhéran sans déclencher une nouvelle guerre totale.