Author: Press Room

President Donald Trump confirmed on Saturday evening the “supreme leader” of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was dead after an American and Israeli bombing campaign targeted Tehran this weekend. The Pentagon launched “Operation Epic Fury” on Saturday, intended to degrade the Iranian Islamist regime’s ability to engage in terrorism and target American assets specifically. According to the Pentagon’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which operates in the Middle East, the objective of the operation was to “dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus, prioritizing locations that posed an imminent threat.” “Targets included Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities,…

The United States will assume the rotating precedency of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, and first lady Melania Trump is scheduled to become the first sitting first lady to preside over a council meeting. A source close to the first lady told Fox News Digital on Friday that she will deliver a speech stressing “the importance of education and knowledge in creating ongoing and everlasting peace.” “The first lady is reinventing her role and this marks just another groundbreaking achievement for her. It is the first time in history a first lady will address the security council, keeping to…

The ‘decapitating’ strike against Tehran has triggered a succession process, but perhaps not the succession crisis it aimed for The past 24 hours have given Iran’s leadership transition a tangible shape, while also revealing how dangerously the very idea of “normal” is shifting in international politics. The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran is a demonstrative precedent, read across the Middle East as the legalization of a blunt principle – when power is sufficient, sovereignty can be suspended at will.As a researcher of Middle Eastern politics, I cannot treat such actions as a “surgical…

Iranians around the world – and, according to some reports, within Iran – celebrated on Saturday following confirmation America had launched “Operation Epic Fury” against Iranian regime targets and, President Donald Trump later confirmed, killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As of Saturday evening, multiple news sources, including Iran International, the Jerusalem Post, CBS News, CNN, and the New York Post, reported that some Iranians within the country were celebrating. A woman holds pictures of exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. President Donald Trump as members of the Iranian community and supporters celebrate on February 28, 2026…

A coalition of 20 attorneys general from red states are pressuring the American Medical Association (AMA) to disavow puberty blockers for minors, calling the leading medical organization’s position inconsistent given its recent about-face on sex change surgeries for youth.  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter on behalf of the coalition to AMA CEO Dr. John J. Whyte on Monday, asking the group to reconsider its position on sex change drugs for minors and to explain the evidence it is basing its current guidance on, Fox News reported. The attorneys general first praised the AMA for concurring with the…

US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation have triggered closures of key transit hubs, grounding flights across the region Hundreds of thousands travelers have been stranded across the Middle East following airspace closures triggered by unprovoked US-Israeli strikes on Iran, according to flight analytics firms.Massive strikes against Tehran began Saturday, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top officials, and hundreds of civilians. Tehran responded with hundreds of missile and drone attacks targeting US and Israeli bases across the Middle East.Iran has also reportedly targeted several major regional aviation hubs, including the Dubai International Airport in the UAE – the…

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Saturday released a statement condemning the military operation against the Iranian regime without making any mention of the United States or Israel — but appeared to delete it moments later without any explanation. The Venezuelan socialists, in an unprecedented move, also condemned Iran’s “inappropriate and reprehensible reprisal” after Iran launched a series of drones and missile attacks against other countries — marking the first time that the Venezuelan regime expresses criticisms of its decades-old ideological ally following the downfall of Nicolás Maduro. Both local and international outlets reported that the now-deleted statement was first published by…

The economic damage of migration is pushing many more Australians to support the nation’s leading anti-migration politician, Pauline Hanson, and her political party, One Nation. But the cause-and-effect process is being denied by the New York Times, which used a February 26 article to downplay migration’s damage to Australians’ living, local culture, housing market, and workplace productivity. Instead, the newspaper uses the first quote in the article to portray One Nation as a party of emotional “resentment” that is devoid of logic or decency. “For politicians like Hanson, who have built up their repertoire capitalizing on politics of resentment, this is…

Fox News has doxed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s contentious director of communications — publishing Isaac “Izzy” Gardon’s generous “taxpayer-funded” salary after he told a reporter from another publication to “fuck off” after she pressed him about the governor’s dyslexia diagnosis. When Real Clear Politics (RCP) national correspondent Susan Crabtree asked Gardon for verification on Newsom’s childhood disability diagnosis earlier this week, he responded on X: “Hey Susan — thanks for reaching out. Respectfully, fuck off.” Interest in the governor’s reading disability was sparked by Newsom’s book tour this month when Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens (D) asked the animated politician what he…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been “martyred,” state news agencies have announced Iranian state media have confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the ongoing joint US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.Multiple news agencies, including Tasnim, Mehr, and Press TV, announced early on Sunday that the 86-year-old leader had been “martyred” in the attack.“The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a joint attack by the criminal America and the Zionist regime,” the official statement said.“At the moment of the martyrdom, he was carrying out his assigned duties and was present at his workplace, when…