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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected speculations and claims that Israel had pushed the United States into war with Iran, saying “does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do?”, while portraying the U.S.-Israeli campaign as a tightly coordinated effort to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, weaken its military-industrial base and create conditions for internal political change in Tehran. Image of Israeli PM Netanyahu; Via: SilencedSirs on X Speaking to the foreign press from a protected underground venue as air raid precautions remained in force, Netanyahu said Israel’s Operation was being carried out “under President Trump’s visionary leadership” and that “America and Israel are acting together in Iran with great determination and unprecedented strength.” He said the operation was designed to remove “ the existential threats posed by the Ayatollah regime ,” which he accused of waging war for 47 years against “Am...

U.S.  President Donald Trump has said that the Iran war was “ almost over ,” ruled out deploying more U.S. troops to the region, and claimed U.S. forces had “obliterated” much of Iran’s military capacity, as Japan publicly aligned itself with Washington’s hardening stance by condemning Iran’s attacks on neighboring states and its “de facto or effective closure” of the Strait of Hormuz. Image Via White House Speaking at the White House during a bilateral meeting with Japan’s prime minister  Sanae Takaichi , Trump said, “The war is almost over,” and argued that Washington had moved faster than expected in degrading Iran’s capabilities. “We’ve obliterated their Navy. We’ve obliterated their just about everything there is to obliterate, including leadership,” he said, adding that “their Navy’s gone, their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft equipment is gone” and that “we’re flying wherever we want.” Trump said he would not send additional U.S. ground forces into the region. As...

U.S. President Donald Trump has declared that the United States “ does not need the help of anyone ” in its ongoing war against Iran, even as NATO allies declined to participate militarily and European leaders publicly distanced themselves from the conflict, exposing a widening transatlantic rift at a moment of escalating global energy disruption. Photo Via: Vice President Vance Speaking during a bilateral meeting on March 17, Trump said that while “all of our NATO allies were very much in favor of what we did” and “ agreed fully ” that Iran posed a nuclear threat, “ they don’t want to help us ,” adding that “we don’t need too much help and we don’t need any help actually.”  He further asserted that the war had been “long prosecuted” and that U.S. forces had “wiped out their navy, wiped out their military in every aspect,” claiming Iran now had “no air force, no navy… no radar, their anti-aircraft machinery is gone.” The remarks followed an earlier public statement in which T...

In the first major internal rupture within the United States security establishment since the start of the Iran war, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has resigned, declaring he could not “ in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran ” and asserting that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” directly contradicting the central justification offered by the Trump administration for launching military action. File Photo Via Joe Kent Kent’s resignation, effective immediately, marks the first senior-level departure tied directly to the conflict , and has now exposed a widening divide between intelligence leadership and political decision-making at a critical moment in a war that has already destabilised global energy markets and expanded across multiple fronts. In his resignation statement, Kent wrote that “it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” adding that he could not support sending “the next gen...

Donald Trump on Sunday accused Iran of deploying artificial intelligence-generated propaganda to manipulate global coverage of the ongoing Iran-Israel war, rejecting reports circulating online and in some media outlets that suggested damage to U.S. military aircraft and naval assets in the Gulf. File Photo: White Ho use In a lengthy statement posted on social media , Trump alleged that Iran has intensified what he described as a coordinated disinformation campaign during the Iran-Israel conflict, using AI-generated imagery and fabricated battlefield narratives to project military strength while suffering heavy losses from U.S. and Israeli strikes across Iranian territory. “Iran has long been known as a master of media manipulation,” Trump wrote, arguing that recent images and videos circulating online — including purported footage of attacks on American ships and aircraft — were fabricated using artificial intelligence tools designed to mislead global audiences about the war’s trajecto...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman More than two weeks into the Iran war and the clearest record of what this conflict has become is found in Donald Trump’s own words . Read chronologically, his public statements and social media posts do not reveal a coherent war aim so much as they point to a pattern of escalation without restraint, triumphalism without closure, and threats so sweeping that they dissolve the distinction between military coercion and open-ended devastation. What emerges is a head of state normalising the language of civilisational punishment while the global economy convulses, shipping slows in Hormuz, migrants and seafarers die in the Gulf, and ordinary households from South Asia to Europe brace for the price of a conflict they did not choose. File Photo of POTUS Trump; Via: White House The argument for this war was never stable. Even as the administration invoked Iran’s nuclear programme, Trump’s own rhetoric kept widening the battlefi...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman Wars are often measured in missile strikes, territorial advances and diplomatic confrontations but beneath those visible markers lies a quieter human story. The Iran war has begun to expose the vulnerability of the millions of migrant workers, seafarers and civilian employees who sustain the infrastructure of the global economy. Photo of Thai crew from cargo ship Mayuree Naree; Via: Ounka Across the Gulf and wider West Asia, these workers form the backbone of ports, shipping fleets, construction sites, energy facilities and service industries. They power the logistics networks that keep energy flowing and goods moving across continents. When conflict erupts, they are often the first to feel the consequences even though they have no role in the political decisions that lead to war. In recent days, the widening conflict has produced a growing list of casualties and disruptions affecting this largely invisible workforce. As...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman Wars often reshape borders but it is very likely that the Iran war may reshape the global energy map. The escalating conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel, and the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil transit route, has triggered a rapid reconfiguration of energy supply chains that could outlast the war itself. Governments are scrambling to secure alternative crude sources, shipping routes are being recalculated and energy diplomacy is accelerating across continents. Representational Image/File Photo: Current Report on X What is emerging is the early stages of a structural shift in how the world moves energy. As IndianRepublic.in reported earlier in its extensive coverage of the Hormuz crisis , roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil normally flows through the Strait of Hormuz, making the waterway one of the most important arteries of the global economy.  Even partial disr...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman For decades, globalization promised efficiency, speed and seamless connectivity but the Iran war is finally revealing its hidden vulnerability. What began as a military confrontation in West Asia has quickly evolved into a system-wide stress test for global supply chains, and exposed how deeply the modern economy depends on a handful of fragile logistical corridors, energy routes and transport networks. File Photo/Representational Image: MEA India From oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to air routes over the Gulf and cargo shipping across the Indian Ocean, the conflict has already rippled through the arteries of global trade. The disruption is not limited to energy markets. Airlines are rerouting flights, shipping companies are recalculating risk premiums, ports are adjusting cargo operations and governments are activating emergency coordination mechanisms to prevent shortages of essential commodities. As Ind...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman The war now unfolding across Iran, Israel and the wider Gulf may be remembered not only for its geopolitical consequences but also for becoming one of the clearest demonstrations yet of multi-domain warfare in the drone age. Missiles, drones, cyber disruptions, maritime attacks, electronic warfare and strategic strikes on energy infrastructure are all unfolding simultaneously across a vast operational theatre stretching from Iran to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Representational Image: U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II’s receive fuel in-flight; Via: US Central Command Unlike earlier regional conflicts, the battlefield is no longer confined to front lines or airspace. It now spans civilian ports, oil terminals, airports, shipping lanes and digital networks—a dispersed and interconnected environment where strategic targets can be hit from hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away. As IndianRepublic....