The United Arab Emirates said it was aiming to reduce its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz to “zero” after the war with Iran laid bare the vulnerabilities of the key waterway. After the launch of Operation Epic Fury, Iran immediately moved to close the Strait of Hormuz, attacking shipping with drones and missiles, which […]
Three Iranian oil tankers have sailed past the US Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in two months, analysts said.
Iraq is preparing to boost oil exports from its southern ports with a formal deal to open the Strait of Hormuz scheduled to be signed on Friday.
US Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has opened a Congressional investigation into Major League Baseball as the league faces growing backlash over its threat to discipline Christian players who wore Bible verses on their uniforms during a Pride Night game. This comes after the MLB issued warnings to Christian ballplayers from the San Francisco Giants club for wearing verses from the book of Genesis. The post UPDATE: Senator Josh Hawley Opens Investigation into MLB for Discrimination Against Christian Players for Proclaiming Their Faith on Pride Night – Calls Out League’s Hypocrisy appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Fox News didn't just cheer on President Donald Trump's war with Iran. It helped goad him into it, according to a blistering column from political analyst Sabrina Haake.Writing in her latest Substack, The Haake Take, the longtime federal trial attorney argues that the network and its hawkish hosts pushed Trump toward military force in Iran through what critics call a "doom loop," a self-reinforcing cycle in which the White House and the network feed each other's appetite for conflict and spectacle.Haake traces the pressure campaign back to June 2025, when she says Fox personalities openly agitated for war. She points to radio host Mark Levin, who she writes "reportedly" helped push that summer's U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities by convincing Trump over lunch that Tehran was just days from a bomb. When a fragile ceasefire took hold in April 2026, Haake writes, Fox voices like Brian Kilmeade and analyst Jack Keane demanded it be broken so Trump could "finish the job."Her column catalogs a striking list of on-air demands. According to Haake, hosts including Sean Hannity, Kilmeade and Jesse Watters floated flooding Iran with small arms to spark an uprising, while Kilmeade pushed relentless strikes to "open up the strait," "grab the uranium" and "target bad actors," which she casts as an embrace of assassination. Others, she writes, hosted retired Gen. Keith Kellogg as he called for "putting boots on the ground" and seizing Iranian territory."This was not commentary or news," Haake writes. "It was Fox television personalities directly shaping foreign policy at the highest level."What makes the dynamic dangerous, she argues, is how blurred the line between the network and the government has become. Haake notes Trump has appointed more than two dozen former Fox hosts to administration jobs, and that the network showers him with praise, with Hannity calling the Iran strikes one of "the greatest military victories" in history and others insisting Trump deserved "six Nobel Peace Prizes" and a place on Mount Rushmore.In her telling, the war Fox helped sell was a disaster. Trump's much-touted deal, she writes, includes no permanent, binding nuclear dismantlement, defers its core terms for 60 days, and would hand Iran as much as $300 billion, with its "biggest achievement" being the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a return to the prewar status quo. She cites the New York Times Editorial Board's assessment that Trump "made a terrible mistake starting this war" and that the U.S. is "emerging weaker."Haake closes by demanding accountability for the network. Noting that Fox paid nearly $1 billion to settle claims it lied about the 2020 election, she wonders bitterly what it will owe "the families of 13 soldiers who died" in a war she says served the network's ratings.
Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox's late-night show "Gutfeld!" on Tuesday, where he revealed how he was treated behind the scenes by the hags on The View. The post LOL! Vance Reveals What Joy Behar Told Him During Commercial Break on The View, Says He Was Surprised Sunny Hostin Didn’t Call Him Racist Before Gutfeld Drops Reminder of Hostin’s Slave-Owning Ancestors appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The Group of Seven (G7) leaders issued a declaration of support for President Trump’s agreement to end the Iran war amid the allied nations’ summit in France this week. The alliance, which includes France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States and Italy, released a joint statement addressing geopolitical issues in Ukraine, the…
The U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding has been signed, but the text remains invisible to the public, leading to competing interpretations of its meaning from Washington, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Beirut.
Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama as everyone turned on his peace deal with Iran. Speaking at the G7 summit Wednesday, Trump desperately tried to make his peace deal seem better than Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “He tried to bribe his way out, I didn’t do that,” the president said. “Nobody mentions that. $1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars, they tried to bribe their way out of it. And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and said he’s a stupid son of a bitch.”Trump: "You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch." pic.twitter.com/2l712bUV2d— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2026Projecting much? Obama’s previous nuclear deal with Iran unfroze a now meager-looking $1.7 billion. Now Trump wants to write Tehran an even bigger check. A leaked draft of the 14-point memorandum of understanding detailed the billions the U.S. would provide in financial relief for Iran—including a $300 billion investment fund for reconstruction in Tehran. Vice President JD Vance confirmed Monday that a $300 billion investment fund was included in the deal, but he walked back the claim just hours later, while Trump and the White House outright denied it.Here’s why the investment fund matters: If such a fund does exist, that means that Trump will have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and killed thousands of civilians (including children) to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon that it wasn’t even building in the first place. All of this would be cleared up if the White House would just release the text of the MOU. It’s hard not to imagine that if the deal was any good for the U.S., they would’ve released it right away.