Middle East

As long as Iran knows that Trump fears going back to war and hitting them anywhere sensitive, why would they make concessions on nuclear weapons?

"I'll give a little warning: We're going to hit them hard tonight," Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Turkey before his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

After Iran's overnight strikes in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, Gulf states are beginning to realize Iran may not step back from its demands to control the Strait of Hormuz.

Six months after Iran’s January massacre, Taha Naderi’s family says the 18-year-old was shot by security forces, died after repeated surgeries, and was denied a public funeral.

“If we don't go into the streets for Iran’s freedom today, one day our children will have to do it instead. Today it is our lives, so that they may have a better future," he told his wife in January.

“Mani was a very warm-hearted and humorous young man who loved the cause of freedom above all else,” his mother told The Jerusalem Post. “In the end, he even gave his life for that freedom.”

Mostafa Adgarsalehi's family memorializes him six months after the IRGC's violent crackdowns on protesters in Iran in January, recalling his courage and commitment to education.

Estimates state 35-40,000 were killed by the regime’s security forces after protests erupted on December 28.

Ahmadinejad is one of many leaders and former leaders of Iran whose fates have been entwined with the war. Some reports suggested that Ahmadinejad might actually be helpful in some form.

Syria’s president is emerging from one set of success stories, with the French leader's visit, to another potential success at the NATO summit.