Imran Khan, a cricketeer, a socialite, a ladies man, quite attractive, a philanthropist, a politician, loyal Pakistani, was couped by the US via Antony Blinken for his rebuilding of Pakistan and his distaste for war.
August 2023, The Intercept published a leaked directive which said that “all will be forgiven in Washington” if he (Khan) was removed in the no-confidence motion and indicated the possibility of economic and political isolation if he stayed. The reason? Pakistan’s relationship with Russia and China.
Despite the major charges against Imran Khan being found illegal he remains in solitary confinement. The charges have to do with gifts he retained ‘and disclosed.’ Khan was replaced by Shehbaz Sharif who is the lead negotiator between Iran and the US. Sharif has a history of racketeering, money laundering, theft, and a period of exile. He ran for office against Khan and received 96 votes. When the US military decided Khan was unfriendly to the West, they created false charges against him and bribed Sharif – all his misdeeds would be forgiven if he helped oust Khan and assume the role under the thumb of the CIA while distancing from Russia and China.
Sharif is to Pakistan what Milei is to Argentina. Khan was to Pakistan what Saddam was to Iraq. Khan was and is very much beloved by his people. The US wants Khan to die in prison.
The US war against Pakistan began in 2004 under Bush using drone warfare in conjunction with the Air Force and CIA. Thousands of civilians were killed. It ended in 2018 when Khan took office.
What does Pakistan have that attracts US CIA operatives? Resources. Worth $6 trillion on the open market. These untapped resources include copper, gold, coal, gemstones, rare earths, lithium, cobalt, limestone, rock salt, and vast agriculture lands with deposits of black soil. While Trump has heavily pushed Pakistan to allow the US military to establish a base there in return for cutting-edge military technology, Sharif has refused. And Trump doesn’t have the inventory to sell.
It appears the only countries that want to pursue weapons and war are of the Western bloc.
Justice System of America
ISIS Leader in Syria, Ali Husayn al-Ulaywi, has been killed via a US airstrike… There is no identifiable ISIS commander by that name anywhere across Google. If he was the leader of ISIS he would have a profile. But then, ISIS was already defeated and there has been no presence since January 2026 after being defeated by the US/Israel installed al Qaeda leader, Jolani, as Syrian President.
FBI claims to have captured most wanted fraudster Herbert Leon Kimble. Actually, the Philippines captured Kimble and extradited him to the US. Patel is taking credit and the Philippines will thus not receive the reward as offered.
Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and the famous “last soldier” to depart Afghanistan in 2021, has abruptly submitted his retirement papers. His work was coordinated with the CIA in Syria and then Ukraine. No reason has been cited and he will retire within the week.
Wounded soldiers from the Iran War are declaring Hegseth lied. While Hegseth declared that of the ‘400’ injured service members, their injuries were minor and all have returned to service. Some of those soldiers are now crying foul! Chief Warrant Officer, Rodney Bearman, was riddled with shrapnel by a drone, suffering vision and hearing loss, damage to his lungs, and a concussion. The army classified his injuries as ‘non-serious.’ Bearman and 20 others hit the same time claim the military has not classified them as war casualties. Playing down what Americans already know – every major agency in the federal government LIES pathologically.
The drone strike incident that hit Bearman and his compatriots is being investigated as they were left completely unprotected. Six service members died in that attack. Bearman is still in the hospital four months after the attack. He had to ‘requisition’ to be placed in a soldier recovery unit.
Trump has claimed he is a superstar in the military ranks, ‘they love me’ is his fanfare. However, allowing Hegseth to treat soldiers in such a disgraceful manner while Trump wants PTSD soldiers housed in mental institutions is not going to give him the clout he needs to succeed in a third term crisis event. Allies have disappeared. When Generals and soldiers leave, America runs the risk of becoming fodder for a foreign or even internal civil coup.
The ONLY soldiers who tolerate Hegseth are among the younger troops. By contrast, he is WIDELY criticized by generals and seasoned officers. Why? Because he is a dolt with no intelligence training and an IQ on par with AOC.
April 5 marked the 32nd anniversary of former Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s death, supposedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This past year, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists that put fresh eyes on Cobain’s autopsy and the crime scene material concluded that Cobain’s death actually resulted from a homicide. A Utah investigator who also recently reviewed the case says he has new evidence that shows that Kurt Cobain was murdered. [1]
Much suspicion surrounds Cobain’s former wife, Courtney Love, who has known ties to U.S. intelligence and is also known to have connections to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking network that operated as part of an intelligence-blackmail operation.
Southern Air Transport: CIA Airline to Les Wexner’s Clothing and Drug-Cover Plane
In 2019, veteran CNN and Vanity Fair reporter Vicky Ward published an opinion piece stating that the U.S. prosecutor for the Florida area in 2007, Alex Acosta, said he offered Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal at that time because “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
The Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain, and Harrison Berger documented how the Central Intelligence Agency owned Southern Air Transport cargo airline for more than a decade before being caught using the airline in the early 1980s to ship weapons to Iran, with Israel as the go-between.
Grim et al. noted Epstein worked with various Iran-Contra figures while U.S. intelligence used weapons sales to help arm the Contra rebel army fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government.
When Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry and San Jose Mercury News journalist Gary Webb printed articles on how the CIA helped the Contras ship cheap cocaine to the U.S. to fund their war in Nicaragua, it became known as the Iran-Contra Cocaine scandal.
Many newspapers then published articles on how Southern Air Transport shipped cocaine from the Nicaraguan Contras to the United States.[2]
The American Conservative reporter Harrison Berger detailed how this scandal led Southern Air Transport to rebrand itself and move its headquarters from Miami, Florida to Columbus, Ohio, by 1995.
Changing its name to Southern Air, it started shipping clothing from China, instead of cocaine, on behalf of Ohio-based fashion and retail mogul Leslie Wexner and his “L Companies” retail chains that included The Limited and Victoria’s Secret.[3]
Nonetheless, London’s The Independent questioned whether Southern Air sustained its CIA work as it was flying to Somalia and Kenya in the 1990s, reportedly doing “charitable work,” with the newspaper saying “the CIA has always been willing to use aid operations as a cover.”
Jeffrey Epstein, Wexner, Israeli Intelligence and Sex Trafficking
Jeffrey Epstein worked as Wexner’s financial manager from the 1980s onward, after having worked with John Stanley Pottinger, the attorney for Cyrus Hashemi, an Iranian banker who the Senate Foreign Relations Committee found planned the Iran arms shipping deals with Pottinger.
Grim et al. reported that Epstein links to Middle East shenanigans also included obtaining an Austrian passport with a false name and address in Saudi Arabia. They further quoted former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe on media mogul and Member of Parliament Robert Maxwell laundering Iran weapons profits through Maxwell companies’ accounts.
Ari Ben-Menashe, a senior executive of Israel’s Directorate of Intelligence from 1977 to 1987, told award-winning CBS News Executive Producer Zev Shalev that Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein started working for Israeli intelligence in the 1980s, and were “entrapping politicians with minors.” With the Justice Department protecting Epstein for decades, U.S. and Israeli intelligence appeared to join forces in this effort.
Epstein later ran logistics with Southern Air Transport and was reported to have posed as a “talent scout” for Wexner’s Victoria’s Secret, later recruiting victims for his sex-trafficking ring.
New York Times reporter James B. Stewart said that Epstein told him he had “dirt on powerful people,” including their “recreational drug use,” in his homes, where his film cameras were set up. That information, along with articles and books since, supports the belief that Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts ran a huge blackmail operation for U.S. and Israeli intelligence.[4]
Courtney Love, Epstein, MK-ULTRA and Evidence of Love’s “Handling” by U.S. Intelligence?
Jeffrey Epstein had a house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, who stole his “black book” of names and contact numbers from his apartment.
For a law firm representing victims, Rodriguez circled key people as potential “material witnesses” to crimes against underage girls. Courtney Love was one of the only women among 46 other names circled, out of hundreds of names in the book.[5]
A previous CovertAction Magazinearticle presented evidence of Courtney Love’s bizarre life-long links to U.S. intelligence that included her biological father Hank Harrison saying Steven O’Leary sent him a letter on his deathbed admitting that he worked for U.S. intelligence in Ireland in 1981 when he had sex with Courtney and took her to England, with his brother, Kevin O’Leary.
Various authors, such as Ian Halperin and Max Wallace, have noted how Courtney Love brought “a thousand hits of very strong acid” [LSD] to the up-and-coming Liverpool music scene.[6]
This duplicated the actions of the CIA’s MK-ULTRA Assistant Director Robert Lashbrook, who directed agents to get LSD into as many musicians’ hands as possible in early 1965.[7]
In the 1980s and 1990s, Courtney Love proceeded to distribute acid, pain pills and other drugs at various punk music venues throughout the U.S. and had been married to a top political punk musician in Los Angeles, before marrying the top political punk musician in Seattle.[8]
Media paparazzi filmed Courtney Love hanging out with SharkTank’s Kevin O’Leary in 2015, suggesting she was being “handled” (manipulated) by him, as CIA documents on other MK-ULTRA subjects reported being in the past (often with drugs, trauma and hypnosis).[9]
Radical Cobain Manipulated to Promote Heroin to “Sedate and Divide” the Masses?
The CIA’s Project MK-ULTRA spent vast sums of money promoting dozens of “drugs to sedate and divide the masses,” as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark stated in 1991.[10]
In 1979, the CIA’s asset Gulbuddin Hekmatyar started the fake “Muslim Brotherhood” in the “Golden Crescent” of opium around Afghanistan, which a top researcher, Professor Peter Dale Scott, detailed having supplied to the U.S. with an ever-increasing amount of heroin and other opiates.
While actively involved in heroin promotion, Courtney Love came into Kurt Cobain’s life as his band Nirvana’s Nevermind album was soaring up the sales charts, eventually reaching more than 30 million albums sold.
Friends reported Courtney became pregnant with Kurt’s child after a few dates, and that she led Kurt to use heroin daily for the first time “to control him,” saying “she’s very sophisticated that way.”[11]
Overall, the rate of long-term heroin users increased almost ten percent annually from 1990 to 1995, at the height of Nirvana’s popularity.[12]
Cobain’s radical politics included anti-war, anti-racism, and anti-corporate media messages; he stated he originally wanted to put “all kinds of anarchistic, revolutionary essays and diagrams about how to make your own bomb,” in his Nevermind liner notes.[13]
New Forensic Team Receives International Coverage from Key People Saying Cobain Was Murdered
In February 2026, Newsweekmagazine was one of dozens of mainstream publications in the U.S. and abroad to announce that “An independent research team has published a fresh critique of the 1994 ruling that Kurt Cobain died by suicide, arguing the evidence is more consistent with a staged homicide.”
After obtaining a copy of the autopsy, researcher Michelle Wilkins organized an independent investigation team that included veteran forensic scientist Bryan R Burnett and five other experts from the U.S. and Italy, and published their findings in the International Journal of Forensic Sciences.
The new forensic Cobain case evidence cited “necrosis of the brain and liver,” which “happens in an overdose,” not a “shotgun death,” Cobain’s purported suicide method.
They also cited no blood splatter on Cobain’s hands and “ten times the normal amount [of heroin] even a heavy heroin user would have used,” in Cobain’s system.
With valium also found during autopsy, it is possible that someone used that drug to debilitate Cobain enough to convince him to shoot him up with an overly pure amount of heroin (street heroin has a 10-15% purity), or help them hold him down for the heroin injections.[14]
The new investigation findings supported an earlier, similar conclusion by Cyril Wecht, MD, a former president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, who told CBS Channel 2 News in Pittsburgh that he thought Cobain’s death was “a homicide” and “a staged suicide.”
New Reports of Cobain’s Home Support Love’s Aid in U.S. Intelligence Murder Scheme
The aforementioned CovertAction MagazineCobain article detailed Eldon “El Duce” Hoke stating that he declined Courtney Love’s offer of $50,000 to shoot Cobain, and how a train fatally hit Hoke after he stated knowing that Allen Wrench took that offer.
That article also detailed Seattle Police Detective Antonio Terry disobeying his superior’s orders not to investigate Cobain’s death as a homicide when he spent a hundred hours trying to find the source of the heroin in Cobain’s system.[15]
Det. Terry was then murdered—the first Seattle officer murdered in nine years, which remains unsolved, though Terry reported being recognized as a cop by the murderers, before he died.
Michelle Wilkins described her findings of how Courtney Love hired several domestic male employees and supplied them with heroin, which led to some nine people living at, or constantly around, Cobain’s home at the time of his death.
Wilkins called these people “Courtney’s flying monkeys.” They included security guard Rene Navarrette, Love’s bandmate Eric Erlandson, Michael “Cali” DeWitt and Jessica Hopper, with Wilkins stating the latter two were groomed since they were 15 years old, which may allude to why Love would be valuable for Jeffrey Epstein’s work.[16]
Wilkins further claimed that Courtney Love worked as an “informant” for the Seattle Police Department’s Det. Terry, as supported by recordings made of Love. Informant is a term often used by U.S. intelligence to diminish their work as an actual agent for intelligence.
Eyewitness Memoir; Ex-Seattle Police Captain Reports Cobain Murdered; Love Implicates CIA
An eyewitness named Josef Burns published a 50-page paperback account, To Kurt, I’m Sorry, describing him seeing several people, including heroin addict Dylan Carlson, knocking Kurt Cobain nearly unconscious before shooting him up with two pre-filled syringes of heroin.
Burns also gave a videotaped statement describing Carlson and his companion doing something else to get Cobain in a daze, before pushing him up to the greenhouse.[17]
In the written account, Burns, who was a member of a Seattle band and also dealt heroin, said he then saw these individuals drag Cobain out of the house to the greenhouse, above the garage, where Burns heard a shotgun blast and where Cobain’s body was eventually found.[18]
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Of further significance, retired Seattle Police Captain Neil Low has stated that he watched the documentary film on Cobain’s death, Soaked in Bleach, which motivated him to re-examine all the evidence of the Cobain death case that year and to eventually give interviews from 2024 to 2026 detailing why he believes Cobain was murdered.
And finally, popular podcaster Candace Owens reported in November 2025, that Courtney Love, knowing that Owens liked the book CHAOS, about the CIA’s Project MK-ULTRA, stated that the CIA’s MK-ULTRA manipulated her and was behind Kurt Cobain’s murder.
Many called Kurt Cobain “the John Lennon of his generation,” and both musical icons were manipulated into inadvertently promoting drugs, and then seemingly murdered when they threatened to promote sobriety and leftist politics.[19]
U.S intelligence fingerprints of its interconnected agenda can be seen on the Iran-Contra Cocaine scandal, Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile and blackmail network, and Cobain’s death.
The failed U.S./Israeli war on Iran was not only a major loss for the United States and Israel and an Iranian victory, but it has also helped Iran’s status as a serious regional power.
This is best underscored by the fact that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states,-after facing Iranian retaliatory strikes against U.S. bases and assets during the war, is no longer relying on the United States for protection and is looking to form a security alliance with Iran.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the Prime Minister of Qatar, told the Financial Times that “Part of what we are doing now, as regional countries, is to create this regional security framework between us and Iran, that will hopefully have economic co-operation in the future between all of us — to bring the region back to stability”.
He similarly told Al Jazeera, “Iran is a neighbouring country, and dialogue with it remains necessary to guarantee the security and stability of the region”.
This shows that the GCC no longer trust the United States to protect them, given that “Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar host US military bases and were attacked by Iran during the war. Washington struggled to supply its Gulf allies with enough interceptors to defend against Iranian missile attacks,” as journalist Kyle Anzalone noted.
As a result, the GCC states are seemingly deciding to stop relying on the United States for defence and make a security agreement with Iran, which has cemented itself as a serious regional power.
“They have to deal with Iran because it is not going anywhere”, Gawdat Bahgat, a professor of national security affairs at Washington’s National Defense University said referring to the Gulf nations new approach to Iran.
“Even while Iran attacked them, they kept diplomatic channels open because the day after, they and Iran have no choice but to live together” he noted.
“Our aim is that Iran flourishes and their economy grows; and our investment basically has always been purely on commercial decisions”, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the Financial Times.
This destroys the U.S./Israeli goal of isolating Iran, instead causing regional countries to forge closer ties to Iran for their own national security interests.
This is yet another way the U.S/Israeli war on Iran was a loss for the U.S. empire and a win for Iran and its influence as a serious regional power.
He tapped Bill Pulte to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence, and the reaction from the media, Democrats, and the intelligence establishment tells you everything you need to know. They are furious.
Why? Because Pulte is doing exactly what many Americans have demanded for years. He’s cleaning house.
Within days of taking over, reports indicate dozens of employees inside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence were either fired or sent packing as the administration moves to shrink what President Trump has called a bloated intelligence bureaucracy.
And here’s the kicker. Almost immediately, anti-Pulte leaks started pouring out of the intelligence community. The same people who claim to be defending democracy are running to the media to undermine the man tasked with reforming their agency. If there was ever proof that the swamp still exists, this is it.
To me, those leaks are not an argument against Bill Pulte. They’re the strongest argument for him.
The intelligence community was never supposed to operate as an independent power center. It exists to serve the American people, not protect itself. Yet every time someone comes along promising accountability, downsizing, and reform, the knives come out.
The media says Pulte is dangerous. Democrats say he’s unqualified. Washington insiders are panicking. Frankly, that makes me like the appointment even more.
Today, we break down why Bill Pulte may be exactly the deep state slayer President Trump was looking for, why the leaks prove the purge is necessary, and why the intelligence establishment is terrified of what could come next.
Vice President JD Vance has said if Iranian assets are unfrozen, “they’re going to go to make American farmers richer and feed the Iranian people.”
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Iran’s lead negotiator has dismissed US claims that Tehran’s unfrozen assets would be spent on American agricultural products, as American leaders try to skew the terms of a fragile truce agreement.
“America falsely claims our unfrozen assets will buy their agriculture. Interesting,” Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf wrote on social media platform X on Thursday.
“The only crop we’re harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust. It’s organic, abundant, and homegrown. But apparently the US only exports GMO soybeans, broken promises and trash talks.”
The rebuke came after President Donald Trump and US officials said the initial financial relief under the Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding would be used to purchase corn, wheat and soybeans from American farmers.
Trump insisted that no cash would reach Tehran directly, promising the funds would instead go to US growers to alleviate what he described as Iran’s “hunger problem.”
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Wednesday that Treasury officials would be stationed in Qatar to oversee the allocation of funds, with a “very large percent” going to buy US foodstuffs and medicines.
“So we will be recycling the money back into US products,” he said.
Trump has repeatedly characterized Iranians as hungry, saying on Tuesday: “They have a hunger problem, they have a food problem, they have a medicine problem, they got a lot of problems.”
Vice President JD Vance added that if Iranian assets are unfrozen, “they’re going to go to make American farmers richer and feed the Iranian people.”
The remarks have sparked widespread backlash inside Iran, where officials and citizens have pointed out that the country has maintained stable food supplies despite months of war.
Agriculture Minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh recently announced that Iran has achieved 85% food self-sufficiency, with agricultural production rising from 28 million tons before the Islamic Revolution to 139 million tons today.
“During the past nearly four months, when the country faced wartime conditions and various restrictions, no disruption occurred in the supply of essential goods or the country’s food security,” Nouri said.
Iran’s resilience is rooted in a decades-old “resistance economy” policy of self-reliance, which has built independent domestic production capabilities across agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. Despite US naval blockades and thousands of airstrikes targeting infrastructure, Iran has maintained stable food and fuel supplies.
Iranian officials have forcefully rejected a distorted US narrative of the June 17 agreement. Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati said Tehran has “no requirement to purchase agricultural inputs from America” under the signed memorandum.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the released assets would be employed freely to purchase whatever goods Iran needed, with any agricultural purchases based on “prices and quality,” not on conditions imposed by Washington.
“It is interesting that the philosophy and goal of the war, which was the destruction of the Iranian civilization and the collapse of Iran, has become enriching American farmers,” Baghaei said.
The dispute over Iran’s frozen assets highlights Washington’s double standard: imposing crippling sanctions for years that cut Iran off from the global financial system, attacking Iranian civilian infrastructure during the war, and now attempting to profit from the very assets it illegally seized.
During the war that began on February 28, US and Israeli forces systematically targeted Iranian civilian infrastructure. Water reservoirs in southern Iran were struck, cutting off water for tens of thousands of people.
The Economist reported that strikes targeted “university buildings, apartment blocks and banks” alongside military installations.
US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz defended such threats, telling ABC’s “This Week” that striking power plants and bridges was “perfectly acceptable” under the “rules of land warfare.”
International law experts have asserted that such attacks constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute.
The 60-day implementation period for the memorandum is underway, with technical talks mediated by Pakistan and Qatar set to resume next week.
The Microsoft co-founder told Congress that the sex offender pressured him with knowledge of his infidelities
Billionaire Bill Gates has claimed that the late pedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail him over affairs he had with Russian women, according to newly released congressional testimony.
The Microsoft co-founder appeared before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 as part of an investigation into the convicted sex offender’s activities and ties to influential figures. A transcript of the closed-door interview was released on Tuesday amid scrutiny that Gates has faced since disclosures from the so-called Epstein files were released by the US Justice Department this past year.
The files include allegations concerning Gates’s extramarital relationships, requests for drugs, a purported sexually transmitted infection, and “sex with Russian girls.” They also detail his discussions with Epstein on global health initiatives, polio eradication, health data systems, and a proposed pandemic simulation years before the Covid-19 outbreak.
In his testimony, Gates acknowledged that, despite knowing of Epstein’s sex-related criminal conviction, he established contact with him in 2011 in hopes of getting access to wealthy donors for his global health projects. However, Gates said he cut ties with the financier in 2014 when Epstein failed to deliver.
According to the billionaire, Epstein then obtained “sensitive information” about his personal life and tried to use it to blackmail him and pull him back into his orbit.
“Epstein was working to use information about my infidelities, in addition to many lies that he layered on top, to pressure me to reengage with him,” Gates told lawmakers. “He was unsuccessful in this effort.”
Gates admitted to having affairs with two adult Russian women, but stressed they had no connection to Epstein’s criminal network. He has also vehemently denied the STD and drug allegations, insisting that Epstein never introduced him to women for sex, arranged massages for him, or involved him in criminal conduct. He also said he never visited Epstein’s island, ranch, or Florida home.
Gates’ ties to Epstein have long raised questions, as the latter lacked any known public health expertise, despite taking part in discussions on global health projects and data systems. The Microsoft co-founder claims the meetings were aimed solely at securing funding for the Gates Foundation but resulted in no charitable contributions.
Gates has repeatedly apologized for his association with Epstein, saying he should never have met with him in the first place.
The broader Epstein files scandal has revived questions about how the convicted sex offender managed to maintain access to billionaires, politicians, bankers, and royals after his 2008 conviction.
Other prominent figures who have already testified in the investigation include former President Bill Clinton, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and billionaire Les Wexner.
The US Senate has approved a war powers resolution aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from waging military aggression against Iran without congressional authorization, marking a significant political rebuke of the administration’s military adventurism.
The measure passed on Tuesday in a 50-48 vote, with four Republican senators joining Democrats in support of the resolution.
Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Rand Paul of Kentucky broke ranks with their party to back the measure, while Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted against it.
The resolution would require the president to seek authorization from Congress before using military force against Iran.
The Senate vote follows the House of Representatives’ approval of the same measure earlier this month.
Although the resolution does not carry the force of law and does not require the president’s signature, its passage represents a formal expression of congressional opposition to such aggression.
Trump announced a ceasefire in the latest round of unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic on April 7.
The announcement followed at least 100 rounds of decisive and successful Iranian reprisal against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region. It also ensued Tehran’s closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz to enemies and their allies, a move that unleashed shockwaves onto the global energy markets.
Tehran and Washington recently signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the cycle arising out of the aggression.
Over Sunday and Monday, the two sides held talks in Switzerland on implementation of the MoU amid the Islamic Republic’s insistence on the other party’s commitment to its obligations under the understanding.
Among other things, Iran has laid serious emphasis on cessation of aggression on all fronts, including Lebanon, recognition and continuation of the Islamic Republic’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, removal of illegal sanctions, and unfreezing of the country’s assets.
This combination photo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan have held a phone call to discuss regional developments, as Persian Gulf Arab states recalibrate their approach toward Tehran in the wake of the US-Israeli war that exposed the limits of American power.
Araghchi on Wednesday briefed the Saudi minister on the latest progress in implementing bilateral agreements and the ongoing negotiations following the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on June 18.
The two top diplomats underscored the importance of maintaining diplomatic channels, strengthening joint cooperation to support regional stability, and achieving positive and sustainable outcomes.
The call came as French news agency AFP said Saudi Arabia is expected to host talks aimed at repairing relations between Iran and Persian Gulf countries following the US-Israeli war on Iran.
It cited a diplomat familiar with the arrangements as saying Wednesday that a regional summit was being planned in Riyadh and could also include other neighboring countries, but no date had yet been set.
The meetings would be separate from the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States, the diplomat added.
CNN, citing a senior Persian Gulf diplomat, reported that leaders are increasingly contemplating a future in which the US plays a much smaller role in the regional security architecture, with a possible framework involving a regional non-aggression pact with Iran.
According to Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, “From the Arab states’ perspective, the Iran war is a disastrous turning point for the regional security order.”
The war, which began on February 28, exposed vulnerabilities in the Persian Gulf states’ security model, which is heavily dependent on the nearly 40,000 US troops stationed in the region and American-made air defense systems.
“The US security guarantee is no longer reliable in the way they thought it was,” one analyst at Chatham House told The New York Times.
Washington’s approach is increasingly perceived as selective and heavily centered on Israel’s security interest.
A classified CIA analysis found that US allies in the Persian Gulf are divided over their approach to Iran. According to the assessment, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prefer continued pressure on Tehran, while Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait now support negotiations.
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, noted that the UAE and Bahrain “made themselves frontline states against Iran” through the Abraham Accords and “now they’re in too deep and cannot extract themselves out of it”.
The Saudis, Parsi added, “were at the highest levels pushing for this war. They have come to regret it”.
Adding another layer of complexity is a widening gap between Arab governments and Arab public opinion over Iran.
According to a report by The Economist cited by DID Press, growing anger toward Israel and dissatisfaction with US policies have fueled increasing sympathy for Tehran across parts of the Arab world.
Despite sustained efforts by several Arab governments to reinforce anti-Iran narratives, recent developments have altered perceptions among sections of Arab society.
The report identifies two major drivers behind this shift: anger toward Israel, as many Arabs increasingly view Iranian actions against Israel as a legitimate response to regional military operations, and religious and cultural ties, particularly among Shia communities across the Persian Gulf.
The report concludes that sectarian narratives no longer resonate as strongly as in previous years, and that many Arabs increasingly view Iran as more assertive and resilient than several Arab governments.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani traveled to Muscat on Wednesday to initiate talks between Iran, Persian Gulf states, and Iraq on the future operation of the Strait of Hormuz.
The discussions aim to implement a provision of the MoU requiring Iran and Oman to hold talks with other Persian Gulf states on the future management of navigation and maritime services.
Earlier on Wednesday, Oman announced two temporary routes north and south of the existing shipping lane to facilitate safe passage of vessels departing the region, in coordination with the International Maritime Organization.
The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas normally transits, was heavily disrupted after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28.
Senior Israeli security officials met on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, despite a consistent track record of failed attempts to advance the policy. According to Haaretz, National Security Council chief Shmuel Ben Ezra convened the urgent meeting with representatives from the Israeli army, Shin Bet, and Mossad to address what Israel terms “encouraging voluntary emigration.”
During the session, Mossad representatives reportedly admitted they have failed to identify a single country willing to accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza. Military officials expressed surprise at the sudden urgency of the discussion, noting that the issue has been raised repeatedly in the past without progress.
A security source told Haaretz that the renewed push could potentially be part of a “compensation” package delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by US President Donald Trump following a US-Iran agreement. Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee dismissed the plan as lacking political or international feasibility due to fierce opposition from Arab states and the wider international community.
The rhetoric of forced displacement continues to gain traction across the Israeli political spectrum. Intelligence Minister Israel Katz established a dedicated directorate for Gaza emigration last year, and the defense minister recently stated that the expulsion of the Palestinian population would occur at the appropriate time.
The sentiment extends beyond Gaza, as Likud lawmaker and Deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi publicly called on Tuesday for the total expulsion of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, asserting that Israeli settlers would never live in peace until all Arabs are removed from the area.
The board has allowed Israel to evade its commitments under the US-sponsored deal and is demanding Hamas disarm amid ongoing bombardment.
US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza is working to “crush” the prospect of Palestinian statehood and “force a Palestinian surrender,” according to documents obtained exclusively by Drop Site News.
The documents originate from recent negotiations between the Trump-led Board of Peace and Palestinian negotiators.
The first document contains the Palestinian team’s amendments to the Board of Peace’s roadmap for disarming Gaza’s resistance, while the second is a reply from the Board of Peace director and ex-Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, issued last week.
The Palestinian draft states that the resistance’s weapons can only be dealt with as part of a “process that guarantees the Palestinian people’s right to establish a Palestinian state and exercise their right to self-determination.”
Yet the board’s conditions state that only a disarmament first can “create conditions for a credible pathway” toward statehood.
Israel and the board demand that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other factions surrender their weapons before reconstruction, Israeli withdrawal, and governance arrangements can proceed.
Tel Aviv has failed to adhere to the terms of the deal by continuing to occupy Gaza, restrict aid, and bombard the strip.
Palestinian negotiators cited in the report have described talks with the Board of Peace as a bid to impose through diplomacy what Israel failed to achieve through war.
“Trump’s board has embraced a decades-long Israeli tactic of demanding detailed commitments from Palestinians on issues of security and weapons, while offering only vague suggestions of potential Israeli commitments and providing the Palestinian side no substantive recourse when Israel violates the terms,” the outlet wrote.
A Hamas official told Drop Site News that the latest response from Mladenov “reflects the occupation’s unwillingness to reach an agreement, despite the movement’s compliance with all the demands placed upon it.”
“In its current form, this paper is unacceptable and cannot serve as a basis for agreement.”
The Board of Peace responded to the report by denying that it favors the Israeli side over the Palestinian side.
According to EU officials cited by POLITICO, the board will convene in Cyprus next week to “reset” the Gaza ceasefire process after “the Iran war has completely shifted the attention in the last several months.”
Recent reports have said the Board continues to struggle in securing commitments from nations that initially pledged support.
The board has also failed in its plan to create an International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza, which was largely rejected as an attempt to force regional countries into a clash with Hamas after two years of genocide failed to wipe out the resistance movement.
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since the so-called truce was announced in Gaza in October 2025.
Israeli occupation forces have also expanded their occupation to over 60 percent of the besieged strip.
Many permanent outposts have been built, and Tel Aviv continues to obstruct aid into Gaza while significantly expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is moving forward with plans to annex the territory.
In February, the Israeli government approved a land registration process allowing Israel to claim territory in the occupied West Bank as “state property” if Palestinians cannot prove ownership
Since then, scores of new illegal settlements have been approved.
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