Trump Faces Blowback on Easing Iran Oil Sanctions
President Trump once assailed the Obama administration for making cash payments to Iran. Now he supports sanctions relief that could give the country a $14 billion windfall.
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‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: General Stanley McChrystal on Iran
David French talks with the retired general about the “great seduction” America fell for in Iran.
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Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops to Iran
The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.
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Trump Delays Deadline for Strikes on Iranian Energy Infrastructure
President Trump said the U. S. would put off any attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, citing “very strong” talks with Iran toward ending the war.
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Trump Delays Energy Strikes, but Iran’s Infrastructure is Already Battered
U. S. and Israeli attacks on power plants and other civilian infrastructure risk escalating the conflict across the region, and angering Iranians who oppose the government.
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Energy Crisis Will Not Be Resolved Quickly if War Ends, I.E.A. Chief Warns
Fatih Birol, the leader of the International Energy Agency, said the Iran war was a bigger crisis that the two oil shocks in the 1970s combined.
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Israel Says Its Own Artillery Killed a Farmer, Not a Hezbollah Rocket
Ofer Moskovitz, 60, an avocado farmer in a kibbutz on Israel’s border with Lebanon, was killed Sunday when the car he was riding in was hit.
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Markets Rally as Trump’s Iran Deadline Is Deferred
Stock futures rose and oil prices fell after President Trump cited “very good and productive” talks with Iran over ending the war.
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Iranians Respond to Trump’s Threats to Hit Iran’s Power Plants
Some Iranians expressed anxiety while others remained skeptical after President Trump told Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its power grid.
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The Republican Identity Crisis Over the Iran War
As the war continues, leading figures on the right are questioning whether President Trump has embroiled the country in the sort of costly conflict he had promised to avoid.
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America and Israel United to Fight Iran. Both Will Pay a Price.
Different tactics and strategies helped the alliance work.
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We Shouldn’t Want a World Run by Prediction Markets
Prediction markets teach us to look at the future as gamblers, rather than as citizens.
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Stocks Tumble as Oil Prices Rise
Investors braced for a fourth week of market turmoil caused by the war in the Middle East
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Caught Between Two Conflicts, Afghans Flee Iran
The war in Iran is choking off Afghanistan’s main economic lifeline and has forced at least 70,000 Afghan workers and students there back home to a nation embroiled in another conflict.
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Iranians Fear Trump’s Threat to Strike Power Plants
With President Trump threatening to strike Iranian power plants, some war-weary civilians are panicking over a possible new debacle.
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Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran
The president’s messages on the war have shifted, but the latest threat might be a sign that he’s moving to a harder stance.
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Israel’s Missile Defense Under Scrutiny After Iranian Attack
Two missiles landed hours apart, wreaking havoc in two towns near a heavily guarded nuclear site in the Negev Desert.
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Israel Orders Military to Intensify Demolitions in Southern Lebanon
Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed troops to destroy more bridges and buildings in southern Lebanon, stoking worries that Israel could expand a military-controlled buffer zone there.
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Residents of Arad Are Shaken After Direct Strike by Iranian Missile
Attacks on Saturday injured dozens in Arad and Dimona, two cities closest to Israel’s main nuclear research facility.
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On Beirut’s Waterfront, Loss Meets Life, and Luxury, Amid War
Thousands displaced by Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s capital now shelter along the promenade hugging the Mediterranean Sea. They share it with joggers, cyclists and dog walkers, alongside dizzying displays of wealth.