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Energy prices continue to surge as Hormuz Strait remains closed

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Energy prices continue to surge as Hormuz Strait remains closed

TEHRAN - Nearly two weeks after the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran, global energy markets are entering a period of severe strain. Iran, facing direct attacks on its territory, has expanded security measures in the Strait of Hormuz — a step Tehran describes as a lawful response to foreign aggression and a necessary defense of its territorial waters.

Energy prices continue to surge as Hormuz Strait remains closed

Iran fires missiles at US and Israeli targets for three straight hours

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Iran fires missiles at US and Israeli targets for three straight hours

TEHRAN - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced Tuesday night that it had carried out the most intense wave yet of its retaliatory campaign against American and Israeli targets, firing a sustained barrage of missiles for more than three hours as part of Operation True Promise 4.

Iran fires missiles at US and Israeli targets for three straight hours

Mass funeral in Tehran honors commanders and civilians martyred at start of war

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Mass funeral in Tehran honors commanders and civilians martyred at start of war

TEHRAN - Around one million mourners gathered in central Tehran on Wednesday, according to local estimates, for the funeral procession of senior Iranian military commanders and civilians killed by the United States and Israel on the first day of the ongoing war.

Mass funeral in Tehran honors commanders and civilians martyred at start of war

If you repeat a lie often enough Media misinformation and the war on Iran

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If you repeat a lie often enough: Media, misinformation, and the war on Iran

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. This famous statement, attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Information, was made more than eighty years ago during WWII. Yet in many ways it still seems to echo through some modern newsrooms.

If you repeat a lie often enough: Media, misinformation, and the war on Iran