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Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy Over Forced Marriage Plot
04.05.2026, 08:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy Over Forced Marriage Plot Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix, An Iraqi father accused of beating, imprisoning, and threatening to kill his daughter after she refused an arranged marriage has been arrested in Sweden on a European warrant issued by Italian authorities. The 52-year-old...
CNN 'Expert' Says Iranian Suicide Dolphins Going After US Ships
03.05.2026, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CNN 'Expert' Says Iranian Suicide Dolphins Going After US Ships Americans have been subject to a variety of creative wartime propaganda claims by their government stretching back many decades. From the 'incubator babies' hoax of the first Iraq war, to hyping 'mushroom clouds' over US cities during the 2nd Iraq War, to Gaddafi 'mass rape' allegations...
Final Warnings
01.05.2026, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Final Warnings By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Some headlines write themselves. Tokyo has already delivered one – and likely acted on it. Tehran may be waiting for its turn. The bond market, meanwhile, could have issued another warning to the Fed. As for the long-held consensus that 2026 would bring smooth disinflation, gentle...
Aircraft Carrier Strike Group To Leave Middle East, Reducing Footprint Amid Iran War
01.05.2026, 03:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aircraft Carrier Strike Group To Leave Middle East, Reducing Footprint Amid Iran War Currently there are three American aircraft carrier groups in Middle East waters and near Iran in the context of Operation Epic Fury. By comparison, at the height of the Bush-ordered US invasion of Iraq in 2003, there were six total carrier groups - which were responsible...
$25 Billion: Hegseth Accused Of Lowballing Cost Of Iran War
01.05.2026, 00:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $25 Billion: Hegseth Accused Of Lowballing Cost Of Iran War Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has been in a very public spat and back-and-forth with Congressional Democrats over the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request, as well as over Iran war strategy and mounting costs. Hegseth has turned to some classic wartime fearmongering:...
Vance Reportedly Questions Pentagon's Rosy Assessment Of Iran War
30.04.2026, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vance Reportedly Questions Pentagon's Rosy Assessment Of Iran War Vice President JD Vance is reportedly questioning assessments from the Department of War about the effectiveness of the US military campaign against Iran. According to two senior White House officials cited by The Atlantic, Vance has expressed skepticism about recent Pentagon estimates...
First Of Many? UAE Exits OPEC As Iran Chaos Triggers Nationalistic Realignment Among Producers
28.04.2026, 14:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First Of Many? UAE Exits OPEC As Iran Chaos Triggers Nationalistic Realignment Among Producers OPEC member and major Gulf producer, the UAE, has decided to exit the oil cartel, an unexpected development that crossed Bloomberg headlines on Tuesday morning around 0822 ET. OPEC finished https://t.co/RtxJdZQeQh — zerohedge ( zerohedge) April 28, 2026...
Report Claims Iranian Jet Bombed American Base In Kuwait At War's Start
28.04.2026, 01:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Report Claims Iranian Jet Bombed American Base In Kuwait At War's Start Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Iranian attacks on US bases across the Middle East have caused far more damage than the Trump administration has publicly acknowledged, and an Iranian fighter jet was able to bomb at least one US base, NBC News reported on Saturday, citing...
Germany's Merz Says US 'Humiliated' By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan
27.04.2026, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Merz Says US 'Humiliated' By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration's Iran war gambit. There's been plenty of criticism out of Europe since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28, but Merz's Monday words are especially direct...
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei Surrounded By 24/7 Medical Team In Hideout As Generals Run Iran: NYT
23.04.2026, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei Surrounded By 24/7 Medical Team In Hideout As Generals Run Iran: NYT The NY Times in a new deep dive of what governing structures now look like inside Iran says what's already long been obvious to many in the wake of longtime Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death: "When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran as the supreme leader, he...
Minecraft, Warcraft, Statecraft
23.04.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Minecraft, Warcraft, Statecraft Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank While mediators are pushing to get Iran and the US back into negotiations on Friday, the US still says it wants to see unified response from Iran which hands over its enriched uranium. But what will change between now and Friday? Two things, perhaps, and both pointing towards an...
US Blocks Regular $500 Million Cash Pallets Flown To Iraq, Over Pro-Iran Militias
23.04.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Blocks Regular $500 Million Cash Pallets Flown To Iraq, Over Pro-Iran Militias In confirmation of some early reporting we featured at the start of this week, The Wall Street Journal has verified something that Iraqi officials themselves were denying just days ago: the US is blocking Iraq's regular dollar shipments in order to pressure it's Iran-backed...
All The Dream-Houses Of The Left
21.04.2026, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - All The Dream-Houses Of The Left Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The Left’s political imagination builds heroes, villains, and entire histories untethered from reality, substituting narrative for fact until it collapses under scrutiny. Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media...
Iraq's Ruling Pro-Iran Bloc Races To Choose PM, While US Rejects Main Candidates
21.04.2026, 04:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraq's Ruling Pro-Iran Bloc Races To Choose PM, While US Rejects Main Candidates Via The Cradle The US has suspended all funding and security coordination with Iraq, and shipments of dollars the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), until a new Baghdad government acceptable to Washington is formed, Saudi state-owned Al-Hadath reported Monday. The US is also...
USS Ford Carrier Returns To Mideast After Extensive Fire Repairs
21.04.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - USS Ford Carrier Returns To Mideast After Extensive Fire Repairs Over the weekend it was confirmed by Pentagon statements that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group has belatedly redeployed to the Middle East after a month in port for repairs following a fire aboard the ship. The world's largest aircraft carrier returned to operations...
Chicago Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Conspiring With ISIS
20.04.2026, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chicago Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Conspiring With ISIS Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Ashraf Al Safoo from Chicago has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, which involved recruiting members into the terror group and encouraging attacks on its enemies. Al Safoo, 41,...
Here's Why Trump's Hormuz Blockade Should Stoke 'Strait Chaos' For China
19.04.2026, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's Why Trump's Hormuz Blockade Should Stoke 'Strait Chaos' For China The currently closed Strait of Hormuz, situated between Oman and Iran, connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, and has emerged as a major flashpoint in the US-Iran war. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, off Yemen's coast, has also remained a focal point among...
Spillover Conflict Still Raging In Iraq: Three Iranian Kurds Killed
18.04.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spillover Conflict Still Raging In Iraq: Three Iranian Kurds Killed The Iran war seems to be cooling, as a two week ceasefire holds, but people are still dying from spillover effects and sporadic conflict in neighboring Iraq. "Drone and rocket strikes in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region on Friday killed three Iranian Kurds, including two women fighters...
Iran Used Chinese Spy Satellite To Target US Bases During War, Outraged Beijing Denies
15.04.2026, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Used Chinese Spy Satellite To Target US Bases During War, Outraged Beijing Denies Iran quietly secured a Chinese spy satellite in late 2024 and used it to track US military bases across the Middle East during the current war, the Financial Times has newly - an allegation Beijing has flatly and angrily denied. The TEE-01B satellite, built and launched...
Federal Judge Temporarily Allows Pentagon To Enforce Press Restrictions
14.04.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Temporarily Allows Pentagon To Enforce Press Restrictions Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal court on April 13 temporarily allowed the Trump administration to enforce its media access restrictions at the Pentagon after blocking the policy last month. The Department of War logo at the Pentagon in Arlington...
Global Oil Demand Growth Completely Wiped Out By Gulf Energy Shock
14.04.2026, 20:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Oil Demand Growth Completely Wiped Out By Gulf Energy Shock The global demand destruction playbook we outlined last month, describing how the Gulf energy shock would spread across continents, is now materializing on a large scale. The International Energy Agency said in a Tuesday update that global oil demand will decline this year for the first...
Fill 'er Up: Record Armada Of Tankers Bound For US Gulf To Load Oil
14.04.2026, 16:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fill 'er Up: Record Armada Of Tankers Bound For US Gulf To Load Oil An unusually large number of crude oil tankers on the open seas has the American Gulf coast as a destination as the ships are redirected to load cargoes bound for markets around the world already experiencing shortages. As Alton Wallace writes at The Center Square, second-term...
How Iran's Mosaic Doctrine Is Fracturing
14.04.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Iran's Mosaic Doctrine Is Fracturing Authored by Zineb Riboua via Beyond the Ideological, Following President Trump’s announcement of a cease-fire, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated: “Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.” Tehran’s response has been a single counterargument: the Islamic Republic...
Pope Leo Says 'I Am Not Afraid Of Trump' - Amid War Of Words Over Iran Conflict
13.04.2026, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pope Leo Says 'I Am Not Afraid Of Trump' - Amid War Of Words Over Iran Conflict An open public clash between the Pope and President Trump was perhaps bound to happen given the Vatican's increasingly vocal criticism and condemnation of US military action in the Middle East. The Vatican has been consistently anti-war especially going back to the Iraq...
The Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Exposes A Fatal Flaw In Economic Thinking
13.04.2026, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Exposes A Fatal Flaw In Economic Thinking Authored by Kurt Cobb via Resource Insights, Even a 4–5% loss in global energy supply could translate into a comparable drop in economic activity due to energy’s central role in all production. Disruptions in oil and LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz are already removing...
New Iran Leadership More Extreme, Israeli Intelligence Concludes
12.04.2026, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Iran Leadership More Extreme, Israeli Intelligence Concludes It what should not at all be a surprise to anyone who has been awake and observant over the past 20+ years of America's military interventions in the Middle East, the Israeli Army and intelligence officials have concluded that Iran's news leadership is more extreme than the previous one...
Three Supertankers Carrying Iraqi And Saudi Crude Sail Through The Strait Of Hormuz
11.04.2026, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Three Supertankers Carrying Iraqi And Saudi Crude Sail Through The Strait Of Hormuz The wait is over: after the Persian Gulf side of the Hormuz Strait had turned into a bit of a parking lot late last week as tankers piled up hoping to use the ceasefire and make the crossing, two Chinese supertankers loaded with crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz...
Three Contrarian Signals That Aren't Easy To Ignore As Earnings Season Begins
11.04.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Three Contrarian Signals That Aren't Easy To Ignore As Earnings Season Begins Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 💰 Q1 Earnings Season Begins As a fragile ceasefire with Iran hangs in the balance and oil trades near multi-year highs, the Q1 earnings season is arriving in one of the most negatively positioned markets in years....
The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue
11.04.2026, 05:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us As much as many centrists and libertarians are opposed to Donald Trump’s ongoing strikes against Iran, I have to say, the downstream result might end up becoming one of the most libertarian results I have ever seen. For decades, small government activists...
Only Iran "Friendly" Ships Allowed Transit Through Strait, As Tankers Pile Up Near Hormuz, Waiting To Cross
10.04.2026, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only Iran "Friendly" Ships Allowed Transit Through Strait, As Tankers Pile Up Near Hormuz, Waiting To Cross Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely limited, with transits over the past 24 hours consisting almost exclusively of ships "friendly" to Iran, including Chinese and Russian vessels. Meanwhile, those expecting the ceasefire to...
Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones
08.04.2026, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, It may sound hard to believe, but except for a very limited group of personnel, the military has treated its bases as gun-free zones. Until Thursday, only designated security forces – such as military police – could carry firearms while on...
Iraqi Protesters Overrun Kuwait Consulate, Angry Over Role In US Actions
08.04.2026, 01:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraqi Protesters Overrun Kuwait Consulate, Angry Over Role In US Actions Close US ally Kuwait finds itself under growing political pressure from its neighbor Iraq, related to the ongoing Iran war. Angry crowds stormed the Kuwaiti consulate in Iraq's southern Basra governorate on Tuesday after rockets which came from the direction of Kuwait killed three...
Tehran-Aligned Militia In Iraq Frees American Journalist In Prisoner Swap
07.04.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tehran-Aligned Militia In Iraq Frees American Journalist In Prisoner Swap An Iran-backed militia in Iraq has announced it will release an American freelance journalist kidnapped in Baghdad a week ago. Shelly Kittleson was abducted on March 31, and her captors in Kataib Hezbollah announced Tuesday that she can go free as long as she exits Iraq immediately...
75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies
07.04.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol was interviewed by the French newspaper Le Figaro earlier on Tuesday and warned that the Gulf energy shock "is more severe than those of 1973, 1979, and 2022 combined" because it is affecting oil, gas, food, fertilizers...
Iranian Kurdish Groups Deny Receiving US Arms After Trump's 'Guns For Protesters' Remark
07.04.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iranian Kurdish Groups Deny Receiving US Arms After Trump's 'Guns For Protesters' Remark Via The Cradle Several Iranian Kurdish opposition groups on Monday denied reports that the US had armed them during anti-government protests and riots that erupted in January, leaving over 3,000 Iranians dead. Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the...
Iraq Tells Buyers To Collect Crude Which Can Now Cross Hormuz, While US Boosts Ship Reinsurance Guarantees To $40BN
06.04.2026, 17:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraq Tells Buyers To Collect Crude Which Can Now Cross Hormuz, While US Boosts Ship Reinsurance Guarantees To $40BN Over the long weekend, we reported that with traffic across the Hormuz strait continuing to rise, and reaching the highest since the war began, one particularly favorable development was Iran's permission for Iraqi ships to use the Strait...
NATO Was A Big Loser In The Iran War
06.04.2026, 10:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Was A Big Loser In The Iran War Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership. But they often do just that. President Donald Trump speaks...
OPEC+ Agrees To Boost Output By Another 206,000 Barrels A Day When Strait Of Hormuz Reopens
05.04.2026, 22:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Agrees To Boost Output By Another 206,000 Barrels A Day When Strait Of Hormuz Reopens With the world's attention glued to every headline out of Iran, it is understandable why today's OPEC+ meeting was largely ignored, although with roughly 12% of global oil output throttled at the Strait of Hormuz, it's not as if even OPEC+ could do much to offset...
Ex-CIA Analyst: Trump's Claim About Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses Was Premature
05.04.2026, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-CIA Analyst: Trump's Claim About Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses Was Premature Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson During his Wednesday night speech, Donald Trump made the following claim about Iran’s air defenses: "They have no anti-aircraft equipment, their radar’s 100% annihilated, we are unstoppable as a military force." The White...
Iran Allows Iraqi Ships To Use Strait Of Hormuz As Total Weekly Transits Reach HIghest Since War Began
05.04.2026, 03:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Allows Iraqi Ships To Use Strait Of Hormuz As Total Weekly Transits Reach HIghest Since War Began Over the past two weeks we have been chronicling the increased rate of crossing across the "blockaded" strait of Hormuz as a growing number of ships from friendly nations - whether untolled Chinese tankers or toll-paying Indian, Japanese and Korean...
In Charts: US Does Not Rely On Strait Of Hormuz Oil While Asia Stands To Lose
05.04.2026, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Charts: US Does Not Rely On Strait Of Hormuz Oil While Asia Stands To Lose Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Strait of Hormuz has been called the jugular vein of the world’s oil supply, and as Operation Epic Fury continues, Iran continues to have a chokehold on the critical supply route. About one-fifth of the world’s...
US Arrests & Boots Soleimani's Fashion Designer Niece From The Country
04.04.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Arrests & Boots Soleimani's Fashion Designer Niece From The Country The Trump administration is rounding up family members of notable Iranian government figures, accusing them of spreading 'pro-Tehran propaganda'. And apparently this is even if the Iranian officials in question are deceased. The State Department confirmed an unexpected development...
Downed U.S. Drone Appears On TikTok Live As Iraqi Children Try To Sell It
04.04.2026, 16:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Downed U.S. Drone Appears On TikTok Live As Iraqi Children Try To Sell It As the U.S.-Iran conflict enters its second month, America's Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS, is becoming increasingly visible across the Middle East theater, a sign that the Department of War has learned one critical lesson from both the Iranian drone playbook...
Oil Shocks & Recessionary Outcomes
03.04.2026, 18:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Shocks & Recessionary Outcomes Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, After more than three decades of watching oil markets upend economies, one pattern keeps repeating: investors learn the wrong lessons from the last shock. The 1973 OPEC embargo taught us that geopolitical disruptions are temporary. That lesson then got everyone...
Iraq Revives Syria Land Route, Post-Assad, To Export Oil To Europe
03.04.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraq Revives Syria Land Route, Post-Assad, To Export Oil To Europe Via Middle East Eye Iraq has restarted overland oil exports through Syria, marking a significant shift in regional energy logistics as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to wreak havoc on traditional shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz. Ali Nazar, director general of...
Russian Embassy Outraged After US-Israeli Strikes Damage Orthodox Church In Tehran
03.04.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Embassy Outraged After US-Israeli Strikes Damage Orthodox Church In Tehran The Russian Embassy in Tehran has issued an angry denunciation of Wednesday US-Israeli airstrikes which damaged a Russian Orthodox Church and an adjacent nursing home. "Two missile strikes on the morning of April 1st in the immediate vicinity of St. Nicholas Orthodox...
Houthis Confirm Coordination With Iran, Hezbollah In Several Attack Waves On Israel
02.04.2026, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Confirm Coordination With Iran, Hezbollah In Several Attack Waves On Israel Amid several waves of missile strikes out of Yemen onto Israel from Tuesday into Wednesday, the Iran-aligned Houthis have made it clear they are coordinating with both Tehran and Hezbollah. Yemeni Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the Houthis have carried out several...