Morning Brief: Iran Rejects Trump’s Surrender Demand as U.S. Uncovers Assassination Plot and Turns Pressure on Cuba

Morning Brief: Iran Rejects Trump’s Surrender Demand as U.S. Uncovers Assassination Plot and Turns Pressure on Cuba

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Washington is demanding surrender from a wounded Iran with no supreme leader, squeezing Cuba with prosecutors and economic chokeholds, and now a Brooklyn courtroom has laid bare an Iran-linked assassination plot against American politicians, a reminder that this strange new season of geopolitics is being fought with bombers, indictments, and hired killers all at once.

The Shadow Army Behind Iran’s War on U.S. Forces

The Shadow Army Behind Iran’s War on U.S. Forces

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Washington may have killed Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and decapitated Iran’s leadership again in 2026, but the shadow warfare system he built, a sprawling network of militias, missiles, and covert operators across the Middle East, is still very much in the fight.