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Celeo RamirezThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Israel ordered the evacuation of two hundred thousand residents from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday and began striking Hezbollah...
Tehran has said it for more than twenty years. The uranium is peaceful. The program is civilian. The enrichment is for energy. The line has survived...
The world is about to exhale. The terms of the deal are out, and they read like relief. A 60-day truce. The Strait of Hormuz reopened, the mines...
It has become a constant. In late March, the president gave Iran forty-eight hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or watch its power grid burn. The...
Hezbollah lost roughly 90% of its rocket arsenal during the Gaza war, and Iran, its strategic patron, is in economic collapse. And yet the most lethal...
You are eighteen, you have just won La Liga, you have tens of millions of followers, and you have celebrated however you saw fit. I believe you have...
The watch window has just opened The outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship that left Ushuaia on April 1...
The accountability question after the ship arrives The MV Hondius is expected at the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife in the early hours of Sunday, May...
An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...
Air Force One departs for Beijing on May 14. Between now and then, President Trump must decide whether he lands in the Forbidden City under a...
Iran does not believe Trump. That is the simplest explanation for what is happening, and the most dangerous one. On April 29, at four in the morning...
Fine. Granted. All of it. Every point of the ten-point plan. Every sanction lifted. Every asset unfrozen. Every obedient vote at the Security Council....
On Sunday, April 19, 2026, a photograph began circulating on X. It was posted by the Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi. The image showed a soldier...
On April 17, President Trump told Reuters that the United States will recover Iran’s enriched uranium in cooperation with Tehran. “We’re going...
On April 8, 2026, one day after President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a televised statement...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered the United States Navy to blockade all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. On Monday at 10...
In the winter of 588 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. His armies encircled the city, erected siege walls, and severed every...
“Open the Strait of Hormuz — or there will be consequences unlike anything seen before.” That was, in essence, the message from the President of...
On the eve of Easter 2026, a person dressed in black placed an explosive device at the entrance of the Israel Centre in Nijkerk, Netherlands. The...
In my previous article on this blog, I argued that the 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are the only variable that determines who wins...
The Only Variable That Matters On March 23, President Trump announced a five-day postponement of strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure,...
The missiles were already flying when the answer started to become clear. The Night Before the Bombs On February 24, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete...
In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear detonation: the zone within...
On the night of March 16, 2026, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of targeted strikes across Tehran. By Tuesday morning, Israeli Defense...
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., a thirteen-kiloton uranium bomb detonated 600 meters above the Shima Hospital in Hiroshima. One second later, the...
We left Las Vegas at three in the morning. The city was still pulsing behind us, a blur of neon and noise fading in the rearview mirror as we merged...
The hounds search for him on every street, And the hawks keep watch from the skies. Is he alive, or is he dead? Conscious or unconscious? By faith he...
On March 4, 2026, as American and Israeli strikes entered their fifth day, an Iranian military official told the semi-official ISNA news agency that...
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
As you read this, the United States and Israel are bombing Iran. Operation Epic Fury. Operation Roaring Lion. Khamenei is dead. Iranian missiles are...
Two American aircraft carrier strike groups are now within operational range of Iran. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group entered US Central...
In September 1983, a Soviet satellite system detected what appeared to be five American intercontinental ballistic missiles streaking toward Russia....