For eleven consecutive nights, American forces have struck Iranian military infrastructure in a conflict that began as a dispute over the world's most vital shipping lane and has now expanded toward the threshold of nuclear confrontation. A ceasefire signed in June lasted only three weeks before the cycle of attack and retaliation resumed, and a public presidential threat to strike an underground enrichment facility near Natanz has raised the possibility of a qualitatively different kind of war. The Strait of Hormuz remains technically open, but the machinery of escalation — measured now in bi
US launches 11th night of strikes on Iran as Trump threatens nuclear site attack
Hundreds of innocent mariners endangered by attacks on commercial vessels; potential for mass casualties if nuclear site strikes proceed.