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Jul 7, 2026 - World

The U.S. military announced Tuesday it had launched "powerful strikes" against Iran — something an analyst signaled could be a sign of what repercussions are to come.CNN White House reporter Adam Cancryn told CNN anchor Jake Tapper and senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes during a live report that a military official said these attacks were meant as "punishment" after Iran attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Cancryn warned that the retaliation could have a direct impact on Americans."At least in the immediate term here, it means more uncertainty when it comes to energy prices," Cancryn said. "So, we've already seen, as a result of these economic sanctions, sanctions being now reimposed, the global oil prices, and markets going up once again. The real risk here again is how the Iranians respond, whether they end up closing the Strait of Hormuz again, which, over the last few months, really pushed the price of oil and the price of gas at the pump up."The attacks also put the current ceasefire into further question while Trump was in Turkey, which borders Iran, for a NATO summit where world leaders were planning to discuss the Strait of Hormuz and the ongoing conflict."The concern here is that the ceasefire that we've had these last few weeks is maybe not as solid as people hoped it would be, that it's fragile, it could be broken. It could be broken for good," he added. "That's the real concern here that we end up in this standoff when it comes to the shipment of oil through that Strait."

Jul 7, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's administration resumed open hostilities against Iran on Tuesday, abandoning the soon-to-expire ceasefire memorandum after declaring Iran to be in "clear violation" for attacks on commercial ships, and striking back against multiple targets.The news prompted an explosion on social media, with many of Trump's supporters cheering the new attacks on, but others being less confident or supportive."Not much collective understanding of the memorandum of understanding," wrote The Bulwark's Sam Stein."Not just strikes, but powerful strikes," wrote Rory Johntson of CommodityContext. "Not just costs, but heavy costs; And they mean business because it's a long way from the weekend.""FIFA Peace Prize winner making a big move during the World Cup," wrote Grant Stern of Occupy Democrats."This US strike on Iran is much heavier than previous retaliatory strikes over 20 explosions in [Bandar] Abbas alone," wrote the WarMonitor account."Trump never had a real deal," wrote policy consultant Adam Cochran. "He just wanted headlines for his birthday — so of course it fell apart.""Trump's Iran War seems be resuming," wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. "Aside from the air strikes, the US has revoked the lifting of oil sanctions on Iran. This is more than a blip but not clear (to me at least) if we're headed back to full war or some darker shade of the gray area inbetween."

Jul 7, 2026 - World

The U.S. military announced Tuesday it had launched a series of strikes on Iran following attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.U.S. Central Command said Iran had violated the terms of the current ceasefire and announced the following in a post on X."U.S. Central Command forces have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire."The counterattack was underway while President Donald Trump was at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, CNN reported.

Jul 7, 2026 - World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became combative on CNN Tuesday when host Dana Bash put him on the spot about the “suffering" in Gaza.Towards the end of the nearly 30-minute interview, the CNN host admonished him by saying there were two sides in the conflict that have put Israel in the spotlight of becoming a pariah nation.“Mr. Prime Minister, I think all things can be true, all things can be true,” she pointed out before noting, “But are you saying that Israel and you personally bear no responsibility?”“Let's just talk about Gaza for one minute,” she proposed. “Currently, Hamas is continuing to refuse to disarm. The IDF is also carrying out nearly daily airstrikes in Gaza. You've taken over more territory there, and the Palestinian people are continuing to suffer; still displaced and dealing with intense heat, limited care, limited resources. Will you do more to help those suffering in Gaza? And will you concede that the images that people are seeing on their phones as part of social media is very much contributing to the, um, the turnaround and the diminishment of support of Israel and of you?”“Yeah. Look, I think that what you're raising is how do you fight a war in the digital age when, uh, you know, when you have terrorists that embed themselves in civilian populations in schools and civilian neighborhoods and apartment blocks in mosques and so on, how do you fight them?” he shot back. "They send rockets to indiscriminately kill our people, while they hide behind their own,“ he argued while talking over her. “They're targeting our civilians while hiding behind their own civilians. So what are you going to do? What do you think would happen if this happened to New York City from New Jersey? You think if they rocketed you with the, you know, with this firepower and murdered about 10,000 of your people, murdered, raped, maimed, disemboweled 10,000 Americans? What do you think the response of the United States to you about it? Would it be a lot stronger than ours?” - YouTube youtu.be

Jul 7, 2026 - World

While President Donald Trump promised Iranian protesters "help is on the way," his administration secretly handed their immigration files to the government they had fled, a new lawsuit charges.The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund and Public Citizen filed the suit Tuesday in federal court in Washington against Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director David Venturella, and their agencies.The lawsuit asks the court to stop the practice and notify every Iranian refugee whose files were shared without consent."The law couldn't be more clear that information in asylum applications is protected," said Michael Kirkpatrick, a Public Citizen attorney on the case. He called it "potentially a matter of life and death."The lawsuit alleges that starting in March 2025, ICE held monthly secret meetings with representatives of the Iranian government — conducted through Pakistan's embassy, since the U.S. has no formal diplomatic relations with Tehran — and handed over immigration files, asylum applications, and personal records of detained Iranians.According to the lawsuit, ICE officials also brought Iranian government representatives directly into detention facilities to meet with detainees face to face.The detainees had shared sensitive details — their identities, families, political beliefs, and religious affiliations — in confidence, trusting they would never reach Tehran."The Iranian Government engages in unlawful killings, forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and persecution of political dissidents, religious minorities, and LGBTQ individuals," the State Department found in its own human rights report, the lawsuit notes.The administration deported more than 100 Iranians on at least three flights, the Washington Post reported, with some called in for interrogation by the intelligence wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps upon arrival.The lawsuit says the U.S. government "materially increased the likelihood that Iranian asylum seekers will be detained, interrogated, tortured, or killed upon return.""This policy has also exposed the Iranian asylum seekers' family members and acquaintances to retaliation in the form of arrest, interrogation, torture, and death," it adds.Just two weeks before the last deportation flight, Trump posted on Truth Social urging Iranians to "keep protesting — take over your institutions… They will pay a big price," telling them "help is on its way.""The new policy has continued notwithstanding the June 2025 military strikes by the United States, the massacre of tens of thousands of Iranian protestors by the Iranian Government in January 2026, and the war launched by the United States on February 28, 2026," the lawsuit states.