Iran has escalated attacks on its Gulf neighbors since Israel bombed its massive South Pars offshore natural gas field, while keeping a stranglehold on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil and other critical goods are transported.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
Even if airstrikes have destroyed many of Iran's centrifuges, the knowledge required to build them cannot be bombed away, Grossi noted.
In an agricultural region battered by urbanization, climate change, and unjust occupation, the director chronicles a man’s desperate fight to preserve centuries-old ways of living.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 Mar. 2026
The Archdiocese of Miami helped after Hurricane Melissa battered eastern Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane in October, leaving thousands of people without homes.
Commercial traffic through the maritime chokepoint has virtually ceased since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Iran vowing to strike any vessels associated with the two countries or their partners.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran more than two weeks ago, Tehran has regularly fired on Israel, American bases in the region, and Gulf Arab countries’ energy infrastructure with drones and missiles.
Moscow has bombarded Ukraine with nearly 60,000 Shaheds and similar systems.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
While Tehran is being bombarded, the regime’s security forces have been stationed at checkpoints across the city, searching civilians and confiscating their phones.
The showstopper was a two-and-a-half-pound horsehair crab, one of the glories of Hokkaido's coastal waters, presented whole and then steamed and shelled.
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Alex Halberstadt,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
Roupp won the fifth rotation spot out of camp, pitched well to begin the season, then got absolutely shelled at Dodger Stadium on June 8.
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