Iran war

U.S. casualties mount in Iran conflict

By Miriam Raftery

Photo via U.S. Navy: F/A-18E Super Hornet on flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 2, 2026. 

March 10, 2026 (Washington D.C.) – Ten days after the U..S. began bombing Iran, the Pentagon announced today that approximately 140 U.S. service members have been wounded, including eight with life-threatening injuries.  Seven U.S. military members have been killed as a result of Operation Fury,  the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the Mideast.


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San Diegans protest against Iran war, call for peace

By Kevin A. Green 

March 9, 2026 (San Diego) — Jonathan Chavez, a Marine Corps veteran and senior member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), organized an emergency protest held by  PSL on March  7 at Memorial Community Park in San Diego.  The protesters urged de-escalation amid rising tensions between the United States, Israel and Iran


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U.S. issues worldwide caution, urges Americans in Middle East to depart immediately—but cancelled flights, closed airports make evacuation difficult

By Miriam Raftery

March 4, 2026 (Washington D.C.) – Following the U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran and Iran’s retaliatory bombings in cities across the Middle East, the U.S. State Department is urging Americans worldwide to be cautious. Americans in the following Mideast nations are urged to depart immediately via commercial means due to “serious safety risks”:  Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.  


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IRAN-ISRAEL ESCALATION INVOLVES THE US NOW

Netanyahu has decided to wage war against Iran— specifically designed to sabotage United States international diplomacy

By Alexander J Schorr

Friday June 20, 2025 – Under the current leadership of the Trump administration, the United States risks military involvement with Iran at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu.

One may have hoped that the international community could be working together to address the existential threat of climate change, wealth and income inequality, a better standard of living, and even stronger safeguards against future pandemics. Today, that is sadly not the case. Instead, the world now faces more war than just the illegal conflict of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine or the horrific slaughter and starvation of Palestinian children under inhumane war policies of Israel under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu. The United States now faces a perilous escalation of war in Iran.


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'AN EXPLICIT ACT OF WAR': U.S. KILLS SENIOR IRANIAN MILITARY OFFICIAL QASEM SOLEIMANI IN BAGHDAD DRONE STRIKE

 

"It's like Iran killing the head of the CIA or the Mossad on foreign soil."

Major General Qasem Soleimani, pictured here on April 11, 2016, was reportedly killed Friday in Iraq.

Major General Qasem Soleimani, pictured here on April 11, 2016, was reportedly killed Friday in Iraq. (Photo: Khamenei.ir/cc)

This is a developing story... check back for updates...

by Eoin Higgins,

January 2, 2019 (Baghdad) -- A drone strike believed to be from the U.S. military at or near the Baghdad airport reportedly killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani, an act that observers warned could mark a significant step toward a hot war in the region.


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