A top adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a social media post on Sunday that President Donald Trump risks falling into a “strategic trap” that has been set up by Israel.
Category: THE IRAN WAR – May 19 2026
IRAN’S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS U.S. IS IN DECLINE, IRAN WILL NEVER SURRENDER
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, attended a BRICS meeting last week in New Delhi and spoke about the U.S.’s illegal war of aggression against his country and likened Washington’s war to the last, desperate throes of a declining power.
IRAN’S DEFENSE SYSTEMS REMAIN ‘ROBUST,’ DESPITE TRUMP’S CLAIM THAT THEY HAD BEEN ‘DESTROYED’
U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning lawmakers in Washington that, despite the claims from the Trump administration that Iran’s military has been decimated, Tehran still maintains a lethal supply of missiles and drones that pose a formidable risk to forces in the region.
U.S. NAVY NO MATCH FOR IRAN’S ‘MOSQUITO FLEET’ NEAR THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Iran’s so-called ‘mosquito fleet,’ which is comprised of hundreds to thousands of small attack boats, is a real problem for the U.S. Navy in the Strait of Hormuz because of its ability to disrupt commercial shipping in the waterway, while also jeopardizing military assets if employed along with Tehran’s missiles and drones.



