US Central Command has fired back over comments made by a senior Iranian military commander who said the Revolutionary Guard “completely controls” the Strait of Hormuz.
Even Türkiye is yielding to Trump’s pressure and cutting one of the Islamic Republic’s last major air routes.
Turkish Airlines, Pegasus and AJet have suspended flights to Iran, while Mahan Air has lost access to Türkiye. The remaining Iranian airline flights are expected to stop in early October, though Türkiye has not announced a blanket ban.

Masoud Pezeshkian, falsely portrayed as a moderate by Western liberal media, is a murderous regime thug whitewashing the largest massacre of protesters in modern Iranian history.
He branded the January 2026 protesters “armed,” blamed them for their own slaughter and portrayed them as tools of the United States and Israel after the Islamic Republic killed more than 45,000 people.
No Future
Trump’s pressure is cracking the Islamic Republic’s ideological core as even its hardline loyalists question its future. Hamed Naderi, a Basij member, says even the regime’s “believers” are questioning whether the revolution has a future. He is talking about its loyalists, not protesters. His answer is to pray and stay hopeful.
Training & arming children for the war with the Great Satan
The Islamic Republic is putting armed Basij among schoolchildren and turning schools into military spaces. It is also training boys as young as 12 for security roles. The regime is placing children beside armed forces during a war, exposing them to attack and treating their presence as human shields.