RT Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar)Iran has over 20 Ghadir mini-subs - only $20 million apiece - lying silently on the floor of the Persian Gulf; only 50 meter-deep waters - where sonar is useless.They fire a torpedo at over 300 km/h that no defense system can intercept.And no, the Americans can't find them. ...

Tonight everybody, the president also saying there's not going to be a ceasefire in Iran. Full stop. Listen to this.>> We can have dialogue. I don't want to do a ceasefire. You know, you don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side.>> So that is after we reported just 24 hours ago that thousands more US Marines are heading to the region. You see the USS Boxer there deploying from San Diego. Both sides hammering each other on the Persian New Year.Take a look at this moment that an I ...

RT Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_)The idea of an amphibious assault and attempted occupation of any part of Iran's coast in the Persian Gulf is so insanely problematic, that I'm inclined to think this is a feint, and they may take the Levant Coast undefended and unprepared from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria instead.The Levant has better beaches on the Mediterranean for real estate development by the Board of Peace. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)China and India are happily transporting oil for Iran. Are you suggesting we attack Indian or Chinese ships?There are other MAD-like considerations in the Persian Gulf as well that explain why even the U.S. is letting Iran ship its oil, while Iran blocks the U.S.-allied GCC countries from doing so. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Yet the U.S. is letting Chinese, Indian, and even Iranian ships pass. The Zionist fanatics who currently run the U.S. war machine very much don't want them to pass, yet they are letting them pass. Iran however has successfully deterred ships that don't obtain their special permits.Because whatever further damage we can do to Iranian energy and shipping, they can do far more damage to our many Sunni monarch oil allies along the Persian Gulf.And because we can close the Strait to Ir ...

>> HI THERE. I'M SAVANNAH SELLERS IN NEW YORK AND WE WANT TO TAKE YOU LIVE NOW TO THE WHITE HOUSE, WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP IS HOLDING WHAT HE'S BILLING AS A NEWS CONFERENCE. IT COMES AMID GROWING TENSIONS OVER THE WAR IN IRAN, WITH THE PRESIDENT RAMPING UP PRESSURE ON NATO ALLIES TO KEEP THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ SECURE IN AN EFFORT TO LOWER OIL PRICES.ALSO, JUST MOMENTS AGO, THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED THAT HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, SUSIE WILES, HAS EARLY STAGE BREAST CANCER. THE PRESIDENT SAYS HER PROGNOSIS IS EXCELLENT, ...

Beyond the humanitarian catastrophe, the Iran war has really highlighted the critical nature of the supply that the Persian Gulf provides of oil to the world. >> The straight of Hormuz accounts for about a quarter of the world's seaborn oil trade. The situation we're in right now is unprecedented.For years, we have always seen the straight of Hormuz, that narrow waterway that runs alongside Iran that is in that crucial oil producing area. We've always known that was a vulnerable point, but it's never been c ...

MSNOW reporter Josh Einiger is in Dubai. Also with us, retired Armyolonel Peter Monsoor and Robin Wright of the New Yorker. Josh, let's start with this deadly U .S.crash in Iraq and the rescue mission underway. What have you learned. And what else did we hear from the Pentagon this morning.So, Ana, let's just take a step back in this tragic case of four American service members who've been killed and another two whose fates are not yet clear. They were, as you say, flying in a KC-135, which is basically the ...