UPDATE – US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN – May 17, 2026
Day 77. Trump calls Iran's negotiating proposal "a piece of garbage" and declares the ceasefire clinically dead. The New York Times reports intensive strike preparations for "next week." Energy Secretary Wright says Iran is "weeks" from weapons-grade uranium - his own CIA says months. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been secretly fighting all along. And Iran is formalizing control of the Strait of Hormuz as a permanent institutional reality - regardless of how the war ends.