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Iran War Update: Day 221, a Restricted Strait and a Growing Bill

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:59:28 +0000

A dated Iran-war update on restricted shipping, the blockade, renewed threats and the human and financial costs, with official claims distinguished from independently established facts.

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Iran War Update: Fresh Threats, Shipping Attacks and the Search for a Ceasefire

Matt Stoltz — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:24:51 +0000

A September 21 update on the Iran war: the failed ceasefire, renewed threats, shipping attacks, Yemen's humanitarian emergency and the nuclear questions inspectors still cannot answer.

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Iran War, Day 132: The Deal Is Over — Hormuz Reopens the Fire

Matt Stoltz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:15:18 +0000

Stardate 2026.190 · D900 Field notes on a war that keeps refusing to end. Day count from February 28, 2026. Previous entries in this series: Day 19, Day 100, Day 121. The fragile June memorandum just broke in public. After Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz on July 6–7, the U.S. […]

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Singularity Watch: AI Goes to War — Iran, Day 121

Matt Stoltz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:35:44 +0000

Stardate 2026.179 · D889 The ceasefire is the headline. The machines doing the targeting are the story. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu at a symbolic human-authorization boundary; not a photograph of a military operation. It’s Day 121 of the war with Iran — Operation Epic Fury, which began February 28, 2026. The intense bombing […]

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Iran War Update: Day 100 – June 7, 2026

Matt Stoltz — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:06:51 +0000

Stardate 2026.158 · D868 Posted: June 7, 2026 | 4:30 PM CDT | Minnesota It’s Day 100. One hundred days since Operation Epic Fury opened on February 28. I didn’t think we’d still be counting when I started these. The big airstrikes are still mostly paused, the “ceasefire on life support” from Day 74 is […]

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Iran War Update: Day 74 – May 12, 2026

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:07:10 +0000

Stardate 2026.132 · D842 Posted: May 12, 2026 | 5:00 PM CDT | Minnesota It’s been 74 days since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28. The big airstrikes have mostly paused. What replaced them is something stranger and, in some ways, harder to live with: a fragile ceasefire on “massive life support” (Trump’s […]

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