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Iran’s motorists are facing hours-long lines at gasoline stations as war with the U.S. continues to imperil its economy.

Deutsche Welle reported that motorists were spotted sleeping in cars overnight to buy fuel the next morning.

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Creative Commons Image.

Some stations were even forced to close after running out of fuel.

“I’m in the gasoline line right now. It took about 45 minutes just to get this far,” a resident of Karaj, west of Tehran, told DW. “Yesterday I went to several stations.

The Iran War: On Pause? Over? Or Ending Soon? The Middle East spent Thursday, September 3, waiting to see whether the sudden return of heavy exchanges of fire would see the United States escalate further and initiate another sustained bombing campaign.

It followed another wave of missiles and drones launched by Iran overnight against American military positions in the Gulf, and threats that more sites would be targeted in the near future.

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Trump Administration Believes Iran Could Collapse From Within – The Trump administration reportedly expects that the economic pressure inflicted on Iran could be sufficient to cause the collapse of the Islamic regime, even as President Donald Trump explores the possibility of declaring the war over and withdrawing some U.S. military presence from the region.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued this week that mounting economic pressure could ultimately cause Iran’s security establishment to fracture or even trigger a popular uprising.

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The Pentagon has moved decades of secret military planning documents off of the SIPRNet, the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, that supports the US defense community, in a bid to control the flow of information and stifle leaks as the Trump administration launches an unprecedented crackdown on unauthorised disclosures to the press.

The Defense Department on Thursday launched a new initiative aimed at helping small businesses and other innovators gain access to facilities where they can do classified work.
Officials involved in the pursuit, dubbed “Secure Space Network,” plan to design and produce about 50 mobile Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and “related information systems” that could be rapidly deployed to military installations, industry-related sites and other locations across the nation where they’re needed, according to a press release.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed “deep concerns” this week about the Army’s decision to order a Europe-based infantry battalion to halt its drone innovation mission, pressing the service’s top leaders to explain their rationale as unmanned systems continue to fundamentally change modern conflict.
In November, the Army tasked the 600-soldier Unmanned Assault Battalion, part of the 173rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, to function as a dedicated drone formation, according to a service official, part of an experimental unit concept informed by lessons from the Ukrainian military.

Six months after President Donald Trump launched a war he hoped would be over within “four to five weeks,” Washington is scrambling for ways to stop fighting Iran without conceding that the conflict ended without achieving the objectives laid out by the president when he addressed the American people and announced the war.

Trump has major political and economic incentives to find an off-ramp now, and they are becoming harder to ignore by the day.

Donald Trump at Turning Points USA. Image by Gage Skidmore.

Trump Doing the Trump Dance. White House Image.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says there is a chance of ending the war in Ukraine, despite continuing to ramp up attacks.

Addressing the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday, Putin said the United States, China, and others were now open to supporting a deal.

Putin in 2021 Creative Commons Image

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However, he stressed that the decision ultimately rested with Moscow and Kyiv.

“Is there a chance? In my view, yes, there is,” Putin said.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told a gathering of officers and senior enlisted Marines in North Carolina that they need to do more as front-line leaders to address the rate of suicides. The comments came during Cao’s first public appearance after being formally nominated as Navy secretary Tuesday, a role he has held in an acting role since April.
Cao traveled to Camp Lejeune Wednesday with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith and other senior Marine leaders. The group spent close to two hours in two town halls focused on suicide prevention and mental health.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said flights to Russian airports are being suspended after he warned about Russia’s airspace on Tuesday, 1st September.

In his nightly address earlier this week, Zelensky claimed that Russia’s airspace is “completely dangerous” amid ongoing drone attacks by Kyiv.

Putin in May 2025 Looking Grim. Image Credit: Kremlin.

Ukraine has focused heavily on targeting critical infrastructure in recent months, with the Russian Defense Ministry claiming to have intercepted more than 400 drones on Wednesday night alone.