July 15, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Jul 15, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, July 15th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. The war in Iran enters its 137th day as U.S. forces bomb targets across the country for a third straight night, Iran strikes American positions in Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq, and President Trump proposes charging a twenty-percent protection fee on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Sina Toossi argues in a new report that Trump's regime-change war has become a quagmire with no military path to victory, the predictable result of a half-century pattern in which Washington has treated Iran…