The Rest of the World Report | July 16, 2026 — Morning Edition

The war reached Iran's capital for the first time overnight. A dead man is being smeared with drugs nobody says he knew were in his van. And Iran says it warned your vice president that the president's own negotiators were trading on inside information about the war.US strikes hit near Tehran for the first time this round, Iran struck three American allies before dawn, and a tanker got disabled with Hellfire missiles trying to reach Iran's coast.The FBI's drug warrant on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van doesn't say whose drugs they were, doesn't confirm lab testing, and DHS admits agents had no idea before they shot him. LULAC calls it a smear campaign.Iran says it privately warned JD Vance that Witkoff and Kushner were profiting off the negotiations. The White House says it never happened."Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Get full access to The Rest of the World Report at www.restoftheworldreport.com/subscribe