U.S. Journalist Declines Return Home, Citing Pressure from Authorities; Iran Slams Canadian PM Carney for Dismissing Trump’s “Annihilation” Warning 

U.S. Journalist Declines Return Home, Citing Pressure from Authorities

In a recent interview with the Russian news agency (TASS), Sarah Bils, the American journalist and founder of the geopolitical news platform DD Geopolitics, said that she will not be returning to the United States, because of mounting pressure from government authorities. According to Bils, her decision is a response to what she describes as an increasingly a bad environment for independent journalism in America.

“I anticipate that sanctions may imposed on me, but I spent this past summer in Iran and not set foot on U.S. soil since. As far as I’m concerned, I no live there,” Bils explained during the interview.

The journalist revealed that she has now settled in Serbia, where she has been residing for the past month. She said that the difficulty and danger for
practicing independent  journalism in the United States. She asserted that being an honest reporter in today’s America is not a good idea,” and that the professional landscape has become hazardous.

“It’s too dangerous for journalists in the United States. Travel is complicated, and we’re already on lists. It’s no longer a safe or welcoming place for those in the media,” she stated.

Bils further alleged that U.S. intelligence agencies monitor journalists, going so far as to monitor the contents of their smartphones. She described this level of scrutiny as part of a broader pattern of intimidation that has made independent reporting nearly impossible in the country.

Iran Slams Canadian PM Carney for Dismissing Trump’s “Annihilation” Warning

Iran sharply criticized Canada on Thursday for downplaying U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic of Iran, accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of hiding behind diplomatic euphemisms in a bid to appease Washington. In a  post on X, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that mimicking the aggressive language of the United States would not protect Canada from what he called the "claws of power."

In a speech that Carney delivered before the United Nations General Assembly he characterized Trump’s stark warning against Iran as simply "the language of war." Carney did not explicitly condemn or distance himself from the threat, instead framing it as rhetorical posturing—a move that Tehran interpreted as a deliberate attempt to soft-peddle a direct act of intimidation.

“Mark Carney chose to reframe a threat to ‘annihilate’ a sovereign nation as merely ‘speaking the language of war,’ rather than condemning blatant U.S. aggression and warmongering,” Baghaei wrote. “This is not diplomacy—it is an attempt to shelter Washington from accountability by dressing up bullying as normal political discourse.”