It Was Just an Accident is a reckoning with the Iranian regime
Jafar Panahi’s experience as a prisoner makes his film a potent political statement
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Give Donald Trump the credit
If peace in the Middle East holds, the American president deserves praise
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David Lammy’s Gaza cowardice
In a letter last week, Lammy said the Foreign Office had concluded Israel’s actions were not a genocide.
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The phone call that halted Israel’s strikes on Iran
Also this week: Sirens in Jerusalem and an audience with Isaac Herzog.
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The hunt for Iran’s missing uranium
Somewhere in the country, enough material to make ten nuclear bombs remains hidden.
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Israel’s hollow victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won the battle over Iran. But his war against Israel’s democracy is not over.
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Imperial calculations
In its attacks on Iran, Israel is exploiting the chaos of American foreign policy.
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Britain is dangerously exposed to the whims of despots
An attack on Iranian oil infrastructure could produce a price shock comparable to 2022.
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Farage and Badenoch’s Iran headache
What does it mean to be an opposition party in a time of geopolitical turmoil?
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There won’t be a “final victory” for Iran or Israel
Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem still have choices to make about whether to strike again.
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Trump’s fragile truce
The US president insists a ceasefire is in effect, even as hostilities continue.
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How Donald Trump plunged America into a blind war
Without any apparent strategy or objectives, this conflict is evolving in real time on social media.
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Ayatollah Khamenei faces a nuclear nightmare
Attacked from above and below, Iran’s supreme leader may not survive.
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Trump’s assault on Iran is a war without honour
The invasion of Iraq came robed in political poetry. This is the grand strategy of a businessman.
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What happens if the Iranian regime falls?
Syria provides hard lessons on what’s at stake.
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A perilous age
From Israel and Iran to Ukraine and Russia, nations across the globe are engaged in existential battles.
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From the archive: The revolution turns to repression
August 1979: Six months after the Iranian Revolution, Fred Halliday surveys the Islamic Republic.
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Will Iran inflict oil inflation on the West?
The country has little to lose by restricting shipping and triggering an energy price shock.
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Will Iran surrender?
Israel’s assault has transformed the balance of power in the Middle East.
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Impunity is fuelling Israel’s spiralling aggression
Israel attacked Iran not out of fear but out of hubris.
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