Eight months after launching the war alongside Israel, Trump has yet to explain what an American victory would look like or how much longer the…
Gregori Saavedra
After decades of political setbacks, Iran’s former Revolutionary Guards commander has returned to the centre of power. Is he an incidental…
Mehrdad Akhlaghi was appointed defence minister in October 2026 by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. He is an unusual choice, as, unlike most of…
As Washington scrambled to contain the consequences of the Houthis' dramatic advance along Yemen’s Red Sea coast last week, US Vice President JD…
Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Ali Abdollahi became…
On 9 August, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Axios and, in the space of a few sentences, reversed the tone of the previous week. “We're moving…
When it came to the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran this week, the most important man—his son and successor—did not appear…
The deal to end Iran's war with the United States was made by one part of the hardline establishment and might be savaged by another. To judge…
Iran's latest missile strikes against Israel, launched this week in response to an Israeli strike on Beirut's suburb of Dahiyeh, have confirmed a…
In the first weeks after the US-Israel war against Iran, something unusual was happening in Erbil’s car dealerships. Representatives of Iranian…
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COP31: global call to spend more on climate, less on wars
