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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who ruled over the Islamic Republic for more than three decades as it faced off with the West, was…

Arash Azizi 21 June , 2025
Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

**Update: On 22 June, the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites, making it the first direct American attack since Israel's unprecedented strike a…

Eric Brewer 20 June , 2025
The US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

Oil, stock markets so far stable amid Israel-Iran war

On global financial markets, the reaction to escalating tensions in the Middle East and the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has…

Sharif Mohammad 20 June , 2025
Opinion

Beyond Fordow

The argument that the war between Iran and Israel comes down to the fate of Fordow is lazy and even misleading. Let’s assume for a moment that US…

Bilal Saab 20 June , 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran's nuclear programme while delivering his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 27, 2012. DON EMMERT / AFP
Politics

Fact or fear? how Netanyahu ‘securitises’ Iran’s existential threat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed Iran as posing an existential threat to his country, invoking a powerful form of political…

Ahmed Maher 19 June , 2025
Opinion

Trump's reported approval of Iran strikes could set the region ablaze

The revelation that US President Donald Trump has given his private authorisation for the US military to attack Iran raises the alarming prospect of…

Con Coughlin 19 June , 2025
'Arab in the Corridors of Parliament: My Story and Politics in Israel' by Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

A window into the experience of Palestinian citizens of Israel

A new book by the former Arab Israeli politician Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi raises complex, painful, and enduring questions both for Palestinians, Arabs,…

Mohamed abi Samra 19 June , 2025
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

Israel's unprecedented attack on Iran is hardly surprising. It follows decades of animosity, proxy battles and covert intelligence operations. But…

Houssam Itani 19 June , 2025
What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz? Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

Former Iranian Economy Minister Ehsan Khandouzi has said that tankers and LNG cargoes should only transit the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 19 June , 2025
How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

In the early hours of 13 June, Israel launched one of the most ambitious and meticulously planned operations in its modern history—an unprecedented…

Michael Horowitz 18 June , 2025
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Israel's race for regime change in Iran

03 March 2026

Israel knows its military operation cannot last forever, so it is racing to either kill or fatally wound the Islamic Republic before the clock runs out

Michael Horowitz
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Business & Economy

Oil prices soar as US-Iran war sparks supply worries

04 March 2026

European gas prices have jumped by 30% after some big GCC oil and gas producers cut supplies, and now a vital maritime trade route is being threatened. The stakes have seldom been higher.

Thuraya Shahin
Deena So Oteh
Politics

Khamenei's killing opens up a strategic abyss

01 March 2026

Gulf states' delicate balancing act—maintaining security partnerships with the US while cautiously reopening channels to Iran—has been shattered

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
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Profiles

Alireza Arafi: the cleric charged with selecting Iran's next Supreme Leader

02 March 2026

A clerical member of the Guardian Council, he was selected to serve on the Leadership Council along with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei

Alex Vatanka
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Trump is betraying his base by waging war on Iran

02 March 2026

Voters were promised America First, not Bush-era interventions

Emma Ashford

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