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Donald Trump's penchant for pursuing the news he wants, rather than the information his intelligence services give him, echoes past White House mistakes, not least over Iraq. Sara Padovan

Trump’s selective intelligence on Iran echoes past missteps

Determined to show that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs to justify the US invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush prioritised intel that supported his preferred outcome

Christopher Phillips 02 July 2025
Lina Jaradat

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer 20 June 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Iran has enough material to build 10 nuclear bombs

Iran now has enough material for at least 10 nuclear bombs if further enriched to 90%. Reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control's Iran Watch…

Al Majalla - London 17 June 2025
Axel Rangel García

Nuclear claims are a smoke screen for hopes of toppling Iran

The Israeli strikes aren't about facilities or centrifuges, but regime change

Jeffrey Lewis 15 June 2025
People look at a damaged building in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. Majid Asgaripour / REUTERS

Israel strikes Iran

The attack comes after a frenzy of speculation that Israel was planning to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities

Foreign Policy 13 June 2025
A 3D-printed miniature model depicting US President Donald Trump, Iranian and American flags in this illustration. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic

Trump standoff with Iran reaches fever pitch

Tensions reach a boiling point as an IAEA report finds Tehran in breach of its nuclear obligations. Meanwhile, US personnel are ordered out of the region in a sign that escalation may be imminent.

Con Coughlin 12 June 2025
Nash Weerasekera

Iran nuclear talks are running into red lines

Once-hopeful negotiations are falling prey to a bitter fight over uranium enrichment

Keith Johnson 24 May 2025
Ewan White

Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown

Israel wants the total dismantlement and scrapping of all Iranian nuclear facilities, just like in Libya two decades ago. That is unrealistic for several reasons.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 08 May 2025
Brian Stauffer

Trump and Iran: deal or strike?

Al Majalla outlines the possible ramifications of either outcome for Iran and the broader region

Al Majalla - London 05 May 2025
Lina Jaradat

Trump's Iran strategy is irking Israel

What concerns the Israelis is not a possible return to JCPOA-era caps, but how quickly the Trump administration is willing to make concessions

Michael Horowitz 05 May 2025
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China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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