The Houthis have since become more active, adding to the risks surrounding commercial shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Following the October 7 attacks, the movement intermittently entered the conflict with Israel
Charter prices for large oil tankers transiting the critical Strait of Hormuz have more than doubled in the past week following Israel’s recent attack on Iran, as shipowners grow increasingly wary of
More
President Donald Trump has said he wants Iran to accept “unconditional surrender.” It isn’t clear if this is actually his policy, or just a threat. But whatever it is, the policy of
More
Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the
More
One of Iran’s most senior Islamic scholars, Grand Ayatollah Nooru Hamedani, issued a strongly worded statement this week defending the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in response to recent remarks by
More
We are witnessing a joint Israeli-US attack on Iran. Claims by the Trump administration that it is not involved are false. Israel’s far right government and the Trump administration are joined at
More
by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The West’s strategy to isolate and eliminate Iran is not a spontaneous foreign policy decision born in the halls of Washington or Westminster in recent years. It
More
The Ukrainian drone attack on Russia at the beginning of this month and the Israeli attack on Iran have some striking similarities. 1. Both attacks occurred during negotiations between the United States
More
In June 2025, the world witnessed the outbreak of a full-scale war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Zionist regime of Israel. This conflict, extending far beyond the military sphere,
More
by Our Correspondent in Doha The Israeli military’s recent escalation of airstrikes on Iranian territory has led to the deaths of at least 45 women and children, Iranian officials reported Monday, as
More
Iran is reportedly preparing for a significant retaliatory military operation against Israel, according to a senior source cited by Fars News Agency. The potential strike, described as a “very big” operation, comes
More
by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In an age where moral consistency is drowned beneath waves of political self-interest, Ursula von der Leyen emerges not as a stateswoman but as an ignoble emblem
More
An unnoticed undercurrent of the Israel-Iran war is that three Christian nations in Europe — UK, France and Germany — have joined the fray with alacrity on the side of Israel. Strange,
More
On the night of June 13, 2025, the world witnessed a major escalation in the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel. In a sweeping retaliatory operation, Iran launched a large-scale missile and
More
The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in
More
Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign
More