The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has warned that the United States will not achieve its objectives in the conflict with Iran through airstrikes alone, arguing that a sustained military campaign is
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The US and Iran are back at war. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced the United States would reimpose its naval blockade of Iran, effective Tuesday afternoon. Iran responded by declaring the
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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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Hitting more than 170 targets in Iran in 48 hours across two waves is an unprecedented escalation. The recent third wave of attacks, targeting more than 100 sites, has set the stage
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The war involving Iran has created a chain of consequences extending far beyond the Middle East, with African countries increasingly absorbing the economic and security fallout from disruptions to global energy flows
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With missiles flying again and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral underway, President Trump has declared the ceasefire “over.” Still, the real question is whether Iran can actually afford to walk away from the
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Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood before cameras and called his truce with Iran an unconditional surrender. This week, at a NATO summit in Ankara, he declared that same truce dead, telling
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The burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad marks the formal end of a nearly four-decade era dominated by a leader who shaped the Islamic republic’s institutions, foreign
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Delhi’s attempt to play the Shia card to moderate the Iranian disquiet over our ‘forever honeymoon’ with the Israel-UAE-Bahrain axis failed to impress Tehran. It was a clumsy attempt but was, arguably,
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The fragile diplomatic process between the United States and Iran has entered a prolonged period of uncertainty, with negotiations over a permanent peace agreement increasingly overshadowed by disputes over strategic leverage, maritime
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