Ayatollah Khomeini
Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East
Ranging from Sudan to Azerbaijan, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s balanced account provides us with the necessary background to form our own views of what’s happening in the region
The SAS explode from the shadows in six days that shook Britain
The siege of the Iranian embassy in London in the spring of 1980 achieved nothing for the terrorists. But the previously reclusive elite army unit soon became the stuff of legend
Iran’s boat people — and why they’re coming to Britain
When the migrant crisis started, about three years ago, it was seen as a mainly Syrian affair. Caught in the…
