Iran

Trump could bomb Iran again

1 July 2025 4:42 pm

President Trump has already warned Tehran that he’ll be back if Iran tries to revive and advance its nuclear programme,…

Come friendly bombs and fall on Iran

28 June 2025 9:00 am

It is heartening to see the lefties out marching in defence of mullahs and their enlightened rule of Iran. The…

We should welcome regime change in Iran

28 June 2025 9:00 am

On the first night of what Donald Trump has called the ‘12-day war’ between Israel and Iran, someone spray-painted a…

Israel’s attack on Iran has been planned for years

28 June 2025 9:00 am

It was clear at the time that what happened on 7 October 2023 would change the Middle East. What was…

Letters: Israel’s attack on Iran was no surprise

28 June 2025 9:00 am

Moral support Sir: All of Tim Shipman’s reasons for the PM’s reluctance to support Israel sound outwardly plausible, though, from…

Starmer’s war zone: the Prime Minister is in a perilous position

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer was alerted in the early hours of Friday by his national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, that Israel’s…

Portrait of the week: War in the Middle East, drought in Yorkshire and a knighthood for Beckham

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs (which he had previously…

Who’s pushing Trump to be an Iran hawk?

21 June 2025 9:00 am

‘This never would have happened if I had been president,’ says Donald Trump, whenever the international news goes from bad…

What else could Israel do?

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Over the past few days British readers have been able to enjoy a number of hot takes on the situation…

Striking Fordow will not solve the Iran problem

19 June 2025 9:06 pm

The world is watching Donald Trump to see if he will give his military the green light to use one…

Would Trump really bomb Iran?

19 April 2025 9:00 am

A satellite picture shows six American B-2 Stealth bombers parked on the runway at Diego Garcia. The planes – each…

Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped…

Extraordinary: The Seed of the Sacred Fig reviewed

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is by the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and all you need to know is…

Will the Syrian Civil War create another ISIS?

7 December 2024 10:40 pm

There are unintended consequences, and then there are unintended consequences. What we are seeing in Syria, as Aleppo and Hama…

A pause between wars

1 December 2024 10:42 pm

‘What is to stop it happening again?’ was the pertinent question put to me by a Lebanese friend this week…

Iran is playing a dangerous game

20 October 2024 8:13 pm

A drone exploded in a sleepy Israeli seaside town yesterday. The target of the attack was Benjamin Netanyahu. By luck,…

The Iranian diplomat trying to stop Armageddon

18 October 2024 8:24 pm

‘The embassy is being invaded. The ambassador has had to lock himself in his office upstairs, and there are people…

Israel was right to ignore the West

5 October 2024 9:00 am

There are sources in the Jewish tradition that warn against exultation at the downfall of one’s enemies. But I am…

Is Israel trying to drag America into a war with Iran?

28 September 2024 9:00 am

The American general David Petraeus famously asked of the invasion of Iraq: ‘Tell me how this ends.’ That’s the question…

Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel

26 August 2024 11:38 pm

Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…

‘I came here to escape radical Islam’: the asylum seekers who understand the rioters’ fears

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Sousou is a 24-year-old Syrian-Palestinian woman who arrived in Britain a few weeks ago in a rubber dinghy from Calais.…

The new alliances dedicated to destroying democracy

27 July 2024 9:00 am

Despite their diverse ideologies, autocracies in China, Iran, Russia and Latin America are increasingly collaborating to sabotage a rules-based international order

Anti-Semitism has returned to French politics

25 May 2024 9:00 am

New Caledonia is an archipelago in the South Pacific not far from Australia. James Cook discovered it in 1774, but,…

Who has the worst voice in parliament?

25 May 2024 9:00 am

For the first time in more than two decades we are dog-less, and the house feels horribly empty. Our Patterdale…

Gangs of Tehran: how Iran takes out its enemies abroad

18 May 2024 9:00 am

‘It was Friday afternoon, around 2.45. I came out of the house and was going towards the car on the…