Iran

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…

Inside the new Arab-Israeli alliance

20 April 2024 9:00 am

As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu…

The Lebanese always return home

20 April 2024 9:00 am

Beirut You might have thought that the threat of the Gaza war spiralling into an all-out regional conflagration, along with…

My letter from Chris Packham

20 April 2024 9:00 am

I do not know Chris Packham, the BBC nature broadcaster, personally, but he wrote me a letter last month, enclosing…

How dangerous is the Sunni-Shia schism?

6 January 2024 9:00 am

What unites the two groups is more fundamental than what divides them, says Barnaby Rogerson, and the more serious conflict among Muslims concerns ethnicity and language

Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck

19 October 2023 12:44 am

Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his…

What Iran gains from the conflict in Israel

14 October 2023 9:00 am

What Iran gains from provoking Israel

Has VR finally come of age?

14 October 2023 9:00 am

VR ‘immersion’ is everywhere in London this autumn, but is it of any value? Stuart Jeffries takes the plunge

Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare

17 September 2023 4:30 pm

The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…

A trail of dirty money

19 August 2023 9:00 am

In 2015, a dedicated DEA agent pursues a Mafia capo involved in a vast cocaine shipment, a Hezbollah militia leader and an elaborate Middle Eastern arms-trafficking ring

Broken dreams

8 July 2023 9:00 am

Interviewing the Continent’s refugees and poorest rural inhabitants, Ben Judah reveals a world far removed from Brussels politics or Eurovision optimism

Can we brainwash our enemies?

6 April 2023 4:49 am

Disinformation is on the rise, and Britain’s spies are on the back foot. Our intelligence leaders warn about election meddling,…

Salman Rushdie was never safe

19 August 2022 9:36 pm

The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world: take Islamism – the transformation of the Islamic…

The West cannot do business with Iran

14 August 2022 4:41 am

Salman Rushdie’s would-be assassin might have been a lone wolf. He might have had no contact with military or intelligence…

The odd couple: Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

25 June 2022 9:00 am

Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

Starmer is playing into Iran's hands

23 March 2022 9:45 pm

Who was to blame for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe being held captive in Iran? It shouldn’t take a professor of ethics to…

Why is Biden copying Obama's mistakes with Iran?

23 March 2022 6:00 pm

There was a picture taken today that says more than just a thousand words. The photograph was snapped in Sharm…

A history lesson for those calling Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'ungrateful'

23 March 2022 6:40 am

In the latest installment from the idiot age of Twitter, #ungratefulcow has been trending. The reason? Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had expressed, mildly and politely,…