Iran
What’s the point of Unesco?
The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’…
Will the wars in Ukraine and Iran merge?
This is a fraught moment, perhaps the most dangerous since the end of the Cold War. Two major wars are…
Will Trump’s ‘massive attack’ be on Yemen?
It is my solemn duty to report that, as ever in Trumpworld, the news zone has flooded and we are…
There is no alternative to the Strait of Hormuz
As a UFC aficionado, President Donald Trump might know what a twister is. It works by cranking the victim’s head…
The Trump monotony
One of Donald Trump’s greatest strengths is his ability to repeat himself endlessly. It takes some doing. At 9 p.m.…
Do Iran’s negotiators speak for the IRGC?
The infamous “Memorandum of Understanding” between the United States and Iran has broken down. One of the major points of…
America is still gripped by the gerontocracy
What do senior Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Iran’s new Supreme Leader have in common? Not a lot, except that…
Israel’s plan for a new Iran war
Metaphorically speaking, champagne bottles were uncorked in the Jerusalem office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Donald Trump declared…
I can’t remember when I was last so disgusted with Trump
You’d think when your country goes to war you’d want it to prevail, but these are topsy-turvy times. Thus the…
Why are the Belgians so bad at football?
Whisper it if you must, but it looks as if Gianni (‘Today I feel gay…’) Infantino might have got it…
Dull, duller and Dulles – was Churchill’s jibe about America’s Cold War icon unfair?
John Foster Dulles was forever going on about ‘boldness’ and dynamic change, but his limitations of perspective and philosophy become glaringly obvious in this latest biography
What Iran could learn from Denmark
Iran is looking increasingly Danish, which sounds like a strange thing to say. What could Iran (a theological dictatorship which…
Will the Iran deal destroy J.D. Vance?
When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump is neither hawk nor dove. He’s a dealmaker who plays differing sides…
Trump has been outplayed by Iran
The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald…
A play that shows Iranian society is like our own
Under the Shadow is a timely drama set in Tehran in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam’s missiles are raining…
Will Vance regret being the face of the Iran deal?
After a week of international agonizing, it looks as if the first round of the latest peace talks between America…
Iran is a loser’s victory
After years of negotiations, two wars, a succession of ruthlessly quashed uprisings in Iran and countless billions of dollars’ worth…
Only Iran is happy with Trump’s peace deal
President Trump might have thought that negotiating an interim diplomatic understanding with Iran was going to be the hard part.…
Is Trump going to defund Israel?
Cutting US military aid to Israel was once an impossible dream of the most extreme fringe of the Democratic party.…
Trump has been humbled over Iran
Donald Trump is engaged in one of the biggest battles of his career. After spending millions to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “flag…
Are hostilities in Iran really about to cease?
Donald Trump is trying to wriggle out of his self imposed Strait-jacket. After a renewed round of bombing Iran and…
Sixteen times that Trump nearly ended the Iran war
Today marks a hundred days since America and Israel began launching strikes on Iran on February 28. The very next…
Is the US-Israel alliance breaking down?
This morning at 5.53am, air raid sirens sounded across Tel Aviv. War-weary locals largely went about their business as usual…
