Tehran

Iran is out of good options

29 January 2026 6:30 am

Over the last week, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, additional F-15 fighter planes and naval vessels carrying sea-launched cruise…

iranian regime collapse

Will the Iranian regime finally collapse? 

11 January 2026 6:22 am

These are tense hours for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and head of state. Thousands of protesters are flocking to the streets to protest…

What will Iran do next?

4 August 2024 12:30 am

Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting…

Mossad’s Lara Croft

17 October 2020 9:00 am

If you love Fauda — and of course you do — you’re in for a long wait for season four,…

Portrait of the week

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, decided to allow ministers to campaign for either side in the referendum on membership…

The Navigators

11 January 2014 9:00 am

The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing

No country for old men

16 November 2013 9:00 am

‘Is he a good writer? Is he pro-regime?’ an Iranian journalist in London once asked me of Hooman Majd. Majd…