Tehran
Double jeopardy: the story of history’s most audacious KGB defector
The year is 1979, the place, Tehran, in the wake of the Iranian revolution and a key battleground of the Cold War. Enter ‘Redwood’, a towering Russian with access to Soviet intelligence secrets plus a devastating one of his own
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.…
Iran is out of good options
Over the last week, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, additional F-15 fighter planes and naval vessels carrying sea-launched cruise…
Will the Iranian regime finally collapse?
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?
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
If you love Fauda — and of course you do — you’re in for a long wait for season four,…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, decided to allow ministers to campaign for either side in the referendum on membership…
The Navigators
The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing
No country for old men
‘Is he a good writer? Is he pro-regime?’ an Iranian journalist in London once asked me of Hooman Majd. Majd…
