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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast20 min listen
      How united are Arab and Muslim leaders on Gaza?

      Pressure grows for concerted action to end the violence

    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘No hope for the future’: Iran faces brain drain as emigration surges

      Economic and political pressures at home and fears over potential for war prompt rise in numbers leaving country

      Tehran’s international airport
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      InterviewIsrael-Hamas war
      Iran told US it did not want Israel-Hamas war to escalate

      Hossein Amirabdollahian says Tehran has used back channels to convey fears of conflict in Gaza spreading across region

      Hossein Amirabdollahian said messages had been exchanged between Iran and the US, via the US interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Najmeh Bozorgmehr
      Iranians see both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict

      In an increasingly secular society, it is hard to argue support for Palestinians solely because they are Muslims

      Iranians join an anti-Israel march in Tehran. Many Iranians have condemned killings of civilians on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      The ‘Axis of Resistance’ pushing US to ramp up Middle East defences

      Iran-backed network triggers fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread within region

      Montage of an armed man loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels against a background showing a map of countries involved in the ‘Axis of Resistance’
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Kim Ghattas
      Iran’s interests are trumping the Palestinian tragedy

      Tehran is staring at the very real prospect of confrontation with the US and Israel — and appears to have quietly decoupled its interests from those of the Palestinians

      Iraqi demonstrators watch a speech from Lebanon’s militant Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a screen as they hold flags of Hezbollah during a pro-Palestinian rally in Basra, Iraq, last week
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      America, Iran and the threat of a wider war in the Middle East

      None of the region’s big powers wants further conflict but it could happen nonetheless

      James Ferguson illustration of the white peace dove squeezed between two machine guns.
    • Saturday, 28 October, 2023
      Teenager who breached hijab rules on Tehran metro dies in coma

      Human rights group says Armita Geravand was attacked by ‘hijab guardians’ but officials say she hit her head

      Armita Geravand,
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US strikes Iran-linked targets in Syria

      Defence secretary says ‘narrowly tailored’ action is retaliation for attacks on American forces in region

      US defence secretary Lloyd Austin
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US moves to deter Iran ahead of Israel’s invasion of Gaza

      Officials say Tehran is preparing to step up attacks on American targets using regional proxies

      The destroyer USS Carney in the Red Sea
    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      Iran journalists on Mahsa Amini case jailed for ‘US collaboration’

      Two female reporters face years in prison after writing about young woman who allegedly broke hijab laws and died in custody

    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      US warship shoots down missiles fired by Iranian-backed rebels

      Pentagon says three missiles and several drones launched from Yemen may have been headed for Israel

      Brigadier General Patrick Ryder
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      UK anti-extremism tsar calls for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to be listed as terrorists

      Robin Simcox says proscribing military group would be ‘in national interest’

      Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps  on Azadi Square in Tehran for a rally to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programmes

      Move comes as Washington tries to keep Tehran out of Israel-Hamas war

      Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi watches a drone during a ceremonial parade
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Suzanne Maloney
      Iran is positioning itself to benefit from the Israel-Gaza conflict

      Tehran’s experience on the defensive has cemented its sense that conflict and disorder advance its interests

      Women in Tehran take a selfie in front of a Palestinian flag. Each successive conflagration in the Middle East has put Iran in a stronger position
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Gaza war highlights Iran’s links with region’s militant groups

      Western states see Tehran as pivotal to whether Israel’s fight against Hamas escalates into broader conflict

      Hossein Amirabdollahian and Ismail Haniyeh
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US says it can deny Iran access to $6bn in funds held in Qatar

      White House under pressure to block recent deal with Tehran following Hamas attack on Israel

      A montage of the Iranian and US flags
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US urges Israel to exercise restraint amid fears of regional war

      Secretary of state says ‘how Israel does this matters’ after meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu

      Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu give statements to the media
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Janet Yellen warns Iran that nothing is ‘off the table’ for sanctions

      Washington ‘constantly’ looking at sanctions policy against Tehran, Hamas and Hizbollah, US Treasury secretary says

      Janet Yellen speaks to media
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Border clashes prompt fears of Hizbollah joining Israel-Hamas war

      US diplomats try to head off broader regional conflagration

      The funeral of Hezbollah members who died during Israeli shelling on south Lebanon
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Top US general warns Iran to stay out of Israel’s conflict with Hamas

      CQ Brown says Washington hopes to send a ‘strong message’ to Tehran and others in the region

      General CQ Brown, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      What links Hamas to the ‘Axis of Resistance’ and its patron Iran?

      Tehran-backed network could provide an explanation for how the militant group mounted such a multipronged assault

      Palestinians celebrate on a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      LexOil
      Gaza/oil: rates threat limits scope for price leaps Premium content

      Conflict will have a big impact on Middle Eastern politics but industry remains a bystander for now

      A pump jack in the US
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Oil
      Oil price jumps to $89 a barrel following Hamas’s attack on Israel

      Conflict fuels concerns of wider uncertainty in the Middle East

      Workers climb the stairs on an offshore oil platform near Lavan island, Iran
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Teenage girl’s coma raises suspicions in Iran after Mahsa Amini case

      Conflicting accounts of injury to 16-year-old echo death of woman in police custody last year that triggered protests

      An unverified image of Armita Geravand
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