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Exclusive: Iranian officials say Israel behind some of the drone strikes on Gulf energy sites

Trump demands to choose next Iran supreme leader

Exclusive: Iranian authorities prepare for civil war scenario

The war on Iran has ignited rare civil unrest in Bahrain

'Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis': Israel orders Lebanese to leave Beirut suburbs

Israelis celebrate Purim with biblical comparisons as Iran war spirals

Israel's propaganda directorate being sued by unpaid activists claiming millions

Families of Iranian political prisoners fearful of bombs, illness and secret executions

UK says drone attack on Cyprus base was not launched from Iran

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How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

US war on Iran: Starmer should have stood up to Trump - now he's complicit

Peter Oborne

Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran

David Hearst

Gulf states are caught in middle of the US-Israel war on Iran. There is a way out

Andreas Krieg

Trump should call for an immediate ceasefire before the damage becomes irreversible

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last

Abed Abou Shhadeh

With Khamenei's killing, US-Iran relations have crossed a threshold. What next?

Elijah J Magnier

How the New York Times paved the way for apocalyptic war

Belen Fernandez

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Is Francesca Albanese being punished for being principled?

Ahmed Abu Artema

Israel's genocide in Gaza

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Hossam Shaker

Sudan war: Why Hemedti's legitimacy push in Uganda falters amid RSF atrocities

Osama Abuzaid

Israel attacks Iran

Trump-Netanyahu war aims to entrap Iranians into unconditional submission

Hamid Dabashi

By-election disaster shows Labour is finished. A new politics is being born

Peter Oborne

Marco Rubio declares war on non-white peoples worldwide

Joseph Massad

Will China come to Iran's rescue?

Nelson Wong

US-Iran tensions: How Trump was dragged into war

David Hearst

Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Ten must-read books on US-Iran relations

Hamid Dabashi

Gorton and Denton: Labour has failed us. Now it could hand the seat to Reform

Abubakr Nanabawa

Why Israel is joining hands with Europe's far right

Farid Hafez

Are the US and Iran on a collision course for war or a surprise deal?

Shahir Shahidsaless

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Gaza genocide: This is the moment to reclaim Palestinian agency

Alaa Tartir

How a Jewish day school fabricated an antisemitism scandal in South Africa

Azad Essa

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David Hearst

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Family of Francesca Albanese sues Trump administration over sanctions

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