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US-Iran tensions

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Henry Sokolski
    The old nuclear rules won’t stop proliferation

    So long as nuclear fuel-making is permitted and NPT violators can easily exit the treaty, more nations will seek the bomb

    Launch of a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Abbas Araghchi
    Iran’s foreign minister: Israel’s war sabotaged diplomacy. The US can revive it

    Our commitment to acting responsibly to avoid a full-scale regional war should not be misinterpreted as weakness

    A damaged building that was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Iran
    Iran’s president says Israel tried to kill him during 12-day war

    Masoud Pezeshkian says he would be open to renewed dialogue with the US over country’s nuclear programme

    Tucker Carlson Interviews President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    How oil traders called the Middle East war

    The oil market predicted the twists and turns of the Israel-Iran conflict

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Iran could restart enriching uranium in months, says nuclear watchdog chief

    Comments by IAEA’s Rafael Grossi follow week of conflicting claims about damage done by US and Israeli strikes

    People in Tehran attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes on June 28
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Nuclear proliferation
    Israel 1967, Iran 2025: two countries on the threshold of a nuclear bomb

    Facing an existential threat in the 1960s, Israel hastily assembled an atomic device. What will Iran choose to do?

  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Iran holds funeral procession for top commanders killed in Israeli strikes

    Mourners take to Tehran streets but supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei does not attend traditional prayers

    People attend the Tehran funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast18 min listen
    John Bolton on the Iran war that wasn’t

    Donald Trump’s former national security adviser reckons with the president’s move to bomb Iran

  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Trump says US would ‘absolutely’ bomb Iran again to stop enrichment

    President’s comments come as intelligence reports raise doubts about success of American raid on nuclear sites

    Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Early intelligence suggests Iran’s uranium largely intact, European officials say

    Preliminary assessments indicate Tehran was able to move much of its stockpile

    The Fordow plant with several new craters from air strikes
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Khamenei says US bombing of Iran ‘did not achieve anything’

    Supreme leader’s comments come amid conflicting accounts of the damage to country’s nuclear facilities

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Military briefing: Israel and Iran size up war damage

    Satellite images show misfires in Jewish state and damage to Iranian nuclear sites as foes emerge from conflict

    Israeli attack on Evin prison, left, damage to Fordow nuclear site
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A fragile truce in the Middle East

    Trump should champion diplomatic efforts if he wants peace to endure

    Smoke rises in Tehran amid the third day of Israel’s waves of strikes against Iran
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    US strikes only delayed Iran’s nuclear progress, says intelligence report

    Leaked assessment casts doubt on Trump’s claims to have ‘obliterated’ facilities

    A satellite view shows an overview of the Fordow underground complex, after the US struck the underground nuclear facility, near Qom in Iran
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Hanna Notte
    Russia no longer needs Iran’s help to sustain the war in Ukraine

    Tehran’s humiliation won’t please Moscow, but domestic drone production and new alliances mean Vladimir Putin can fight on

    An Iranian-made Shahed 136 ‘kamikaze’ drone
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    America’s retreat from the world stalls again

    The bombing of Iran suggests that a global role is a hard thing to give up

    Illustration of the US flag planted on a different part of 12 globes of the world.
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Trump, Netanyahu and the new Middle East

    US and Israeli campaign to defang Iran could herald a fresh era of instability for the region

    (L-R) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the shadow of US President Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    FT live news
    Israel-Iran day 12 as it happened: Fragile truce appears to take hold after Trump rebukes Israel and Iran; White House hits out at ‘leaked’ intelligence assessment on Iran strikes

    Israel claimed ceasefire that went into effect on Tuesday morning had been broken by Tehran

  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Trump pushes Israel and Iran to preserve ceasefire

    US president denounces violations of fragile truce by both sides

    US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Rachman Review podcast25 min listen
    Too soon to celebrate peace between Iran and Israel?

    Tensions remain despite Trump’s claim to have ended the war

  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Gulf expat bubble punctured by missiles

    Overseas workers moved to an oasis of prosperity and security in the region. Then the explosions started

    People sit at Hamad international airport after Qatar reopened its airspace
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Gary Samore
    Does Iran’s nuclear programme have a future?

    Tehran could react to the war by withdrawing from the non-proliferation treaty and covertly pursuing a bomb

    Montage of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, against a background image of the bombed Fordow enrichment facility tinted the colours of the Iranian flag
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How Trump brokered a shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire

    Tentative truce seeks to bring an end to destructive 12-day conflict that has reshaped Middle East

    Montage featuring Donald Trump and the national flags of Israel and Iran against a background of a damaged building in Beersheba, southern Israel
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump signals sanctions relief for China to buy Iran’s oil

    Potential policy U-turn comes hours after president declared peace in Middle East war

    A supertanker in the waters off Jurong Island in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    ‘Regime change’ or peace: Trump’s head-spinning Iran policy

    President claims another Middle East war has ended — just days after the US joined it

    A montage of Donald Trump, both in the foreground and pictured in the Situation Room of the White House in the background
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