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US-Iran tensions

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Iran warns of potential change in nuclear doctrine if Israel targets facilities

    Senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says any attack could ‘have an impact’ on Tehran’s calculations

    Satellite image of Iran’s Natanz nuclear site
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Iran dismisses speculation about fate of absent Quds Force commander

    Esmail Ghaani’s deputy insists he is ‘alive and well’ despite not being seen in public for more than a week

    Esmail Ghaani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The false promise of regime change in Iran

    Military intervention is not the way to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic

    James Ferguson illustration of Netanyahu trying to topple a Supreme Leader statue.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    US strikes Houthi targets in Yemen as fears grow of wider Mideast war

    Joe Biden defends Israel’s right to defend itself as it escalates offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon

    Houthi supporters hold posters depicting Hizbollah’s late leader Hassan Nasrallah and wave the flags of the group during a protest in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people in Sana’a, Yemen on October 4, 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Lawrence Freedman
    The retaliatory cycle has Iran and Israel firmly in its grip

    Speculation about targets is growing as the region grapples with what comes next

    Smoke rises as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Khiam near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

    US officials believe response to Iranian strike will be measured enough to avoid escalation

    US President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington on October 3
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    US and G7 warn Israel against strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities

    Western officials fear Washington’s influence may be limited as they try to prevent escalation of regional conflict

    Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil prices climb as Iran missile attack prompts supply fears

    Barrage sends Brent crude up amid concerns of wider war in critical energy region

    Projectiles fly over the Upper Galilee, northern Israel
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
    Military briefing: How Israel could retaliate against Iran

    IDF is widely expected to strike the Islamic republic following missile barrage

    Montage image of fighter jets, a damaged building in Gedera, Israel (left) and a nuclear facility in Iran (right)
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    A day of escalation in the Middle East

    Iran launches missiles into Israel following IDF ground offensive in Lebanon

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Netanyahu vows retaliation after Iran fires barrage of missiles at Israel

    Tehran’s attack came hours after Israel began ground offensive in Lebanon against Hizbollah

    Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Instant InsightGideon Rachman
    Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’

    With American policy in the Middle East in tatters, Donald Trump could be the principal beneficiary of escalation in the region

    Palestinian youths inspect a fallen projectile after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    John Sawers
    Middle East’s power scales tip as Israel senses Iran’s weakness

    Regional tensions will remain high with neither Netanyahu’s coalition nor the Palestinians ready for a settlement

    People check the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024.
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Killing of Hassan Nasrallah hits at heart of Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’

    Islamic republic hesitates after Israel’s assassination of Hizbollah leader deals heavy blow to its regional strategy

    A banner bearing the image of Hassan Nasrallah hangs over a building in downtown Tehran on Sunday
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel kills Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in massive strike on Beirut

    Militant leader targeted after a year of intensifying conflict

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Three Iranians charged with hacking Trump’s campaign

    US prosecutors accuse defendants of working for Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to influence the election

    Protesters walk past a banner featuring portraits of Qassem Soleimani
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Iran races to allay Hizbollah fears

    Tehran’s restraint in the face of increasingly aggressive Israeli operations has unsettled Lebanese militant group

    Axis of resistance map and Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Masoud Pezeshkian
    Iran’s new president signals readiness to resume nuclear talks with west

    Masoud Pezeshkian uses first press conference to deny sending missiles to Russia for Ukraine war

    Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Iran ships ‘hundreds’ of ballistic missiles to Russia

    Delivery of weaponry to Moscow marks ‘dramatic escalation’ in war against Ukraine, warn Kyiv and western officials

    A Fath ballistic missile against the backdrop of the Islamic republic’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How all-out war between Israel and its adversaries might play out

    Military capabilities of the Jewish state have evolved since it last fought Hizbollah but so have those of the Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    Iranians struggle to access crucial medicines as sanctions hit supplies

    Patients and clinicians say humanitarian exemption for pharmaceuticals is failing to prevent shortages

    Thalassaemia patients hold posters as they protest outside a Tehran court
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Iran was behind Trump campaign hack, says US intelligence

    Agencies say they have seen ‘increasingly aggressive’ activity from Iranian actors trying to influence election

    Iran flag
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Iran not expected to attack Israel if ceasefire agreed with Hamas, says Biden

    US president’s comments come as diplomatic push to end 10-month conflict intensifies ahead of talks on Thursday

    Joe Biden talks to reporters at the airport
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    Iran gives few clues as region awaits military response to Israel

    Tehran keeps world guessing over how it will retaliate for the killing of Hamas leader on its territory

    People walk next to huge Iranian and Palestinian flags hanging on a wall in Eneghelab square in Tehran
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