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While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025, are believed to have damaged the country’s critical nuclear infrastructure, no evidence has yet emerged showing the program to have been completely destroyed. In fact, an early U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment surmised that the attack merely delayed Iran’s…

Iran refuses to dismantle its nuclear programme and it’s still impossible to verify the damage done by air strikes.

Israel, with the assistance of U.S. military hardware, bombs an adversary’s nuclear facility to set back the perceived pursuit of the ultimate weapon. We have been here before, about 44 years ago.

The US president is more willing to listen to Israel than his predecessors were and is also deeply suspicious of the CIA

COMMENT: With Donald Trump apparently warming to the idea of overthrowing Iran’s theocratic rulers, history reminds us that whenever the White House upturns an unsatisfactory regime, from Fidel Castro to Saddam Hussein, it contrives only to make matters worse, says Sean O’Grady

The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself

Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty.

Israel’s air assault on Iran has focused largely on degrading the Islamic Republic’s military and would-be nuclear capabilities.

This is a war of choice, based on misinformation. If the US and UK join it, they risk a rerun of the Iraq debacle of 2003, says Fawaz Gerges of the LSE