US and Iran reach deal to end war and reopen Strait of Hormuz
"The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete," Trump announced.
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Trump says he has ‘ended’ war with Iran as Tehran withholds confirmation
The remarks came hours after he cancelled air strikes that had been scheduled.
Trump threatens to seize Iran’s Kharg Island and take ‘total control’ of its oil
The US Navy has imposed a blockade on Iranian ports that has sharply reduced exports.
Trump will get what he wants in Iran by negotiation or by force
We seem finally to have reached the dénouement in the long, extremely one-sided, and comparatively bloodless war the United States and Israel have conducted with…
The most overwhelmingly one-sided war victory, by America alone
As this piece is written on Tuesday afternoon, the Iran war continues to be unprecedented in a number of respects.
Three military lessons from the Iran war
The announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was a welcome development, although many of its details, as well as the actual facts on the ground…
Iran: EU welcomes ceasefire
Following the agreement between the US and Iran on a ceasefire and the safe transit of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, European leaders and Iranian opposition…
Iran will yield or be beaten into submission
As this is written we are awaiting confirmation that the United States and Israel will escalate their attacks on Iran which has continued to respond frivolously…
Is the all-mighty West running out of ammunition? Spoiler alert: Yes, it is
As we enter the second month of the conflict with Iran, it is not heated statements that will decide the war, but cold inventory reports.
Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war
Spain's leftist government has closed Spanish airspace to US planes carrying out missions against Iran, in addition to denying Washington use of its bases, the defence…
What if America ‘loses’ the Iran war?
The fact that the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran has not gone to plan is by now patently obvious – most clearly in President Trump’s insistent pleas with European…
Pompous: Europe in a moral quagmire between benefactor US and evil Iran
The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now…
Senior US counterterrorism official resigns to protest Iran war
A senior US counterterrorism official resigned today to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United…
A hostile strait is a nautical death trap: Trump gives us the Dardanelles, Part II
Addressing an audience of military veterans in Alexandria, Virginia, last week, US Navy Admiral William Raven, formerly head of the elite Seals special forces unit,…
Iran war reveals Italy PM Meloni now sidelined by Trump
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sought to position herself as a privileged interlocutor of US President Donald Trump.
Trump’s choice: Go big or go home
As the ramifications of the joint US-Israeli assault on Iran continue to spread, and as the war is already diverging from what clearly seems to have been the attackers’…
Russia sole ‘winner’ in Iran war, says EU’s Costa
Russia is so far the only winner of the Iran war, EU chief Antonio Costa said today, lamenting that Moscow profited from soaring energy prices sparked by US-Israeli…
The Iran war will be long, bloody, and ruinous
There can be no doubt of the absolute wickedness and moral depravity of the theocratic totalitarian regime that has had its grip on Iran since 1979.
Israel, Hezbollah trade fire: latest developments in Iran war
Israel and Hezbollah traded fire on Monday, while President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the deaths of US service members and said the war with Iran could last for…
Behead the Iranian monster, but which head will grow in its place?
The root of debacle ultimately comes from the Latin, baculus, stick, and it derives from the act of removing a stick from a dam, with the debacle being what follows.
EU weighs whether to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group
The European Union is considering adding the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Pasdaran, to its list of terrorist organisations.
Iran reveals arrest of teenage French-German cyclist missing since June
Iran has arrested and detained a teenage French-German national on a Europe-to-Asia cycle trip who disappeared in the country on June 16, Iran's foreign minister…
Dodging a proxy war with China in Iran: Trump’s gambit and Europe’s irrelevance
Trump’s swift halt to the 12-day Iran war in June 2025 wasn’t just about Tehran’s nukes.
Trump’s airstrikes ‘did not destroy Iran’s nuclear capability’, says US Defence Agency as NATO summit kicks off
US airstrikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear capability and only set it back by a few months, according to one initial US intelligence assessment.
For Trump, force is an option, war is not
Donald Trump thundered “no more wars” to cheering crowds in 2024. Yet, on 21 June 2025, US jets obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites.
US allies uttering platitudes on Iran which would just prolong the crisis
Once again, America's European allies and Canada are floundering around the Middle East crisis, flapping their arms ineffectively and uttering platitudes of moral…
Russia says West’s military threats against Iran ‘illegal and unacceptable’
Russia has pushed back at Western threats of military action against Iran if negotiations on a new nuclear deal fail.
French minister says military conflict with Iran ‘inevitable’ if nuclear deal not renewed
French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has stated that without an agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme, military conflict was "almost inevitable."
In Interview: Ali Safavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
The National Council of Resistance of Iran's (NCRI) annual three-day Free Iran World Summit this year happened to take place after the general elections in the Middle…