Iran
Strikes on Iran’s South Pars and Asaluyeh gas-processing complex mark a major escalation in the conflict, with Tehran responding by naming Gulf oil and gas infrastructure as potential targets and raising fears of wider…
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U.S. naval movements are not a retreat but a recalibration of risk: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS…
Economics
Iran is still earning roughly $160 million a day from oil exports even as the United States and…
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The war with Iran is revealing a deeper structural problem in the American security system. Early strikes on…
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Iran claims it struck the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with missiles and drones during the expanding West Asia conflict, a charge Washington…
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Iran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader was shaped not only by constitutional procedure but by direct external pressure.…
Defence
Iran’s missile campaign may be targeting something far more important than airbases or cities. Radar stations across the Gulf form…
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Iran does not need to defeat the United States or Israel quickly. Its strategy appears to be something colder: sustain missile and drone attacks long enough to exhaust interceptor stockpiles, stretch defensive systems across…
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What began as a decapitation strike against Iran has, by the fifth day, expanded into a regional confrontation…
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If the war fails to eliminate Iran’s missile and drone capability, Israel faces the outcome it has warned…
Economics
The conflict with Iran has done what decades of geopolitical tension could not: turn the Strait of Hormuz…
Iran
The assassination of Iranian leadership during active negotiation for the second time in six months has transformed a limited military gamble into a structural…
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Three strikes in June 2025, a renewed zero enrichment demand in Washington, and open warnings from Tehran about American bases…
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The United States has quietly assembled the operational architecture required for sustained air operations against Iran. Refuelling aircraft, carrier positioning,…
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The current escalation between the United States and Iran follows a strategic framework outlined in a 2009 Brookings Institution paper, suggesting continuity in doctrine rather than sudden crisis.
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Middle East
The Middle East is no longer organised around sovereign states and formal diplomacy. From Yemen to Somaliland to Iran, competing models of power are…
Defence
Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and…
Technology
As Iran imposed one of its most comprehensive internet shutdowns in years, a different kind of connection began…
Africa
Iran’s unrest is driven by economic collapse and loss of confidence. But its sudden global amplification coincides with…
World
Is war with Iran Approaching. The choreography of logistics, diplomacy, and rhetoric suggests a narrowing path to confrontation that could…
Iran
Leaked Russian export tables suggest Tehran has signed a €6 billion deal for 48 Su-35 fighters, with component deliveries set…