Today
‘We’re working for Israel’: Trump faces MAGA heat over Iran strikes
Critics are concerned that US military personnel could face retaliation by Iran and its proxies.
US military in Middle East braces for Iran’s revenge
The strikes on the Iranian nuclear sites have ushered in a period of high alert as the Pentagon prepares for almost-certain retaliation against American forces in the region.
‘For him, it’s personal’: Netanyahu’s relished war with Iran
The Israeli prime minister’s career looked finished after the October 7 attack by Hamas. But now he is pursuing a conflict he has proposed for years.
‘Full payload of bombs’: Trump launches major strikes on Iran
The US president says he hopes Tehran agrees to shutter its nuclear program voluntarily after confirming an attack on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan sites.
Yesterday
Israel says it has killed IRGC’s Palestine commander in Iran
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said Saeed Izadi, who armed Hamas, was killed in an apartment strike in Iran. How the day unfolded.
This Month
Israel bombed Iran’s state TV. Why many Iranians cheered
Most Australians understand little about the reality of living in Iran, under a totalitarian regime that has controlled every aspect of daily life for 46 years.
Whatever happens, the Middle East has been remade
US President Donald Trump’s possible intervention in the Israel-Iran war is the last act in a remarkable reshaping of the Middle East.
America attacking Iran could trigger Taiwan conflict
US involvement in wars in Europe and the Middle East could open the door for China to have a crack at Taiwan.
Israeli hospital, Iranian nuclear site hit as Trump mulls US role
Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke. Another missile hit a high-rise building and several other residential buildings in at least two sites near Tel Aviv.
Trump would love to target the Federal Reserve as well as Iran
The president sounds as angry with Jerome Powell as with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But what he decides to do about Iran will come much sooner than a Fed rate cut.
Deep-cover agents, hacked phones: Israel’s secret war inside Iran
The covert campaign that preceded the Jewish state’s attack also involved spy satellites and smuggled miniaturised weapons systems to ensure a precise first strike.
Trump says he ‘may or may not’ strike Iran
The US president is reportedly withholding his final order on any attack, as Iran’s supreme leader made his first public comments on the war with Israel.
Iran’s supreme leader is on social media. War watchers are paying attention
While Israel and Iran exchange missiles, social media is giving insights direct from key leaders into the course of the war.
Is Iran really developing nuclear weapons?
Experts question Israel’s claim that Tehran had begun a nuclear weapons program, but warn it has become a “threshold” state.
Israel widens attacks against Iran, striking broadcaster
An Iranian state news anchor was live on air when an explosion shook the scene, causing falling debris and the sound of screams and breaking glass.
Trump’s Iran choice: last-chance diplomacy or a bunker-busting bomb
The US could still become directly involved in a new conflict, taking on Iran in exactly the kind of war that the president has sworn he would avoid.
Trump has the best chance to stabilise the Middle East in decades
The US president should do two things to end the Israel-Iran war: he should give Israel bunker-buster bombs and back a two-state solution for Palestinians.
‘No preparation, no thinking, nothing’: Iranians furious with regime
Tehran residents have contrasted the government’s silence on safety measures with its frequent use of text messages to admonish women over insufficiently modest attire.
Will Iran’s hated regime finally implode?
Several times in the past two decades Iranians have tried, only to be beaten back: the regime might be weak, but its people are weaker.
Iran’s regime is fighting for survival
Forty years after its war with Iraq, the Islamic republic faces a new existential test.