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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in January 2020.

Netanyahu went all in on Trump. His grave miscalculation will echo for years to come

In cosying up to a mercurial American president, Israel’s vulnerability and utter dependence on the US has been exposed to the world – and Iran.

  • Amin Saikal

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US President Donald Trump is flanked by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as speaks to the press following the NATO summit.

Trump reveals talks with Iran next week, claims win on NATO defence spending

The US president said he would insist Iran commit to “no nuclear” in any negotiation, as he dismissed a leaked Pentagon analysis on the bunker-busting attack.

  • David Crowe
US President Donald Trump during an address following the US bombing of three sites in Iran.

Americans have seen this movie before. Trump playing the hero doesn’t fool anyone

I grew up in America under the shadow of the Iraq War. Now, it feels as though history will repeat itself in Iran.

  • Cory Alpert
Iran is vulnerable and Israel and the US are weighing their options.

How the innocuous pager set in motion a potentially catastrophic war

A Mossad plot is just one of a series of events that have weakened Iran’s proxies, leaving it dangerously exposed.

  • Nick O'Malley
Iranians participate in an Eid al-Ghadir ceremony and a protest march on Saturday against the Israeli attacks.

Celebration, trepidation and anger: Iranians have conflicting emotions over Israeli airstrikes

While some Iranians view the attacks as a means to salvation, others are terrified of the unpredictable consequences of war.

  • Yeganeh Torbati
Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on December 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy’s foreign ministry said.

Iran arrests Italian journalist in case of apparent hostage diplomacy

Italian media said Cecilia Sala’s detention was believed to be aimed at securing the release of an Iranian-Swiss drone expert who was detained in Italy.

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Newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian.

A new leader, an assassination and the nuclear option: Why world is sweating on Iran

The new Iranian president had been in power for just 10 hours when a senior Hamas leader was killed on the country’s soil. The world has held its breath for retaliation since.

  • David E. Sanger and Farnaz Fassihi
Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s memoir of her time in jail in Iran is on the shortlist for the non-fiction award.

I won’t mourn the sudden death of the man who oversaw my sham trial

Iranians are celebrating the death of their president by dancing in the streets, setting off fireworks and posting an endless stream of helicopter-themed memes. Meanwhile the Australian government has sent its condolences.

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Influential but also more desperate: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The West is about to make a major error in its economic war against Putin

Lack of attention to the “Global South” has come back to haunt now that Western interests are threatened by an axis of Russian, Chinese and Iranian authoritarianism.

  • Jeremy Warner
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent years imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up espionage charges.

The exclusive – but growing – group no one wants to be part of

Three years after being jailed in Iran, I am calm and unflappable. But the anger is still there. I know because my relationship to anger has changed so dramatically.

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert

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