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Iranian commentators are warning of a potential economic shock and wider public unrest should Trump resume his ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against the country’s leaders.
Computer-assisted warfare: an Israeli patrol in the Gaza Strip, March 2024.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘We will make our own decisions’ on responding to Iran’s attack.
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Iran has reached a stage in its weapons programme where it would be difficult for a single strike to do significant damage.
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, meets his Omani counterpart, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, in Tehran on July 17, 2023.
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The small Gulf state has hosted high-level Western and Iranian delegations, passing messages between them.
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Iran’s role in the recent conflict between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah shows how badly western containment policy has failed.
Family members of American citizens detained overseas participate in a Bring Back our Families rally on May 3, 2023, in Washington.
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The hostage swap between the U.S. and Iran may be an important step in a new nuclear deal between the West and Iran.
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The pattern of slow, cautious decision-making in Iran is a critical factor in the Iran nuclear negotiations that has widely been ignored.
From Beijing with friendship? It’s complicated.
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Detente between Tehran and Riyadh will not magically solve all the political and sectarian tensions in the Middle East.
Iranians protest in Tehran on Oct. 27, 2022.
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Iranian protesters aren’t satisfied winning small battles within the Islamic regime. Their aim is a revolution that will result in universal human rights.
All smiles: Russian president Vladimir Putin, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Tehran, July 2022.
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This is not so much an alliance as a coalition of the isolated.
The yacht Amore Vero is docked in the Mediterranean resort of La Ciotat, France. French authorities have seized the yacht linked to Igor Sechin, a Vladimir Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, as part of EU sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The targeting of elite interests has been at the centre of recent sanctions policies, including sanctions on Russia. We look at the effectiveness of targeting in Iran in the 2010s.
Gas prices at a Mobil gas station in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 8, 2022.
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Price shocks are a feature of the global oil market, not a bug – and even when governments take many steps to grow supply or reduce demand, it can be years before prices ease.
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Much has changed since the Trump administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and good will is seriously lacking.
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International sanctions make it almost impossible for the UK to repay the decades-old debt.
Hardliner: recently elected Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi.
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The US and Israel are warning that Iran could build a nuclear bomb very soon. But is it that simple?
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Real change will come from the streets, not the ballot box.
The skyline of Tehran.
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Iran’s ongoing legal campaign to persecute marginalized groups highlights the pressing need to include human rights in any bilateral and multilateral negotiations over the nuclear deal.
The Natanz nuclear facility.
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Most observers believe Israel was behind the a cyberattack on Iran. But what was the thinking behind it?
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani arrives for a news conference in Tehran, Iran, in February 2020, with a portrait of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hanging on the wall behind him. Both men have signalled an interest in a new nuclear deal.
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Joe Biden has said he wants to return the United States to the Joint Collective Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
But the window of opportunity may be closing.
Regional powerplay: the nuclear deal has complex implications for the regin.
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The US president is sending a message to Saudi Arabia. But it might also find that negotiations with Tehran are tougher.