Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death could be the most existential threat to Iran’s Islamist regime in its nearly 50 years. But it doesn’t necessarily mean a quick end to the theocracy that controls the country.
While Iran has an elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian,…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who oversaw decades of repressive rule and resistance to the United States, was killed after the U.S. and Israel attacked the Islamist regime, according to President Donald Trump, a move that plunges the country’s future into…
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In the end, President Donald Trump lost his patience.
For weeks, his administration had pursued a dual-track strategy toward Iran, dispatching envoys Steve Wifkoff and Jared Kushner to negotiate with Iran on its nuclear program while staging the largest military build up in the Middle East…
Washington’s Gulf Arab partners are bracing themselves for a fraught period ahead as the U.S. and Israel press on with a major operation in Iran — one they had lobbied against.
With Iran retaliating and taking aim at targets in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq,…
At the national level, however, Europe’s message was less unified. In a joint statement, France, Germany and the United Kingdom stressed they “did not participate in these strikes” by the U.S. and Israel, while condemning Iranian counterattacks and urging Tehran to seek to a…
Satellite images captured after Saturday’s US and Israeli strikes on Tehran show that the residence of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sustained severe damage.
The photos, which show several collapsed buildings inside a compound in Tehran known to be one of Khamenei’s…
Germany also said it had been informed in advance.
Not so much Paris, however. French President Emmanuel Macron said the U.S. and Israel didn’t “inform or involve” France in the strikes.
While several European governments emphasized restraint and de-escalation on Saturday,…
The U.S. and Israel are so far going it alone in their military campaign against Iran, in a notable absence of the allies who participated in previous regional conflicts with air defenses and strikes.
Several world leaders have voiced support for punishing the brutality of Iran’s Islamist…
The U.S. and Israel’s joint military operation against Iran could lead to extraordinary power shifts in the Middle East, especially if the strikes help force Tehran’s Islamist regime from power. The campaign could also spur chaos in a region that has known far too little stability.
The…