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Iran and Israel need to talk

IT’S now been about four weeks since Iranian missiles filled Israeli skies, as humanity held its breath for nuclear war and possible extinction. If that strikes you as hyperbole, consider this: Had Israel suffered great damage, the war could have gone nuclear...

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Conservatives tighten grip on Iran parliament

Iran’s conservatives and ultra-conservatives clinched more seats in a partial rerun of the country’s parliamentary elections, official results showed...

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Iran jails filmmaker Rasoulof

An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for ‘collusion against national security’, his lawyer Babak Paknia said Wednesday...

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Hezbollah says fires drones, guided missiles at Israel

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Saturday that it had targeted northern Israel with drones and guided missiles after cross-border Israeli strikes killed three people, including two of its members....

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Iran president slates West in Sri Lanka visit

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated a power and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, but arrived in the country without his interior minister, who is...

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Iran: last nation standing

BY NOT responding to decades of Israel’s provocations with an attack on Israeli soil, Iran displayed patience. The Islamic Republic rulers realised the provocations were becoming harsher, more damaging, and without stopping; it was time...

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Iran retaliation

ON THE night of April 13, Iran attacked Israel for the first time in history with drones and missiles. Israel claimed that Iran had launched 170 drones, more than 309 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles. Iran did not specify the...

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Iran’s strategic patience is spent

BY ALL accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t US ‘shock and awe’ but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly theatrical...

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Politics of self-defence

ISRAEL’S April 1 attack on Iran’s diplomatic compound in Damascus — which killed senior Iranian military commanders — was a clear and unprecedented...

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Iran blasts rattle global stocks

Reports Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran rattled markets on Friday, with oil prices briefly surging and equities...

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What we know about reported strike on central Iran

Explosions rocked Iran's central Isfahan province on Friday, according to state media, while United States officials told American news outlets that Israel carried out a retaliatory strike on the Islamic republic....