Post-war Iran would begin a programme with a head start. Roughly 400kg of highly enriched uranium is buried inside the ...

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L ast year Donald Trump claimed he had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. The claim was hard to sustain when Iran had ...

There is a long-standing assumption in the Gulf that Saudi Arabia and the UAE will always bail Bahrain out, as they did, along with Kuwait, in 2018. That could well happen again this time. “But you ...

Having DISCOVERED the costs of tariffs, President Donald Trump has now discovered the costs of war. On March 9th he declared that his campaign against Iran would be over “very soon”, sending oil ...

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T he display of American and Israeli firepower in Iran has been more fast-paced and overwhelming than America showed off in either of the first two Persian Gulf wars. The two alli ...

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