Articles - Iran War

Essential reading covering expert analysis of the developing Iran war including the death of Khamenei, chances of regime change, regional escalation, and the global impact.

• The battle for the Strait of Hormuz - New Statesman 18.03.26 511521
• Top US intelligence official resigns over Iran war - WSWS 18.03.26 511281
• Netanyahu Concedes on “Total Victory" -- Redefines 'Victory', Changes Goals of the War - Conflicts Forum 18.03.26 511375
• Podcast: Odd Lots: War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas - Bloomberg 18.03.26 511389
• US intelligence chief says Iran's regime 'intact' but 'degraded' - BBC 18.03.26 511280
• Trump threatens to blow up 'entirety' of major Iran gas field if it attacks Qatar again - BBC 18.03.26 511279
• Trump May Not Be Able to End This War - Atlantic 18.03.26 511248
• Podcast: Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War - Atlantic 18.03.26 511249
• The Iran War’s Next Threat Is to Food and Water - Atlantic 18.03.26 511247
• Israel Has Nuclear Weapons. It May Use Them - Jacobin 18.03.26 511241
• Senator Corners Tulsi Gabbard Over Trump’s False Claim That Iran Nuclear Threat Was ‘Imminent’ - CD 18.03.26 511232
• US intel chief Gabbard says Iran was not rebuilding enrichment prior to war - Al Jazeera 18.03.26 511219
• The oil logic behind Trump’s war on Iran - Al Jazeera 18.03.26 511186
• Oil prices surge after Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gasfield - Al Jazeera 18.03.26 511188
• The Kent warning: When truth escapes the war machine - Al Jazeera 18.03.26 511185
• Middle East war risks pushing 45 million more people into acute hunger - UN News 17.03.26 511533
• Iran’s neighbours brace for fallout as war threatens new refugee crisis - Al Jazeera 17.03.26 511203
• Who was Gholamreza Soleimani, killed commander of Iran’s Basij forces? - Al Jazeera 17.03.26 512390
• Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war - CBS 17.03.26 511074
• The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy - Al Jazeera 17.03.26 511049
• Pivotal Iran leader Ali Larijani killed in airstrike, Israel says - Guardian 17.03.26 511048
• Trump says US does not need Nato after being rebuffed over strait of Hormuz - Guardian 17.03.26 511075
• What have US allies and China said about sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz? - BBC 17.03.26 511067
• Podcast: Could Trump blow up Nato over Iran war? – The Latest 16.03.26 511008
• Pete Hegseth: the Iran war’s chief promoter - Transcript - CBC 16.03.26 511706
• Trump Ally’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ Post on Strait of Hormuz Raises Eyebrows - Newsweek 16.03.26 512287
• What the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites means for the non-proliferation regime - Dawn 16.03.26 512388
• After Helping Convince Trump to Attack Iran, Kushner Solicits Billions for His Private Equity Firm - CD 16.03.26 511641
• Iraq warns Kurdish authorities not to get drawn into war on Iran, sources say - Middle East Eye 15.03.26 510784
• Iran war: Trump says peace deal terms not 'good enough yet' - DW 15.03.26 510783
• Israel plans at least 3 more weeks of war with Iran, says military spokesperson - Middle East Monitor 15.03.26 510785
• Trump calls on UK to send warships to keep strait of Hormuz open - Guardian 14.03.26 510771
• How the war in Iran and its economic fallout will lead to Trump’s defeat - Guardian 14.03.26 510770
• US attacks military sites on Iran’s Kharg island, home to vast oil facility - Al Jazeera 14.03.26 511496
• Trump urges other countries to deploy ships to help reopen strait of Hormuz - Guardian 14.03.26 510769
• UK military refuses to give 'running commentary on Iran civilian deaths - Declassified UK 13.03.26 512196
• Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East - CD 13.03.26 510938
• Warren Slams Trump for Iran War Costing ‘American Taxpayers $11,500 Per Second’ - CD 13.03.26 511664
• Pete Hegseth wanted an ‘American Crusade.’ Now he’s leading a war in the Middle East - CNN 13.03.26 511704
• 'Suez moment': US missteps in Iran echo across East Asia to the Gulf and Europe - Middle East Eye 13.03.26 510772
• The Dangers of a War Without an Off-Ramp - CD 13.03.26 511661
• The Other Iran War Crisis: It’s Threatening Global Food Supplies - Mother Jones 13.03.26 510906
• The Fake Images of a Real Strike on a School - Atlantic 13.03.26 510725
• Oil, Inflation, Unrest: The Global Fallout of the US-Israeli War on Iran - Open Democracy 13.03.26 511263
• ‘Catastrophic,’ Says UNICEF: 1,100+ Children Killed or Wounded in Mideast Since US-Israel Launched Iran War - CD 12.03.26 510945
• Fears of ‘Cataclysmic’ Refugee Crisis Grow as 3.2 Million Iranians Already Displaced by US-Israeli War - CD 12.03.26 510944
• Spain withdraws ambassador to Israel as rift intensifies - DW 12.03.26 510660
• The Cost of War: Iran Edition - CD 12.03.26 511665
• Trump Has Never Been a Planner, and in War That’s Deadly - Bloomberg 12.03.26 511497
• Peace, come closer - BMJ 12.03.26 511487
• Up to 3.2 million people displaced across Iran amid US-Israeli attacks: UN - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 510707
• Trump admin estimates US war on Iran cost $11.3bn in first 6 days: Report - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 510708
• Video: Does President Trump have an exit strategy for the war with Iran? - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 510704
• How much of the Gulf’s water comes from desalination plants? - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 511500
• Up to 3.2 million people displaced across Iran amid US-Israeli attacks: UN - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 511513
• The Implausible Regime Change in Iran and How the War Affects the World - IPS 12.03.26 510972
• How corporations have collaborated with US military over the decades - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 511515
• The war of signals: How Russia and China help Iran see the battlefield - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 510695
• The biggest Iran polling takeaway: Americans don’t see the point of this war - CNN 12.03.26 511708
• ‘Boom Boom’ US propaganda vs. the emerging Iran war reality - CNN 12.03.26 511707
• Bunker-busting bombs loaded onto US planes at UK airbase amid Iran war - Al Jazeera 12.03.26 511514
• Pentagon report: U.S. military fired missile at elementary school in Iran - Intercept 11.03.26 511358
• Security Council adopts Gulf-backed resolution condemning Iran attacks; Russia bid fails - UN News 11.03.26 510848
• Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb - Scientific American 11.03.26 510853
• UN relief chief condemns '$1 billion-a-day' cost of war in Middle East - UN News 11.03.26 510849
• Europe’s hard right fractures over US-Israel war on Iran - Al Jazeera 11.03.26 510642
• Could the US deploy troops to Iran, and how could that play out? - Al Jazeera 11.03.26 510643
• Podcast: The hidden battlefield: Censorship in the Israel–Iran war - The Take 11.03.26 511501
• Iran reports hospitals, civilians affected during war with US, Israel - Al Jazeera 11.03.26 510646
• The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B - Guardian 11.03.26 510664
• Trump has called for an Iran uprising but the lessons from Iraq in 1991 loom large - BBC 11.03.26 510663
• Kharg Island, the key to Iran’s fate - New Statesman 11.03.26 510893
• Who profits from war with Iran? Understanding that will be key to resolving the conflict - Conversation 10.03.26 510739
• Why Are China and Russia Not Rushing to Help Iran? - Carnegie Endowment 10.03.26 511642
• The US and Israel went to war with Iran, but the UAE is paying the price. Here’s why - CNN 10.03.26 510495
• Amid Iran war, civilians trapped between bombs and regime - DW 10.03.26 510526
• Podcast: How oil is at the center of the US-Israel war with Iran - The Take 10.03.26 511502
• Trump Might Want to End the War. Iran Won’t Do It on His Terms. - Dropsite 10.03.26 510541
• Does Trump even know what’s happening in Iran? - CNN 10.03.26 510494
• Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war - CNN 10.03.26 510497
• Oil prices dive as Trump says Iran war will end ‘very soon’ - CNN 10.03.26 510493
• How the Middle East war could spark a recession - CNN 10.03.26 510496
• Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war - BBC 10.03.26 510530
• Video: Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates - DN! 10.03.26 510691
• Anti-Iran policy as a sacred mission by Israeli propagandists - TFF 09.03.26 510573
• Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW - Al Jazeera 09.03.26 510328
• Trump administration starts to panic over rapidly rising oil costs - CNN 09.03.26 510492
• Capturing Iran’s highly enriched uranium would require a large US ground force, sources say - CNN 09.03.26 510491
• Kurdish groups in Iran face risky dilemma amid unclear US endgame - Chatham House 09.03.26 510354
• Iran Weighs Tactical Shift in Persian Gulf Strikes While Intensifying Attacks on Israel - Dropsite 09.03.26 510360
• ‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war - Guardian 08.03.26 511705
• We, the American people, have had enough of endless wars - Al Jazeera 08.03.26 510327
• ‘Intentional Chemical Warfare’: Toxic Black Rain in Tehran After US-Israel Bomb Oil Facilities - CD 08.03.26 510682
• The Wrong Question about the War in Iran - Pascal's Substack 08.03.26 510639
• Most European leaders have tiptoed around Trump’s war with Iran. Not Spain’s PM - CNN 08.03.26 510512
• Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - Bellingcat 08.03.26 510668
• International law is not dead. The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order - New Statesman 07.03.26 511916
• Iranian Kurd leader in Iraq says ground operation into Iran ‘highly likely’ - Al Jazeera 07.03.26 510308
• The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order - New Statesman 07.03.26 515550
• US downplays reports Russia gave Iran intel to help Tehran strike US assets - Al jazeera 07.03.26 510501