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.

• 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
• GI-Jihad: Iran War Blurs the Line Between Religion and the Constitution - Rolling Stone 06.03.26 511709
• Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say - CNN 06.03.26 510499
• Analysis of Major Polls Shows Trump’s War on Iran Is Historically Unpopular - CD 06.03.26 510686
• Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say - AP News 06.03.26 510500
• ‘Up There With My Lai’: Investigations Find US Was Likely Behind Iranian School Massacre - CD 06.03.26 510689
• Trump tells CNN he’s not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state - CNN 06.03.26 510498
• US-Israeli Bombs Strike ‘The Fourth School in 6 Days’ in Iran: Report - CD 06.03.26 510677
• Threats to water supply and food inflation stalk Gulf states - Middle East Eye 06.03.26 510310
• Iran is gearing up for a long war of attrition against Israel and the US - Middle East Eye 06.03.26 510309
• US-Israeli Bombs Strike ‘The Fourth School in 6 Days’ in Iran: Report - CD 06.03.26 510683
• Podcast: Will Trump declare early victory and risk leaving hardliners in charge? - Independent Thinking 06.03.26 510350
• John Fetterman Is The Lone Democrat To Vote Against War Powers Resolution Restricting Trump's Ability To Wage War In Iran - Latin Times 05.03.26 510200
• Sánchez’s principled stand against Trump matters. So does Merz’s silence - Chatham House 05.03.26 510206
• How the war in Iran is affecting the main economies of Latin America - El Pais 04.03.26 516271
• ‘No Winston Churchill’: Trump opens new rift with Europe as leaders try to avoid being sucked into Iran war - CNN 04.03.26 510513
• Further thoughts on Trump and Israel's war of choice with Iran - TFF 04.03.26 510298
• No One Voted for Trump’s War of Choice on Iran - CD 04.03.26 510370
• How prepared are the US and its allies for a protracted conflict in Iran? - Conversation 04.03.26 510282
• ‘Blood Is On Their Hands’: Fetterman and Senate GOP Block War Powers Resolution on Iran - CD 04.03.26 510304
• Trump’s endgame in Iran: ‘Regime change’ without US boots on the ground - Al Jazeera 04.03.26 510233
• Russia, China raise diplomatic voices against US-Israeli attacks on Iran - Al Jazeera 04.03.26 510245
• The Coming Invasion of Iran - Atlantic 04.03.26 510258
• From petrol to groceries: how Middle East crisis is driving up prices - Guardian 04.03.26 510250
• Which oil and gas facilities in the Gulf have been attacked? - Al Jazeera 04.03.26 510234
• Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war' - BBC 04.03.26 510137
• How each senator voted on an effort to rein in Trump’s Iran war powers - CNN 04.03.26 510202
• James Comer Says He Hopes Ground Troops Won't Be Sent To Iran But 'Sometimes That's Unavoidable' - Latin Times 04.03.26 510213
• We Are Someone’s Dirty Work - TFF 04.03.26 510151
• Kenya braces as Middle East conflict escalates - DW 04.03.26 510129
• US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East - Guardian 04.03.26 510145
• UN Nuclear Agency Warns of Risks as Fighting Escalates in Iran - Better World Campaign 03.03.26 514206
• Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination - Atlantic 03.03.26 510259
• Netanyahu’s biggest gamble - Chatam House 03.03.26 510068
• AIPAC Is Influencing Trump’s War in Iran - Jacobin 03.03.26 510257
• Are US-Israeli attacks against Iran legal under international law? - Al Jazeera 03.03.26 510249
• Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran - Middle East Eye 03.03.26 510114
• Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place - Pascal Lottaz (Neutrality Studies) 03.03.26 512795
• Inside the US-Israel plan to kill Iran’s Khamenei - Al Jazeera 03.03.26 510248
• Pahlavi? IRGC? What’s next for Iran after Khamenei - +972 Mag. 03.03.26 510115
• Gavin Newsom Slams Trump Admin Over Inability To Help U.S. Citizens Depart Israel During War With Iran: 'Global Failure' - Latin Times 03.03.26 510211
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Questions Trump's Mental State Over Iran War: 'What Is Happening?' - Latin Times 03.03.26 510073
• Trump Threatens Full Trade Embargo Over Spain’s Refusal to Be Complicit in Iran Attacks - CD 03.03.26 510365
• Corbyn Accuses Starmer Government of ‘Echoing Tony Blair’s Obedience to Washington’ - CD 03.03.26 510366
• What is behind the strategy to take out Iran's leadership? - BBC 02.03.26 509906
• The Regime Change President Who Won’t (or Can’t) Actually Change Any Regimes - Intercept 02.03.26 510955
• The Supreme Court May Legalize Donald Trump’s War on Iran - Jacobin 02.03.26 510254
• Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? - Good Authority 02.03.26 510147
• The strike, the illusion of regime change, and what comes next - Coda Story 02.03.26 509924
• ‘Unlike the United States,’ Says Security Chief, Iran ‘Has Prepared Itself for a Long War’ - CD 02.03.26 510215
• Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela now also no criticism of the illegal war on Iran. Here is exactly what the EU should have stated - Transnational 02.03.26 509846
• Poll suggests only a quarter of Americans support attacks on Iran - Al Jazeera 02.03.26 509894
• Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel's war on Iran - TFF 02.03.26 509876
• Trump Says US ‘Locked and Loaded’ in Latest Threat of War With Iran - BBC 02.03.26 504476
• Starmer lets US use bases for Iran clash: UK’s military, legal quagmire - Al Jazeera 02.03.26 510582
• The Iran war exposes the limits of Russia’s leverage in a fragmenting regional order - Charham House 02.03.26 509923
• How escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices – a visual guide - Guardian 02.03.26 509918
• Middle East crisis pushes up oil prices – and could drive inflation rises too - Guardian 02.03.26 509916
• Oil prices rise sharply after US, Israeli attacks on Iran - Al Jazeera 02.03.26 509892
• Iran war: Will Europe's split on US strikes backfire? - DW 02.03.26 509910
• Will Others Follow? Spain Denies Use of Its Bases to US Military for Iran Attacks - CD 02.03.26 510209
• UK RAF airbase in Cyprus hit by drone strike - Guardian 02.03.26 509859
• Starmer says UK will not join ‘regime change from the skies’ on Iran - Guardian 02.03.26 509917
• Can China benefit from the US-Israel war with Iran? - DW 02.03.26 509914
• Israel strikes Lebanon after Iran ally Hezbollah fires missiles over border - Guardian 02.03.26 509858
• Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody - DN! 02.03.26 509939
• Israel Wants Ability to Attack Anyone at Any Time: Israeli Analyst Ori Goldberg - DN! 02.03.26 509938
• Iran death toll reaches 555 as US, Israel escalate attacks - Al Jazeera 02.03.26 509857
• This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is Also an Assault on the United Nations - CD 02.03.26 509902
• No one can predict how the US war with Iran will unfold - Guardian 02.03.26 509861
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why - Al Jazeera 02.03.26 509860
• US-Israel war on Iran dramatically expands across Middle East - Guardian 02.03.26 509920
• Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela now also no criticism of the illegal war on Iran - TFF 02.03.26 510303