Opinion

If the Islamic Republic falls, Islamism may fall with it

The notion that the US has been somehow dragged into the war by a scheming Benjamin Netanyahu utterly misunderstands what’s going on

By Stephen Pollard

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Military parade in 1998 in Iran with images of Ayatollah Khomeini (left) and (right) Supreme Leader Khameini (Jamshid Bairami/AFP via Getty)

By Ali Hamedani

Day I met the Supreme Leader whose death inspired parties across Iran

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An Iranian Jew prays in the Rabbi Zadeh synagogue in Shiraz 29 April 2000 (Photo by HENGHAMEH FAHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

By Alan Aziz

For this Jew with Iranian roots, the conflict isn’t just geopolitical. It’s geopersonal

2 min read

IRGC/Basij parade in Tehran on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Roger Macmillan

Khamenei’s death leaves the IRGC stronger – the UK must finally proscribe it

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Is fighting antisemitism a losing battle?

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Operation Roaring Lion

Iranians in Britain fear the IRGC’s reach on UK soil

Those who fled the Islamic Republic want to live in a safe and stable country. They want to protect the freedoms they came here to enjoy

By Gio Esfandiary

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By Lawrence J. Haas

Europe’s Iran stance is a strategic error that hurts its US alliance

Wiser leaders would stop picking fights with Washington over a war they can’t influence and that ultimately advances their own security

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during the European leaders' summit on March 2, 2025 in London to discuss future peace in Ukraine. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

Ed Miliband’s toxic legacy: Syria, Corbyn and Britain’s retreat on Iran

Despite being so disastrously wrong so many times, he maintains the air of smug superiority that he has had since he first became Labour leader. Now we learn of the latest example of his indifference to tyranny and terror

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Secretary for Energy Security Ed Miliband (Image: Getty)

By Kasra Aarabi

To topple the Islamic Republic, dismantle the IRGC machinery of repression

There are about 200,000 highly radicalised and armed members that make up this core suppressive force, with at least 50,000 in Tehran alone

5 min read

Members of the Basij militia march in a parade at a Revolutionary Guards base in northeastern Tehran (Image: Getty)

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Leaders

The Israel-US strikes against Iran are legal – and justified

Britain appears to have chosen an interpretation of the law that overlooks not only the national security interests of its allies, but also its own

By The JC Leader

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US President Donald with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the festival’s jollity exists so that we can live with the risks of being Jewish, ‘without being terrified, traumatised or intimidated’

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Jerusalem's Adloyada Purim parade, March 16, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

The BBC will fail its final test if it marks its own homework

BBC Arabic should be a jewel in the corporation’s crown, but it has too often become a platform for extremism and antisemitism

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The outside of a BBC building in central London (Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Antisemitism is costing Britain investment and jobs

When anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are allowed to metastasise, they hollow out institutions, corrode democratic norms and ultimately make a society poorer – morally and materially

2 min read