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Letters to the Editor, March 6 2026

Events in Iran and beyond prompted letters this week

By The JC

3 min read

Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a press conference on May 10, 2024 (Getty Images)

Deborah Lipstadt, Dara Horn and Bret Stephens (Image: 92NY)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Is fighting antisemitism a losing battle?

3 min read

By Gio Esfandiary

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

2 min read

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 Lawrence J. Haas

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

4 min read

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

3 min read

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

Operation Roaring Lion

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

By Kasra Aarabi

5 min read

By Maureen Lipman

I think my genes contain not one iota of athleticism

My own failure to compete was probably because my brother was so much better than me at everything, arguably, with the exception of my Eartha Kitt impersonation – or as he called it, my showing off – so I opted out

5 min read

Boxer Daniel Mendoza in an open air ring. (Image: Getty)

By Dominic Green

Starmer-Hermer legal posturing on Iran is government by Guardian editorial

The PM failed to take a stand, so we will fall. That was the week that was, and this is the UK that was

4 min read

Attorney General Lord Hermer and Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

How the Iran war forged the closest US-Israel alliance yet

Hundreds of aircraft flew side-by-side. They refuelled one another. They protected one another. This was not symbolic coordination. It was operational fusion

3 min read

US Air Force refuelling tankers at Ben Gurion airport (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

3 min read

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’

2 min read

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

1 min read

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