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Jonathan Sacerdoti

The ‘moderate’ who ran death squads: how BBC and Sky sanitise the Iranian regime

Ali Larijani was no reformer but a central figure in repression – and yet much of British media coverage blurred that reality

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

4 min read

Iran's security chief Ali Larijani (C) and Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani (R) attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (Image: Getty)

Image: White House/X

Yaakov Katz

Trump’s time advantage: the key to the Iran war strategy

From a purely military perspective, what has been achieved over the past weeks is nothing short of extraordinary – and the president is still at the beginning of his tenure

5 min read

Al Quds Day rally on March 15, 2026 in London (Image: Getty)

Gill Levy

The Met chief’s false equivalence between Iran regime backers and opponents

Sir Mark Rowley’s dismissal of ideology in assessing the threat around Al Quds Day reveals a serious analytical failure that risks weakening effective policing and public security

4 min read

US President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House on March 12, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Jamie O'Mahony

By Jamie O'Mahony

Ireland risks US relationship over its anti-Israel obsession

Just as the Taoiseach travels to the White House, his deputy announces that legislation to ban imports from settlements would soon be ready – a move Washington strongly opposes

3 min read

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

The sight of Foreign Office officials celebrating the Islamic Republic’s revolution at its London embassy – alongside Britain’s failure to proscribe the IRGC – reveals a dangerous softness towards Tehran

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Melissa Langsam Braunstein

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

For Democrats, attacking Israel is a career move

California Governor Newsom has clearly concluded that moving left on the Jewish state is crucial for winning his party’s base – and he’s not alone

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Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Iran’s war across Europe –complacency must finally end

The diplomatic leverage that once gave the Islamic Republic reason to calibrate – to keep its plots below the threshold of open confrontation – no longer applies

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