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Yvette Cooper

Foreign Secretary holds call with Israeli counterpart

The discussion between Yvette Cooper and Gideon Sa’ar came twelve days after the start of the Iran War

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the conference today (Photo: Getty)

A regime rally in Tehran on March 9 marking the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US and Israeli strikes. (Image: Getty)

By Jonathan Spyer

Why the Islamic Republic may survive this campaign

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Iran

US destroys Iranian ‘minelayers’ in Strait of Hormuz amid oil price surge

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israel

Around half of Iranian missiles fired at Israel were cluster munitions, IDF finds

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Quds Day

Police ban London pro-Iran march over ‘extreme tensions’

By Mark Wood

3 min read

Charity Commission

New powers for charity watchdog to crack down on extremism

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Israel

Pro-regime accounts spread false claim Ben-Gvir was killed in Iranian airstrike

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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Second Israeli dies after Iranian ‘cluster bomb’ strikes Tel Aviv

The IDF has accused Iran of war crimes after munitions fell on civilian areas

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 10, 2026 10:36

Israeli rescue and emergency forces at the scene where shrapnel from a ballistic missile fired from Iran fell in Yehud, March 9, 2026 (Flash90)

UK should have bolstered regional defence before Iran strike, former security minister says

‘The armed forces expect us to do better,’ Tom Tugendhat told the JC

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

March 9, 2026 16:56

'We were not prepared', said Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, a former soldier who served during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (Photo: Getty)

By Stephen Pollard

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

3 min read

March 9, 2026 16:49

By Ali Hamedani

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

Rosewater-scented childhood encounter with Ayatollah Khamenei reveals inner workings of tyrannical theocracy

5 min read

March 9, 2026 16:03

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

Trump and Netanyahu will make ‘mutual decision’ on when to end Iran War

‘We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel,’ said the US president

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 9, 2026 14:26

US President Trump holds a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

By Roger Macmillan

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

Britain’s response to January’s repression has been limited to condemnations and incremental sanctions – measures which risk looking inadequate in the face of such an extraordinary rupture

3 min read

March 9, 2026 13:20

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

Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of Iran?

The second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the backing of the IRGC and a reputation for brutal suppression of dissent

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 9, 2026 11:32

Mojtaba Khamenei (C), the son of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, participates in the annual Quds Day rally in Tehran, on May 31, 2019 (Getty Images)

One dead after Iranian ‘cluster bombs’ hit central Israel

Several others are in serious condition in hospital as the Islamic Republic ramped up attacks in the region

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 9, 2026 11:05

Mojtaba Khamenei confirmed as new supreme leader of Iran

The 56-year-old, the second son of the last supreme leader, is closely linked with the IRGC and, ideologically, has been described as ‘like his father – but on steroids’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

March 8, 2026 22:54

Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, pictured in 2020 (Getty Images)

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Iran

Foreign Secretary holds call with Israeli counterpart

Why the Islamic Republic may survive this campaign

US destroys Iranian ‘minelayers’ in Strait of Hormuz amid oil price surge

Around half of Iranian missiles fired at Israel were cluster munitions, IDF finds

Police ban London pro-Iran march over ‘extreme tensions’

New powers for charity watchdog to crack down on extremism

Pro-regime accounts spread false claim Ben-Gvir was killed in Iranian airstrike

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