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Does Trump want only to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – or will he seek regime defeat this time?

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Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

By Melanie Swan

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Don’t boycott Israel, Trump administration warns as Andy Burnham considers settlement goods embargo

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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US Central Command forces launch strikes against military targets within Iran, July 7-8, 2026. (Image: US Central Command/X)

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Tehran’s military escalation may prove another strategic miscalculation

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US President Trump attends the Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 08, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Trump labels Iran ‘scum’ and declares ceasefire ‘over’ after Gulf strikes

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US intelligence suggested Iran’s missiles could reach London in future, claims prominent Senator

Louisiana Republican John Kennedy suggested that the threat of attacks on Europe was a motivating factor in President Trump’s decision to go to war

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July 2, 2026 11:31

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von (YouTube/TheoVon)

Can biblical Jethro help us to understand Donald Trump?

Moses’s father-in-law may offer a precedent for the American president’s cooling relations with Israel

By Rabbi Gideon Sylvester

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June 30, 2026 13:02

Partners: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in 2025 (photo: Getty Images)

Sky News accused of ‘editorial failure’ after platforming Tucker Carlson anti-Israel conspiracy theory

The commentator claimed that Israel has controlled the US in a ‘master-slave relationship’

By Siam Goorwich

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June 28, 2026 12:35

‘All the Jews are sick of you’: Details of explosive Trump-Netanyahu call revealed

A new book claims that the US president berated his Israeli counterpart amid fraught attempts to agree a ceasefire in Gaza

By Jacob Jaffa

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June 24, 2026 10:56

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Trump (Getty Images)

By Dominic Green

Why the ‘Carlsonese’-speaking JD Vance is trashing Israel to defend the Iran deal

The Vice President set up more straw men than an Idaho potato field and it worked: instead of scrutinising the dismal agreement, supporters of the Jewish state were left rebutting his scapegoating of America’s closest ally

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US Vice President JD Vance at the US-Iran talks in Buergenstock, Switzerland on June 22, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

Iran demands ships apply to use Strait of Hormuz and hints at future tolls

US President Trump had previously insisted that the Strait would be reopened to traffic, saying: ‘Let the oil flow’

By JC Reporter

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June 21, 2026 10:11

Vessels anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz on June 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

US-Iran talks cancelled as Vance postpones Switzerland trip

Tehran also suspended its participation in the negotiations amid continuing conflict in Lebanon

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June 19, 2026 10:43

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on June 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Trump’s Iran deal has led Israel and the US to the very brink of disaster

By committing to withdraw all troops and lift sanctions in return for little more than a promise not to pursue nukes, the US president has emboldened the West’s enemies and set the stage for future confrontations

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June 18, 2026 16:31

US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in France on June 17, 2026. (Image: Getty Images)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump’s Iran deal is like offering Nazi Germany a Marshall Plan in 1944

As a candidate, he accurately dissected the disastrous nuclear deal the Obama administration had negotiated with Tehran. As a president, he has just done infinitely worse

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June 18, 2026 15:34

President Donald J. Trump signs the Iran Memorandum of Understanding at Versailles, France on June 17, 2026 (Image: White House)

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Donald Trump

Does Trump want only to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – or will he seek regime defeat this time?

Trump says Saudi nuclear deal conditional on normalisation with Israel

Vance’s rambling about Israeli conspiracies to tank the Iran deal makes him look a fool

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

Don’t boycott Israel, Trump administration warns as Andy Burnham considers settlement goods embargo

Tehran’s military escalation may prove another strategic miscalculation

Trump labels Iran ‘scum’ and declares ceasefire ‘over’ after Gulf strikes

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