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Iranian missile damages US embassy branch in Tel Aviv

It is not clear whether the building was targeted as Iran continues to indiscriminately strike civilian areas in Israel

By JC Reporter

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The US embassy branch in Tel Aviv has been damaged in an Iranian missile strike (Image: Flash90)

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office on April 7, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump and Netanyahu played Iran by engaging in a good-cop, bad-cop strategy

3 min read

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempts to deport Mahmoud Khalil (Image: Getty)

US Politics

Court blocks deportation of Columbia Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil

By Vita Fellig

1 min read

President Trump has confirmed that the US will withdraw some of its personnel from Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain amid the threat of an Israeli strike on Iran (Image: Getty)

Iran

Israel weighs Iran strike as US reduces Middle East presence

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israel has reportedly agreed not to strike Iranian nuclear sites unless Tehran's talks with the US fall through (Image: Getty)

Iran nuclear program

Israel ‘agrees not to strike Iran’ unless US nuclear talks break down

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

International Criminal Court

US sanctions ICC judges over ‘politicised’ Israel investigation

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

President Trump has pledged a total ban on Iranian nuclear enrichment as a proposed agreement remains under consideration (Image: Getty)

Iran nuclear program

Trump pledges full uranium enrichment ban in Iran nuclear deal

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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By The JC Leader

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

Such an agreement would risk trading fleeting calm for long-term peril

3 min read

June 1, 2025 12:17

Iranian protesters hold placards outside the Omani embassy hosting a fifth round of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, in Rome on May 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump warns Israel off Iran strike amid possible progress in nuclear talks

Reports suggest that Tehran may be willing to suspend its uranium enrichment in return for a pair of significant concessions from Washington

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

May 29, 2025 11:02

Donald Trump has confirmed he warned Israel against striking Iranian nuclear sites as negotiations with Tehran continue (Image: Getty)

Israel’s antisemitism envoy warns Jews being used as a ‘political tool’ in Trump policies

Michal Cotler-Wunsh called for equal legal treatment for Jews as a minority and for Israel as a nation-state amid rising antisemitism and anti-Zionism

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

May 23, 2025 14:00

People protest the arrest of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student who participated in campus protests (Photo: Getty Images)

Trump administration blocks Harvard from enroling international students amid antisemitism probe

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said the decision was linked to the college’s ‘failure to comply’ with the administration’s demands

By Andrew Bernard

1 min read

May 23, 2025 09:12

The Trump administration has banned Harvard from enroling new international students and suspended its visa programme (Pictured: US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem; Image: Getty)

Netanyahu sets Trump Gaza plan as condition for ending the war

The Israeli PM called the proposal, which would see Gaza’s population relocated to third countries, ‘correct and revolutionary’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 22, 2025 14:30

Benjamin Netanyahu has seemingly set the implementation of President Trump's plan for Gaza's future as a pre-condition for ending the war in the Strip (Image: Getty)

Trump wants Netanyahu to ‘wrap up’ Gaza war but will not ‘abandon Israel’

The US President is reported to be growing increasingly impatient with the lack of a peace deal and, in particular, with Jerusalem’s expansionist approach

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 21, 2025 09:36