Operation Roaring Lion

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

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)

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

Letters

Letters to the Editor, March 6 2026

By The JC

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Israel

One dead after Iranian ‘cluster bombs’ hit central Israel

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Mojtaba Khamenei confirmed as new supreme leader of Iran

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, March 7, 2026 (Credit: ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Israel strikes Iranian regime’s military fuel facilities

By Joshua Marks

3 min read

Mojtaba Khamenei (centre), new Supreme Leader after death of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Rouzbeh Fouladi / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Israel Iran War

Iran’s next supreme leader owns properties overlooking Israeli embassy in London

By Mark Wood

1 min read

By Gio Esfandiary

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

2 min read

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By Lawrence J. Haas

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

Wiser leaders would stop picking fights with Washington over a war they can’t influence and that ultimately advances their own security

4 min read

March 6, 2026 14:55

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)

The Iran war has been a showcase for new weapons systems – from Lucas drones to Blue Sparrow

It is thought that Israel used the Blue Sparrow to kill the ayatollah

By Mark Wood

1 min read

March 6, 2026 14:18

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Spread the love’: Golders Green Israeli restaurant hosts Purim party for dissidents amid Iran War

Around 200 Iranians and Jews ate, drank, and danced together, sharing their hope that Iran would soon be free of the regime

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

March 6, 2026 12:48

Bracha hosted a Purim party for Iranian dissidents in Golders Green (Courtesy)

‘I have to be involved’ in selection of Iran’s new supreme leader, says Trump

The US president said the current reported candidate would be ‘unacceptable’ and likened the military operation against Iran to Washington’s effective takeover of Venezuela

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 6, 2026 12:07

US President Trump takes questions from the media during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House on March 03, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel eases public restrictions as Iranian strikes slow

US commanders estimate that the number of missiles fired by the Islamic Republic has dropped by 86 per cent since the start of the conflict

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 6, 2026 11:18

Rocket trails from an interception by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system are pictured over Jerusalem on March 1, 2026 (Getty Images)

IDF sets out legal justification for Khamenei strike

Two of Iran’s most senior clerics have issued a fatwa calling on Muslims worldwide to take revenge against ‘bloodthirsty Zionists’ for the supreme leader’s death

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

March 6, 2026 10:31

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a state television broadcast on June 18, 2025 in Tehran, Iran (Getty Images)

Iran appears to be running out of ballistic missiles, say experts

Several Gulf countries, as well as Israel, are reporting a sharp drop in incoming fire

By Mark Wood

2 min read

March 5, 2026 18:01

Intercepted missiles are seen in the night sky above Tel Aviv on March 1, 2026 (Photo by Erik Marmor/Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

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

Despite being so disastrously wrong so many times, he maintains the air of smug superiority that he has had since he first became Labour leader. Now we learn of the latest example of his indifference to tyranny and terror

3 min read

March 5, 2026 15:17