Operation Roaring Lion

Trump vs Islamic Republic: Who controls the escalation ladder?

Given the yawning gap between US and Iranian positions, it is difficult to see how talks could bear fruit. Breaking Iran’s de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz will therefore likely require US action

By Jonathan Spyer

3 min read

US President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Trump claims Iran agreed to give up nuclear enrichment in ‘productive’ talks

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

A view of a damaged house following an impact reportedly caused either by a missile or by interceptor fragments in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2026. On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran killing its supreme leader and triggering a war that spread across the Middle East and unleashed chaos across global markets and sent oil prices soaring. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP via Getty Images)

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Fifteen wounded in Tel Aviv by Iranian missile debris

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Destroyed buildings stand after an Iranian missile strike on March 22, 2026 in Arad, Israel. Iran has continued firing waves of drones and missiles at Israel after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran early on February 28th. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

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Israeli man killed in Hezbollah strike

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Smoke rises from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By Gary Cohen

The convenient fiction that hides Iran’s hand and pins chaos on Israel

6 min read

Prime Minister Netanyahu gives a press conference on March 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Iran can no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims Netanyahu

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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New tools to help Israelis deal with the stress of war

Digital technology is part of a range of fast-evolving treatments provided by mental healthcare experts

By Melanie Swan

3 min read

March 19, 2026 18:34

Israeli civilians take refuge in a Tel Aviv car park (DIMA VAZINOVICH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty)

Arab states request emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on Iran’s ‘military aggression’

Qatar has already expelled some Iranian embassy staff after a strike on its largest gas production facility

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

March 19, 2026 14:33

A representative of Qatar delivers a speech on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva on March 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

Three Palestinian women killed in Iranian West Bank strike

Cluster munitions hit the territory as the Islamic Republic took aim at Jerusalem

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 19, 2026 11:39

A Palestinian civil defence worker inspects the site where shrapnel from projectiles fell in Beit Awa near the West Bank city of Hebron on March 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

Qatar declares Iranian embassy staff ‘persona non grate’ after gas facility strike

The Islamic Republic’s military and security attachés in Doha have been given 24 hours to leave the country

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 19, 2026 10:59

Qatar Energy's operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City, pictured on March 3, 2026 (Getty Images)

Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

The president said there would be ‘no more attacks’ on the South Pars site unless Iran launched further aggression towards Qatar

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

March 19, 2026 10:23

US President Trump speaks to members of the media traveling on Air Force One en route to Miami on March 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

Joe Kent quits blaming Israel – his far-right links tell the real story

Now that he has turned himself into a poster boy for opponents of the Iran war, the media conveniently ignore the past of the former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center

3 min read

March 18, 2026 16:22

Joseph Ken testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee (Image: Getty)

Trump labels BBC coverage of Iran War ‘corrupt and fraudulent’

The president, who is suing the corporation over a separate complaint about its coverage of the 2020 election, called the tone of its reporting on the conflict ‘unbelievable’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 18, 2026 11:43

US President Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One on March 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

Elderly couple killed in cluster bomb strike on Ramat Gan

The strike was launched as revenge for Israel’s assassination of Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 18, 2026 10:53

Israeli security and rescue forces inspect the damage at the scene of a missile strike in Ramat Gan, central Israel on March 18, 2026 (Flash90)

By 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

4 min read

March 17, 2026 17:23

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)

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Operation Roaring Lion

Trump vs Islamic Republic: Who controls the escalation ladder?

Trump claims Iran agreed to give up nuclear enrichment in ‘productive’ talks

Fifteen wounded in Tel Aviv by Iranian missile debris

Israeli man killed in Hezbollah strike

Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb

The convenient fiction that hides Iran’s hand and pins chaos on Israel

Iran can no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims Netanyahu

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