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Israel strikes at Iran, Starmer strikes at logic

The prime minister seems to accept the legitimacy of Israeli force in theory but in practice his tolerance is contingent on party management, elite opinion and perhaps personal squeamishness

By Stephen Daisley

3 min read

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty)

Israeli F-35s and F-15s refueling mid-air with a KC-707 tanker. (Image: IDF)

By Kasra Aarabi

The Syria-isation of Iran: Why the Islamic Republic could soon share the Assad regime’s fate

4 min read

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

Israel

Iranian missile damages US embassy branch in Tel Aviv

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Israel

Caitlyn Jenner ‘leaves Israel via Jordan’ after being stranded by Iran war

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Israel's death toll has risen to 22 as Iranian strikes intensified (Image: Flash90)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 619: Israeli casualties grow following Iran missile strikes

By Nathan Jeffay

2 min read

A fire blazes in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, on June 15, 2025. Israel and Iran exchanged fire on June 14, a day after Israel unleashed an unprecedented aerial bombing campaign that Iran said hit its nuclear facilities, "martyred" top commanders and killed dozens of civilians. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

By Richard Pater

Lessons from history meant Israel had to strike first

4 min read

Iran's Ayatollah Khameini (Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

If you march in support of Iran’s brutal regime, you show us who you are

1 min read

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By Ellie Borhan

Khamenei’s war can’t save him from his own people

The Islamic Republic may hope the conflict with Israel will smother dissent. But Iranians – happy to see regime officials hit –are preparing not for battle abroad but resistance at home

4 min read

June 15, 2025 10:59

Iranian demonstrators taking to the streets of Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini on September 21, 2022, days after she was killed in police custody following her arrest by the country's morality police. (Image: Getty)

Donald Trump: ‘You can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon’

The president warned Iran will face American might ‘at levels never seen before’ if it attacks US

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

June 15, 2025 10:17

US President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for a deal to be struck between Iran and Israel to end the conflict. (Getty Images)

UK deploying more RAF fighter jets to Middle East

‘The constant message is de-escalate,’ the prime minister said

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

June 15, 2025 09:35

Sir Keir Starmer has announced that he is deploying military aircraft – including Typhoons and air-to-air refuelers – to the Middle East defend British interests amid the Israel-Iran conflict. (Getty Images)

Ten killed, hundreds injured as Iranian missiles strike Israel overnight

Searches go on for missing people in the rubble of apartment buildings hit in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv

By Charles Bybelezer

3 min read

June 15, 2025 07:11

BAT YAM, ISRAEL - JUNE 15: Emergency and rescue soldiers search for trapped people around heavily damaged buildings after an overnight missile strike from Iran on June 15, 2025 in Bat Yam Israel. Iran launched a retaliatory missile strike on Israel starting late on June 13, after a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day targeted Iranian military and nuclear sites, as well as top military officials. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Macron’s two-state solution conference to be delayed after Israeli strikes on Iran

The UN-led event was to be co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

June 13, 2025 16:57

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were supposed to co-chair the UN conference in New York. (Getty Images)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

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

Tehran clearly miscalculated. Its biggest blunder, perhaps, was to gamble its proxy assets before it needed them to shield its nuclear programme from Israel

3 min read

June 13, 2025 15:54