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Why the oil and gas price shock from the Iran war won’t just fade away

Why the oil and gas price shock from the Iran war won’t just fade away

The US-Israeli war on Iran will have a profound impact on the global energy markets. It has already sent the price of the benchmark Brent crude oil...

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Nikolay Kozhanov

Trump can declare victory in Iran – and he should

Trump can declare victory in Iran – and he should

Since Donald Trump entered the political fray, critics have opined that if he ever faced a direct confrontation with Iran as United States president,...

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Adolfo Franco

Israel’s displacement of civilians in Lebanon is a possible war crime

Israel’s displacement of civilians in Lebanon is a possible war crime

Israel’s attacks in Lebanon — and the threat of more to come — have caused more than a million people to flee their homes. This is nearly...

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Nadia hardman

Canada’s Supreme Court must strike down Quebec’s Bill 21

Canada’s Supreme Court must strike down Quebec’s Bill 21

On Monday, the Supreme Court of Canada will begin a four-day hearing for one of the most consequential constitutional cases in the country’s recent...

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Stephen brown

Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrine

Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrine

For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exists but few are willing to discuss...

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Ahmed Najar

Arab states should beware of Israel’s hegemonic energy expansion

Arab states should beware of Israel’s hegemonic energy expansion

At the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, reports emerged that Jordan and Egypt have cut off gas supplies to Syria. These reports appeared as minor...

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Hisham bustani

Iran’s dilemma in war and peace

Iran’s dilemma in war and peace

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, upon coming to power in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, adopted a distinctly Shia-sectarian constitution. With...

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Najeeb ghanem

The US–Israel war with Iran will not end with a clear victor

The US–Israel war with Iran will not end with a clear victor

As the United States–Israel war against Iran enters its third week and continues to spill across the region, the question is no longer who will win...

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Sultan Barakat

China’s silence on Iran reveals its true priorities

February 28, 2026, will be remembered as the day the law of the jungle returned. On that fateful day, the United States and Israel, in flagrant...

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Yang Xiaotong

Eid under siege: Little to celebrate in Gaza as Israel tightens chokehold

Eid under siege: Little to celebrate in Gaza as Israel tightens chokehold

While the world’s attention is fixed on the Iran war, Israel has quietly tightened its chokehold on Gaza, further restricting the flow of goods and...

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Amal Abu Seif

Iran does not need to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt it

Iran does not need to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt it

The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question....

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Rashid al-mohanadi

Iran today, Africa tomorrow

Iran today, Africa tomorrow

Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise. In Tehran on March 7,...

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Tafi Mhaka

The oil logic behind Trump’s war on Iran

The oil logic behind Trump’s war on Iran

The United States and Israel say their escalating military assault on Iran is about nuclear proliferation, deterrence and regional security. But...

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Ilan Kapoor

The Kent warning: When truth escapes the war machine

The Kent warning: When truth escapes the war machine

Every war produces dissent. Most people keep it to themselves. Some leave quietly. Very few say plainly what they think. Joe Kent did. The director of...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy

The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy

The United States–Israeli war on Iran is as much a collision of competing religious ideologies as it is a clash of strategic interests. To...

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Riaz Khokhar

Why the Iranian regime did not collapse after Khamenei’s assassination

Why the Iranian regime did not collapse after Khamenei’s assassination

It is not true that the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei necessarily means the immediate collapse of the regime. This is a hasty...

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Abdullah fahad al-nafisi

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war...

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Muhanad Seloom

What do the first two weeks of the war on Iran portend for the future?

What do the first two weeks of the war on Iran portend for the future?

The first two weeks of the Israeli-American assault on Iran have generated enormous amounts of news, propaganda and speculation. Politicians and...

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Rami G Khouri

No, MAGA is not divided on the Iran war

No, MAGA is not divided on the Iran war

Sometimes, journalists indulge in myths and delusions they claim to decry. This grating inclination has been on almost giddy display in the still...

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Andrew Mitrovica

Minab: When the world’s most precise missile chose a classroom

Minab: When the world’s most precise missile chose a classroom

Deleted: It is often said that the worst evils are committed not by monsters or sadists, but by people who are terrifyingly ordinary. United States...

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Ali bahreini

The Iranian moment: A leap into the unknown

The Iranian moment: A leap into the unknown

Since the 1920s, Iran has lived through two defining political moments that have reflected two distinct civilisational identities. They have shaped...

14.03.2026 40

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Hunger is looming over Yemen, urgent action is needed

Hunger is looming over Yemen, urgent action is needed

While international attention is focused on the conflict in Iran and its regional spillover, a devastating crisis in Yemen is drawing almost no...

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Samiha awad bataher

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

Late in February, Zimbabwe pulled out of a proposed $367m United States health funding agreement after objecting to provisions requiring broad...

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Tafi Mhaka

The ‘bad leader’ trap

The ‘bad leader’ trap

Today we are once again caught in what I would like to call the “bad leader trap”, a recurring pattern in international politics in which the...

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Somdeep Sen

Destroy, displace, dismantle: Israel’s Gaza doctrine comes to Lebanon

Destroy, displace, dismantle: Israel’s Gaza doctrine comes to Lebanon

Israel has killed almost 600 people in Lebanon and displaced more than 750,000 in less than two weeks. This is the opening act of Israel’s Gaza...

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Jonathan Whittall

The war of signals: How Russia and China help Iran see the battlefield

The war of signals: How Russia and China help Iran see the battlefield

When three senior American officials told The Washington Post that Russia was providing Iran with sensitive intelligence, including the precise...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepen

Sudan’s civil war will soon enter its fourth year, with no end in sight. The conflict has drawn in other regional actors, who support and sustain...

11.03.2026 50

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Shewit woldemichael

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was built to fail

The resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has surprised few who have been watching closely. The question was never whether conflict...

11.03.2026 60

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Andrea tenenti

Iran’s strategic patience tactic failed, what comes next could be far worse

For years, Iran’s leaders believed time was on their side. After the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint...

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Sina Toossi

Duterte’s drug war faces judgement at the ICC

As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines. Proceedings at the...

10.03.2026 40

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Elaine Pearson

Geopolitical analysis of the imposed war against Iran

In the second week of the war against Iran, it has gone beyond a local conflict, with ramifications reaching the global level. This conflict,...

10.03.2026 70

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Mohammad reza bahrami

It is time for the world to move on without the United States

On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran. The US-Israeli attacks came without prior warning or approval by the United...

09.03.2026 40

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C justin robinson

Carney confirms: When Washington whistles, Ottawa salutes

True leadership is measured by action, not words. Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck the tone of a thoughtful statesman at the...

09.03.2026 60

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Andrew Mitrovica

We, the American people, have had enough of endless wars

The United States has once again been dragged into a catastrophic war in the Middle East. The US military is now attacking Iran not because our nation...

08.03.2026 60

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Hussam ayloush

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s...

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Huda Skaik 

Iran’s strikes on the Gulf: Burning the bridges of good neighbourliness

When the United States and Israel launched their coordinated assault on Iran in the early hours of February 28, 2026, an operation Washington has...

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Sultan Al-Khulaifi

Wake up before it’s too late: Oppose the unjust, cruel war on Iran

Today is the eighth day of the American-Israeli axis of aggression against Iran. In a flagrant violation of Iran’s territorial integrity and...

08.03.2026 60

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Esmaeil baghaei

Iran’s legal case for striking the Gulf collapses under scrutiny

The Gulf states have spent years trying to broker peace between Iran and the West: Qatar brokered nuclear talks, Oman provided back-channel diplomacy,...

08.03.2026 60

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Hesham alghannam

Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Conceived in the long shadow of global devastation, the post–World War II order was constructed -imperfect yet purposeful – to shield humanity...

08.03.2026 50

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Fatou bensouda

The end of Iran’s strategic patience

Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its...

06.03.2026 70

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Jonathan Whittall

A weak Iran would backfire on the United States

Supporters of the United States and Israeli military campaign against Iran argue that weakening Tehran by degrading its missile capabilities,...

06.03.2026 70

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Alexander clackson

How Iran fights an imposed war

In Iranian political discourse, major conflicts are often described as “imposed wars” – wars that Iran believes have been forced upon it by...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Hezbollah’s risky return to the battlefield

The ongoing United States-Israel attack on Iran, triggered by the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader last Saturday, has rekindled military and...

06.03.2026 60

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Rami G Khouri

Israel puts a target on the back of the rules-based order

In a post from its official X account yesterday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs directed a message towards The Hague Group, a growing...

06.03.2026 60

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Jonathan Whittall

Will the Houthis join Iran’s war?

The United States-Israeli military strike against Iran on February 28, 2026, was not merely another episode in the region’s long cycle of tensions....

06.03.2026 60

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Ahmed Al-Shalafi

The dark side of Holi

His name was Hiranyakashipu, and he claimed to be equal to Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe. Tragically for him, his own son, Prince...

04.03.2026 70

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Vidya krishnan

The Iran strikes could become a midterm reckoning – for Trump and Israel

It is clear that the latest United States-Israel-Iran war stands to fundamentally reshape the politics of the Middle East. Less obvious is its...

04.03.2026 80

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Mohamad Elmasry

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei have caused a measure of discomfort in Moscow. Some...

03.03.2026 90

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Leonid Ragozin

US and Israeli interests may soon diverge on Iran

As the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on for another devastating day, pundits and politicians are eager to spin the uncertainty into clear narratives...

02.03.2026 80

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Ori Goldberg

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why

A favourite tactic of war is to try to decapitate the enemy leadership. While such strategies might work in certain contexts, in the Middle East, they...

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Daoud Kuttab