Trump has opened a Pandora’s box 

The US president hopes that his display of power in Iran will stop the war — but that is not his decision to make

Edward Luce

Netanyahu is good at starting wars, but it’s ending them that matters

The Israeli prime minister has consistently misread the region since the 1980s, dooming it to endless cycles of violence

Kim Ghattas

The implosion of Iran’s ‘no war, no peace’ strategy

Hubris and miscalculation blew apart Tehran’s decades-old deterrence doctrine as Israel’s appetite for risk grew

Andrew England and Mehul Srivastava

The war that will remake Iran’s Islamic republic

Even without toppling the regime, Israel and the US’s assault is set to bring sweeping change rivalling the 1979 revolution

Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Andrew England

Trump’s fragile peace in the Middle East

Israel and Iran remain bitter enemies so this is more likely to be a pause in the fighting than a lasting peace

Gideon Rachman

Was Iran really developing nuclear weapons?

Experts question Israel’s claim Tehran had begun an atomic bomb programme but warn it has become a ‘threshold’ state

Andrew England

Fuel and fury: energy becomes a Middle East battlefield

Israel’s assault on Iran thrusts oil and gas assets into frontline of conflict

Malcolm Moore, Andrew England, John Paul Rathbone and James Shotter

Israel is achieving its goals in Iran — so far

If the Islamic regime does fall at some point, the alternative will not be a liberal pro-western government

John Sawers

Why is the oil price not surging?

With the exception of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, big swings in oil have been driven by broader geoeconomic trends 

Aiden Reiter and Robert Armstrong

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