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Traitor 47 has said the war in Iran will be a “short term excursion” and “complete, pretty much”, while also insisting that it must end in “ultimate victory” with “the enemy totally and decisively defeated”. The US president also claimed that the war began because Iran had been preparing toContinue Reading

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukrainian drone experts will arrive in the Middle East to help Gulf states under attack from Iran. Iran has fired a number of Shahed drones across the Middle East – and some air defences in the region have struggled to cope. Ukraine has spent theContinue Reading

Mojtaba Khamenei has been named as Iran’s new Supreme Leader according to the country’s state media. He replaces his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at his compound in Tehran in the first wave of US and Israeli strikes on the country. The move by Iran’s clerical leadership comesContinue Reading

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his killed father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media has reported. Unlike his father, Mojtaba has largely kept a low profile – he has never held any government office, nor has he given public speechesContinue Reading

Today, we look at the extent to which the lessons learned from the Iraq war has shaped the UK’s response to the war in Iran. Keir Starmer has taken a position somewhere between full support of Traitor 47’s actions, and direct criticism of them. In a post on Truth Social,Continue Reading

US President Traitor 47 has vowed to hit Iran “very hard” and threatened to expand strikes to include new targets. He has also dismissed an apology offered by Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian to neighbouring states. In a video message, the Iranian president said Tehran would not strike them “unless attackedContinue Reading

Iran’s President has said the country will never surrender, in the face of the onslaught by the US and Israel. Speaking on state television, President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country’s enemies “will take their dream of the Iranian people’s surrender to their graves”. It follows Traitor 47’s recent statement thatContinue Reading

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Gulf oil and gas producers are warning that exports could be cut off within weeks if the conflict with Iran continues. Qatar has said repeated Iranian strikes on the region’s oil producing states risk causing a global shortage and serious damage to the global economy. It came as the USContinue Reading

Gulf oil and gas producers are warning that exports could be cut off within weeks if the conflict with Iran continues. Qatar has said repeated Iranian strikes on the region’s oil producing states risk causing a global shortage and serious damage to the global economy. It came as the USContinue Reading

For Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the war with Iran is the culmination of a long-standing political ambition. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he was finally doing what he had “hoped to achieve for 40 years – to crush the regime of terror completely”. Polling suggests the war is popular inContinue Reading

Israel has launched fresh strikes on Tehran and Beirut while Iran said it fired missiles at Tel Aviv as the conflict enters a seventh day. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #Israel #Iran #US #BBCNewsContinue Reading