Iran

What’s common between Israel and Pakistan’s nuclear programmes?

Ullekh NP

Israel and Pakistan both stole crucial centrifuge blueprints from European consortium Urenco, and both helped other countries develop nuclear bombs through illegal sales of design and technology, thus aiding proliferation

US Gearing Up To Join Israel Against Iran

Open

Donald Trump drops hints on social media

Assassination or War? A Secret Backstory of the Israel-Iran Conflict

Sudeep Paul

Benjamin Netanyahu and Meir Dagan, former Mossad chief, had fought about the right M.O. against Tehran. Israel has settled that debate now. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is at its strategic weakest since the Iran-Iraq War

A Nation Between War and Memory

Swapan Dasgupta

Five hundred days after the October 7 attack, Israeli hostages are coming home as part of a fragile peace deal. Swapan Dasgupta travels across an Israel where hope is tempered with existential anxiety. A dispatch

Chinese Medicine

Sudeep Paul

A Tale of Two Pardons | Tracking Tehran

Trump and the New Middle East

Sudeep Paul

The 47th president’s West Asian friends and enemies have set him new challenges

The Long Road to Reform

Deepika Saraswat

Masoud Pezeshkian’s victory is a message for Iran’s Ayatollahs

The Silence of the Sheikhs

Minhaz Merchant

The fear of the Arab Street and Washington

Axis

S Prasannarajan

Iran’s proxy wars cannot conceal the last gasps of a revolution

A Dangerous New World

Jason Burke

The consequences of Hamas’ attack will spiral out, bringing disruptive changes to the long-running conflict in Israel-Palestine, to the Middle East and as far afield as South Asia