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Tehran’s presence in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea is selective and opportunistic.
The government has deployed six “crisis response” teams to the Middle East to help deal with the overload caused by the huge number of Australians stranded.
Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran have triggered a widening regional conflict, drawing in Tehran’s allies and several Arab states while testing missile defences across the Middle East.
Yes, these exclusions are in the fine print of most policies. But with thousands now facing bills for cancelled plans – is this fair? And what can you do about it?
Regime change has long proved tempting to large states. But it rarely goes to plan.
Qatar, the UAE and other Gulf nations have spent years cultivating an image of being an oasis of stability in the Mideast. The current war risks undoing all that work.
Conflict between the two nations – often via proxies like Israel – has taken many forms since the 1980s.
Khamenei was a deeply polarizing figure in Iran – perceived by some as a martyr and others as an oppressor.
It is possible that Tehran has assumed British complicity in the launching of Operation Epic Fury.
By using its drone and missile arsenal on its neighbours, Iran is telling the region, and the world, the regime will not go quietly.
Silence from the US side after a third round of indirect talks and frustration expressed by President Donald Trump set the stage for military strikes.
President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolutionary Guards, a former US diplomat says.
The latest attack on Iran goes far beyond previous operations by Israel and the US in both scale and scope. Tehran will likely lean on unconventional warfare as well as its missile stockpile.
The US military buildup in the Middle East is now sufficient for Trump to order military action against Iran at any moment.
The US administration may sense that Iran is weak and ready to do a deal. But negotiations could be undone by intransigent red lines.
After a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Donald Trump said he wanted talks with Iran to continue.
The destruction of war graves in Gaza has rightly received global attention. But this isn’t the first time Commonwealth war dead have been dragged into conflicts.
Diplomacy remains the most preferable option both for Iran and the US as tensions between the two countries rise.
Various proposals have attempted to envision Gaza’s future, but most are detached from reality and sideline Palestinian voices.
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