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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    Thousands of Iranians fall victim to cut-price Apple iPhone scam

    Angry customers picket Tehran police station over multi-million-dollar fraud endorsed by high-profile figures

    A woman looks at an iPhone in a store in Tehran
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    ‘Tsunami of cosmetic surgery’ changes face of Iran

    Senior doctors fear the impact on identity as well as health as an increasing number go under the knife

    Staff operating on a patient at a plastic surgery clinic in Tehran, Iran
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran recalled senior commanders from Syria days before US strikes

    Revolutionary Guard officers withdrawn to avoid further casualties and avert direct conflict with Washington

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inspects military equipment at a Revolutionary Guards naval site in Bandar Abbas, Iran
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    US presence in Iraq threatened by American air strikes, Baghdad warns

    Rising tensions over US action against Iran-linked militants in Iraq highlights Washington’s waning influence

    A screengrab from social media shows a car ablaze
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    UK banks
    Iran used Lloyds and Santander accounts to evade sanctions

    Tehran-backed Petrochemical Commercial Company operated from office near Buckingham Palace

    Lloyds and Santander logos alongside an Iranian flag and US dollar bills
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Middle East
    Six Syrians killed in attack on US base following weekend strikes

    Umbrella group blamed for deaths of US troops claims responsibility for drone assault

    An armoured SUV passes in front of several soldiers
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    US says strikes against Iran-backed militias are ‘beginning, not the end’

    Jake Sullivan vows further action after Washington’s back-to-back waves of assaults on groups in Yemen, Iraq and Syria

  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    The waning influence of Iran’s leading moderate Hassan Rouhani

    The pro-reformist’s absence from the running for the Assembly of Experts highlights the hardliners’ grip on power

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran and Iraq warn US air strikes risk stoking instability

    American bombers hit 85 targets in retaliation for an attack that killed three soldiers

  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US launches air strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria

    Tehran warns that Washington is engaging in ‘another adventurous and strategic error’

    Joe Biden
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    US charges nine over Iranian oil smuggling

    Authorities also seize $108mn and 500,000 barrels of fuel as they go after a critical source of revenue for Tehran

    Oil drums at a port near Lavan island, Iran
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    John Sawers
    Biden’s dilemma over Iran’s skilled game of chicken

    Tehran is gradually turning the Hamas crisis to its advantage but concerns about domestic stability remain high

    Iranian protesters carry a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a Yemeni flag as they tear an Israeli flag during an anti-US and anti-British protest in Tehran
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Iranian military adviser killed in suspected Israeli air strike in Syria

    Second attack on Revolutionary Guards in as many weeks comes as US prepares strikes on Tehran’s regional proxies

    Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi visits a Revolutionary Guards naval base in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Friday
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Iran-backed Iraqi militia says it has suspended attacks on US forces

    Statement by Kataib Hizbollah comes as Washington is expected to respond to drone assault that killed three soldiers

    Members of an Iraqi militant group attend the Baghdad funeral of a fighter with the Kataib Hizbollah
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Can Biden respond to Iran-backed attack without escalating the war?

    Deaths of three American service members have highlighted the struggles of US policy in the Middle East

    Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Iran calls in UK ambassador over ‘murder for hire’ sanctions

    Western officials warn Tehran is outsourcing assassinations to foreign gangsters and Hells Angels

    Anti-British and anti-US demonstration outside the UK embassy in Tehran
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    The ‘tinderbox’ Middle Eastern borderlands where US troops are under attack

    Both once fought Isis, but Iran-backed militias have increased their attacks on US forces

    A US soldier secures an area while patrolling the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Middle East ‘incredibly volatile’ after deadly attack, Blinken warns

    Washington weighs response while Iran tries to distance itself from assault in Jordan that killed three US service members

    The Tower 22 military base in north-east Jordan
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    US ‘not looking for a war with Iran’ after deadly attack, White House says

    Tehran distances itself from strike as Republican pressure builds on Joe Biden to respond

    The Tower 22 military base in north-east Jordan where three US soldiers were killed in a drone strike
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The ‘Axis of Resistance’ pushing US to ramp up Middle East defences

    Iran-backed network triggers fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread within region

    Montage of an armed man loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels against a background showing a map of countries involved in the ‘Axis of Resistance’
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Biden says Iran-backed militants killed 3 US troops in drone attack

    President vows to hold culprits responsible for deadly incident in Jordan near Syria border

    US President Joe Biden
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Iran’s leading moderate banned from body that picks supreme leader

    Former president Hassan Rouhani’s disqualification from Assembly of Experts is a significant blow to centrist forces

    Hassan Rouhani
  • Saturday, 20 January, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Iran blames Israel for Damascus strike that killed five Revolutionary Guards

    Tehran warns that it has the right to retaliate against ‘the Zionist regime’s organised terrorism’

    The building struck in Damascus is in a residential area popular with foreign embassies
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    The Big Read
    What does Iran want?

    The Islamic republic’s direct strikes in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan in recent days suggest not a change of strategy but a change of tactics

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Pakistan
    Pakistan carries out strikes on suspected militant bases in Iran

    Retaliatory attack threatens to escalate tensions between neighbours

    A police officer outside the foreign affairs ministry in Islamabad
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