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Published on 07:28 GMT

Trump was ‘shocked’ that Iran fought back. He shouldn’t have been.

Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Future historians may tell the story of the Iran war through a quote from President Trump that perfectly encapsulates it. “We were shocked,” …

Source: The Boston Globe - Massachusetts - Center-left
Published on 07:50 GMT

Pahlavi: Iran regime continues to erode from within as defections grow

Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said Saturday that members of the Islamic Republic’s military and civilian establishment were already quietly breaking with the regime, describing Iran as having entered an “active defection” phase in the struggle to …

Source: The Jerusalem Post - Center-right
Published on 15:29 GMT

Trump reveals Iran options as prez says decision is coming soon: ‘When do I blow the entire nation up?’

President Trump said that on Iran, he is deciding between “blowing them up entirely” and letting the regime “rot economically” if they don’t agree to a peace deal. In a call with Fox News on Sunday, Trump laid out three possible paths for Iran: they make …

Source: New York Post - Right-wing
Published on 13:51 GMT

Iran win Asian Games basketball bronze amid emotional scenes

Players celebrate podium finish that brings exemption from conscription, saying the pressure was ‘out of this world’. Published On 20 Sep 202620 Sep 2026 Iran withstood a late fightback to beat China 79-70 and win the Asian Games men’s basketball bronze …

Source: Al Jazeera - Pro-Government
Published on 11:10 GMT

Iran claims US preparing to resume attacks, threatens bases, supporting regional countries

Iran received information that the United States, with the backing of some regional countries, was preparing to resume actions against Iran, the country's central military command said in a statement on Sunday, according to state media.The military …

Source: The Jerusalem Post - Center-right
Published on 09:25 GMT

Next month’s budget made harder by Trump’s war with Iran, says Bridget Phillipson

Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue. …

Source: The Guardian - Center-left
Published on 10:06 GMT

UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget

Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue. …

Source: The Guardian - Center-left
Published on 13:51 GMT

Postponing the future: War and inflation redraw marriage terms in Iran

Subhan Dashti had already picked a date for his wedding. He and his fiancee, Nadia Sabzi, together since 2016, had settled on Nowruz 1405, the Iranian New Year, which falls on March 20 to 21. They had already started buying items for their future home, but …

Source: Al Jazeera - Pro-Government
Published on 07:54 GMT

Pizza dough and prison TV dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran

It is a TV show about women confined to prison in the US, but Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe found watching Orange is the New Black with her fellow inmates a strange comfort after smuggling episodes into her Iranian jail cell, downloaded on to an illegal USB …

Source: The Guardian - Center-left
Published on 11:04 GMT

Yom Kippur Eve: 150,000 gather at Western Wall as Iran sends message to the world

Source: The Jerusalem Post - Center-right