Middle east

Here we go again. Switch out Saddam Hussein for the Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmed Chalabi for Reza Pahlavi and you have a fresh war for regime change in the Middle East, this time with Israel as America’s sidekick. With Operation Epic Fury, the American and Israeli bombing of Iran and push for regime change, the self-proclaimed “President of Peace” runs the risk not only of triggering wider upheaval in the Middle East, but also globally. Is this a new Sarajevo moment? With Trump’s own generals having warned him that attacking Iran could be a debacle, he may have torched his own presidency Unlike George W. Bush in 2003, who worked

Donald Trump spent much of the second half of last year boasting about the total and utter success of his military strikes on Iran. “As you know,” he said in August, “we took out the nuclear capability of Iran, and to use the term that people try to dispute without any knowledge, it was obliterated.” Iran’s nuclear program, he assured the world, had been set back by “decades.” Yet yesterday, just six months on, there he was again – meeting Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu once more to discuss the urgent need to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. In the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer – that quick and spectacular bombing mission

Of course Trump is taking credit for his son-in-law’s work

For Netanyahu and his chums, Trump’s pressure could not be more unwelcome

The President tried his best to sell his 20-point plan

By and large, the West has grudgingly accommodated Iran’s petulant malevolence

Tehran is trying to run out the clock

Ayatollah Khamenei suspects that the US and Israel are not seeing eye to eye

As Trump continues his pharaonic world diplomacy, the corruption stories are piling up against him

All other attempts to stop the Houthis haven’t worked. Why should Trump’s be any different?