Iran could easily end up mired in civil war like Syria, Afghanistan or Libya, a prospect the US and Israel have ignored, a former UK ambassador to Iran has warned.  Sir Richard Dalton, Britain’s top official in Tehran from 2003 to 2006, said the break up of Iran could see regime supporters t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US-Israeli war on Iran rages on. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed . Iran has been hammering US military bases in the region with missiles and drones, and oil prices are already beginning to rise ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US and Israel have launched their long-planned attack on Iran. President Trump said in a speech that the US military is engaged in “major combat operations” intended to cripple Iran’s military and topple t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now White House officials reportedly want Israel to provoke Iran into attacking US military bases in the region, because it will make Americans more willing to go to war. Politico reports : “Senior advisers to P...

A British businessman who funded Keir Starmer and several senior Labour ministers was awarded the Israeli medal of honour for his “dedication” to and “love” for Israel, it can be revealed. The information was obtained via a Freedom of Information request issued to the Israeli president’s off...

Anti-war campaigners have accused the British government of “playing down” its support for an illegal US attack on Iran as American warplanes continue to transit through UK military bases this week on the way to the Middle East. The opaque decision-making, they say, has left much of the Br...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now No bro this US war in the middle east will be completely different, bro. See, this time the regime we’re trying to get rid of is REALLY BAD! No no, this is nothing like all those other times. This time military...

Declassified has won a seven-month battle to report from Parliament, after officials were accused of a “partisan attempt to suppress investigative journalism”. Westminster authorities initially rejected our application for a press pass in June, claiming there wasn’t enough space. But ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Anyone silly enough to believe the US wants to bring democracy to Iran should have a look at what the US is currently doing to sabotage democracy in Iraq. President Trump has been aggressively threatening to ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now They’re not even trying anymore. US middle east envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb — a line that Iran ...

The UK is still trying to help Ukraine join Nato as the war enters its fifth year on Tuesday. A British aid project, worth up to £38m, is meant to help Ukraine “make progress on conditions for membership of the EU and Nato” while “attracting international investors” and creating “an improved...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Whenever you say anything online opposing the way the US is preparing for war with Iran or strangling Cuba to death with siege warfare, you’ll always get people whose family comes from the nation in question tel...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There’s a viral tweet going around that says it’s “hard to find the balance between educating yourself on current events and not making yourself so indescribably sad that you can’t properly function.” It’...

The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn.

In Munich, the US announced its intent to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog, even if that means destroying everything, and all of us, in the process.

US president Donald Trump has signalled that British military bases may be crucial to an attack on Iran, without offering a legal justification for bombing that country. Trump posted on Wednesday: “Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal reports that the US has been gathering the most air power seen in the middle east since the Iraq invasion in 2003. CNN says the US military is prepared to strike Iran as early as thi...

It’s a rainy Wednesday evening in Mayfair and we’re waiting outside the BAFTA building where a historic event is about to take place. Inside, American tech firm Palantir is holding a drinks reception for British politicians and military officials to celebrate a new £240 million contract with...

Israel sought secret advice on the legal implications of UK nationals serving in its army, it can be revealed. The information comes in leaked Israeli ministry of justice documents which were published by file-sharing website Distributed Denial of Secrets ( DDoS ). The documents highlig...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now One under-discussed ticking time bomb is the way Israel keeps saying it’s going to resume incinerating Gaza if Hamas doesn’t disarm while Hamas keeps saying it won’t disarm. Netanyahu’s office is saying that H...