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US and Israel launch strikes across Iran as crowds celebrate new supreme leader

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Von der Leyen calls for EU foreign policy to be ‘more realistic and interest-driven’

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Five members of Iranian women’s football team reportedly seeking to remain in Australia

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Video shows US Tomahawk missile hit base next to bombed Iranian school

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No immediate threat to UK gas supplies, says minister after ‘two days left’ reports

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Monday briefing: How are Iranians abroad grappling with loss and uncertainty from afar?

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Middle East crisis live: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader; oil prices soar past $100 a barrel

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Iran war drives oil price above $100 a barrel for first time since 2022

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Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader

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Israeli settlers and soldiers kill three Palestinians in West Bank village

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Appointing a new leader is the least of Iran’s troubles

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Opportunities, perils and pitfalls: how UK parties have responded to war in Iran

Sun

Iran’s new supreme leader has been selected, says deciding body

Sun

Middle East crisis live: China warns world cannot return to ‘law of the jungle’; Trump says Iran being ‘decimated’

Sun

Offer from Iran’s president to not attack neighbours provokes internal backlash

Sat

Shrinking weapon stockpiles and regime-change uncertainty: doubts shadow US-Israel war on Iran

Sat

Israel strikes eastern Lebanon, killing dozens, after raid to recover IDF pilot’s remains fails

Sat

Trump skirts Congress over Iran war as Republicans simply step aside

Sat

Iran rejects Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender as a ‘dream’

Sat

‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower

Sat

From ‘peace president’ to Operation Epic Fury: Donald Trump’s road to war

Sat

British family stranded in Middle East after Foreign Office errors

Sat

Middle East crisis live: explosions rock Tehran as Iran war enters second week

Sat

US considers lifting more sanctions on Russian oil as Iran conflict sees global prices surge

Sat

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror

Fri

‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut

Fri

Iran war pushes oil price above $90 threatening rise in global inflation

Fri

Activists fear that missing critic of Iran exiled in Canada was killed by Tehran

Fri

US and Israel threaten major escalation as airstrikes bombard Iran and Lebanon

Fri

Iran is not Venezuela, despite Trump’s hopes of repeating ‘regime capture’ strategy

Fri

US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces

Fri

US officials increase security over fear of attack by Iran amid US-Israel bombing

Fri

Next supreme leader must not play into anti-Iran US propaganda, say reformists

Fri

RAF jets could legally strike Iran’s missile bases, says David Lammy - UK politics live

Fri

Iran-backed militias intensify attacks against US, Israel and allies

Fri

Ukraine to help US and its allies counter Iranian drones in Middle East, says Zelenskyy

Fri

US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war

Fri

Three Australians were onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship, PM says

Fri

A beer at sunrise then back on duty – the British pilot who made RAF history shooting down Iranian drones

Thu

Stock market falls resume as US-Israel war with Iran drives up oil and gas prices

Thu

Israel orders more than 500,000 people to evacuate Beirut’s southern suburbs

Thu

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

Thu

‘Best way forward’ for Iran would be negotiated settlement, says Starmer

Thu

Senators demand investigation after ninth American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in West Bank

Thu

Delayed UK rescue flight takes off from Oman with British nationals

Thu

‘This is a needless war’: Americans share their thoughts on the US-Israel attacks on Iran

Thu

HSBC and Coventry raise rates on fixed mortgages amid Middle East crisis

Thu

Azerbaijan accuses Iran of drone attack on airport that injured two people

Thu

‘Everyone’s calling’: demand for private jets from UK firm soars by up to 300% amid Iran war

Thu

Iranian ship asks to dock in Sri Lankan port after US sinking of frigate

Thu

Oil price continues to rise amid Middle East crisis but stock markets rebound across Asia

Thu

Spain rejects White House comments that it now backs US-Israel war on Iran – Europe live

Thu

Globalisation is under threat from Iran war – and Britain is uniquely vulnerable

Thu

Iran war live updates: Mark Carney doesn’t rule out Canada joining war; Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran

Thu

Starmer’s slow start in the war against Iran could leave UK playing catch-up

Wed

Energy bills could rise by £160 after Iran conflict pushes gas prices higher

Wed

Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’ and decries war on Iran

Wed

Pete Hegseth says US is ‘investigating’ deadly strike on girls’ school in Iran

Wed

Will Trump’s Middle East war also engulf Friedrich Merz?

Wed

From petrol to groceries: how Middle East crisis is driving up prices

Wed

Hanging on to Trump’s latest words ‘is not the special relationship’, Starmer tells MPs

Wed

Britain not ruling out future strikes on Iran missile sites, officials indicate

Wed

Israel flagged Hezbollah threat before launching air attacks, leaked memo shows

Wed

US submarine sank Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast, Hegseth says

Wed

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former supreme leader, tipped to become Iran’s next head of state

Wed

Israel carries out fresh strikes on Tehran and Beirut as Iran targets US bases in Gulf

Wed

‘No to war’: Sánchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain

Wed

Attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme could backfire and drive regime towards a bomb, experts warn

Wed

Middle East conflict offers economic lifeline to Russia’s flagging war machine

Wed

Middle East crisis live: US says nearly 2,000 targets hit in Iran war; Trump says navy may escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz

Wed

Pentagon names four of six US soldiers killed in Iranian strike on Kuwait base

Wed

Iran has largely halted oil and gas exports through strait of Hormuz

Tue

Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran

Tue

Middle East attacks intensify as Trump says he has rejected Iran’s attempt to talk

Tue

UK borrowing costs jump again on fears Iran conflict will curb growth

Tue

British boy returns to UK after being stranded in Dubai airport amid Iranian airstrikes

Tue

Benign transition or bloody civil war: what next for Iran after the bombing?

Tue

China calls for vessels in strait of Hormuz to be protected amid soaring shipping costs

Tue

Middle East war could be decided by who runs out of missiles or interceptors first, analysts say

Tue

UK will charter flights from Oman to evacuate Britons from region amid Iran strikes

Tue

Australian energy bills could surge as Iran conflict drives up global gas prices

Tue

‘Imperialist undertones’: global south condemns US-Israeli war with Iran

Tue

UK considers sending Royal Navy destroyer to Cyprus

Tue

Full House and Senate to be briefed on Iran strikes – US politics live

Tue

US embassy in Riyadh hit by Iranian drones as Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon

Tue

Trump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran

Tue

Spring forecast: Rachel Reeves to insist government has ‘right economic plan’, as Middle East crisis threatens inflation spike – live updates

Tue

Tuesday briefing: ‘An historic rupture’ as the Middle East crisis spreads

Tue

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

Tue

US-Israel war on Iran live updates: Netanyahu says war will take ‘some time’; IDF issues evacuation warnings in Lebanon

Tue

‘Fantasyland’: Hastie says rules-based order is dead as Australian troops declared safe after UAE base drone strike

Tue

Some flights depart Middle East as US urges its citizens to leave region immediately amid travel chaos

Tue

US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel’s plan to launch attack, Rubio says

Tue

Civilian deaths in Iran pass 200 amid fear of bombs and regime clampdown

Mon

Iran’s Shahed drones have brought terror to the skies over Ukraine – now they are being deployed in the Middle East

Mon

Trump says Iran war to last four to five weeks but could go ‘far longer’

Mon

How escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices – a visual guide

Mon

More than 100,000 Britons stranded in Gulf, with airspace closed to most flights

Mon

‘They don’t care about Lebanon’: anger with Hezbollah boils as war returns to weary Beirut

Mon

Internet blackout is tool of desperate regime to isolate Iranians, say experts

Mon