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Covering the expanding conflict between Iran and Israel and the US
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Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions
A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC – putting party policy on a collision course with its own MPs
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USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’
Exhaustion, low morale, ‘starvation’ rations and broken equipment: Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power
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Trump Went to War In Order to Break Iran and Left It More Powerful Than Before – US Defence Analyst
Brynn Tannehill explains how Trump’s war has resurrected an Iranian regime that sanctions and drought had been on course to topple
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All US Options for Ending the Iran War Are Terrible, Warns US Defence Analyst
Every realistic path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war in Iran would be catastrophic, argues Brynn Tannehill.
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No One Can Reopen the Strait of Hormuz – and That Is the New Regional Order
Every instrument the United States uses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – force, sanctions, a treaty – accelerates the structural decline that closed it
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The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends – and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
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Revealed: Tony Blair’s ‘Dodgy Iran Dossier’ Helped Shape Trump War Plan
Controversial polling promoted by the Tony Blair Institute, and criticised by academics, helped make the case for ‘regime change’ in Tehran
