Deserters executed, and proof Iran’s regime could still crumble: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS exposes the Mullahs’ potentially fatal weakness…
[ad_1] The body lies mutilated in the street. The wounds are savage but calculated. This is more than sadism. It is a message. At first glance, it’s just one more Iranian who has lost their life amid the state’s promiscuous violence. A tragedy – as death always is – but in the Islamic Republic, sadly […]
Khamenei’s death is not the end of all this, but merely the beginning. What comes next could open the first crack in Iran’s regime, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS
[ad_1] He’s dead. Finally. Iran’s Supreme Leader, the sinister and brutal octogenarian Ali Khamenei, has met a well-deserved end at the hands of a joint US-Israeli strike. But beyond the welcome demise of one of the longest-serving – and most vicious – dictators in modern history, what does this actually mean? In and of itself, […]
Trump has opened Pandora’s box but now is our chance to shape Iran’s future, writes former Middle East minister TOBIAS ELLWOOD
[ad_1] It has started. After weeks of formal talks, warnings and military positioning, including the deployment of roughly a third of the US Navy’s deployable fleet, the pre-emptive strike against Iran has begun. As its codename suggests, Operation Epic Fury has unleashed air strikes against military, political and infrastructure targets. The scale is game-changing. The […]
DANIEL HANNAN: Toxic Greens made this the most divisive and dangerous by-election in British history
[ad_1] This is how democracies unravel. Long after the Green Party’s victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been forgotten, the campaign and the precedent it set will continue to disfigure our politics. We are Balkanising our country, moving beyond citizenship as our primary political identifier and instead relating to one another as members of […]
QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer’s spectral security adviser backed Mandelson. So why is Jonathan Powell still at the heart of No10?
[ad_1] Molto panico in Downing Street yesterday. Wickets were falling. Master strategists were gobbling cyanide pills. Aides scurred right and left and further left, white-faced, trousers flapping. Yet one figure appeared – at the time of writing, anyway – to be going nowhere. Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, was safe in his roost. Why? […]