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Alireza Tangsiri pictured in 2024.

Iranian naval commander killed in airstrike, Israel claims

Israel’s defence minister said Commodore Alireza Tangsiri was responsible for bombing operations that have blocked ships from crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

  • Mario Parker and Arsalan Shahla

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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran in January, just before the crackdown started.

Israel thought it could spur rebellion inside Iran. That hasn’t happened

Donald Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.

  • Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman

‘We will hunt you down’: Is Pete Hegseth for real?

It’s been a busy year for Donald Trump’s unconventional pick for secretary of war. Now, with the war in Iran, he’s firmly in the spotlight. Where did he come from? How is he performing so far?

  • Angus Holland and Madeleine Heffernan

‘The Great Satan’: How the era of the ayatollahs began

Iran has a new Supreme Leader, only its third in nearly half a century. Here’s how the clerics came to power – and held on to it.

  • Angus Holland

I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped

Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.

  • Geraldine Brooks
The US-led attack on Tehran has put Australia’s nuclear safety watchdog on alert.

Australia’s nuclear emergency centre ‘on alert’ after Iran attack

The Melbourne-based nuclear incident room monitors global radiation threats and can model how radioactive material could spread.

  • Annika Smethurst
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“This is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with”, Trump has said of PM Keir Starmer.

No, he’s not Winston Churchill. But Starmer’s learnt something from history Trump hasn’t

Publicly rebuked by the president and deeply unpopular at home, Keir Starmer is sticking to his guns over Iran and wants to avoid “the mistakes of Iraq”.

  • David Crowe
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 3.

US warns ‘the big one is coming’ amid conflicting signals over war’s duration

US President Donald Trump declared the war might go “far longer” than his previous estimate of “four to five weeks” and did not rule out sending ground forces into Iran.

  • David Crowe
A fire breaks out in a building targeted by Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles in Manama, the capital of Bahrain.

There’s a wild violence to Iran’s retaliation and it has the firepower to do even worse

The United States and Israel have pounded Iranian targets in a bid to destroy weapons stores and missile launchers. But Iran’s resolve to fight back appears strong.

  • David Crowe
US-Israeli attacks on Iran continue.

Iran conflict to continue for ‘weeks’ as scope of attacks widens

Donald Trump aired his plan to sustain the bombing campaign in the hope that Iranians would overthrow the regime, declaring its leaders faced “certain death” if they did not sue for peace.

  • David Crowe