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Wall Street Journal
a day ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Iran Invites ‘Snap-Back' Sanctions
The 12-day Iran war has changed the Middle East, and even Europe is now willing to raise the pressure on the ruling mullahs in Tehran. In dragging its feet on nuclear inspections and material, Iran is inviting 'snap-back' sanctions. France, the U.K. and Germany wrote Wednesday to inform the United Nations of their readiness to snap back the international sanctions on Iran that were lifted by Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal. They'll do it by the end of the month, they say, unless Iran shows the bare minimum of interest in diplomacy. Since July the Europeans have offered an extension if Tehran resumes negotiations with the U.S. and cooperation with U.N. inspectors.
Times
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Iranian distrust of the British runs deep
B ritain has not bombed Iran, nor called for regime change in Tehran, nor mobilised against the mullahs. Britain's stance on preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons has not changed. And yet there is deep anxiety in Whitehall and the intelligence services that the conflict between Iran and Israel will become our fight, and Iranian anger and hostility will now turn on Britain. It already has. That is because suspicion of the UK, as the 'hidden hand' behind every plot and confrontation, is deeply embedded in Iran's politics, language, rhetoric and self-image. Distrust and dislike of Britain is part of Iran's cultural DNA. From the Iranian point of view, Britain has been meddling in Iran ever since the Great Game of the early 19th century, when the rival empires of Britain and Russia tussled for control of Central Asia using bribery, proxy forces, political manipulation, competing spheres of influence and, from time to time, direct military intervention.
Wall Street Journal
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
The Islamic Republic Has Taken Iran Hostage
Bartle Bull's piece 'Iran's Mediocre Supreme Leader' (Houses of Worship, June 20) captures the slick phoniness of Ali Khamenei. He is an avatar of the entire Islamic Republic, which is a farce from top to bottom. The regime presents itself as the guardian of Iran while plundering its oil for an insular few and neglecting to provide basic water infrastructure to the rest. Rather than invest the nation's wealth in its citizens, the mullahs have wasted billions on a nuclear-weapons program. It despises the civilization it claims to lead. For nearly half a century the ruling class has tried to erase the cultural, intellectual and moral foundations of Iran and replace them with imperial ideas about jihadist conquests from Najaf to Karbala. In its fanaticism, the regime even cracks down on the annual celebration of one of Persia's greatest figures, Cyrus II, calling the event a 'Zionist plot.'
Wall Street Journal
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
MAGA Isolationists Are in a Tailspin on Iran
Public debates about secret information are almost unenlightening: Those who know don't tell, and those who don't know pound the table. But last week, like America, was exceptional. Before launching its air campaign, Israel clearly developed exquisite intelligence about the Iranian regime, including the names and locations of its most important nuclear scientists and the communications and procedures of the ballistic-missile force. When the Israelis leak that the mullahs triggered the latest phase of the Oct. 7 war by, among other things, scheduling a meeting between Iran's nuclear-weapons scientists and its ballistic-missile commanders, the evidence should be taken seriously.
Daily Mail
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
ANDREW NEIL: A daring raid that means Iran's brutal regime has now run out of options... the end of days beckons
The clerical-military dictatorship which has ruled Iran for almost 50 years has run out of options. President Trump's daring raid on Iran's nuclear facilities further undermines a regime which is already reeling from multiple humiliations at home and abroad. For the medieval mullahs and their brutal generals, there is no good way forward, no credible response that doesn't involve more humiliation amounting to capitulation.
