50% off limited time offer
Subscribe
Iran
Latest
The new supreme leader of Iran
26 mins • S1, E319
Ruth Michaelsonn
Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment as supreme leader shows Iran has no plans to surrender
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Oliver Marsden
Latest Israeli strikes on Lebanon could mark the beginning of the end for Hezbollah
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer’s ‘Love Actually moment’ with Trump treads a fine line
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Ceri Thomas
Bringing Iran to ‘Goldilocks’ point underpins the rationale behind this war
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Robin Pagnamenta
Crisis in the Gulf spells dire straits for gas-reliant UK
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Isabel Coles
Iranian missiles harden Israeli support for war
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Jack Straw
Iran’s resilience has been forged by adversity
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Giles Whittell
Dubai: lux lifestyle to defiant warzone in seven days
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Hugh Tomlinson
US weighs ‘boots on ground’ option as offensive drags on
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Iranian regime uses web blackouts and threats to stay in control
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Keir Starmer’s answer to Donald Trump shows principle, not pandering
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Trump’s reasons for attacking Iran
9 mins • S1, E1313
How is Shabana Mahmood shaking up the immigration and asylum system?
30 mins • S1, E318
Robin Pagnamenta
The boom in remote-controlled death
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Staring down the barrel: Iran strikes back at America by driving up the price of oil
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Isabel Coles
Zelensky offers to help Gulf states shoot down Iranian drones
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Kurds may be wary of joining US in Iran
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
The US sinking a warship off Sri Lanka doesn’t solve a crisis in Hormuz
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Robin Pagnamenta
Dire strait: how the Iran war could tank the UK economy
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Bernard Gray
Britain hasn’t the strength to stop a drone, let alone join Trump’s war in Iran
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Giles Whittell
Eight reasons Trump attacked Iran
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
After Khamenei: the succession
Tue 3 Mar 2026
The bombing of Iran spills over into the Middle East
8 mins • S1, E1310
The aftermath of the bombing on Iran
26 mins • S1, E317
Oliver Marsden
Israel–Hezbollah strikes hit Beirut as Middle East war spreads
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Sanam Mahloudji
You can’t bomb Iran into democracy
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Donald Trump wants to see regime change in Iran. This may be wishful thinking
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
The attack on Ali Khamenei analysed
Mon 2 Mar 2026
The Observer view
After the Ayatollah
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Hugh Tomlinson
Trump pledged to end forever wars. Now he has embarked on a conflict fraught with risk
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Keir Starmer joins Europe in split with US over Iran airstrikes
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Avraham Burg
I won’t remain silent on this cynical war
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Sara Weissel
Israelis head from synagogues to bomb shelters
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Bernard Gray
Range and accuracy make Tomahawks the first strike choice in Iran
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Trump vows ‘hour of freedom is at hand’ but opponents of Iranian regime fear only chaos will follow
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Ayatollah dead after US and Israeli attacks on Iran
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Jasper Corbett
Trump’s position on the Chagos Islands deal gives Starmer a real headache
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Key reformists arrested as Iran regime acts ‘to break anyone who speaks up’
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Chloe Hadjimatheou
‘Betraying his country’: 19-year-old Iranian footballer on death row for protesting
Tue 10 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
In the glare of TV cameras, Iranians are interrogated and condemned to death
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Keir Starmer and the Peter Mandelson scandal
31 mins • S1, E310
Ruth Michaelsonn
Tehran charges protesters’ families a ‘bullet fee’ to return their dead bodies
Sun 1 Feb 2026
The Iranian regime survives
9 mins • S1, E1286
Ruth Michaelsonn
‘They want to kill us all’
Sat 24 Jan 2026
The Observer view
Iran’s theocracy could have chosen humanity, but it chose murder
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Kenan Malik
The left and right are spinning Iran’s story for their own ends
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
‘After the blackout, they really started killing’: horrors of Iran crackdown begin to emerge
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Isabel Coles
Trump promised to help Iran’s protesters. Here’s what he can actually do
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Understanding the protests in Iran
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Faced with protests, Iran has opted for repression
Tue 13 Jan 2026
A brutal crackdown in Iran
7 mins • S1, E1276
Rob Macaire
With a unifying leader, Iran’s protests could become a revolution
Mon 12 Jan 2026
What’s really happening on the ground in Iran
33 mins • S1, E303
Ruth Michaelsonn
Street protests against Iranian regime reach holy city of Mashhad
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Jack Straw
Iran’s uprising may succeed, but there will be no uplands of democracy for a long time
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelsonn
Defiance burns on the streets of Tehran
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Isabel Coles
‘If we want the regime out, we can’t back down’
Mon 5 Jan 2026
Peter Westmacott
‘A Trump lifeline to Tehran could be a Nobel-winning move’
Sun 4 Jan 2026
“Day Zero” in Tehran
35 mins • S1, E295
Ruth Michaelsonn
Iranian energy crisis looms as revolutionary guards mine Bitcoin
Sat 16 Aug 2025
