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April 15, 2026, 04:30 PM - 3 min read
An Indian delegation will visit Washington next week for trade talks with the US, amid tariff changes and ongoing Section 301 probes impacting the interim trade deal.
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April 13, 2026, 09:06 PM - 5 min read
Trump warns Iranian ships of “brutal” action as Hormuz tensions rise after failed talks, with Iran threatening Gulf ports and global energy concerns mounting.
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April 9, 2026, 05:04 PM - 7 min read
US President Donald Trump's remarks about Iran moved beyond personal attacks or chest-thumping nationalism to take on a tone of collective punishment and civilisational destruction. The style was familiar. The horizon of harm was not.
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March 21, 2026, 09:15 PM - 4 min read
Iran reports fresh US-Israeli airstrike on Natanz nuclear facility with no radiation leak; Tehran fires missiles at Diego Garcia base in retaliation. Trump considers winding down ops but rules out ceasefire.
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March 19, 2026, 09:04 PM - 4 min read
In a sharp public break with Israel, President Trump confirmed the US had no role in the strike on the world’s largest gas field in Iran and warned the country that any further assault on Qatar would trigger American retaliation “at an amount and strength and power that Iran has never seen.”
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March 7, 2026, 05:46 PM - 2 min read
“Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behaviour, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.
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February 14, 2026, 10:55 AM - 3 min read
The assessment follows weeks of escalating tensions, with the US deploying a second carrier strike group — led by the USS Gerald R. Ford — to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln, guided-missile destroyers, fighter jets, and surveillance aircraft already in the region.
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January 30, 2026, 03:46 PM - 8 min read
Iran is a “threshold state”—a country with the technical capacity to produce nuclear weapons but that has not crossed the final line of production. A destabilised threshold state poses three risks: loss of centralised command over nuclear material and scientists, incentives for factions to monetise or export expertise, and acceleration logic—actors racing to secure deterrence before collapse.
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January 15, 2026, 04:31 PM - 6 min read
Tehran knows that foreign involvement would change the nature of the crisis. A domestic protest movement would quickly turn into an international conflict. That shift would serve outside powers far more than it would help the people protesting on the streets.
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January 6, 2026, 03:56 PM - 7 min read
The “liberal elite” in the country has once again started feeling “outraged” over the denial of bail to Khalid and Imam and it has started resorting to its characteristic breast-beating.
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January 3, 2026, 03:37 PM - 2 min read
"This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M. at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
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December 21, 2025, 01:48 PM - 6 min read
Every December, political leaders reach instinctively for the language of goodwill. Meanwhile, diplomats the world over use the season to host parties at which gift-giving and booze are used to help foster friendships.
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