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It’s time for America to remember how dangerous regime change is | Christopher Chivvis

ByChristopher S Chivvis

For a superpower, toppling foreign governments is not so hard to do. Getting the outcome you want isThe ceasefire between Iran and Israel might still hold, but if not, the United States might double down on its weekend strikes and seek the overthrow of…

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Israel-Iran news live: Donald Trump says strikes on Iran were ‘devastating attack’ amid row over claims of success

ByJoe Coughlan

US administration hits back at leaked intelligence report suggesting strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities only set programme back by a few monthsTop administration officials are pressing Donald Trump’s case, with a news conference set for Thursday at t…

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Middle East crisis: Iran delivered ‘heavy slap to US’s face’, says Khamenei as he threatens further attacks on American bases – as it happened

ByJoe Coughlan

In his first comments since the ceasefire, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US ‘gained no achievement’ when it joined the war with Israel against TehranKhamenei says Iran will strike back if US attacks againIsrael’s national security minister called for…

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Are we witnessing the death of international law?

ByLinda Kinstler

A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold itIn late April, terrorists killed 26 civilians in the Indian town of Pahalgam, located in t…

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Trump officials cite ‘new intelligence’ to back president’s claims of success in strikes on Iran

ByGuardian staff and agencies

Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director say Iran’s nuclear sites were ‘destroyed’, amid reports of White House efforts to limit sharing of classified information with CongressDonald Trump’s administration ratcheted up its defence of the US’s weekend attacks…

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Afraid of Israel, angry at the regime: Iranians on 12 days of war – podcast

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The analyst Ellie Geranmayeh and voices from inside Iran talk about their experiences of the last 12 days and what it will mean for the future of the regimeBefore the war, something in Iran seemed to be shifting, says Ellie Geranmayeh, a senior policy …

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Trump calls for Netanyahu corruption trial to be cancelled

ByAgence France-Presse

US president calls Israeli prime minister a ‘great hero’ and that the charges against him constitute a ‘witch hunt’Donald Trump has weighed in on ally Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial, saying in a social media post that the trial was …

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Netanyahu thanks Trump for public call to cancel his corruption trial

ByAgence France-Presse

Others accuse US president of interfering in Israel’s judicial system after he said case against PM was a ‘witch hunt’Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked Donald Trump after the US president publicly called for the Israeli prime minister’s long-running corru…

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Iran intensifies internal security crackdown with executions and mass arrests

ByReuters in Baghdad

Iranian rights group has recorded 705 arrests on political or security charges since the start of the war with IsraelIranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass …

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Iran intensifies internal security crackdown with executions and mass arrests

ByReuters in Baghdad

Iranian rights group has recorded 705 arrests on political or security charges since the start of the war with IsraelIranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass …