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(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

Trump has always believed in “truthful hyperbole,” as he called it in “The Art of the Deal.” But now it’s untruthful ...

Iran today takes us back down the time tunnel to Iraq two decades ago. It would be nice if the world grew incrementally ...

President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran remind me of President George W. Bush’s claims in 2003 that Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, was hiding weapons of mass destruction,” writes ...

In short: Everyone went all the way, bursting through psychological and military barriers we never imagined would be breached ...

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half ...

Donald Trump has finally met his match. The Iranian supreme leader lies just as boldly, with just as much bombast, as the ...

The fraught relationship between the U.S. and Iran isn't new. U.S. involvement in, and conflict with, Iran is complicated and ...

Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?

In sum, this regional war for the players in the Middle East was the equivalent of World War II for Europe: It completely shakes up the status quo and opens the way for something new.