File photo of a US air force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft that was brought down by Iran near Isfahan in south-western Iran on April 3, 2026 To borrow from William Congreve’s 1697 play The Mourning Bride, “Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned”. This predicament …
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French and Japanese-owned ships make first Strait of Hormuz crossings after a month’s interlude due to war conditions Indian media have spread misconceptions over the meeting convened by the UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Thursday 2nd April regarding the situation around the Strait of Hormuz. Far-fetched conclusions are drawn that the meeting marked the …
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US President Donald Trump (R) shared the video of Iran’s B1 bridge, billed as the country’s tallest bridge, collapsing after US air strike, Washington, April 3, 2026 The only clue the US President Donald Trump has given in his prime time televised speech on Wednesday at the White House regarding the ending of his war …
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been persistently working to put the US-Indian relationship back on track. Their conversation on Friday on the sidelines of the G7 meeting at Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, a former Cistercian monastery in northern France surrounded in unspoilt nature, which focused on the …
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IAI Arrow 3 anti ballistic missile [File photo] Wars are always unpredictable. The most famous instance is of another armada like the US’ in the Persian Gulf at the moment — the Spanish Armada, a 130-ship naval fleet sent by Spain in 1588 commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat appointed …
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in Tehran The profound significance of the two successive Iranian missile strikes on Dimona nuclear research centre, the most heavily guarded site in the whole of Israel, is sinking in, and it inevitably shifts the trajectory of the US’ war in Iran. …
A massive Iranian retaliatory strike on Dimona, Israel’s “nuclear city,” following latter’s attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant, caused large-scale destruction and casualties, Demona, March 22, 2026 The salience of the two readouts of the phone call on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is that the bilateral relationship …
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Fire after air strike at an oil storage facility in Tehran Less than three weeks into the aggression against Iran since February 28, which the US President Donald Trump called a “little excursion”, the war is assuming a scenario that is the exact opposite of what he visualised. On Tuesday, Trump declared, “We will leave …
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Pope Leo XIV issued his strongest and most direct demand to date for an end to the US-Israeli war in Iran, addressing those gathered to pray the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican, March 15, 2026 There is an English proverb, ‘The darkest hours are just before the dawn.’ Maybe, hope should linger on that …
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Iran’s new Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei (File photo) The stunning message from the first public message on Thursday by Iran’s new Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is that “The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed.” In seven words, he threw the gauntlet at President Trump belying all expectations that he will opt for continuity …
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