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Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad procession and the choreography of a martyrdom narrative
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's ritual slogan and the limits of reading Iran's street theatre
Opinion09 Jul 26
Netanyahu Says the War Is Not Over. The Statement Itself Is the Story.
Opinion09 Jul 26
Day three: US strikes on southern Iranian cities, and the framing race has already begun
Opinion09 Jul 26
The 48 hours that broke the ceasefire and reset the Iran file
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Iran Ceasefire Isn't Collapsing. The Show Is.
Opinion09 Jul 26
Sirens, source caveats, and the Gulf: reading an Iranian escalation through Telegram
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Iran Strikes Are Not About Bridges
Opinion09 Jul 26
Israel's Decade-Long Defence Build-Out Is a Statement, Not a Plan
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran Pre-Positions 10 Million Barrels at Sea as Funeral Rites for Slain Commander Resume
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain and Kuwait in overnight barrage, hitting US bases
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's farewell and the limits of Western framing on Iran
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad funeral and the limits of reading Iranian crowds
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's funeral pages and the choreography of Iranian martyrdom
Sport09 Jul 26
Morocco's test against France sharpens a deeper question about who runs World Cup officiating
Tech09 Jul 26
OpenAI tightens ChatGPT's voice mode, signalling a deeper bet on conversational AI
Investigations09 Jul 26
Reports of renewed US strikes on Iran: what three late-evening wire items actually say
Tech09 Jul 26
Night of 96 projectiles: what Ukraine's air-defence numbers reveal about the war's rhythm
Opinion09 Jul 26
The 72-Hour Ceasefire That Wasn't: Reading the US-Iran Pause on Its Own Terms
Opinion09 Jul 26
Erdogan's NATO charm offensive lands in Washington — and the gift bags did the talking
Sport09 Jul 26
Fernandez header caps Argentina comeback as Egypt cry foul — and New York's mayor weighs in
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Interceptions over Manama: what the Bahrain strikes tell us about the Iran file
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Gunmen kill Basij forces at Mashhad shrine checkpoints in late-night attack
Sport09 Jul 26
Bieber joins World Cup final halftime bill as FIFA turns the pitch into a Super Bowl
Opinion09 Jul 26
Bushehr and Bandar Abbas: what unconfirmed reports do — and do not — tell us
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Carney's two-front play: Canada pitches itself to Riyadh and reopens the Palestine file in the same week
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Ebola death toll in DR Congo crosses 600 as WHO warns of widening outbreak
Opinion09 Jul 26
Crimea's fuel arteries are bleeding — and the Russian war-blogger class is running out of words
Culture09 Jul 26
Ankara's gift that keeps on giving: why Erdogan handed NATO leaders engraved revolvers
Opinion09 Jul 26
Explosions in southern Iran for a third consecutive night, as unverified war-monitoring channels point to Bandar Abbas
Sport09 Jul 26
Gaza aid worker killed en route to World Cup screening; Israel says target was Hamas militant
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Gaza death toll climbs as Israeli strikes hit Nuseirat camp on 9 July 2026
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Gaza strike that killed a Hamas spokesperson's aide — and the questions the wires are not yet asking
Opinion09 Jul 26
Berlin's Taurus refusal and the slow strangulation of Ukraine's long-range strike option
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei at Mashhad as a regional order recalibrates
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran buries its 'Martyr Leader' as the Republic enters an untested era
Opinion09 Jul 26
The ceasefire that wasn't: parsing Trump's Iran messaging after Mashhad
Opinion09 Jul 26
When a baby name becomes a wire story: how the Iran ceasefire unraveled between Tuesday and Thursday
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral Iran staged, and the funeral Iran refused to let the world see
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims preemptive strikes against alleged US- and Israeli-backed groups inside its own borders
Opinion09 Jul 26
A funeral as foreign policy: reading Iran's mourning politics
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
After the strike: Iran lays its supreme leader to rest in Karbala
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's funeral pageantry for Khamenei is a message — but to whom, exactly?
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei in Mashhad as succession clock starts
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran stages a leader's farewell — and signals who it wants watching
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Succession Question Iran Cannot Avoid
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's succession test: what the Khamenei funeral procession tells us about the regime's next move
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's succession theatre and the limits of state media as a window on power
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's quiet succession: reading the Khamenei transition that Tehran didn't announce
Opinion09 Jul 26
The framing wars over an Iranian coffin: what the Telegram feed actually shows
Opinion09 Jul 26
A funeral in Mashhad, and the question Iran did not let its own press ask
Opinion09 Jul 26
Inside the shrine: Iran stages a martyrdom narrative while the war economy grinds on
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's State Media Stages the Martyrdom: What the Mashhad Funeral Tells Us About Tehran's Information Order
Opinion09 Jul 26
The rhetoric has caught up with the policy: how Washington and Tel Aviv began talking about Iran like a terminal patient
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran buries the man it calls 'Shahid Iran': what the state-media choreography tells the rest of us
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran strikes US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait as regional escalation enters new phase
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Tehran summons British envoy as accusation-and-counter-accusation cycle returns to centre stage
Opinion09 Jul 26
A martyr's farewell in Karbala: what the funeral of Iran's Supreme Leader tells us about the post-Khamenei order
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims 10-ballistic-missile strike on US-linked command centre and Azraq airbase in Jordan
Opinion09 Jul 26
Tehran's Escalation Calculus: Reading the IRGC's Midnight Ultimatum
Opinion09 Jul 26
Italy's expulsion of Russian attachés lands in a wider shadow-fleet campaign
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral at Karbala and the choreography of succession in Tehran
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran's leadership transition begins: Khamenei's body departs Najaf for Mashhad
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Khamenei's body returns to Iran: what Najaf–Mashhad tells us about succession, sovereignty, and the region's reading of…
Opinion09 Jul 26
The burial in Mashhad and the question Western coverage is not asking
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Khamenei’s coffin departs Najaf: succession clock starts in Tehran
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's death and the test Tehran cannot defer
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Khamenei Funeral That Frames a War
Opinion09 Jul 26
The last procession: Iran buries Khamenei in Karbala, and the succession begins
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Khamenei funeral at Imam Reza shrine caps a week that redraws Iran's power map
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral that wasn't on the wires: reading the silence around Khamenei's procession
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's funeral and the choreography of succession
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's funeral and the war narrative Tehran is building
Opinion09 Jul 26
Three million in the street: what Khamenei's Karbala funeral really signals
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Death of Khamenei and the Choreography of Iranian Rage
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad waits: a delayed burial, a fractured succession, and what comes after Khamenei
Opinion09 Jul 26
The succession machine: what Khamenei's funeral tells us about Iran's post-ayatollah order
Opinion09 Jul 26
In the Khamenei succession, the mourning is real and the choreography is older than the regime
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's death and the succession question Tehran did not want to answer in public
Opinion09 Jul 26
Khamenei's Coffin and the Succession Question Tehran Cannot Avoid
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Beirut pilot zone to open within days as Washington and Beirut re-engage on south Lebanon
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad turns out for Bagheri as Tehran's martyrdom theatre takes to the street
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad farewell and the choreography of Iranian martyrdom
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Million-strong farewell in Mashhad frames Iran's response as a test of restraint
Opinion09 Jul 26
A funeral in Mashhad, and the choreography of succession
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral in Mashhad and the frame Western wires won’t write
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's Million-Strong Farewell: What the Crowds at Imam Reza's Shrine Reveal About Iran's Wartime Cohesion
Opinion09 Jul 26
Crowds in Mashhad: what the funeral of a 'martyred leader of the revolution' tells us about Iran's domestic moment
Opinion09 Jul 26
A coffin in Mashhad and the regional choreography Iran is performing around it
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad, a million mourners, and the limits of a Western wire's blackout
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's million-strong farewell and the architecture of Iranian state legitimacy
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad funeral and the message Iran chose to broadcast
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad under black banners: a funeral procession that doubles as a regional signal
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad Funeral and the Performance of Martyrdom
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Gun attack on IRGC members in Mashhad reported across opposition and regional channels
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad procession and the Lego Trump: reading the symbolism of a funeral
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's million-man farewell and the message Tehran wanted the world to read
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Mashhad procession and the choreography of Iranian mourning
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's million-strong farewell and the choreography of a martyrdom narrative
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's million: what Iran's state funerals say about who speaks for the dead
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's Million: How a Funeral Became a Referendum
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's Mourning Stage: Iran's State-Led Commemoration and the Politics of Public Grief
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's mourning and the choreography of Iranian power
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's Mourning Million: A State Funeral as Political Theatre
Opinion09 Jul 26
Two Killed in Mashhad Shooting — And Why the Speed of Denial Matters
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Gunfire at Mashhad shrine: what we know about the July 9 attack
Tech09 Jul 26
Microsoft's Xbox reset pivots Obsidian from Avowed to Fallout as 3,200 jobs go
Tech09 Jul 26
OpenAI's GPT-Live is the voice assistant Apple and Google should have built first
Opinion09 Jul 26
Press TV's posthumous Khamenei campaign and the framing problem it exposes
Investigations09 Jul 26
Russia's fuel pinch: How Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries and 200 destroyed gas stations are squeezing Moscow's…
Opinion09 Jul 26
When the locomotive comes back: Russia's fuel crunch and the texture of a long war
Sport09 Jul 26
Stokes, Lord's and the ECB: Three Rows in Three Days for English Cricket's Governance
Opinion09 Jul 26
The shrine, the stream, and the silence: how a Telegram channel outpaces Western coverage of Iran's clerical succession
Opinion09 Jul 26
Tehran buries a 'martyred leader' the West has been told to ignore
Opinion09 Jul 26
A funeral in Tehran and the choreography of Iranian state mourning
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral no one is allowed to ignore: Tehran stages its biggest show of grief in a generation
Opinion09 Jul 26
Tehran's grief machine: how Iranian state media is packaging a war narrative
Opinion09 Jul 26
The funeral that wasn't: Tehran manufactures a martyr, Mashhad is asked to mourn
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Iran Strikes the World Isn't Being Told to Watch
Opinion09 Jul 26
Trump's ceasefire talk meets Iranian funeral drums — and the oil market has to pick a side
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Trump floats Patriot licensing at NATO summit, but Ukrainian air defence gap remains measured in months
Opinion09 Jul 26
Trump's Syria Pivot and the New Arithmetic of American Priorities
Opinion09 Jul 26
Ukraine's air-defence math is getting worse, and the interceptors are the bottleneck
Opinion09 Jul 26
Kyiv's long arm reaches the Sea of Azov — and the global tanker market
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
US strikes on Iranian vessels near Bandar Abbas raise questions about escalation and civilian exposure
Investigations09 Jul 26
US hits Iranian rail bridges, ceasefire fractures: what the overnight strikes and Tehran's response reveal
Opinion09 Jul 26
Who struck Iran on 9 July 2026, and why the silence matters
Opinion09 Jul 26
The dollar's quiet erosion, and what the central banks are quietly saying
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Tyler Robinson courtroom tape and the slow reveal of motive
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Officiating Crisis Comes for the World Cup
Opinion09 Jul 26
Carney courts Riyadh: a Canadian rebalancing away from the Atlantic and toward the Gulf
Opinion09 Jul 26
What the Twiggs testimony actually tells us — and what it doesn't
Opinion09 Jul 26
Gaza's toll is being counted in two registers — and the gap is the story
Opinion09 Jul 26
Syria is leaving America's terrorism list. The hard questions begin now.
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Sirens, blasts and a Friday signing: a Bahrain night inside the US–Iran deal countdown
Investigations09 Jul 26
Israeli drone strike hits civilian vehicle west of Gaza City; one reported killed
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Hamas spokesperson's aide killed in Gaza City drone strike
Opinion09 Jul 26
Israel's Turkey Red Line: Cohen's Cabinet Warning and the Syria Stakes
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
U.S. hits Iranian rail bridges; White House braces for multi-week Hormuz fight
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Sirens in Amman: A Flash Escalation, and a Pattern the Region Has Seen Before
Opinion09 Jul 26
Beirut's Quiet Play: Aoun Courts Washington as the Ceasefire Clock Ticks
Opinion09 Jul 26
From Arak to Shiraz: A 36-minute window, and the question the wires won't answer
Opinion09 Jul 26
Bushehr and beyond: a fog of blasts, an unsigned peace, and the limits of Iran's official story
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Bushehr strike and the rhetoric of cancer
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Carney's pivot: Canada courts Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East rebalance
Opinion09 Jul 26
Ceasefire, baby names, and the unwritten line: three signals from a brittle week
Tech09 Jul 26
Second day, ninety more strikes: CENTCOM widens its Iran campaign in the Strait of Hormuz
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar and the Iran File: What the Initial Reports Do and Don't Tell Us
Opinion09 Jul 26
China's AI Race Has a Power Problem, and Beijing Knows It
Culture09 Jul 26
Fifteen years on, China's South Sudan footprint becomes a study in staying power
Sport09 Jul 26
Six of eight, and the system that puts them there: Europe's grip on the 2026 World Cup
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mbappé sends France past Morocco: what a knockout round says about the new football order
Culture09 Jul 26
Hollywood's queer footprint shrinks for a third year, GLAAD finds
Culture09 Jul 26
Greek cinema finds an export lane through an old taboo: trauma between two women on an island
Culture09 Jul 26
Hezbollah-aligned bloc rejects Beirut's US-brokered framework as unconstitutional
Opinion09 Jul 26
Hong Kong's youth aren't just stressed — they're watching the floor fall out of the merit bargain
Opinion09 Jul 26
Hormuz, again: Trump's blockade talk and the quiet arithmetic of a chokepoint
Opinion09 Jul 26
Two Theatres of the Same War: The Strait of Hormuz and the Black Sea Are Now Linked
Opinion09 Jul 26
When the oil chokepoint becomes a price chokepoint: what the Hormuz stand-off is really telling consumers
Business09 Jul 26
Hormuz at a hinge: market traders put one-in-six odds on a quick return to normal traffic
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz Calculus: Reading the White House's Quiet Pivot Toward Extended Conflict With Iran
Tech09 Jul 26
Hugging Face's US-Tuned Models Highlight a Quiet Fragmentation in Open-Source AI
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's flying F-5s and MiG-29s are a posture, not a victory lap
Opinion09 Jul 26
The Iran denial and the question that won't go away
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Tehran pushes back on Hormuz strike reports as denials crowd the timeline
Opinion09 Jul 26
Explosions in southern Iran and a US denial: reading the fog of a breaking story
Opinion09 Jul 26
Tehran's martyrdom meme and the oil-priced dare: parsing Iran's choreographed response to Trump's ultimatum
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's missile salvo lands at a US-Jordanian airbase — and the regional arithmetic just changed
Opinion09 Jul 26
Hormuz reopens, briefly: Iran's oil rush and the half-life of a blockade
Investigations09 Jul 26
Iran strikes US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar as three-week ceasefire collapses
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran strikes US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain as ceasefire pledge collapses
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran claims strikes on US-linked targets in Kuwait and Qatar as Hormuz escalation widens
Opinion09 Jul 26
Iran's succession riddle and the limits of state-televised mourning
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
IRGC claims missile strikes on Jordan as succession shockwaves hit Tehran
Opinion09 Jul 26
A peace accord and a Democratic rebellion land on the same day — Israel now has to choose
Opinion09 Jul 26
Italy draws a line in Rome: expelling two Russian military attachés and daring the Kremlin to escalate
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Sirens in Amman: Jordanian air-defence alert puts spotlight on Iran-Israel escalation
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Khamenei's body leaves Najaf for Mashhad as Iran delays final interment
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Iran's Khamenei funeral draws millions in Mashhad as US strikes continue
Opinion09 Jul 26
A funeral in Najaf, a vacuum in Tehran: who fills the space after Khamenei
Investigations09 Jul 26
Kyiv's shadow-fleet campaign in the Sea of Azov: what 35 strikes in four days tells us about the next phase of the war
Opinion09 Jul 26
Diplomacy by Side-Channel: Beirut and Washington Test the Limits of an Off-Ramp
Opinion09 Jul 26
Mashhad's mourning and the choreography of Iranian grief
Opinion09 Jul 26
A Russian billionaire breaks ranks in The Economist — and lands somewhere uncomfortable
Geopolitics09 Jul 26
Merz tells Bundestag Germany will buy and base US Tomahawks, closing what he calls a 'critical strategic gap'
Opinion09 Jul 26
NATO's Ankara reprieve: what Trump's alliance theatrics actually cost Ukraine
Opinion09 Jul 26
NATO's credibility crisis is now a trade war with itself
Opinion09 Jul 26
NATO's Erdogan Problem: A Summit Souvenir, A Warning Shot
Opinion09 Jul 26
NATO's Hague summit lands the headlines. The real story is the missile contract.
Tech09 Jul 26
The week open-source AI quietly outpaced the labs
Business09 Jul 26
OpenAI courts Washington, traders price the political ceiling
Opinion09 Jul 26
Reading 'Operation Lion's Roar' honestly
Opinion09 Jul 26
Patriot, begotten: a deal the headline writers will flatter
Opinion09 Jul 26
Patriot Licences and the Optics of Patience: Reading Trump's Ukraine Turn
Opinion09 Jul 26
A 47% Bet on a Blockade: What Polymarket's Iran Odds Are Really Telling Us
Opinion09 Jul 26
Polymarket's Iran odds are telling us something Washington won't
Opinion09 Jul 26
Betting on the Kirk case: Polymarket's 42% conviction price is the story
Culture09 Jul 26
Prove-Kalisz festival keeps the romantic piano tradition alive on the Polish-German border
Culture09 Jul 26
Robyn Hitchcock, 73, finds Nashville at last — and writes an album about dead English blokes
Geopolitics09 Jul 26