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Why the US Keeps Misreading Iran’s Place on the Map

As long as Washington sees Iran at the edge of the Middle East rather than the center of “West Asia,” it will continue to fall prey to miscalculations.
From Egypt to Pakistan, the sectarian geography shows that US-Israeli strikes on Tehran are more than a bilateral conflict.
From Ankara to Tehran and across the Gulf, ordinary people sense a geopolitical rupture in which diplomacy collapses, deterrence erodes, and every skyline feels within range ...
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As bombs rain down across the Middle East, experts share their tips for Brits after country warned to brace for warfare similar to that "our grandparents saw".
Since the morning of 28 February 2026, a chain reaction of FIR closures between the Mediterranean and the Gulf has forced ...
Israel and the US continue strikes on Iran, while Iran steps up attacks across the region in retaliation for the death of ...
Experts say that Iran’s clerical rulers may be too deeply entrenched for Iranians to topple them, and that the U.S. and ...
US military forces hit over 1,000 targets in two days of attacks on Iran, including missile sites and command and control ...
American and Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran as Trump tells Iranians to take over government. U.S. representatives demand vote ...
Despite warnings after an earlier wave of killings, top Iranian officials gathered in person, and Israel seized the chance to kill Iran’s supreme leader.
There have been a series of confirmed and unconfirmed strikes across the Islamic Republic.