Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei a no-show at father’s funeral as three other pray beside his coffin
On Sunday, tens of thousands more mourners, including soldiers, seminary students and ordinary men and women filed into the Mosalla to pay their respects to Khamenei and his family, waving flags emblazoned with promises of revenge against America and Israel.
‘Let us wail!’ Iranians flock to slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral after wartime death
Thousands of US and Israeli airstrikes hit a range of military targets, energy and civilian infrastructure during weeks of war that began with the killing of Khamenei on February 28. The attacks killed more than 3,000 people in Iran, according to state media.
Panicky Iran swiftly suspends flights at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport fearing Israeli retaliatory attack
Iran on Monday announced the cancellation of all flights at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport until further notice, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Earlier in the day, Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation closed the country’s western airspace until further notice, citing “security and safety assessments.” Flights at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International...
How Iran war taught Middle East and Third World US ceased to be security guarantor, became reactive crisis manager
Iran has evolved into a direct and resilient regional player that demands new terms for negotiations, said Jumaa Mohammed, a politics professor at Iraq’s Tikrit University.
In wake of Middle East war, Africa should consider weaning itself of reliance on external financing and aid flows – experts
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, professor of global development at the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, raised concerns over the timing of the conflict as “strategically devastating” for Africa.
Analyst: No rebound in Hormuz traffic after ceasefire, transit rules to be key focus of US-Iran talks
While US President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that the United States does not rely heavily on the strait for oil, Meade pointed out that the impact goes far beyond energy, as large volumes of global commodities transit the route, influencing everything from geopolitics to food prices.
Pakistan tables last minute proposal to avert further US-Iran hostilities as Trump’s deadline for Tehran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms
On Sunday, the United States, Iran, and regional intermediaries were reportedly holding talks centred on a 45-day pause in hostilities, the first stage of a broader two-phase agreement that may bring the conflict to a temporary close.
Letter from Mideast: Why cancer treatment has become another casualty of war and numbers are rising
Like Abu Foul, hundreds of patients rely on leaving Gaza to receive treatment. The Rafah crossing, Gaza’s main link with Egypt, has been mostly closed since Israeli forces took control of the area in May 2024. It occasionally reopens for medical evacuations but departures remain limited.
Trump faces growing political trilemma at home and abroad three weeks into Iran war
Reviewing Trump’s recent statements on the prospects of the war with Iran, his rhetoric has veered between ending the war and pressing on. On Sunday, he said that the United States had “essentially defeated Iran,” yet denied being ready to declare victory. On Monday, he stated that the war will not end this week, “but it’ll be soon.”
Analysts say it is unlikely US and Israel will accede to Iran’s preconditions for ending war
The demand for reparations is highly unrealistic, as it would require the United States and Israel to admit war guilt, said political analyst from Gaza Mustafa Ibrahim. Ibrahim believes asking for reparations appears more like “a political bargaining position” to strengthen Iran’s negotiating leverage, rather than a condition that could “realistically be implemented in the near term.”
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