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Iran president Ebrahim Raisi dead in helicopter crash
Well as the crisis in the Middle East continues, one of the main players – Iran – is reeling from the death of its president Ebrahim Raisi.
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Two state solution only way for Palestine UN membership, says senior adviser to Biden
We spoke to President Biden’s senior adviser on Middle East humanitarian issues David Satterfield, who was until very recently also the Special Envoy to this region.
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Proposed ceasefire a ‘good deal for everyone’, says Israeli hostage negotiator.
We speak to Gershon Baskin, an Israeli hostage negotiator and Middle East Director of the International Communities Organization.
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Israel Gaza war protests sweep US campuses
The impact of events on the Middle East is being felt on university campuses across the world.
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FactCheck: why has Iran just fired drones and missiles at Israel and does it make a wider war more likely?
Why are Iran and Israel so hostile to one another, and what could last night’s events mean for the prospects of a wider war in the Middle East?
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Israel braces for Iran attack as Revolutionary Guard storm ship
President Biden is cutting short his weekend and returning to Washington to consult his national security team about events in the Middle East.
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‘Iran has no choice but to respond to prevent future attacks’, says research fellow
We spoke to Abas Aslani – a Senior Research Fellow at the Tehran-based Center for Middle East Strategic Studies who specialises in Iranian foreign policy.
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US confirms support for Israel amid fears of Iran attack
The US military’s most senior Middle East commander touched down in Tel Aviv today, as Washington underscored its support for Israel in the face of ever-growing threats from Iran.
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‘If Hamas survives in Gaza, there will never be peace’, says US foreign policy expert
Elliott Abrams is a former deputy national security advisor under George W Bush and supervised US policy in the middle east for the White House.
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‘What US has wanted, Israel has done over last two months’, says Director of US think tank
We spoke to William Wechsler, who’s Senior Director of Middle East Programmes at the Atlantic Council, a US think tank.
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Sunak: ‘Our democracy itself is a target’
In a pertinent illustration of how events here in the Middle East spill into other parts of the world, George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain focused his Rochdale by-election campaign on the Israel-Gaza war.
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US announces sanctions against Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
While the billions of dollars which the United States promised to Ukraine have been blocked by political infighting, the White House is busy focusing on the Middle East, including the promised retaliation for drone strikes in Jordan which killed three US service members, and new sanctions against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
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Welsh parliament passes motion calling for ceasefire in Gaza
Members of the Welsh Parliament have voted to pass a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.
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Two-state solution ‘less workable by the day’, says former Pentagon adviser
We’re joined by national security expert and former Middle East advisor at the Pentagon, Jasmine El-Gamal.
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Scotland’s Jewish and Muslim communities speak out on fears of rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
As the violence continues in the Middle East, Jewish and Muslim communities in Scotland have spoken out about their fears of a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.