Iran

Western policy towards Iran is one of the most contentious issues at this summit, pitting Donald Trump against the others – a question of G1 against G6. Well this afternoon the French sprung a surprise on their guests by inviting the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif here. Jackie Long spoke to Trita Parsi, who is…

Retired four-star General Jack Keane is the former vice-chief of staff of the US Army, and currently serves as the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War.

Just ten minutes from the brink – President Trump backed off from armed confrontation with Iran, claiming he cancelled planned air strikes with just a few minutes to go after being told that 150 people could die as a result.

The Iranian Ambassador to the UK tells me that ‘there are certain provisions for clemency’ for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who’s been in prison in Iran since April 2016.

The US military has condemned what it described as an “unprovoked attack” in international air space, after Iran shot down a US drone.

The Home Office is trying to deport an elderly Iranian couple whose immediate family all have British citizenship and live near them in Edinburgh. Mozaffar Saberi, who’s 83, and his wife Rezvan Habibimarand, who’s 73, fear they’ll never see their family again if they’re forced to return to Iran.

Women in Iran can be arrested for dancing or riding a bike – but there is some evidence that public life is starting to change as many wage a quiet battle for equality in the clothes they wear and the jobs they do. One of them is Bita Bagheri, a working mother who has forged…

It felt like this really could be the beginning of the end, Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe told her family today – as she was allowed out of prison in Tehran for three days. The British Iranian charity worker, who was sentenced to five years on spying charges she vehemently denies, has been reunited with her daughter…

If the EU and the British Government want to keep trade flowing to protect the Iran nuclear deal, it doesn’t seem to be succeeding.

The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who owns Chelsea FC, has been granted Israeli citizenship and has bought a home in Tel Aviv, after delays in getting his British visa renewed. Downing Street said he would be free to visit the UK, but would not be allowed to work here if he travels on his Israeli…

Hamed Mousavi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tehran.

Michael McFaul served as the US Ambassador to Russia under President Obama and is the author of From Cold War to Hot Peace.

Chris Wilson is a conservative pollster and strategist who was the director of research and analytics for Senator Ted Cruz’s Presidential campaign.

It was all about centrifuges, industrial spinning tubes designed to enrich uranium and crucial to making a nuclear bomb. Five years ago, Iran was set to spin thousands of them, but the deal brokered in 2015 stopped almost all of them and Iran’s nuclear programme was frozen. But Donald Trump has never liked it, once…