29 marzo, 2026
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Covering Iran’s war (ISW)

Institute for the Study of War

29 marzo, 2026
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Covering Iran (US Foreign Press Association)

FOREIGN PRESS

The current Iran crisis is not a story that can be covered through a single lens. It is at once a military story, a diplomacy story, a nuclear story, a regional security story, and an energy market story. That complexity matters. One of the biggest mistakes in a fast-moving international crisis is to reduce it to one dramatic frame such as war, regime change, nuclear countdown, or regional collapse. Those labels may sound urgent, but they often flatten reality. Good foreign correspondence does the opposite. It helps the audience understand what is happening, why it matters, what is verified, and what remains uncertain.

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The Escalating Crisis in the Red Sea: What Foreign Correspondents Need to Understand

28 marzo, 2026
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Lessons from one month of war with Iran

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Friday, March 27, 2026

Saturday will mark one month since the United States and Israel launched their military campaign against the Iranian regime. Each Friday since February 28, I’ve posed a pressing question about the Iran war in the opening of this newsletter. This week: What have we learned in the past month?

Top Atlantic Council experts share their answers in the first pick below. Nate Swanson, who leads our Iran Strategy Project and previously served as Iran director at the US National Security Council, says we’ve learned that the Iranian regime is “bruised, battered, and (perhaps irrationally) bullish about its future.” He explains: Continue leyendo →

27 marzo, 2026
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How Iran increasingly outsourced its terrorism campaigns

Biker gangs and hired hands: how Iran is increasingly outsourcing its terrorism campaigns

Experts see potential hallmarks of Iranian involvement in firebombing of four ambulances in Golders Green on Monday

To some it was the moment the mask slipped. Wearing an open-necked white shirt, Mohsen Rafighdoost, former minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was filmed last March fondly reminiscing with an interviewer from the Tehran-based Didban Iran news website about the assassinations he had organised around Europe.

There was Prince Shahriar Shafiq, the last Shah of Iran’s 34-year-old nephew, who was shot twice in the head outside his mother’s home in Paris in 1979.

Then there was the Shah’s final commander-in-chief, Gen Gholam Ali Oveissi, also shot dead in Paris, in 1984.

Rafighdoost explained with a chuckle that he had additionally ordered the murder of Shapour Bakhtiar, the final prime minister under the Shah, who was killed in his Parisian home in 1991; and the stabbing to death a year later of Fereydoun Farrokhzad, a dissident Iranian artist.

“Usually the Basque guys,” Rafighdoost said of the separatist terror group he commissioned to carry out the murders. “They were performing and no one was bothering them.”

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25 marzo, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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