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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With the stakes so high now in the tinderbox of the Middle East, Keir Starmer must show the caution that has served him so well on the world stage

ANALYSIS: President need only look to his predecessors to see what will happen now that he has committed to military strikes in the Middle East, writes Eric Garcia

Late-night hosts expressed confusion and concern over the president’s potential strike on Iran while also discussing the heatwave

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This is a war of choice, based on misinformation. If the US and UK join it, they risk a rerun of the Iraq debacle of 2003, says Fawaz Gerges of the LSE

International law proscribes the use of force except in self-defence – but what constitutes self-defence?

“If this president wants to completely ignore the intelligence community, we are playing in dangerous ground,” one senator warned

As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy

There’s something uniquely unsettling about discovering the game was fixed long after the final whistle. Whether it’s politics, sports, finance, or education, the sting of realizing a system was stacked from the start never fades easily. Most people operate under the belief that fairness, however imperfect, is at least the…

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

ANALYSIS: Trump’s sudden re-embrace of the ‘neocons’ he just recently spurned is leaving Democrats a major political opening — if they can seize it, writes John Bowden