Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and American strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. For more than three decades, leaders in Tel Aviv and Washington have issued stark warnings about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and activities, and five American presidents have pledged to prevent Tehran from crossing the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
The US-Israeli military attack on Iran led to the death of a number of first-line leaders in the Iranian authority, led by the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, Ali Khamenei.
The list also included the adviser to the Iranian leader, the head of the Defense Council Ali Shamkhani, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Bakpur, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces, Major General Abdul Rahim Mousavi, and the defense minister, Aziz Nasirzadeh.
He went big. On Saturday morning, US and Israeli forces unleashed Operation Epic Fury, what US President Donald Trump called “a massive and ongoing” campaign against Iran. He called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime once the fighting is done. Iran responded quickly by attacking Israel and US bases in the region. Below, our experts assess the unfolding war and where it goes from here.
Trump warned countries against reneging on their deals with the US, and even if he can’t legally reimpose his threatened 25% punitive tariff on India if it defiantly reverses its trend of reducing Russian oil imports, he might still resume the US’ containment of it through Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity.
For decades, Iran has targeted and killed Americans and US allies. Its proxies took hostages. It attacked ships in the Gulf of Oman. Now, America is responding.
US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US had begun major combat operations against Iran yesterday was different from his comments in the past about Tehran.
Young people in Palestine are accused of being ignorant of their past. But the truth may be that they are more aware of their present than anyone else.
Palestinian youth are a foreign country; they do things differently there—not because they reject politics, but because the political institutions around them no longer function. But the implications for diplomacy and politics have not sunk in, especially regarding the structures that have upheld Palestinian political life over many decades but are now in severe decay.
Convergence cyclique, influence géopolitique et raisons pour lesquelles l’énergie redevient la principale couverture du marché.
La restructuration que nos modèles avaient correctement anticipée pour le premier trimestre 2026 traduit une réévaluation structurelle en cours, et non une période transitoire de volatilité macroéconomique. Elle est de plus en plus influencée par la convergence des cycles, c’est-à-dire l’interaction entre une dynamique économique de fin de cycle, les tensions géopolitiques non résolues et des comportements extrêmes réflexifs.
What do Canada’s retired general Wayne Eyre and Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman share in common? Answer: In their own ways, both have inadvertently warned the public about the deep relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
The former’s warning came earlier this month, when the retired general told a conference in Ottawa that when it came to acquiring nuclear weapons, Canada should keep its “options open,” pointing out that Canada had “a good nuclear enterprise” including “the civilian infrastructure” and “the scientists.” Eyre, who served as Canada’s chief of the Defence Staff from 2021 to 2024, argued, “Let’s just have the conditions in place so that if we decide to go that way, we can do it in shorter order than some other countries who have no nuclear enterprise. It’s all about hedging.” Part of the strategy he recommended was to invest in aerospace and missile technology.