From the Cloudy Uplands
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Arming the Iranian opposition is a dangerous idea.
A gathering during the 8 January protest in Tehran, Photograph: Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/12/iran-protest-movement-visual-guide
The well-known theoretician of regime change and toppling dictatorships, Gene Sha...
The Economics of Mossadegh
Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept; photo: AP
Glancing, as I sometimes do, at the front pages of Tehran’s newspapers, I came across an interesting article by the economic commentator Amir Ahmad Shishegar in the Reformist daily...
What could Iran’s new military appointments mean?
Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Recent tweets attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Leader of the Islamic Republic, announce a series of appointments across the regime’s military and security establishment...
How the Iran War is lost in translation
Image from news.sky.com
When Victor Zorza, The Guardian’s Polish-born chief Kremlin-watcher from the 1950s to the 1970s, was asked to name his worst misjudgement, he chose the Hungarian uprising of 1956. He had gone to Budapest, he said, a...
In Defence of Westminster
Burnham took a selfie with Labour MPs on his first day back in Westminster
A little over a fortnight ago, Keir Starmer announced his resignation as British Prime Minister, less than two years after Labour’s landslide election victory. Yet...
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Watching Iran and the Middle East from rainy Britain. Some thoughts on British politics too.
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