Iran

Employee dismissed for logging into his college email account from Iran

US futures steady after finishing Thursday down 0.3%

Worldview: Netanyahu’s primordial Zionism and Trump’s National Security Strategy have a lot in common

Early Edition with Andrew McNair: Our top stories on Friday

‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’ asks US president while meeting Sanae Takaichi

EU will table ‘temporary, tailored and targeted’ measures to help ease burden of high energy costs, says Ursula von der Leyen

Conflict now a broader regional war involving Lebanon, Gulf states, shipping and energy markets

EU leaders meet today to seek ways to curb the jump in energy prices triggered by the Iran war

Netanyahu claims, without evidence, Tehran no longer capable of enriching uranium or producing ballistic missiles

Wholesale gas prices also climbing following military attacks on Iranian and Qatari gasfields this week

Euronext Dublin was a sea of red as the index was dragged down 2.3%, which was largely in line with international peers

European markets fall sharply in wake of Nikkei slide

European Central Bank decision comes as renewed inflation worries heighten

Israel’s military strikes in Lebanon ‘wholly disproportionate’, Micheál Martin says

Inside Politics: Simon Harris promises to bring forward measures to help Ireland cope with a surge in oil and fuel prices

Strikes signal a potential deepening of the war, with longer-term consequences for the global economy

White House accuses its own counterintelligence head of repeating ‘false claim’ aired by Democrats

Pentagon reportedly requests additional $200bn in funding for war in Middle East from US Congress

Donald Trump appears to suggest the US could ‘finish off’ Iran and leave its allies to secure the key Strait of Hormuz

Tánaiste Simon Harris told the Dáil it would be agreed at the next Cabinet meeting, likely on Tuesday

Tensions spill over after counterterrorism chief quits with letter criticising rationale for the conflict

Iran is being battered by the US and Israel, but Tehran’s ability to choke the Strait of Hormuz has caught Washington by surprise

A mission to take or destroy Iran’s nuclear material would be one of the riskiest military operations in modern American history

USS Gerald R Ford and its crew ‘have been pushed to the brink after nearly a year at sea’, says senator

Trump is at heart not merely cruel but a coward

Bank of International Settlements urges interest rate-setters globally not to rush to respond to a spike in energy prices

Intensifying Israeli attacks in Lebanon ​displace more than 1m people, while aid effort struggles to keep pace with deepening crisis

Micheál Martin intervened repeatedly to defend Starmer and insisted that Europe was ‘a good place to live’

Ukrainian president warns against US move to ease sanctions on Russian oil

Taoiseach benefits from St Patrick’s Day news agenda dominated by US foreign policy

Joe Kent is the first Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict

Iran are currently scheduled to play two group matches in Los Angeles and one in Seattle

National security chief emerged as one of Iran’s most dominant figures following the assassination of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

A deep economic crisis, shocking terrorist attacks in EU cities plus an unprecedented wave of refugees would lead to a far-right surge that the EU may not survive

Micheál Martin’s St Patrick’s Day engagements are not mere festivity

The high-stakes process became a full-on test of whether the country’s theocracy could survive

Live updates as war in Middle East continues

Japan and Australia have no plans to send ship as US president says Nato faces ‘very bad’ future if members fail to assist

Why have we allowed so many of our lives to become dependent on their vagaries?

EU leaders frustrated at being sidelined in Ukraine peace negotiations