Deliberate starvation of an entire people is a monstrous strategy, openly endorsed by cabinet members - horrifying, illegal and counter to Jewish morality and collective memory
Uranium enrichment remains a core issue of contention between the sides
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Differences over uranium enrichment put fate of negotiations in the balance
US president unhappy at plight of Afrikaners, Pretoria’s court case against Israel and its ties with ‘rogue’ states like Iran
Iranian foreign minister says US envoy Steve Witkoff is ‘at a distance from reality of negotiations’
Hadi Matar stabbed author 15 times at 2022 literary gathering in New York, causing severe injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines
US president bypasses Israel as he eyes Gulf billions, meets Syrian leader and pursues detente with Iran
Riyadh normalising relations with Israel had been US precondition for progressing civilian nuclear programme discussions
Men arrested as part of two separate investigations
Russia dispatches firefighters to Bandar Abbas as more than 1,000 injured in blast
New deal could reshape regional and global security and transform Iran’s economic and political landscape
Shahid Rajaee is a large Iranian container facility that handles 80m tonnes of goods a year
The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader
Netherlands’ intelligence agency points finger at Iran for attempts to kill activist and Spanish former MEP
Third round of talks between Tehran and Washington due to be held on Saturday in Oman
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Maddaloni
Negotiators are lowering any expectations of a swift breakthrough in the decades-long dispute ahead of talks between the US and Iran in Rome
Rafael Grossi has warned that Tehran could be close to having the capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons
European telecoms firms are working with entity likely linked to Islamic Revolutionary Guard, company claims
Israeli sources fear the US position in the talks with Iran may fall short of the 2003 deal with Libya, under which Tripoli agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons
Countries began high-level talks in Oman on Saturday
Iran enters discussions in a position of weakness following a series of reverses
US president says ‘very high level’ talks will take place on Saturday
US president says he prefers a deal over military confrontation
US president says Middle East country ‘cannot have a nuclear weapon’
US president said Iran could face ‘bombing the likes of which they have never seen before’
Reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian’s hopes for detente with West in tatters as rival factions tighten grip on power
Nearly every second adult in countries across the world thinks it is job done on female equality, which it patently is not
Beijing and Moscow keen to show mutual co-operation will not be affected by Trump’s embrace of Putin
Flights to Beirut fully booked as thousands arrive from around the world, including Irish 'activists'
The author is concerned about a potential three-way arms race between the US, Russia and China and a greater willingness to consider a ‘limited’ use of nuclear weapons
Militant leader killed in September when Israeli air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hizbullah’s Beirut hub
Attack occurred more than 30 years after Rushdie was first placed under ‘fatwa’ by Iranian religious leaders
Netanyahu again describes US president as the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House
US president dismisses reports that United States and Israel planned to ‘blow Iran to smithereens’ as ‘greatly exaggerated’
A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regime
The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities
West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime
Private enterprise controls oil and may not share US president’s enthusiasm for increased production
Palestinians have cause for increased concern
The judges had long been involved in ‘national security cases, including espionage and terrorism’
Closer military, energy and other co-operation planned under 20-year pact between Moscow and Tehran
Analysts and former officials warn that the Houthis, situated 2,000km away, are a vastly different and more complex challenge than adversaries closer to home
One of the first tasks of the new government will be how to persuade the incoming Trump administration that Ireland is not a soft touch
Year-on-year rise in executions ‘deeply disturbing’, says UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk
In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance
Belfast man kidnapped by Islamic Jihad in 1986 in Beirut during Lebanese civil war
Government going ahead with plan despite concerns over Iran’s human rights record
Paramedics treating people for minor injuries with some taken to hospital, says ambulance service
As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards
Iran reported to be willing to permit inspections in bid to forestall attack
Attacks on arms centres, alleged chemical weapons facilities, and military air and sea resources are essentially defensive in nature, Israel claims
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
