Markets may still be underestimating the depth of the crisis

The US president’s hopes of bringing the Iranian economy to its knees are being thwarted on multiple fronts

Talks are advancing faster than either side is willing to admit

The price of a barrel could rise above $200 if the strait standoff continues, and a sale to Beijing would buy Iran another two months

It also speaks to its desire to pump more oil

Tehran is intensifying its threats to those among the diaspora who have criticised it from abroad, vowing to punish all dissent

Tehran continues to play a waiting game while time is not on the US president’s side

Iran has not yet confirmed if it will attend peace talks with the US

The ceasefire raised hopes of escape but thousands of seamen, some hungry and unpaid, remain stuck in floating ‘prisons’

The talks could have brought an end to six weeks of war and seen the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

As the dust settles over a brittle ceasefire and Trump claims victory, an emboldened and increasingly hardline regime is turning its attention to executing protesters and political prisoners

Even in its degraded state, Tehran holds the cards

Despite the president’s claim to have achieved ‘all military objectives’ in Iran – and signs that bombing Lebanon may already have destroyed the brittle peace – his adversaries have a better claim to the victory

The eventual rescue of missing US pilot caps a week of confusion for the president as he loses his grip on the conflict

Iran’s attack on the Ras Laffan plant will not only disrupt energy markets but could mean the emirate pulling back from key global investments

Ali Larijani was ready to walk through the smouldering wreckage of the regime to which he gave his life. His killing will make it harder for the regime to assert power

Questions are being asked in Washington about whether its missile attack was an information failure

After the White House says it has obliterated 90 sites on Iran’s oil hub, Kharg island, the regime retaliates by issuing threats against a neighbour’s non-US assets for the first time

In Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence, the regime’s top brass are out in force

Three books that cast a light on the country under Islamic Republic rule