The Latest Breaking News from Benjamin Netanyahu

We are at a dinner party in suburban Perth, a home away from home for our diaspora. As guests arrive, a Persian ballad plays in the background: Morq-e Sahar (Dawn Bird), a freedom song, a century-old protest against dictatorships and tyranny in Iran. This version was sung by the late…

Analysts say US president, who promised global peace, is being pulled into a ‘catastrophic’ war with Iran by Israel.

Israeli prime minister compares war to liberation of Jewish people from captivity in Babylon, 2,500 years earlier

Editorial: The US president promised to keep his country out of conflicts. The Israeli prime minister has other ideas

President is increasingly turning to a handful of Iran hardliners and brushing off the MAGA isolationists that got him elected to a second term

Here are the key events on day seven of the Israel-Iran conflict.

President Donald Trump reportedly believes bombing Fordow, Iran's nuclear facility buried deep under a mountain, is necessary to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon

Letters: Unless Israel is open about its nuclear weapons and joins the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will one day have the bomb, writes Corrado Pirzio-Biroli. Plus, letters by Hubert Cassel, Dr Anthony Isaacs and Randhir Singh Bains

Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country’s campaign in Iran “could certainly” lead to regime change. In an interview with Fox News on June 15, he called the government in Tehran “very weak” and added that, given the opportunity, “80% of the [Iranian] people would throw…

President still mulling joining Israeli assault against Tehran to stop its nuclear program