China’s carefully crafted, if contradictory, policy on the current conflict in Iran is coming under increasing strain, threatening to derail its trade, energy flows, its relations with the United States and the Gulf countries, and its ambitions to invade Taiwan.
Anthropic, the US AI giant that seeks to differentiate itself from other AI firms as being the champion of ethics and responsibility, has restricted initial access to its new powerful AI model-cum-agent, Mythos, to 40 organisations. All of them, except British AI Security Institute, are American. Reason for the restricted access? Mythos is so powerful that it can detect hidden vulnerabilities in software systems. If hackers get their hands on it, they could wreak havoc.
As the negotiations between Iran and the United States mediated by Oman were giving some hope to avert the war, on February 28, US President Donald Trump got played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and followed the same playbook as June 2025 and launched decapitating attacks on Iran and its leadership, crossing the final redline by killing Ayatollah Khamenei and top military brass.
TK Arun The US-Israeli war on Iran continues, with Iranian cities being bombed regularly and Iran retaliating intermittently with missiles that should not have been launched if American President Donald Trump’s claim of having obliterated Iran’s missile launch capability were…
Harsh V Pant In many ways, the ongoing US-Iran war, triggered by the joint American-Israeli strikes that killed Ali Khamenei on February 28 and targeted Iranian nuclear and military facilities, illustrates how crises in one theatre can dramatically reshape strategic calculations…
Anil Trigunayat Between the US and Israel on the one side and Iran on the other, several red lines have been crossed that will change the future regional and global dynamic. This was a war that had been avoided for…
Even as Washington may call and claim victory, notional or real, the global pain of the brash and so-called bold and illegal strikes will be real for years to come, nor will it benefit any party in the long term, not even Israel