Why are Iranian leaders sending mixed messages on Gulf attacks?
Attacks on the Gulf continue as President Pezeshkian’s remarks receive pushback from the powerful IRGC.
Iran war: What is happening on day nine of US-Israel attacks?
The US and Israel continue to strike Iran, hitting oil storage depots and refining facilities for the first time.
Zelenskyy offers Saudi Arabia’s MBS help countering Iranian drones
Ukraine’s president seeks leverage with low-cost interceptors, as US and Gulf nations burn through Patriot missiles.
Iran to halt strikes on neighbours unless attacks from there: Pezeshkian
Arab states in the Gulf and beyond that house US assets have been targeted in Iranian retaliatory strikes in the war.
Iranian missiles intercepted over Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain sirens
Qatar says it came under a wave of drone attacks, with 10 fired from Iran, nine intercepted.
Caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia, can Pakistan stay neutral for long?
As Iran strikes Gulf targets, Pakistan navigates alliance with Riyadh while avoiding confrontation with Tehran.
Iran’s legal case for striking the Gulf collapses under scrutiny
Claims of self-defence cannot justify missile attacks on neighbouring states that were not party to the conflict.
Iran’s strikes on the Gulf: Burning the bridges of good neighbourliness
The Gulf states didn’t want this war, and they’re the ones Iran needs to mediate an end to the conflict.
What is the PrSM missile that the US used for the first time in Iran?
US CENTCOM said Precision Strike Missiles were used in Operation Epic Fury.
![Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Iran last year in May days after Pakistan's four-day long conflict with India, during which he met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in a US-Israel attack on February 28, 2026. [File: Handout/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2025-05-26T173413Z_2133136927_RC2TPEAV1OU2_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-PAKISTAN-1772753233.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Smoke rises following an explosion, amid theUS-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-03-07T193310Z_1189510347_RC2UZJA9OWAT_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-1772915368.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
