Iliana Magra

Hmm. This was dispiriting. I had a haircut from a young woman, and after she established that I write for a newspaper, she gushed: "That's so interesting! I've never actually read a newspaper."

Staggered by this - since when did people bet on ceasefires?? And on missiles landing? Not to mention the White House Nintendo game style videos. The dehumanisation of this war is like nothing I have seen before theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Cyprus’ Nikos Christodoulides and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis have asked the EU to consider drafting a roadmap to enact the bloc’s mutual defence clause, according to two EU diplomats and one senior European government official. Live: #id_1322207" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">politico.eu/article/make-o…

Europe needs to prepare now for an extended energy shock ft.trib.al/BCrarFf | opinion

BREAKING: Iran's strike on Qatar gas facility will take up to 5 years of repairs and cut production by 17%

EXCLUSIVE. For the first time, @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan asks @Keir_Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Full interview - with many other topics - tomorrow in @repubblica

I uncovered revelatory emails about the US occupation of Iraq. They form the basis of an article I have co-written, which featured on the front cover of The Sunday Times Magazine. thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

Having lost his wife, son, mother in the airstrikes that killed his father Ali Khamenei last Saturday, Mojtaba - already close to the IRGC -- won't be playing an Iranian Delcy Rodriguez anytime soon. nytimes.com/2026/03/08/wor…

Very telling detail in this @nytimes story: the Trump administration's hopeful scenario for Iran is to find a bunch of corrupt IRGC guys who might be willing to shut down the nuclear program in exchange for keeping their kleptocracy "The CIA had produced a series of scenarios that might play out if Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, were killed in an offensive." "One envisioned a hard-line cleric replacing Ayatollah Khamenei — perhaps even a leader more bent on acquiring a nuclear weapon. Another scenario predicted an uprising against the government, a possibility many intelligence officials thought was remote, given the weakness of Iran's opposition." "A number of senior Trump administration officials seized on a third scenario: that a faction of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps more pragmatic than the hard-line clerics might take power... the CIA analysis suggested that as long as the United States did not interfere with the economic activities of this faction, such as its influence in the oil industry, a group of officers might be conciliatory toward the United States." nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/…

The New York Times reports that there are now around 50,000 American troops in the Middle East who have been assigned to the Iran war.

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“Reconsider travel to Cyprus” — an EU member state — “due to the threat of armed conflict”, as  non-emergency U.S. government employees evacuate Cyprus “due to the safety risks”.

BREAKING: CNN reports the CIA is 'working to arm Kurdish forces' in Iran

Thousands in Iran attend burial of children killed in bombing of school. With @pranavbask. nytimes.com/2026/03/03/wor…

French President Emmanuel Macron said the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that began Saturday and killed the country's supreme leader were conducted "outside of international law" and that Paris "cannot approve of them." politico.eu/article/us-str…

No president in the modern era has launched more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump, including more individual strikes in 2025 than Biden ordered in all four years. @zacharybasu axios.com/2026/03/02/tru…

Norway is willing to start talks with Paris on how French nuclear weapons can contribute to the continent's security, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said today. politico.eu/article/norway…

We don’t know which way AI will ultimately develop, but we can futureproof ourselves by focusing on adaptability. From @nytimes piece “Where Is AI Taking Us?” – read the whole thing: bit.ly/NYT-YNH

I told @StevenErlanger @nytimes that Iran’s strategy is to expand the War, increase the cost, and outlast Trump. The war has become a test of wills and stamina. Iran is facing qualitatively superior militaries, so the strategy is to test their will by expanding the battlefield, complicating the war and increasing the danger to the world economy. nytimes.com/2026/03/03/wor…

China's foreign minister told his Israeli counterpart that the attacks on Iran should be stopped.