Politico Europe · Feb 28, 2026 · Collected from RSS
Photos appear to show smoke rising from the office building of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death throws the future of the regime into doubt.
Leaders in Syria, Venezuela and now Iran have all discovered that Russian support only goes so far.
President Donald Trump, already upset with Tehran’s violent crackdown, gave diplomacy a final shot, but ultimately decided time was up.
Iran’s retaliation across the region forces Washington’s Arab partners — long opposed to strikes — to weigh deeper involvement as U.S. assets come under fire.
Brussels has shifted into crisis mode, with emergency meetings piling up Saturday and Sunday.
Unlike Paris, Warsaw and Berlin were told of the strikes before they happened, exposing differences in how Europe was looped in.