A new Islamic bloc, a vanished ayatollah, and the price of oil: why this week reshuffled the Middle East chessboard

This week has seen a change in the balance in West Asia, and New Delhi is observing this change in detail.

A Wounded Supreme Leader, a Bleeding Gulf and a Washington Running Short on Bullets: Iran's War Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase

Five months into the deadliest conflict in the Middle East in a generation, the region is facing four crises, all so intertwined they could roll back the fragile truce into a full-scale war.

Trump's Iran Bet Is Coming Apart, and Tehran's New Boss Is Nowhere to Be Found

Washington's Iran policy, which was supposed to be short and sweet, seems more like a feeling than a policy after six months of a war.

Behind Trump's Iran Deal, a Web of Fractures From Tehran to Islamabad

The Middle East's story, recovering and the Middle East's story, still armed to the teeth, meet every few days now and this week, from the same man.

Hormuz stays half-open, and everyone but Iran is losing patience

Five months on from the beginning of a war over the assassination of Iran's supreme leader and the war's conclusion, for all intents and purposes, of a fifth of the world's oil, the Strait of Hormuz is still not fully open and the latest spate of 'breakthroughs' to be treated as more seriously than they're getting in the headlines.