A five-day ‘pause’ allows Gulf nations to find dwindling air defences, buys Iran’s decentralised military system respite and gives Trump the chance to reflect on how to get out of a quagmire Tehran prepared for him, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Oil and gas prices have spiked due to Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz - and the US president has attacked Nato for not helping end it

‘You don’t do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side,’ Trump told reporters on Friday

Three weeks of a fierce US-Israeli bombardment in Iran has not wiped out Tehran’s ability to fire retaliation strikes. Experts tell Alex Croft that Tehran could continue the war…

A five-day ‘pause’ allows Gulf nations to find dwindling air defences, buys Iran’s decentralised military system respite and gives Trump the chance to reflect on how to get out of…

Some inside Iran believe Trump’s threat designed to divert attention from Trump’s desire to seize islands in strait of Hormuz

Iran has denied the president’s claim of ‘very strong’ negotiations and says he is trying to ‘manipulate the financial and oil markets’

With petrol prices surging at home, the US president wants to extract his country from the war he started, and he may leave Israel in the lurch, writes world affairs editor Sam…