**Livewire** Operation Epic Fury Day Ten: The Latest News From Iran and the Middle East
The military operation entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran's new leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded.

Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are finding their carefully projected image of stability has been blown awayThere is a tendency to think of the Gulf powers as static and unchanging. They are, after all, fortified by massive wealth and absolute monarchical rule, and secured with deep economic and military relationships with the US. The…
The military operation entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran's new leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded.
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? In an interview with Jacobin contributing editor Bashir Abu-Manneh, political economist Gilbert Achcar argues that the answer lies above all in the region’s central place in the global oil economy and the strategies of great powers seeking to control it. Achcar discusses the logic […]
As attacks escalate across the Middle East, Iran is striking oil-rich gulf states to drive up gas prices and create economic pressure to stop the war. It comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed again to Iranians to rise up and “cast off the yoke of tyranny.” NBC’s Richard Engel reports for TODAY from Tel Aviv.
We speak with Kareem Shaheen, Middle East editor at New Lines Magazine, about the regional response to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. He says the Gulf countries are in a no-win situation, stuck between a belligerent Israel that has no qualms about using violence to achieve its strategic aims and a desperate Iran lashing out against U.S. allies in the…
The price of crude oil briefly neared $120 a barrel Monday as Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei the supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.
The war with Iran is reshaping the entire Middle East from the Gulf States to Lebanon with surprising speed.
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