Con Coughlin is the Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor at AOL UK. He covers a range of topics including security policy, politics, and regional interest and world news, with a particular focus on the United States and Latin America. Con's insights and analyses have been featured in prominent publications such as The Spectator, The Telegraph, Yahoo News, and many others.
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By: Con Coughlin
With the US and Iran continuing to trade blows in the Gulf, it is hard to take seriously the Trump administration’s insistence that a lasting peace deal is in the offing – one that will secure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and end Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
American military historian Victor Davis Hanson... suggested that Iran's excuses might actually be an ever-extending "good cop-bad cop" routine, whereby the good cops, the negotiators, make acceptable proposals -- to be shot down immediately by the bad cops, General Ahmad Vahidi and other members of Iran's ruling Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
So the US war with Iran isn’t over, after all. The resumption of direct hostilities between Tehran and Washington, prompted by the Iranians downing a US Apache helicopter, has the usual suspects in the West once again claiming the conflict was a momentous mistake. They have ignored the extent of the damage done to Iran’s military infrastructure and nuclear programme, they have downplayed the threat the Iranians pose not just to their neighbours but to the rest of the world, and they have treated
Iran's "more rational, far less radicalised " chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who signed the MOU electromically with US Vice President JD Vance, immediately appeared on television where he
We must embrace revolutionary battlefield technologies such as drone warfare rather than simply buying more tanks
The extraordinary security measures implemented for the funeral of Iran's assassinated Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows that, despite
By: Con Coughlin
The most surprising aspect of Donald Trump’s announcement that the 60-day ceasefire agreed with Iran was “over” is that the deal aimed at ending the war has lasted as long as it has. From the moment the Trump administration signed the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding with Tehran last month, serious doubts were raised about its chances of achieving Trump’s two key goals – ending Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and safeguarding freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump's willingness to even consider lifting the F-35 ban is being seen in the context of his charm offensive to forge closer ties with Erdogan, an initiative the American leader has undertaken despite the Turkish leader's well-documented support for radical Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
By: Con Coughlin
A Foreign Secretary who opposes taking military action against a brutal dictator. A Solicitor General who happily consorts with Islamist terrorists. It is early days in Andy Burnham’s tenure as Prime Minister, but it is already self-evident that, in terms of protecting British interests, our new Government is going to be even more of a liability than its predecessor.
Trump's remarks were seen as a rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is — quite rightly — opposed to F-35 sales to Turkey on the grounds that it could ultimately prove a direct threat to Israel's security, as well as to Cyprus and Greece, which Erdogan has repeatedly threatened.
