Much ado about nothing in Iran

You can trust the Iranian regime, nasty though it is, not to let itself be drawn into truly dangerous confrontations with the United States. Its low-key, largely symbolic responses to American attacks were a model of self-control.

It took U.S. President Donald Trump a long time to realize that he had been played by the Israeli prime minister, but it won’t last because he cannot bear the idea that he was outsmarted, writes Gwynne Dyer.Official White House photograph courtesy of Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 26, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—I don’t get a lot of face-time with Donald Trump, but the American president’s rant on June 24 in front of the chopper that was to take him to the airport and onto the NATO summit in Brussels was the first time I heard him say ‘fuck’ in front of live m...

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