To understand why the US and Iran are enemies, you need to go back in time. Let's start in 1953. That's when the US and UK backed a coup against Iran's Prime Minister Muhammad Mosedc.American Britain opposed his nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian oil company, now known as BP. And they helped restore Iran's last shot to power. But he ran a corrupt and repressive regime.At the end of the 70s, a revolution broke out. It was fueled by mass protests with a strong anti-American slant. The sha by now suffering f ...

For more than a century, Iranians have struggled for democracy. Protest is deeply woven into our history and our identity. No authoritarian system has ever fully managed to silence this culture of resistance.And yet, the latest wave of protest has shaken our society in a way few moments ever have. Over the course of just 2 days, violence reached levels many of us had never witnessed before. Disturbing footage showed dozens of bodies wrapped in black bags.Families desperately searching for their loved ones. ...

Opinion: It can be easy to lapse into the view that the rise of liberal democracy over the past two centuries was an inevitable and natural part of humanity’s forward march — a one-way journey to a better way of doing things. But this is not the case,' the FT's chief data reposter, John Burn-Murdoch writes.⁠ ⁠ In a striking pattern most recently highlighted by US political economist Matthew Burgess, the advance of liberal democracy through the developed world has tended to track economic growth. This is not ...

China's flagship overseas infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative, is booming. The value of investment in construction contracts for the BarRi, increased three quarters to a record 213 billion in 2025. The spending increase highlights how the government in Beijing has sought to take advantage of wavering US influence around the world by pouring funding into development projects.Western government officials and analysts find the BarRi increasingly difficult to track and to analyze. This is becau ...

Dennis, Google launched its most powerful model, Gemini 3, just just a few months ago. It was received with a lot of excitement. Where do you think um Google is right now on the on the AI race.>> Well, we're we're we're very happy, as you say, with the last model we released, Gemini 3. Uh it's topping, you know, pretty much all the leaderboards. So, it's a great model.Uh feedback's been great from our users and and and enterprise customers. Um but I think overall we have had a really good year last year whe ...

We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay, now everyone's saying, "Oh, good." That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force.I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we ...

Donald Trump has come to Europe and delivered an extraordinary speech. It will do little to reassure America's European allies that he believes in the future of the transatlantic relationship. Speaking in the Swiss resort of Davos, the US president did stress to his audience of politicians and business leaders that he did not intend to take Greenland by force.rather he said he wanted to open negotiations over his desire to purchase what he called a very big piece of ice. >> We probably won't get anything un ...

Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source o ...

Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Denmark and several other European countries unless they agree to hand Greenland over to the US has stunned America's allies and created the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations in decades. >> Greenland's not for sale for sale. >> Trump's coercion has prompted indignation across Europe and some unusually blunt criticism from European leaders.They say only the people of Greenland and Denmark can decide the Arctic territo's future. Given their own bloody history ...

So, you know about the FX trip to Berlin to meet with Anna Garing at Futuron. >> Yep. Among many others, >> right.So, I was thinking I know officially technically it's still an FX relationship, but um I sort of hit it off with her at the Ryan Investors event. >> I'm terribly sorry. Um >> did you comprehensively consult the binder.You're certain we shouldn't go with the Chinese tptic. I comprehensively consulted the binder. >> We just seen a clip of Eric who we last saw running a trading desk high in the sky ...