A protester throws a smoke-emitting object as supporters of Iraqi Shi’ite armed groups
attempt to move toward the US embassy located in Baghdad’s Green Zone March 1, 2026,
while riot police deploy to block their advance, following the Israeli and US strikes on Iran
and the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28. Photo:
OSV News / Ahmed Saad, Reuters. Blessed are the Peacemakers”, said the greatest peacemaker of them all. This week my headline might be ‘Man who seeks peace prize starts war’. And so it was that I woke up last Saturday morning to the horrible news that the USA and Israel had launched an attack on Iran, including its capital Tehran. And…
Brendan O’Regan