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"Advantage Iran"

March 28, 2026 Edition

Cover: Advantage Iran

📊 Issue Statistics

75
Total Articles
18
Sections

🌍 The World This Week

1. Politics
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2. Business
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3. The weekly cartoon
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📌 Leaders

1. England has shown the world how to replace farm subsidies
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2. Europe should think twice before weakening its merger rules
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3. The case against energy bail-outs
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4. Mexico must unleash its private sector
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✉️ Letters

1. Should Europe's pensions be reformed?
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🎯 By Invitation

1. Iran's Revolutionary Guards won't defend the regime to the last man
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2. Europe's choice: Grow, or become a vassal
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📖 Briefing

1. Hormuz is not the only weak spot for global trade
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2. What a battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would look like
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🌏 Asia

1. Millions of Burmese struggle to find safety in Thailand
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2. How Chinese companies are reshaping Indonesia
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3. China is breaking into one of the world's weirdest car markets
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4. The end of the world's longest-running Maoist insurgency
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5. Why Bangalore has India's best billionaires
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6. The world's most unaffordable housing is not where you think
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🇨🇳 China

1. China's huge pork industry is a victim of its own success
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2. Does the Iran war increase the risk of a Chinese attack on Taiwan?
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3. China's government both drives and constrains the rise of AI
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4. Jiang Shengnan is the most vocal woman in Chinese politics
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5. China's new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond
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🇺🇸 United States

1. For Donald Trump, Cuba is everything Iran is not
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2. Snarled airports and frozen funding test the new DHS secretary
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3. America's spies have a lot to complain about
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4. America's pro-Israel lobby is facing a backlash
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5. Marco Rubio, the chameleon in the war room
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6. Why Donald Trump is putting his face on a coin
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7. America goes on cyber-offence
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🌎 The Americas

1. Brazil has a secret weapon against oil shocks
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2. Mexico's broken economy
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3. Why the number of Islamic schools in Canada is soaring
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🌍 Middle East & Africa

1. In the current Gulf war, water may prove as decisive as oil
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2. Israeli settlers are growing more violent in the West Bank
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3. Iran's regime walls off the internet
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4. Donald Trump says he is close to a deal with Iran
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5. The Houthis' attack on Israel heralds escalation of the Iran war
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6. How long will Israel stay in Lebanon?
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7. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran
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8. Botswana prepares to take an even bigger gamble on diamonds
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🇪🇺 Europe

1. Russia wants to limit contact with the outside world
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2. France offers some hope for defeating populists
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3. Germany's Social Democrats gaze into the abyss
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4. Europe's populist right should be outvoted rather than ostracised
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5. Giorgia Meloni's big setback in Italy
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6. Ukraine's top drone commander wants to bleed Russia's army dry
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🇬🇧 Britain

1. English farming is changing quickly, for the better
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2. Britain's diplomatic footprint is diminishing
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3. Britain's foreign aid morphs from open-handed to hard-headed
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4. Britain's dairy farmers are pouring milk away
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5. The Bank of England's eyes and ears
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6. A golden decade for British vets is coming to an end
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7. What Sir Keir Starmer gets wrong about deregulation
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🌐 International

1. How high could global inflation go?
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2. Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers
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3. Even the best-case scenario for energy markets is disastrous
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💼 Business

1. Will the EU's new merger rules unleash a wave of dealmaking?
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2. The war's biggest corporate winners and losers may surprise you
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3. A new case of chip smuggling shows the limits of export controls
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4. Welcome to emoji school
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5. Meta and Google face a reckoning over social-media addiction
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6. How much will America's oilmen benefit from the Iran war?
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7. Big food's troubles go from bad to worse
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8. Amazon's unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work
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9. ByteDance is swallowing the internet—in China and beyond
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💰 Finance & Economics

1. The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire
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2. Christine Lagarde's sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock
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3. Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance
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🔬 Science & Technology

1. NASA's Moon-base plans mark a rethinking of its future
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2. Autonomous swarms are the future of drone warfare
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3. Is playing music good for the brain?
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🎭 Culture

1. What is the big deal with Ovid and artists?
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2. Russia should not be welcome at the world's top art show
3. The forgotten man who pre-dated Mussolini and Hitler
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4. Everyone knows divorce is costly. But children pay most dearly
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5. Young people all over the world are clicking with mahjong
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6. With "SNL UK", Britain's laughing stock appreciates
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📊 Economic & Financial Indicators

1. Economic data, commodities and markets
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