Recent Work
19.06.2026
Iran’s loser victory
‘After years of negotiations, two wars, a succession of ruthlessly quashed uprisings in Iran and countless billions of dollars’ worth of ordnance smashing into rubble across the region, we have the bones of an agreement. Not a deal, it should be said. Instead an understanding that manages to speak volumes and yet say very little...’
09.06.2026
Behind the Lines Podcast: Iran Special - Is a deal about to be signed?
Can Donald Trump find a way out of the mess he's made for himself in Iran? Is the Islamic Republic doomed? Who's in charge in Tehran? Charlie Gammell, answers these and many more questions...
21.04.2026
Why Iran doesn’t want peace
‘Perhaps we should be used to be this by now. Yet again, there have been a flurry of promises to rapidly achieve peace in Iran. Yet again, the American administration has threatened to destroy the nation’s infrastructure. J.D. Vance is again flying to Pakistan for more talks…’
19.04.2026
Americano Podcast: Iran-US: how this could end
Freddy Gray is joined by Charlie Gammell to discuss the negotiations and why they originally broke down - plus what a post-conflict Iran could look like.
07.04.2026
Why Iran thinks it’s winning
‘President Trump has what he so dearly craves; the attention of the global media and the world hanging on his every word. As time ticks down to Donald’s deadline, after which he is threatening to commit war crimes on an unprecedented scale against the Iranian people, the gap for negotiations narrows…’
10.03.2026
Behind the Lines Podcast: Back by Popular demand - Charlie Gammell
Back by popular demand - Arthur talks to Charlie Gammell, about the latest in Iran.
02.03.2026
Americano Podcast: Will Iran descend into civil war?
Freddy and Charlie discuss the situation in Iran, whether the US is heading for a decisive confrontation, and examine the regional consequences: proxy warfare, Gulf energy security, Pakistan’s delicate position, and migration pressures on Europe.
02.03.2026
Behind the Lines Podcast: Iran Emergency Episode
Arthur speaks to Iran expert Charlie Gammell about the extraordinary events unfolding…
01.03.2026
Could Iran descend into civil war?
‘Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a man whose life has been defined by the harshness of his rhetoric against the West (specifically, the US and Israel) and his ruthless rule, has died a martyr’s death under the rubble of his compound in Pasteur, Tehran.’
19.02.2026
The US is offering Iran a lifeline – will it take it?
‘The talks are still alive. Just. Iranian and US diplomats, engaging indirectly through Omani intermediaries, have yet to make any substantive progress towards a framework of understanding that governs further talks – as Kafkaesque as that might sound – but they are talking, and that is the best that the diplomats can hope for right now…’
19.01.2026
Out Loud Podcast: Mickey Down, Charlie Gammell, Sean Thomas & Douglas Murray
Charlie Gammell argues that US intervention could push Iran into civil war and terrorism – warning that there are more possibilities than just revolution or regime survival…
14.01.2026
Americano Podcast: What’s really going on in Iran?
Charlie Gammell and Freddy Gray discuss what is really happening as protests play out on the streets of Iran… Imams turning on the Shah, could Trump actually be seeking talks rather than war, what the Middle East wants from a fractured Iran, and what issues could arise from replacing the regime with Reza Pahlavi.
14.01.2026
The rule of the Ayatollahs is broken. What happens now?
‘Help is on the way,’ promised Donald Trump to the people of Iran defying the Islamic Republic. In the same social media post, the US President, characteristically light on detail, also urged Iranian protestors to take over the institutions of the Islamic Republic (presumably by force) and to…’
14.01.2026
Behind the Lines Podcast: Iran in Crisis - Charlie Gammell on the protests
Charlie joins Arthur in a conversation about the rapidly evolving situation in Iran...
09.01.2026
Unrest is spreading across Iran
‘If they shut down the internet, you know it’s serious,’ said a well-informed observer of Iran to me yesterday morning. The internet blackout came yesterday afternoon – along with over a million Iranians marching in streets across the country. Strikes are continuing in bazaars and the cries for the end of the Islamic Republic are becoming more brazen…’
03.01.2026
Maduro’s fall could galvanise Iran’s opposition
‘On the afternoon of the 28 December in a Tehran electronics bazaar, shopkeepers (known as bazaaris) shuttered their shops and walked out, outraged at a planned gas price rise and crippled at the continuing slide in the value of the Iranian currency and the government’s powerlessness to…’
07.10.2025
Israel and Iran come full circle
‘On September 28, the UN again imposed wide-ranging economic sanctions on Iran. Earlier in the summer, European powers had notified the UN Security Council of their intention to trigger the snapback mechanism within the original nuclear deal, the JCPOA, citing Iranian non-compliance with the terms of the original deal…’
25.07.2025
Book Review: Scott Anderson’s King of Kings
‘Revolutions, those dark places where noble ideas go to die, notoriously difficult to see coming if you are wandering the corridors of power. And no revolution since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution has done more to change the world around us…’
23.06.2025
Why the US will probably strike Iran again
“It was bound to happen. Leaving aside, for the moment, the burning question of whether the US strikes on Iran will have set back Tehran’s nuclear programme by weeks, months or years, this moment…”
16.06.2025
Americano Podcast: Operation Rising
Operation Rising: will Trump get dragged into the Israel-Iran conflict? Charlie discusses with Freddy Gray and Owen Matthews.
16.06.2025
Behind the Lines Podcast: Iran and the US
Is a new nuclear deal in sight? Charlie speaks to Arthur in the light of the recent developments in the Iran nuclear negotiations…
