Two weeks later the start of Operation Epic Fury against IranMany questions remain unanswered, but one thing is clear: President Donald Trump has not gotten the war he wanted. His statements in recent days, which have suggested that he had won the warThese measures are intended to calm financial markets and prepare public opinion for a withdrawal. However, it will not be easy. "We will be the ones to determine when the war ends," they retorted defiantly to the Revolutionary Guard, the regime's praetorian guard, a clear indication that the ayatollahs' regime does not feel defeated.

Fuel prices continue to fall during the summer vacation months. The prices of gasoline and diesel in Spain have registered a new week of falls and the downward trend which started at the end of June continues, according to data published this Thursday in the weekly European Union Oil Bulletin.

The escalation in the price of gasoline, which is at an all-time high in Spain, has opened the debate as to whether the Spanish government should lower the taxes it charges on fuel. Electricity taxes were already lowered in September, but fuel taxes were not. The future leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, accused the State of "making a killing" with the rise in prices and employers' association Foment del Treball called on the Treasury to stop making "windfall profits", in an allusion to electricity companies' inflated profits.