26 Jun, 2024 Iran Mulls Iraqi Armed Factions’ Plans to Support Hezbollah Leaders of various Iraqi armed factions are studying “preliminary” plans to support the Hezbollah party in Lebanon should a war erupt between it and Israel. The plans ...
25 Jun, 2024 State-building key to challenging Iran’s network of influence The Iranian network of influence extends across the broader Middle East. Tehran’s nonstate proxies take advantage of power vacuums in countries where state institutions are fragile. From ...
24 Jun, 2024 Hezbollah receives offers of support from Iran-backed fighters Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah revealed that numerous militia groups from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and other countries have expressed readiness to send thousands of fighters to support ...
24 Jun, 2024 Inside Iran’s Quds Day Celebration of October 7 In April, the Islamic Republic of Iran once again marked the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as Quds Day. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the ...
20 Jun, 2024 Iran and Taliban Discuss ‘Joint Actions’ Against Israel Iranian and Taliban officials have discussed potential "joint action" against Israel amid the war in Gaza and chances of a war between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel ...
20 Jun, 2024 IRGC’s Hidden Links to Iran’s Presidential Candidates The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson reiterated last week that the Revolutionary Guard would refrain from any involvement in the election process despite the close affiliations ...
20 Jun, 2024 Countering the IRGC: A global call to action The recent move by Canada to list Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under its Criminal Code marks a significant moment in ...
19 Jun, 2024 Iran’s Dangerous Embrace of Terrorist Proxies The United States has once again taken decisive action against Iran’s nefarious network of proxy forces, designating several individuals and entities that facilitate weapons procurement and funding ...
19 Jun, 2024 Why Mojtaba Khamenei is unlikely to be Iran’s next supreme leader The late religious authority Muhsin Al-Tabatabaei Al-Hakim was leader of the hawza (a seminary where Shiite Muslim clerics are trained) in Najaf from 1946 until 1970 and ...
19 Jun, 2024 Why US terror designation for Iraqi-based terror group matters The US State Department on Monday designated Iraqi-based militia Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as a terrorist group. This is important because it shows the US continues to ...
19 Jun, 2024 BESA Center Breaks Down Iran’s Revenge Missile Attack on Egypt On the night of April 13-14, 2024, Iran launched more than 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and suicide drones at Israel with the aim of fatally damaging ...
