09 Jan, 2025 A top Iranian general said Russia was actually bombing the empty desert while saying it was attacking Syrian rebels A top Iranian general has accused Russia of lying to Tehran by saying its jets were attacking Syrian rebels while they were instead bombing the open desert. ...
08 Jan, 2025 Cecilia Sala’s Detention in Iran Is a Threat to Press Freedom Everywhere Late last month, I received calls from various sources and journalists claiming an Italian war correspondent, Cecilia Sala, had been detained in Iran. It was not safe ...
08 Jan, 2025 Has Russia’s and Iran’s role in new Syria come to an end? With the shift in the political scene in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime, the alliances supporting the authorities there have changed. While Bashar al-Assad’s ...
07 Jan, 2025 A Last Chance for Iran For two decades, hawkish voices in Washington have called for the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear program. And for two decades their calls have been rejected. ...
06 Jan, 2025 How an Iran Oil Tycoon Got Inside the Western Financial System On a winding road hugging Dominica’s palm-dotted shores stand a string of partially finished luxury hotels. A few miles north, sits the future home of the Portsmouth ...
06 Jan, 2025 Iran, North Korea, and Russia: How Three Countries Are Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race The threat of nuclear conflict looms larger as Russia revises its nuclear doctrine to include strikes against non-nuclear states. North Korea continues to advance its nuclear capabilities. ...
02 Jan, 2025 Iran’s push for a nuclear bomb: ‘A wounded animal is most dangerous’ On Oct. 7, 2023, Iran’s fortunes were on the rise. Tehran had a vast and powerful arsenal of radicalized proxies spreading wider and wider through the Middle ...
02 Jan, 2025 US sanctions IRGC-linked entity over 2024 election meddling The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia, accusing them of orchestrating campaigns to meddle in the 2024 US presidential election. The ...
02 Jan, 2025 Khamenei’s Speech Reflects Iranian Regime’s Morale Crisis After Strategic Loss in Syria Today, in a speech addressing families of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces killed in Syria and Lebanon, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sought to ...
02 Jan, 2025 Report to Congress on Iran From the report In 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran faced military and strategic setbacks, largely at the hands of Israel and the United States, that appear ...
02 Jan, 2025 Soleimani killing set Iran on road to collapse The 2020 assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani set the Iranian government on the road to imminent collapse, according to former British security minister Tom Tugendhat. ...
