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The Death of Raisi – and Iranian Influence in the Caucasus

On May 19, a forty-year-old Bell 212 helicopter crashed in the foggy mountains of northwest Iran, killing Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Policymakers and pundits
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Chinese Media Downplay Beijing-Tehran Tension Over Persian Gulf Islands

Chinese-language media are seemingly downplaying Beijing's recent supportive stance toward the UAE on three disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, drawing the ire of Tehran. In a joint statement ...
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Iran acting FM meets Hassan Nasrallah and Syria’s Assad on first trip abroad

Iran's acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri discussed "proposed solutions" for ending the Gaza war with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday, the Iran-backed Lebanese group said. The two men ...
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Iran becoming aggressive in pursuit of nuclear weapons

IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi warned the IAEA Board of Governors that Iran may be taking a more aggressive approach to the nuclear weapons issue. Until recent months, Tehran has ...
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Ayatollah Khamenei praises Islamist groups for Israel fight

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has once again praised Islamist groups for their conflict with Israel. "An army that claims to be one of the strongest in the ...
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UN Nuclear Chief Says It Is out of Touch with Iran’s Expanding Program

The UN's nuclear chief, Rafael Grossi, admitted the agency "has lost continuity of knowledge in relation to the production centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water, and uranium" as Iran's ...
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