US sanctions target Iran’s drone programme

The US has issued new sanctions targeting Iran’s UAV programme. The move by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’) on 31 May targeted entities and individuals involved

Bringing Iran ‘To Its Senses’

As Imperial Japan pursued a strategy of aggression and murderous destruction in China, the United States in 1940 sought to confront Tokyo with a strategy of economic restrictions, trading embargoes, and the threat

Could Iran be a Gateway for Central Asia?

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project may finally get underway, according to Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov. At the 8th annual Trans-Caspian Forum, organized by the Caspian Policy Center on May

Iranian writer tweets dot to Khamenei, gets imprisoned

Hosseyn ShanbehZaadeh, an Iranian writer and blogger, replied yesterday to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei’s X account with a simple dot. This simple tweet soon went viral, reaching at least a million views, 20,000

IAEA Calls For Iran To Increase Cooperation

The board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on June 5 approved a resolution calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the IAEA and to reconsider its decision to bar the agency’s

IRGC chief vows Israel will be punished

Major General Salami extended his condolences in a message on the martyrdom of an IRGC military advisor Saeed Abiar who was martyred during an attack launched by the Zionists against Syria's Aleppo late on Sunday