Iran

Tehran is hoping that its Persian Gulf Strait Authority will establish “facts on the ground” and give it leverage at the negotiating table, so Washington and its partners need to respond right away with a suite of military, economic, and diplomatic countermeasures. Amid the past week of military exchanges between …

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[Iran] is not a normal state pursuing normal interests. It is a mafia state hiding its aggression behind ideology, proxies, negotiations, and delay. It respects neither international law nor the sovereignty of its neighbors — not even the Gulf states that tried to preserve “mediation” channels. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard …

The optimism that President Trump projected last week toward securing a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has quickly faded, with Tehran on Monday suspending talks in protest of Israel’s punishing strikes on Lebanon. Trump sent varying messages as he scrambled Monday to secure a truce between …

At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this past Saturday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke about the “most consequential region in the world.” He was not talking about the Middle East, where the US-Iran conflict, now in its fourth month, has settled into a brittle ceasefire, as the Strait …

Pepe Escobar et moi-même avons reçu jeudi dernier le rapport de renseignement suivant, rédigé par une source bien informée ayant accès à ces informations. Je ne reproduirai pas l’intégralité du rapport, mais je tiens à mettre l’accent sur la question de savoir si l’Iran dispose actuellement d’une arme nucléaire ou …

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Key Takeaways The Iranian regime, which ISW-CTP continues to assess is dominated by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle, suspended US-Iran negotiations on June 1. Vahidi and his inner circle likely calculate that the status quo, in which Iran has neither made …

Yemen’s full-scale entry into the conflict could lead to the formation of a multi-layered and extensive front, which could increase pressure on the US and Israel, deprive the enemy of the initiative, and turn the conflict into a war of attrition. Ansar Allah as a Strategic Asset of Iran: Transnational …

Des documents et des vidéos collectés et analysés par la rédaction des Observateurs de France 24 montrent que l’Iran a massivement développé l’entraînement de ses troupes au maniement de MANPADS, des systèmes de défense aérienne portatifs légers, qui ont déjà causé des dégâts sur l’aviation américaine et israélienne lors du …