Iran

Key TakeawaysThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy attacked and likely redirected two vessels towards Iran on April 22, likely to enforce Iranian claims of sovereignty over the strait to disrupt global shipping and extract US concessions. The IRGC also may have redirected the two vessels in response to the …

The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against Teheran, which deliberately overlooks the events of 1953, when a joint U.S.-British effort overthrew the then secular Iranian government in …

Negotiations between the United States and Iran since the first round in Islamabad reflect a stagnation of stumbling over disagreements over key issues such as the nuclear program and mechanisms to stop the war. At the same time, Washington has stepped up pressure through the naval blockade and sanctions, along …

Most of the US military bases and facilities in the Persian Gulf (listed below) have been hit by Iran during the first five weeks of the war. And many of these are no longer operating or have been effectively destroyed. The US Naval base in Bahrain is no longer operational …

New Supreme Leader remains in hiding with severe burns and limb injuries after February airstrike; Revolutionary Guard commanders emerge as dominant decision-makers in ‘board of directors’ governance Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is currently governing from an undisclosed hideout while struggling to recover from catastrophic injuries sustained in …

President Trump recently commented on the turmoil within Iran’s leadership, emphasizing the ongoing power struggle following the late Supreme Leader Khamenei’s death. President Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to highlight what he sees as deep confusion and infighting inside Iran’s fractured leadership, while boasting that the …

Key Takeaways Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf appears to be engaged in a serious intra-regime debate with Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and other senior regime officials opposed to negotiations with the United States. Vahidi appears to have the upper hand over Ghalibaf at …

Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies avait donné au Plan d’action global commun, PAGC ou JCPOA, une force juridiquement contraignante en l’entérinant par la résolution 2231, adoptée à l’unanimité le 20 juillet 2015. L’acronyme JCPOA désigne le Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (en français, Plan d’action global commun), plus …

On April 7, U.S. bombs hit eight major rail sections and bridges across Iran, including targets in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan and Qom. Iran halted service from Mashhad and Khuzestan. The attacks followed weeks of strikes on civilian infrastructure. In late March, U.S. bombs destroyed part of the B1 bridge …

They won’t say it in public. But in private conversations since the February 28 outbreak of war in the region, Gulf officials tell me that they have absorbed Iranian retaliation for hosting a US-Gulf security architecture they were never permitted to name. The current terms are no longer acceptable. They …