Iran

The Islamist and Baluch separatist group Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for two attacks on October 1 that killed six Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Islamic Republic law enforcement personnel in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province. Jaish al-Adl gunmen targeted a vehicle transporting the local IRGC commander and two IRGC …

His end may be just the beginning. On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Friday in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, the site of the group’s headquarters. Nasrallah had run Hezbollah for more than thirty years, orchestrating and inspiring its …

The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute …

Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel caused few casualties and little damage, but it marked a further escalation of tensions in the Middle East as Israeli forces battle Tehran’s militant allies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Israel has vowed to retaliate against Iran. At the heart of the recent …

The Israeli military cleared the public to exit their bomb shelters and announced that very few injuries were reported after Iran launched a barrage of some 180 ballistic missiles toward the country on Tuesday. Fire could be seen over the night skies of Israel as missiles exploded overhead. The Israel …

The general secretary of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is gone. Decades of his reign over Hezbollah, his personal connection to the spiritual leader Khamenei, and his everlasting equations – all gone. He may be mourned by his followers, maybe even by Hezbollah experts, who have studied Nasrallah for years, but many …

The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute …

Iran, having just had two of its major proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, seriously degraded, is apparently setting its sights on a new, “consolation prize” proxy to use as an additional base of operations: Sudan. Iran’s strategy of supporting and infiltrating other countries and terrorist groups — as it has done …

The death of Hassan Nasrallah is a significant blow to Hezbollah and the organization’s key sponsor, Iran. Hezbollah, a militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon, said Nasrallah was killed in Israeli air strikes in the capital, Beirut, on September 27. In his more than 30 …

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the organization’s underground headquarters in southern Beirut the previous night. The question is, what happens in the wake of Nasrallah’s death? Where will his assassination take Lebanon and the region? What will …