Iran

The Eastern Mediterranean rarely remains insulated from turbulence in the Middle East. Yet, the events of early March 2026 marked an unusual escalation: a drone strike targeting the British air base at RAF Akrotiri, on the southern coast of Cyprus, brought the island directly into the operational environment of the …

The day after the Hamas-led campaign of terror on October 7, 2023, Hezbollah began launching near daily rocket attacks targeting Israel. A year later, Israeli forces finally took the fight to the Shi’ite militia in Lebanon, and on September 27, 2024, a targeted Israeli airstrike on an underground Hezbollah command …

A sanctioned Iranian oil magnate and his brother have used aliases and Caribbean “golden passports” to amass a $29 million luxury real estate portfolio in Dubai, property records show. Hossein Shamkhani and his brother, Abolfazl, are the sons of Ali Shamkhani, a political adviser to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah …

Iran plans Hormuz transit fees amid war tensions, signalling a major shift from military conflict to economic control over global trade routes. The global attention around the world has largely focused on military developments as tensions escalate following Israel’s strikes on Iranian-linked facilities near the South Pars gas field. The …

The Trump administration is considering peace talks with Iran after weeks of rising tensions, although hostilities may continue for several more weeks during initial diplomatic efforts. US and Israel first hit Iran with air strikes on February 28 following which Tehran’s response has engulfed the Middle East in the conflict. …

Avec l’assassinat d’Ali Larijani, le secrétaire du Conseil suprême de sécurité nationale iranien, le potentiel d’un accord entre les États-Unis et l’Iran s’est effondré. Israël ne vise pas une désescalade du conflit avec l’Iran. Ce n’est pas à l’ordre du jour. «Le secrétaire du Conseil suprême de sécurité nationale iranien, …

Paralysie structurelle. Méticuleusement programmée. Inexorable. Déjà en vigueur. Attaquer le gisement de gaz de South Pars en Iran – le plus grand de la planète – constitue l’escalade ultime. Neo-Caligula, dans son mode caractéristique de vocifération lâche sur Truth Social, s’est efforcé désespérément d’en rejeter la responsabilité sur le culte …

Since the United States and Israel launched their bombing campaign against Iran, Tehran has expanded the battlefield across the Middle East. That includes in Iran’s western neighbor, Iraq, where Tehran’s proxy forces have carried out almost daily attacks against US targets, including diplomatic and military facilities, triggering retaliatory American air …

Il y a une catégorie qui manque dans le débat sur la guerre en cours contre l’Iran, et son absence explique pourquoi ceux qui la mènent continuent de tout rater. L’Iran n’est pas un mouvement partisan comme le FLN algérien, qui était un front sans dogme unificateur – coalition de …

Israël frappe le «centre névralgique gazier» de l’Iran, Téhéran ordonne l’évacuation de cinq grandes installations énergétiques du Golfe, et les États-Unis implorent le Venezuela de leur fournir du pétrole. En cet après-midi du dix-neuvième jour, la guerre est entrée dans sa phase la plus intense, celle de la «rupture stratégique». …