Iran’s Defense Ministry has unveiled a new domestically-designed and manufactured satellite launch vehicle capable of putting satellites into an orbit of 500km above the ground.
Read More »Government, IDF working on budget for potential Iran strike plan – report
On Wednesday, the security cabinet is set to meet to discuss tensions with Tehran, including concerns that the US could return to the JCPOA nuclear deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the Finance and Defense ministers and financial and military officials took part in a …
Read More »Iranian rationale behind the New Delhi terrorist attack
The blast caused no injury, no damage to the building and only damage to windshields of several cars parked in the vicinity. The blast caused on January 29, 2021 by a “very low-intensity improvised device” outside the Israeli Embassy building in New Delhi is considered by Israeli and Indian authorities …
Read More »Iran’s Zarif: If Iran wanted, we would already have a nuclear weapon
Zarif said that the uranium enriched by the Islamic republic could immediately be scaled back to comply with the nuclear deal if the US lifts sanctions. If Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, it would have built one already, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said in an interview with CNN published …
Read More »SNC Accuses Regime, Iran, SDF of Involvement in Northern Syria Bombings
The Syrian National Coalition has claimed that the Syrian regime and its allies are behind recent bombings in northern regions of Aleppo, according to Baladi News. The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has accused the Syrian regime, Iran, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of being behind the bombings that hit …
Read More »Iraq, coalition partners had been on trail of IS commander a ‘long time’
Iraq announced Jan. 28 that its US-trained Counterterrorism Services in coordination with national intelligence had conducted an operation leading to the killing of the commander of Islamic State remnants in the country, in an “insurgent-infested” valley of the oil-rich, disputed southern Kirkuk province.
Read More »IntelBrief: Will the Biden Administration Seek to Rejoin the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
The Biden Administration is intent on rejoining the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement, despite calls by many experts to renegotiate. The Administration is replete with officials who supported the initial deal as the optimal means of preventing an Iranian nuclear weapons capability.
Read More »IntelBrief: How will Iran Seek to Consolidate its Gains in Syria??
Iran is attempting to consolidate the gains it achieved by intervening and investing extensively in Syria’s civil conflict. Syria’s Assad regime is facilitating Iran’s plan to develop a secure land-based supply line to Tehran’s main regional ally, Lebanese Hezbollah. Iran has had mixed success in using Syria to circumvent international …
Read More »Airstrikes in Syria pinpoint Iranian influence
Once again it appears that pro-Iranian militias, such as the Fatimiyoun which are recruited from Afghan Shi’ites, were impacted by the airstrikes. Airstrikes have targeted an area of “pro-Iranian militia” influence in the vicinity of Al-Bukamal on the Euphrates River in the Deirez-Zor Governorate of eastern Syria near the border …
Read More »Iran hosts Afghan Taliban leader as peace talks stalled
Iran supports an inclusive Afghan government that would include all ethnic groups and sects, Zarif was quoted as saying. Iran has hosted the political leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban during the past week, offering Tehran’s own help as a mediator in peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government that …
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