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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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L’équilibre entre les relations avec l’Arabie saoudite et l’Iran demeure un élément clé de la politique étrangère du Pakistan, le pays cherchant à la fois à renforcer ses partenariats stratégiques et à préserver son rôle de médiateur dans le contexte géopolitique tendu du Moyen-Orient. La position de l’Arabie saoudite et …
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En Iran et en Ukraine, l’enjeu — ce pour quoi on se bat et ce contre quoi on se bat — est un rééquilibrage des pouvoirs qui s’avérera d’une ampleur historique mondiale lorsqu’il sera enfin accompli. On a d’abord appris que, le 8 avril, des avions israéliens avaient bombardé la …
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[The US president’s negotiations and ceasefires] are viewed by Tehran, Gaza and Beirut as infidels trying to tell Muslims what to do. For them, such a situation is unimaginable, unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand. To Iran’s current leaders, whoever they are, if Trump carries out his threat to …
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One of the most persistent and dangerous misreadings of the confrontation with Iran is the stubborn confusion between a brutal ideological regime and the people it has oppressed for nearly five decades. This is no accident. Tehran has long understood that its best defense is not its missiles or its …
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