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Iranian Majles member Masoud Pezeshkian, who has previously served as Iran’s Minister of Health, said in a September 19, 2022 show on IRINN TV (Iran) that he is sorry over the recent death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who recently died after being beaten and arrested by Iran’s …
Read More »If Iranians Want Change, They Will Have To Do It On Their Own – The West Will Not Help
“We will fight, we will die, we will take Iran back” and “Mullahs must get lost,” Iranian demonstrators keep chanting.[1] On September 23, in response to the regime’s cutting off mobile Internet, the State Department tried to take some measures to help the protestors, issuing a “General License” that would …
Read More »Biden Administration Standing Idly By While Iran’s Mullahs Advance to Nuclear Bomb
[M]ore than a year and half of negotiations seems to have benefited no one except the ruling and Islamist mullahs of Iran. The endless negotiations seem simply to have bought time for the mullahs, so that they could comfortably advance their nuclear program to their highest level ever. Not only …
Read More »Hezbollah Threats Hinder Israel-Lebanon Sea Border Deal
The leader of Lebanese Hezbollah is threatening to attack an Israeli gas project off the Lebanon-Israel coast if it becomes operational before their sea border is agreed upon. Hezbollah’s threats demonstrate the ability of the Iran-backed party to influence Lebanon’s national security decisions.
Read More »The West’s Fatal Attraction To The Islamic Republic Of Iran
For more than a year, the Iranian population has taken to the streets to ask for more rights and more jobs. However, it seems that the West became aware only now of the existence of demonstrations in Iran against the dictatorial regime. The Iranians have tried in every possible way …
Read More »US extends military support for Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
The renewed agreement entails further steps to reform peshmerga forces as Pentagon aims to prepare Iraq’s forces for long-term self-sufficiency. The United States renewed its agreement with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Wednesday to continue providing security support in the wake of the war against the Islamic State (IS). …
Read More »Syria’s Kurdish forces thwart major attack on Islamic State prison camp
Botched suicide bombings came less than two weeks after the top US general in the Middle East sounded the alarm over security and humanitarian conditions at al-Hol camp. Four Islamic State (IS) fighters are dead and one has been captured after attempting a suicide attack this week aimed at the …
Read More »Iraq’s political class must address ‘crisis of trust,’ says PM
In an exclusive interview, Mustafa al-Kadhimi also discusses Iraq’s shift to regional hub for diplomacy and economic progress despite strong political headwinds. Iraq needs to distance itself from a “past that is full of violence” toward a future based on dialogue, said Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in an exclusive …
Read More »Why Khamenei is unlikely to pick his son to succeed him as Iran’s supreme leader
Amid the ongoing circus over efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, two rumors have started to gain traction inside and outside Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is on his deathbed and preparations are being made for his son, Mojtaba, to succeed him. Speculation over Khamenei’s ill health …
Read More »Iran’s hijab protests show the regime is unreformable
The latest round of mass protests in Iran erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman. She died on Sept. 16 at the hands of the so-called morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s rules on mandatory veiling in public. Amini’s tragic death is yet another reminder of how …
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