Middle Orient

“We are not seeking a war but we are ready for it and we do not fear it,” Nasrallah threatened. As Hezbollah fired its largest rocket salvo toward Israel in 15 years last week, it became clear that the border with Lebanon has turned into another front where days, if …

On July 28, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who was on a two-day visit to India, emphasised that the Quad is not a military alliance, but an arrangement to spearhead regional cooperation and security while maintaining international rules and values. In a similar vein, the Indian External Affairs …

In an incident the likes of which we’ve rarely seen before, Hezbollah personnel — fresh from launching rocket attacks into Israel — were intercepted at the weekend by enraged Druze villagers and taken into custody. Humiliatingly for Hezbollah, images of its top-secret rocket launcher — impounded in the back of …

Drone fragments recovered from the attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker off the coast of Oman show Iran was behind the incident, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing a US military report. Photographs of drone parts and analysis of the proximity of the strikes to Iran, and the …

A seemingly emboldened Tehran may be upping its aggressive posture in the region in order to press its nuke talks position and test new leaders in Washington and Jerusalem As the Middle East sweats through an August heatwave, temperatures are rising rapidly in the long-running conflict between Israel and Iran. …

‘It is not a new thing that the Zionist regime would design such conspiracies,’ claims Iranian spokesperson after foreign ministers say Tehran is threat to international peace Iran on Saturday rejected “baseless” G7 allegations its drones were used in a deadly tanker attack, while accusing Israel of engaging in a …

IDF’s projection in early 2021 that the Lebanese terrorist militia will try to initiate limited conflicts on the border comes true The rockets fired at northern Israel on Friday were the fifth such attack from Lebanon in three months, but the first directly and openly carried out by the Hezbollah …

Die politische Strategie ist alt: Die Feindschaft zum Westen und zu Israel soll von selbst gemachten Problemen ablenken. Dabei geht es nicht ohne Verhandlungen mit der EU. Der Ton ist gesetzt. Der Oberste Führer des Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hat zum Ausscheiden von Präsident Hassan Rohani und zur Übergabe an …

Ebrahim Raisi hat sein Amt als Präsident Irans angetreten. Er macht dem Volk viele Versprechen – doch eines ist nicht darunter. Wer ein hohes Staatsamt antritt, der stellt dem Volk gerne viel in Aussicht. Da macht auch Irans neuer Präsident keine Ausnahme. Die Wirtschaftskrise, Armut und Korruption – all jene …

As conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi begins his presidency, what direction is Iran’s foreign policy likely to take? There are multiple ways to try to answer this fundamental question. One could, for instance, take a look at the individuals who are likely to advise Raisi on foreign policy issues. Judging by …