Middle Orient

This third way may breakdown the choice of: war v. quick deal. Paradoxically, the assassination of Iran nuclear program “father” Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was probably undertaken to avoid war with Iran.

Chief of staff’s visit comes as Iran vows revenge after top nuclear scientist assassinated. “Our message is clear,” he said two days after Iran’s top nuclear scientist was assassinated near Tehran. “We will continue to act as vigorously as necessary against Iranian entrenchment in Syria, and we are fully prepared …

This was Abbas’s first trip abroad since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year. Jordan’s King Abdullah on Sunday called for intensifying international efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace and end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the two-state solution.

It is unusual for Iran to have a sudden change of heart in its foreign policy. Indeed, it can be said to be one of the firmest and most blatant when it comes to its projection of regional influence, and its rhetoric is just as bold. This has changed with …

Israel and the US are reportedly planning to carry out “covert operations” and increase pressure on Tehran during US President Donald Trump’s final days in office, the Times of Israel reported yesterday.

As the commander of an ongoing insurgency, he rarely speaks with journalists. Murat Karayilan, 56, is one of the senior leaders of the PKK, or Kurdish Workers’ Party. A veteran fighter of this organization’s long struggle against Turkey and for greater autonomy and rights for Turkey’s Kurdish population, he is …

Supreme Leader Ali Khameneí has ordered Iranian authorities to punish the perpetrators for Fajrizadeh’s murder. Iranian President Hasan Rohani has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fajrizadeh, considered to be the director of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and has denounced that his death was …

The killing of Fakhrizadeh is major news globally. As such it is a huge embarrassment for Iran. The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran, a key nuclear engineer behind Iran’s clandestine nuclear program, was not just a hit, it was a bloody and symbolic killing. According to the photos posted …

Clearly Fakhrizadeh was a key to Iran’s program and his killing shows how vulnerable that program is. The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh comes at a sensitive and important time. It is between the US election and the swearing in of a new president. It also comes less …

Two years ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first divulged Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the father of Iran’s nuclear project. “Remember that name” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2018 of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom many referred to as the “father” of Iran’s nuclear weapons project.