The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has exposed a new, highly clandestine nuclear weapons program codenamed the “Kavir Plan” (Desert Plan), revealing the Iranian regime’s intensified and duplicitous push to acquire an atomic bomb. In a press conference held at its Washington, D.C. office on June 10, 2025, …

Travelers walk on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria a day after the Assad regime collapsed [Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty] The Lebanese government has finalised a new plan to encourage the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees through financial incentives, with the proposal expected …

The war in Ukraine has revived EU enlargement, but it has certainly not fixed the union’s credibility problem. Elites on the European periphery believe that the bloc is losing influence in global and regional affairs. U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the EU are further eroding the belief that the …