On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a preemptive attack in Iran on dozens of military andsecurity targets and sites of the nuclear program across Iran. More than 20 senior figures in thesecurity leadership, military commanders and nuclear scientists were eliminated, including thecommander of the armed forces and the commander of …

The Israeli attacks against the Iranian military command system and defensive and offensive capabilities put the coming developments in the context of a set of trends and paths that can be formulated based on the overall events in the region and Iran’s proxies since the outbreak of the war in …

On June 15, 2025, for the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Iran which broke out on June 14, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Israel that it said was coordinated with operations carried out by …

The following is the “Democratic Transitional Plan for Iran,” written by the secular Free Balochistan Movement, headed by the renowned Baloch leader Hyrbyair Marri.[1] The transitional plan has been presented by the Free Balochistan Movement to other ethnic groups present in Iran, such as Kurds, Ahwazis, and Azeris. At the …

The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) will be publishing two updates over the next 24 hours from June 15-16, 2025, to provide insights into the ongoing strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, military infrastructure, and key military and …

Damascus, Syria – What happens when foreign fighters no longer roam the desert but march in formation under a national flag? In Syria, this question is no longer hypothetical. The interim government under Ahmed Al-Sharaa has begun formally integrating around 3,500 foreign fighters – many of them Uyghurs from China …

A political earthquake hit Israel last week when former Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman revealed that “the Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with Islamic State [in Gaza], at the direction of the prime minister”. Netanyahu has since admitted that Israel had been “running” …

After Israel’s June 12 strike on Iran, the need to support the non-Persian ethnic groups in the country to bring about the collapse of the Ayatollahs’ regime has become clearer. A coalition of non-Persian ethnic groups could topple the regime in a few months. It is worth noting that, unlike …

On the night the Ayatollah Khomeini died, 3 June 1989, I was fast asleep in a guest room at the Tehran home of a famous cinematographer, a friend of my bohemian parents. The adults were glued to state TV in the living room. Contraband booze flowed, as usual, fortifying the …

Iranian activists of all stripes opposed to the Islamic Republic and many citizens were in celebratory mood on social media after Israel’s June 13, 2025, attack on military and nuclear targets in Iran. An anonymous activist with 157,000 followers on X wrote, “It appears that Israel has eliminated the entire …