Before October 7, it could be said that Iran was at the peak of its regional influence and power. The Shia crescent was stronger than ever, and Iran’s regional influence was growing steadily.

“Today, you can get in a car in Tehran and get out in the Dahia, Beirut.” Five years and two months after Gen. Qasem Soleimani made this statement, the Islamic Republic of Iran is in retreat. Iran’s ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday sought to distance Iran from the Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, saying that ...

The first Trump administration left the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—also known as the Iran nuclear deal—in May 2018, significantly reducing the constraints on and monitoring of ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

Iran informed IAEA of planned acceleration last month That speeding up is starting to kick in, Grossi says Western powers see move as a serious escalation Grossi calls for diplomacy, sees U.S ...

Shortly after Midnight on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was firing Brian Hook, the head of the Wilson Center for Scholars and a prominent Iran hawk. Hook had ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

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Donald Trump could blow a $30 billion hole in Iran’s economy should he return to a maximum pressure campaign on Tehran. Over the past four years, sanctions evasion and more relaxed US ...

Biden's Iran policy focused on diplomacy faces a deadlock, with rising nuclear tensions and bringing Iran's regional influence down Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden promised to ...

Iran is experiencing a systemic energy crisis. While many times in the past, Iran has had gas shortages or refined product shortages, this time Iran is undergoing an energy meltdown, with parallel ...