The current events in Iran show us clearly how the current Iranian regime managed to put its hands on every essential joint in the republic, and explains why the hardliners have always been against any [ More … ]
Mohsen Rezaei, a former IRGC commander, stated that Iran will not stop supporting Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria. Rezaei added during an interview with U.S. newspaper Christian Science Monitor that Iran will not rage a war [ More … ]
The partial cease-fire in Syria’s crisis is welcome news. But it must not be allowed to obscure a dangerous new development — the emergence from the war of a Russian-Iranian military axis that could upset [ More … ]
In his latest speeches, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been emphasizing on how the Islamic Republic should focus on confronting and resisting its “enemies” and how Iranian leaders should not trust Iran’s enemies under [ More … ]
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has come under pressure over corruption allegations. His special adviser and brother, Hossein Fereydoun, is accused of dubious business dealings. According to reports on August 31, the head of finances of [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s surprise Aug. 12 visit to Turkey may always be remembered in Ankara, as well as in Tehran, for having opened a new chapter in regional cooperation between the two neighbors. [ More … ]
Iran has reportedly formed what it calls the “Liberation Army” whose units will be deployed in Arab countries, according to a news website. Currently, Iran is involved in multiple conflicts where Shia and Sunni Muslims are [ More … ]
A Kurdistan Freedom Falcons’ leader in Iran said that during the past three days “our fighters succeeded in defying an attack by the Nabi al-Akram Corps, one of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Intelligence [ More … ]
Bahrain’s authorities said they have detained five members of a terrorist cell linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and the so-called Iraqi Hezbollah. Security forces said that the suspects had received intensive military training in [ More … ]
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK) called for a popular strike on Wednesday in a new step against the Mullah regime, which became a reality on ground, while Tehran recalled the French Ambassador to protest [ More … ]
A year after Iran’s nuclear deal with the West, conservitives are gaining authority in a backlash against pragmatic President Hasan Rouhani that his allies say could leave him sidelined or push him out of power [ More … ]
One year ago Thursday, Iran and world powers reached a historic nuclear accord. Since then, a potential showdown was averted and Iran’s economy is in recovery, but its hard-liners continue to expand their anti-American agenda. Iran appears [ More … ]
Eleven Kurdish militant rebels and three of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. “A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan [ More … ]
Video footage disseminated on social media appears to support reports that Afghan migrants in Iran have been recruited by the Shia country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to fight in Syria on behalf of [ More … ]
Iran is ready to build military bases near the Suadi borders with supervision of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Lebanese Shiite cleric Mohamad Ali El-Husseini said. The secretary general of the the Arabic Islamic council [ More … ]
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