The Economist5h
Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground
Most of the Middle East’s rulers, including those of Iran’s allies, would prefer God has other plans. Iraq has been doing rather well of late. It is at last using its oil revenues to fund ...
Iran-Israel war: Iran stuns US Army ahead of likely attack on..., strengthens hold on Iraq by...
Mashhadani's election is significant for Iran as it tries to build stronger ties with Iraq, which is facing internal ...
Iran has likely developed fentanyl-based chemical weapons
Iran seems to have weaponized the pharmaceutical fentanyl. It may have given these chemical weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah to ...
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Answering to the supreme leader, its command structure bypasses the elected president. The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) transformed the IRGC into more of a conventional fighting force, with a command ...
New York Sun17d
Will Iran’s Mullahs, After the Election, Use the Closing Days of the Biden Presidency To Make a Dash for the A-Bomb?
We are in continuous dialogue with our American friends, yet crucial decisions on our security, including the choice of goals ...
As Israel & Iran stand on brink of war, here's how Islamic Revolution turned partners into enemies
Before the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, while Israel and Iran did not have formal bilateral relations, they maintained ...
Iranian Dissidents Don’t Want War With Israel—But They Can’t Stop It
In the end, debates among Iranian dissidents over the desirability of an Israeli attack matter only so much. The Iranian opposition does not get to decide what Israel will do. It is watching events, ...
The Economist19d
Israel’s limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault
For the first time since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, the residents of Tehran have seen their city under military attack. Not responding would be perceived as a sign of weakness. But ...
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Their journalism sparked a protest movement in Iran. They could be jailed at any moment
He noted that in 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, Iran executed thousands of political prisoners. "We have seen them that whenever they are cornered and engaged in international conflict or war ...
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Excerpt: Iran: The Nuclear Challenge
A German firm began, but did not complete, the construction of the Bushehr complex in 1975, and the reactors had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq War. The construction of the Bushehr reactor ...
The New Indian Express1mon
Israel at war: Iran isolated, insecure, imploding
the Shia-Sunni divide with the Arab world led to the Iran-Iraq War. The hostility continues at varying degrees to this day. This year, in response to Iran-backed Houthi missiles fired at Israel ...
Associated Press2mon
As Iran threatens Israel, the danger of Tehran’s long-vaunted missile program remains in question
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran threatens to attack Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in the Iranian capital, its long-vaunted missile program offers one of the few ways for ...