Just a few days after President Hassan Rouhani removed three of his minister under pressure from his domestic critics, Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh has come out on the offensive against his critics. Zangeneh is a …
A number of Iranian hardline media outlets are presently running articles condemning the Bahraini government for its treatment of the country’s Shia political leadership. On 20 October, the offices of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, a …
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this week travelled to Baghdad to meet various senior Iraqi officials. Velayati’s visit comes at a time when a number of regional countries, …
Tehran has unexpectedly summoned the Turkish ambassador to lodge a strong protest against statements and regional policies of Turkey. This development comes after a few days of Tehran indirectly attacking Ankara’s posture toward the Shia-dominated …
On 20 October, a report by Reuters detailed concerns in Washington and in other capitals about an increase in Iranian supplies of weaponry to the Houthi movement in Yemen. While reports of Iranian military supplies …
Fars News, a hardline outlet that promotes the views and interests of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), ran a so-called exposé on the latest arrests of six individuals charged with collaborating with the United …
A top advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denies that Tehran has dispatched military assets to Iraq for the fight against ISIS in Mosul. Ali Akbar Velayati, called reports in Western media about …
As has been the case in the lead up to the military operation to liberate Mosul, Iranian hardline media continue to warn about ISIS moving its forces from Iraq to Syria. Quoting the Syrian army, …
In a lecture at a conference that was touted as a scientific gathering, Rahim Safavi, the former head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), blamed the West for all the turmoil in the Islamic …
On Saturday, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a statement in regards to the role of “military forces” in politics. Some moderate Iranian figures and media jumped to interpret this as a …
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