This year’s birthday celebrations of the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great has created something of a backlash in Iran. On the day of his birthday, a large gathering of Iranians came out to the …
Top Iranian officials are continuing to come out in an orchestrated campaign to express deep misgivings about Ankara’s military interventions in Iraq and in Syria. Ali Akbar Velayati, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s personal envoy …
American officials have in a rare statement on 27 October confirmed the interception of weapons supplies by Iran to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. This comes as Iranian officials are beginning for the first time …
Despite much opposition to its military involvement in the battle for Mosul, Iraqi Shia militiamen, known as the Hashd Al-Shabi, maintain that they will enter the city if asked by Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. …
The most senior Shia clerics in Iran met on 27 October with the leadership of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). This included Ali Shamkhani, who is the Secretary General at the SNSC. According to …
The Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is due to be in Moscow on 28 October. Here he will meet with his Russian and Syrian counterparts to assess the military campaign against the Syrian opposition. Zarif’s …
On the back of ongoing talks between Iran and the European Union to normalize relations, the president of Finland, Sauli Niinisto, was in Tehran on 26 October. Here he was greeted by a number of …
On 25 October, as the parliament of the European Union condemned Iran’s hostile posture toward the Israel, a number of Iranian hardline sites published articles aimed to torment the Jewish state. One article in particular …
The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Shamkhani, says latest political and economic deals signed with various countries will not impact Tehran’s fundamental foreign policy priorities. This includes Tehran’s commitment to …
The leadership of the IRGC in Iran has unveiled a new policy of recruiting local volunteers among Iranians to fight on the side of the Assad forces in Syria. At an event commemorating Iran’s military …
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