Le groupe des Sept (États-Unis, Canada, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne, France, Italie et Japon), convoqué par Giorgia Meloni car actuellement sous présidence italienne, a «condamné sans équivoque et dans les termes les plus forts l’attaque directe et sans précédents de l’Iran contre Israël». Il a ainsi exprimé sa «pleine solidarité et soutien …

Iran’s missile and drone attacks on Israeli territory this past week were unprecedented in many ways. Firstly, the direct attacks were a departure from Tehran’s decade-long shadow war, which saw the Shia state use proxies and non-state actors to target Tel Aviv. Secondly, the world witnessed a rare display of …

On the night of April 14, 2024, Iran launched a barrage of 170 attack drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles toward Israel, with 99% of them eventually intercepted by air defenses. According to Iran, Lebanese Hizbullah, Yemen’s Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), and Iran-backed Iraqi militias, also participated …

Book Club: Kurdistan+100 reimagines Kurdish state struggles through a prism of futurism, offering a space for freer Kurdish expressions and possibilities. Being Kurdish outside of Kurdish society is hard. From complete ignorance in the West to being viewed as a proxy militia in SWANA, from hearing the linguicide of the …

Throughout history, marking people for death with a number or tattoo has become a trait of oppressive regimes. It is a process of bureaucratic dehumanisation and humiliation, as well as ruthless efficiency. And now it’s happening to Palestinians. Palestinians in Gaza are given an AI-generated score of 1-100, based on …

Israeli forces have raided Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank for a second day, killing ten people, including a teenager, in clashes with local militia fighters. The Israeli assault has caused unprecedented destruction to the camp. Dozens of people have been injured and arrested in the large-scale …

On March 25, 2024, as Iranians celebrated Nowruz (Persian New Year), the black market rate of the Iranian rial plunged to a record low. Despite sanctions relief and infusions of cash, the Islamic Republic’s corruption, mismanagement, and the distortive effect of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps make the currency’s continued …

Round one was in 2023, round two will be in 2024, warned today Ivana Stradner, research associate of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy from Washington, pointing out, once again, the tightening of conditions in the Balkans. Just as Putin denied Russia’s intention to attack Ukraine, the president of …

Commander of the IRGC’s Nuclear Facilities Protection and Security Command Brigadier General Ahmad Haqtalab warned of potential revisions to Iran’s nuclear policies if Israel continues to threaten attacks on its nuclear sites. “If Israel attempts to use the threat of attacking nuclear facilities to put pressure on Iran, a revision …

“My brother has certain rules of secrecy and he obliges me to obey them scrupulously. The circle he trusts is extremely small, and he will not enlarge it. In essence, he trusts neither Arab nor European. What we do alone, we alone can betray.” These words were supposedly uttered by …