Iran

The joint Israeli-American military operation against Iranian targets is in its early stages, but it comes in a context related to the developments of the war in the Gaza Strip, in light of the unprecedented escalation of tension between Israel and Iran since they exchanged direct attacks in April 2024 …

Iran has announced transition plans following the killing of supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a joint Israeli-US attack of unprecedented scale. Also playing a central role is Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani. Here is a look at the key figures overseeing the transition:The president President Masoud Pezeshkian, 71, is …

Then what? This is the question that theoreticians of war from Sun Tzu to Jomini and Liddell-Hart and passing by Clausewitz advise leaders to ask before they order the firing of the first shot in a war. Thus, one may suggest that US President Donald Trump should also ask that …

Iran’s clerical regime now faces the prospect of trying to find a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his killing in joint US-Israeli strikes. The veteran leader, who ruled with an iron fist for nearly four decades, does not have an officially declared heir. Instead, an elected body …

Les leaders US sombrent dans une spirale infernale sans éthique ni code moral, sans autre divinité qu’eux-mêmes. La destitution ou le procès à La Haye ne suffiront pas à venir à bout de tels criminels Aujourd’hui, l’administration Trump, à la demande du gouvernement décadent de Netanyahu, a joué un rôle …

Key Takeaways: Hezbollah’s changed military and political position in Lebanon means that it poses a different threat to Israel from the one it did before the October 7 War, and that any Hezbollah intervention would likely involve a new strategy using new, longer range and low-cost weapons. Israel’s 2024 campaign …

Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and American strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. For more than three decades, leaders in Tel Aviv and Washington have issued stark warnings about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and activities, and …

The Islamic Republic of Iran is, quite possibly, at its weakest point since its founding, in 1979. In June, Israeli and U.S. attacks destroyed its uranium enrichment capacity and many of its air defense systems. In December and January, the country experienced the most widespread domestic uprising since the birth …

A woman named Elizabeth Newman supposedly runs two U.K.-registered crypto exchanges. But she appears to be a corporate fiction used as a front for a convicted embezzler whom the United States has accused of moving billions of dollars’ worth of digital assets on behalf of Iran’s repressive regime. On paper, …

Five Kurdish Iranian groups announced the formation of a united coalition against the Tehran regime in a joint press conference on February 22. The press conference was held by leaders from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the …