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 …

Map of Nubl and al-Zahra in the northern Aleppo countryside (June 10, 2018): The map shows the locations of the two Twelver Shiite towns within territories held by Syrian government forces (blue), opposition forces (green), and Kurdish forces (yellow) during the Syrian civil war. Despite their isolation amid Sunni and …

Derrière les déclarations fracassantes en faveur de la paix se cache une stratégie bien plus vaste et plus dure, dont les conséquences dépassent largement les frontières de l’Ukraine. Malgré les déclarations de la nouvelle administration Trump fin 2024 et début 2025 selon lesquelles elle cherchait à mettre rapidement fin à …

«Notre destin est écrit par la main de la Providence et ces 250 premières années n’ont été que le commencement» : ainsi déclare Trump dans son discours sur l’État de l’Union. Ce n’est pas de la rhétorique oratoire, c‘est la vision historique – typique de l’establishment US – qui attribue …

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 …

The US-Israeli military attack on Iran led to the death of a number of first-line leaders in the Iranian authority, led by the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, Ali Khamenei. The list also included the adviser to the Iranian leader, the head of the Defense Council Ali Shamkhani, the …

Toplines Russian officials largely condemned the February 28 US and Israeli strikes against Iran, consistent with Russian rhetoric around the June 2025 Israel-Iran war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi following the strikes on Iran on February 28 in which Lavrov …

The European ruling class is in a terminal state. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, the Swiss psychiatrist who dedicated herself to treating terminal patients, identified five stages of grief that we go through when we lose someone. The first stage of grief described by Kübler-Ross is denial. Faced with the loss of its …