Ali Ansari said he plans to fight U.K. sanctions. The Iranian banker has acquired properties around Europe, including a luxury villa on the coast of Spain that he owns through a U.K. firm. A sanctioned banker accused of financing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard owns a luxury villa in Marbella through the …

Unlike Venezuela’s military elite, whose loyalty ultimately depends on financial incentives, Iran’s security apparatus has always viewed itself as the armed guardian of a sacred Islamic revolutionary mission. Iran, however, represents a fundamentally different political organism. Confusing the two systems could produce disastrous strategic errors. The Islamic Republic of Iran …

Ali Ardashir Larijani, an influential Iranian politician and former Speaker of Parliament, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on March 17, 2026. Ali Ardashir Larijani (3 June 1958 – 17 March 2026), the Iranian politician, former Speaker of Parliament, chief nuclear negotiator, and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council …

Top Iranian security official Ali Larijani and the commander of Iran’s internal Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, have been killed, Iran’s state media confirmed hours after Israel claimed to have killed the two. In a statement carried by Iran’s semi-official Mehr news, the country’s Supreme National Security Council confirmed the assassination …

Dans l’architecture géopolitique du Moyen-Orient et du monde islamique, l’Iran occupe une position singulière : il est le principal État chiite et l’un des rares acteurs capables d’articuler simultanément pouvoir religieux, politique et stratégique. Cette conjonction a fait de Téhéran une pièce maîtresse dans la configuration d’un ordre international de …

L’illusion d’une «victoire éclair» s’évanouit… Trump implore le monde de sauver Ormuz, Israël tombe dans le «piège du Hezbollah» et s’expose à une invasion terrestre désastreuse. Aux premières heures du seizième jour, l’ampleur de l’impasse stratégique dans laquelle se trouve l’alliance américano-israélienne est mise à nu. Après deux semaines de …

Combien coûte un missile d’interception ? Plusieurs millions. Combien coûte le drone qui le provoque ? Quelques dizaines de milliers. Cette équation asymétrique est en train de redessiner la géopolitique mondiale. Alors que l’Occident s’épuise sur deux fronts, l’Iran déploie une stratégie plus ancienne, plus patiente : toucher aux flux, …

Nato has shot down three ballistic missiles heading to the country during the war Amid the regional fallout of the Iran-US-Israel war, Tehran has not denied launching missiles and drones at Gulf countries, where, it claims, it is attacking US-linked assets. But when it comes to Turkey, it is a …

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute are publishing daily updates to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The updates focus on US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran and the Axis of Resistance’s response to …

The Gulf’s role as one of the world’s most important aviation crossroads is being tested as conflict with Iran disrupts airspace across the Middle East, forcing airlines to redraw the flight paths that connect Europe, Asia and Australasia. Airspace restrictions have narrowed the corridors available to commercial aviation, pushing airlines …