Exclusive: Senior Research Fellow Martin Plaut on China, Russia and keeping the Red Sea open
The United States and Britain have carried out strikes against targets linked to Houthis in Yemen. It’s the first time strikes have been launched against the Iran-backed group since it started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. An international…
Profile on Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force.
The CIA assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s notorious Quds Force, in a drone attack in 2020 was designed to send a message to Iran’s most powerful leaders. Washington wanted Tehran’s ruling elite – those religious…
Biden to receive bodies of US service members killed in Jordan attack by radical Iran-backed militias and US response to widen
President Biden on Friday at 1:30 pm ET will oversee the transfer of the bodies of three American service members who lost their lives in a drone attack carried out by Iran-backed militants last Sunday at an air base in…
Exclusive: Sir Graeme Lamb Writes on Russia and Iran: An Unwelcome Alliance
The past will not tell you what is about to happen but it can point you in the right direction of what you might expect to unfold, and yet we in the West are so wrapped up in the day-to-day…
Iran Is Secretly Supplying Combat Drones To The Sudanese Army
Iran has secretly supplied Sudan’s armed forces with combat drones in a new intervention which risks further destabilising the region. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has been equipped with the Mohajer-6, a single-engine unmanned aircraft which can carry up to…
China Warns Iran-backed Houthis to ‘Show Restraint’
Chinese authorities are reportedly exerting pressure on Iran to curb the persistent attacks of Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists, who have been carrying out strikes on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, or risk harming business relations with Beijing. Discussions on the…
Who Runs Iran?
Iran has a unique power structure with the control of the country resting in the hands of the state’s supreme leader. The other major power broker is the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – widely regarded as a terrorist…
Iran And Russia Strengthen Military and Economic Links with the Signing of a New Treaty
Iran and Russia will sign a new military treaty which will further strengthen the strategic alliance between the two countries. President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart President Ebrahim Raisi will sign the agreement in the coming days which could…
The Iranian Regime Is “Weeks Away” From Developing Nuclear Bombs, Weapons Experts Believe
Iran can produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make six nuclear bombs within a month, US weapons experts believe. The revelation follows the disclosure by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the Iranian regime has increased the production rate of…
Iran Spends $16bn Funding Terror Across the Middle East
Ali Khamenei – source Iranian government.
