11 Jun, 2024 The Death of Raisi – and Iranian Influence in the Caucasus On May 19, a forty-year-old Bell 212 helicopter crashed in the foggy mountains of northwest Iran, killing Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Policymakers ...
11 Jun, 2024 World forgets ‘catastrophic’ war in Sudan as Iran feed fighting with arms With the United Nations saying that up to 10 million people have been displaced and U.S. sources claiming up to 150,000 killed and some five million facing ...
07 Jun, 2024 US sanctions target Iran’s drone programme The US has issued new sanctions targeting Iran’s UAV programme. The move by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’) on 31 May ...
07 Jun, 2024 IRGC Operatives Enter European Ports with Concealed Identity Operatives of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are entering European ports, concealing their identity as seafarers while on board Iranian ships and oil tankers, sources familiar ...
07 Jun, 2024 Could Iran be a Gateway for Central Asia? The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project may finally get underway, according to Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov. At the 8th annual Trans-Caspian Forum, organized by the Caspian Policy Center on ...
05 Jun, 2024 Iran’s deeper strategy in Syria and Lebanon Summary The war in Gaza is pushing the shadow conflict between Iran and Israel out into the open. There is a grave risk that this escalates further ...
03 Jun, 2024 Europe ready to take tough stand against Iran “Enough is enough,” a European diplomat told JNS. The words weren’t aimed at the war in Gaza, but at Iran’s behavior in recent months— advancing its nuclear ...
31 May, 2024 Iran opens registration for June presidential election Iran opened a five-day registration period Thursday for hopefuls wanting to run in the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed ...
30 May, 2024 Iran believed to be developing chemical weapons In 1997, Iran told the world it had disposed of all its chemical weapons. It became a founding member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical ...
29 May, 2024 Russia Deploys Drones with Latest Iranian Glide Bombs A downed drone found in the Kursk region of Russia was equipped with Iran's newest guided aerial bomb, revealing deepening military ties between Moscow and Tehran. Julian ...
29 May, 2024 Iran Provides Houthis with Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), reported on Wednesday that Iran has supplied the Houthi rebels in Yemen with the Ghadr ballistic missile. The ...
