At 6:12 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2020, a Boeing 737-800 took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport after an hourlong delay. It carried 176 passengers and crew, including ...
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Who is Saeed Jalili, the hard-line former negotiator seeking Iran’s presidency?
Hard-line Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili may have been Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator for years, but he won no plaudits from Western diplomats sitting across the table as he ...
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Mixed Reactions Among Iranian Regime Insiders Over Israeli Attack
While certain Iranian regime figures advocate for a military retaliation to the Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, others propose a measured response to avoid escalation. Former Iranian ...
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Imprisoned Iranian Cleric Says Under Pressure To Confess To Crimes He Didn’t Commit
In a rare phone call from Qom prison, Mohammad Taghi Akbarnejad, an Iranian cleric and seminary professor known for his outspoken criticism of Supreme Leader Ali Ayatollah Khamenei's policies, ...
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Khamenei’s Priorities and the Struggle of the Iranian People
In a rather ironic and somewhat humorous turn of events, the state-run Kayhan newspaper in Iran, serving as the official mouthpiece for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, recently dedicated an ...
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Why Iran is going on the offensive
The Iranian leadership has never made any secret of its antipathy to the United States. Weekly “Death to America” chants are not rhetorical excess — they are policy direction. ...
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