In a sign of the growing regional influence of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a close adviser to its foreign operations commander began his new role as ambassador to Iraq on Wednesday, state media reported. Iraj Masjedi, [ More … ]
Iran launched new naval drills at the mouth of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean on Sunday, a naval commander said, amid increasing tension with the US and the regional powers. Trump has said during [ More … ]
A top military commander in Iran said that his country is ready for a strong reply if the US underestimates Iran’s defensive capabilities, as the IRGC conducted new war games as a show of power. Trump has [ More … ]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are the most powerful tool for Iranian regime in its wars in the region. A large part of their operations to train foreign fighters have been revealed after Trump’s threat [ More … ]
As Iran’s regime is focusing on widening its influence in the region and spends billions of dollars to achieve its political plans, it seems to be ignoring the internal situation in Iran poverty, corruption, and public threats reached [ More … ]
Trump’s administration was studying a proposal to designate Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, while senior defense and intelligence officials expressed their concerns about such a decision that will complicate [ More … ]
The current events in Iran show us clearly how the current Iranian regime managed to put its hands on every essential joint in the republic, and explains why the hardliners have always been against any [ More … ]
The election of Donald Trump as the new US president has put the US-Iran relations under threat, the case that will empower hardliners in Iran who are pushing for global isolation and discourage already wary foreign [ More … ]
France’s Total has signed a first major deal with Iran, after lifting of international sanctions, to further develop its part of the world’s largest gas field while the hardliners refused it saying it will exploit Iran’s natural resources. [ More … ]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) warned Saudi naval vessels taking part in military exercises in the Gulf on Wednesday not to get close to Iranian waters, in a sign of heightened tensions between the two regional [ More … ]
Mohsen Rezaei, a former IRGC commander, stated that Iran will not stop supporting Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria. Rezaei added during an interview with U.S. newspaper Christian Science Monitor that Iran will not rage a war [ More … ]
The partial cease-fire in Syria’s crisis is welcome news. But it must not be allowed to obscure a dangerous new development — the emergence from the war of a Russian-Iranian military axis that could upset [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s surprise Aug. 12 visit to Turkey may always be remembered in Ankara, as well as in Tehran, for having opened a new chapter in regional cooperation between the two neighbors. [ More … ]
Iran has reportedly formed what it calls the “Liberation Army” whose units will be deployed in Arab countries, according to a news website. Currently, Iran is involved in multiple conflicts where Shia and Sunni Muslims are [ More … ]
A Kurdistan Freedom Falcons’ leader in Iran said that during the past three days “our fighters succeeded in defying an attack by the Nabi al-Akram Corps, one of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Intelligence [ More … ]
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