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The Islamic Republic’s North Korea moment

Since the ceasefire, domestic oppression has only intensified in Iran. The regime is arresting people, imposing internet blackouts and preparing for global terror – while the West remains unprepared

4 min read

The regime's notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Human rights groups and survivors say that torture and executions of dissidents are routine there. (Image: Wikimedia)

Israeli F-35s and F-15s refueling mid-air with a KC-707 tanker. (Image: IDF)

The Syria-isation of Iran: Why the Islamic Republic could soon share the Assad regime’s fate

4 min read

Iranian drone on display during manoeuvres in Tehran in January this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Why the UK must proscribe the IRGC before it’s too late

3 min read

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been is under pressure to balance his regime's line with US pressure on its nuclear programme (Image: Getty)

Iran’s Khameini will try to run down the nuclear clock

5 min read

We should follow Trump’s lead and deport extremists

Foreign born nationals who support terrorism should be on the next plane out

3 min read

March 24, 2025 10:38

Protestors gather to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil (Getty)

Never again? How about dealing with Iran...

The West has been, and remains, in complete denial about the Ayatollah’s war on Jews

3 min read

January 22, 2025 10:36

Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei (centre) with President Masoud Pezeshkian (left), Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (second left), Judiciary Chief Mohsen Ejeie (second right) and Hezbollah representative in Iran Abdallah Safieddine reading the Koran during the Friday prayer ceremony on October 04, 2024 in Tehran (Getty Images)

I spoke to Khamenei’s footsoldiers. He is in trouble.

Fault lines are emerging in the IRGC over the handling of Syria

3 min read

December 19, 2024 16:40

A photo Ayatollah Ali Khameini in Iran (Getty Images)

Starmer should align with Trump policy on Iran

There is a series of measures that would have us standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the US

3 min read

November 21, 2024 11:09

A S-200 surface-to-air missile system on display in Tehran (Getty Images)

This is a golden opportunity to stamp on Tehran

The IRGC’s terror network has been badly damaged by the killings of Sinwar and Nasrallah

3 min read

October 22, 2024 09:15

Posters of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a mass funeral (Getty Images)

Tehran’s disturbing new reality is that Mossad has infiltrated its Lebanese proxy at the highest level

Nasrallah knows the attacks on Hezbollah simply could not have happened without internal collusion

3 min read

September 24, 2024 16:13

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike in the Lebanese village of Khiam, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more "extensive and precise" strikes against the Iran-backed group. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP) (Photo by RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden’s refusal to act against Iran has led to the current crisis

The ayatollah’s persistent drive for escalation is as much the West’s fault as it is rooted in his regime’s bloodlust

3 min read

August 14, 2024 13:07

President Joe Biden (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Iran’s new ‘moderate’ leader is part of the game

The presidency is a rubber stamp and the face of the regime to give a mask of reformism

3 min read

July 25, 2024 07:45

Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Proscribing the IRGC will be Starmer’s first real test

Sir Keir will have to overcome Whitehall’s fear of being labelled Islamophobic for doing so

3 min read

June 19, 2024 10:36

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military personnel parade under an Iranian Kheibar Shekan Ballistic missile in Tehran during a rally commemorating the International Quds Day, also known as the Jerusalem day, on 29 April 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)

The evidence shows Iran’s lead role in October 7

The regime in Tehran can see that the US and Europe have no appetite for confrontation

3 min read

December 21, 2023 15:17

Two men holding Iranian flag in front of Azadi Tower during funeral of General Qassem (Qasem) Soleimani in Tehran, Iran

A year after the murder of Mahsa Amini, Britain must find the will to deal with Iran

The government has not even imposed sufficient sanctions, let alone proscribed the IRGC

2 min read

September 21, 2023 08:41

Iranian soldiers from the Revolutionary Guards march march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the start of Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq, on September 22, 2015, in the capital Tehran. AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

‘The era of the Jews will soon be at an end,’ IRGC chief tells London audience

In January 2021, the Islamic Student Association of Britain hosted an online talk from Saeed Ghasemi

4 min read

August 3, 2023 13:30

‘The era of the Jews will soon be at an end,’ IRGC chief tells London audience

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Kasra Aarabi

Latest from Kasra Aarabi

The Islamic Republic’s North Korea moment

The Syria-isation of Iran: Why the Islamic Republic could soon share the Assad regime’s fate

Why the UK must proscribe the IRGC before it’s too late

Iran’s Khameini will try to run down the nuclear clock

More from Kasra Aarabi

We should follow Trump’s lead and deport extremists

Never again? How about dealing with Iran...

I spoke to Khamenei’s footsoldiers. He is in trouble.

Starmer should align with Trump policy on Iran

This is a golden opportunity to stamp on Tehran

Tehran’s disturbing new reality is that Mossad has infiltrated its Lebanese proxy at the highest level

Biden’s refusal to act against Iran has led to the current crisis

Iran’s new ‘moderate’ leader is part of the game

Proscribing the IRGC will be Starmer’s first real test

The evidence shows Iran’s lead role in October 7

A year after the murder of Mahsa Amini, Britain must find the will to deal with Iran

‘The era of the Jews will soon be at an end,’ IRGC chief tells London audience