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New Iranian president reiterates commitment to destroying Israel

Iran ‘has always supported the resistance of the people of the region against the illegitimate Zionist regime,’ wrote Masoud Pezeshkian

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Iran's newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) visits the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on 6 July (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Jason M. Brodsky

By Jason M. Brodsky

Don’t fall for the spin that Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is a reformer

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Iran's newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Hezbollah congratulates new Iranian president on ‘blessed’ victory

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, casts his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran (Photo: Getty Images)

Revealed: the shadowy wing of the IRGC rigging Iran’s presidential vote

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Iranians attend the funeral of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country's consular annex in Damascus (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Labour to pave way for blacklisting Iranian state terror militia

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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UK Ambassador to the United Nations Barbara Woodward speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the war in Gaza New York, May 13, 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

UK, Germany and France prepared to apply ‘snapback’ sanctions to Iran

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The expansion at Iran's Fordow plant could allow the Islamic Republic to amass enough nuclear fuel for several atomic bombs each month (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran tripling quantity of nuclear bomb-ready uranium, leaked documents show

By Jane Prinsley

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Canada proscribes IRGC as terror group

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the Iranian regime had shown a ‘willingness to destabilise’ the international order

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June 20, 2024 14:47

The Iranian government condemned Canada's move as 'an unwise and unconventional politically-motivated step' (Photo: Hossein Beris//AFP via Getty Images)

Gallant warns of conflict on ‘different scale’ against Hezbollah in the north

The armed group in Lebanon is better armed and better trained than Hamas

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June 20, 2024 10:57

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi hold a situation assessment at the military's Northern Command, June 19, 2024. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Defense Ministry.

Iran ‘likely to escalate war with Israel before US election in November’ say experts

The Islamic Republic will seek to destroy Israel via ideologically driven proxies, say Iranian analysts at London roundtable discussion

By Jane Prinsley

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June 7, 2024 16:54

Round table on Iran: Pouria Zeraati, Kasra Aarabi, Efrat Sopher and Beni Sabti

Jason M. Brodsky

By Jason M. Brodsky

Iran’s presidential contest is a selection, not an election

It matters as a window into the opaque thinking of the supreme leader

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June 7, 2024 15:33

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to cast his ballot during the parliamentary runoff elections in Tehran on May 10, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian dissident partly paralysed after being beaten by regime thugs in London

Iranian men in Wembley beat Navid Bavi so savagely he might not walk again

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June 5, 2024 13:02

Attack victims Navid Bavi (in hospital bed) and Bahar Mahroo (Photo: Navid Bavi)

Revealed: How fake papers were used to smuggle a £20m oil shipment for Iran’s IRGC

A JC investigation has uncovered how 298,000 barrels of sanctioned oil was disguised

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May 29, 2024 11:03

The funeral procession for seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike in Syria on April 5, 2024 (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

UN Secretary General writes condolence letter for ‘butcher of Tehran’

António Guterres visited the Iranian mission to pay his respect to Iran’s deceased president

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May 28, 2024 10:45

Iran's state television channel broadcast footage of António Guterres paying tribute to Ebrahim Raisi (Photo: Irna)

Iran expanding stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium says UN nuclear agency

Iran has continued to ramp up enrichment, while maintaining that its nuclear program is strictly peaceful

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May 28, 2024 10:35

Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization speaking at the 2023 IAEA conference (Photo by Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images)

BBC calls Butcher of Tehran’s death ‘tragic’

Another BBC article about the notorious mass-murderer was headlined ‘Ebrahim Raisi’s mixed legacy’

By Jane Prinsley

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May 23, 2024 15:11

Regime loyalists mourn the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and seven others (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

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