Iran

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

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)

By Jason M. Brodsky

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

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

Iran

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

By David Rose

4 min read

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)

Iran

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

By David Rose

7 min read

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

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

By Felix Pope

2 min read

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

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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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BBC calls Butcher of Tehran’s death ‘tragic’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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Was South Africa bribed by Iran to bring ‘genocide’ case against Israel?

Group of 160 lawyers write to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for an investigation

By Jane Prinsley

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May 22, 2024 10:00

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)

Jews in Iran ‘shocked and angered’ about looming execution of young Jewish man

The execution has been postponed without reason according to Iranian activists

By Karmel Melamed

6 min read

May 22, 2024 08:42

Jews in Iran ‘shocked and angered’ about looming execution of young Jewish man

By Seth J. Frantzman

Raisi set the Middle East aflame but his death will not put out the fire

With Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian gone, Iran will fall back on the IRGC which controls much of the country behind the scenes.

2 min read

May 20, 2024 15:47

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

Iran’s new interim president was sanctioned over nuclear missile activities

Mohammad Mokhber will take charge of Iran following the death of Ebrahim Raisi

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 20, 2024 12:21

Muhammad Mukhbar (far right) welcoming Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at Mehrabad International Airport (Tasnim News Agency)

Hamas praises dead Iranian President as ‘protector of resistance movements’

Iran's proxies in Lebanon and Gaza offered their sympathies after the Iranian president died in a helicopter crash

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 20, 2024 08:34

TOPSHOT - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian university offers scholarships to expelled student protesters in US and Europe

Mohammad Moazzeni, head of the Shiraz University made the offer to American students following Columbia protests

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

May 3, 2024 08:07

Pro-Palestinian student protesters lock arms at the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University as dozens of police officers flooded the campus in the heart of New York City on 30 April, 2024. (Photo by Jia Wu / AFP) (Photo by JIA WU/AFP via Getty Images)

By David Rose

We’re right to stop giving our secrets to Iran – and it might avert WW3

MI5 director-general Ken McCallum has warned university chiefs they must stop sensitive joint research with hostile states

2 min read

April 26, 2024 16:52

An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile displaying "Down with Israel" in Hebrew is pictured at a defence exhibition in city of Isfahan, central Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Photo by MORTEZA SALEHI / TASNIM NEWS / AFP) (Photo by MORTEZA SALEHI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)

Peru detains Iranian, two others over plot to kill Israelis

The suspects were sentenced to 18 months of preventative detention over an alleged plot to murder two Israelis

By JC Reporter

1 min read

April 25, 2024 10:12

Peru detains Iranian, two others over plot to kill Israelis

The West must urgently learn from Israel’s red lines on Iran

US and European risk-aversion is incentivising Tehran to keep terrorising the Middle East

By Jason M. Brodsky

3 min read

April 19, 2024 14:54

Fuel is loaded into Iran's first nuclear power station in 2010. The IAEA has recently reported that Iran is enriching uranium up to 60%. (Photo: Getty)

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Iran

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

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

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

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

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

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

BBC calls Butcher of Tehran’s death ‘tragic’

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