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Military organization to protect the political system of the Islamic Republic in Iran
Mossad’s name has surfaced repeatedly in relation to Iranian-linked plots that Australian authorities say were foiled in 2024–2025, and Israel’s agency publicly identified an IRGC commander it blamed ...
President Biden did not seek a new, standalone congressional authorization for the military actions carried out in 2024; instead, his administration relied on a mixture of prior Authorizations for Use...
Mossad has publicly claimed it identified and helped thwart Iranian-directed plots targeting Jewish and Israeli sites in Australia between 2024 and 2025, naming IRGC commander Sardar Amar as a masterm...
Credible reporting paints a volatile and contested picture of casualties from the 2025–2026 Iranian protests: lower-bound tallies compiled by human rights groups and mainstream outlets count in the lo...
The slogan "Death to America" originated in the 1979 Iranian revolutionary context and has endured as a state and street chant that most Iranian leaders and scholars say targets U.S. policy and "arrog...
Australia’s intelligence and law‑enforcement agencies investigated and attributed a series of antisemitic arson attacks in 2024 to an Iran-linked network; Canberra expelled Iran’s ambassador in August...
Iranian state media broadcast imagery from the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump alongside Persian text widely translated as “This time, the bullet won’t miss,” an a...
A rapid, decisive “defeat” of Iran—meaning the immediate toppling of the Islamic Republic or its complete military incapacitation—is not realistically attainable in the near term given the regime’s re...
The June 2025 Iran–Israel war — often called the “Twelve‑Day War” — saw Israel and the United States strike Iranian nuclear and military sites beginning 13 June, and Iran respond with missiles and dro...
Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, has a long record of covert human intelligence, sabotage, cyber and paramilitary operations abroad — including high-profile assassinations, agent recruit...
Executive Summary The potential Qatar–US military base agreement — centering on Al Udeid and reported extensions or negotiations in September 2025 — has already shifted regional fault lines by prompti...
A conventional, decisive Iranian military victory over Israel is highly unlikely given Israel’s technological air and missile-defense edge, U.S. backing and concentrated, integrated forces, yet Iran c...
The available reporting indicates that a clear majority of Iranians do not "enjoy" or support the current Islamic Republic: multiple surveys and the scale of nationwide economic protests point to broa...
President Trump announced the United States seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast and suggested the U.S. would keep the cargo, a move reported across major outlets that the administration frames ...
Iran uniformly condemned the Abraham Accords as a betrayal and a strategic threat to the Palestinian cause and regional balance, warning of changed relations with Gulf states and signaling stronger co...