Iran

Spotlight on Iran* (November 7-20, 2016)

Faysal Meqdad, the Syrian deputy foreign minister, paid a visit to Tehran and met with senior Iranian officials. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, advisor to the speaker of the Majlis (the Iranian parliament) for international affairs, told him Iran would continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorism. Mohammad Bagheri, the Iranian chief of staff, said that Read more...

Spotlight on Iran* (October 23 – November 6, 2016)

Four Iranians, two of them high-ranking officers, were killed by rebels in Syria. They died during the attack begun by Syrian rebel organizations in Aleppo aimed at breaking the Syrian forces’ siege of the city’s eastern neighborhoods. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, meeting with families of Iranian fighters killed in Syria, said he was particularly Read more...

The Campaign for Mosul: The Situation and Initial Assessment (As of the morning of October 27, 2016)

On October 17, 2016, Haidar al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, announced the beginning of a military campaign to liberate the large, important Iraqi city of Mosul, ISIS’s main stronghold in Iraq. It was where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the founding of the Islamic Caliphate on June 4, 2014, which gave Mosul great symbolic value. Read more...

Spotlight on Iran* (October 9-23, 2016)

Hassan Firouzabadi, senior military advisor to the supreme leader and former chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, told that the presence of Iranian advisors in Iraq and Syria, and Iran’s support for Yemen and Hezbollah, manifested its revolutionary and religious ideology. Basij commander Mohammad-Reza Naqdi said it was Iran’s duty to fight for Read more...

Hostility towards Israel continues to be a fundamental element of Iranian foreign policy – Dr. Raz Zimmt

Iran’s diplomatic charm offensive, which began in the summer of 2013 with the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iranian president, and the nuclear agreement signed with the Western powers in the summer of 2015, raised the question of whether Iran’s foreign policy towards Israel had become more moderate. Read more...

Spotlight on Iran* (September 25 – October 9, 2016)

Qasem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC’s Qods Force, spoke at a ceremony held to mark the first anniversary of the death of Hossein Hamedani, a senior official in the IRGC killed in Syria. He said the Iranians fighting in Syria defended not only Syria but Islam and the Islamic Republic. He added that the main Read more...

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