Quantity, Not Quality: Why Iran Will Never Abandon Its Missile Forces
Iran’s conventional weaponry is hopelessly out of date, and the country’s leaders know it, according to one expert.
Here s What You Need to Remember: When the United States in early January 2020 assassinated Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, Iran retaliated by firing scores of rockets at two bases in Iraq where U.S. forces reside. Dozens of Americans were injured.
Iran’s conventional weaponry is hopelessly out of date, and the country’s leaders know it, according to one expert.
But conventional military inferiority hardly fazes Tehran. Iran has found other ways of exerting influence on the world.
The JCPOA is dead at least as the Trump Administration is concerned.
For critics of the JCPOA, this represents a move in the right direction; the goal of U.S. policy should be the end of the Islamic Republic and the overthrow of the existing regime in Tehran. As long as this regime exists, no matter how constrained it is by bilateral and multilateral agreements, it will seek to undermine the stability of the established order in the Middle East through overt and covert military means. This position is held in the United States by figures such as Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and by policymakers such as Sen. Tom Cotton. The desire for regime change is also shared by some in the Middle East, including significant elements of the Israeli and Saudi national security states.
Republican report says COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab
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03 Aug 2021, 04:03 GMT+10
Washington [US], August 2 (ANI): A Republican lawmaker s report investigating the origins of COVID-19 released on Monday has concluded that the pandemic outbreak stemmed from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, first detected in December 2019.
House Republican lawmaker, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the third installment in his investigation into the origins of the virus and the missteps by China in alerting the world to the risks of the pandemic, reported The Hill.
McCaul, in statements alongside the release of the report, has called for Congress to pass legislation sanctioning scientists at the Wuhan lab and Chinese Communist Party officials who were determined to have obstructed efforts to respond to the pandemic quickly and effectively.
Terrorist Landscape in Afghanistan Poses Challenges After the US Withdrawal By Hollie McKay | August 2, 2021 | 7:42pm EDT
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, if he’s still alive, is believed to be holed up somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistan border. (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As the U.S. military prepares to make its final withdrawal from Afghanistan over the coming weeks, much attention is being paid to the Taliban’s stampede to take over the country.
However, that is not the only brutal insurgency with a foothold in the fragile region. While the Afghan Taliban itself is not a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO) there are plenty of such groups present in the area.
As Taliban Advances, Pakistan Bristles at Fresh Accusations it’s Colluding With the Militants By Patrick Goodenough | August 2, 2021 | 4:22am EDT
Afghan security force personnel near Lashkar Gah, the capital city of Helmand province. (Photo by Sifatullah Zahidi/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As the Taliban targets three Afghan provincial capitals in fierce fighting, a former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan sparked a diplomatic spat with Pakistan Sunday by accusing it of aiding aggression against its neighbor and calling for sanctions against Islamabad.
Chris Alexander posted a photo on Twitter purporting to show “Taliban fighters waiting to cross the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan,” and added, “anyone still denying that Pakistan is engaged in an ‘act of aggression’ against Afghanistan is complicit in proxy war & war crimes.”