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Iran appointed the country’s fourth ambassador to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and similar to his predecessors he is part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Book Club: Little was known of Qassem Soleimani until after his assassination by the United States in January 2020. But as Arash Azizi's biography reveals, the shadowy commander was instrumental in helping shift regional dynamics to Iran's favour.

Iranian Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri indicated during an appearance on Iran’s state-run television network that Iran had attempted to construct a legal case against the Trump administration for the killing.

Opinion: Iran's new foreign minister, Amir-Abdollahian, will likely continue the Iranian policy of destabilisation and promoting militias, hindering regional reintegration, writes Arash Azizi.

The Other Regional Counter-Revolution: Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East Iraqi security forces firing tear gas and live rounds into a crowd of demonstrators during the 2019 Tishreen (October) uprising The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic out...

Tara Kavaler Unless Tehran transforms its foreign policy, any rapprochement will be marginal, experts say Significant improvement in the relationship between Riyadh and Tehran remains a distant possibility, despite a change in approach by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman toward Iran and clandestine meetings between the rival nations’ representatives in Iraq, analysts say. Appearing on Saudi television on Tuesday, Prince Mohammed, commonly known as MbS, did, however, take a different ap...

Who is afraid of Iran’s Faezeh Hashemi? IranSource by Arash Azizi Faezeh Rafsanjani (C), daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, attends an opposition rally in Tehran in this June 16, 2009 photograph made available June 21, 2009. Faezeh, the daughter of Rafsanjani, who is a rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was detained during an opposition rally in Tehran on Saturday, an I...

It’s West Versus East in the Battle to Inoculate the Mideast Tara Kavaler Russian, Chinese vaccines compete with preparations made in the US, UK and Sweden The next frontier in the East-West rivalry lies in vaccines against the coronavirus, particularly in the Middle East, where Moscow and Beijing are striving to expand their influence since the United States has scaled back its involvement in recent years. Foreign policy objectives are being injected into the vaccine distribution process b...

Shadow commander. a powerful military mind, rarely seen but certainly heard. but as isis continues its slaughter in iraq attempting to edge closer to baghdad, this man is emerging from behind the scenes the head of irans elite qods force. a man the u.s. links to attacks on its own troops in the past may prove critical in the battle for tikrit. >> hes a legend. he was a player in the iran-iraq war. he has a whole lot of experience in combat not only in that war, but also in conflicts in the inter...