Fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza killed a top military official Monday of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a group the State Department considers an Iranian-backed terrorist group blamed for some of the thousands of rockets launched at Israeli in recent days.
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Question of the Day A worshipper chants slogan during a pro-Palestinian demonstration after Eid al Fitr prayers in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Gaza braced for more Israeli airstrikes and communal violence raged across Israel after weeks of protests and violence in Jerusalem. . more > By David R. Sands - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 16, 2021
The commander of Iran’s elite military Quds Force is promising strong backing for the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in its escalating military clash with Israel, Iran’s state media reported over the weekend.
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US special forces troops posed as airport maintenance staff at Baghdad Airport to co-ordinate the air strike that assassinated Iran’s top commander, Qassem Suleimani, a report says.
They were joined on the ground by Kurdish special force soldiers and assisted by remote help from phone-tracking experts in Israel, it is claimed.
These leaked revelations, released in a new investigation on Saturday by Yahoo News, provide an insider account of the assassination on January 3 last year.
Three sniper teams of the US elite Delta Force disguised as airport workers waited to pinpoint the vehicle that would meet Suleimani, commander of Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps foreign operations arm, the Quds Force.
Iran is leveraging the nuclear bomb not dashing for it and the strategy seems to be working.
Iran’s grand strategy begins and ends with regime survival. Because of the turbulent circumstances surrounding the Islamic Republic’s creation it being the product of a revolution antagonistic both to adjacent powers and the Western world this existential view of international relations is particularly pronounced. Yet what the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to preserve is less Iran the country than the “Islamic Republic.” Susceptible to internal pressures and external humiliation, the survival of the Islamic Republic now demands two things: the end of Iran’s currently devastating economic quagmire and the ability to defend itself from potentially crippling attacks by regional and global rivals. These two central priorities are essential to understanding the strategy driving the ongoing nuclear crisis, but what is more, they show that for the time being Iran does n
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif began this week by begging forgiveness from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif began this week by begging forgiveness from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after Khamenei referred to a recently leaked interview as “a big mistake that must not be made by an official of the Islamic Republic.” Zarif addressed the supreme leader directly via Instagram and blamed the release of his private interview on “enemies” who sought to harm the mullahs’ regime. “Your comments are the final say on all matters for me and my colleagues,” he declared. “As an expert in foreign relations, I always believe that it should be managed and guided by the superior.”