Thursday, September 19, 2024
Iran admits to accidentally downing Ukraine's Flight 752

OPINION: Why Will Iran Not Tell the Truth About Ukrainian Plane Crash?

By Hamed Mohammadi On Jul. 24, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) concluded its examination of the two black boxes that were retrieved from the wreckage of the Ukrainian commercial...

OPINION: Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Is Powerless After Soleimani’s Death

By Hamed Mohammadi The former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Brigadier General Ghasem Soleimani was killed in a targeted U.S. drone attack on Baghdad’s International Airport on January 3. Many political observers...

U.S. Rejects Iranian Media Claims of CIA Officer’s Death in Jet Crash in Afghanistan

By Hamed Mohammadi The U.S. Department of Defense has dismissed reports by Iranian state media that Michael D’Andrea, dubbed “Ayatollah Mike,” a senior officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in charge of the Iran...

OPINION: Iran Is an Obstacle to Peace and Stability in the Middle East

By Hamed Mohammadi The Iranian authorities have urged the public to take part in the forthcoming presidential election in June. In his first public address since the start of the Iranian new year on March 21,...

OPINION: The Islamic Republic Regime’s Desperate Battle for Survival

By Hamed Mohammadi The former head of the Supreme Court of Iran, the late Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Beheshti (1928-1981), delivered a speech at Tehran University on Oct. 26, 1979, in which he said: “Iranians...

U.S. Policy Of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran Has Been Effective, Analyst Says

By Hamed Mohammadi   The leaders of the Islamic Republic continue to blame U.S. sanctions for the economic crisis, which has made life difficult for most Iranians in recent years. Iranian society has been under enormous...

ANALYSIS: How Iran Is Seeking to Strengthen Ties With the Taliban

By Hamed Mohammadi Although the deep rift between Shias and Sunnis is the source of longstanding sectarian conflict in the Middle East, their mutual hatred of the U.S. prompts them to join forces sometimes. If...

Explosion at IRGC Building in Tehran Was Not A Terrorist Act, Iranian Media Says

By Hamed Mohammadi On December 30, an unknown person or persons reportedly detonated a small homemade explosive device outside the entrance to the Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (GHORB) -- the engineering wing of the Islamic...

Wreckage of MIG-29 Fighter Jet Is Found in Northwestern Iran

By Hamed Mohammadi   Military commando units and mountain search and rescue teams have found the wreckage of an Iranian Air Force MIG-29 fighter jet in the Sabalan mountain range in the northwestern province of Ardabil...

OPINION: IRGC’s Massive Control Over Iranian Politics and Economy

By Hamed Mohammadi It has been nine years since the U.S. military special forces, on orders from former President Barack Obama, carried out an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin Laden, the founder...