U.S. and Taliban Reach Secret Peace Agreement, Iranian News Agency Reports
By Hamed Mohammadi
The U.S. and the Taliban have agreed in principle to a framework for peace, following four days of intense negotiations between Zalmay Khalilzad, the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the U.S....
Iran Continues to Blame U.S. Sanctions for Coronavirus Epidemic
By Hamed Mohammadi
Many Iranian officials continue to blame U.S. sanctions for the shortage of medicine and medical equipment which has exacerbated the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in the country.
High-ranking officials including Iran’s Supreme...
ANALYSIS: Israel’s Killing of Hezbollah, Hamas Leaders Won’t Reduce Threat
By Hamed Mohammadi
Four months into the military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military and security organizations have launched an unprecedented operation to assassinate senior officials of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Except for Salah al-Arouri --...
Israel Denies Assassination Plot Claims Against Top IRGC Commander
By Hamed Mohammadi
Iranian authorities have foiled a plot by the “Israeli-Arab intelligence agencies” to assassinate Major-General Ghasem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF), and arrested three men in...
Iran Sinks Deeper into Syrian Quicksand After Turkish Military Attack on IRGC
By Hamed Mohammadi
On Feb. 29, an organization called Iran’s Military Advisory Center (MAC) in Syria released a statement urging the Turkish military to stop attacking Shia militia and Hezbollah forces operating under the auspices...
Soleimani Persuaded Putin Fight Against ISIS in Syria, Iranian General Says
By Hamed Mohammadi
Lieutenant General Ghasem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF), persuaded Russia to join the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)...
ANALYSIS: U.S. May Be Getting Ready to Resume Talks With Iran
By Hamed Mohammadi
On June 4, the Iranian authorities released Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran who had been arrested in July 2018 in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the northeastern province of...
Iran Explores Economic Opportunities in Syria, Wins Power Station Contract
By Hamed Mohammadi
A privately held Iranian energy company has won the contract to build a 540 megawatts gas-fired power station in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, Iran’s Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian has...
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...
Iran’s Regular Army Played a Key Role in Fighting ISIS, Commanders Say
By Hamed Mohammadi
Recent comments by several senior army commanders hailing the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces and the Air Force for their roles in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and in the...
