ANALYSIS: What Is the Iran-Regime Funded Hezbollah Group Backing Hamas Against Israel?
BEIRUT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the border since its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza and Israel went to war on Oct. 7.
The violence on the frontier between Israel and Lebanon...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s New President Is Unlikely to Alter Nation’s Foreign Policy
By Kayhan Life Staff
On July 6, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected president of the 14th government of the Islamic Republic of Iran amidst a muddle of crises across all sectors. Even the most optimistic analysts...
ANALYSIS: How Iran’s Government Has Weaponized Sexual Violence Against Women Who Dare to Resist
By Mina Fakhravar / The Conversation
In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields.
The protest movement erupted after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, who was arrested by Iran’s...
ANALYSIS: Iran Prepares for Fresh Round of Nuclear Talks
By Ahmad Rafat
On Nov. 27, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, dubbed the “father of Iran’s nuclear program,” was killed by unknown attackers who reportedly used a “remote control weapon” to fire on his car on Mostafa Khomeini...
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 --...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Elections Draw Worst-Ever Turnout
By Ahmad Rafat
Elections for the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) and the sixth Assembly of Experts (which has the power to appoint Iran’s Supreme Leader) were held on March 1.
According to official data, the recent election...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Faces Paralysis If West Toughens Sanctions
By Ahmad Rafat
The Islamic Republic of Iran currently finds itself engulfed in a multitude of crises: a deepening water shortage as reservoirs run dry; an electricity crisis marked by relentless blackouts; the fallout from...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Is Threatened By Internal Divisions, Risk of War
By Roshanak Astaraki
The Islamic Republic is currently facing multiple threats to its survival. Divisions between the government and the people have grown deeper, and tensions with the U.S. and Israel have escalated, pushing Iran...
ANALYSIS: UN Blue Beret Units in Iran Are Being Used to Suppress Protests
By Kayhan Life Staff
The blue beret units of the 23rd Mobile Division of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (NEZAJA) held a military exercise on May 29 to mark the International Day...
ANALYSIS: “Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change”
SPECIAL REPORT
“Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change”
Chatham House
London, May 9th 2018
★★★★★
Overview
In a meeting chaired by Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham House, Professor Mahmood Sariolghalam of Shahid Beheshti University (former National...
