Ahvaz

June 23, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Trump announces ceasefire, Israel strikes Iranian regime’s repression apparatus (June 23 updates)

After nearly two weeks of high-intensity conflict, US President Donald Trump announced on June 23 that Israel and Iran had reached a ceasefire agreement that is set to begin roughly six hours after the announcement.

June 22, 2025 | |

Iran Launches Dozens of Missiles at Israeli Civilians After U.S. Strikes on Nuclear Facilities

Iran Retaliates After American Attack: Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Israeli civilian population centers on June 22 following the United States’ overnight strikes...

June 22, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Israel targets IRGC officials, nuclear scientist, and missile bases in Iran (June 22–21 updates)

Over the past 72 hours, Israel has intensified its air campaign across Iran, striking missile and drone infrastructure in Esfahan, Bushehr, Ahvaz, Yazd, and Qom. Targets included the Imam Hossein missile...

June 21, 2025 | |

‘Blood of Thousands of Israelis is on His Hands’: IRGC Commander Who Backed October 7 Massacre Among Key Leaders Eliminated in IDF Precision Strikes

Latest Developments Iranian ‘Palestine Corps’ Commander Killed: The IDF eliminated an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF) commander described as a key orchestrator of Hamas’s...

June 20, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Israel reportedly eliminates nuclear scientist, expands messaging campaign (June 20 updates)

Israel expanded its campaign against Iran with strikes on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sites, missile infrastructure, and nuclear-linked facilities, reportedly killing a nuclear scientist in...

May 29, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

U.S. Support for Iran’s Labor Strikes Is Long Overdue

Iran’s workers are uniting in defiance. What began as a call to strike by the Truckers and Drivers Union on May 21 has now grown into a week-long protest spanning more than 40 cities across the country....

February 15, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

December 3, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

November 19, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Helping Iran fail in Iraq

Hours after the failed Nov. 7 assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, pro-Iran militias in Iraq claimed responsibility but denied that Tehran had ordered the attack. Not only...

July 29, 2021 | Alireza Nader |

Biden Looks Away While Iranian Protesters Call for the Regime’s Overthrow

In Iran, nationwide protests are calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. The unrest started in the water-deprived province of Khuzistan but has spread to neighboring provinces and major cities,...

July 18, 2021 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

The Impact of the Ahwaz protests in Iran

Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority on July 7 launched extensive anti-regime protests centered in the country’s western Khuzestan Province. Extreme water shortages affecting the Ahwaz were the catalyst for...

July 7, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The US Must Punish Iran’s Regime For Its Lethal Homophobia

As LGBTQ Pride Month concludes in the free and democratic world, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s totalitarian regime continues to violently oppress and eliminate sexual minorities. The existence of the...

April 28, 2021 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Iran Is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic

April 13, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

June 30, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Fighters throughout the Khorasan renew allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

The Islamic State’s Khorasan province has released a 12-minute, 28-second video reaffirming its fighters’ allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The production is part of the self-declared caliphate’s...

November 5, 2018 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Ali Alfoneh

Analysis: New pattern of Iran-backed assassinations abroad?

October 26, 2018 | John Hannah |

Here’s How Trump Should Prepare for Iranian Escalation

Once sanctions are back in full force, the United States needs to be ready for the worst.

October 3, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

With Syria strike, Iran continues ramping up ballistic missile use

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired six ballistic missiles into eastern Syria on Monday. The strike — whose efficacy is debatable — was in response to a Sept. 22 terrorist attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran. Both the Islamic State, or ISIS, and a local Arab resistance group took responsibility for the attack.

October 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s best-selling paper calls for end of Iran trade to protect Israel

“It is high time to ask oneself where the money that Iran is earning by this trade is going," Dr. Schuster said.

October 23, 2015 | |

The IRGC’s New Deployment Pattern

The October 7th death of Brigadier-General Hossein Hamedani, the most senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander killed in the Syrian war, underlines Iran’s growing military...