For months, Cairo watched Iran’s regional campaign from the sidelines. Now, the war appears to have reached Egypt. On July 29, a drone struck the Egyptian port city of Damietta, damaging a U.S. gas...
Tehran faced two rounds of new U.S. sanctions in as many days. On July 29 and July 30, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued back-to-back sanctions targeting the...
Iranian authorities hanged two individuals in public who participated in the January 2026 Lion and Sun Revolution, the largest anti-regime uprising in the Islamic Republic’s history, in which millions...
What is unmistakable is the depth of loathing for the Islamic Republic among its long-suffering citizens: At 71%, “dissatisfaction with the Islamic Republic” was the top reason for joining protests, according to a survey.
President Donald Trump made waves the day after his administration announced a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. He conditioned the deal on Riyadh joining the Abraham...
Despite a lull in fighting between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran broke with its established pattern of portraying direct missile attacks against U.S. forces as retaliation. On...
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) published a list of “hostile” media organizations on July 14, including multiple Christian evangelical broadcasters based outside of Iran. Those Tehran finds...
President Donald Trump says he has “plenty of time” for talks with Iran. That works because Washington, DC, is 7,000 miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. But if you are in Dubai,...
“Gradually, then suddenly” could work
Russia is still providing satellite imagery to aid Iran in its war against the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged on July 25. That same day, Kyiv said it had targeted cargo...
The United States has reimposed its naval blockade against Iranian ports while striking the Islamic Republic’s military assets for a full consecutive week, all in response to Tehran’s repeated violations...
Three sources told Reuters on July 16 that Iran has instructed Yemen’s Houthis to close the Red Sea to shipping if the US attacks Iran’s power network, which President Donald Trump threatened to...
Excerpt Even as Washington and Tehran continue to intensify strikes against each other’s assets across the Persian Gulf, the key lesson of America’s ongoing conflict with Iran is...
Iran’s repeated attacks on commercial shipping may ultimately force the United States to take a more aggressive posture by reviving its maximum pressure campaign against the Tehran regime. Following...
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire. Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in...
If Iranians were hoping for a softening of the Islamic Republic’s iron rule, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has wasted no time in disillusioning them. He has appointed Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei...
The body of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was taken to the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala on July 8 as part of his funeral procession. Large crowds gathered to mourn the slain leader...
The terror group could use the lessons it learned from the Iran war to endanger the global community.
As the United States and Iran trade blows again, it’s important to remember that sanctions relief would have only allowed the Islamic Republic to finance its war machine.