Ministry of Intelligence

5 Men Now Running Iran

The joint U.S.-Israeli campaign has eliminated the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and his son and successor Mojtaba has yet to appear publicly. However, the regime remains intact. The...

6 Things To Know About Handala — Tehran’s Hackers Making Front Page News

U.S. law enforcement confirmed on March 27 that Iranian hackers operating under the name Handala compromised the FBI director’s personal email. The group claims to be an independent, pro-Palestinian...

Iran intensifies recruitment, repression amid reports of thousands of security deaths, Washington weighs ground operations

Washington has signaled readiness to expand operations, including potential ground options, while continuing strikes on Iran’s military and weapons infrastructure. At the same time, the sustained Israeli...

Iranian Cyber Operations Take Advantage of Weakened U.S. Defenses

The agency responsible for defending against Iranian cyberattacks is running at less than half strength, so perhaps cyber strikes against two U.S. healthcare companies in two weeks should not be surprising....

8 Key Regime Figures Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran

Israel intensifies strikes on repression sites, expands outreach to Iranians as regime repression deepens (March 8-10 updates)

On March 10, marking 10 days of Operation Epic Fury, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that more than 5,000 targets in Iran have been struck, including command-and-control centers, Islamic Revolutionary...

US and Israel establish air superiority, focus strikes on Iranian military sites and ‘regime pillars’ (March 4–5)

The American and Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran reached its 100th hour on March 5, as both forces in the joint operation continued to target military assets. The United States highlighted...

Iran’s Pro-Regime Hackers Cannot Back Up Their Claims of Successful Cyber Attacks

As the United States and Israel continue to pummel the clerical regime in Iran, its hackers are threatening to join the fray. The Cyber Isnaad Front, a regime proxy, warned at the outset of the operation...

US-Israeli campaign hits Iranian regime’s military and repression apparatus, regime forms leadership council (March 1 updates)

The joint US and Israeli operation entered its second day, with American forces targeting command-and-control centers, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters, air defense systems, ballistic...

The Islamic Republic Kills, Europe Does Nothing

The EU and European nations — purely symbolically — called Iranian ambassadors on January 13 to account for the Islamic Republic’s mass killing of as many as 12,000 unarmed demonstrators, even as...

People of Iran keep rising up against tyranny, and we should help them

Iranians have once again taken to the streets in defiance of their Islamist and authoritarian government. What began as demonstrations triggered by economic grievances — with the rial plummeting...

Iran’s Al Mustafa University is a terror front

On November 7, 2025, the Daily Mail reported on an Iranian assassination plot against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated the...

A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7

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Iran Refusing Inspections of Nuclear Sites as Senior IAEA Official Concludes Visit to Tehran

First Meeting With IAEA Since June War: The Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Massimo Aparo, has departed from Tehran after conducting the...

United Kingdom Reissues Travel Alert for UAE, Warning of ‘Very Likely’ Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Targets

British Government Issue Warning: The United Kingdom reissued a travel advisory for the United Arab Emirates on August 11, warning that “terrorists are very likely to try to carry...

US, UK, EU allies condemn Iranian terror plots

The United States, the United Kingdom, and a dozen other European countries issued a statement on July 31, condemning Iran’s escalating extraterritorial intelligence operations across Western...

10 Iranian Jails the Regime Uses To Brutalize Political Prisoners

Iran routinely detains and imprisons citizens who publicly question the regime. The suffering of these political prisoners is immense: Inmates have reported pervasive sexual assault, beatings, sleep deprivation,...

EU Sanctions Tehran’s Transnational Repression Network

Tehran’s global terror apparatus has triggered an important European response. On July 15, the European Union (EU) Council designated the network of narco-trafficker Naji Ibrahim Sharifi Zindashti and...

French Foreign Minister Warns UN Snapback Sanctions Against Iran Will Be Applied Absent Nuclear Agreement by End of August

Snapback Deadline Announced: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has pledged to activate the UN sanctions snapback mechanism at the end of August if no agreement is reached...

5 More Pillars of Iran’s Repressive Regime Targeted by Israel

Israel has turned key components of Iran’s tyrannical regime into rubble. In solidarity with the Iranian people who have long endured the regime’s brutality, the first wave of Israeli strikes from...