Category: 1. Iran

Why it matters:

The statement argues that Washington’s recent actions, including targeted killings, abductions, and support for military offensives affecting civilians, have eroded international norms and accelerated…

Thousands of diaspora users have downloaded and run an application called Psiphon Conduit that allows them to securely share part of their bandwidth with the widely popular censorship circumvention tool Psiphon, helping users inside Iran maintain…

Iran, in this view, is a buffer—a state whose continued cohesion has helped secure Turkey’s eastern borders for decades, whatever its internal circumstances.

The prospect of that buffer weakening alarms Ankara far more than the nature of the…

Why it matters:

The region has witnessed heightened political and security sensitivities, prompting Iran to intensify diplomatic outreach to prevent further escalation and reinforce cooperative mechanisms with key…

“Our brave Armed Forces are prepared—with their fingers on the trigger—to immediately and powerfully respond to ANY aggression against our beloved land, air, and sea,” wrote Araghchi in a post on  X on Wednesday afternoon. 

“The valuable…

MADRID – Thomas Friedman’s recent column in The New York Times, in which he equated the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with Hamas, falls into an analytical simplification that ultimately obscures more than it…