How Martyr Leader shapes Iran's people-centric, defense-oriented economic model

Officials should try twice to secure people’s livelihood: Martyr Leader

TEHRAN- The Martyr Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting with thousands of people from various segments on the occasion of the blessed Eid al-Mab'ath in February 2025, while referring to the economic and livelihood problems of the people, emphasized: The economic situation is not good, and people's livelihoods truly have problems.

Baghaei: Developing Relations with Iraq is a Top Priority for Tehran

Baghaei: Developing Relations with Iraq is a Top Priority for Tehran

Iran vows response to any aggression, hails self-reliant defense as legacy of martyred Leader

Iran’s Defense Ministry spokesman says the country’s self-sufficient defense capability is the strategic legacy of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

The fall of Tehran is no longer a foreign crisis

And the Islamic Republic is no longer merely a nuclear problem.

For Khamenei’s funeral, a highly-scripted show of public mourning and fury

TEHRAN ― Iran’s turn to harder line postwar politics has been on full display during funeral rites for the country’s assassinated supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from the reappearance of senior military leaders to calls for revenge amid national mourning. After foreign dignitaries and senior Iranian officials convened for ceremonies in Tehran, culminating with a []

Tehran home to ‘super villain convention’ to thwart Middle East peace

Former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy likened Tehran to a "super villain convention" working to disrupt Middle East peace. “Iran is now under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and they’re plotting to rebuild their control in the Middle East,” Mr Levy told Sky News host James Macpherson. “What we’re seeing in Tehran and around Iran now is less of a funeral and more of a super villain convention; they’re bringing together all the worst people in the world … to plot together how to thwart the peace process in the Middle East.”

What will happen to Iran? Analyst Ali Siadatan weighs in

What will happen to Iran? Analyst Ali Siadatan weighs in

United States versus Iran, the war of unequal forces that neither side could win

The combination of asymmetric military tactics and civilian targets outside the battlefield gave the Iranian regime a competitive and psychological edge, despite its clear inferiority to the world’s leading power

Threats against Trump and Netanyahu cannot prevent the Fall of Tehran

The Fall of Tehran is no longer a question of if-only of when. Opinion.

How Iran Is Moving From Resistance To Statecraft After The War

Farrokh Neghadar and Goudarz Eghtedari for Middle East Monitor The recent war involving Iran has revived a longstanding debate about the nature of Iranian power and the future of the Middle East. For decades, discussions of Iran in Western policy circles have oscillated between two assumptions: that the Islamic Republic is fundamentally ideological and irrational, []

Iran’s gaslighting kills: Declaring ‘victory’ in utter humiliation

Iran’s leaders call survival a victory. After a year in which the United States and Israel dismantled the Islamic Republic’s military, gutted its nuclear program, and killed its supreme leader, the regime’s surviving officials insist that merely enduring is triumph enough. But surviving is not the same as living, and what Tehran has preserved is []

IRAN STRONGER THAN BEFORE?

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Iran's Economic Collapse Is Driving Society from Reform to Regime Change

Iran's worsening economic crisis has entered a new phase in which the issue is no longer merely inflation or declining living standards, but the erosion of the regime's political legitimacy. Record inflation, the collapse of purchasing power, and expanding nationwide protests indicate that growing segments of Iranian society have moved beyond demands for reform toward fundamental political change.

Uncomfortable lessons of Iran war

Uncomfortable lessons of Iran war

Iran Overplays Its Hand

It would be hard to argue with a straight face that Tehran’s position is particularly advantageous.

Why Iran is making infrastructure next front in Mideast conflict

Tehran appears to be codifying a pattern that emerged during the recent conflict, increasingly floating attacks on economic infrastructure as an integral part of the conflict's equation.

Booker says 'Iran gets all of the benefits' in Trump deal 

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday said that Tehran is receiving “all of the benefits” from the deal to end the war in Iran. “When you have Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives, all coming out talking about capitulation, surrender, catastrophe, you know how bad this deal is,” Booker told NBC News’s Garrett Haake on...

The US-Iran War and Greater Eurasia

In spite of pessimistic forecasts of certain doom for Iran if Tehran ever found itself in a direct confrontation with Washington, the Islamic Republic withstood the overwhelming US-Israeli blow launched against it after decades of mounting tensions. With Iran emerging from the conflict as the first state in fifty years to survive a war with America, the outcome of the Middle East clash may now send ripples throughout an international system already fraught with uncertainty. Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, examines the consequences of the Iran War for the macroregion of Greater Eurasia.

Cory Booker says ‘Iran gets all of the benefits’ in Trump deal

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday said that Tehran is receiving “all of the benefits” from the deal to end the war in Iran. “When you have Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives, all coming out talking about capitulation, surrender, catastrophe, you know how bad this deal is,” Booker told NBC News’s Garrett Haake on []...Click to read more

New escalation – Is the conflict on the verge of spreading?

Iran’s latest attacks show that Tehran can easily disrupt maritime traffic, energy markets, and draw neighboring countries into the conflict. How much leverage does Tehran have over Washington, and could this strategy ultimately backfire?