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Hamas attack on Israel reveals shady arms shipments to terrorists

Although we have not found direct evidence proving Moscow’s involvement in supplying the Hamas movement with North Korean weapons, there is a very high probability of such copartnership. Particularly, collaboration of the…

October 20, 2023DPRK, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Russia

Governance

The 2024 Iran election: key problems and possible scenarios to develop

Upcoming votes in spring 2024 in Iran pose a dilemma for Ali Khamenei: should he disqualify candidates aggressively and continue alienating the public? Or, risk a Majlis dominated by his…

September 4, 2023Iran

Conflict

Kabul wants Tehran to recognize Taliban’s regime using water dispute

Deadly clashes broke out between Afghan and Iranian guards at their border raising fears of a new conflict. Both sides have accused each other of initiating the shooting in which at…

June 2, 2023Afghanistan, Iran, water

Conflict Geopolitics Peacekeeping

Will Iran’s and Russia’s Meddling Start Another War in the South Caucasus?

Amidst recent flurry of diplomatic activity between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the specter of globalization of conflicts arises. No sooner have the foreign ministers dispatched to Washington from Baku and Yerevan…

May 4, 2023Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Karabakh, Turkiye

Geopolitics Governance

The state of the conflict in Syria does not make it ready to consider institutional reforms that may satisfy some of the local actors

12 years after the start of the civil war in Syria, the country is facing a regional humanitarian crisis where over 13 million people, according to UN data, need help.…

May 1, 2023Iran, Syria, Turkiye

Drug trafficking Geopolitics

Why does Saudi Arabia seek rapprochement with Bashar al-Assad?

The era of isolation for the President Bashar al-Assad's Syria seems to have ended even from Saudi Arabia, one of the countries that in 2011 took the initiative to break…

April 17, 2023captagon, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria

- Intelligence ops National Security

FSB likely to hold back Iran-Russia cyber cooperation

Iran seeks to bolster the cyber attack capacity, with more control of telecommunication networks to minimize threats by the opposition and activists. Threats to the current regime serve to enhance effort by Tehran and Moscow to set up efficient control of information field. In June 2015, Brigadier General…

April 5, 2023Iran, Russia

National Security Warfare

Iran uses Russian war on Ukraine to modernize, develop own UAV program

The Iranian UAV program is on a spree of further expanding cooperation with Russia. Moscow's demand for cheap and user-friendly drones leads the Kremlin to try to both increase the…

March 29, 2023Iran

Terrorism

Tehran likely open for more interaction with Al Qaeda

Iran may have stepped up effort to use Al Qaeda terrorist cells, as this jihadist group changed its leaders. Following the death of Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri, Seif al-Adel, a…

March 8, 2023Al Qaeda, Iran

Nonproliferation

Rosatom violates non-proliferation treaty in Iran

It is highly possible that Russia has been assisting Iran in developing nuclear technologies for some time, in exchange for weapons and UAVs supplied, to use them in the war against Ukraine. This assistance comes in the form of consultations…

December 13, 2022Iran, nuclear weapons, Russia

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