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A Correspondent In TehranAl Monitor |
Iran's rhetoric and policies toward Gulf states have sharply escalated, raising questions about whether years of painstaking regional rapprochement...
Tehran is escalating pressure on the United Arab Emirates through strikes and rhetoric, signaling a strategy to widen the conflict and indirectly...
Iran is using the fragile truce to recover by blending redeployment and reverse engineering into broader preparedness for renewed conflict.
Iranian authorities are denouncing US seizures of the country's oil tankers as piracy, but mounting disruptions to maritime trade are exposing...
Iranian officials say dialogue remains open, but negotiations are clouded by intensifying hard-line domestic messaging and conflicting signals over...
Ultraconservative figures and security officials have intensified their criticism of the negotiating team, accusing it of jeopardizing Iran’s gains.
Iran’s current posture accepts short-term, reversible constraints while rejecting long-term limits on enrichment.
Ahead of a possible new round of US talks, Iran insists that uranium enrichment on its own soil is nonnegotiable, framing it as a matter of...
Beneath the surface of official messaging, a more complex and uneasy reality is emerging — one defined by lingering mistrust, hard-line dissent and...
Iran's execution of four alleged opposition members underscores a wartime strategy of tightening domestic control — leveraging a familiar "enemy"...
Iran's hard-line authorities are particularly sharpening threats against the United Arab Emirates, signaling a potential shift in targeting the Gulf...
Zolghardr's appointment suggests a push to strengthen the group’s influence over national security and the war effort.
The IRGC, already strengthened by its central role in the war and its ties to newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, may consolidate further...
Iran is blending cautious diplomacy with fortified defenses, a survival mindset and readiness to escalate strategically if challenged.
Iran's universities have reopened, but things aren't back to normal, as students chant for regime change and assert alternative political visions in...
With Washington tightening deadlines and deploying assets, Tehran is mounting a rapid diplomatic campaign while preparing for what is increasingly...
Sharp warnings, entrenched red lines and rising military signaling reveal a shaky path in US-Iran nuclear talks.
Iran and the United States ended Friday's talks in Muscat without a breakthrough, preserving diplomacy but deepening uncertainty as military pressure,...
Iran's public messaging remains fragmented, with cautious openness from the presidency, rigid red lines from security officials and outright rejection...
The EU designation could ultimately render the IRGC an even more aggressive and defiant organization aboard, and a more assertive rights violator at...
A military strike risks entrenching hard-liners in Tehran if Washington fails to accomplish regime change driven by a clear endgame.
Iran doubled down on the narrative that the protesters were "Israel-linked mercenaries," as international calls grew for the regime's accountability...
One of the clearest indicators of regime vulnerability — namely defections among the elite or military positions — has not materialized yet.
Iran's nationwide unrest has deepened as lethal force collided with state warnings, exposing a widening gap between official control and...
To counter US influence and demonstrate global reach, Iran had for years invested heavily in Venezuela as a politically aligned, economically...
As casualties mount amid nearly a week of unrest in Iran, Donald Trump's threat to "rescue" demonstrators has sharpened tensions, forcing Tehran to...
The latest wave of protests is moving beyond markets and into universities, as Tehran trades warnings with Washington and Israel.
As Iran's judiciary publicly rebukes the central bank over the rial's collapse, the currency crisis is no longer economic and is fast becoming a test...
The economic agenda of the meetings in Moscow and Tehran reflected a deliberate effort by both governments to signal momentum in a partnership...
The group’s outreach to broader ethnic communities reflects a strategic bid for wider legitimacy and a role in the wider struggle against the...
At a Tehran trilateral meeting between China and Saudi Arabia, Iranian officials performed careful diplomatic choreography, seeking Beijing’s...
By combining high-tech capabilities, publicized warnings to foreign vessels and historical framing of territorial sovereignty, Tehran is seeking to...
TUNIS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Tunisian police on Tuesday arrested prominent opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home to enforce five-year prison term...
The five-day drill includes participation from China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Observer...
Prolonged wildfires are raging across Iran's northern Hyrcanian forests, highlighting mismanagement, insufficient resources and climate stress, and...
Tehran's sway over Baghdad is facing new challenges, with fatigued allies, US pressure and postwar regional shifts redefining Iran's influence in its...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has quietly removed veteran commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi, fueling debates on postwar restructuring,...
In a brief Baghdad visit, Iranian Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani sought to mend Iraq's fractured Shiite bloc and restore Tehran's faltering...
The public spat between the Iranian and Polish foreign ministers over Tehran's drone sales to Russia underscores Iran's growing diplomatic...
Iran's national security chief, Ali Larijani, met Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week to deliver the Iranian supreme leader's message,...
The Iranian leadership blasted Donald Trump's call for dialogue as "hypocritical," but Reformist voices in the country argue that the overture...
Iran has officially welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and has called for accountability over Israeli "genocide." Yet, sidelined from the US-Arab...
Two years after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Iran finds itself more isolated and vulnerable, facing the limits of its regional influence and deep...
Iran is lobbying states to resist enforcement of UN sanctions — looking particularly to China and Russia to blunt the impact, even as...
As the snapback nears, Iran weighs diplomacy, escalation and changes to its nuclear policy.
US President Donald Trump could only win the Nobel Peace Prize if he stopped the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians over Gaza, French...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pursued urgent diplomacy in New York to block the looming snapback of UN sanctions, warning Western...
Iran has warned of further escalation after its Western adversaries voted to reimpose sweeping sanctions on the Islamic Republic, as economic...
Three years after an Iranian woman’s death in hijab police custody sparked the “Women, Life, Freedom” women’s rights movement, the...
Iran's recent deal with the UN nuclear watchdog has intensified domestic political fractures, with the government scrambling to balance hard-liners'...