Al-Arabia – A top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander said on Friday that Iran seeks to kill former senior US officials, including former President Donald Trump, for their involvement in the 2020 killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. “God willing, we will be able to kill Trump… [former secretary of state Mike] Pompeo, [former head of US Central Command …

RFL/RE – Hundreds of schoolgirls have fallen sick and scores have been hospitalized in Iran’s holy city of Qom in recent months, with some parents and officials suspecting they were poisoned. But the authorities, which have launched an investigation into the mysterious wave of illnesses, have not found any evidence of poison. No deaths have been reported. The incidents have …

RFL/RE – Iran has developed a cruise missile with a range of 1,650 kilometers a top Revolutionary Guards commander said on February 24, in a move likely to raise Western concerns after Russia’s use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war. Separately, Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ aerospace force, also spoke of Iran’s often repeated …

Iranwire – It all started outside Tehran’s Kasra Hospital on September 16. A few days earlier, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the western city of Saqqez, in Kurdistan province, went on a trip to the capital and never returned home. While she was walking toward Tabiat Bridge, she was detained by agents of Gasht-e Ershad, the morality police. Two …

Iranwire – Five months after the start of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement calling for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical regime and demanding greater social and political freedoms, civil and political activists, and survivors of government massacres have come together to publish a Charter for Accountability and Justice. The signatories state that the aim of the “progressive and equalitarian” …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has called for the resignation of the country’s Shia leadership, as hundreds of anti-government protesters returned to the streets of the southeastern city of Zahedan after Friday prayers despite a heavy presence of security forces. The sermon of Zahedan’s Sunni Friday prayer leader, Molavi Abdolhamid, was not broadcast live on his Instagram account …

Iran-HRM – “They first threw us into a black van and blindfolded us with a blindfold, tied our hands with a wire, and then they took us to a place that was unknown to me. Then they took mobiles, bags and all our things, even the cosmetics inside the purse and without any questioning during the transfer and inside the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – In the next phase of Iran’s dangerous development, export and proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is attempting to set up drone assembly lines abroad, likely to expedite the process of weapons delivery to its allies. “Moscow and Tehran are moving ahead with plans to build a new factory in Russia that could make at least 6,000 …

Al-Monitor – US officials say Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given Iran a chance to hone its drone warfare skills while potentially expanding its proxies’ footprint in Syria, risking escalation with Israel. One year into Vladimir Putin’s ill-fated war against Ukraine, US officials have grown increasingly wary that a military partnership of convenience between Russia and Iran could evolve into strategic coordination …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held a number of secret meetings with senior Israeli military officials discussing plans for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel’s Channel 12 reported this week. According to the report, Netanyahu met five times in recent weeks with top military officials including the defense minister, head of the Israel Defense Forces, …