Social and Political

iranintl – Israeli diplomats have been added to WhatsApp groups allegedly operated from Iran as the cyber war between the two countries continues, Israeli media reported on Monday. Israel’s Foreign Ministry has warned staff about the incident, urging increased caution. “Recently, there have been reports of [diplomats] being added to WhatsApp groups, not through their contacts. These are groups that …

iranintl – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Pakpour, offered condolences over the killing of Yemeni Houthi military chief Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Ghamari in an Israeli strike and pledged to deepen ties with the Iran-aligned group. In a message to Ghamari’s successor, Brigadier General Yusuf Hassan al-Madani, Pakpour hailed the slain commander’s “heroic struggle in …

iranintl – Western officials from Poland and Britain hit back at Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi after he posted a tweet in Polish condemning a drone display in the UK parliament that linked Iran to Russia’s war in Ukraine. In his post on X, Araghchi said “the exhibition in the British Parliament of a drone falsely and maliciously attributed to …

iranintl – US President Donald Trump said the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June paved the way for the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas. “It started probably with Soleimani. He was a mastermind who did a lot of bad things,” Trump said in a Fox News interview, …

iranintl – A prominent Sunni tribal elder in Iran’s restive Sistan-Baluchestan province was shot dead on Sunday, the latest in a series of targeted killings that authorities blame on foreign-backed terrorist groups. Mullah Kamal Salahi-zehi, a well-known community leader in the town of Sarbaz, was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in Iranshahr, according to Iranian state …

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iranintl – Iran’s Quds Force has been directly involved in reorganizing Hezbollah’s military network in Lebanon following the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s heavy losses in its conflict with Israel, according to an investigation by the French newspaper Le Figaro. According to the report published on Saturday, in the days after Nasrallah’s assassination in September 2024, Hezbollah’s leadership …

iranintl – An international human rights conference opened Saturday in Oslo, bringing together Iranian and non-Iranian activists, legal scholars, and political figures to debate the shape of a rights-based future for Iran after the Islamic Republic. The event titled”Human Rights in Iran After the Islamic Republic” was hosted by the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization, which said its goal was to …

iranintl – Two Iranian lawmakers — one sitting and one former — have been handed suspended jail sentences and bans on media activity over separate cases involving public remarks deemed damaging to national security and public order, the judiciary’s official news outlet reported on Saturday. The former lawmaker, Mostafa Kavakebian, was convicted after repeating allegations in two televised interviews accusing …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Trump made a flowing speech at the Israeli parliament that was remarkable for its frankness in showing the true picture of the situation to Israelis, combined with asserting his unflinching commitment to their security. [W]hat does peace, when poetic conceit is discarded, mean? It means that a war has ended with one clear winner and one clear loser, …