On Sunday, January 8, 2023, in Sälen, a small city in western Sweden, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson held the annual People and Defence conference. Pål Jonsson, the Swedish Defense Minister was present along with NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg and Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.
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An announcement is expected within weeks that the British government is going to officially declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. The move is said to be supported by Britain’s Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign ...
Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones attacking Ukrainian cities are the most obvious indicators to date that Iran has become a threat to Ukraine and its European neighbors. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Shahed drones have killed and wounded many civilians and have damaged hundreds of reside...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has frequently violated Iraqi sovereignty by firing missiles and drones at a number of targets in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdistan region (KRG). Esmail Qaani, IRGC’s Quds Force Commander and Iran’s man in Iraq, has also travelled to Iraq for h...
As the nationwide protests enter their third month, so does the Iranian regime’s barbaric killing-machinery against those who are still demanding “death to the dictator.” Children represent around one in seven of the total number of deaths of protesters and bystanders, as recorded by Amnesty Interna...
On Monday morning of December 12, the family of Majidreza Rahnavard received a call from an Iranian official informing them that their 23-year-old son had been executed and was now buried in Behesht-e- Reza Cemetery in Mashhad.
In connection with ongoing nationwide protests entering their third mon...
On Saturday, December 3rd , after struggling to quell the protests, the Iranian authorities announced that they will be reviewing the hijab law, which became obligatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, which was four years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the U.S-backed Shah monarchy....
Having lost control of the Iranian street and failed over several months to regain it, Iran’s increasingly desperate leaders are now firing judicial shots not just at old enemies but at new ones.
Of these newly perceived threats to the regime are journalists, particularly those whose work uncovers ...
On Saturday, 29 October, Hossein Salami, the Commander of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), issued a threatening warning to protesters, “Do not come to the streets! Today is the last day of riots,” Salami said.
Hours after Salami’s threat of unleashing a harsher crackdown,...
It is two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections that are taking place on Tuesday, 8 November 2022, in which all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. President Joe Biden’s governing majorities are on the line in the coming midterm electi...
