Geostrategy-Direct Widespread anti-government protests that broke out in Iran early this year were fueled in part by what protesters say is the government’s failure to monitor and manage the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States and its allies will “not reach” their goals in the Middle East region as they have been “neutralized” by Iran, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran has suspended its harassment of American forces in the Persian Gulf, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. “They don’t seem to be engaging in the same provocative (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran is building and testing in Syria short- to medium-range missiles with chemical warheads, a former Syrian army general said. Zaher al-Sakat, who defected in March 2013 and (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Authorities in Bahrain last week arrested 116 suspects who are accused of being operatives for a terror cell with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel has raised its level of preparedness and stepped up its involvement in the Syrian conflict amid Iran’s continued military buildup in Syria and a vow by a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran’s foreign minister and Hizbullah’s leader lauded what they described as a breakthrough in Syria’s downing of an Israeli F-16. After “30 years the Syrians were able to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The elderly ruling class in Iran, already reeling from youth-fueled anti-government protests, was dealt another blow after a video surfaced which called into question the legitimacy of Ayatollah (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In a message conveyed to both Washington and Moscow, Israel signaled a sharply different perspective from the West about Lebanon and warned that it will not allow Iran’s (more…)