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…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel will not allow Iran to become entrenched militarily in Syria or to turn Lebanon into a “factory for precision missiles,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran says it has no plans on leaving Syria after France’s foreign minister commented that “Syria must become a sovereign state again and that means [being] independent of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel has made no secret of its “multifaceted effort” to curtail Iran’s growing influence in Syria and the region. IDF chief of staff Gaby Eisenkot said Teheran poses (more…)
