Iran has developed fentanyl-based chemical weapons
Iran seems to have weaponized the pharmaceutical fentanyl. It may have given these chemical weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah to ...
Iran-Israel war: Fear of Iranian attack on Israel forces US to rush full squadron of deadly…, had earlier sent lethal…
Israel is on full alert amid the fears of Iranian retaliatory attacks for the October 26 airstrikes which killed four Iranian ...
Exclusive—Iraq Militia Vows to Strike US Bases if Airspace Used to Hit Iran
If the US doesn't exit Iraq via talks, it "will leave humiliated under the strikes and fire of the Islamic Resistance," they ...
U.S. calls for de-escalation as Iran claims 'right to self-defense' after Israeli strikes
Latest news and live updates as Israel strikes at Iran in retaliation for an earlier launch of nearly 200 ballistic missiles ...
The Economist15d
Israel’s limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault
For the first time since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, the residents of Tehran have seen their city under military attack. Not responding would be perceived as a sign of weakness. But ...
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Answering to the supreme leader, its command structure bypasses the elected president. The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) transformed the IRGC into more of a conventional fighting force, with a command ...
The Times of Israel1mon
A dissident in Iran awaits Israeli reprisal: ‘There’s a very real fear of all-out war’
There’s a very real fear of all-out war. Many of us, especially my generation and older, remember the Iran-Iraq War [the bloody conflict between the newly established Islamic Republic and Saddam ...
Tehran Times5d
President says Iran facing ‘economic war’, defends military program as defensive
Commenting on the West's provision of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian President asserted, “You cowards have unleashed chemical bombs on our people, ...
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Excerpt: Iran: The Nuclear Challenge
A German firm began, but did not complete, the construction of the Bushehr complex in 1975, and the reactors had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq War. The construction of the Bushehr reactor ...
Middle East Eye3d
How Israel's wars are changing Iran's national security doctrine
The ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are redefining Tehran's strategy, as it solidifies alliances with eastern powers and prepares to face off against Nato More than 15,000 Lebanese people ...
Business Insider29d
Iran's attacks on Israel suggest ballistic missiles are an overhyped threat
In the 1980s came the "War of the Cities," when Iraq and Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles against each other's urban areas. Despite tens of thousands of civilian casualties, morale in ...
Al Jazeera English12d
Iran plans to increase military budget by 200 percent
Iran plans to triple its military budget, a government spokeswoman has said, as tensions with rival Israel rise amid the Israeli military’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. The planned defence ...