Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Ali Larijani as the new secretary for the Supreme National Security Council ...

P olitical power in Iran used to be simple. Call him dictator, supreme leader, imam or shadow of God on earth, Ayatollah Ali ...

Ali Larijani, the conservative adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been appointed secretary general ...

Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program remain stalled following strikes by Israel and the United States. The bombing of key ...

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed veteran politician Ali Larijani as the new secretary for the country's ...

The Supreme National Security Council is responsible for laying out the country's defence and security strategy.

Larijani is a seasoned conservative and confidant of Khamenei. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian appointed Ali Larijani, a ...

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President Masoud Pezeshkian’s first year in office has been defined by Iran’s familiar political structural constraints, ...

In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, Tehran has created a new “Defense Council,” the Islamic Revolutionary ...

In other words, how did the Islamic Revolution of 1979 come to be, and why did its leaders endure? The revolution was ...

Diplomacy, backed by military readiness, worked with the Soviets; it can work here. Khamenei’s refusal to negotiate under duress is predictable, but his regime’s survival instinct is not. A deal that ...