Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and ...

As the Iranian authorities grapple with the aftermath of the June conflict with Israel and the United States, the return of ...

Following the 12-day conflict with Israel, Tehran is confronting a lot of difficult issues that could determine the future of ...

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

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

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

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

TEHRAN, August 5. /TASS/. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Iranian Supreme Leader's adviser Ali Larijani as Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). Larijani will ...

Iran has appointed Ali Larijani, a top adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as secretary of its Supreme National ...

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 ...

Senior imam Kazem Sedighi had faced mounting pressure to step down since his relatives were arrested in early June, in the ...