Saeid Golkar

Repeated warnings without action raise questions over US leverage amid Hormuz standoff

Iran Rejects 60-Day Deadline Interpretation

Veteran commanders take key posts as Tehran braces for conflict abroad and unrest at home

Iran’s ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic and proof that its revolutionary fervour still burns strong

But at 86, the ayatollah had wielded a level of influence that no replacement could soon match

As adversaries resist and partners hedge, the US faces structural limits in translating dominance into stable outcomes

As adversaries resist and partners hedge, the US faces structural limits in translating dominance into stable outcomes

Tehran threatens retaliation and signals continued control over Strait of Hormuz

Now, with a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran coming to an end and prospects for renewed negotiations hanging by a thread, the chances of the president breaking that pledge and ordering some kind of ground incursion seem to be rising

The reversal threatens to choke off roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply and sends fresh shock waves through global energy markets already strained by weeks of fighting

The reversal threatens to choke off roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply and sends fresh shock waves through global energy markets already strained by weeks of fighting

Iranian warships sunk by U.S. and Israeli attacks litter naval harbors along the Persian Gulf coast, but what is sometimes called a “mosquito fleet” lurks in the shadows

Singapore has defended international law, which provides for a stable world order

Iranian warships sunk by U.S. and Israeli attacks litter naval harbors along the Persian Gulf coast, but what is sometimes called a “mosquito fleet” lurks in the shadows

It showed Iran’s newly selected supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, standing in a trench and instructing commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fire missiles at their enemies

It showed Iran’s newly selected supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, standing in a trench and instructing commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fire missiles at their enemies

She spoke mournfully of the suffering of young Iranians — from the shells which crashed into crowded residential neighbourhoods, to the threats from Iran's Basij paramilitary forces who prowl the streets

His remarks come as his administration is working to negotiate a peace deal with Iran during a two-week ceasefire, which Trump announced last week after threatening to obliterate “a whole civilization.”

If talks between Iran and the US reconvene within the next few days in Islamabad, Donald Trump will have two major political hurdles to overcome — first showing that any deal he secures is better than the one signed by Barack Obama in 2015 and from which he withdraw in 2018, and secondly proving the deal is more favourable than the one on offer in Geneva in February before he launched his war

Amid the roiling diplomacy to end further chaos in world markets caused by the Israeli-American attacks on Iran, Saudi Arabia dipped into its pockets with a $3 billion loan to Pakistan

Islamabad is racing to arrange negotiations before the two-week ceasefire expires on 22 April

It showed Iran’s newly selected supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, standing in a trench and instructing commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fire missiles at their enemies

White House spars with reporter over Trump threats to commit war crimes in Iran

Trump Warns U.S. Would Hit Iran’s Energy Sites If Talks Fail

The immediate prospects for a diplomatic off-ramp look inauspicious as Washington and Tehran believe that their respective campaigns are putting the other side under sufficient duress to make maximalist demands

Last week, he set a 48-hour deadline to reopen the strait — which nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil is normally transported through — or the U.S. would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” He later kicked back that deadline

FOR HALF a century the Middle East’s petro-monarchies have cast themselves as reliable suppliers of low-cost petroleum

Negar Karamati is a journalist and former Persian language news editor, and an anchor who works in the legal field

Guards pushed wavering ayatollahs to back Khamenei

During an interview with Fox News, the US President also discussed the timing and rationale behind the recent US military strikes on Iran

The price of oil also surged to more than $100 a barrel for the first time in four years, with the war disrupting exports and forced production stoppages in the region

The war in Iran has become a high-stakes test of who will blink first

With their pervasive military, political and economic clout, the Guards are often considered the main impediment to regime change, or any change, in Iran

Following Khamenei’s reported death, Iran activated its constitutional succession mechanism, with an interim leadership council assuming temporary authority

No officials consulted by Reuters completely ruled out the possibility of the fall of Iran's government, which currently is buffeted by key personnel losses from ongoing US and Israeli air strikes and is deeply unpopular following a January round of extraordinarily violent repression

This is the defiant battle cry echoing through Iran's populace today, as captured through exclusive conversations between regular Iranians and the Daily Mail

More than half of Americans are scared by the prospect of a war with Iran — and only 1 in 3 back the use of force as the Trump administration inches closer to military action against the Islamic Republic

They can accept the remarkably low bar President Donald Trump set in his State of the Union address on Tuesday—or risk a war that could quickly become a justified effort to topple their vile and dangerous regime

He has also been charged with ensuring the regime’s survival in succession plans as Iran prepares for assassination attempts on its leadership, including Khamenei

Elite force accused of directing crackdown as Iran faces its most serious unrest in years

A number of other members and leading allies were slain in other theaters of the broader conflict surrounding the war in Gaza, particularly in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, leaving the Axis of Resistance coalition built by the IRGC over the course of decades now in a moment of crisis