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Iranian military officers saluting Iran’s supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on February 8, 2015. (EPA/SUPREME LEADER OFFICIAL WEBSITE/HANDOUT)

Opinion: Khamenei tries to force generals back into line

by Amir Taheri | Jun 26, 2015 | Opinion

Is Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei worried that the forthcoming elections for Majlis (Parliament) and the Assembly of Experts might cause a split within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)? The question is not academic. Over the past year, various IRGC...

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Head of the Iraqi Shi’ite militia the Badr Organization Hadi Al-Ameri (R) meets with military commanders near Samarra in northern Iraq, on March 4, 2015. (EPA/Ali Mohammed)

Opinion: Iran’s Creeping Conquest of Iraq

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 22, 2015 | Opinion

The battle to rid Tikrit of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has revealed the depth of the Iranian military’s role in Iraq, as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders’ authority over what have been dubbed the Popular...

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Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi attends a meeting with local officials in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on March 4, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

Hadi reveals new details of Saleh’s involvement with Iran, Houthis: source

by Arafat Madabish | Mar 8, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi on Saturday renewed accusations of coordination between Iran, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the Shi’ite Houthi movement currently in de facto control of Yemen, revealing new details of their...

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This undated file photo shows head of Iran’s Quds Force Qassem Suleimani. (Fars News Agency)

Opinion: The Shadow Commander smiles for the camera

by Diana Moukalled | Mar 3, 2015 | Opinion

Before a year ago, mystery, intrigue and frustration surrounded the search for any report, photograph, or fact relating to Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds Force, a division of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. For more than two decades Suleimani’s...

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Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers march during an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2013. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)

Opinion: Iran and ISIS in Iraq

by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Jan 1, 2015 | Opinion

US Senator John McCain described the presence of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iraq as being a source of concern for the US. In the days following the capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Washington issued a statement saying...