Pakistan and Qatar have dispatched envoys to Iran, officials and diplomats said on Friday, as mediators intensified efforts to prevent a monthlong cease-fire between Washington and Tehran from collapsing. Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, who has played a central role in his country’s mediation efforts, led a delegation that landed in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on Friday evening, according to the Pakistani military. The high-profile visit appeared to signal…
The United States’ military campaign against Iran has already generated billions of dollars in costs within its first days, and analysts say the pace of spending could soon force the Pentagon to request supplemental funding from Congress. Early estimates suggest the financial burn rate of the conflict is extremely high compared with recent U.S. wars. A study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the first 100…
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The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, researchers say. Left in its wake are rising societal resentments and an ever-increasing wealth gap. A study published in the European Journal of Political Economy has used an innovative method to investigate…
Citizen Lab found that an online network pushed out deepfake videos during Israel’s airstrikes on Tehran’s Evin Prison. An investigation by TheMarker and Haaretz reveals the Persian-language online campaigns indirectly funded by Israel In early 2023, Reza Pahlavi made his first official visit to Israel. He’s the son of the last shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979…
A few weeks ago, in a public act at the White House, with Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, surprised, Donald Trump – the man whom the prime minister and his followers are convinced they have in their pocket – announced that the United States was opening direct, high-level talks with Iran. The gap between what the U.S. president is doing…
Iran say they plan to boycott Friday’s 2026 World Cup draw in the United States because of the limited number of visas for their delegation. According to the Tehran Times, the US has issued four visas to Iran’s delegation, but they do not include one for Mehdi Taj, the president of the country’s football federation. Taj said he had spoken to Fifa president Gianni Infantino about the issue. “We are…