with intensifying US military expansion in the Gulf, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly ended his 37-year-old practice by skipping the annual 8 February meeting with air force generals. Khamenei has joined the annual session every year since taking leadership in 1989 — even through the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a report by…
Iran on Wednesday released its first government-issued death toll from a sweeping crackdown on nationwide protests, acknowledging more than 3,000 fatalities — a figure sharply lower than estimates provided by human-rights groups abroad — as the Islamic Republic seeks to reassert control following unrest that has drawn comparisons with the upheaval surrounding the 1979 revolution….
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice,” but expressed doubt about whether Pahlavi could gain enough support in Iran to come to power, as reported by reuters. In an exclusive reuters Interview in the Oval Office, Trump said there is a possibility that Iran’s clerical government…
