Arash Azizi

Who will lead Hamas now?

18 October 2024 5:34 pm

It took more than a year of waging war, but Israel has finally succeeded in killing its top target in…

Will Iran attack Israel?

7 April 2024 4:58 am

The Middle East is bracing for an attack whose exact source, targets, method, timing and scope are unknown. On Monday,…

Iran and the Yakuza are natural criminal bedfellows

24 February 2024 1:46 am

On Thursday, a 60-year-old Japanese crime boss appeared in a New York court to respond to charges that he helped…

Airstrikes won’t stop the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks

25 January 2024 6:50 pm

It was less than two weeks ago that the US and UK introduced a new element to the multi-faceted conflict…

Who are the Houthis?

12 January 2024 9:27 pm

About a month ago, a regional brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the militia that undergirds the power…

Iran and Hamas didn’t always get on

20 October 2023 5:30 pm

In the days after Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, everyone wondered how much Iran knew beforehand. But a focus…