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