Welcome back to the Agenda. Today a couple exclusives.  First from Iran: Forget Mojtaba Khamenei. Ex-IRGC leader Mohsen Rezaei is really running Iran — through a triumvirate with two other ...

Welcome back to a special edition of the MBN Iran Briefing. The regime is starting to hang January’s protesters while it’s drawing on Persian history to claim it will defeat its enemies. Find out ...

The U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran has thrust the Middle East into a new era of direct confrontation. Iran’s retaliation has rippled across the Gulf—from Doha and Dubai to vital energy ...

As the war between the United States and Iran enters its fourth week, attention is turning from how the conflict is being fought to how it has been understood. In Washington, the dominant ...

As regional tensions escalate, the contours of a potential international move to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are beginning to take shape. In this context, the diplomatic adviser to the President ...

The last members of the NATO mission in Iraq left the country on March 20, 2026.” This is what General Alexus Grynkewich, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said on March 20, commenting on the ...

The weakness of the Arab world. Arab resilience has already been strained to the breaking point Israel’s wars on Gaza, ...

The past week has seen a sharp escalation in attacks in Iraq, targeting the U.S. Embassy and the Victoria Base near Baghdad Airport, alongside airstrikes that struck residential homes and killed a ...

Contrary to earlier expectations, the military and political power structure of the Islamic Republic has managed to hold ...

Alhurra’s Iraq correspondent reported, citing Iranian opposition sources, that former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Mohsen Rezaei is leading a three-member wartime council while ...

More than 1,086 years ago, the twelfth imam in Twelver Shiite Islam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Askari, entered what is known in prevailing Shiite belief as the “Major Occultation.” Since then, the ...

For hours, bulldozers and heavy machinery worked to remove the rubble of a house that was struck at dawn on Tuesday in the upscale Jadriya district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, where a group of ...