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Russia doesn’t stop at helping the Houthis with satellite intelligence. The US Treasury has identified multiple networks and Houthi leaders focused on deepening Houthi-Russia ties, including in weapons procurement — @BridgetKToomey:
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🚨NEW: Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November | Iran is trending positive
President Trump has continued the blockade of Iranian ports, permitting no oil out.
🔗 @BridgetKToomey & @TheRealBehnamBT give the rundown: fdd.org/analysis/trump-admin…
📰 via @Jerusalem_Post
When Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi takes the stage in Frankfurt on Saturday to accept the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s 2026 Freedom Prize in trust for the Iranians people, he will receive an award that, for the first time in its two-decade history, has been bestowed on an entire nation.
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📰 via @politico
A senior Iranian official mocked JD Vance on Thursday for a lengthy social media post in which the U.S. vice president conceded that the American-Israeli war on Iran caused the Republican Party’s midterm election meltdown this week.
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📰 via @TimesofIsrael
Iran’s judiciary has sentenced to death a man held in detention for almost two years over his posts on X and other social media, his lawyer and several rights groups said.
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How Russia and China Support the Houthis
The United States and its allies need a more coordinated anti-Houthi strategy to counter a Russo-Chinese threat to the region.
@BridgetKToomey in @TheNatlInterest: nationalinterest.org/blog/mi…
📰 via @Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian top security official Mohsen Rezaei at the Kremlin, Iran’s state media reported on Thursday, after Iranian negotiators met with mediators to discuss proposals to end hostilities with the US.
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FDD's Iran Program retweeted
Third time’s the charm? Larijani’s elimination initially drew backlash because he was seen as the "pragmatic" figure who could serve as Washington's interlocutor. The U.S. then turned to Ghalibaf, followed by IRGC commander Vahidi. With both avenues exhausted, Washington now approached SNSC Secretary Rezai, the man who had rejected the very MoU that had allowed Tehran to repatriate oil revenues.
The miscalculation is assuming any single individual, including Mojtaba Khamenei, can moderate the regime’s behavior. Sure, rivalries within the Islamic Republic exist, but its leaders remain united in pursuing maximalist objectives through escalation, increasingly driven by revenge and paranoia.
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IDF estimates put Iranian military deaths at 4,000 to 5,000, mostly internal security personnel — numbers unlikely to give pause to a regime that killed 40,000 of its own people in January. @JanatanSayeh:
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📰 via @WSJ
The Bank of England raised interest rates Thursday for the first time since the Iran war sent oil prices soaring, while signaling it is unlikely to move as aggressively to tackle rising inflation as many investors had expected.
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📰 via @Reuters
Saudi Arabia issued alerts on Thursday warning of potential danger in Yanbu, the kingdom’s Red Sea oil export hub, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis continue attacks on the kingdom that have opened another front in the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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📰 via @Reuters
Iran has sent the United States a nuclear proposal via Qatar, to be discussed only after Washington meets Tehran’s seven demands, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday.
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Syria detains Hezbollah cell accused of Homs plot
@sfrantzman in FDD’s @LongWarJournal: bit.ly/3X9Ycuo
📰 via @Reuters
Iran reported that three more tankers had been damaged in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, making clear that shipping would remain in peril as long as the war in the Gulf is unresolved, now that US voters have punished President Donald Trump for waging it.
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FDD's Iran Program retweeted
In terms of a democratic majority in the House and the Senate, what will it mean for Iran and Israel policy moving forward?
@Ty_D_Stapleton joins @NatalieEcanow on the FDD Morning Brief to discuss: youtube.com/watch?v=-RGCHj9g…
To truly maximize its leverage against the Islamic Republic in any renewed conflict, Washington must degrade the regime’s repression apparatus to empower the regime’s only existential threat, the Iranian people, stresses @JanatanSayeh:
fdd.org/analysis/irans-civic…
📰 via @reuters
Saudi Arabia and Syria signed a cooperation agreement between the two countries’ defense ministries on Wednesday, Saudi state news agency SPA reported, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group continues its missile and drone attacks on the kingdom.
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📰 via @Reuters
Emirates airline reported a 66% drop in first-half net profit on Thursday as airspace closures and disruptions caused by the US-Israeli war with Iran hit travel across the Middle East and sent jet fuel prices soaring.
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📰 via @Reuters
Iran’s government savored the stinging rebuke delivered to Donald Trump in the midterm elections, declaring voters had rejected the war launched by the US president even as Tehran remained on high alert for the possibility of renewed strikes. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
FDD's Iran Program retweeted
State Department condemned Iran’s latest executions, how about sanctioning the judges issuing these sentences? Washington hasn’t used the human rights sanctions authority since January. 10 judges sanctioned by allies but not US:
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زندگی سه جوان که به ناحق گرفته شد. سه خانواده که از هم پاشید.
روز دوشنبه ۱۳ مهر ۱۴۰۵، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی علیرضا رئیسی ۲۱ ساله و علیرضا سپاهی ۲۴ ساله را پس از محاکمههای غیرعلنی مبتنی بر اعترافات اجباری اعدام کرد. چند روز پیش از آن نیز سیاوش جمشیدی خیرآبادی، ورزشکار تکواندو، اعدام شد. هر سه نفر به دلیل شرکت در اعتراضات دی ماه ۱۴۰۴ هدف قرار گرفتند.
در پس این اعدامها، روایتهایی تکاندهنده از رنج انسانی نهفته است:
- علیرضا رئیسی تنها چند ساعت پس از کشته شدن پسرعمویش در جریان اعتراضات بازداشت شد. پدر او که اکنون در زندان به سر میبرد، با چشمان بسته به مراسم خاکسپاری مخفیانه علیرضا برده شد، بیآنکه هرگز به او نشان دهند پیکر پسرش کجا به خاک سپرده شده است.
- علیرضا سپاهی، دانشجوی دانشگاه، پیش از اعدام در زندان با نامزدش، مهشاد، ازدواج کرد. مهشاد همچنان در زندان به سر میبرد و دوران محکومیت پنجساله خود را میگذراند. مادر علیرضا نیز از آخرین وداع با پسرش پیش از اعدام محروم شد.
رژیم جمهوری اسلامی طی ۴۷ سال گذشته، خواستههای مسالمتآمیز جوانان ایران را با خشونت، محاکمههای مخفیانه و اعدام پاسخ داده است. مردم ایران سزاوار عدالت، پاسخگو شدن عاملان این جنایتها و آیندهای عاری از ترور و هراس هستند.
ALT Images of Alireza Raeisi, Alireza Sepahi, and Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi next to a noose, the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a prison watchtower, and lit candles. The U.S. Department of State logo is also on the graphic. Text in Persian reads, “Three young lives stolen.”