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Mojtaba Khamenei rises to power as Iran’s supreme leader
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Assembly of Experts has elected Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of the...
Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s new supreme leader as regional war intensifies
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Assembly of Experts has appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
Iran pledges to halt attacks on neighboring states as war with US and Israel escalates
DUBAI (Realist English). Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran would halt attacks against neighboring countries as the war with the...
China presses Iran for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz
BEIJING (Realist English). China is negotiating with Iran to ensure safe passage for oil tankers and Qatari liquefied natural gas...
Azerbaijan claims it foiled Iranian-backed terror plot
BAKU (Realist English). The State Security Service of the so-called Azerbaijan has announced that it prevented a series of terrorist...
Israel planned assassination of Iran’s supreme leader months before strike, defense minister says
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as early as...
Iranian Shahed drones reshape battlefield as Gulf states face mass attacks
DUBAI (Realist English). The ongoing confrontation involving Iran, the United States and Israel has brought a weapon long familiar to...
Lavrov warns of global consequences from Middle East escalation
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the escalating conflict in the Middle East could have serious...
Baku threatens retaliation after drone strike in Nakhchivan
BAKU (Realist English). Authorities in Azerbaijan threatened retaliation after two drones struck the Nakhchivan exclave on March 5, injuring two...
Chinese expert says U.S. focus on Middle East could shift military balance in Taiwan Strait
BEIJING (Realist English). China could gain a strategic advantage in the Taiwan Strait if U.S. military resources continue to shift...
Trump warns Iran against mining Strait of Hormuz as tensions escalate
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”...
Pentagon says US will continue Iran war until “decisive defeat”
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran’s leadership is “desperate and scrambling” as the conflict between the...
Putin warns Middle East conflict is disrupting global energy markets
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin on March 9 with senior officials and...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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