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Iranian state media confirm death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Israeli strike
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday as part of a...
Israeli officials assess IRGC chief likely killed in latest Iran strikes
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli officials assess that the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, was...
Trump announces major US operation against Iran, calls on Iranians to “seize your freedom”
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump declared the start of large-scale American military operations against Iran, vowing to eliminate...
United States and Israel launch strikes on Iran as explosions rock Tehran and region
TEHRAN (Realist English). The United States and Israel have launched coordinated military strikes on Iran, with multiple explosions reported in...
Netanyahu proposes new regional “hexagon” bloc against ‘radical axes’
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a vision for a new regional alignment, describing the Middle...
Modi voices firm support for Israel during Knesset address
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed strong support for Israel during an address to the Knesset on...
Lapid signals backing for “broader” Israeli borders, cites biblical mandate
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said he supports the idea of expanding Israel’s territory to its...
Saudi academic’s criticism of UAE–Israel ties exposes deeper Gulf tensions
RIYADH (Realist English). Rare public criticism by a Saudi academic of the United Arab Emirates’ relationship with Israel has drawn...
Chabahar Port emerges as key node in Eurasian trade corridor
CHABAHAR (Realist English). Iran’s Chabahar Port, the country’s only deep-water gateway with direct access to the Indian Ocean, is taking...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
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...
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