Iran and Middle East News

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Representative to the United Nations New York, New York November 2, 2022 AS DELIVERED Good afternoon. This afternoon, the United States and Albania convened a UN Security Council Arria-formula meeting on the peaceful protests that have taken root in Iran. I was deeply moved by Dr. Ebadi and Nazanin Boniadi’s powerful […]

The IRGC is the most vital institution of the Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Theocratic State) regime, and was created after the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, mainly to weaken and replace the national armed forces, and primarily focused on Iran’s military institutions. Following the end of the Iran-Iraq war, and with the […]