UPDATES: Israel’s “Demonstration” Strikes Inside Iran
An image from a Revolutionary Guards video of explosions in Iran’s skies, April 19, 2024 EA...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 20, 2024 | Iran, MENA, World | 1
An image from a Revolutionary Guards video of explosions in Iran’s skies, April 19, 2024 EA...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 19, 2024 | Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, Video, What's New, World | 4
Analyses on international outlets about Israel’s “demonstration” strikes inside Iran and what is likely to happen next in the region, including Gaza.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 18, 2024 | Iran | 4
Iranian journalist Dina Ghalibaf has been re-arrested after she published a personal narrative about being abused and sexually assualted while in detention.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 18, 2024 | Iran, MENA, What's New, World | 7
Emma, a UK university graduate living in Tel Aviv, was visiting her brother & his family in Jerusalem last weekend. Then alerts sounded over Iran’s attacks.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 16, 2024 | Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, What's New, World | 12
Setting out military, political, and international considerations pointing to Israeli strikes on Iranian allies — Hezbollah and militias — outside Iran.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 15, 2024 | Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, What's New, World | 6
How the significance of Iran’s “telegraphed” assault on Israel was not in military effect, with minor damage and 1 serious casualty, but in symbolic intent.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 14, 2024 | Iran, MENA, World | 5
Israel says that, alongside partners, it downed “99%” of more than 300 missiles and drones fired by Iran towards the country overnight
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 13, 2024 | Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, What's New, World | 4
Analyzing the likelihood of an Iranian attack on Israel, the US and Israeli positions, and the consequences for the region and the world of escalation.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 12, 2024 | Analysis, EA Birmingham, Iran, MENA, What's New, World | 1
Why Iran retaliation is unlikely to be direct military attack on Israel territory or officials, but rather political & diplomatic push in region and beyond
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 11, 2024 | Iran | 5
Smoke rises from fighting between Jaish al-Udl insurgents and Iranian security forces in Sistan...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 11, 2024 | Iran | 4
Four environmentalists, seized by Iran’s authorities in January 2018 amid crackdown on activism, are freed from Tehran’s Evin Prison after more than 6 years
Read Moreby Deepa Parent | Apr 6, 2024 | Iran | 2
French citizen Cécile Kohler, a teacher, has been detained by Iran’s authorities for almost two years and forced on State TV to “confess” to espionage.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 4, 2024 | Iran | 1
Amid persistent economic problems & political and military challenges at home and abroad, Iran’s currency plunges to all-time low of 646,000:1 v. US dollar.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 3, 2024 | EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, Video, World | 3
Analyzing Israel’s latest attacks from Gaza to Syria, from the killing of 7 aid workers inside Gaza to the slaying of 3 Iranian generals in Damascus, Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 1, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 5
Israel kills Iran’s top commander in Syria for the 2nd time in 3 months, with a strike flattening a consulate building next to Iranian Embassy in Damascus.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 1, 2024 | Iran | 0
11 women’s rights activists given prison sentences of 1 to more than 6 years by a Revolutionary Court in northern Iran over “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 31, 2024 | Iran | 16
Pouria Zeraati, a presenter for Iran International, was stabbed at his home in Wimbledon, London,...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 29, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 0
Israel reportedly hits multiples sites of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in east Syria, causing casualties. Unconfirmed claims say commander killed or wounded.
Read Moreby Deepa Parent | Mar 28, 2024 | Iran | 26
UN fact-finding mission: Iran regime’s human rights violations during its brutal suppression of protests in 2022 amount to crimes against humanity.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 4, 2024 | Iran | 5
Iranian authorities hand Grammy Award-winning musician Shervin Hajipour 44-month prison sentence, with 3 years to be served, and order him to promote Iran.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 2, 2024 | Iran | 21
Iran’s regime suffers a record low turnout in Friday’s managed elections for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts, with only 40% of voters participating.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 24, 2024 | Iran | 29
Iran’s authorities sentence uncle of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked “Woman. Life. Freedom” protests from Sept. 2022, to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 21, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 22
Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a building in southern Damascus, Syria, reportedly killing four...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 19, 2024 | Iran, MENA, World | 11
Iran tells militias in Iraq to suspend attacks on US personnel, amid American retaliation for the killing of three US troops in Jordan on January 28.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 19, 2024 | Iran | 12
Iran’s authorities sentence uncle of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked “Woman. Life. Freedom” protests from Sept. 2022, to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 17, 2024 | Iran | 4
Flame rise from the explosion of a natural gas pipeline outside the city of Boroujen in the...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 8, 2024 | Iran, MENA | 11
A recovery truck lifts the remains of a car destroyed by a US drone strike, eastern Baghdad, Iraq,...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 8, 2024 | Iran | 11
Iranian comedian Zeinab Mousavi has been summoned to serve a two-year prison sentence, following her statements in comic videos against compulsory hijab.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 6, 2024 | EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, MENA, Video, What's New, World | 6
A 65-minute special analyzing the escalating conflict across the Middle East, beginning with Israel-Gaza and moving to Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 5, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 4
7+ US-supported Kurdish fighters killed and 18 wounded in a drone strike on a US base in eastern Syria by the Iran-backed militia Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
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