Intelligence Minister implicates IRGC mole in Fakhrizadeh assassination; cancellation of Qalibaf meeting with Putin controversy; Iran Judiciary chief visits Iraq; recent Iran-Taliban talks; Huthi terror delisting reactions; Slim assassination; Huthi offensive in central Yemen
This article originally appeared in Atlantic Council’s Iran Source on February 8, 2021. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah remains committed to avenging Qasem Soleimani’s death—at least rhetorically. Shortly after the United States assassinated the Quds Force commander in January 2020, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed that US troops “who came to the region vertically will return home horizontally.” His hand gesture—a horizontal hand affixed perpendicularly over a vertical hand—representing US forces returning home in coffins became the official symbol of Iran and the Resistance Axis’ promised “Hard Revenge.” Nevertheless, at the time of Soleimani’s…
Reactions to end of Trump’s term; Tehran Stock Market loss; interviews with top Iranian officials on JCPOA, US sanctions; Hizballah humanitarian aid distribution; Iranian redeployment in eastern Syria; Reactions to Baghdad twin suicide bombing
As Iran’s security forces fight over how assassins managed to kill a top nuclear scientist, their accounts—from a dozen assailants to a remote-controlled machine gun—don’t line up.
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