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General view during the European Foreign ministers council meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 20 February 2023. Foreign ministers will mainly discuss one year conflict in Ukraine and fifth package of sanctions against Iran.

Is Britain a spent force in the Middle East?

The fall out of Brexit at home, a lessening of western power and the diminishing importance of the Middle East to London and its western allies has seen the UK step back from the region

Christopher Phillips 24 February 2023

More than 500 high-level international decision-makers meet at the 59th Munich Security Conference in Munich during their annual meeting from 17 to 19 February 2023 to discuss global security issues.

EPA

Absence of Russia and Iran from Munich Security Conference casts shadow over talks

Dialogue focused on the issue of global polarisation — a phenomenon exacerbated by Russian President Vladmir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022

Houssam Itani 22 February 2023

The descendant of Sharaf al-Din rose to prominence immediately after the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Baghdad.

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Al-Sadr III: The Sadr legacy lives on through Muqtada

The descendant of Sharaf al-Din rose to prominence immediately after the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Baghdad

Sami Moubayed 20 February 2023

The Iranian media has gained a lot of experience in utilising "soft power" models at the regional level. These media publish their content in different languages, albeit in low quality.

Mari Fouz

Iran’s ‘soft power’ media machine is losing its charm

Iran utilising soft power tools such as multi-language media outlets to influence opinion around the world in its favour

Adel Al-Salmi 15 February 2023

Iranians walk past Shahab-2 (L) and Shahab-3 missiles on display in front of a large portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a square in south Tehran on September 28, 2008.

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Iran's push for an empire reveals the dark reality of its ruthless ambitions

Iran's meddling in regional states has brought nothing but poverty and global isolation to the Iranian people

Houssam Itani 09 February 2023

Diana Estefanía Rubio

The impact of international sanctions on Iran's economy

How US and international sanctions on Iran marked a turning point in the deterioration of its economy

Majalla 05 February 2023

The regime isolation in the West and the international community has increased.

Sébastien Thibault

Will the Iranian regime fall?

Al Majalla unpacks these developments in Iran, in both its print and digital versions, posing a question: "Is the regime falling?"

Al Majalla - London 01 February 2023

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022. IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

UK to Proscribe IRGC as a Terrorist Organisation

An announcement is expected within weeks that the British government is going to officially declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. The move is said to be…

Suzan Quitaz 13 January 2023

TV cameras are set up in front of a building where German police have taken a 32-year-old Iranian citizen into custody, suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an "Islamist-motivated" attack, in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, January 8, 2023. REUTERS/Stephane Nitschke

German Police Detain Iranian Suspected of Planning 'Islamist-Motivated' Attack

German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an "Islamist-motivated" attack, authorities in western…

08 January 2023

Debris from an Iranian Shahed-136 drone also known as the Geran-2 in the Kharkiv region on October 6, 2022. STRINGER / REUTERS

Iranian Drones Threaten Europe

Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones attacking Ukrainian cities are the most obvious indicators to date that Iran has become a threat to Ukraine and its European neighbors. According to the Ukrainian…

Suzan Quitaz 06 January 2023

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