Iran has never forgiven the US President for assassinating their top general and has made previous threats to avenge his death.

Nicole Grajewski is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

Five years and two months after Gen. Qasem Soleimani made this statement, the Islamic Republic of Iran is in retreat. Iran’s air and ground lines of supply to Lebanon now go through Sunni-dominated Syria, where the Assad regime recently crumbled.

Baghdad: The Iraqi government has increased pressure on Iran-backed armed groups operating in the country to lay down their arms. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said efforts were being made to persuade Iran-backed fighters to lay down their arms or join the official security forces.

A New Diplomatic Approach President Donald Trump has appointed his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to lead the administration’s diplomatic efforts with Iran. This decision marks a notable shift in strategy from Trump’s first term,

If they are injured or killed, Donald Trump will be the one person responsible — a black mark against him that time will not erase.

Iran fears a return to Trump’s hardline approach. On January 17, 2025, President Pezeshkian stressed the importance of dialogue with the United States. In November 2024, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated that Iran has no aspiration for nuclear weapons and emphasized the need for mutual trust.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said last year there is “no barrier” to talks. But regime hardliners are said to be suspicious of Trump due to his first-term actions, and historic hostility to the US dating back to Iran’s Islamic revolution of 1979.

You’d be forgiven if, during the madcap weeks leading to Donald Trump’s inauguration, you’d lost track of what was happening with the Houthi rebels in Yemen. As one of Iran’s last remaining close friends in the Middle East,

The administration of new US president Donald Trump is reportedly considering various options to prevent Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon. These include renegotiating a second nuclear deal, pursuing a policy of “maximum pressure” against Tehran by ramping up sanctions, and conducting airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

During his first term, the Republican pulled out of an international deal that provided Iran sanctions relief in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear programme. In 2020, Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated in a US ...

Donald Trump made the decision to withdraw protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former envoy to Iran Brian Hook. Both were targets of planned attacks by Iran, as confirmed by "The New York Times.