Just days after the outbreak of the war led by the United States and Israel against Iran, the leader of Yemen’s Houthi movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, announced that his group stood alongside ...

Absolute control by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a shrinking role for the clergy, and deepening struggles within the pillars of the regime—this has been the scene in Iran since ...

The issue took only a few hours to move from a newspaper headline to the forefront of Lebanon’s political scene. A short statement published in a local newspaper close to Hezbollah, attributed to ...

It has long been assumed that decisions of war and peace in the United States are crafted behind closed doors in the White House. But reality today, in 2026, tells us something entirely different: ...

In Manila, during the early days of the war on Iran, Philippine Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac announced that the government was closely monitoring the situation in the region and that ...

Since Iran launched strikes on Gulf countries following U.S. and Israeli attacks against it, the entire region has become exposed to ballistic missiles and drones. Although the scope of these ...

I’ve known my Iranian friend Yasna for eleven years now. Over the years we’ve discussed all sorts of topics. But ger most recent message shook me: “Can you imagine what it means to feel a certain ...

Last Saturday, March 7, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al‑Sudani was visiting the president of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan. While the two men were meeting at Zaidan’s home — ...

MBN’s Iran Briefing Podcast hosted by Andres Ilves and joined today by Leila Bazzi and Matthew Kaminski. They talk about the latest in the conflict, who’s running Iran, the ...

Many people around the world interpreted the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei simply as the death of a prominent politician.  Yet many Iranians and Shiites took the news ...

On the evening of Monday, March 9, U.S. President Donald Trump stood before reporters in Doral, Florida, justifying a move that might not have seemed ordinary at another time: easing some oil ...

Welcome to a special edition of the MBN Iran Newsletter. The naming of a new supreme leader demands an immediate assessment ...