Iran’s leadership is framing Netanyahu’s U.S. talks—especially meetings with Trump—as a deliberate pressure play, while signaling an effort to drive a wedge between Washington and Jerusalem. In parallel, Tehran pairs renewed confrontation messaging (missiles/retaliation threats) with rigid red lines in U.S. talks and intensified domestic containment to pre-empt protest momentum.

Tehran is openly defying Washington with “fingers on the trigger” deterrence messaging and retaliatory threats that increasingly implicate Israel. Simultaneously, it is escalating repression—executions, forced-confession narratives, and sustained internet disruption—to crush protests at any cost.

Iran’s media has branded protesters as foreign-backed terrorists to justify a crackdown. Tehran’s prosecutor is invoking moharebeh (a death-eligible charge)

Iran refuses Hezbollah disarmament, viewing its weapons as vital for Lebanon’s defense and regional anti-Israel strategy.

Russia " constantly acts unfriendly and incessantly twists the knife in our flesh."

Iran and China Inaugurate Strategic Rail Corridor to Bolster Economic Ties Amid Sanctions

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$2.7 billion of Iran's frozen assets in Iraq released

Iranian Minister of Oil, Javad Owji, highlighted during a cabinet session (June 21) the fruitful contracts signed in the petroleum...

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Iran's oil exports have surged to the highest level since US sanctions were reimposed

Iran challenges the United States in its backyard

Iran Harnesses Extraterritorial Refineries for Oil Processing

According to Seyed Hamid Hosseini, a member of the Iranian Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Products Exporters Union (OPEX), Iran is making...