The lengthy funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, has been an elaborate and extended spectacle projecting strength, national unity, stability, continuity and vengeance after two successive wars with the United States and Israel within a year. Iran’s uncompromising message is mainly directed at the U.S., whose military bases in the region it […]
It appears that Iran, Israel’s deadliest enemy, has suspended its much-anticipated retaliatory attack against Israel. Iranian leaders from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on down had promised to react forcefully to Israel’s air strikes on Iran on October 26, following Iran’s ballistic missile barrage against Israel on October 1. These tit-for-tat exchanges, the first direct clashes between […]