In 2025, the Middle East ... where Iran’s influence has been most entrenched. Lebanon: In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s defeat by Israel in 2024 has severely weakened Iran’s grip on the country.

From Gaza to Beirut, Damascus to Tehran, it's been a rough year for Iran and its allies and proxy forces across the Middle East ... "powerful" and put Tehran at a "disadvantage," as they left the ...

Khamenei continues to resist such notions. In a defiant speech on January 8, he lambasted the U.S. as an imperialist power ...

Israel-Hamas war has profoundly altered the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. Iran and Russia, once dominant forces, have ...

In keeping with the ongoing news coming from the Middle East, and the variety of (mostly false) claims about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s hidden ... undoubtedly the most powerful plane in ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 31 (UPI) --The unthinkable in the troubled Middle East happened ... of Islamist rebels. And Iran lost its foothold in the region, as did its most powerful military arm ...

It's been a rough year for Iran and its friends in the Middle East. Israel has degraded Tehran's proxy forces and delivered punishing airstrikes against Iran itself. And Iran just lost one of its most ...