These demonstrations may not topple the regime, but they serve as a reminder of the will of the Iranian people to resist dictatorship.

Should Qassem Suleimani pursue politics, he may be replaced by his deputy, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, who is believed to be directing the IRGC QF’s activities in Afghanistan.

Iran makes it clear that they are willing to use human shields to protect their nuclear facilities.

It is too early to tell whether the revolutions sweeping across the Arab world will prove the long awaited "third wave of democratization." It is clear, however, that no regional regime is immune to their impact, not even the self-proclaimed vanguard of permanent world revolutions, the Islamist regime in Tehran.

Background on the British Indian agency that managed telegraph lines in Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Why does Iran consider Afghanistan so important? What are Iran's strategic aims in Afghanistan?

The president long differentiated between the hunt for Bin Laden, which he saw as legitimate, and the wider war on terrorism which he saw as not.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken advantage of Iranian millenarianism in a well-orchestrated power play to bypass the established clergy.