BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,154, September 17, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has selected cleric Esmail Khatib as Minister of Intelligence. Khatib is a radical Islamist with close ties to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,061, June 2, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently releasedย its annual threat assessment, in which Iran is mentioned no fewer than 60 times as part of a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,043, May 23, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย Iranโs newly appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Quds Force, Muhammad Reza Fallahzadeh, is not only an experienced military man but also a politician with diplomatic experience. He is a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,025, May 13, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mohsen Rezaee, a high-ranking official of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has admitted that top-secret Iranian nuclear documents were stolen in a raid of a Tehran warehouse by Israeli …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,019, May 10, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย The implications of the newly signed Sino-Iranian deal go beyond economics. The deal also covers security matters pertaining to intelligence and military cooperation that provide both Iran and China …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,007, April 26, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย In the recently published Swedish Security Service Yearbook 2020, which discusses the main security and intelligence challenges faced by Sweden over the past year, Iran is mentioned 14 times. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,004, April 22, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย Muhammad Hejazi, deputy head of the Iranian Quds Force, is reported to have died of heart disease. However, a mysterious tweet hints that he might have been killed.
On …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,997, April 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:ย In the morning hours of April 11, the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran was attacked, allegedly by Israel. The strike came at a sensitive time, as Iran and world …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,948, March 4, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Islamic Republic of Iran has experienced a number of serious counterintelligence failures over the years. Last month, Iran and Russia, a close ally of the Islamic regime, signed …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,934, February 17, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Multiple missiles were fired at Erbil on February 15, killing at least one civil contractor and injuring at least one American national. It is likely that the attack …
