At one of Tehran’s most sensitive moments, the name of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has returned to the forefront not as one of Iran’s most hard-line figures, but as a potential channel of communication with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A recent analytical report revealed that AI technologies are playing a pivotal role in accelerating US and Israeli military operations against Iran.

The New Lines Institute appears less like a conventional research body and more like a multi-layered system, where knowledge intersects with funding, and media overlaps with spheres of political influence.

The Karkh Central Prison in Baghdad, formerly known as Cropper, has come under repeated rocket attacks since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, amid growing instability across Iraq.

Just hours after London allowed Washington on March 20, 2026, to use its Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean to strike Iran, U.S. sources claimed Tehran launched two missiles toward the facility, nearly 4,000 kilometers away, with one failing and the other intercepted.