Author - Majid Rafizadeh

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An inflatable effigy of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, holding a nuclear bomb is seen during a demonstration for a free Iran under the slogan "No to appeasement - No to war in Iran" organized by the National Resistance Council of Iran (NWRI) and the Community of German-Iranians (GDI), in Berlin, Germany, on June 21, 2025. EPA/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE

Middle East

Iran’s new race to the bomb

December 7, 2025

A nuclear weapon offers the possibility of wiping out Israel, fulfilling what the Islamist regime sees as a historic, strategic and religious prophecy.

Iranians walk past a billboard in Tehran on June 8, 2023, displaying a photo of the new Fattah hypersonic missile and the words "400 seconds to Tel Aviv" in Persian and Hebrew. Photo: EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Middle East

Iran is building a missile empire while the world looks away

November 26, 2025

While global focus has shifted to other crises, Iran has rapidly and aggressively been accelerating its ballistic missile production at the speed of light.