Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, criticized the American presidential election in a series of tweets last week while commemorating the 37th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Khamenei criticized the two leading U.S. candidates for president, calling them “unethical.” In US presidential #debates...

Hezbollah has been influenced by Russian forces fighting alongside them in Syria, raising concerns that the Iran-backed terror group will adapt those tactics for use against Israel, Defense News reported Sunday, citing a forthcoming report from the Israeli National Security Council. The NSC report asserts that Russian influence may help Hezbollah evolve from a well-armed...

Iran Extends Its Global Reach This week The Tower reported on numerous signs that Iran is strengthening its position across the Middle East and even the world. Monday’s election of Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun as president of Lebanon was hailed by several senior Iranian officials. “The election of Michel Aoun as president shows new...

High-ranking Iranian officials have hailed the election of Lebanon’s new president Michel Aoun as a boon for the Islamic Republic, with a top adviser for Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying that Aoun will advance “the resistance against the Zionist regime,” Iran’s state-owned PressTV reported on Wednesday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also claimed that Aoun’s election will...

Iran is commanding a “foreign legion” of about 25,000 Shiite militiamen in Syria, the former head of the Shin Bet said on Wednesday. The Shiite fighters, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, “are fighting in Syria only against the rebels and not against ISIS,” Avi Dichter, now the chairman of the...

Thousands of Iranians commemorated the takeover of the American embassy in 1979 by marching through the streets of Tehran shouting “Death to America” and “Death to the House of Saud,” Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. Speaking to the crowd outside the former American embassy, Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s...