Proxies

The New Face of Hamas and the Iranian Embrace

When Hamas named Khalil al-Hayya to succeed Yahya Sinwar, Kayhan marked the news with an archival photo of al-Hayya embraced by the late Ali Khamenei. How Tehran is using the Hamas succession to fold the movement into its martyrdom narrative and shore up the Axis of Resistance.

Internal Affairs

Iran - Weekly Update - Iran Dares Washington

Tehran is openly defying Washington with “fingers on the trigger” deterrence messaging and retaliatory threats that increasingly implicate Israel. Simultaneously, it is escalating repression—executions, forced-confession narratives, and sustained internet disruption—to crush prot